We're extremely happy to tell you that the first 2009 calendars have already come in, a few weeks early than normal -- excellent! We now have stock of anime calendars (Totoro, Ponyo, Naruto, One Piece), beautiful Japanese idols and actresses (Masami Nagasawa, Yu Nakamura), cute calendars (Pokemon, Relax bear, Cinnomoroll), kanji and photographic calendars, and more. Browse our selection now and see which ones you'd like to buy, and we'll get them out to you ASAP. We've also gone through and taken photographs of the calendars we've gotten in stock, so you can see how great each page of this year's glossy Japanese calendars are. 2009 is looking good!
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Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see all the J-List products, check out J-List or the JBOX.com updated products link. Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi Trading Figure Solid Works Collection DX -- Full Set of 9. This is perhaps the most excellent Haruhi figure set to come out, since it faithfully captures just about every costume variation of the characters in the show. Full and partial sets (both with no duplicates) of these figures are in stock now. Wacky T-Shirt - "Do Your Best, Japanese Soldier". Here's a wacky T-shirt commemorating the hard work of the Japanese soldiers who fought during the war, despite being up against the U.S., which was 25X the size of Japan -- oops. The Japanese text of this shirt read, "Ganbare, nihon-hei" or "Do Your Best, Japanese Soldier." First Batch of 2009 Calendars. The first of our massive lineup of 2009 Japanese calendars are in stock now, and ready for you to snap them up! Click to browse these great items, which are usually only available in Japan. Dengeki G's Magazine Sep 2008. Awesome new issue of Dengeki G's Magazine, which documents the very best anime, PC ero game and bishoujo culture from Japan today. Little Busters Ecstasy info, Fate/Stay Night, Time Reap, Clannad, Quiz Magic Academy -- they're all here. New Kit Kat, Other Japanese Snacks. Chocolate has returned to J-List, and now we've got the new Japan Kit Kat for the 2008-2009 chocolate season including Muscat of Alexandria and Caramel Pudding. Yum! Also see the natural collagen gummy Pururun in Blueberry and Cranberry flavor and Puccho soft candy in "energy drink" flavor. Fruits Sep 2008 No. 134. I just love FRUiTs, the magazine of Japanese fashion culture that keeps it real by presenting nothing but page after awesome page of real young people in Tokyo's hip Harajuku region showing off their current fashionable clothes -- there are no ads, no B.S. articles about fashion trends, just really cool pictures of what people are wearing right now in Japan. The new issue is in stock. Myojo Sep 2008. Myojo is the magazine for all fans of "Johnny's-kei" men, referring to stars attached to the legendary Johnny's Entertainment talent agency, which is responsible for managing such hot boy bands as SMAP, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kinki Kids, Johnny's Jr. and more. See them and all the other popular faces, including the Arashi, in this issue. Of course, you can also get this great magazine sent to you every month. CLANNAD visual fanbook ~ TV Animation. CLANNAD is, in many ways, the final evolution of pure moe (mo-EH) thinking from Japan, with a soft and subtle story that envelops the main character in a dream world of beautiful girls, each who needs help from him in some way. This is the best item from the show I've ever seen. Kyoto The Greatest Travel Tips ~ Eigo de Aruku Kyoto. Would you like to visit Japan's ancient capitol of Kyoto? Then we highly recommend this awesome book, Walking Around Kyoto in English, which features both English and Japanese on every page. This books shows you where to go, what to see, and what to eat while you're there. Highly recommended! Monokuro Boo Bento Box Set. Monokuro Boo ("Monochrome Oink") is the popular character line from San-X, which features cute black and white pigs. This is a deluxe bento set with everything you need included: 2-tier bento box with locking strap, chopsticks with case, and bento bag. PTICOLON Brown / Vanilla Fragrant Gel Ink Ball Pointed Pen. For the many J-List customers who love our selection of Japanese pens, we've got the PTICOLON (which mean "petite cologne," trust us) line of pens in, with ink that smells nice. Vanilla and green apple! Frog Cool & Hot Foot Relax Pillow. This is a really interesting item: a set of two water-filled "frog pillows" with little frog heads that go in between your toes to bring healing coolness (or warmth) to your feet. Triple OMAMORI Plate Strap ~ Lucky Cat / Frog / Owl. A great trio of Japanese omamori good luck charms that feature a cat, an owl and a frog, three icons of Japanese culture that are made quite cute here. Attach them to your phone, your Nintendo DS or Sony PSP, your camera or your keys. Hello Kitty Cake Mold. As you know, J-List lives to bring you amazing products from Japan, and here's a really cool one: a cake mold for making Hello Kitty-shaped cakes (they're little cakes from France called "Madeleine") in the microwave that are shaped like Hello Kitty. Japanese Headbands. Then see restocked Japanese headbands that are fun to wear -- several are back in stock today. They'd go great with our new T-shirt today! Naruto Anbu Mask. J-List carries dozens of products that'd be great for the upcoming Halloween celebration, from anime themed cosplay accessories to magazines for serious costumers. Look or fresh stock of our popular Naruto Anbu Mask, too! Tiana Lanster 1/7 Figure ~ Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS *Preorder*. I am a big fan of the characters from this popular magical girl show, since they're so cute. This is a figure of Tiana from the series who looks great with her twin guns drawn and at the ready. Big 1/7 scale size. Xeno Saga lll KOS-MOS 1/6 Figure Swimsuit ver. *Preorder*. Then we have another figure from the popular sci-fi RPG series for the PS2. This is the lovely KOS-MOS (cosmos, get it?), a perfect pre-painted figure in giant 1/6 size, which you can preorder now. Studio Ghibli Collection Keychain Set of 6. You can never have too many plush Studio Ghibli keychains, I always say. This set includes Totoro (grey, blue and white), Soot Sprites on Mushroom, Cat Bus, and the Salamander from the opening credits. A Girl of Nose Art 1/7 Figure Illustrated by Shunya Yamashita. Then for fans of the gorgeous creations of Shunya Yamashita, we've posted his Girl of Nose Art figure, inspired by the females painted on the fronts of airplanes during World War II -- but in this case the girl and the airplane have meshed together more amazingly. Now in stock! Oppai Ball *G Cup*. One of the most popular items in J-List history, this water-filled soft boob is the perfect "stress relief" item. Keep it in your desk and give it a squeeze when the world starts to get you down. Back in stock today!
