PCRStyle Blog

Well, today is Black Monday, and we’re feeling the blackness around here, with tons of orders coming in everywhere we look. We’re zipping boxes out left and right, and our hardworking staff is printing T-shirts and hoodies and embroidering hats with great speedy speed. There’s plenty of time for us to get a great order to your retail store for the busy holiday season, so why not click over to the website and see what products we can send you? It’s times like Christmas that our wholesale customers really appreciate our stock rotation policy, since you can order the stock you need, and if you find something didn’t perform well, swap it out for something different with your next order. What can PCR Distributing do for you today?

This is Megumi, the J-List logo, dressed up in a UPS uniform since she’s shipping boxes. It’s kind of hard to tell ^_^

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?

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?

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

Still with plenty of time for those Holiday orders, PCR is another kawaii anime T-shirt for your customers: Afterschool Tea Time. It’s a tribute to the cutest anime girl-band ever from the popular anime K-On!, which broke all the sales charts in Japan and is very popular with fans on the Internet. This cool shirt parodies the classic imagery of another famous band (The Beatles) while being an awesome design, showing the four cute members of the band printed in silhouette with the band’s name, The Hokago Tea Time (The After School Tea Time), written below. Designed by Rios. Image (c) J-List.

EDIT: I updated the picture to better reflect the color of the shirt. It’s powder blue and quite nice to look at.

The staff of PCR continues to get through its Hell Week, while we ship some really big orders for whole companies that are doing their Holiday buying now. (Which is a subtle hint to you by the way — did you get your Holiday order in to PCR yet?) Not only are we printing T-shirts and packing boxes left and right, we’re doing renovations on the office here to enable us to work more efficiently. It’s interesting to try to work while contractors are tearing down walls, laying carpet, and so on.

Here’s a picture of the mess:

Trust us, it will look much better soon. We’ll have more office space and more space to store great products for you.

In other news, the new site is going along swimmingly. Remember, everyone’s password has been moved to the new system so you should be ready to go. You can make wholesale orders through the site of course, or else use it for reference while you make your own PO using whatever system you’re happy with. We’re not picky!