Magazine: Oekaki Hime September 2020 + Sumikko Gurashi Stationery Furoku

In which the magazine is nice, but the furoku is a veritable pile of Sumikko amazingness. Here’s yet another kids’ magazine from Japan with yet another set of Sumikko Gurashi furoku that still manages to stick out from the competition just by being so plentiful. First, though, let’s discuss the magazine content for the September […]

Magazine: Chara Parfait Sept-Oct 2020

In which everything, furoku and magazine, come together as cool and smooth as ice cream.

Magazine: Oekaki Parfait Stamp Pen Ippai Mook

In which my shameless weakness to Sumikko cuteness is at perhaps an all-time high.

Magazine: Kirapichi August 2020

In which we get a Sanrio character poll, a ton of cool character coverage, enough dinosaurs to rend my wallet into shreds, and a couple of nifty furoku. I’m back with another really sweet issue of a kid’s magazine, this time the August 2020 issue of Kirapichi. This magazine is aimed at older elementary school […]

Magazine: Hand Made Parfait Mook

In which I finally find a level of crafts appropriate for my experience and talent levels (that for Japanese elementary school kids). Here’s a fun mook (magazine/book) related to Chara Parfait magazine — Handmade Parfait is full of mostly character-based crafts I genuinely found interesting and enjoyable. If you’re looking for a bunch of great […]

The Get List: Tokyo Catch: Koupen-chan Gamaguchi Pouch

In which I expect a yellow drawstring bag, and instead get a pretty nifty pink little….coin purse? Small purse? Something like that. It probably says a lot about my general starry-eyed state with Tokyo Catch that I originally thought I won the yellow version of this, which slipped through the bars on a free ticket. […]

The Get List: Tokyo Catch: Koupen-Chan Angel Shima Enaga Plush

In which I accidentally win something for basically the first time ever, though it might have sort of been definitely was dumb luck. I have thought Koupen-chan was really cute for a long time, but the only place I really ran into goods for him(?) was via Re-Ment, and then I was too busy spending […]