Hello again from Japan!
Japan can be a funny place. At the end of the day, Japan really loves Europe, and secretly wishes it could be a part of that continent. During the Meiji period, when Japan was looking to other nations as it modernized its institutions, they chose many elements from Europe to incorporate here. The French prefectural system, for example, was used as the model for Japan’s system as they redrew their own internal boundaries in 1860’s; they modeled their military on Prussia’s, and their Diet on Britan’s Parliament. In much the same was as British will jokingly pretend they’re not part of Europe (since they’re an island nation), the Japanese pretend they’re not a part of Asia, and actually say “Asia and Japan” as if one were not part of the other. The fact that Japan and most of Europe are grouped in the same DVD region area speaks volumes
Speaking of DVDs and region codes, we’ve carried Japan’s adult DVDs ever since they started appearing back in 1997, building a huge selection of great titles. While nearly all of Japan’s adult DVD titles are zoned for “ALL” regions, meaning that you can view them on any DVD playback device, we’ve noticed that more and more titles we want to carry at J-List were zoned with region code 2 only. Rather than deciding not to carry these DVDs, we’ve created a new DVD page for region 2 discs, to offer you the best choice of products. Even if you don’t have a code-free DVD player, you can view region 2 DVDs with virtually any DVD playback software on your computer, if you have a DVD ROM drive.
For this weekend’s update, we’ve got some very nice new items, including:
- First, some excellent new magazines not regularly seen on J-List, including new issues of Ok and Lip Mate
- For photobook fans, we’ve got fresh stock of both of Yuka’s recent idol photobooks (on the photobooks pages)
- We have a dozen or so nice new “gouka-bon” format photobooks, the high-end S&M books that deal with various deeper forms of fetishism (Photobooks -> S&M)
- For manga fans. we have a half dozen all-new releases, with some really nice new adult wide manga that will go fast (Manga -> New releases)
- Also for manga fans, stock of Sadistic Angel, one of the most popular manga at J-List in recent months (Manga -> Bestsellers
- We’ve added more stock of the Kakyusei art book from the excellent Pink Pineapple production based on one of the most successful bishojo games of all time
- For video fans, we’ve got some nice items, including a really excellent Aoi Minori offering (ahh…Minori-chan), Kanazawa Bunko’s debut as a SOD AV performer (very cool!), and a great new “tekoki” video featuring former Panasonic race queen Kanno Yukari!
- We have a bunch of all-new dojinshi, including both adult dojinshi and yaoi dojinshi — and yes, we have Gundam Wing books
- Finally, on our new “Region 2 DVD” page, we’ve got the excellent Uchu Kikaku 120 minute Special, a wonderful selection of top-notch performances by the cutest AV gals today, including some of our favorites
- On the also-new “DVD Discount & Overstock” page, we’re closing out several of our DVD titles, as well as all our stock of VCDs.
Remember that J-List carries delicious Japanese gum, like Lotte’s Black Black, the spicy, caffinated gum recommend by truck drivers in Japan. See the Japanese Snacks -> Gum for everything we’ve got available.
