Hi!!! I saw ur post about getting the analogy harurin book!! Just wondering how do u order it? I'm not living Japan so how can u order doujinshi and ship overseas? Thank you
It’s easy to order doujinshi from Japan…… it’s just expensive. There are several ways you can do it. (Sorted by least expensive to most)
Ideal way would be for a friend to buy the doujinshi for you from the event (Haru Comic City) lol because they wouldn’t charge you proxy fees. Probably not a option if you’re asking me about this though.
Buying it used from Yahoo!Auctions or Suruga-ya with a proxy service like From Japan or Treasure Japan. Obviously, they don’t have super new stuff so in this case this is it out but I’m mentioning it anyway just in case people don’t know about them.
You can use a Tenso forwarding address with Toranoana (this is what I did with the HR illustration anthology). This is pretty expensive because you have proxy fees (their fee is tied to weight and Toranoana’s package is fucking obnoxious so this fee ends up unusually high) plus the fact that doujinshi costs more from Toranoana vs. at an event. But of course for an overseas fan this is an awesome option. Someone wrote a small guide to it here. It’s pretty good but there are a few things in it that are out of date. Another thing with this route is that Toranoana is in Japanese so you need to be comfortable with that.
If you are not comfortable at all with using Toranoana because it’s in Japanese there’s Otaku Republic. If the doujinshi you want isn’t already available you can even request it (as long as it’s in stock somewhere). The downside to this route is that it usually costs a bit more (maybe 5-10 dollars more depending on the doujinshi in question). The exception to this are SOME used doujinshi which are roughly equivalent in price or even cheaper.
Note: There are some proxies that can use Toranoana but idk which. They don’t allow proxies to be used except in the case of Tenso and have blacklisted many proxy services. A few one-person proxy services that have flown under Toranoana’s radar probably exist but those are usually as — if not more — expensive as Otaku Republic in my experience so meh.
