Physical Media Megathread

:rofl: They must have missed one of my orders, they’ve just sent me another dispatch notice so there are more on the way.

That was my downfall :joy:

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oh! I have been eyeing this one since it’s the second in the series and I did enjoy the first one. :eyes:

:handshake:

Edit: the first book got an audiobook 3 months after the 文庫本 release but that in itself took 5 years. :melting_face:

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We’re just all enabling each other helping each other find media that will enrich our lives

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I’ve not read the first one yet but I liked the cover and then saw this so had to add it too :joy:

I don’t even need help to do that (dragon hoard), but it is appreciated :rofl:

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Would anyone be interested in 彩純ちゃんはレズ風俗に興味があります! | L23 4-5? (Note: NSFW cover) I just bought a 1-5 set that’s coming at the end of the month, so happy to pass on the extra copies. Shoot me a PM if you are

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Ack, I love all your dragon books!! Also, happy to see I inspired you with my 紫禁城の秘密のともだち nomination! It was part of my Tsutaya T-site haul on one of my last days in Japan (and I started reading it on the plane home), so it has a special place in my heart and I hope we get to read it with the club at some point!

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Books!

I like how the Shirokuma Cafe book covers form a continuous panorama!

Bottom right two are for the WK intermediate manga club. (I predict that Bocchi will win next round.)

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Last order arrived today (last one for a while).

Top three and middle row left and middle row center left are ツレ猫 マルルとハチ | L16??
Middle row center right is にゃははな毎日 : 銭天堂の招き猫たち | L24?? part of the Zenitendo universe (actually a childrens book but when I added it to natively the only part I had seen were the manga page sections but it also has text chapters too).
Middle row right is ドラゴンズロアの魔法使い~竜に育てられた女の子~ | L30?? another dragon light novel.
Bottom row left and center are more 10 minute readers since I was getting on well with the younger ones and it’s easygoing non-fiction for me,
よみとく10分 ungraded | L22??
Last one on the bottom right is the new series of Zenitendo, ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 吉凶通り1 | L22??

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They certainly did, thanks for nominating them. I have more dragon books but don’t think I posted them here yet (they were in my collection from before I started posting in here) and I’ve more to add once I can get a hold of them :joy:

I really like the covers of the top row of books you posted, what are those from?
Also, I just recently heard of the one in the middle of bottom row in your picture, ダンジョン飯, it looks good.

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I am surprised this made it onto natively. :face_with_peeking_eye: I hope my company IT doesn’t check what pictures I look at… that’s very much NSFW. :rofl:

Is the 舞something stuff manga or LN? :eyes:

Love that the Shirokuma covers make a landscape. :star_struck:

I read the first volume and it’s very cute. Should be a good level for you to just enjoy. :smiling_face:

This series looks interesting. :eyes:

I wish you were my neighbour and we could just borrow each other some stuff. :face_holding_back_tears:

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Thanks :slightly_smiling_face: Might try reading it just at work then while waiting for calls.

I saw it a while back and then found it on CD Japan so thought it would be a good option for non-fiction and also give me something more to talk to some of my penpals and language exchanges about since some of them quite like history. I think if I lived near anyone who was also studying Japanese, my house would become a bit of a library and Japanese studying hub :rofl:

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ツレ猫 マルルとハチ | L16?? , volume #1 is currently free to read (until 9/4) on Renta and maybe somewhere else as well.

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I guess I’ll add that the cover is NSFW to my comment here? I sort of assumed that would be obvious from the title. Sry :sweat_smile:

Even if they did, your browser loads a ton of pictures and other assets for every website and pg you visit. The single file isn’t even a blip on the radar

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That looks quite cool. And makes me curious how long it takes me to read the 10 minute portions lol

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Entirely my own fault… I did not read the full title before clicking. :rofl:

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To be fair, I often can’t tell what titles here say, before clicking on them. So I shouldn’t have just assumed everyone would get/read it before clicking.

I look forward to the day where we have optional blurring for adult-content covers, so ppl don’t have to worry about them.

IT comment

Though from a network traffic perspective there is no difference, since it would (I assume) be done via CSS blur/box shadow, instead of creating and serving separate blurred thumbnail files for every single “adult content” tagged item

It’s not as if urls like https://d349jbwe3uaj05.cloudfront.net/2947c4f9-dbf5-4a11-af45-bbbdd0325920.jpg?width=240&height=341.88034188034186 are intelligible anyway.

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The top row is 舞妓さんちのまかないさん. It is manga that was adapted into an anime and a live-action drama on Netflix! @CatDQ @Biblio

Also there will be a book club for ダンジョン飯 on WK in September if you’d like to join!

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Finally got my order of easy manga from Mandarake:

Anyone who is looking for a low level fun manga, ギャルと恐竜 | L16 is short, has full furigana, and is hilarious. So far it’s up there with チーズスイートホーム | L15 as one of my favorite easy manga.

The haul

Mostly full sets unless they didn’t have the last volume(s)

And はなにあらし 13 サンデーうぇぶり | L19 because they didn’t have it in stock when I ordered 2-12.

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I was just joking about IT. Even if they were monitoring… 1 picture will not put me in any trouble. :rofl:

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I sorta figured… But once my mind gets started, it goes down the rabbit hole anyway :joy:

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