So a few days ago, Blowfish posted a writeup on the Queen’s Blade Leina Battle Book. It’s a great-looking book and the best part about it is that it features Nyx, the peasant girl-turned-sorceress-turned-tentaclebait. However, that means that his site has more tentacles than mine. I’ve been running this site for over [...]
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Echidna is another Revoltech by Kaiyodo, from the anime and series of visual combat book series Queen’s Blade. She’s a wild elf mercenary with yuri tendencies, and a poisonous live snake for pantsu. I bought her from AmiAmi for a decent price of 2,168 Yen. Luckily if you’re interested she’s still available [...]
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Its been already 2 long posts since Ive posted something ecchi (gasp).I do know that my blogs audience is, except for GnDynames, a bunch of hopeless perverts and you gotta give the masses what they want.Did you think that Menace`s Battle History was Ecchi?Leina`s Battle History increases the ecchiness sevenfold with the appearance of 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. Comptiq with Lucky Star Calendar Awesome new issue of Comptiq, beloved of moe fans everywhere. You always get great free stuff with these magazines, and this issue is extra special, with the *free* Lucky Star monthly calendar. Ge Maga ~ Game Magazine Apr 2010 New issue of Ge Maga, or Game Magazine, which follows all the hottest games, including all the top consoles and portable games. Info on the Miku Hatsune arcade came in this issue! Rilakkuma iPod Cases are Kawaii! Our line of iPod product is really exploding, and today we're posting several kawaii Rilakkuma cases for the current iPod nano. Have the most original iPod case anywhere! Yotsubato Daily School Calendar 2010 Great news -- we got the Yotsuba 2010 calendar in stock today, and it's a really special item. Bad news -- 94% of them sold to preorder customers, so we only have a few left. Don't miss this outstanding item! SUMMER WARS (Blu-ray Disc) The anime film everyone is talking about is Summer Wars, one of the most original and beautiful films since Spirited Away -- it's that awesome. And we just happen to have the new Blu-Ray boxed set for your viewing enjoyment. Anime Artbooks Restocked Then see fresh stock of some nice artbooks, including the Moe Moe Military Encyclopedia, the Gurren Lagann Official Movie Fanbook, plus several gorgeous Queen's Blade books. Kanji Practice for Adult ~ Revised Edition Learn Japanese with your Nintendo DS, using the newly revised kanji training program we just got in stock. Restocked DS Games, Too Also, see fresh stock of the kawaii Shugo Chara DS game and The IDOLMASTER Dearly Stars games, which we got in stock today. Hokuto Musou ***Preorder*** Fist of the North Star is the legendary fighting manga/anime from the 80s that's part homage to The Road Warrior, and all awesome. The new PS3 game is going to rock our world, so we're posting it for preorder now. KAO LIESE Hair Designing Jelly ~ Multi Accent J-List caries some really amazing Japanese hair-care products, and the new Hair Designing Jelly from KAO is in stock for you today. See them on the Fashion & Beauty page. New Snacks from Japan Be healthy with the new BalanceUp fiber bars w/ cream in the middle -- Black Sesame flavored! Also, Milk Caramel Pocky, Strawberry Ramune Candy and an awesome item, Lotte Xylotol Ginger Ale Gum! Kitakata Noodle FURIKAKE (Fukushima) Yum! A new flavor of furikake powder that you sprinkle over rice, this time with the flavor of Kitakata Ramen from Kyushu. Also restocked, several flavors of Food Drops candies, including Cherry Boy (heh). Hello Kitty Slim 2 Tier Bento Box, Sanrio Chopsticks Got another Hello Kitty bento box for you, a nice 2-tier model with everything you need for a satisfying bento lunch experience. Also: matching chopsticks w/ case. Restocked Bento Boxes, Too Other popular bento boxes are restocked today, including the amazing stacking bento boxes from Hakoya and the kawaii Panda Paws bento from Prime Nakamura. NORI-PIYO Egg Carrying Case Neat! It's an carrying case for a hard-boiled egg for bento fans that's modeled after my favorite onigiri bento case, the Norio Angry Face item. Deco Onigiri and Chirashi for Beginners Here's a super Japanese book that shows you how to make "deco" (decoration) onigiri in many cute shapes, using great ingredients like rice, nori and vegetables to create cute shapes. Totoro Bento Boxes, Plush Toys