Hello again from all of us at J-List!
It’s November in Japan, a time to head out into the mountains to enjoy “koyo,” the turning of the leaves in the autumn. Like the week-long season of the sakura in early April, when cherry blossoms transform the country into a breathtaking world of exploding white flowers, autumn here can be a brilliant thing to behold with colors of red and gold. J-List is based in Gunma Prefecture, right in the center of the main Japanese island of Honshu (a city about 30 km from here is the actual geographic center of Japan, and they have “belly button festivals” in the summer there), and we’re far enough from the concrete of Tokyo that we can enjoy the “vibrant nature” of Japan all around us. Gunma is nice in the fall, but the most famous place to enjoy the autumn colors is Nikko, a popular tourist destination and the site of Toshogu, a famous temple where shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa’s remains are interred. It’s a bit too beautiful for its own good though: every weekend tens of thousands of visitors from Tokyo converge on Nikko, turning the peaceful city into a bustling nightmare of cars.
You probably set your clock an hour back at the end of October. Most people grumble about having to remember to set their clocks forward and back in the spring and autumn, this isn’t a problem in Japan, the only industrialized country that has not adopted the Daylight Savings Time system. Instead, we have to deal with the other extreme — by the time I get up in the morning, the sun has been up for at least three hours. It’s not that hard to get used to, but all things considered, having that daylight available when you’re actually awake and using it is kind of convenient.
For one reason or another, some phrases in English have burned themselves on the collective consciousness of the Japanese, and are quite famous here. When an American named Dr. Clark (universally known as “Clark-hakase” HA-KA-say) went to Sapporo to help establish what would become Sapporo University, he left the following advice to his Japanese hosts: “Boys, be ambitious!” (i.e., strive to achieve excellence in all that you do). These three words are studied by all Japanese, and somehow manage to pop up all over the place in one form or another. (There’s a manga and anime called “Boys Be…” that is based on this phrase.) When pop singer Momoe Yamaguchi retired from singing, she sang a song to her fans that went “Thank you for your kindness…thank you for your tenderness” and as a result, virtually all Japanese over 30 know this famous phrase. Speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln (“Government for the people, by the people, and of the people”) are studied in school the same way we studied Shakespeare in the U.S., too.
Glico has declared that November 11 is Pocky Day, because of the way 11 11 looks like Pocky snacks. Everyone enjoy some Pocky! We’ve got plenty in stock for you at J-List.
For the Monday update we have a great bunch of items for you. They include:
- First, for Final Fantasy X-2 fans, we’ve got a treat: fresh stock of the cute super deformed FFX2 character keychains from Bandai which had sold out before
- We have a cool item for fans of traditional Japanese things: special paper that’s great for writing love letters to your girlfriend, your boyfriend, or anyone
- We’ve got some great snack items for you today, starting with a tasty new Melty Kiss taste — white chocolate and cacao
- Also, we’ve gotten other cool items, like a sampler pack of Meiji chocolate, Baby Star chicken ramen, and a popular item, chocolate covered sunflower seeds
- It’s “shichi go san” time in Japan right now, when kids aged 7, 5 or 3 get dressed up for special photographs and to go to the Shinto shrine — we’ve got more stock of traditional chitose candy that’s eaten at this time of year
- We love Love Hina, and we’ve got a great series of cute Love Hina figures, great to collect and display
- We have another cool series of toys from Japan, the Miniature Antique Museum, replicas of classic toys that were played with one hundred or more years ago
- For Hello Kitty fans, we’ve got a deluxe rice bowl with chopsticks set that’s really cool, as well as various restocked items
- Also, a treat for Hello Kitty fans: super-warm Kitty Vests that are made of the same super-soft acrylics as our popular Japanese blankets — these things are really neat
- For Totoro fans, fresh stock of the cute Totoro stickers, hand made in Japan
- If you love Domo-kun, we’ve got some new cute plush toys of Domo’s friends, Usajii and Taachan, so cute
- Want to play with some Japanese money? We’ve got some cute toy money that’s really fun to play with in stock
- We love all kinds of wacky things from Japan, and what could be more wacky than signs in Japanese? We’ve gotten in several cool Japanese signs for you
- Also, we’ve got some cute Japanese “pin badges” that have bizarre and cute designs on them, with wacky English and Japanese messages
- Also, we’ve restocked the “Japanese congratulations envelopes” which are used to give cash gifts at weddings (but you can do anything you like with the envelope)
- Finally, look for real Japanese wasabi, authentic Japanese abacuses, and more!
