Blog of Japan Video World

WOW! I have no idea how that happened. Somehow i’ve visited the mobile version of my site many many times and never realized the site search box was totally missing! Not even an option for it on the menu (was ok on desktops).

It’s back and fixed! I’m afraid to know how long it was actually missing! Hopefully not MONTHS.

I had the search “widget” in my theme set to be invisible on mobile devices! I must have accidentally clicked that some day.

BTW in case you didn’t notice, the site is responsive. This means it will adapt to tablets, cell phones and desktop users automatically.

On my 24″ desktop display I get 3 columns of products. On a cell phone in portrait mode I get 1. A table might get a few more.

I’ve considered adding 4 columns of DVD covers on desktop but they looked too small.

The site now is using a fully dedicated CPU! This means all the resources are going just to the site and not shared with other web hosting customers. Will it matter? Not sure, but the site is now running super fast. The CPU is an AMD EPYC processor at around 3.2ghz I think. First time I’ve ever used an AMD processor for a web server. While the site was up last night it was sort of funny seeing the CPU only using 1% of it’s power!

 

Here’s a tip you might not realize about how the site works.

1. Load up the cart with some products while logged off.
2. When you login to your account it will add all of those to your existing “logged in” cart.
3. When you logoff, the logged off cart will be empty (this is a “feature” they say).
4. When you log back in, the cart will be just how you left it! It should remember the cart contents.

It sure is nice having a shopping cart that works great!

 

 

 

 

Cart is now 100% fixed and working great with no issues!

In the past week I started using a new shopping cart as a test. It was having a few problems so I switched back to the old reliable one.

The test one may have lost your cart contents if you had added lots of products to your cart and then logged in and then logged out.

Sorry about that! That had to be quite annoying.

I also noticed that often it would often not update the cart quantity on the icon.

 

Unfortunately the current cart has less features, but they’re easily solved.

Now you just have to enter a coupon code on the cart page instead of the cart slider window.

Or you can do it at check-out.

There is now no dollar amount displayed near the icon.

I disabled that because it won’t show it at the discounted rate.

 

Sorry if you had visited yesterday and saw a bunch of weird errors on the site. It was down for a few hours.

An automated backup tool ate up all the hard drive space on the server and in the process corrupted the main WordPress config file!

It made it 0 bytes and luckily I had a backup of this. Took me a long time to get things working again.

The worst part of all is my payment gateway plugin was deactivated on accident.

So the entire time I was asleep the site wasn’t accepting payments. Not good, especially after I did a pretty great update.

It’s FIXED and we are back at 100%!

PS if you are considering placing an order, we would sure appreciate it.

We need your orders now more than ever before. The hardest month by far in 20 years EASILY.

 

TL;DR Edition:

1. Create an account and it will save your cart contents for later when you logoff.
2. If you logged off with items in your cart, they will be gone until you login again (it saved them).
3. Shopping as a guest (no account) will clear your cart when the browser window is closed (usually).

 

Extended Tips on how to shop:

To make your shopping experience as easy as possible, we suggest creating an account.

We don’t do this to send you junk mail. We have no mailing list.

This allows you to shop and save your cart contents for later.

It’s good for those who can’t browse hundreds of titles right away.

Here is an example of the shopping process:

A) Browse the site while logged off and add lots of DVDs to the cart.

B) When you login, those items will still be in your cart.

C) If you were previously shopping while logged in, anything added to your cart will still be there.

D) When you logoff, your cart contents (in the logged off state) will be empty. This is perfectly normal. It has saved the contents for later!

E) To get them back, just login again. It has saved them.

F) An account will also let you see what you previously purchased. No more accidentally ordering something you already have.

 

It’s perfectly OK to shop while logged off and as a guest.

There are some disadvantages to this, such as:

A) When you close your browser, the cart contents are usually gone in most cases. Some browsers may save them for a very limited time.

B) If making a big order, you have to shop for everything in one session. An account solves that problem.

Lots of high quality DVDs were added in August 2024 so far. About 443 so far and most of them came out within the past week in Japan!

I also realize too that I haven’t done a good enough job of adding thumbnail previews for DVDs in the past few months.

They’re now available for EVERY DVD added in August! I hope this helps make it easier to decide what to buy or skip.

I know the previews are a bit too massive for cell phone users, but you can always shrink them if needed.

I also added a way to see all the full size DVD covers all on one page. No need to click dozens of titles.

I generally don’t prioritize adding more DVDs for a specific genre. It usually just goes by what looks good or what I think some may like. Often i’ve picked new additions based on what looks good to ME and that’s not such a good idea! I’m up for whatever people like, even if I have zero interest in it. I’ve even added genres like BBW and “Submissive Men” etc. I’d like to add a category for the “Female Investigator” movies.

