It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be talking about the problem with Japan exclusive merchandise. All anime fans have experienced it. You find some new merchandise you really love, and it's only available in Japan. Sometimes it gets a global release, but it comes months after the original release. You can occasionally get special merchandise from other sources, like companies who buy and ship from Japan for global fans. However, this can be very expensive. Occasionally some fans will fly to Japan themselves, and then bring the merchandise back with them and sell it to other fans. This can be helpful, but it's also really expensive. Getting merchandise directly from the source is always cheaper, but not everyone can do that. This is a frustrating problem for anime fans, and I think it's very disappointing when this happens. I personally think series with a lot of global fans should focus on releasing the merchandise outside of Japan; since this will make more money for the company, as well as make things more fair for the fans. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!