[Question] Good Sites for buying Japanese Hetalia Manga and Books?

[fh14]

So with this whole mess with the English licensing of Hetalia, I decided to instead try and buy up all the Japanese Editions of the Books. However, the site I usually use when I get the rare urge to attempt and buy something like that, YesAsia, no longer has four of the ones I wanted available for order because they're no longer in Print. I expected as much, but I could only find one site with third-party sellers - Amazon.co.jp - and I'd like to look around to see if there are other places I could buy instead to see if I could get a cheaper price.

If anyone could give me the names of websites I would really apprecate it.

Total Collection of things I want to buy:

• Hetalia, Volume 1 [Ordered from YesAsia]
• Hetalia, Volume 2 Special Edition
• Hetalia, Volume 3 Special Edition
• Hetalia Italian Guidebook (Strongly leaning towards Amazon)
• Hetalia, ArtSella (Willing to buy without the extras)
• Hetalia, Volume 4 Special Edition [Currently Own]
• Hetalia American Guidebook [Ordered from YesAsia]
• Chibisan Date, Volume 1 [Ordered from YesAsia]

Comments

[sammich]

We get our books off http://www.bk1.jp/ however, the site is in Japanese. They do ship abroad. And if you can't get it there, try http://www.kinokuniya.com/ Which has stores in the US and does ship from them.

[randamonian.livejournal.com]

You already have the books ordered that this website has, but for future use, try JList. An english speaking website run from Japan.

http://www.jlist.com/search/all/hetalia

They sell other Hetalia stuff too, like figures, games, little extras.

I am shocked, but they are selling a fan made Hentai Hetalia game here too. Whoa. I'd, like, buy that, if only it wasn't R+.

[ootsubasaoo.livejournal.com]

I order books from this site

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/index.html

Doesn't look like they have the Special Editions, but they might have other things. :)

[gramarye1971]

Amazon.co.jp and Kinokuniya are my two go-to places for Japanese books. Amazon.co.jp has a broader selection but longer shipping time, and the exchange rate is really not good at the moment. Kinokuniya offers free U.S. shipping if you order more than US$100 of materials from the same store, so that might be an option worth considering for the manga and probably ArteStella.

[jammerlea]

I learned how to navigate bk1 with this tutorial: http://www.yaoi.ca/bgbk11.php srsly, I've used it to buy all those books there AND some magazines. The books are sold at cover price and the shipping costs aren't too bad, but I've only used SAL so far. The only downside is they won't ship CDs/DVDs overseas, but there's CDJapan for that.

[jammerlea]

Doesn't Amazon Japan charge a lot for international orders? I remember it being around $30+ or whatever when I used them once a few years back. Thankfully I was ordering three secondhand books for like 1 yen each, but it seemed like a lot. @_@

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

They do; starting from 2007 or so, they only ship through EMS, which is the safest way but also pretty expensive. Last time I tried, they threw my stuff to Fedex which made everything even more expensive to me =_=

I remember when I could pick SAL shipping in Amazon Japan; those were the days...

[ch0copockii.livejournal.com]

hmv.co.jp is where i go for my novels and such. (they have an english version of the same site too) im posting from my phone right now, so not sure if they have Hetalia. shipping is cheaper too, since amazon only seems to have one option for overseas.

[mame-meme.livejournal.com]

people should really buy from HMV.co.jp (they have english version - click the top)
It contributes to Hetalia sales (helping sensei)
and it's cheap, with fast and secure delivery :-D
They still have limited editions too~