Lo and behold!

An idle mind is the devil’s playground, they say, or the otaku devil’s playground, in this case. One idle moment in the office was all it took for me to start searching for available Toshokan Sensou loot, find an online shop that sells them (hurray for Animate!), register (had to use my Chinese name because the shop is not gaijin-friendly), and with a few clicks, voila, order placed and set to be delivered to officemates who are currently in Japan for training! orz.

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I spotted this soon-to-be-released Oryzae cosplaying plushie (lolz) when I ordered a pair of Moyashimon cellphone strap in Amazon JP a few days ago, and it never fails to make me chuckle every time I see it Just look at that! Look at how cute and silly it is! ROFL.

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Well well, it seems that Cospa has decided to fool TS fans into buying give us more TS goodies, some shirts and tote bag which basically scream “I LOVE TOSHOKAN SENSOU!!” When I heard about this from Yu Ominae of AnimeSuki since the official TS site never mentioned anything about it, I went “Holy Mackerel!” 8O, pleasantly shocked and surprised by this news. Obviously, the next thing I did was to find out where I can order this, despite it being a unisex shirt (aka not really a cute fashionable shirt). Preorder seems to have ended in other shops, but luckily, Amazon JP still have them in stock And hurray for friends and officemates in Japan who can bring these stuff for me!!

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Many of you might not be familiar with ???? (ikemen), unless you had the luxury of watching the JDrama Hanakimi which I believe made this term mainstream. I’m not a Japanese expert like bangin-sensei, but I’ll try my best to explain this.

From what I gather, ???? is derived from the root words ????(iketeru), which roughly translates to “hawt”, or “cool” (yeah, what a strange irony), an alternative for the more familiar term kakkoi, and ??(?), meaning “face” or looks. Whether this ‘men’ comes from the literal English word “men” would also be a point of contention, but in the end it still retains the essence of this lingo. Now put these two together and you get, ????, which refers to “hawt guys”.

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