Where do you go for Otaku Shopping

There is no store here where i live:( i do all my ordering online or at expos during the summer

yeah around these parts there isnt much...even the comic stores suck. I usually order online.

Luckily, there's 2 stores nearby that are pretty good for most things.

Here in the Vancouver area we have Sakura Media (general anime store) in Burnaby and Richmond. Richmond is also a generally good area with many shops selling various anime goods. Some specialize in imports.

Wah! I don't know how to go to Greenhills by myself! Do I ride the MRT or the LRT? BTW I live in Parañaque so that would mean if I ride the LRT I go to Baclaran station x_x

In New York City there are various places in Manhattan that you can get your stuff.
One nice area is like known as unofficially "Japan Town," It is St Marks Pl. and Astor Place, right around the NYU campus, few blocks away from Soho Broadway, You can find a lot of shit there. Has awesome Japanese restaurants and stuff too. WORTH IT!

Here in France, more specifically Paris, we have some shops selling figures but the best has to be Nautilus
http://www.nautilus-anime.com
They know what they sell, they are very friendly and serviceable
the only problem has to be the size of the shop; it is very well located within Paris but the shop is very small

I go online. Nowhere else is efficient enough, not much around here.

Yeah! I agree with this place here in Manila. This is the best. Animé, Manga, Figures, Mechas,Video Games, Gadgets, Foods almost everything is here. You can even get great discounts. Some shops even gives you a thank you gift on Christmas.

For figs, i go online.. Shops are just too expensive O_o

However, we have a place for Gunplas, shopping centres dedicated to modellers (and gunpla paints included ^^)

Ah yes, V-mall! Any Otaku from manila shold know about that. It is our little piece of Akihabara

Hmmm, well this would be the London list:
Figures and toys(Better off buying Online):
Tokyo Toys, Trocadero High Street Picadilly
Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue
Manga:
Japan Center, Picadilly Road(better for magazines)
See Forbidden Planet
Comic Showcase, near Leicester Square
Gosh! Infront to the British Museum
Sweets and candy(POCKY!!!):
Cyber Candy, Covent Gardens(great shop)
See Tokyo Shop
A few shops in Chinatown

Please add if I missed something important

Nothing here alas. I believe there might be some extremely small stores dotted around the county, but they probably carry only old stuff and in very small quantities at high prices and irregular restock schedules. So I always go online until I can finally raid Akiba ^^

online cuz the pickins are slim around here :(
Or at least that's as much as I know...

Virra Mall, Greenhills.

Sometimes you can also find the figures you want in some shops inside SM shopping malls and Robinsons Galleria and Glorietta.

Figures and Gundams can also be found in Toy Kingdom at SM Malls.

(Philippines)

Well, in here there isn't too many shop, (just 1 or 2) but 're nearby, and got a pretty good quality stuff. Those shops are Camelot and NeoTokyo. About shopping with a otaku, think about visit those places, and a few shop in chinatown (4 a decent dinner ;) )

Hey! It's Greenhills~!!! *points at image*

That's where I get my Otaku shopping fix =3

In london it's forbidden planet and as danny said japan center

here in Malaysia, there's not much places to buy. even if you found one, it'll end up selling more of counterfeit stuff than the real ones. However, there are a few genuine ones but quite hard to find, due to the recent fiasco regarding the government: http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/6252/Figurine+Issue+in+Malaysia.html

i'll get mine from online stores and retailers. all of my figures are from there! ^_^"

We got ours from Sunshine plaza, where there are like 2-3 stores more the goodies.

For magazines, Kinokuniya will also do.

I either go to expo's to get mine, or I can order stuff in through my local comic place. Expensive, but one of the only ways before I got a debit card. Now I can order online, AND when I'm in Uni I will be in the city that holds to two biggests anime conventions in the UK(I didnt realise there were two, I only thought one lol, and thats not why I picked it lol.)
Expos were my main source of merchendise, but manga is easily obtainable from local bookstores or amazon.

In Brisbane, Australia, the Toyworld store in the Queen Street Mall has a half decent range at the right price (and is the only toy store I know of that stock otaku items), or I go to A-zone near Chinatown in the Valley (though they are quite expensive mostly) for my trading figures fix or for Hobby magazines.

Sydney has near to nothing otaku-related. Well actually there are plenty of counterfeit ones... There are only 2 model shops I know of which sells VERY FEW figures, at a very high price.
The best place to get figures here are from anime events. Apart from that I gotta order online.

hey... my first Hijacked post. lol ^^

Id take my fellow otaku withme to the Immermannstreet in Düsseldorf.
It doesnt feature any real otakushops but alot of japanese stores and restaurants.
Düsseldorf is famous for its japanese community after all.Youll have to check out the japanday once!

