We rent Kappa Sushi’s conveyor belt, turn our home into a kaitenzushi restaurant

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Amazing rental service lets you take the conveyor belt out of the sushi restaurant and back to your home!

Before the pandemic, restaurant takeout and delivery services in Tokyo were pretty limited compared to other big cities around the world. However, after the government placed restrictions on opening hours for restaurants and encouraged people to stay at home, businesses were forced to think outside the box, adding services like online ordering, vending machines, and even contactless payment and pickup options.

For Kappa Sushi, one of the country’s largest conveyor belt sushi restaurant chains, they knew takeout alone wasn’t going to be enough to keep their customers happy. They needed something to make them stand out from their competitors, and so they came up with the brilliant idea of a “Rental Kaiten Lane” service.

“Kaiten Lane” translates to “Revolving Lane”, which is what the conveyor belts are called in Japan, so this new service allows diners to take a conveyor belt home with them, so they can enjoy all the fun of the restaurant’s revolving sushi experience in their own dining rooms.

The rental method is simple — all you have to do is contact the store, by phone or in person, and let them know the date you’d like to rent the belt, plus order at least 3,000 yen (US$25.98) of takeout sushi. Then you turn up on the day, pay for your order, plus the rental fee, according to the length of time you want to rent it for, and you’ll get to take this giant box home with you.

▼ Our Japanese-language reporter Yayoi Saginomiya decided to trial out the rental service for us.

The overall size of the “lane”, as the company calls it, is 125 centimetres wide by 34 centimetres deep by 12.5 centimetres high (49 by 13.4 by 4.9 inches). It doesn’t weigh that much, so it’s not too cumbersome to carry from the restaurant to your car.

You will want to go by car to pick up the set, though, or otherwise have a couple of other people with you to help carry everything, as you’ll also receive a big box of around 30 small plates, plus your take-out sushi.

Because the lane comes completely assembled, it’s super easy to set up once you get home — just place it on a table and plug it into an outlet.

▼ The conveyor belt can hold up to 15 dishes at a time.

▼ Once you’ve set the conveyor belt up on your table, that’s when the fun begins!

▼ Simply set the plates on the lane.

▼ The plates come with the Kappa Sushi logo on them, just like the ones at the restaurant.

▼ Then place two pieces of sushi on each of the plates. Yayoi purchased a platter for 3,080 yen, which was enough for four servings.

▼ With everything set up, all that’s left to do is press the switch on the side of the lane and watch it whir into action!

The conveyor belt starts rotating straight away, with a slight rattle from the plates that you get used to after a while. The effect was so amazing Yayoi couldn’t help but let out a squeal of delight. It was just like being at Kappa Sushi!

▼ Yayoi even added some drinks and desserts for a true Kappa Sushi experience.

It wasn’t just Yayoi that was excited by the at-home conveyor belt sushi — her children loved it as well, squealing “wow!” at every morsel that rolled past them.

▼ Then they got straight to eating.

▼ And eat they did, because after just a few minutes, the plates began piling up.

Yayoi asked her children what they thought of it, and in between mouthfuls they told her:

“It’s fun to feel like we’re at Kappa Sushi at home!!!!”

Yayoi could definitely relate. There’s something so special about seeing an abundance of food roll by in front of you and knowing that you can reach out and grab whatever takes your fancy.

Not only does the conveyor belt help to recreate the Kappa Sushi experience at home, but the morsels of food do as well, seeing as they’re exactly the same as what you’d eat inside the restaurant.

The speed of the conveyor belt is a little faster than Yayoi is used to, but it wasn’t too fast to prevent her from picking up the dishes she wanted, especially as everything was well within reach.

▼ Check out the conveyor belt in action below!

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As she and her children came to the end of their meal, Yayoi began to wish they could keep the neat contraption forever, but alas, she’d chosen the 3,300 yen rental plan, which meant she had to return the lane by 9:00 p.m. the next day.

