Kevin Jolivette

March 24, 2014

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Overview...2

Materials2

Warning.2

Directions...3

Registering Process...4

End of Registering Process...8

Beginning of Book Order...8

End of Book Order..18

These instructions are intended to help people navigate the site Honto.jp, a website for
buying manga, without knowing how to read Japanese. In the case that someone wants to
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support their favorite manga author whose works haven't been officially translated yet, they can
always buy books from here to help make sure their favorite author can stay serialized.
This guide will assume you already have a browser (ex. Internet Explorer, Firefox,
Chrome), an email, basic knowledge of how to navigate a shopping site (ex. Amazon, Itunes)
and the ability to do a Google search. Its not a requirement to complete this guide but its good
have a broad idea of the Japanese language. Things like Kanji shouldn't be an completely
unknown term to you.

Working internet connection
Browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome etc.)
Debit/Credit card
Email Address (gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc.)
Patience (Its coming from Japan, shipping can take a while. 1-3 weeks with Fedex)

First of all, it should be noted that shipping can be extremely expensive. For this reason, Its
recommend you buy everything you want in one go. As depicted in the picture below, the
standard for manga is usually 150~200g.


http://help.honto.jp/faq_detail.html?id=10207
This might not seem like much at first, but when we look at the shipping rates for FedEx below,
which is the shipping option I recommend:
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http://help.honto.jp/faq_detail.html?id=10208&page=1


According to the above image, no matter what you buy, it starts at 2000. 100 is
approximately the same as 1USD. Therefore, the total for shipping will start at about 20 dollars
(19.4760 USD). The more weight it has, the more of a discount you get. Doubling that amount
will cost you $30, just $10 more. This is the reason why you should buy everything in one and
and be prepared to drop money to get the most bang for your buck.

You may also want to keep in mind that honto.jp does not calculate the shipping for you until
after it ships and depending on the book, there is no way to find out how much it weights. Be
sure to estimate the price as best you can and set aside a certain amount as collateral.


1. First you need to actually visit the site, honto.jp. Some important things are circled that youll
need to know later on.
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Dont worry about all the Japanese text for now, just focus on the search bar, shopping cart and
sign in button. These are going to be your primary tools for navigating the homepage.

2. Bring your attention to the top right hand side of the page, this is where you will need to make
an account, click on /Make New User which is highlighted in red.


3. Youll be taken to the page below, its a series of 5 step that make up the registration process.

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In the first step, they need your email address in order to send you a confirmation email. I
suspect this is to stop people from making a bunch of false emails and flooding the site. Its only
temporary right now, and you haven't actually made an account yet.




4. (step 2) After agreeing with the terms of service, youll be taken to this page below.

At this point, theyve already sent you an email confirmation. (Note: This will only be active for
48 hours). What you need to do is go to your email address inbox and find the email Honto sent
you, it will look something like this:
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All you need to do is click the highlighted link and you will be able to go through with the rest of
the account creating procedure.

5. After clicking the link in your email address, you will be taken to this page:
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The information you need to fill in is marked, fill it out and press the button below to go to the
next screen.
* Japanese names are made using kanji, however, these kanji can be read in a variety of ways,
the second blank is for typing in how it is read. Type your name in Google Translate or simply
copy/paste some random kana you find off a Google search. It does need to be in kana to
progress.
*Dont bother checking any of the boxes, the events and announcements will be in Japanese.

Next, click the green square at the bottom.

6. After clicking that, you will be taken to this screen below:
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It is the Confirmation Screen. This is will be your last time to change your information in the
registering process. If you need to go back, press the white button I labeled as Revision, if
everything looks okay, press the yellow button labeled Register.

7.

After clicking register, congratulations! Youve just completed the registration process! Click
Site Top to go back to the homepage where you will be automatically logged in. However, just
for future reference, this is how you will log in. From the home page, go to the top left and click
login.

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You will be taken to the page below.

Type in your Username and Password and click the green login button directly under labeled
Login.

8. After logging in, you will be on the homepage. From here, its only a matter of finding the book
you want. Type in the book you want in the search bar, notice on the left there is a drop down
box.


A basic search should be enough for what youre looking for, but its good to be aware of the
other options as well. For a more extensive search, click book. By the way, you cant buy Digital
Books outside Japan, so its recommended to not choose that option.

9. For the sake of this guide, a book called will be used for an example, or Noragami
in Romaji, which is Japanese in roman letters. By the way, you cant search with Romaji, so if
you have to, do a basic search in Google to find the title of the book in Japanese, copy/paste it
into the search bar and hit search.




10. Now that youve searched, you will be taken to this screen:

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This is great, it means they have you book in stock. However, look at the circled book in the
picture above.

Look at the portable device next to the picture, that means its a digital book. Unfortunately, they
don't sell the digital version outside Japan. Instead, look to the top two tabs highlighted. For just
book results, click on the tab labeled Search Books.




11. Now youre only focused on looking at books.

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Labeled is some useful information regarding what youll generally see when browsing. Add
your item to the shopping cart when you have found what youre looking for.

12. Repeat steps 9 and 11 until you have all the books you want.










13. Click on the shopping cart to view all your items.


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Check to make sure the amount of books you have is right and the books are the ones you
want. In other words, make sure everything is right before you decide to proceed.

*In case you want to remove things from your cart, you can probably imagine, but to clarify, you
simply click one of the checks on the left to indicate which ones you want to remove then click
the button I labeled remove from shopping cart.

14 Take your eyes off the shopping cart for a moment, at this point, youll need to take out your
Debit or Credit Card. I bring this step up now because it would be a waste to input this
information if they don't have the books you wanted. No reason to give them your info if you
cant use their service.

15 Go back to the homepage and look to the top left.


Click on My Page

16 Once youre on my page, look to the index on the left hand side.
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Scroll down to the very bottom of the index until you reach these options. Do a side by side
comparison if you have to. Click on Address.



17 You will be taken to this page below:
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The convenient part about this is if you click the overseas option..

Its mostly in English, just fill it out and go to the confirmation page to continue.


18 Next is your Credit/Debit card information. Repeat step 15 and 16 and click on Credit/Debt
Card information. You will be taken to a page:
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Fill it in and confirm to continue.

19 Go back to your shopping cart, navigate back to the homepage if you have to.

20 Do one last check on the items in your shopping cart and click Ready to Proceed

21 Put in your Password

Then click next to continue to the next page.
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22 Pick your shipping option, again, for this guide its recommend to use FedEx. You get your
packages relatively fast, they take care of them and you are also given a tracking code in your
email.

Next is your Credit Card information, you will see the information you put in earlier as an option,
check the circle to use it.

The last thing on the page is Points and coupons.

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*A small explanation about points: You receive a certain amount of points for buying things from
honto.jp. Each point is equal to one yen. The idea is that if you save up enough points, you can
buy things for free/discounted using this system. Western site could learn a thing or two from
this practice.


Once you're done with everything above, confirm your purchase.

23 If everything looks okay, there is only one last step.

Congratulations! Honto.jp will spend 1-3 days processing your packaged before they ship it.
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You will get an email once it is done, they will tell you the price + the shipping at that point. You
will be charged as soon as it ships, so make sure you have the money ready for transition. It
took approximately 2-3 weeks total for my package to come.
The box will look a little something like this:

Your books: