Subscriptions (anime/JPOP/manga) - Top 25 at JLIST.com

1. FRUITS Reserve Subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

Another great magazine available by monthly "reserve subscription" from J-List, this is Fruits, which features "Harajuku Free Style," and is loaded with photos of the fashionable young people who walk around Japan's young culture capital, Harajuku. See all the fashions that young people are wearing now, from imported jeans to cute tops with funny English on them to hair styles and more. Fashion is culture, and this magazine is brimming with excellent, interesting Japanese fashion culture! This...

2. Megami MAGAZINE Reserve Subscription

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:49:09 -0400

Some magazines exist to bring you information, others to present opinions. All are commercial enterprises, which presumably means they are trying to make money for their investors. Apparently, though, Megumi exists only to lose money by giving it all away in the form of fabulous gifts to its readership. Each issue of Megami Magazine ("the Anime & Bishoujo Game Character information magazine") features tons and tons of free stuff, including wonderful posters (there are *13* two-sided color...

3. Gothic & Lolita Bible Reserve Subscription

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:20:32 -0400

This is it! The Goth-Loli Bible is here. This gorgeous full-color, squarebound magazine is thick with tons of pictures, illustrations, shops, stores and hotels with Old World architecture, the latest styles, how-tos and so much more of all the latest haunting styles in the Japanese gothic world. Known worldwide for their unabashed class and taste in clothing, the Goths of Japan regularly frequent the bridge-like structure just outside Harajuku Station on the skirts of Yoyogi Park. This photo...

4. Hiragana Times Reserve Subscription

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:05:25 -0400

Hiragana Times is the premiere magazine for students of Japanese and anyone who wants to follow Japan every month. Each issue features articles both in English and in Japanese (complete with furigana pronunciation) to help those studying the language. Filled with tons of cultural articles that make you think relating to current events, interviews with famous Japanese celebrities, Japanese pop culture, travel, and even articles written by readers themselves who wish to share their own personal...

5. KERA Reserve Subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

KERA is a fresh new fashion magazine from the streets of Tokyo. Covering a variety of themes, from punk to Harajuku grunge to Goth-Loli , this magazine gives the reader an excellent idea of the fringe, hip fashions that are currently taking Japanese youth by storm. A thick, large magazine of color photos, it contains not only models, but photos of the apparel alone. It is a mixture of the Harajuku grunge and gothic crowds, a "power up FRUiTs" with superb photographs, famous models, and tons of...

6. Egg reserve subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

A great new magazine from J-List, available by monthly revolving "reserve subscription," this is Egg, a Japanese magazine of youthful kogal fashion and style, filled with lovely fashion photos of Tokyo's charming kogals. The articles are interesting, and the pictures and fashion sense is great, even if you can't read Japanese. Get this great magazine sent to you each month direct from J-List! Also recommended for fans of FRUiTS magazine! This magazine subscription can be purchased on a...

7. SHOXX Reserve Subscription - Visual Rock & JPOP

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

When you mix Gackt, Goth, Rock, and "visual" rock costumes together, SHOXX magazine is the result. A fantastic large page publication that features top Hard Rock groups from Japan. From their wild hair, to their outrageous studded clothing wear, you'll be brought on tour to concerts where you can practically feel the energy they create from their meaningful rhythms. Great source material for cosplayers or those who want to be on the leading edge of Japanese music culture. A full page, full...

8. Newtype Japan Reserve Subscription

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:08:59 -0400

Newtype, the Moving Pictures Magazine, the beautiful anime magazine that gives you all the information on the hottest anime currently running in Japan. Filled with color, and featuring many great surprises such as color posters and special booklets, Newtype is always a wonderful magazine! This is the original Japanese version of Newtype, filled with far more color pages, posters, pull-out presents and bleeding-edge anime information than the U.S. version -- a treasure for all anime fans! This...

