/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'm going to buy a daki because it's fucking comfy and I have no more back pains since I sleep with this temporary long pillow that I use to hug at night (arms around it and one leg over it).
I want go get a good pillow for the inside though, it doesn't matter if it's a bit more expensive if it's good.

Now I've checked some /a/ and /jp/ archived threads, and read something about the A&J Feel Smooth pillow. Is this the 'best' one to buy? Does anyone have one of these? How is it compared to others?
Or how is the pillow you are using (tell which one)?

As for the cover, I still haven't found one yet.
I also still live with my parents as a failure, and I want to keep this (probably a lewd loli) daki cover away from them. How do you guys do this? Maybe I could get a blank cover for the pillow and hide the waifu cover somewhere when they are around or something. Buying the pillow itself won't be a problem, since it really does help people with back problems.

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That said, Japanese pillow bodies vary somewhat.
But at least the size will be right.

Size isn't the only issue.
The cheap ones have hardly any stuffing; they're like hugging air.
If you want something with heft that gives an illusion closer to hugging a human body, you're not going to get it from a $20 pillow in the U.S.
I recommend bighting the bullet and ordering an A&J Feel Smooth. AmiAmi, Playmoya, and Hobby Search carry them. Plamoya seems to have slightly cheaper shipping on these than AmiAmi, dunno for Hobby Search. (Don't bother with SAL--it will cost more than EMS.)

Just buying any random Japanese pillow isn't necessarily going to be good, either. (See pic)
Depends on what you want. I used a Shin Magical Sweet for a year before trying A&J and now I'd never go back to the SMS.

Of course some people prefer the lighter and less firm pillows so YMMV.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/itabeya/archives/51537150.html The blog I took that pic from, the guy says he thinks A&J's feel more like a cushion than a pillow and while it looks prettier due to holding it's shape better, he says (a) A&J takes more muscle exertion to hug and (b) because A&J's firmly hold their shape, it doesn't sag down/flatten out when placed on its narrow side, and instead falls back down on one of the two flat sides, which means you can't plop it on it's side to be face-to-face side-by-side sleeping without a wall or more pillows or something behind it to hold it up.

I don't really agree with (a), and (b) hasn't been an issue for me, but I guess they're worth keeping in mind.
(He got an A&J Severis, not a Feel Smooth, but as far as I can tell that just means it has antibacterial coating and the firmness/stuffing is the same as the Feel Smooth.)