How to buy

Step 1 — Make an account

You need an account to buy; there is no guest checkout. Go to dlsite.com, choose Registration from the top bar, and give an email address and a password. Confirm the age question — every shop page for these sets is adult content.

Use an address you actually read. The purchase receipt and the download links go there, and support will ask for it if a payment fails.

Step 2 — Switch the shop to English

The language menu sits in the top bar. Choose English (United States). The interface — cart, checkout, account pages, download list — switches; the product pages themselves keep their original Japanese title and description, which is why every set has a full English page here with the story, the page count, the contents and the samples.

Once you are in English, the URL carries a locale parameter. If a page ever loads in Japanese again, that parameter is what got lost.

Step 3 — Pay

Two routes, and the second one is the reliable one from outside Japan.

Card: DLsite takes credit cards through a payment agency, with 3-D Secure. It is a credit transaction only — debit, prepaid and POS transactions are not supported, though an authorisation hold may appear on your statement and drop off later. Foreign cards are accepted in principle, and DLsite's own guide warns that payment from non-Japanese cards may not complete in some cases. If your card is refused, the block is usually your bank, not the shop.

Points: buy viviON points first (1 point = 1 yen) from your account page, then pay for the set out of the balance. DLsite recommends this route for international buyers, and it is the one we suggest if a card fails twice. Some payment methods are only offered when you are buying points, not when you are checking out a work.

Electronic money: BitCash and PayPay are listed. BitCash needs a hiragana ID, which is awkward outside Japan; PayPay is a Japanese wallet.

PayPal is not offered. Convenience-store and bank payment exist for domestic purchases only.

Everything is charged in Japanese yen. Any dollar or euro figure you see is an estimate at that day's rate — your bank decides the final number.

Step 4 — Download, and keep it

After payment the set appears in your account under purchases, with a download button and a browser reader option. Files are delivered as an archive; on a phone, use the download list rather than the reader if you want the pages at full size.

You can download again later. The purchase does not expire, and the files are not tied to a single device — which is why an account email you actually control matters.

What you get, and what to do if something breaks

Each set is a complete book: 43, 81 or 121 pages, full color, two dialogue variants on the same art, mosaic censorship as the platform requires, ai generated and labelled as such on the shop page. The three DLsite books are numbered as a multi work series; the BOOTH set is 50 frames and does not appear on DLsite.

If a payment fails: try the points route before trying a different card. If a download fails: check the account's purchase list before writing to us — the file is almost always still there. If the shop's English interface does not cover something, message the studio and we will answer in English.

Buy buttons on this site point at the English interface of the shop. Prices and discounts on the shop page override anything written here.