Friday, January 29, 2010

Wacky Japanese T-shirts & Hoodies from J-List

Ever since J-List brought out our first "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" T-shirt more than a decade ago we've sold a huge number of wacky Japanese T-shirt and hoodies to customers all over the world. The "Girlfriend" shirt has been our top seller, closely followed by our wacky "Beware of Perverts" design and the always-fun shirt that says "In Emergency, Commit Seppuku Along This Dotted Line." J-List helped make Domo-kun the world-famous character he is today, and our Domo-kun line of shirts, hats and hoodies has always been popular with our customers. Recently we've been banging out some great new designs, like our K-On! "Afternoon Teatime" shirt or our tribute to tsundere anime girls. Our T-shirts are printed by our hardworking staff in San Diego (not mass-produced in Asia) and all sizes are full U.S. sizes (not tiny Japanese ones). Click here to browse all our products, or here to see the top 50 this week.

3 comments:

AstroNerdBoy said...

I have a request for your t-shirts. When it comes to the Japanese, I'd love for the description to have the Romaji and translation of all the phrases/words. While I can read the Hiragana and Katakana, I can't read the Kanji but I'd love to know the actual Japanese being spoken.

Peter in Japan said...

Ah, good idea, I'll try to add to the descriptions. Any that are particularly lacking?

AstroNerdBoy said...

I think most of the shirts could use this. I know I own the Japanese girlfriend t-shirt, which was given to me as a gift three or so years ago. I recognized "Nihonjin" but I was a bit suspicious of the rest of the Kanji since I didn't know it and I was disappointed to not see Romaji for the Kanji when I went to your site. Later, I came to know that "kanojo" is on the 2nd line and I still don't know the 3rd. ^_^;

I was reminded of this with your blog post when I checked out the tsundere shirt. You do mention "Baka Baka Baka!" but not "Urusai Urusai Urusai!" or the phrases (I see "tsundere" is on the shirt).

Just a personal preference as I'm all down for wearing t-shirts with Japanese on them, but I like to know exactly what is being said so as not to wear the equivalent of an Engrish shirt in Japan to a place where I could encounter Japanese folks. *lol*