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Where to find apparel and paraphernalia of niche games?

bomblord1

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I'm curious if there are any good places to find shirts, wallets, posters, statues, etc for niche titles. Mainly stuff out of Japan like Nisa, Xseed, Falcom and Koei Technmo published properties.

Those are just examples of course I'm really looking for places I can find that style of niche stuff in general. Even more niche titles from mainstream publishers like Xenoblade Chronicles X or Tokyo Mirage Session would be welcomed as well.
 

Dio

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Falcom sells their merch on their site:

http://www.falcom.co.jp/mailorder/category/goods.html

amiami, 1999.co.jp, Hobbylink Japan, rakuten, et cetera.

If it's a site that won't ship to your country, I recommend using a proxy service. They will buy anything from a Japanese store that's JP only and ship it to you all boxed together and take a small commission. You can buy from shops like Mandarake and http://www.suruga-ya.jp/ with it.

I use fromjapan.co.jp

A random example of a search using that platform:

http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/en/item/search/真・三國無双/Al_11_Yh_YhRaAm_N_N_0A00ja00_N/lgk-link_search

真・三國無双 aka Shin Sangokumusou is the JP name for Dynasty Warriors. Using this service, and other japanese words for things like 'shirt' and stuff combined with that, is my personal go-to.
 

Dio

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XSeed has an online store for that kind of stuff. Maybe other developers do as well. That's where I'd check first.

http://www.xseedgames.com/store/

The benefit I find to using something like FromJapan, by the way, if it's not on any of those sites, is that it combs through Amazon Japan, Yahoo Japan Auctions, and rakuten to find pretty much anything. You can add Seven Net and mercari to the search results if you want, too.

I've found ancient soundtracks released 20 years ago for old games on Yahoo Japan Auctions using this service, and was able to directly bid on the auction through them since they use their own accounts to bid/order products, get it shipped to their facility, and then ship it to you.