Dakimakuras anyone?

That's a good question. Maybe a really hot and wet towel that he just goes over with? My experience with the HOP poster I had was that the black ink had to be under a pretty much constant stream of hot water for it to remain transparent, but I guess other inks could be different maybe. I never really gave it much thought and was just happy to see the full products. ^^

Yeah it's the same for my one, I assume it's temperature rather than any property of water that makes the chemical become transparent. Maybe he takes the pictures in a sauna or has a dozen heatlamps pointed at them or something ;(

Oh and thanks for the link, seems like a nice blog!

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the info, but I do want more B2 size poster, so I can post it up in my room. I'll check out that link you posted, Shashin. Thanks for collaborating, guys! I wanna deck the rest of my room as well!

I have been clicking on links on Toranoana for em, but still can't seem to find the poster link.

Yeah, they have a ton of good stuff! Most of the items they post seem to be company products, but I don't mind looking at the occasional bedsheet and such. And when I looked through the blog, they actually did have a good deal of things I'd consider buying. I actually bought the 4 bath poster set listed on one of the first few poster pages, and they're pretty awesome. This the size is B1, which is fairly large.




I don't think they have a specific poster section, but just search the word poster and click through all the results. ^^

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http://www.toranoana.jp/cgi-bin/R2/allsearch.cgi

Those are heat sensitive parts which even turns transparent from heat from your body, even if you were to place your hand on those areas it would still turn transparent.

Talking about poster, nothing takes the cake, price wise then this:

http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r89664325

Currently got my sights on this:
http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h163993249

My god... 32k! O_O And that poster is sexy!

Edit: And wow, I think my cover from Amiami got lost... Fucking jesus...

It's also one of those Heat sensitve posters where you can get a clear view of her boobs.

Wha? Which? your nurse? Or some new cover you ordered?

I actually just received it today... It got sent to another city's post office, and then to another, and somehow it ended up in my local office. o_o

Heh, weird shit like that does happen occasionally. Fairly happy with my auctions last night; managed to win the Clesta cover at a fairly reasonable price.

How much was that? And congrats man!

And we're back! :D

16.5k. I actually think it was the second auction to close, as I was outbid on one and gave it up for the lowly bid second. Helped that it was in the adult section, which seems to be overlooked a lot of the time. Though I saw a lot of others close in the 17k range, so I guess it wasn't too bad overall. I combined that with a goods set at 3.5k, making the full set 20k.

Don't think I mentioned it in this thread, but it's still unfortunate that Mandarake decided not to list the couple they had on the English site. They had 3 listings up before any of the auctions closed, and I had SMJ try to snatch them all. In a terrible bout of timing, they all sold out, quite literally unfortunately, within an hour or two of the time SMJ responded to my special order request. It works out in the end, because with special order fees they would have cost me more (excluding the full set they had for 18.9) but if they had sold them on the English site it would have definitely been the better deal.

I have to say I was pretty unlucky, I won the full set at 23k. And another single cover for 19.5k. so 42.5K for my Clesta covers.

However I managed to win my Mugen kidou set for a mere 17k. So I Guess that even things out a bit.

I didn't have enough to bid for a 2nd cover for that since my limit ran out.>_>
100k yen limit was too puny.

That seems to be how it works; you win some and you lose some. I still remember how I was hesitant to bid past 28k for the very first wave of AnkoKoubou Miku covers. Missed out on getting mine for about 28-29k. Then the last few of the C81 batch sold for 40-60k. My Wife comes around and I didn't hesitate on the non-ero version. I actually ran into the limit problem myself there. Someone had listed the normal version for 24k buyout, but I had like 22k limit at the time.... I was bashing my head against the wall so hard. What's even worse is that it was a temporary low cap because I had just placed some other bids and lost them, but their system was slow that day, so they didn't reset until after the 24k Miku had sold. Needless to say, I jumped on the first 35k ero buyout I could, which ended up being a fairly "good" price for it at the time.

Wow... That is pretty cheap, considering the fact that, that cover was freaking sexy as hell! Speaking of prices, how much does Yokatta usually charge for EMS shipping for 2 covers?

So bidding on items with SMJ, do you have to contact them by email every time you wanna place a bid?

And I would like to reiterate, YOU GUYS ARE NUTS! xD

I fi recalled correctly, I was charge close to 2k Yen for EMS shipping.(2 carnelian covers)

No, the nice thing about SMJ is that they have real time bidding that you do it yourself via a UI when you register with them.

You copy the link of the auction and paste it on their website and then you can choose how much you want to bid(Limited to how much you deposited with them via credit card or paypal)
Then you can select Real time or Snipe , which they will throw in a bid in the last 5 minutes.

And for the record, I would have whacked more stuff if my wallet wasn't screaming for his daddy.>_>

Heh, my bidding limit has been killing me for the past two years, since I put in a massive order with D-Stage and still wanted to bid on YJA stuff. I had the money at the time, but don't anymore. Even so, I never have the self control to keep it down low enough for a period of time where I can request a bid decrease... so I end up juggling purchases for the full 2 weeks grace they give you. T_T

That's probably about right on the EMS price; I've actually only had one order from Yokatta, and I think it was a bit over 2k for 3 Evening Call covers.

SMJ is definitely pretty handy. You can bid on just about everything on YJA with no interaction/waiting at all, but some adult auctions do require them to place a manual bid, which can take anywhere from a few minutes to a day, depending on when it's placed. Special orders they do have to place manually, but you put it in on their website and don't email them. They email you when they accept/decline your special order, and then email you again once it's paid for.

So, I see... This is the world of YJA. I'm glad I switched to Google Chrome, everything gets translated to English for me. :D YJA seems interesting... I'm curious, how come some covers are so cheap? Like this one for instance, http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e126082739

And oh my god... 30k for this. http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g113679191
If I had the money and my SMJ account was up and running, I would of gotten this within a heartbeat! But I'm a bit curious now, it is 30k buyout as well, why haven't anyone gotten it? Too expensive for what it really is? Or people just aren't into Asagi? D:

When there's a suspiciously cheap cover on YJA with a buy-out chances are that it's a knock-off. However, you'll find that some cheaper covers will be bundled with H-PC games and visual novels. :)

Yeah, whenever someone first gets into the hobby, one of my main tips is "use Chrome." It makes things a lot easier.

So for the first auction, it's likely because it was a preorder bonus or other such thing, and isn't really a full scale cover. I'm not 100% sure on that, but I just translated the description and literally skimmed it for about 10 seconds. It seems legit, but one thing you do need to worry about on YJA is bootlegs, which is another reason the price could be so low for covers.

And the reason that cover hasn't been purchased yet, in my opinion, is because 30k is an absolutely horrendous price for that cover. People that really wanted it had a ton of chances at it: the initial webshop (Lilith, I think?) order, and two shots through AmiAmi (where even foreigners could have ordered it.) And this was recent, too - it was available on AmiAmi as late as February. So anyone who really wanted it paid ~13k for it and not some ridiculous 30k.

In comparison, very few covers sell for 30k+. Usually it's limited to event exclusives/other exclusive things, older covers, and really popular characters/circles. The thing all of those have in common? Low supply/high demand (at least in comparison to supply.)


Edit: Evening Call's Dark Magician Girl and Nodoka are up, but it appears they're mostly an event exclusive. Luckily Evening Call is awesome, so they are giving a 4 day window you can preorder in. Just a head's up to anyone who was considering either; you don't have long to decide.