Anime Merchandise

More pencil boards. For those who dont know, these are hard plastic boards called Shita Jiki which are traditionally used by students to place under a sheet of paper for when they are writing or drawing.
I used to wonder why these are so popular with otaku and then came to a conclusion why - this is why.

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