Dakimakuras anyone?

Down the page a bit for the first one: http://kyounetsu.blog110.fc2.com/blog-category-29.html

Small sample here for the second; the page it links to is broken:

http://blog.xn--er-573a1isbf1441e2hs87j.jp/archives/1857

Better sample here, if you have a Pixiv account:

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=big&illust_id=4536931

lol, thanks again shashin.

i was lookin for that alice cover on that site, but don't think it's on mandarake...

I'm bad with character names. Which?

the alice margatroid one you showed me off that blog yesterday. the 6th one down.

Well I wasn't in that tunnel during the opening rush.. but at other times it was quite fine (winter comiket though, can imagine it being quite stuffy and horrible in summer). Two orderly streams of people moving at a normal pace.

Never saw a single person pushing or shoving to get anywhere really (maybe some slight nudging to get through the thickest of immobile crowds rather than queues). The whole queuing system there is amazing and effective, despite the 10s of thousands of people there, it all moves very smoothly for the most part (chara-ani stall queue is slooooow though...).

I wouldn't particularily recommend any hotel, as I haven't been to enough to really compare them. But I stayed at http://www.hotel-yanagibasi.jp/en/ last time, which was nice since walking distance of akihabara and not a bad price (for 2 people anyway). Unless you pay a fortune, all rooms are going to be pretty small wherever you stay I think (not really a problem for me).

I believe it's always mid August, but may be mistaken!

The guide book will be for sale at all major anime-ish stores pretty much. So Toranoana, Animate, Gamers, etc will all have it (basically anywhere you look in akihabara nearly :p or their other branches throughout tokyo).

There are some train passes you can get, but they're probably only worth it if you'll be travelling around the whole country a lot. If you're just sticking in tokyo and near it then you're probably fine to just pay individual fares.

Ah, misunderstood. Thought you were looking for the Alice cover on one of the sites I just linked, not Mandarake. Yeah, she definitely isn't on Mandarake; the relevant search term would either be the circle name "黒蛛白蛛" or " 抱き枕 アリス" neither of which brings up that specific cover. Searching by Touhou "東方 抱き枕" might be a good idea, since Mandarake's descriptions can be pretty vague at times. That would probably be your best bet, but I was too lazy to go through all the pages of Touhou covers myself.

Finally got my Inyouchuu/Aojiru stuff in... =D


You guys weren't kidding on the wear of the dakimakura though. Definitely a little dirty and the creases are pretty insane, here's another shot... would there be anyway to kind of "fix" this up?

Finally got my Inyouchuu/Aojiru stuff in... =D


You guys weren't kidding on the wear of the dakimakura though. Definitely a little dirty and the creases are pretty insane, here's another shot... would there be anyway to kind of "fix" this up?

SMJ just denied my BWStore order. :'(

Eh that's really weird. It went through fine for me :o Current Payment Status at "Seller Paid"...

URL : http://bwstore.com.tw/
Commission : 0 USD
Your order was not accepted.

Description:
We cannot place a new order to them until they answer for our question. Since they accept paypal payment with using English,
please purchase their items directly.

doh ;(

It's that time again. Wanted to post some pictures of my Rachel Alucard Evening Call cover I picked up from Evening Call. I should note that she's 72500 years old ;):




Hope you guys enjoy the pics. I should be getting my Tamamo cover on Monday. What a great month October was. :D

It's a real shame, too. I was so tempted to put in my special order as soon as they opened up, but I figured I'd wait a few days. I should have just kept my mouth shut about the SMJ Taiwan proxy and how much we'd all be saving. :p

I hope you know I'm just being a jerk myself and not really holding anything against you. ^^ I just sent SMJ an email asking if it's a problem they think they'll be able to resolve soon, or if it's a problem they don't think they'll be able to fix. I'll probably look around to see if there are any Taiwanese proxies with reasonable fees, because even with a commission it would still probably result in a net savings.


Edit: Got a reply from Nick at SMJ today. Apparently the Taiwan branch of SMJ thinks BWStore is a scammer, for whatever reason. I told him that I've successfully ordered from the foreign/worldwide links multiple times and have never had any reason to doubt them, but that I obviously had never ordered from the Taiwan side of things. He said it shouldn't be a problem to order from them, then. Don't know what made the Taiwan team think BWStore was shady, but since the preorder is open for about 3 months, maybe I'll wait until you get your order first, willowywicca. ;p

With the number of items I'm ordering, before proxy fees and shipping cost to the US, I'm saving about $600. Figure even if shipping were $300, which seems rather high, I'm still saving $300. Factor in any miscellaneous fees I may be missing and I'm still saving some money. While SMJ's beta testing the Taiwanese deputy service, there are no service fees.