The other plans were priced at 2,200 yen, for returns by same-day close of business, and 2,750 yen for returns by 11:00 a.m. the next day. All rentals require a 2,000-yen deposit that’s returned to you once you return the lane and the washed plates.

The Rental Kaiten Lane service, which began on 21 May last year, is currently available at the following five Kappa Sushi locations:

• Itabashi (Tokyo)
• Nerima Nukui (Tokyo)
• Kawasaki Ichinotsubo (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Ikuno (Osaka Prefecture)
• Minamitsumori (Osaka Prefecture)

Yayoi reckons her rental plan, which gave her unlimited use of the machine for one night and two days for just 3,300 yen, was an absolute bargain. It’s hundreds of dollars cheaper than Kappa Sushi’s previous conveyor belt rental service, which cost a whopping 80,000 yen, so she’ll definitely be making use of the plan again in future.

And next time, she’ll try out this supermarket sushi hack, to really elevate her mini conveyor belt sushi experience!

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Take a Korean vacation in Japan with Tokyu Hotels and Shibuya 109’s newest themed hotel plan

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K-pop fans will love this budget-friendly staycation!

Since overseas travel is a bit challenging these days, you might be feeling the bite of the travel bug. But worry not, fashion department store Shibuya 109 and budget-friendly hotel chain Tokyu Hotels are teaming up to offer a trip to Korea…without even leaving the country!

Until May 31, you can take advantage of the “Tokansu” plan at the Kawasaki King Skyfront Tokyu REI Hotel in Kanto and the Shin-Osaka Esaka Tokyu REI Hotel in Kansai. This plan, whose name comes from the combination of the words tokan gokko, which means “pretending to go on a trip to Korea by staying at a hotel and doing Korea-themed things”, and “vacance”, which means “holiday” in French, lets you experience everything Korean for a reasonable price, and without having to travel too far from home.

Shibuya 109, whose specialty has lately been Korean fashion and food, has designed rooms for Tokyu REI Hotels, which often offer themed rooms, with a Korean-style interior. Inside you’ll find the popular Korean board game Halli Galli, as well as adorable Korean fashion-inspired pajamas, which you’re allowed to take home! The TV even comes equipped with a mirror-link cable to connect to your phone, so you can put your favorite K-pop idol’s videos on the screen.

The plan comes with a takeout box of Korean cuisine for dinner, which you can eat in your room. At the Kawasaki hotel, it comes with yangnyeom chicken (Korean-style sweet and spicy chicken), bulgogi kimchi, namul and cucumber kimchi, jumeokbap (Korean style rice balls), and the popular Korean croissant waffle for dessert.

The Osaka hotel’s dinner box includes a variety of kimchi, jijimi (Korean savory pancakes), samgyeopsal (grilled pork belly), gimbap (seaweed rice rolls), chisha lettuce, and, for dessert, a strawberry parfait. You’ll really feel like you’ve crossed the sea to get to Korea!

Maybe you’re already ready to book your stay, but there’s even more. These two Tokyu hotels are also offering an onsite Korean-style convenience store and a Korean uniform rental shop. The convenience store sells instant ramen like ramden (also known as jjapaduri), the dish popularized by the Academy Award-winning Korean film Parasite, and beloved drinks like Bon Bon.

The uniform rental shop is sponsored by Japan’s first-ever Korean uniform rental shop CHOA, who has selected a variety of outfits that you can rent for free during your overnight stay. K-pop fans might die a little for this opportunity, since you get to wear outfits similar to those worn by K-pop idols, like the mustard yellow school uniform. You’re even allowed to go out wearing them!

There’s also a bright pink photo booth made to look like a doll box, where you can pretend to be K-pop idols yourselves! Perfect for your Instagram account, where fashion and matching “pair looks” are paramount.

The cost of all this Korea-inspired fun is between 8,500 yen and 9,500 yen per person per night (US$74.01 to $82.72), with up to two people allowed to stay in one room. Both hotels have reasonable breakfasts as well, so this is a great price for a staycation. If you’re a K-pop fan who needs a vacation, why not look into it? You can find all the details and book online through the Tokyu Hotels website.

