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Love long running anime, especially the big 3 and Fairy Tail (Haters come at me :D).
Collecting Figures that make me poor make my room look awsome.
Procrastinating uni work for anime.
Hate anime hipsters who hate popular shows and long running shows because they think they're fully sikkk "narutard" "#Cowboybeebop4lyfe" I laugh at you sir(s)/madam(s).
Awsomeness over realistic (but dat Takehiko Inoue art tho)
One Piece makes me cry #DemWater7&MarinefordFeels
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There are 4 main sites that people use to import from Japan:
CDJapan is reasonable if you don't know Japanese because the site is in English. That's their main advantage. On the other hand, the shipping is slightly overpriced, and their stock is relatively poor (although sometimes they have items in stock after they sell out elsewhere). They generally don't give discounts, and they give hardly any points for book purchases, and these points disappear after a year if you don't use them. The site is mainly aimed at CD/BR buyers.
Amazon gives discounts on most things, but their shipping is per item, not per weight/volume, and they seem to assume that you're going to be buying the biggest, bulkiest book imaginable, so they invariably end up costing more than buying elsewhere. Furthermore, they don't offer the cheapest shipping method, which will hurt you even more if you are more interested in getting the item cheap than getting it quick. The stock is good, but sometimes they hide the books behind ebook versions, so you have to click on the ebook and then switch to the physical format when on the work's page.
Honto is the site I use most of the time. They give the best indication of the stock level of each item, and they have a good stock. There's no discounts (although you get more points than cdjapan gives, and they last for as long as you like; plus they're constantly offering coupons that can give you a bit off an order), but you pay for shipping exactly what they pay for it, rather than the "estimate, add a bit and then round up and add a bit more" method that other sites use, so they almost always end up being the cheapest place. The catch? The site is entirely in Japanese, with no English version, and searching for the titles in English or romaji will usually not return any results. They can also be slightly slower at dispatching than other sites (although you know how long it will likely take when you put the item in the basket), and you don't know how much the shipping will cost before they actually send it - by which time it's too late to cancel (although you can guarantee it will be cheaper than amazon or cdjapan).
The fourth is yesasia, which is awful. Tiny stock levels, the titles are weird (MF Bunko J becomes emuefu bunko jie hi, for example), inconsistent and thus often hard to find, and even though they advertise free shipping on large orders for the slower shipping method, the shipping cost is invariably included in the item price already, and the actual cost generally comes out as higher than from cdjapan, and far higher than honto.