Restocked The nice Totoro Tight Bento Box is back in stock, which is great since it's one of my favorites. Also, several great Totoro and Cat Bus plush toys back on the site. Hello Kitty Bento & Kitchen Products We love Hello Kitty items for your kitchen, and today we're posting some really special items, including the Hello Kitty Sandwich Shaper which "seals" your sandwich closed in a cute shape, plus Hello Kitty Training Chopsticks and the Muffin Mold. Mousse-chan Fuwa-Fuwa Paper Clay Refill ~ Basic White For fans of our "paper clay" mold toys, which make it fun to create your own detailed toys in many shapes, enjoy this refill clay. Back King Bath Tablets Also, see fresh stock of the fizzing bath tablets that also make your bath a very pleasant experience. To use, fill the bath and then get in, dropping one of the tablets in the water. As it fizzes, the bubble will make you feel great. 20 tablets included! Japonica KOKUGO / Japanese Writing Notebook J-List carries books to help you practice your Japanese, like the new kokugo (lit. "national language," e.g. Japanese) book for practicing Japanese writing. Restocked Study & Traditional Items Fun random Japanese items for you, including the Natural Wooden Study Puzzle for learning hiragana, a Ninja Phone Strap, Shinsengumi Happi kimono and shodo calligraphy set. Simple Stripe Rice Bowl Sometimes simple is best, like this really nice rice bowl for enjoying any kind of Japanese food. Magical UKIYOE GEISHA Transforming Towel An interesting towel from Japan which features a beautiful image of a geisha -- the towel actually transforms when it gets wet. Samurai Sword Keychain You never know when you'll be attacked by little ninjas, so be prepared with the ornate Samurai Sword Keychain we're posting today, which is also great for opening boxes, letter and stuff. Hello Kitty Chirimen SAKURA Tote Bag See fresh stock of our popular Hello Kitty plush bag that's large enough to be a main take-anywhere bag for most women. It's made of chirimen, the fabric kimonos are made from, and it's fabulous. Four colors are back in stock. ToraDora! Strap Collection Set of 7 **Preorder** I am a huge fan of Toradora!, the show about life, love and tsundere, and we've posted these cool keychains featuring 7 different characters. Awesome Queen's Blade Figures, Artbooks Then, for Queen's Blade fans we have not one but two artbooks posted for preorder, the lovely dwarf twins and Fighting Lady Lili, plus a super ecchi figure of Leina. Saya Tokido 1/8 Figure ~ Little Busters **Preorder** Next, a dynamite figure from Little Busters, this is Saya who is holding a gun and wearing a torn school uniform, a pretty awesome combination. EROS 1000 Complete set ~ Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka is the "God of Manga" who created everything from Astro Boy to Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba the White Lion), but he also created a lot of awesome ecchi works, which are compiled into these two volumes (1000 pages). Neat! Yuri Manga from Japan Also, we love yuri, the genre of girls who fall in love with other girls, and we've posted a sweet new work called Sky-Colored Girlfriend Rikachi. Japanese Eroge In Stock Check out the delicious Image-Ex, a photorealistic CG animated game made by a doujin software studio -- full motion! Also see fresh stock of Real Kanojo. Sumire Portrait Studio An innovative stress relief novelty toy that lets you be with your virtual girlfriend Sumire (su-mi-reh, it means "violet" like the flower). Super realistic feel, lotion and collectible cards inside. Bible Black Stress Toys, More Restocked The popular Bible Black novelty toys are restocked today, including the Kaori Saeki Cup simulator, plus the A10 and R-1 advanced toys from Rends.
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J-List carries dozens of fun products for fans of Queen's Blade, the popular anime series which started out as a book-based RPG called the Lost Worlds battle system. In addition to the awesome Queen's Blade artbooks -- and the sister publication Queen's Gate, with female fighters from other games, we carry dozens of figures from the series, including some with clothes that can be *ahem* "cast off." Another product I like a lot is the Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos game for PSP, a superb fighting game with all characters as well as the patented patented "Armor Damage System" which causes their clothes to fly off when they take damage. Stay classy, Japan!
