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See that you won the HOP Fate case. It's a wonderful case, but it's fairly unfortunate that she's censored. :/


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Anyone interested in any of these three covers:

https://picasaweb.google.com/Treveran/OrderedDakimakura?authkey=Gv1sRgCMC5lfWLwtX8uQE#5727690967818043170

http://d-stage.com/shop/detail.php?seq=18391

http://lubriciouskin.net/?page_id=106

A fellow collector has all three preordered, but he's looking to sell them. He thinks they should arrive in July, and he's looking for $120 each, which is a fairly good deal if you consider the prices of each. If you're interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact with him.

Yeah, as you said, all the tricots/roikas are good, but which you consider the best in the end is all up to personal preference. There hasn't been a 2WT/R that I've disliked, but A&J/Seiren are on the smoother/slippery side; I definitely prefer materials that are smooth but (I won't use the word richer D:) also have a more textured feel to them. Hence why P80 2WT and B&W Store's old 4WT are so high up on my list.

Nice! I know I had considered picking up that Mami cover at some point myself. :3

I've slept with a couple of different materials in the past: P80 2WT, 紫源亭's 2WT (unknown producer), and actually A&J 2WT now that I look it up. I stopped using my pillow when I moved about a year back, but the three covers I've used to sleep with were IG's Marisa, 紫源亭's Mio, and Syrup's (eroge company)Atsuko Takagi which was apparently A&J 2WT according to the blog. Can't say I can remember too much about sleeping with any of them, but I do remember that the Marisa was the best to sleep with.

And yeah, materials are hard to describe. While A&J and Seiren's roika are very smooth, like you kinda slide around on them a bit, P80 just feels like it has a lot of substance... really can't explain it too well, but rich seems like the best word to describe the feel.

Nah, that color was fine. Still strictly speaking about feel, I was disappointed with it.

Heh, I got my first A&J cover a few months back with the Sena cover (that I know of for sure.) It's definitely a nice material, but after everyone talked it up so much that I ended up being really disappointed. It's definitely smooth, but I personally prefer materials that are "rich". Hence my top pick of P80 2WT; it's just nice and thick and feels very good, even if it doesn't look the best. I'd probably agree with the rest of your list, but I didn't want to bother with non tricot/roika materials.

That's a question of opinion and I imagine you'll get a lot of varied answers.

My personal opinion is no, it's not the best feeling material. I'd probably rank is 3-4th in terms of feel, but without doing a direct comparison with covers in front of me, I can't say for sure where it sits. It's important to note that "pearl roika" is generally Seiren's material, though I think a couple of mass market (meaning they're available on AmiAmi) used a material called pearl roika, but I'm not sure if it was produced by Seiren.

For pure feel, not necessarily factoring image quality, my ranking would probably go something like:

1. P80 2WT - It feels great, but is beat by others in terms of image quality.
2. B&W Store's old 4WT
3. P80 Roika
4. Various 2WTs that I can't rank more accurately - A&J, Seiren's pearl roika, etc

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ^^

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

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. ^^

This site has actually reviewed quite a few poster sets, though not all are bath posters (they also have some sheet, tapestry, and dakimakura reviews, too):

http://finepo.blog25.fc2.com/blog-category-10.html

The category list on the side:
★エロゲ (70))(eroge)
★グッズ (176) (Goods)
┣★抱き枕 (58)(dakimakura)
┣★シーツ (26)(sheets)
┣★タペストリー (32)(tapestry)
┣★ポスター (14)(poster)
┣★タオル (7)(towel)
┣★CD (15)
┣★グッズセット (5)(goods sets)
â”—★その他 (19)(other)

On a regular basis? Nope. But HOP's bath posters are really cool, with the vanishing clothing when hot water is applied... though you really have a constant stream of water on it for it to remain clear. You can search on YJA for other bath posters, though. Just search お風呂ポスター.

Yeah, in all likelihood I'd probably be the same. It's definitely a worthy award for loyal fans, but something that you'd really have to work at. That's interesting that your cap is at 5k; when I was sitting at 0 EXP, mine was listed at 15k. Maybe I was victim of a weird bug or something.

Yeah, will be interesting to see how it goes.

And nope, I'm level 2 but I just got credited the EXP from my first order (back in February) last night. When I was level 1, the cap was 15k and now that I'm level 2, the cap is still 15k. If you look at their FAQ, it actually mentions something about the cap being level 3.

It was 100% pure sarcasm. :P It's going to take me years to hit that cap, if I ever hit it.

Edit: You may have missed the deadline for the Valkyria covers, but some of the covers that are older appear to still be available. Hopefully it will be the same case with that set. http://www.ordin-soft.com/form.html

Yeah, that's based off the rough translation though. It would definitely be an amazing bonus, well worthy of getting up there.

Just some rough calculations, though...

80000 EXP needed to reach level 5. Assuming no wasted purchases (for 0 EXP) and no promotions (2x EXP), that would be 80 covers at the average of 12k yen each. So not including Paypal fees/shipping, it's only about 960000 yen, no biggie.

I definitely want the Clesta cover; that's pretty much the only thing I have to have. But I'm also interested in the Mukiryoko Monster Hunter cover and the Argyle Luka.

Nice batch of covers there. :D

Edit: Found the level guidelines on the Evening Call site, and it looks like it's still capped at Level 3 (15k experience.) But still, the level 4-5 rewards sound awesome. From my translation and understanding, it looks like your payment due date is also extended. And the way I understand the level 5 reward is that it isn't just any cover, but they'll do a unique cover with a character of your choosing and only you'll get it. If that were the case, that would be a truly amazing reward.

As much as I love Paint Musume's work, I'm actually on the fence about that that cover.

That's definitely pretty cool with Evening Call's system; I knew the point earning increased, but the system wasn't fleshed out past that beforehand. The previous level cap was 3, as well. All the other rewards sound absolutely amazing and is definitely making them love the circle even more. I'm really happy that they opened up the door to foreigners.

And yeah, I've been keeping watch on the Clesta cover since they started popping up yesterday. You have no idea how tempting it was the pull the trigger on the very first one with a buyout (at 35k for the full set.) But I didn't, and now there are 15 total listings. Definitely wish I had pulled the trigger on the 19k buyout I saw this morning, but I had literally just woken up for a few minutes and was too groggy to do anything other than search. Of course it wasn't there after I went back to bed and woke up, but the situation isn't too grim right now.

Edit: Oh, and I wonder how the shipping perk would work for us foreigners. I imagine we'd likely just get a 500 yen discount per item, or something, but that would still be fairly awesome.