Recent (Japanese) Things You Have Purchased

[adamstan]

Nice deck, that Pioneer My main deck currently is also Japanese dual-capstan three-header - AIWA AD-F810. I also have a bunch of Nakamichi (670ZX, 482, 480) and Onkyo decks. As well as some Polish ones, but those are more for the sentimental value

Edited June 8, 2021 by adamstan

[Tasuke]

 

my parents started me out on component Hi-Fi around 1999/2000, before i had even quite left my teens.

they handed their entire system down to me, a mid-70's NIKKO 5055 stereo receiver, early-80's RADIO SHACK "REALISTIC" 31-2000 12-band Graphic Equalizer,

late-80's PIONEER CT-980W dual-well cassette deck, mid/late-70's BSR 200BAX changer Turntable, and some three or four-way pair of FISHER floorstander loudspeakers.

i made a ton of cassette mixtapes with that system over the next couple of years, both for myself as well as for my long-hauler, career truck driver father.

the 2000's wore on, seeing a procession of upgrades to my system, -many of them thanks to the great deals on great gear to be found at yard sales and thrifts at the time-

and today, -long since becoming a PIONEER devotee- i have built myself something close to a personal ideal in a nearly-all-PIONEER A/V system...

 

- elements of my first Hi-Fi, 20 years ago -

 

 

 

 

- elements of my current A/V system -

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Tasuke

[hansfredrichseidel]

Just recently bought a tenugui. It’s a thin, cotton towel normally decorated with traditional patterns or illustrations. That may not seem like much, but tenugui may be worn as a handkerchief or headband in the summer.

[adamstan]

Another bunch of console editions of VNs. In this batch, there are:

• Damekoi (PSP)
• Princess Evangile (PSP)
• StarTRain (PS2)
• Akaneiro ni somaru saka (PS2)

Also, a little before that I got PS3 Limited Edition of '&' - Sora no Mukou de Sakimasu you ni -, with drama CD and some mysterious trinket included in the box:

[Tasuke]

 

 

 

 

Edited December 29, 2021 by Tasuke

[AmelieDoree]

Most recent things I got were Christmas gifts -- the first being a copy of Pia Carrot on PC-98, which I'm still really stoked to own since it's one of my favorite dating sims! 

And a PC-FX, which lately I've been using to play Angelique Special and having a good time with.

[Tasuke]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2022 by Tasuke

[The Dub Lover]

On 3/20/2022 at 9:19 PM, Tasuke said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How big is that Ika Musume figure, lmao

[The Dub Lover]

1. Anime DVD "The anthem of the heart"

2. PSP Games "Shining Blade"

3. Love Live Figure "Maki Nishikino"

4. Manga "Takane to Hana" 

All the item are shipping from Japan.

I would like to buy again if my NFT got sold out or I have to wait again.

 

 

[chasekilleen]

My copy of Magatsubarai finally came today.

Kind of happy.

Edited March 27, 2022 by chasekilleen

[Tasuke]

On 3/26/2022 at 7:29 AM, The Dub Lover said:

How big is that Ika Musume figure, lmao

26cm. or about 10 inches, after the OBITSU upgrade, of course...

[HataVNI]

You guys have some truly cool stuff. 

[adamstan]

Arrived yesterday - another 3 physical console editions of JVNs - Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai, Strawberry Nauts and Hatsuyuki Sakura

(As for HoshiOri - I'm actually reading Vita edition, but for "owning a legit copy" purpose I bought PS4 one because it was cheaper )

[Gknight]

Guess I can show off my new tapestries here

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https://imgur.com/a/arLoJMh

 

 

[HataVNI]

So I ordered the Full Metal Daemon Muramasa Physical Edition for an unreasonably high price of 330 bucks. This is a once in a lifetime purchase though, so it was worth it and I'm sure I'll use this Haori and the Sake box a great deal. When I have made some space inside my cave, I will make an unboxing video and also post a ton of images. I'm extremely proud of this purchase. I have never anything as expensive as this before, so this was all a big thing for me. I will also document the experience.

[Andromis]

Not really recent, but it is the latest thing I've gotten from Japan. 