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An expert in entertainment recommended us an Osaka sightseeing spot little known even to locals

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It even gave our reporter a profound experience!

You may know that one of our Japanese-language reporters, Seiji Nakazawa, is originally from Osaka, the third-largest city in Japan. Osaka is a vibrant place with a different culture from Tokyo, and there’s lots of sightseeing to do and delicious local food to eat there, so it’s on the top of a lot of visitors’ bucket lists.

However, despite being an Osakan, Seiji doesn’t have a particular Osaka sightseeing spot he really recommends. He says it’s probably enough to go shopping at the Tsutenkaku tower area, which is pretty much a quintessential sightseeing spot, and to catch a glimpse of Osaka Castle from the Osaka loop line (in his opinion there’s no need to even go inside). As a local, he doesn’t have much of a tourist’s mind when it comes to his hometown.

That’s why he wanted to find out more about how to entertain guests, or visitors, to his home city. So, during his latest visit back home, Seiji asked an expert in guest entertainment to give him a recommendation for a great sightseeing spot in Osaka. This expert is a salaryman at heart who weathered both the inflation and the bursting of the economic bubble in Osaka. He has been welcoming people to Osaka and entertaining them for over 40 years. He is…

Seiji’s dad!

When Seiji was a child, this quintessential Showa-era office warrior rarely came home before Seiji was in bed because he was often busy entertaining important corporate guests. In fact, Seiji has a memory of acknowledging his dad as someone he only saw on the weekends. That’s how his dad became a master of entertaining in Osaka.

That’s why Seiji went to interview him at his house (which is also Seiji’s childhood home) about his most-recommended sightseeing spot in Osaka. In Seiji’s mind, entertaining clients and business partners meant taking them out drinking, but according to the expert, that’s not always the case. It seems that what you do depends on the person you’re trying to entertain. But there was one spot that was always a hit with not only domestic visitors but also international guests, and it’s a relatively unknown place in Osaka Castle Park.

Seiji wondered how something could be missed in the already popular tourist attraction, so he headed off to Osaka Castle Park to check it out.

When he alighted from the train at JR Osaka-jo Koen Station and emerged from the exit, which was situated at an elevation above the rest of the park, he took a look around to see if he could find the expert’s recommended spot, but it was nowhere to be found. In front of the station was a shopping mall, which hadn’t been there the last time Seiji came to this place many years ago, so maybe they’d torn down his dad’s recommendation?

Seiji decided to go down the stairs and see if that might make it easier to find.

Hmmm….

There it is…

The Osaka Castle Pier!

According to our entertainment expert, it’s a given that the water taxis of Osaka, which is known as the “water capital” since about 10 percent of its area is covered with water, should be on everyone’s list of must-see attractions. Seiji had pretty much forgotten that Osaka was thought of as the “water capital” since it doesn’t really have the feel of a water city, but once his dad had mentioned it, it made sense.

However, it was no wonder that no one knew about it, since it was hidden behind a Starbucks. Going back there was almost like stepping foot in a back alley, like any minute now some gangsters would appear and start harassing you.

The entrance to the pier was also nestled at the end of a pathway crowded by trees. Once you muster the courage to go behind the shops, you then have to steel yourself to walk in the dark shadows of these trees. The place was definitely tucked away out of sight.

Unsurprisingly, the crowd around there was definitely thinner than around the shopping area. For reference, after he bought his ticket for the 3:30 Aqualiner, he noticed there were only three other groups waiting to board. The boats do leave every 45 minutes, starting at 11 a.m. and stopping at 4:15 p.m., so maybe earlier times are more popular.

▼ Tickets cost 1,600 yen (US$13.91) for adults and 800 yen for children.

Still, the lines for the water taxis at Asakusa in Tokyo are always insane, so it was a shock to see this taxi so empty. But when Seiji thought about it, maybe it wasn’t so unusual. The city of Osaka wasn’t quite as pretty as the Asakusa or Odaiba areas of Tokyo. Would this tour even be any fun?

