If y’all would let me vent a bit 😅 family member asked for Japanese subtitles for the [Kakuriyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuriyo:_Bed_and_Breakfast_for_Spirits) anime so we could learn all the words in it and I said “Sure! Let’s do that tonight!”, but alas, my confidence in kitsunekko.net was too great, it didn’t have this anime. How disappointing!
I saw Amazon.jp streamed it on Prime but I don’t have a Japanese credit card and my USA-based ones won’t work. I notice that Prime offers it through Docomo Anime Store (dアニメストア) and their stand-alone site seemed to have [episodes]((https://animestore.docomo.ne.jp/animestore/cd?partId=22118001)) for sale.
So I create a Docomo account (USA is in the allowed list of countries to do so) and return to Anime Store only to be foiled by the credit card thing again.
How sad!
I love that BookWalker.jp lets me buy things via PayPal, I’ve bought several titles from them that way and read them in their app/website, so I was hoping to get lucky with Docomo but looks like the only payment mechanism is credit card.
(It’s also plausible that even if I could buy on Docomo, that it wouldn’t play (IP address vs geographic restriction). Or, if I could stream it, there’d be no easy way for me to save the VTT or SRT subtitle file.)
Thanks for letting me vent 🙇
Edit: I noticed that d-Anime Store is available on Niconico, which does let me pay for the channel with PayPal! But, foiled again! After getting Mozilla VPN and on the Osaka exit node, Niconico for the [first episode](https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/so32969537) says “Sorry, this video can only be viewed in the same region where it was uploaded.” 😠so close yet so far 😅
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As far as I know, I don’t think Japanese subtitles exist for this show. I looked for them a few years back and came up empty. I agree that it’ll be tough saving them into a usable format even if you can get the stream. But I do hope you’re successful!!
I actually practicing my listening skills by writing my own subtitles for an episode here and there LOL…eventually reading the LNs is another goal of mine.