9. Super Cawaii! Reserve Subscription - S Cawaii

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:54:47 -0400

A great new magazine available to you each month, this is S Cawaii (Super Cawaii). You may know that cawaii (kawaii) is Japanese for "cute," which all Japanese girls aspire to be -- and with the help of this excellent fashion magazine which captures both the outrageous fashions of kogals (Japan's original "valley girls") as well as the more stylish fashions of girls in Japan age 20-25. Although the magazine is in Japanese, it was chosen by us because of its very interesting content and high...

10. COSMODE ~ Costume MODE Magazine Reserve Subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

Cosplay fans rejoice! This is a brand new magazine (starting with vol. 1, issue 1) featuring cosplayers in full regalia at your favorite venues, such as Comiket (Comic Market), Tokyo Game Show, and many others around Japan. Full-page color photos of popular costumes and cosplayers posing, tips on how to do your make-up and hair, clothing designs and a ton more. Plenty of gaming girls (Chun-Li remixes), anime girls (Chobits), comic girls (even an original, updated SpiderGirl that is an absolute...

11. Dengeki G's magazine reserve subscription

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:08:59 -0400

A great new addition at J-List, this is Dengeki G's, a wonderful magazine published each month which brings you information and lots of pictures on the cutest bishoujo anime and game characters in Japan. The girls are what's important in Dengeki G's, only this and nothing more, and each page brings you more and more cute girls from Japan's popular anime, games, manga and more. A wonderful magazine for you to get every month! This magazine subscription can be purchased on a revolving basis...

12. Cure Reserve Subscription

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:27:31 -0500

A perfect supplement to Shoxx magazine, this is Cure, an ultra hip, oversized J-rock magazine dedicated to avid fans of Japanese punk and gothic culture. Coining itself as a "Japaneseque Rock and Visual Styling Magazine," it's a wonderful trip to a rare underground youth culture with dark themes, rebelliously wild fashion, and a vibrant energy that can only be recreated by attending the concerts these bands perform in. Each issue dedicates itself to an unheard of 20-30 pages for a band of the...

13. BOMB reserve subscription

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:24:12 -0400

A great new item, available via revolving subscription from J-List, this is a super magazine for fans of Japan's lovely idols -- from swimsuit lovelies like Yuka and Wakana Sakai to pretty young actresses and idols like Fukada Kyoko and many more. Filled with super color photos of these lovely girls, with wonderful content and beautiful swimsuit, private clothes and other cute shots, each issue comes with a special gift, too -- stickers, a mini-calendar, a guide book of all cute idols, and so...

14. Smart Reserve Subscription

Thu, 24 May 2007 18:57:42 -0400

Smart magazine is a stunningly thick publication of men's fashion for the street hip. Loaded from cover to cover with photos of the latest watches, accessories, T-shirts, fashion, shoes, caps and related items, it keeps readers up to pace on what's hot in Japan and the rest of the world. All-color photos display the items in use as well as stand-alone. Excellent for the street samurai in you. Each issue also features occasional nude idols, as is the custom of most men's fashion magazines in...

15. Animage reserve subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

The wonderful Animage, the magazine that has shaped how we view animation more than any other, published by Tokuma Shoten and launched by Hayao Miyazaki himself. Each issue is filled with information and color artwork of your favorite current anime series, anime games, manga, and more. And with each issue, you get a free gift (poster, manga insert, stickers). It's a great magazine, and we're proud to be able to offer it at J-List! This magazine subscription can be purchased on a revolving basis...

16. Animedia Reserve Subscription

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:09:22 -0500

By customer request, J-List is happy to add a new anime magazine to our line-up of available revolving subscriptions. Published by Gakushukan, creators of the excellent Megami Magazine, each issue of Animedia is filled with brilliant glossy color pictures from the hottest anime in Japan. You also get loads of extras, like pull-out posters, booklets, calendars, and more in each issue. An excellent magazine which you'll surely enjoy each month, we recommend Animedia for all fans. This magazine...

17. Myojo Reserve Subscription

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:29:33 -0500

By popular demand, we introduce you to Myojo, the premeire magazine for keeping up to date with who is who in the world of Japanese entertainment. With occiassional interviews with the darlings of Japanese TV (such as Satomi Ishihara and Maki Horikita), Myojo focuses primarily on the men that make the Japanese women scream whenever they walk on screen such as pop duo WaT, the crew from V6, the rugged Yamashita Tomohisa, and recent heart throb Kazyua Kamenashi. With a strong sense of Japanese...

