Hello all, not sure if this is better suited for 18+ Discussion, so apologies if so, but I came to share some tragic news. GRAPHIS, the lauded gravure site, is officially shutting down at the end of next February.
I've only lurked on these forums before to search for content, so nobody here is familiar with me, but I'm an autist that made the most comprehensive and organized GRAPHIS collection on the planet, which previously had a /t/ thread on 4chan (which has since expired; I've yet to make a new thread until my v5 is ready. The torrents are still available on Nyaa, however). I've been continually plugging away at holes in the collection and keeping it updated with what's available on the site, and intended to do so until the site itself shut down, but I've run into two problems:
After the credit card censorship fiasco like two years ago GRAPHIS stopped supporting western cards; my subscription has been able to go through since then, thankfully, but only because it was a renewal (which I mentioned at the time in my /t/ thread) and not a new payment. This means that I can't purchase any of the PPV content, including the Blu-Rays (of which we're missing most, and all of them if your requirement is the original files) and the missing Calendars, etc. The other problem is that my card company changed my card # right before my last renewal. Thankfully that renewal DID go through, but that means I only have until Oct. (and then Nov. if I extend using service points) before I lose my membership and access to the remaining content (Nov. -> Feb.).
So if we want to purchase the PPV content, or even just have any of the other content saved, we'll need someone with a JCB card willing to purchase stuff (or willing to accept money in order to purchase stuff). I've asked in the gravure thread on /t/ (since my thread's currently dead until I make and release v5) as well as the /grav/ thread on /jp/, but is there anybody here who may be able to assist? /r/ on 4chan is dead, so I can't ask there. I figure there have to be a few superfans of the various models that have content at risk that would be willing to pay for them, right? As it stands, we're going to lose out on all content released between the beginning of November to the end of February (barring whatever gets released on the gravure/idol hosting websites, which is never everything) and all the PPV content. This feels to me like a relatively urgent thing compared to purchasing other gravure merchandise, so I wanted to bring it to everybody's attention before it was too late to organize any sort of purchasing push.
Anyway, thank you for your time. I'll be paying attention to all three threads whenever I'm at my computer, so feel free to contact me through any of them.