Edited October 28, 2022 by Andromis
Forgot to add an Image

[Nemesis]

I figured I'd post some of my collections here for now if anyone is interested:

 

These are the same pictures I shared in discord. I have a couple other things, but too lazy to dig them all up to take a picture.

Edited December 3, 2022 by Nemesis

[Shinyun226]

Whole bunch of stuff I just got and added to my ever-growing backlist. Combination of two orders actually: Pretty much all the all-ages stuff is from Surugaya.com (Surugaya's overseas website), and then all the eroge were from Surugaya's japanese store (+ forwarding service). 

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Leaf stuff. Got both the 18+ and All-Ages/Playstation versions of ToHeart, 2 Leaf Fandiscs + the ToHeart (PSX) Famitsu guide. Normally I just go for the all-ages versions of games if available, but apparently the versions ToHeart are pretty different so, due to that + since it's a pretty historically relevant game, decided to get both. I was thinking about getting the ToHeart PSE (The PC port of the PSX version) to keep everything on the same platform, but I guess PSE uses the original PC version's OST instead of the PSX versions so... went with the PSX version. I'm going through Leaf's stuff in release order, so plan to play Kizuato before I touch any of this, but definitely looking forward to playing ToHeart.

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Tactics/Key stuff: Dousei and Moon (renewal ver.) + volumes 1-5 of the Air Drama CD.

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D.O. Games: Kazoku Keikaku and Kana Imouto PSP special editions + full voice version of Crescendo. Kana is a game I've been interested in getting for the better part of a decade, Kazoku Keikaku got my attention since Wakamoto Norio is in it, and then Crescendo was sort of spur-of-the-moment.
 

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C's Ware: The Lost One, EVE ZERO and EVE TFA. Played Eve Burst error last year and absolutely loved it, so definitely wanted to continue the series. Also got 2 of the Burst Error Drama CDs (I believe there's 3 total/one more I'll have to track down)

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NekoNeko Soft: White and Gin'Iro. I found out about Gin'Iro when searching for Utsuge, read good things about it + saw that it had music by MANYO so decided to get it. Figured since it was the 2nd game by NekoNeko Soft, it didn't feel right not also to get the first so I grabbed White as well.

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AliceSoft: Ikusa Miko. This one was just kind of a random pick-up. I generally like raising sims and it was cheap + was a little surprised to find that AliceSoft actually made an all-ages game, so figured I'd grab it (You gotta buy in bulk from Surugaya's international shop if you want to make the shipping worth it so I always end up grabbing at least a few filler items lol)

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KID: Filling in the gaps in my collection of MemoOff 1st and 2nd CharaSong Cds, a Tentama bonus disc of some sort (not 100% sure what it is yet edit: it's just a bunch of wallpapers and screensavers), Ever17 Drama CD + Soundtrack + CharacterSong singles (Haven't played Ever17 yet but it's next up on my KID game queue). Then the two remaining MemoOff 2nd heroine fanbooks I'm missing (Tsubame Sensei and Shizuru) + Tentama and Close to Fanbooks.

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Aoishiro Drama CD. Haven't actually played Aoishiro yet (in fact I haven't even bought a copy of the game itself yet...) but I REALLY REALLY loved AkaiIto (and it's a Yurige either way) so it's something I absolutely plan to buy eventually. Drama CD is ready on standby for whenever I eventually get and play through the game lol

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Misc CD's/goods: Tsundere Karuta and Tsundere Hyakunin Isshu, featuring Kugimiya Rie. Can't believe these exist, but I had to buy them the moment I spotted them. Don't think I'll ever actually find myself getting friends together to play Karuta, but definitely worth it for what amounts to a Kugyu Voice CD lol

Also got Kogado Studio's "Kiwami Karuta", the voice CD on this one featuring Takahashi Chiaki (presumably in character as Sukunesama from Solfege?)

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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Blu-ray box: An Anime I've been planning to watch for the longest time. Honestly as a big Mizuki Nana fan, and a Yuri fan, this is something that I probably should have watched a long time ago

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Various trash V-Cinema/Original Videos: Hiroshima Yakuza Sensou 1-4 (starring Ozawa Hitoshi), Hiroshima Yakuza Sensou Gaiden 1-2 (starring Endo Kenichi) and Hakuryu 1-2 (starring the actor Hakuryu as the titular character Hakuryu).

