Cool Products: Hello Kitty Watches, New Anime Magazine, Art Books

Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see all the J-List products, check out J-List or the JBOX.com updated products link.

	Hello Kitty Velcro Sports Type Wrist Watch -- White. These watches are great, extremely cute sports watches featuring Sanrio's most famous creation, and high quality bands that use "magic tape" (what Velcro is called here). Watch movement made by Citizen here in Japan.
	Nodding Cinnamoroll. Here's an incredibly cute item for the Sanrio shelf in your room, a cute "nodding" Cinnamoroll, who nods his (?) head lazily as he sits there watching you, eventually closing his eyes.
	HANA-NAMI Simple & Compact Bento Box Set - Blue, Red. Here's a really nice bento box set that has everything you need: a good sized two-tier bento lunchbox with separate areas for your steamed white rice and the rest of your lunch, matching chopsticks and a nice cloth bag to carry your lunch in.
	Tattoo Lifestyle vol. 19 Nov. 2007. This is the popular magazine that documents the current state of the art in Japan's irezumi (tattoo) culture, with tons of examples of the best tattoos being made in Japan right now, on both men and women.
	Glico Bakery Pretz Flat Style -- Bacon Cheese Sandwich Flavor. We're big fans of Pretz, the fabulous baked pretzel stick snack from Glico. Now there's a new version, Baker Pretz Flat Style, a delicious flattened pretzel with a great cheese taste.
	Kanji Practice Notebook 84 squares - Doraemon, Pocket Monster. The best way to learn to write Japanese is to write it -- and write it, and write it. Here are two kanji practice books with 84 squares per page, a good size for writing. These notebooks feature Doraemon and the Pokemon characters.
	Kodansha's Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms. This is a really outstanding book, a dictionary of useful idioms used in Japanese all the time, explaining what they mean and how they're used.
	Japanese Folk Tales ~ Book 3. Here's an interesting bilingual book for learners of Japanese, featuring old Folk Tales of Japan (Mukashi-banashi) which you can read in English or Japanese. Includes listening CD.
	Calpis Walkie Bits. One of the most popular products in recent years has been the Walkie Bits robotic turtles that are so much fun to play with. We've restocked several more types today, including the popular Calpis Limited series.
	Fist of the North Star Figures. Fist of the North Star is one of the most enduring anime / manga series from the 1980s, and the Seikimatsu ("End of the Century") series is the best toy line ever made. We've restocked Kenshiro and his brothers Raoh and Toki.
	WA ~ Stainless Vegetable Cutter - Japanese Leaf Shape. Here are two cool sets of "vegetable cutters" for bento, which will take a boring carrot and turn it into a beautiful bento beautification objet d'art that's shaped like traditional Japanese leaves. Also use it as a cookie cutter if you're so inclined.
	Dragon Yukata ~ Japanese Cotton Kimono. We've been on a roll with our traditional yukata (cotton kimonos), and we're posting another one today.
	Kiki & Tombo Propeller Bicycle ~ Tomica Limited Collection *Preorder*. Another awesome upcoming toy from Tomica, this is a figure of Kiki and Tombo on the propellor bicycle he built. A really special item for Studio Ghibli collectors.
	Yuiko Kurugaya 1/8 Figure ~ Little Busters *Preorder*. A fabulous figure of Yuiko from the popular PC game Little Busters, from Key, the company that brought us Kanon, Air and Clannad. What is it about half-undressed Japanese girls clutching samurai swords that I find so appealing?
	SUPPLIO ~ Aroma Mechanical Pencil & Leads -- for Refresh. A fantastic idea: mechanical pencils with leads that product subtle mind-improving aromas as you write with them! We've got two different pencils, which offer "healing" and "refresh" aromas.
	Dengeki Moeoh Reserve subscription. We're adding a new "reserve subscription" item you won't want to miss: the popular Dengeki Moeoh, or King of Moe, a super magazine that brings you Japan's amazing anime and game visual culture, with a constant focus on the beautiful girls in the genres. Each issue comes with lots of good free stuff, from posters to figures -- a magazine we highly recommend to everyone. Because this is a revolving subscription you can cancel at any time. Sign up now!
	Sabra Magazine Mar 2008. Aficionados of beautiful Japanese women know that Sabra is a great magazine, with each issue filled with fabulous girls, like Ai, or Anna Tsuchiya, or Maiko Inoue. Each issue comes with a DVD too.
	Bon Voyage -- Aino Kishi. A gorgeous hardcover photobook starring this beautiful Japanese idol and model who shocked fans by releasing this "hair" book that shows everything. Features beautiful photos of the star in many fun settings (on a yacht at sea was one of my favorites), of course with the incredibly high quality printing the Japanese are known for on every page.
	New Manga Volumes. Wow, some really good new "H" manga for you today. First, enjoy Sukufuku, a festival of "moe" (mo-EH) featuring cat girls who are also maids, girls with classes, and much more. Next, a collection of great stories surrounding the Japanese fascination with "oneesan" (older sisters, a term which applies to any older, more experienced, girl as well).
	Queen's Blade ~ Menace. We love the Queen's Blade books, which can be used as a book-based combat game, attacking and defending by calling out page numbers, or you can just collect them as seriously drool-worthy artbooks. 64 glossy pages and hardcover!
	Rondo Leaflet ~ Official Visual Fanbook. Here's an amazing item, an artbook from a popular PC dating-sim game set in Victorian England -- wow! Fantastic art that you never thought to see in an "H" game.
	Petra 1/7 Cast-Off Figure Illustrated by Shunya Yamashita. The awesome figure of Petra is in stock finally, and available for order. Unfortunately it was so popular that most of our stock sold out as preorders, but we have a couple left.
	Smoking Girls. Wow, here's a video featuring nothing but gorgeous Japanese girls smoking, and then smoking some more, all while wearing very little in the way of clothes. A fantastic concept from TMA for men who find women smoking to be sexy.
	Ero Nurse vs Black Man -- Io Asuka. Here's a really amazing release featuring drop-dead gorgeous Io-chan (pronounced EE-oh) going up against some big black dudes from the USA. Lucky dogs.