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FANZA

dmm.co.jp

★★★★★★★★★★8.4

Japan's licensed adult storefront — the legitimate source for JAV.

Nutaku

nutaku.net

★★★★★★★★★★8.0

The adult game storefront that pays the developers.

The retailer that outlasted the obscenity prosecution that was meant to end it.

DLsite

dlsite.com

★★★★★★★★★★8.2

Japan's independent doujin storefront — games, manga and audio.

The licensed store where you can still buy a film outright.

Pay by the minute, watch what you paid for, keep it forever.

The brand that made this category a design object, and priced it accordingly.

A product site running an adult ad network, on 1.8 megabytes of page.

A Japanese design company that treated the product as an everyday object, and serves in Japanese.

A licensed store with a games catalogue nobody else bothers to carry.

Took the pressure-wave product from luxury price to impulse purchase.

Sued the New York subway over an ad ban, and won the right to run the ads.

A small curated retailer in a category dominated by everything-stores.