Its a never-ending problem for foreign purchasers. The companies generally make just enough to cover the pre-orders or a guestimate of the Japan local market.
I can usually get a figure by carefully watching the pre-orders at hlj or cdjapan ... but the other items are generally never a possibility. For that the best I've found is just haunting Ebay or visiting a big convention.
As I noted elsewhere, my copies of all the existing light novels and the first manga arrived today from yesasia. They weren't terribly careful. One of the advert wraps was torn during packing but more obnoxious is that they put barcode stickers on the books, many of which basically taped the advert wrap to the jacket. Meh.....
Starting to look over the manga for now...
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