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Box set for Morning Musume。's 72nd single. This was the reason I needed to use a forwarding service in the first place, and gave me an excuse to do some additional shopping at Surugaya's Japanese shop.

Edited January 12 by Shinyun226

[Nemesis]

On 1/11/2023 at 5:12 PM, Shinyun226 said:

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Misc CD's/goods: Tsundere Karuta and Tsundere Hyakunin Isshu, featuring Kugimiya Rie. Can't believe these exist, but I had to buy them the moment I spotted them. Don't think I'll ever actually find myself getting friends together to play Karuta, but definitely worth it for what amounts to a Kugyu Voice CD lol

Also got Kogado Studio's "Kiwami Karuta", the voice CD on this one featuring Takahashi Chiaki (presumably in character as Sukunesama from Solfege?)

 

Lol, Kugumiya Rie Karuta set.

[Mago Ivo]

I recently thought that I'm not a person who can be satisfied by having only one car at a time, even if it's a proper Jaguar.
My solution? I went and bought, two of the best japanese things in my opinion.
The EG is a project car for track/mountain roads, while the Legacy is the more mature (but still quite fun) daily.

Edited January 17 by Mago Ivo

[Shinyun226]

My (all yuri) Manga haul for the month of January just arrived today~

 

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Decided I better get around to reading Wataoshi and Sasakoi since both of those have anime adaptations announced so grabbed all the current volumes of those + got all of Futari Escape since that's the one other ongoing YuriHime title that I haven't been following yet.

After that got the new volumes of KimiShinu, Citrus+ and Fuzuroi no Reni, and then a few new series.

[chasekilleen]

Got a few Japanese novels lately

[Nemesis]

With SakuToki physicals coming in, I'll put in the rest of my merchandise that I just got:

[Shinyun226]

Combination of a few hauls that came in over the past couple of weeks:

 

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Okujo no Yurireisan ~Full Chorus~

Pretty famous Yurige I've been been wanting to get for a while. Liar Soft finally just put out a re-issue of this late last year, so had to pick it up.

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White Album (Original release) - Will be a little bit until I play this (ToHeart is up next on my Leaf queue) but something I was gonna have to buy eventually either way, so decided to pick it up.

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Princess Danger 1&2. Two old, fairly obscure ADV games by JANIS. They're apparently Yurige so decided to pick them up.

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Oudou Yuusha and Diabolique (Alice Soft)

These were honestly kind of filler-purchases (basically I wanted some additional cheap/small items to get my money's worth on shipping), but Diabolique I have heard really good things about so was probably something I'd pick up eventually. Oudou Yuusha was a pretty random choice, but I generally like RPGs by AliceSoft so can't hurt.

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Ao to Ao no Shizuku ~a calling from tears~

First game by Lass. Got interested in the developer after hearing about 3days (their 2nd game), and seems like most of their catalogue is pretty well regarded so decided to pick this up.

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Triangle Heart 1・2・3 

So after watching Lyrical Nanoha for the first time earlier this year, I found out that it was actually a sort of spin-off of Triangle Heart 3 so...  being the type that's pretty OCD about experiencing the source material before adaptations (even if Nanoha isn't really a direct adaption), had to pick these up.

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And, on the topic of Nanoha, got the Blu-ray box for A's + the respective Sound Stage Drama CDs (still have to track down the dramas for the 1st series as well).

 

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Finished collecting all the Air Drama CDs (volumes 6-9)

 

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Volumes 1 and 3 of the Snow Drama CDs. Unfortunately they stopped after 3 so the Shigure and Ouka routes never got adapted but... liked the game a lot so definitely wanted to pick these up. Will have to track down vol 2 (Asahi) as well eventually.

 

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Special Edition of the Blu-ray for the new WataTen movie

 

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And lastly a whole bunch of new Yuri manga~

[Tasuke]

These have FINALLY shown up, about three weeks late or so;

 sizing is optimized for the OBITSU 24ver.II foot, slightly larger than that of the OBITSU 26.

it turns out that the 24 ankle ball/peg and foot fits to the 26's legs just fine... and, -to me at least- actually looks more proportionate, as well;