For our adult customers, we’ve got many new 18+ products. They include:
- First of all, we have the great new Minisuka Deluxe, for all fans of gorgeous Japanese women with long, slender legs wearing “panty stockings” and mini-skirts, photographed from a low angle
- We’ve got the new issue of the Top Speed, a magazine that’s just overflowing with lovely adult actresses and Race Queens from Japan
- For fans of Maichy, e.g. Mai Hagiwara, we’ve got a superb new photobook featuring her excellent nude photographs, fresh, clean and very erotic!
- Also, the great hardcover nude photobook of Natusmi Mitsu, a sweet new nude idol from Japan
- Check out the super sexy photobooks of dynamite swimsuit idols Aya Kudo and Chiaki Sato, both amazing to behold
- Also, we’ve restocked several sexy idol photobook items too, including items by Yuko Ogura, Harumi Nemoto, Kaori Oguri, Yoko Matsugane
- Also, more copies of Girl Friends for fans of “Japanese girls in underoos”
- For hentai manga collectors, we’ve got some great new books in stock for you, including a collection of stories about erotic nymphomaniac girls by Kyun Comics, the super erotic Dirty Acts – Kegare by artist Hyji, and beautiful erotic artwork of Tomo Hirokawa in Cherry Concerto
- There are also many restocked manga works, including the erotic Twiny Attraction, Devil x Devil, No Mercy, and
- Also, a great new manga for yaoi fans by Takashi Kanzaki
- We’ve got some great DVD titles for you, starting with the new No Cut!! erotic release of Amu Masaki featuring 3 hours of her great sex for a great price (region free)
- Maria Takagi is the top adult star in Japan today, and looking at her new Lovers DVD release it’s easy to see why — enjoy her lovely sex with her brand new release (region free)
- Japan’s up-skirt and sexy stocking fetish photography is famous among Japanophiles, and now you can enjoy this great thrill on DVD, with The Chiralism, a great “situation and costume play” release from Shinkosha (region free)
- The Japanese love to use lubricating lotion during sex to create slippery fun — we’ve got a new DVD from SOD’s Martian Devil label for fans of this erotic “lotion play” (region free)
- Then, enjoy Yui Kayama in an erotic fighting ninja DVD in which she transforms into a super-heroine to defend justice for all (region free)
- Then, the busty and beautiful Maria Yumeno shows you her best hardcore sex ever in a new 3 hour release from Wanz Factory (one of our favorite indies studios in Japan)
- Finally, look for freshly restocked girls from Russia, Hungary, Germany and France, as well as even more discounted DVDs with free shipping!
J-List sells virtually every Japanese dating-sim game available, with great English-translated games by JAST USA, Peach Princess, G-Collections, Himeya Soft and more. We’ve recently reduced our prices on three great titles from Peach Princess: X-Change 1 (hilarious sex change comedy), Snow Drop (beautiful erotic love story in a winter wonderland) and Critical Point (intense sci-fi game with elements of classic 80’s anime) to just $24.95. Enjoy these great prices on these excellent games! (And if you buy 4 or more games you get another 20% off.)
Remember that J-List has stock of great 2004 calendars right now…but our stock is limited to what we’ve got on hand as well as the few calendars that haven’t come in yet (we’re still waiting for delivery on them). If you’ve got your eye on a very special anime, JPOP, bikini idol, nude or other calendar from Japan this year, we humbly recommend that you buy soon! We’ll be making our last calendar order to our distributors towards the end of this week!