But once the boat set off, Seiji was surprised to learn that it wasn’t so much fun as it was profound. First of all, time seemed to move differently on the boat. Whether it was because they were on a river or not, Seiji couldn’t say, but it felt like they were cut off from the flow of time on the shore. Put simply, time moved more slowly on the river. It was a really extraordinary feeling.

In the midst of this strange time warp, the streets and parks they passed looked like something from a foreign country. Or rather, it looked like Osaka, but like Osaka had wandered into another world. Like the ending of the Ghibli movie Whisper of the Heart (caution: spoilers).

The other thing that Seiji realized is that you don’t actually get to see bridges when you’re standing on them. By riding on a boat under them, Seiji was able to really see the city of Osaka for the first time, despite growing up there.

Perhaps because of this strangely enlightened state of mind, even spotting a duck swimming in the river was exciting. Seiji could confidently say, as a 40-year-old man, that it was the cutest duck he’d ever seen. He wanted to book another ride on the boat just to see that duck again.

Though the cruise was 40 minutes long, Seiji said it didn’t feel long at all. On the contrary, he wanted it to go on for a little bit longer. Seiji finally understood the appeal of this boat ride, since it really lets you get a new look at the daily cityscape of Osaka. For that reason, it might actually be more enjoyable for Osaka locals than tourists, though.

Nevertheless, if you’re visiting Osaka, why not buy a ticket for this enlightening boat ride, in between visiting the new Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan, eating Takoyaki, and popping into the surreal-looking Tennoji Zoo? It’s sure to be a great memory of your trip!

Pier Information

Kawa no Eki Osaka Castle Pier / 川の駅　大阪城港
Address: Osaka-fu Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Osaka-jo 2
大阪府大阪市中央区大阪城2
Hours: 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Open every day
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Studio Ghibli anime artist to sell artwork to support Ukraine

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One of Japan’s leading art directors leads the way in raising funds for an issue that’s close to his heart.

As the only country in the world to have experienced the devastation of a nuclear bomb — two, to be precise — people in Japan know firsthand the immense suffering that a nuclear war can bring.

For Japanese animator Nizo Yamamoto, the topic of war hits particularly close to home, as he hails from Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities, the other being Hiroshima, to be bombed in 1945.

▼ Nizo Yamamoto

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Born in Nagasaki in 1953, just eight years after the nuclear bomb killed tens of thousands of people in the region, Yamamoto witnessed the aftereffects of the war firsthand, so when longstanding tensions between Russia and Ukraine erupted into war last week, the situation played heavily on the animator’s mind.

He felt compelled to help, and as an animator, he thought to use his craft to that end, sharing the below tweet on 28 February.

ロシアのウクライナ侵攻に反対します。今、ウクライナの人々のために自分にできる事は何だろうかと考えました。ユニセフを通じて個人的に寄付したり、絵を描いて販売し全額寄付したりしたいと思っています。詳細は後日お知らせします。 pic.twitter.com/RPwgGImneb

— 山本二三(絵映舎) (@kaieisha_nizo_y) February 28, 2022

The tweet reads:

“I oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
At the moment, I’m thinking about what I can do for the Ukrainian people.
I’d like to make a personal donation through UNICEF and draw a picture to sell, donating all the proceeds. I’ll announce details at a later date.”

Yamamato is one of the country’s leading anime artists, having worked as art director on big-name films like Ghibli’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, and the tear-jerking war film Grave of the Fireflies.

▼ Yamamoto’s work on Princess Mononoke (top), Laputa: Castle in the Sky (bottom left) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (bottom right)

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He also provided background art for movies like Spirited Away, Only Yesterday, Whisper of the Heart, and Weathering With You.

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With the Nizo Yamamoto Art Museum in Nagasaki dedicated to his works, the talented anime artist has a loyal following of fans who will definitely jump at the opportunity to own one of his original paintings.

