Mm possible, but nothing comes to mind.
To be fair, I definitely do like my share of trashy stuff. As long as it’s the right™️ kind of trashy. though what exactly differentiates the two isn’t always clear
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Got the following from them today:
Hi. Thank you for shopping at CDJapan.
Following the announcement of tariff relaxation, we have temporarily suspended orders as we were not certain of how our packages would be handled. However, as we haven’t seen any packages being affected by the new tariffs, we’ll be resuming shipments starting tomorrow
So about a 3 day delay in total. Not so bad
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Almost entirely 吉屋信子. Miraculously I managed to add almost everything here to the site
- 花物語 | L24?? - greatest hits manga of stories from 花物語 上 | L38 . Surprisingly hard to find, given it’s from 2014
- 暁の聖歌 (吉屋信子少女小説選 1) | L30?? - themed short story collection
- 考証少女伝説―小説の中の愛し合う乙女たち | L30?? - academic book on Class S works like 花物語 and 乙女の港, lesbianism, etc
- 精選女性随筆集 森茉莉 吉屋信子 (文春文庫 編 22-2) | L30?? - short stories by Nobuko, and by BL author Mori Mari
- 徳川の夫人たち 上 朝日文庫 よ 1-1 | L30?? 1-2
- 続徳川の夫人たち 上 朝日文庫 よ 1-2 - couldn’t find on Amazon unfortunately, but it’s the next 2 books in the series
- 女人平家 上 (朝日文庫 よ 1-5) | L30?? 1-3
- 自伝的女流文壇史 | L30?? - biopics? I don’t entirely understand what this is yet
- 天璋院篤姫 上 | L30?? - idk anything about these books/author - they were bundled in with one of the other orders
I’ll probably start with 花物語 and 暁の聖歌. Will be really cool to see the stories illustrated, and I think 暁 is easier, and has bigger font size, than the rest
I’m really curious about that essays book, but that’s gonna be a hard read, I can tell already. Wish it was digital.
Apparently I’m the last 3 replies… So here’s more stuff:
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Hope video games are okay for this thread. I’m very excited to dig into this as soon as I’m done with work for the day.
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oh fun! I should really dust off my pile of Japanese Switch games…
I’m pretty sure physical media is physical media, which a game definitely counts (and I have seen other games in this thread in the past, iirc…)
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I think the only other jp Switch game I have a physical copy of is the Yuru Camp VN. I found that one too difficult back in the day, but i wonder if I could manage it now… 
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Oh, I didn’t realize ときめき was on switch! 
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Yeah, a remake came out just recently! It has both the old pixel art and more recent redrawn art. Interestingly, it defaults to the original graphics.
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I am in the habit of visiting used book stores any time I travel, and most have no or an underwhelming Japanese selection but recently I did find two books that interested me:
わたしのグランパ looks like it will be a easy read to burn through sometime. It has large font and only 152 pages - I suspect it’s aimed at a younger audience as well. チョ子 interested me because it’s a short story collection by 宮部みゆき who I mostly know to be incredibly long winded. I’m curious what a short story by her will be like.
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Got a new book order in today!
- NO. 6 〔ナンバーシックス〕#1 | L32 - I’ve been wanting to read this one for a long, long time. I’m gonna finally prioritize it this month!
- キラキラとギラギラ 2 | L22
- キラキラとギラギラ 3 | L22
- キラキラとギラギラ 4 | L22
Caught up with キラギラ now~
Bonus magazine and merch
The real reason for my order was the cute D.Gray-man steampunk merch. :3 I also got the latest issue of 小説Chara for the newest Flesh&Blood short story.
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I spent too much time trying to rearrange my bookshelves earlier, to see if tiering worked. Takeaway: I mostly don’t like it, but it’s useful if I really needed the space. My biggest issue is that it makes things really hard to access. I shouldn’t need to make a dexterity check just to pull a book off the shelf. Final result:
Anyway, various things I wound up doing:
Inuyasha & Ranma shelf is so much nicer than that looked before, so succes!! The SAO shelf looks pretty good too, tho the one worth Kirito & Yui is blocking the other LNs behind it
Yona & Shirayuki before:
Yona & Shirayuki after:
Minor change, looks a bit nicer
Put it all together, and you get:
Well I guess that’s before I added the rest of the LNs to the SAO shelf
マリみて before - over 1.5 shelves
Attempt 1: this looks nice, but I hated it, cuz hiding the DVD cases loses so much vibrancy
Best in terms of visibility, but highly impractical. I had to use random books at the end, bc I don’t have bookends
I like doing the stacking with LNs on the bottom better, but it still blocks more than I’d like
Otoh my previously pretty bottom shelf
Is now a mess 
The one upside is that now I can move all my yuri into a single bookshelf (it was overflowing before)
I’d kind of like to do that, but then I’d have to shift 9 shelves
Top left 3 to right, top right 3 to bottom, bottom right 3 to top… Or I could swap bottom left 3 with top right 3… But I really like the bottom left 3 where they are
It saved me this much space:
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