We have one more new T-shirt for you, and we like it a lot.It’s a fun re-mix of the iconic “OBEY” street art design, combining everyone’s favorite mind-controlling anime character, Lelouch Lamperouge of the Rebellion from Code Geass, who can use his amazing “Geass” power to control your mind. This T-shirt features a small “OBEY” image on the front as well as a large one on the back — a great re-mix. You can find the new shirt here. Designed by Rios. Image (c) J-List.
We’ve been busy around here at PCR, preparing new T-shirt designs and working hard on the new PC dating-sim games we’re trying to get out the door. Happy to have two new shirts for everyone!
First is a tribute to our favorite violent anime girls, which are collectively known in fandom as yandere (yahn-deh-reh), a term which describes a female character who is loving and gentle, then turns extremely violent and jealous to the point of murder. This shirt is a tribute to the best yandere characters in anime, from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni to School Days to Shuffle, featuring famous phrases in kanji and showing a silhouette of Rena with her classic bloody axe.
The text in the background of the design of an amalgamation of different famous quotes from anime shoes, including, Uso da! (”You lie!”) and “I’ll give my body and heart only to you, so don’t look at any other girls besides me!” and “Hahahahaha!!!!” It’s in stock and ready for your order right now!
We love the anime Toradora!, one of the most popular boy-meets-angry-girl stories to come out of Japan in a while. It features a cute tsundere (violent and angry yet tender) female lead role voiced by the legendary Rie Kugimiya, whose kanji tribute T-shirt was our most popular product over the Christmas season. To commemorate 2010’s special status as Year of the Tiger, we’re introducing a cool parody of the Hanshin Tigers logo with the design changed to Tenori Tigers (tenori = “palmtop”). It’s a standard baseball tee, with long sleeves and awesome authentic styling, and the design printed both on the front and the back, which has proven a popular feature with our recent shirts. This is a white long-sleeved baseball jersey with black sleeves, available in S, M, L and XL, and you can order it for your store right here.
Designed by Rios. Image (c) J-List.
A small but probably welcome change to the PCR site: you can now access the full sized shirt/hat/hoody images in the gallery below the product description. This is good for grabbing images directly from our website for posting to your own. Also tweaked: we refreshed the T-shirt image for the new Afterschool Tea Time shirt to better reflect its actual color.
The main shirt image now displays in the gallery
Hello from the new PCR Distributing! This is just another note to tell you about some new products we’ve posted to the PCR Distributing and PCR Style websites. The staff in San Diego is primed and ready to deliver whatever cool Japan-related products you need for the Holiday season — why not send us an order right now?
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?
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.
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 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
Don’t look now, but PCR Distributing has another awesome T-shirt for your anime-obsessed customers, and it’s a nice one.
The term tsundere (TSOON-deh-reh) describes female anime characters who are angry and confrontational yet secretly full of tenderness and love inside, and these characters are some of the most complex and interesting in anime today. The genre has really blossomed in recent years with popular characters such as Louise from Zero no Tsukaima, Shana from Shakugan no Shana and Taiga from Toradora, all of whom are voiced by the legendary voice actress Rie Kugimiya. The popularity of her characters gave us the idea of making a T-shirt dedicated to fans of Kugiyama and her tsundere-ism.
This T-shirt is a special tribute to the best characters of this wonderful genre of tsundere-ism, presenting her most famous phrases, including “Baka! Baka! Baka!” (Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!) and “Shut up! And go rot!” On the back of the shirt is printed, in extremely difficult kanji characters, “Kugimiya Virus Hypersensitive Cerebral Corticalitis,” which describes the odd state all tsundere fans are in when she verbally abuses us (ah…). Standard black T-shirt, available in S, M, L, XL and 2XL. Designed by Rios, the hip designer who has a big following on YouTube.
The most famous dog in Japan is Hachiko, who waited faithfully for his master to return home at Shibuya Station in Tokyo — waiting even after the master died, which made him a local legend. The statue of Hachi (the ko on the end is a term of endearment) in Shibuya has become a popular tourist destination for Japanese and foreigners alike, who travel from far and wide to take their picture with him. This new T-shirt is an awesome tribute to the “Japanese Soul Dog” that your customers will want to grab when they see it. Features a sleeve logo that says, “Faithful dog Hachiko.” Enjoy the new shirt!
Posting a new shirt to the PCRdist.com and PCRstyle websites, which is a Toradora! parody that’s proven to be a very popular shirt over the past couple months. We’ve long had a strategy of watching what anime series become popular with the highly wired anime fans, who naturally download the latest anime series as RAW anime files from Japan, or as fansubs. Toradora! is one show that became extremely popular this way, despite the fact that it hasn’t (ahem) been licensed yet. Having a shirt that’s an homage to Taiga Aisaka (the main character in the show, a classic tsundere type, half angry and half full of love) has had our customers squealing with delight. And the “Toradora” parody logo on the back, which is written in the style of famous doujin shop Tora no Ana, is a great gag. Enjoy.