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Kaname Okimura, a student of Prefectoral Umineko Shougyou High ("Umisho" for short), joined the school's swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos, let alone teaches him swimming. Then, a sunny, happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa who was transferred from Okinawa joined the club. Her extraordinary underwater speed and unorthodox swimming style (plus her personal habit of nude swimming—a powerful magnet to teenage boys) surprised every club member, especially Okimura, because she reminds him of a mermaid-like creature he saw only once in his early childhood.Honestly, what is up with me and the whole stumbling upon the harem-esque fanservice anime. Not to mention the most ludicrous ones? Especially one involving sports? This is what happens when I fancy to watch a random anime through randomly selecting from a database. Anyways, on to my thoughts on this particular comedic romance ecchiness fanservice swimming sport, with a hint of tournament, anime!Anyways, like I have stated earlier, there is fanservice. And at a large level. And as stated earlier as well, we are once again in the whole harem-esque type of anime. While I would have classed Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho as another one of the multifarious harem anime out there, with the whole lack of thinking for themselves bit and having no personality (well most anyways), the characters here have more of an in depth characterization. Despite that however, the starting point, as usual, is cliché. However, the clichéness disappears gradually as every single character end up being watchable.For the story, it's basically your run-in-the-mill 'let's win the competition against the other swim club competitors'. Okay, so it's not really your basic run-in-the-mill, but whatever. Anyways, continuing on, the detail in the setting is... how can I put this... developed rather nicely as we can identify every member per their character. Anyways, I find that this was, overall, rather pleasant, although it did have its downs. Especially with some scenes that passed the limit break of fanservice. I'm not one to dislike fanservice, but too much is too much. Useless fanservice can really get rather annoying, as I have seen from Queen's Blade, but that is for another time. Anyways, my final verdict is that Umisho gives you the laughs, the character development and does not really leave you disappointed. Then again, if you aren't into these type of things and are more into the whole action packed animes, then this is clearly not for you.View the Rest
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I know it’s INCREDIBLY cliche, but sexiness these days REALLY seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. When I say that, I’m referring primarily to things I don’t understand (but not judge), such as Hideyoshi. Yeah…that trap of a character who’s still confusing to me even though I KNOW it’s a guy. Like [...] Related posts:Bayonetta Ecchi: This Time Hair Never Looked Better Queen’s Blade HOT Ecchi: Top Quality Pics 2009 Cow-Girl Ecchi GOLDMINE
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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. Afternoon Jan 2010 If you're looking for a really outstanding manga filled with the most awesome stories from Ah! My Goddess to Vinland Saga and more, check the new Afternoon out. 1000+ pages! NARUTO Shippuden ORIGAMI & Sticker This is a fun item: official Naruto origami folding paper (18 sheets) and stickers that come in the package. Make awesome creations out of folded paper. K-ON! Anthology Comic vol. 1 Here's a great official anthology for fans K-On!, the cute manga and anime about five girls who try to make the best high school band they can. Great art and new 4-koma manga stories. Mio Akiyama Tote Bag Take the super cute Mio-chan anywhere with you with this excellent tote bag from COSPA which is printed with a great image of the bass player and the K-On! logo. Gothic & Lolita Ensemble vol. 1 Here's a great special issue of the new GothLoli Ensemble, which celebrates 10 years of awesome gothic cosplay fashion with the best pictures, the most frilly outfits, and the most awesome information ever. LUCIDO-L Designing Pot Hair Wax For fans of Japan's high quality hair-care products from Japan, we've got a new series of excellent products, this time from Lucido, a sister brand to Gatsby made by Mandom. Five types of hair wax. Alphard, Ein Nendoroid Figures In Stock We love the Nendoroid figures from Good Smile Company because of the many ways you can display each. We've gotten i n the Alphard figure from the Canaan Type-Moon game and anime, and Ein from Phantom of Inferno. Love them both! CROSS CHANNEL ~ To all people A superb game by Yamada Hajime -- who created Family Project and YUME MIRU KUSURI that we sell in English, now available for both the PSP and PC! Awesome Restocked Artbooks We think the high-quality artbooks published in Japan are just awesome, and we've restocked several today, including the Pixiv Girls Collection 2010, the