DMM Site Search Menu Guide

[jugulear]

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Are you a non-Japanese speaker? Navigating through the DMM site may not have been too much of a problem, regardless; in the past, all I've needed were the ones saying "DVD" in the drop-down search menu (to place the I.D. or SKU number of the video I wanted to search), or the very first listing which is for "All Products."

But when I put the Japanese lettering of an actress in "All Products" recently, I got a result of videos with a bunch of different actresses. So I wanted to find the item in the drop down menu just for actresses.

Turned out it's the one that starts with "AV."

In case you find yourself in the spot of trying to figure out what the rest of the items in the drop-down menu stand for, below is a handy-dandy list. (Of what came up through Google Translator; I needed to go page by page.) The descriptions in the parantheses give an idea of some of the lines, in case you get lost, or in case the DMM order changes in the future. ("BLACK BLOCK" identifies the black square beginning some of the listings; the square turns white on mouseover.)


All Products (BLACK BLOCK)
Video (BLACK BLOCK)
-Video
Amateur (Two Japanese symbols, 2nd upside-down "Y")
Anime (3 symbols, ending in "=" & "X")
Adult Movie
Electronic Photo Album

Video Monthly (BLACK BLOCK)
1 Video (BLACK BLOCK)
-Video (3 symbols)
Amateur (2 symbols)

Free Video (BLACK BLOCK)
Game Pretty (BLACK BLOCK)
Game Pretty (BLACK BLOCK, 2 symbol)
e-comic (BLACK BLOCK)

Store (BLACK BLOCK)
DVD
SexToys
-Anime (3 symbols, ending in "=" & "X")
Games - Pretty
-Book (3 symbols, middle "smiley face")
-Doujin (2 symbol)

DVD Rental (BLACK BLOCK)
-Monthly Rental
Rental Individual
Set Rental

AV Actress Information (BLACK BLOCK)

smartphone/mobile (BLACK BLOCK)
Game console
-Mobile




REFERENCE: Problem accessing DMM website


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[jugulear]

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Decided to dutifully let you in on a thread by Professor Nick Wells that really gets into the ins and outs of DMM. The detailed analysis made my poor old head spin, but I'm betting you would not be as feeble-minded:

http://www.akiba-online.com/index.php?threads/nicks-guide-to-japanese-for-jav.1140045/#post-2207993

The DMM coverage begins with Post #9.

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[jugulear]

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Well, DMM has changed, now, over two years later. Note the position of the dropdown box as of now:



See? The dropdown box is left to the right - I mean - right to the left of the red thingamagig with the magnifying glass search icon.

I didn't scrutinize too carefully how the order of the dropdown box may have changed with what I have above, but I'd guess ... based on pretty much the same number of categories on their list, around twenty-seven ... that that part has not changed, at least not significantly. (Therefore, what I came up with is still relevant. So there.)

Well, why don't I share with you two other areas of the DMM page that I find useful?

For me, the most useful information is in the area right below the title:




So what we've got here is:

Type of Media (DVD, in the above case)
Release Date
Duration
Cast
Director
Series Page
Manufacturer
Label
Genre
DVD Code
Average rating

The "Cast" and the "Series" links are the ones I find most helpful.

Now, when you open up the series page, you will see three dropdown boxes for (as translated):

Media
Range
Sort



See, there they are, right above the pikchers, on the row which ends with the 30-60-120 numbers. (Reflecting "The number of display.")


The one I find useful is the third one from the left, "Sort," or what R18 calls "Sort by":



The default for R18 is "Popularity," as you may see above. But I usually find very helpful titles arranged by newest to oldest (which is really good to see if an actress may have retired -- that is, if you click on the actress pages, which also contain the same three dropdown boxes -- and all sorts of other things). So my guess is, the default for DMM's "Sort" dropdown box is also "Popularity," but the second item is "Release Date" - which also coincides with R18's "Sort by" dropdown box.


If you have any tips and tricks to share about DMM's pages that you have found to be useful, why not let the rest of us in on it? Place to do so is right here.


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[Electromog]

Do note the sort list depends on what area you're in. DVD has "newest" as second option, but Video, for instance, has "newest" as 3rd option.
I tend to search the video area as it often seems to have more titles than the DVD area.

 

[jppilot]

google chrome + translate to english(of course this is machine translation). I'm always using this and no problem with navigation and information. Maybe everyone knows this already, but for me this was useful tips.