Cool Items Saturday, December 20, 2008

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.

	Lala, Haruna Santa Version Figures To LOVE-ru is the fantastic story about a very lucky young man who finds himself in a love triangle between a beautiful childhood friend and an alien princess from space. Both are in stock now, and they look gorgeous!
	Yoko 1/8 Figure Space Look ver. ~ Gurren Lagann Got a killer new figure for Gurren Lagann fans coming in soon, which you can preorder now: Yoko, as created by Wave's Dream Tec series. In stock now!
	Mikuru Asashina 1/7 Figure Gothic Punk I am so in love with this 1/7 scale figure of Mikuru dressed as gothic punk figure. Unfortunately so are many J-List customers -- we sold all but a few of our stock through preorders, so get yours now!
	Teacup Poodle -- Chocolate You know something with a cute name like this just had to come from Japan. It's basically a plush little puppy dog in a teacup -- kawaii!
	Comptiq Jan 2009 New issue of the gorgeous magazine dedicated to beautiful anime girls. Features loads of pictures and information from popular games and anime, like Lucky Star, Fate/stay night, Magical Lyrical Magical Girl Nanoha Strikers, Haruhi Suzumiya and more. Comes with a free Lucky Star calendar inside. We have this and many other anime magazines available via monthly subscription service.
	COSMODE 025 ~ Super Cosplay Magazine Another super issue of COSmode, the perfect-bound photobook-style magazine that presents hundreds of the best anime cosplay shots for you -- more than 100 pics in this issue! From Evangelion to Macross Frontier to Inuyasha and Code Geass, this is a really special issue. Comes with a full pattern in the back, too.
	Unofficial Hatsune Mix 01 ~ KEI Miku fans, this is a treat: a gorgeous manga of stories about our favorite Vocaloid character from the original creator, Kei.
	illustrations Relation ~ Code Geass For fans of Code Geass, the fantastic creation of CLAMP and Sunrise, we have a new artbook offering the best illustrations of the characters we can remember. Check it out.
	SHIMENAWA Bamboo New Year's Decoration New Year's Day is an important time in Japan, and you can hang traditional New Year's decorations on your front door to welcome in happiness in 2009.
	Dengeki G's Festival vol. 13 Dengeki G's Festival is an awesome special issue of the popular anime and game magazine that comes with special extras. Vol. 13 will be released soon -- it comes with a free hug pillow from Koi Hime Musou, and since we expect it will be very popular, we're posting it for preorders now.
	Grey Totoro Fuzzy Key Chains We've gotten in some great keychains for Totoro fans, which are soft to the touch and great for holding in your hand. All three Totoro forest spirits are available, as well as the Catbus.
	New Japanese Snacks Then enjoy some really great new Japanese snacks, including Milky Milk Cream sweets from Fujiya, a new variety of Meiji Ginza Sweet Chocolate, and for the brave, Chocolate Covered Seaweed-dusted Potato Chips from Hokkaido.
	Bleach Omikuji w/ Mini Mascot -- Zodiac Version Then: increase your personal good luck with these cute Bleach omikuji fortune-telling figures. Will you find a new love in 2009? Maybe these will help you find out.
	2009 Anime Calendars Although J-List is loaded to the brim with 2009 calendars right now, they're selling at a very rapid pace, and many of our most popular items have started to disappear. The smash of this year was Shirow Masamune's gorgeous Saber Tooth Cats offering. It had sold out, but we happily got a few more for you today.
	JPOP & Other 2009 Calendars J-List is the only place I know of that's so dedicated to promoting Japan in its many forms around the world that we carry even the more esoteric calendars, like the Jero, the black singer of traditional enka songs in Japan, or gorgeous art and traditional photo calendars. Browse our selection now.
	Convenience Store Style Onigiri Wrappers J-List customers have a fascination with onigiri, the triangle shaped "rice balls" usually eaten with bento. By customer request, we've gotten in some cool onigiri wrappers for making rice balls just like you find in 7-11.
	Restocked Bento Boxes See fresh stock of one of our most popular bento boxes, the pink Sakura-themed Bento Box from Prime Nakamura. Also, we've restocked several of the smiling Nikyoro bento boxes that are so darned cute.
	Japanese School Bookbag If you've ever wanted to own your very own Japanese school bag, well, now you can! This high quality school bag is used by Japanese students all throughout Japan to carry their books to school, and you can do the same. In stock and ready for your order!
	Fun Ways to Learn Japanese We've restocked two popular Nintendo DS tools for learning Japanese: the hiragana and katakana training game Dora Gana as well as Let's Play in Japanese. Also see restocked Doraemon bilingual manga!
	DX Kitty Pencil Case If you haven't used one of the deluxe pencil cases from Japan, you don't know what you're missing. With many compartments and ways to organize all your writing instruments, these pencil cases make learning tons of fun.
	Outrageous Japanese, Kanji Books & More See various restocked books in San Diego that help you learn more about Japan, including Outrageous Japanese (all the naughty words you've wanted to know), strategies for memorizing kanji, and a beautiful book on brush art calligraphy.
	Index 1/8 Figure ~ *Preorder* I am a big fan of Index, the mysterious girl who stores 103,000 in her memory in the anime A Certain Magical Index. This new figure can be cast off, too.
	Moka Akashiya Hug Pillow *Preorder* Add a little interactive fun to your anime enjoyment with this Rosario + Vampire dakimakura, up for preorder now.
	Gift Certificate from J-List Just a reminder that J-List gift certificates are a great way to give the gift of Wacky Things from Japan. They can be sent as printable PDFs, and you can choose between our "classic" Megumi character or the cute Santa Megumi.
	Restocked Snacks Finally, we've got plenty of restocked snack items, including Sakuma Drops Candy, the candy seen in Grave of the Fireflies and enjoyed since well before World War II, Japanese Bubbilicious Gum in awesome Ramune flavor, Otoko Kaoru Men's Fragrance Gum, Meiji Choco Baby snacks, and the new flavors of Meltykiss for 2009!
	Bomb Jan 2009 No. 347 One of our most popular magazine subscriptions is BOMB, dedicated to the most beautiful Japanese models, from red-hot stars like Satomi Ishihara, Aya Ueto, Rina Akiyama, and Yumi Sugimoto. Comes with a DVD, too -- awesome.
	Domin-8 Me ~ Take On Me One of the top selling manga volumes J-List has ever carried was the famous TAKE ON ME by Sessyu Takemura. It's available in English, and we've got it in stock in San Diego. Fantastic!
	I Don't Want to Touch You ~ Yaoi Manga Then for fans of the highly dramatic yaoi stories Japan is so good at making, we've gotten in the new offering from Koh Yoneda, with gorgeous art throughout.
	Uncho Kanu Cast Off Figure Real Arrange *Preorder* What if Uncho Kanu from Dragon Destiny weren't anime, but real? How cool would she look, how utterly would men break themselves against her like rocks on the shore?
	New Yulia Nova DVDs Yulia Nova fans have reason to rejoice: two new Yulia Nova DVDs are in stock and ready for you to order. We've got a new Yulia Cosplay Series in which everyone's favorite Russian model shows you how good she looks in a variety of costumes. Next, the 20th Yulia release, a premium Yulia special disc with some of the most tantalizing views of Yulia ever. We love Yulia!