Autumn has come to Japan, or at least you’d think so by watching the beer advertising. This year’s brew of Aki-Aji, Kirin’s “autumn only” limited beer, has hit the shelves in my wife’s parents liquor shop, as Japan says goodbye to summer and hello to Fall.
Japan is very big on seasons — humorist Dave Barry observed that Japanese are likely to stop you on the street and tell you that their country has four seasons, unlike America, which is pretty much dead on. However, anyone who thinks Japan has only four seasons hasn’t spent much time here. There are really seven: winter, cherry blossom season, spring, rainy season, summer, typhoon season, fall
We’ve made some minor changes to the J-List site’s layout, removing some categories and grouping them with others. Hopefully, navigation will be improved for everyone. As always, we appreciate feedback on any aspects of the site.
For this evening’s update, we have some extra-special items for you, including:
- First, we have several excellent new magazines, including the hot new issue of Urecco, the #1 magazine at J-List. It’s a wonderful item, with Kanazawa Bunko, Kusanagi Jun, and a host of other lovelies
- We have some excellent all-new photobooks, including Fujisaki Saori’s refreshing “Natural” high school uniform photobook (on photobooks page 1)
- For S&M fans, we have “Lovely Tying, a fabulous S&M photobook featuring wonderful bondage photos of four goddesses of Japan AV: Miura Aika, Nagase Lum, Aso Sanae and Mochida Kaoru — find this on the photobook or gouka-bon” page
- We love Japan’s unique leg fetish books, and we know that many of you do, too. We’ve got a great new item on the leg fetish photobooks page — it’s called Bottom Up (guess what kind of photos it is)
- Dojinshi fans will like the new additions to the dojinshi page — we have stock of not one, not two, but three new hentai dojinshi in the “Kaiten” series, including rare Sailor Moon and Final Fantasy 7 books
- For fans of Japan’s wonderful bishojo games, we have stock of the current issue of Colorful Pure Girl, the wonderful large-format hentai magazine, for you, on the magazines (hentai) page
- Adult manga fans, you’ll also find stock of several issues of popular adult manga magazines Comic Jumbo and Kairakuten
- Also in the “very cool department” — a new manga by Harazaki Takuma, creator of Golden Stage and Innocent Age. Find “Let’s Believe in Fantasy Love” on the manga pages
- For our Japan AV video fans, we’ve got two great new items by SOD: The Sound of Mucous Membrane, featuring Komuro Ririka-chan in a straight video, and “Takako & Kaho” in a great lesbian offering
- Also very cool, for fans of the AV stars of yesteryear, the Kuki Super Compilation Album 3, featuring 120 minutes and 12 lovely AV stars
- For DVD fans, a new category — the DVD & magazine combo featuring 2 hours of wonderful footage of Japan’s hottest stars, including Shibuya Marina, Suzuki Manami, Aoi Minori, and more — on the DVD (Main) page
- For anime fans, we’ve got stock of the current Hobby Japan, and for the kid in all of us, Yochien, a super magazine for kids filled with rare and fun Pokemon, anime and other stickers and activities — on the Anime (magazines) page
- For those females on the list, we have an item highly recommended by my wife — a handy “lingerie net, a nylon bag with a zipper in which you can wash your delicates” (underwear, stockings) without fear of damage. Find this and other useful items on the newly renamed “Wacky stuff from Japan” page
- Finally, an item we’ve wanted to carry on J-List for some time: authentic Japanese “loose socks!” The trademark of Japan’s high school girls for years, these oversized nylon socks are now available from J-List. Find them on the Wacky stuff from Japan page. Don’t forget to pick up “socks glue” to keep your socks from falling down!
The “About J-List” page has been updated with some interesting new versions of all of us, courtesy of a talented artist friend of Kaori’s. We think it came out quite well ^_^ The direct link is http://www.jlist.com/shop/aboutus.html .