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Vintage manga continues to awe and amaze the blogosphere. The latest entry: Shaenon Garrity posts some pages from Noburo Ohshiro’s Yukaina Tekkôsho and pulls out the most important story elements for your delectation. (Image from Shaenon’s post.) In a very different vein, Ryan of Same Hat shows off the copy of Taiyo Matsumoto’s GoGo Monster that [...]
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Geh, I’ve been quiet, haven’t I? @_@ Today’s post is brought to you via my aunt’s computer (read: no Photoshop, hence no pic). That said, the news moves along without me. In the last 24 hours I’ve gotten word of THREE different digital distribution news items: 1. VIZ has begun offering Bleach, Death Note, and Naruto episodes [...]
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Hulu.com, that brilliant online video site partnership between NBC and FOX, has added an anime channel today. They’ve added 20 English-subtitled episodes of Naruto, all 37 English-subtitled episodes of Death Note, and 12 English-dubbed episodes of Mushi-Shi. As I wrote in 4 places to watch anime for free legally, Hulu already had Speed Racer [...]
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VIZ MEDIA TEAMS WITH JOOST™ TO DELIVER HIT SERIES NARUTO, BLEACH AND DEATH NOTE TO AN EVEN WIDER AUDIENCE Web Video Portal To Offer Streamed Episodes Of Three Hit Series Complemented With Social Interaction San Francisco, CA, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 — VIZ Media, LLC. (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative [...]
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#6 Bleach Kuchiki Byakuya: Senbonzakura Did you honestly think Bleach wasn’t going to be on this list? Really? Come with me, children, to a time before I knew of the trainwreck that was Geass, the excellent writing of Baccano!, or even the shitfest that was Naruto, to a simpler time when my anime knowledge was that of less [...]
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A common thread runs through my favourite anime scenes - Great music. I remember choking up in Asatte no Houkou ep 8 as “Kasa” hit a crescendo during a very poignant moment; cheering on Sasuke as he battled Orochimaru in ep 29 against the high tension flute notes of the Naruto soundtrack and inhaling [...]
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Right now, it’s just Death Note, 12 episodes of Mushishi, and 20 episodes of Naruto. ANN says that they’ll get more later. I clicked on the first episode of Death Note, and lo and behold it did have subs, which I thought was interesting seeing how it wasn’t dubbed on Cartoon Network. [...]
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A side attraction to the GCA is the Cos-Con, one of the many smaller cosplaying events here in Singapore. Few years back, you won't even see something like this at the WCG or the GCA, but recently its becoming more and more popular, almost like its routine. A step in the right direction?Are you the droid we are looking for?At the scene were the guys from the 501st Battalion, Singapore's local force of Stormtroopers. Promoting the latest game from Lucas Arts, "The Force Unleashed", they were a big draw, as expected of anything Star Wars. Of course, the grunts are always the first to die. >.< One shot, one killWe also had a Blood Elf, plus an Orc from Warcraft and a Knight Templar from Hellgate Lomdon London. Didn't take any pictures of them through. The Orc and the Kngiht Templar was very well done, IMO. The Orc was so huge he couldn't move without help, lol.Here we have an Eureka Seven cosplayer promoting an online trading card game. She seems quite surprised when I recognized her from Eureka Seven through...Apparently, people thought that she's just dressing up as an ingame character. Gameplay reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh. You are (not) aloneThe ever popular Eva series. Rei did a good job of protraying the "expressionless"-ness of Rei. Did that sound right? Asuka came down later, but I didn't get a shot of her.Um....Right. Like I'm going to believe that...Stop maphacking TF, Spy. The ever popular Vampire Knight cosplayers, and the same Suigintou from Matsuri. Its almost a given that you would see Vampire Knight, Naruto, D.Gray Man and Bleach cosplayers at any cosplay event. They are so numberous, they are like part of the background, no offense to any cosplayers from the above few series. :P     Why aren't your breasts the same size???Death the Kid plus the Thompson sisters. One of the better Soul Eater cosplayers here I've seen. Black*Star and Tsubaki were there too, but I failed to take any shots of them. No Maka and Soul through - a real pity.Turning round a corner on my way back, I stumbled upon something I shouldn't have...Gah! No, not a Spider-Head?!No, keep it away!!! AArrrgggGGGhuuuhHHHh.......Bad End.Play Again?*Please message me if you want the pictures in their full r<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alvin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style> </style>esolution. Shots of the Fate/Stay Night team to be up....soon-ish.....*    
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