One genre that does quite poorly is the Mature Woman category. I don’t know why and sometimes i’m tempted to stop updating that area. I love those titles though and that’s all that matters to me. I think one problem is that many who are into that genre prefer them to be even slightly MORE older. Like 50-60. Not sure on that.

You’ll notice that some months there are few new titles in the Lesbian genre. This is mainly because they release so few in Japan these days. I don’t know why this is! Same goes for the bukkake & gokkun genres.

Today is August 19th and I have only one thing to do. That is just do a marathon order processing session. For as long as I can!

I feel like i’ve been given a second chance on the site and don’t want to waste that. I’m working as hard as I possibly can.

It’s weird because on July 20th I had a massive surge of sales/traffic for a full 1 1/2 weeks. It was so nice. I thought the sales increase was due to a technical error I fixed, but now i’m thinking that had nothing to do with it and it was just a coincidence.

The sales boost felt like a miracle because it was right after I had applied for some part time work. So now I can work for only the site full time without needing extra income from an outside job.

Sales are slow again, but I am super motivated and am working hard. Things will be OK.

I also decided to give page caching another chance on the site. This time there is NO chance it will interfere with the shopping cart etc.

Now i’m doing using a software that does full page caching and instead of a 200-300ms TTFB (time to first byte), we are down to 40-50ms sometimes!! That’s by far the best i’ve ever seen. Pages will load super fast now for most people!

You may notice that when browsing pages when logged in, the address bar will display weird characters at the end of the url.

This is normal! It’s a way for our software to bypass the cache for logged in users.

It will display “?swcfpc=1” usually. Totally normal! They call it a “cache buster”!

We can’t cache logged in user content since it’s too personalized and would cause problems.

Page caching basically just speeds up pages for visitors, but it can be tough to get it working right without causing shopping cart issues.

PS Not going to lie. Keeping a site up that offers only physical media is getting to be a real challenge! That is OK!

Here is a list of updates we’ve done for August:

8-19-24: Added 34 DVDs
8-17-24: Added 125 DVDs
8-12-24: Added 179 DVDs
8-3-24: Added 18 DVDs
8-2-24: Added 40 DVDs
8-1-24: Added 54 DVDs

PS if you have an open order, please don’t worry! It’s being processed! Thank You!

Today while processing orders I managed to add 93 new DVD releases to the site!

Previously I added around 84 on the 5th of September.

You can also view ALL the full size covers in the September Full Size Covers gallery.

Lots of variety this time as usual. I think I might start offering slightly less mature woman titles. Those just don’t sell as well for whatever reason. I do love a lot of them though, especially the ones with Mako Oda.

My general rule though is to add as many new Lesbian titles as I possibly can! In this update I added a few new Bibian (BBAN-) titles along with a huge compilation in the BBSS- series. As you many know, Lesbian movies that start with BBSS- are nearly always compilation and 4+ hours long (2 discs).

These days I am rarely “WOWed” with any new movies. It’s probably because I’ve seen so many. The one i’ve been loving is a VERY softcore title with Momoka Kagura. I’m not usually into big breast movies, but I absolutely love FWAY-009 with her!

Here is a cover of FWAY-009:

 

A trailer too for those that are curious:

 

I’m trying to find her other recent softcore movie MBRBN-052, but it seems impossible to track down!

Would be amazing to see a Ai Kano softcore movie from the Fair Way studio too.

Some find softcore movies boring, but I absolutely love them. Sometimes I find them hotter than some of the hardcore stuff.  Softcore content in specific genres is pretty hard to find though. Usually it’s just posing etc.

 

On September 21st 2024 I added about 120 new releases to the September 2024 updates page.

Hopefully there is something for everyone. I can’t wait to watch a few of them myself.

You may have noticed the site was down for 5-6 hours yesterday.

A bad plugin corrupted a configuration file! It took me forever to fix it!

What a headache. I’m just glad that I didn’t have to restore anything from backups.

Running this site has now become a major challege, but i’m working as hard as I can! 12-14 hours daily and 7 days a week!

Please consider placing a order if at all possible. Large or small is greatly appreciated and will help us to keep adding new movies for everyone!

Thank You!

It’s one of my personal favorite videos of 2024.

I figured maybe people might prefer 1080p over 720p?

This is sort of a small test since the digital downloads haven’t been popular..like at all, YET!

It’s FWAY-009 starring Momoka Kagura.

Big breast titles were not really on my radar until earlier this year.

I had seen some old Yulia Nova nude videos and really loved them!

That started my interest in them.

Then I got FWAY-009 and absolutely loved it! I’ve watched it over and over.

Then I discovered I loved K-cup plus Gravure idol movies.

Those are incredibly hard to find! At least the ones I want!

I think it’s because they’re all non-nude and that doesn’t appeal to some.

I personally find them even hotter than the ones with nudity or sex!