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While Yamamoto is yet to reveal details about what type of artwork he’ll be selling and how it will be made available, you might want to keep an eye on his Twitter account for updates.

Here’s hoping his initiative will work to raise a generous amount of money for an issue that’s close to the animator’s heart. Because when art is the way you make a living, it makes sense for it to be the way you make a difference too.

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Bandai is raising all full-time employees’ salaries by roughly 30 percent

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Giant robot toymaker gives workers giant raises to boost motivation, with one possible catch.

Over the past year, people in Japan have winced as company after company announces that it’s raising the prices for its products or services. On Monday, though, there was an announced increase that’s producing smiles instead, and it comes from Bandai.

As part of its mid-term planning announcements, the Japanese toymaker said that it will be raising the salaries of new employees entering the company directly after graduating from university by roughly 30 percent. Like many Japanese companies, Bandai offers a standard contract to new workers in that demographic, and the new system will bump their monthly salary from 224,000 yen (US$1,950) up to 290,000, an increase of 66,000 yen (or 29.5 percent) a month. This isn’t some vague-timeline virtue-signaling PR stunt, either, as the new compensation system goes into effect just two months from now, coinciding with the spring start of the Japanese business year and Bandai’s 2022 recruits starting work.

You can’t suddenly raise salaries just for new hires without severely upsetting the members of your existing workforce who got leapfrogged. That shouldn’t be an issue here, though, since Bandai has also announced that from April it will be raising salaries among its 1,500 current full-time permanent employees by an average of 27 percent. As for why the company is feeling so generous, it says the salary increases are part of its efforts to boost employee motivation and energize the workplace.

Many Twitter users have been quick to applaud the move by the company that all that plastic Gundam model kit money flows back to, with comments including:

“I’ll be honest: I’m totally jealous.”
“I hope other companies see this and quickly follow Bandai’s example.”
“Totally different from other companies that ruin workers’ motivation through salary cuts.”
“I bet job-hunting otaku are typing up their applications as soon as they hear about this.”

However, while Bandai employees’ salaries are going up, they may or may not end up making more money than they did under the old system. Along with boosting motivation, Bandai says one goal of its new compensation system is to stabilize workers’ income by making their salary a larger portion of their total annual earnings. As for what the other part of that ratio is, it’s common for large companies in Japan to pay sizable bonuses to employees twice a year when the company is doing reasonably well.

▼ Basically, annual income structure can transform, like the head of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam.

While Bandai hasn’t explicitly said it’s doing away with bonuses entirely, the company’s press release specifically states that it is “raising the ratio of monthly salary as part of annual income,” which definitely makes it sound like bonuses will be harder to come by under the new system. That said, bonuses are never guaranteed and are sometimes skipped by companies during times of recession, so having that extra cash built into their set salaries is still a plus for workers. That’s especially true since a bonus equal to six weeks’ salary is considered a nicely sized one in the Japanese business world, and two a year would work out to 25 percent more than base salary alone, meaning Bandai’s new hires are still coming out 5 percent ahead than they would have in a good year for the company, and 30 percent better than in a bad one.

So all in all, it’s a nice move by Bandai, and if anyone feels like raising a glass of sake to toast their considerateness, this seems like the appropriate choice.

Source: Bandai via Oricon News via Livedoor News via Otakomu, Twitter/@livedoornews
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Can a 42-year-old straight guy get into Boys’ Love manga? Let’s find out at MangaPlaza

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They say you can’t teach an old dog new homoerotic literature.

The other day, I heard about a new online English-language manga service called MangaPlaza. Run by NTT Solmare, it’s a part of a growing movement by manga publishers to help curb the rapidly growing problem of piracy in the medium. That’s a great idea and all, but something near the end of their ad caught me a little by surprise.

What struck me about it was the mention of a wide selection of Boys’ Love (BL) and the adult-oriented evolution of josei manga marketed towards women called Teens’ Love (TL), two relatively new genres to the mainstream scene. Prominent promotion of BL these days is not so shocking, and even major bookstores in Japan have entire sections dedicated to it. But it’s always interesting to see how far its come, now that it’s being boasted in services aimed at Western audiences.

