Dakimakuras anyone?

Hmm, she's definitely nice but I think I can resist. I'd probably get it if it turned up cheap on mandarake (~12000) but not for 16k+. Did preorder Elina though, though that was mainly due to Shimizu Ai love lol ;( I should really find time to actually play Dracu-riot.

And yeah vietxmikey, as shashin says, if you want that poster you need to order it from the lilith shop (via proxy). However, it's quite likely that the cover will be sold by Amiami for a lot less (due to probably a 5-10% discount from amiami -the last Lilith covers were sold for 11,900 by amiami instead of 12600-, and no need to pay proxy fees or local shipping) but without the poster, so it's a question of how much the poster is worth to you.

@Shashin You are right, this is not explicit at all, especially coming from such a company. You know, I hope they'll release a few covers from the Blood Lord game as well.

@Willow Hmm... I guess I'll wait to see if Amiami will end up having it for sale along with the poster(lets just hope), if not, I'll just proxy it from Lilith.

As the one of the first few C82 dakis covers being revealed. We now have a new material called Cozy Stretch MK II. What the heck is that?

All I know is that it has a much higher % of Polyurethane of 18% compared to other current 2WT which contains 12-13% respectively.

Will probably grab one of those to have a feel.

Always fun to try new materials; shame that Matsumoto didn't last, as I really liked theirs. But as it is, the 2WT/R spectrum varies quite a bit in the Polyester/Polyurethane ratio. There are those that are 12-13%, but I've seen some that are at 15%, and Seiren's Pearl Roika is 17%.

Feeling new material definitely is nice, at least when it's better. :P

Going from cheap bootleg to cospa and then to circles made me realize how big a difference material can make. Would love to hear what think of this new material when you get your hands on one. :)

My items didn't arrive today. 3 packages all delayed at customs, I hope that doesn't mean all 3 are getting duty. :(

The only good news is my dakimakura are now in transit so they're 100% tomorrow, not sure about the other two. :(

I must had missed those. Seiren's high Polyurethane ratio must be what makes it so awesome. It has this nice thick feel when you hug it compared to A and Js while smoother by a teeny weeny bit feels kinda thin.

Recently I found DC's 2WT to be incredibly bad. I noticed from using 4 covers made by them. Kanu, Koi Kishi(2 covers) and Mugen Kidou. All of them had nicks at the lower half of the cover. It isn't as durable as other 2WT. While I do have a 2nd copy of the covers I'm using, I'm not too happy about it.

The Akeno cover you have ( http://blog.埋もれる抱き枕er.jp/archives/8175 ) is a 17% 2way Tricot too, and feels a bit smoother than AJ2way to me.

So excited just put in an order for two of those Evening Call Rachel covers! October cannot come soon enough. I think I'll probably end up nabbing that Lilith cover too.

Also, what everyone's thoughts on this cover:

I like it a lot, like there's something strangely super-sexy about it, but I'm sorta' on the fence with making a purchase...especially at 12.6K.

Covers and our absurd spending habits aside, how was everyone's 4th of July (where applicable). ;)

I see what you mean about that cover. When I first saw the cover, it struck me well. Where you find the cover?!

As for 4th of July, I did nothing but work... Got home to just food and anime, which is fine of course. I'm a very boring person. :P

What's 4 of July suppose to be anyway?
All I did was went out for a while, came home, Hug dakis till the next day.

I want to get softhouse-seal GRANDEE new cover, but I can't really see much with the unfinished image.



http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/05/30/040030053042.html

Hahaha, I hear ya'. Yeah, I went out and watched fireworks and then went to see a movie.

Here's the URL to that cover: http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/05/30/040030053042.html

EDIT: Oh, didn't see that you already posted the URL, thanks ZZ. The Fourth of July is our (United States of America) Independence Day. It is commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence wherin the United States declared independence from Great Britain. It's a fun day off for us that's usually filled with BBQs, drinking and fireworks. :D

Too be honest with you, I have no idea but I just wikied it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)

Didn't really know what it is until reading the first sentence of the page.

And thanks for the link! Can't believe it is a late July deadline and an early August release.

Oh yeah, a SMJ question, lets say all your items are stored in USA. You can't request that item to be shipped until you pay it off, right?

That is correct. You can try, but they'll probably just send you an invoice for your outstanding charges. ;)

Well that was strange. I just went to pay Yokatta for my Toranoana order via PayPal and I received the following error message when I tried to submit payment:
"This recipient is currently unable to receive money."

I wonder if PayPal laid the smack down on them on account of the fact that they specifically tell you in their email invoice to "pay the Paypal fees by sending the payment as Personal Payment, or you can use other selection and we will charge you Paypal fees in separate payment."

Trying save a couple bucks probably bit them in the ass.

Also, I think I need to up my spending cap on SMJ. I went to go look at placing a special order through Rinkya, and they want $28 commission to order that Lilith cover. Eff that noise!

While I've no idea why they might be having problems, it's definitely nothing to do with that. That's just basically saying that the buyer pays the paypal fee not them, which is a totally legitimate demand to make and not against any paypal rules. If they didn't do that they wouldn't be making any money at all from being a proxy service.

Say I go buy an item for 17000yen item from some web order, and they charge 500yen local shipping too, 300 yen bank transfer fee and 700yen fee for yokatta. So that's 18500 total (or: 17800 money for the item, 700 for themselves), then a roughly 4% paypal fee, if borne by yokatta would mean they recieve 17760 after paying the paypal fee. Yes, they would be losing 40 yen by accepting the order. Obviously they can't be operating under such a ludicrous policy so they customer has to pay the fee or they can't offer a fixed rate 700 charge. Paypal fee isn't exactly 4% but it's roughly that, as a point of interest, and item of 16000 is the break even point where their paypal fee is 700yen equal to their fee if it is a 4% charge exactly.

Well I can see it being an issue if their company brings in a certain amount and they have to file taxes it might be an issue. I'm assuming that is why PayPal divides these sections.

While you may well be right about it being a tax issue, that is far outside paypal's jurisdiction, they are simply a private company handling money transactions, they cannot do anything regarding people's taxes.

The reason the sections are divided is because for one the seller is paying the paypal fee, while for the other the buyer is paying the fee.

That would most likely go into business and tax related issues in the long run, but whatever the case it looks like PayPal put Yokatta's account on (temporary?) hold because they deemed the selling of doujinshi as...well I'll let you just take a look at their Twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/Yokattaweb

Ahhh, ok. Thanks for the reply! Looks I need to pay off my current fees to open up for that Lilith cover and the one you just posted. -_- Damn this!!!

Yeah that makes sense, paypal don't like being used as payment for adult goods for some reason ;( And depending which doujinshi it was it really could of been what they said.. though they presumably wouldn't have known which particular one it was.

Finally got my dakimakura. They're all so nice, my next step is buying another pillow or two. I really want to display more than just one. :(







I also snapped some quick shots of my oppai mousepads. Turns out my memory is wonky. I didn't have Yoruichi, but I forgot about Mafuyu and Tomo.