It’s officially “Golden Master” and will be shipping soon, and you can order it right now!

New T-Shirts Posted

Continuing our strategy of watching what anime series and other memes from Japan get popular on Internet sites like YouTube, 4chan and elsewhere then bringing out products that target these fans, we’ve got two new shirts your customers will love.

Our first new shirt is a tribute to some of anime’s most popular characters who are tsundere (pronounced TSOON-deh-reh), a Japanese term which describes female characters that are angry and confrontational one moment then full of love and tenderness the next. It’s a popular archetype seen in such characters as Louise from Zero no Tsukaima, Shana from Shana of the Blazing Eyes and Taiga from Toradora, and is well-known to your customers. Since all of these iconic anime characters are voiced by famous voice actress Rie Kugimiya, we thought we’d do a fun kanji design featuring her best lines, like “Baka! Baka! Baka!” (Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!). The new shirt features complex and beautiful kanji on both the front and back as well as an image of Shana. Designed by Rios, the hip Japanese designer who has a big following on YouTube. Click to view the new shirt.

(A small reminder that all our T-shirts come with professionally printed tags explaining what the messages on the T-shirt mean, so you never have to worry about how to explain the meanings of our shirts to customers.)

Then we’ve got a fun original anime T-shirt for your customers who are fans of the popular Kyoto Animation series K-On!, the story of four high school girls who start a band called Afterschool Tea Time (in Japanese, Hokago Tea Time). A super shirt that references the original Fab Four, The Beatles, while providing your customers with a great design with their favorite characters shown in silhouette.

We’ve been adding other new products to the site, too, such as the new Hachiko “Japanese Soul Dog” T-shirt honoring the most loyal dog in all Japan. Since Richard Gere’s is starring in a major Hollywood film about the Loyal Dog Hachi, too, so the timing is great. (Link to the trailer of the U.S. film is here, it opens in December.) The new Toradora! parody shirt is hot too, as are the shirt celebrating over-the-knee socks and short skirts in anime and awesome warm hoodies that we sell. Which ones do you need more stock of?

Moreo Downhill Night is In Stock!

We recently shipped a fun new dating-sim game for adults called Moero Downhill Night, a fun PC dating-sim in which you help pretty girls win fast downhill races then, if you’ve played right, get to find romance with them. The game features an innovative racing system in which you must act as navigator for the girls and help the win races, and beautiful 3D rendered racing scenes (which were incidentally made by the staff that created Initial D) are too awesome for words — I mean, fast cars and hot anime girls! This game is the first in a three part series, and because all three games have a low price point ($24.95 list), they’ll be popular with your customers. Click here to visit the game’s official site (the CG racing is amazing to behold!) or here to see the product on the PCR site.

PCR Distributing Blogs & RSS Feeds

Remember the PCR Distributing website has received many new features to help you get the information you need for your retail business. Both our websites support RSS feeds, so you can “watch” for new products easily using an RSS reader such as Google Reader and view all new products as soon as they’re posted. (Nearly all modern email programs or web browsers can also be used to subscribe to RSS feeds.) When viewing a product category, click the RSS icon at the top of the page to see the RSS data, which you can save in your RSS viewing system of choice. It’s one of the most useful innovations for overworked businessmen we can think of.

We’ve also created two blogs to allow us to better supply you with information, one for each site. You can find useful information on newly posted products. Since we have so many T-shirts, hoodies and game products in the pipe, we hope you’ll hit our wholesale blog (and will save it in your RSS reader, if you’re using one) so you can keep up with our offerings. We’ll post trends we’ve been noticing, answers to questions we’re hearing a lot and so on. Access the PCRdist blog for information on all T-shirt, manga and game products, or PCRstyle blog for apparel and other “PG” products. If you learn about our new products through our emails or when casually checking the website directly, it’s a good idea to start using some of these new methods for getting product info.

Of course, you don’t have to browse the PCR websites manually: we also have optional PDF-based catalogs listing all of our T-shirt, manga, game and other products. These catalogs are updated automatically when new products are added to the site, so they’ll always be fresh and accurate.

Christmas is in the Air…

Christmas is right around the corner, and we have every reason to believe it will be a great one for all of us. With passion for Japan and anime higher than it’s ever been by fans, we think our products will do great for your retail business this year. What can PCR do for you?

Peter R. Payne
PCR Distributing Co.
5555 Magnatron Blvd Suite J
San Diego, CA 92111
USA

As you know, PCR Distributing licensed and publishes an interesting category of product: PC dating-sim games, commonly known as hentai games or eroge by fans, in which the goal of the game is usually to interact with several females and find a way to woo them. On the one hand the market for these games is much smaller than mainstream anime, especially since there’s no adult games corner in your local Best Buy like there is in major shops in Akihabara. Yet we’ve found something funny: being in this comfortable niche selling games that customers feel really passionate (and thus, want to support with their “dollar votes”) about has been incredibly successful for us, allowing us to actually grow our product category even while much of the anime world is in retreat. We’ve seen that our retailers who try out these games and who take the time to learn why they’re special become huge fans of the games, coming back for more very often.

And so I’m happy to tell you about the new game that we’ve finally shipped today — a bit later than we’d hoped, due to a snafu by the disc duplicator. It’s Moero Downhill Night, a fun PC dating-sim in which you help pretty girls win fast downhill races then, if you’ve played right, get to find romance with them. The game features an innovative racing system in which you must act as navigator for the girls and help the win races, and beautiful 3D rendered racing scenes (which were incidentally made by the staff that created Initial D) are too awesome for words. This game is the first in a three part series, and because all three games have a low price point ($24.95 list), we think the series will be like other series we’ve sold, with each chapter helping to increase sales for the other two. (The third game is going to be especially interesting since it’s a fully featured 3D racing simulator with “H” scenes).

So please visit the official site, or click on over to the PCR product page to order.