BL as an established genre was still in its infancy ages ago when I started writing for this website, so in a way it kind of feels like we both grew up together. And yet, I’ve never actually read any of it – perhaps unsurprisingly, since as a 42-year-old father of two who considers Predator 2 the apex of cinema, I’m probably not its target demographic. Still, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little curious. I have to figure that there’s probably some aspect that’s universally good about it that makes it so widely popular. And since MangaPlaza was offering a one-week free trial, it seemed like a good risk-free opportunity to finally expose myself to some of these works.

▼ There’s certainly no shortage of it on the website

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First, I read Seven Days by Venio Tachibana and Rihito Takara. It’s the story of two high school students Shino and Seryou who are both a hit with the ladies and members of the school archery team. Seryou has an idiosyncratic pattern of dating the first person to ask him out for exactly one week, all the while making them the center of his attention but then dumping them abruptly if he doesn’t fall in love. After hearing about this, Shino on a whim asks him out without realizing how seriously he took this system. Considering this is a BL title, you can probably see where it goes from there.

Perhaps it was beginner’s luck, but I was kind of digging this one. It had an interesting premise and didn’t really dwell on the whole Boys’ Love aspect, rather it was treated more as an incidental part of the story and it ended up coming across as more believable as a result. It was also well written and was paced really nicely so that you could read through chapters quickly while still getting a good grasp of what was going on with the characters.

Next, I read I Wish You Happiness by Nomo Marino, which follows Kai and Daichi, two employees of a book store. Daichi suddenly asked Kai out one day and was shocked when he not only accepted but immediately planted a big kiss on him. However, Daichi was warned by another co-worker that Kai has some issues that make it difficult for him to enter a serious relationship. Can he get to the bottom of it before ending up as just another one of Kai’s exes?

This one didn’t impress me as much, unfortunately. That being said, I only read the first chapter, and there is a chance it could get more interesting as we learn more about what’s up with Kai. It seems like it might get pretty heavy if the title is any indication, so it might turn out good further along. However, I probably wouldn’t recommend this as a first-time title since it seems to require more of a time investment to get into.

▼ Speaking of time investments, Obey Me is an exclusive title on MangaPlaza based on the hit dating sim app. The game has an interesting twist in that the player can be either male or female, making the manga a potential BL-TL fluid series.

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Finally, I tried out Kiss Blue by Keiko Kinoshita. This one’s about two friends, Noda and Tomosaka, who, through their own individual series of doomed relationships, gradually become more than friends.

I had an even harder time getting into this one as well. Even before I could get a sense of the characters everyone seemed to be cheating on each other, grabbing each other’s butts, and all sorts of stuff. The timeline seemed to jump around a lot as well, making the whole story kind of hard to follow. Similar to I Wish You Happiness, I felt like this was putting the Boys’ Love before the story, which might appeal to hardcore fans, but didn’t really do anything for me.

On the whole, one out of three isn’t bad, especially since I doubt any of these writers had someone like me in mind while making these stories. Really though, getting into Boys’ Love seems just like getting into any other genre and has just the same potential to be good or bad. As long as it’s a compelling story it doesn’t really matter what the setting and characters are…unless it’s Danny Glover fighting homicidal aliens, because that’s just a sure-fire winning formula any way you cut it.

Speaking of homicidal aliens, it’s also important to note that MangaPlaza has all the major manga genres too, and around 2,000 titles on offer as well, such as Attack on Titan, Cells at Work, and Tokyo Revengers. They’re available as single purchases or through tiered subscriptions, and a lucky 301 people who sign up can get a US$10 Amazon gift certificate.

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So there’s something for everyone there, and if you do feel like taking the plunge into BL, I’d recommend Seven Days hands down. After all, Boys’ Love is here. It’s queer. Why not get used to it?

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