18. ULTRA JUMP Reserve Subscription

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:08:59 -0400

At J-List, we live in Japan, and that means we've got access to a lot of really cool anime and manga that folks overseas never get to see. We love to make it available to you, too! Now you can get a subscription to the very cool Ultra Jump, a super monthly manga magazine featuring over 450 amazing pages of high-quality manga for you each month. Features such amazing manga as Bastard!! and Magical Cats and R.O.D. and Martian Detective. See the true cutting edge of manga each month with Ultra...

19. Comptiq Reserve subscription

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:55:42 -0400

Those yearning for the inside scoop on all things moe and bishoujo, your search is over! J-List is proud to present Comptiq (also Romanized as Compeac), a definitive monthly who's-who of beautiful anime and game girls with complete, full-color news and in-depth articles on the latest and greatest hit characters in Japan. Not only that - each 350-page magazine is packed to bursting with extras including a fold-out poster, regularly featured manga, and special additions that in the past have...

20. Model Graphix reserve subscription

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:55:42 -0400

In the world, there are cool things and then there are cool things. Model Graphix, a new magazine dedicated to bringing you information on the very best anime toys and models, with every issue just overflowing with fabulous pictures of the coolest items from Japan: completed models, garage kids, limited edition toys and mass-produced figures, and more! Excellent robot shows (Macross, Gundam), bishoujo game characters and anime toys, and Japan's excellent plastic model kits are all well...

21. Comic Coro Coro reserve subscription

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:43 -0400

By popular request, J-List is proud to offer one of the most popular comic & presents manga, Comic Coro Coro. This super-thick (over *800* pages!) manga is great not just because of the regular installments of Pokemon, Doraemon, Zoids, Spinner, and many other popular Japanese manga -- each issue also comes with a great selection of rare and highly collectible stickers, cards, mini-posters, and more. Filled with a huge selection of Japan's most popular manga as well as excellent color pages...

22. Dengeki Hime Reserve subscription

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:23:03 -0400

One of the most popular exports of Japan have been the numerous bishoujo games which although revolve around cosplay, often cater to a variety of unique fetishes as well. Dengeki Hime (Electronic Shock Princess) pays special focus to the genre of dating sims, in particular, the beautifully illustrated "Princesses" that make the games come alive. Not only does this publication include steamy previews with plenty of "H" content to tempt your visual palette. but also comes with omake (extras) such...

23. Hobby Japan reserve subscription

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:30:30 -0400

A fabulous and deluxe hobby magazine for fans of Japan's excellent model, garage kit and anime world, this is the wonderful Hobby Japan. A super-thick magazine that features a square back, lots of wonderful glossy color, and information and advertisements of interest to anyone with a love of Japanese "pura-moderu" (plastic models) and cold-cast/PVC kits. Now you can get this great magazine delivered to you every month from J-List. This magazine subscription can be purchased on a revolving basis...

24. Afternoon Reserve Subscription

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:03:10 -0400

A positively wonderful monthly manga from Japan with over *800* pages of fantastic artwork from some of the most popular and talented manga-ka in Japan. This dynamite book is monthly, so the quality of printing and artwork is superb. This is an extra-special item for fans of the excellent Ah My Goddess, which appears regularly in this super magazine. A heavy magazine due to its high number of pages and thickness! Get it every month! This magazine subscription can be purchased on a revolving...

25. Figure King Reserve Subscription

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:16:30 -0400

A fantastic magazine for collectors of all kinds of toys, figures, this is a new magazine available from J-List each month: Figure King. A really amazing magazine containing hundreds of wonderful anime and toy items in each issue, this is the one item you need to stay on top of hundreds of cool items sold in Japan (many of them available through J-List). Each issue is perfect bound (no staple) and features over 200 pages of pictures and information on the toy and figure world in Japan. Reserve...