Japanese Sword Girls book, and Tony Taka's epic new release. My Melody Pencil Case, Pen From Sanrio we have a fabulous soft My Melody pencil case that's awesome to hold in your hand. There's also a matching My Melody pen for writing cute lines with. Yamanote Bath Towel -- Harajuku The Yamanote (yama-no-teh) line is the train line that runs around Tokyo, and all the most famous parts of the city have stations there. Wrap yourself in the awesomeness of this Yamanote-themed towel, restocked today. Totoro Catbus Plush Studio Ghibli fans know that J-List has tons of really cute Totoro items. Today we're restocking that fabulous Fuka Fuka Cat Bus Plush, one of my favorites. Meiji Village of Bamboo Shoot -- Green Tea Milk Awesome new snacks from Japan for you today: Village of the Bamboo Shoots chocolate covered cookies in matcha flavor, Chelsea Peach Milk "Butterscotch" and for fans of Calorie Mate, the very nice BalanceUp Fiber Bars w/ cream inside, which my mother loves. Ningyo Yaki (Tokyo Limited) ~ Japanese Food Drops See fresh stock of our fun traditional "food drops" candies, including ningyo-yaki from Tokyo's famous Asakusa sightseeing spot, Miso Ramen from Hokkaido, Strawberry from Tochigi Prefecture, plus the amazing Potato Chips Drops (from America?). EDO Style Wooden Lacquered 2-Tier Bento Box Set Once again, Hakoya has made me stop what I was doing and rave over their new bento box for several minutes. This lacquered wood bento box is large to accommodate hungrier eaters, and looks awesome. Restocked Bento Boxes, Too We have fresh stock of other popular bento boxes, too, including "Hiragana Man" (which is known as "HENOHENOMOHEJI" to the Japanese), plus the fabulous Silver Press Style Bento. Easy Bread Shaper ~ 4 shapes Turn boring sandwiches into fun shapes for kids with the new Easy Bread Shapers we're posting. Hearts, cats, trains, fire engines, this series is great! Wiener Shaper -- Crab, Penguin, More We've restocked several cute Wiener Cutters which turn boring sausages into cute flowers, penguins and other shapes, which are so much fun. These are among the most popular bento products we've ever carried. Other Fun Restocked Products Then, here's a really awesome way to bring hard boiled eggs with your bento. Just pop open the cute smiling egg case and put your boiled egg inside, and it'll be ready for you to eat at lunchtime! Mousse-chan Fuwa-Fuwa Paper Clay DECO Tool Set You can make the most amazing creations with the Mousse-chan Paper Clay mold toys that J-List sells if you use this set of tools that have just been released. A really great idea! 'Let's Make Eraser with Microwave' Restocked Also: see a general restocking of the eraser molds that let you create your own amazing erasers using your microwave oven. Sushi, doughnuts, cake and chocolates have all been restocked. Beautiful JAPAN Bell Strap ~ Lucky Cat This is one of the coolest phone straps I've ever seen. Featuring classic imagery of Lucky Cat, it's a large netsuke strap that can be attached to your camera, DS/PSP, or even iPhone. It has a bell inside, which will help keep you from losing stuff! Restocked Phone Straps Speaking of cool phone straps, we've restocked several others, including the soft Fresh Baked Bread straps, the popular Rice Bowl Strap, and more. Lucky Cat Toilet Paper, Kompeito Candies Lucky Cat is one of the most famous symbols of Japan, and we love to find fun products to find for our customers. Today we've got the Lucky Cat Toilet Paper and Kompeito traditional candies for you. Sheena Figure Swimsuits ver. Shining Wind *Preorder* Awesome figure of Sheena from the Shining Wind PS2 game, rendered in beautiful 1/7 scale for our enjoyment. Preorder her now and we'll send her to you in July. Evangelion iPhone Battery **Preorder** Next, the Evangelion iPhone cases have been a huge hit with J-List fans, and now there's something even better: a backup battery case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS that's Evangelion themed! Click to view both of them now. EvaFuda (Evangelion Hanafuda) **Preorder** Another really cool item: Evangelion Hanafuda cards, based on a classic game enjoyed for over 1000 years. I love the art on these cards. Nozomi Sasaki in Tenshi no Koi (Angel's Love) Got more love for Nozomi Sasaki, the popular fashion model who has gone mainstream with her sexy gravure photos that are so pretty, everyone in Japan is going ga-ga over her. Dengeki Moeoh Apr 2010 Dengeki Moeoh is the awesome moe magazine filled with art and comics for you to enjoy, with posters and other good presents for you. Tons of information on the newest anime series, plus a free mouse pad right in the magazine! Restocked Visual Novels See the 18+ version of Cross Channel, created by one of the best scenario writers ever. Also, the legendary game Fate/stay night (full DVD-ROM version with extras) is restocked. QUEEN'S BLADE Blu-Ray Discs Got the first two volumes of Queen's Blade Second Season for you on Blu-Ray, which are a real treat to watch in high 1080p resolution. These are fully compatible with Blu-Ray players in North America, including PS3.
