Dakimakuras anyone?

Nice loot! That pink haired cover is a beauty! The front and back are both sweet!

yo i like this shit.. although i think i can make one of these myself lol

http://www.nijigenshingu.info/makura/img2012/coverstand_01.jpg

LOL! Oh, what has become of this hobby. Pretty soon we'll all turn into dakimakura hipsters, mumbling about how we "used to collect them before it was 'cool'."

But in all seriousness, that display stand is pretty cool. ;)
I may have to look into making one. I bet I can get most of the materials and pieces needed at IKEA and Home Depot.

Man, really hope I get my SMJ order this weekend. Requested the shipment last Saturday (with the stipulation that they ship after an item arrives - I figured this would give them a heads up, and the item arrived Monday.) It's still in the Processing stage. :(

Can't beat mine, I got rejected.

Why is that? :o

Rejected, that's odd. I wonder why. Yeah, my SMJ order is now four days old and still no tracking information. :/

Mine finally got upgraded to "Done", which should mean it's in the mail but they usually don't invoice/provide shipping until 1-2 days after. With the way Priority works, I might get it Saturday if I'm lucky.

I have no idea what's wrong with them, they refuse to ship my Vita via EMS nor Fedex, because there should not be an issue with fedex.

Ah, probably a battery issue, then?

Except, fedex is able to ship items with lithium batteries.

Damn, still no update from SMJ on my order. They fall into a black hole?

EDIT: Nope. Just got an invoice for
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/05/00/040030050087.html
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/04/79/040030047921.html

But still no tracking info. :(

Dood, I suggest you drop Nick a mail ASAP. There are times where you can settle things by contacting them. I knew I did on several occasions including my current situation. They finally shipped my Miku Vita but holy shit at the shipping cost, 135USD for a single vita, really?

I'm surprised you haven't gotten an update on the Takane cover, at least. Mine is currently sitting in the US office.

Heh, finally got my tracking info and all the stuff will be here today.



Bleh, my NoReal order was wrong. I ordered one nude and one clothed version (both with juice, of course.) I went with 2WT for the clothed version and 2WR for the nude version; my reasoning was that I'd eventually sleep with the clothed version and have the nice and pretty 2WR nude version for display. Instead, either NoReal sent out the wrong items or SMJ ordered the wrong items, because I have two 2WT versions. D:

Nice batch of goodies, regardless. Doesn't it suck when you think about how much goddamn time and money goes into all of this? LOL ;)
Well, I went from not having tracking information from my SMJ order that I submitted last Sunday to receiving my tracking number on Friday afternoon. To my surprise, I checked this morning and apparently the package is apparently out for delivery. :D
Won't be nearly as awesome as some of these insane hauls you guys bring in, but I got bills to pay and a shit paying job (for the time being).

Also, I feel like the biggest idiot ever. I fucking missed out on this cover...AGAIN!
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/07/11/040030071181.html
Seriously, I missed it by one goddamn day. Grrrrrr. ( '>___<)

For the hell of it I placed a special order for the cover through SMJ, yesterday. I doubt it will go through, but whatever. It's not like I have the money to spend on it anyhow.

I think all of us have bills to pay, just that some of us lack self-control, that's all. orz

Yeah, I'm sure we all do. I'm primarily referring to rent and utilities, and insurance.

Anyhow, here is what was in my most recent haul:

What's that last one from? <3 tentacles...

Okay SMJ is pretty awesome, getting the hang of it. It's still pretty confusing searching for things though. But wow I found some DVD's I think I want through them off Amazon for like 1,300 yen, and was about to pay 6,000+ off another site through YokattaWeb. lol, glad I'm taking my time here now figuring this stuff out. Some of this stuff seems tricky though. Like, games for 350 yen? eh.... hard to believe if they even work and I always want stuff "complete", but I guess I could see some of this being a gamble.

Might bug you guys with questions if things come to mind since I think I'll jump on the importing madness here, finding so much Inyouchuu stuff I want for pretty cheap! Hot damn I'm obsessed with Aojiru's art/creations... haha...

So web order sites, comshop, toranoana, d-stage, mandarake, etc, do they only sell NEW items or no?

Do Japanese PC games work on US systems? I know about region settings and have gotten plenty to run, I'm just wondering if I can slap disks in and my PC will read them?

I usually don't bother using SMJ's search tool; it's more of a pain in the ass for me than it is just to search directly through whatever site I'm using. But I can see how it could be more confusing for most, since navigation is purely in Japanese. Though really, if you spend even 20 minutes just screwing around with a site you can learn how to navigate it without much hassle at all. Even if you can't read a lick of Japanese.

I'd say it depends on where you're buying the game from, I guess.

You may use a proxy to buy from a bunch of different sites, but you can't bunch them together like that; they're all very different in operation.

I've never used Comshop so I couldn't say, Toranoana/D-Stage are only new items as far as I'm aware, though they may have a preowned section (like AmiAmi) that I'm unaware of.

Technically, Mandarake is about 99% secondhand (they do a few reservations/preorders on occasion.) But the condition of the item can vary wildly; you can find items that have never been removed from their packaging to items that reek of smoke (only happened once for me and it was with a doujinshi.) They'll usually list the item's description somewhere in the listing, and they're fairly good about keeping things accurate.

Other stores would need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.

They should boot up just fine. Installation is the problem usually, but as long as you have the unicode settings and whatever else is needed for a particular game worked out, it shouldn't be a problem.