Cool Products Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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.

	Dengeki G's Magazine May 2009 Enjoy plenty of great moe culture with the new issue of Dengeki's G's, filled with Moonlight Cradle, Da Capo II, K-On, Fate/unlimited codes and more. You get a *free figure* with this magazine, too.
	Egg May 2009 We've gotten in another great issue of Egg, the wonderful magazine that captures Tokyo street fashion life perfectly, with stylish girls on every page. Even the ads are fascinating to check out.
	Mugen Banana Peeling The Mugen series has brought us endless fun popping soybeans and bubble wrap, and their newest invention lets you re-live the joy of peeling a banana again and again. A great idea! These keychains come in several colors.
	Fortune Telling Gurren Lagunn Here's a line of cute uranai (fortune-telling) figures from one of our favorite shows. Each figure tells you what kind of luck you'll be having, e.g. about to meet someone special, etc.
	Kagami Miku Cosplay Nendoroid The cutest version of Miku Hatsune turns out to be...Kagami Hirayanagi, who does her best "cosplay" of Miku-chan in this new offering from Good Smile. Kawaii, and with many ways to pose her. Now in stock and ready to order!
	Metatron 1/8 Figure ~ Demonbane *Preorder* This is a really nice-looking figure from a popular game, which is extremely detailed and ready to rock on your shelf of choice. We sure would love to see more of this girl in the future around here!
	Lyrical -- Fumitake Moekibara illustrations A great artbook from character designer Fumitake Moekibara, a talented artist who has created many memorable characters. Enjoy her new artbook, which is best described with the word ero-kawaii.
	Megami MAGAZINE Reserve Subscription Just a reminder that J-List carries great magazines via our revolving monthly subscription system. Many magazines, like Megami, Dengeki G's, Moeoh and Newtype give you cool free stuff, from posters to pencil boards and figures. We recommend you consider giving one or more of these really fun magazines a try.
	Amazing Japanese Snacks One of the most enigmatic Japanese flavors if Calpis, because it sounds like...well, nevermind. Enjoy delicious Okinawa Pineapple Calpis soft candies available right now, along with "Goth-Loli" Glamatic Gum from Lotte, delicious Pupurun soft gummy candies, and great Ramune Monster Stamps that create images of famous monsters, but you can eat them!
	Panko de Panda ~ Easy Bread Crumbs Maker The Panda Sandwich series continues to be popular, with the newest offering a cute device allowing you to easily make bread crumbs for use with many dishes. Warning: this thing is so cute, it may drive you mad.
	Hello Kitty SHAMOJI & Sliding Stand Case This is a cute shamoji (rice scoop) with high quality case for it that makes the act of putting steamed rice into your rice bowl into a very kawaii act.
	Totoro Cushion, Plush Toys Various restocked plush toys for the Totoro fan in your house, including the Sleeping Totoro Cushion and the basic Dark Grey Totoro Plush.
	Monokuro Boo "Kuttari" Plush Monokuro Boo (lit. "Monochrome Oink") is one of the cutest characters in the world, and we've restocked this cute little guy today. Buu buu! (That's Japanese for "oink oink!")
	Yamanote Line Station Light We just love the Japanese Train Station Lights, which faithfully recreate the train platform of the Yamanote (yama-no-teh) train line that runs around Tokyo. We've restocked Akihabara and Shibuya today.
	Restocked Elecom Products Don't use just any USB game pad when you can have a cool retro Famicom-style game pad from Elecom, which we've restocked today. Also, the XCALGO Overhead Type Headphones and the Scope Node laser mouse.
	Japanese Food Point And Speak Phrasebook This is a great idea: a phrasebook dedicated to all kinds of Japanese foods, indexed by picture and category. A wonderful item for anyone planning a visit to Japan someday.
	Micro Size Check Pen for Study ~ Green Next: a handy size version of the Zebra Check Set Pen for use with the Zebra Check Set, which lets you highlight information you want to memorize and hide it with a colored sheet, a great way to learn!
	Kanji Practice Flashcards We gotten in a shipment of flashcards from White Rabbit, highly recommended because they force you to read everything in hiragana rather than Romanized Japanese, which you'll thank them for later, since reading Japanese written using the alphabet leads to poor pronunciation. In stock in San Diego.
	Restocked Bento Boxes Rilakkuma, aka Relax Bear, is back in stock today, along with the elegant Mottainai (Japanese for "what a waste") bento set.
	Other Bento Items Also: the extremely ball-type onigiri maker that you can use to make perfectly round Japanese rice balls as well as the Bear and Apple Lunch Bottle Set for carrying soy sauce and other good things with your lunch.
	Awesome Japanese T-Shirts J-List has sold our fun and wacky T-shirts for more than a decade, and we love how our customers have embraced them. We often close out T-shirt designs to make room for new stock, and we're happy to announce that a few copies of our "Tired Salaryman" shirt are available.
	Sheryl Nome Figure ~ Macross Frontier *Preorder* I am a huge fan of Macross Frontier, a proper sequel the 1984 Macross movie. This is a great figure of Sheryl Nome, the singer from the explorer ship Galaxy. Best of all, it's "cast off"!
	Mirim 1/8 Cast Off Figure - *Preorder* Queen's Blade fans, we've been posting amazing artbooks and figures and magazines left and right these days. This is an upcoming 1/8 scale figure of the popular Mirim, so sweet and sexy in her Viking-style armor. Cast off.
	Echidna 1/8 Cast Off Figure ~ *Preorder* Or if you like the equally gorgeous Echidna, an amazing female warrior with great armor and weapons. Preorder this figure now and we'll ship it to you when drops in August.
	Restocked Hello Kitty items See the Hello Kitty x COURREGES stylish notebooks back on the site, as well as an item people have been banging down our door for, the legendary Hello Kitty Health Masks, the kawaii way to guard against germs.
	New Hentai Manga Enjoy some great offerings today, including Ero Tora, a super parody of one of my favorite anime series, Toradora that covers all the characters. Then feast on Peach Colored Tanyuism, a superb thick manga by Michiyoshi Kuon.
	Queen's Blade The Duel Complete Book *Preorder* Fans of the runaway hit Queen's Blade will want to snap up this upcoming artbook that shows you all the best images from the awesome series.
	New Toys from Tenga See two outstanding new toys that relieve stress for guys, and which look so good, you might display them on a shelf. See deluxe new editions of the TENGA Rolling Head Cup Special Hard Edition and more, on the site now.
	Peach Princess's "Brave Soul" We're happy to have so many popular products by top Japanese illustrator Mogudan, but did you know he created the most excellent hentai RPG ever? Brave Soul is a fabulous game with real scrolling combat and an innovative "love points" gaming system. Enjoy the game at its new lower price!
	All Yulia Nova DVDs Restocked J-List, of course, is the place to find the delightful Yulia Nova, the Russian idol who caught the eye of Japanese photographer Satoshi Kizu. We've restocked several of her most popular DVDs for you today.