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 Kodomo no Jikan, drawn by a woman. But is it really pervier than stuff drawn by men? So, the other day there was this really interesting piece on blog Anime Almanac (found via Simon Jones, sometimes NSFW) that posited that female mangaka draw at least as many ecchi series as men these days. Of course, that's hardly news to anyone who's ever opened up a copy of Shogakukan's popular shoujo manga anthology Sho-Comi, which can definitely hold its own against all the moe fanservice mags out there.  Screencap from the BokuImo OVA (Seriously, look at some of their biggest titles-- Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru, aka "I'm In Love With My Little Sister," is about a dude in love with his younger twin, who starts out as a creepy stalker. It becomes "okay" when she decides she loves him back. Anyone who tells you that women aren't every bit as perverted as men on average is kidding themselves.) But that's not the main point of AA's article: author Scott VonSchilling suggests that female-written ecchi works stand out more due to their "feminine touch," that "when you have a woman writing the story, you tend to get a much deeper and more dramatic plot" to keep the fanservice together. I can understand the temptation for someone-- particularly someone who may not have picked up Sho-Comi, and has made his un-fondness for yaoi well-known --to instinctively think that way. But speaking as someone who reads through a LOT of shoujo manga, including those not cherry-picked for US release, and who has also read an awful lot of yaoi, I can tell you right now-- women are perfectly capable of writing shallow fanservicey crap. And some of it is still hiiiighly attractive. I promise.  Male-drawn Yubisaki Milk Tea-- That is ALMOST a Nipple on the Cover Which is not to say that the manga showcased, such as Kodomo no Jikan, doesn't have a strong story, even with its more questionable (underage) fanservice. Sex-heavy Chobits, by all-female team CLAMP, also has a darker plot below its chipper, pantyful exterior, too. But it's not as though men haven't been able to draw heavy-fanservice or outright pornographic series with interesting stories: Fate/Stay Night was an eroge with a remarkably complex story. Black Lagoon and Yubisaki Milk Tea are also male-written tales with their fair share of babes, panties, nipples, etc, as well as more in-depth characterizations and stories. And quite frankly, if you read through enough hentai manga, you'll find quite a few storylines more creative than your average mainstream manga amidst all the sex scenes (as well as plenty of plain-ol' storyless smut), written by both men and women. In other words, men and women can all draw pervy content, and some of them can do so while also creating complex, layered stories and characters.  Really? Chu-Bra's anime was pretty bad, but the MOST perverted/female-degrading out there?Now, as a regular hentai manga browser who has also flipped through the 2008 Queen's Blade manga, I'm not sure I can agree with VonSchilling classifying Kodomo no Jikan, DearS, Chu-Bra, and Ichigo 100% as the MOST "offensive, perverted, fanservice-laden, otaku-pandering, female-degrading manga of the past few years." But I'm sure some people wonder why women would WANT to draw manga that depict other women in such smutty ways. First, the obvious reasons: that content sells. Erotic doujinshi makes up a laaaaarge chunk of the sales at Comiket and I would imagine this carries over into the professional manga world as well. And I would bet that men buy more smutty manga than women (if only due to societal pressure-- I can tell you right now that as a woman I didn't even feel welcome in porn shops in Japan). And then, of course, there's another obvious reason: some women like being submissive, or like seeing other women being submissive.   Like men, why wouldn't these women draw what's attractive to them?   Moving into less obvious reasons, I'd suggest that some of the thought process behind it stems from similar reasoning behind yaoi manga: you can explore all kinds of things in fiction that you can't, or wouldn't want to, in reality. The most obvious example is something that shows up constantly in the mostly female-drawn world of yaoi, as well as plenty of shoujo: molestation, coersion, and rape. From there we move into a level of psychological theory I'm not entirely comfortable making sweeping generalizations on the matter, but it's clear that there are many women who enjoy men who are aggressive towards the objects of their affection-- in their FICTION. Surely this carries over in manga as well as in prose (see also: bodice-ripper novels, most yaoi fanfiction, and western counterpart slash fanfiction as well). So, what do you guys think? Do women write and draw better perverted manga than men? Why or why not? Do you think it's empowering or damaging to women in general, or neither or both?
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More of loot images. Queen's Blade Megahouse Aldra from HLJ promo but I sold it just to cover my other shipping expenses. Somehow Aldra doesn't really appeal to me, that why i decide to let her go and finding for better figures like Queen's Blade Shizuka, Queen's Blade Melona and Queen Gate Alice. Queen's Blade Megahouse Echidna Special Edition. Also from HLJ promo, special editions come's with Melona pet. An item that MUST-GET. I'm still thinking whether to keep her as MISB while writting this post. hahaha. Figma Mio which I decide to let go too. I like Figma Azusa more than Figma Mio (Gomenne Mio-chan). If anybody want to exchange Azusa with me. I would glad to deal with you. My Revoltech Cattleya been investigate by custom. I wonder custom is addicted to soma(seikon no qwaser) and attacked my Cattleya. I'll do some reviews of my loots on other day. Been busy this week.
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