I order my Otakugoods through the net

Food related goods i shop in Düsseldorf, mentioned many times in other comments by me. XD
Figures and other anime related goods i order in Japan, germany sucks with the local distro and shops of this kind.
Heavy shipping prices... but i looooveee figmas. :D

here in san deigo Anime Manga behind mission valley mall is a great place for your basic otaku needs.. just note that they dont sell anime but they do rent out dvds.

Only buys stuff in Lisbon (300km away from me) at my friends shop because the shop close to me sells things way to expensive

Just like my fellow Filipinos I go to Greenhills for my Gundam fix, or sometimes I go to a hobby shop in Quiapo, Sta.Cruz where I get some paint. It's really convenient since Quiapo is very near my school and I can drop-off when I get dismissed early. Quiapo is also the mecca of Anime DVDs and Ps2 games (I think, some of my fellow Filipinos know why ^^:)

Greenhills is undefeated! Moreso now that some of its otaku shops can do pre-orders and online stuff!

Most of the otaku shops in V-mall Greenhills are knock out version. I often make round monthly to check their contraband and stocks. SOme of the worst offenders are E-rats followed by the third floor shop in V-Mall kinda mix (50% Authentic - 50% Opposite)

Well there are Authentic otaku stuffs that are consistent sold by this two shop - Great Toys and Wasabi Toys

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliate w/ those last 2 shops I mention - Just a helpful information for filipino otaku who deserve a better otaku sustenance.

Toy Kingdom Stopped Selling Figure and They only sell Gundam Kits at a Flying Strike freedom Gundam Price

There's a small shop in Antwerp called Super Dragontoyz, but they carry some posters, some figures, some t-shirts, some manga in dutch/french and english and DVD's in dutch/french/english. They used to have more games too, but not any more. Their main store is in Brussels though, haven't been there yet though.
I mostly buy my stuff online.

The only otaku store I know of in Norway is Neo Tokyo here in Oslo. Great place, although not of the biggest.

I get my manga in forbidden planet and I get my anime dvds from tower records, since there's no aotaku goods shop near me, other than a girls Japanese clothes store, I get everything else online.

Mostly the Comic party. I usually wait to spend all of my saved money there. Here, the Comic party is held about 2-3 times a year. There are also a few smaller doujin and cosplay festivals but I don't often go to.
But if in the normal time, there was a shop called Akiba in Bangkok, selling Otaku goods. But it was forced to close by certain reasons... Fortunately, it is going to open again soon!

buying manga: a local book store or amazon
everything else: the internet

I get my manga from a shop inn the mall near my house... LOL

in singapore i will recommend,

KKnM
http://www.theanimehouse.com/

or ToynToys
http://shop.toyntoys.com/

i believe the one marvin went to was ToynToys. i get majority of my figures from there. their prices are very good. ^^;

in Milan, the comics/figure/otaku shops are not much and the most important are in the african district (ethipian-somalian people lives there). For games i can go everywhere... but comics i buy every weeh in that district

londoners still have it pretty bad.

Japan center is good for the occasional magazine like hobby japan and megami but they don't have any otaku goods like figures.

There are a small number of shops which deal in figures and the like, Tokyotoys and Orbital manga come to mind but their selection is rather small and/or very pricey so i'm forced to go online as well for most of my goods.

Toronto isn't the best place for otaku goods, but there are a few places.

Downtown:
AnimeXtreme - Figures, Revoltech, Figma, Gunpla, manga, anime, etc...
Silver Snail - Gunpla, Revoltech, Figma (very few), manga, anime.
Kikiwai - mangas, art books, stuffed animals, soundtracks, posters, some toys and gunpla.

Other places downtown, like china town stores, have gone out of business recently.

Greater Toronto Area:
Pacific Mall (an asian mall), has a few stores where you can find quite a good deal of stuff.
Advanced Hobby
One's - Japanese goods like pencil cases, stuffed animals, pottery, books and toys.
Conventions bring in expensive goods.

These places are slow at getting stock though. So in Toronto, if you want the latest figures and such, it's better to go online.

No stores here either. Just online shopping.

Online shops are the only way I can aquire otaku products with one exception for my megami magazine which I get in the city next door, Swansea. :)

hmmm . jap games in South Korea;s COEX and Jap mecha models in COEX lol. in Seattle. . . a area called Kicks

THE internet ^^

I live in an anime desert. No shops around except for the one con we have a year, other then that time I only do my shopping through Animewild.com

Singapore-wise:
a) China Square Central (for Toys & Toys, and many other toy stores)
b) Sunshine Plaza (for KKnM, and a couple of similar toy stores)
c) Kallang Leisure Park (for La Tendo)

I agree with Marvin...Greenhills is the way to go if can't find any of the figures I want online. The best stores are usually hidden in a maze of clothing shops (Shock!)

I've been to China Square too :) nice place to look for goods and isn't difficult to find stuff since I had someone to help me around (family). However I haven't managed to find my way to otaku heaven in Hong Kong?

A few years back finding a single store in South Africa that stocked a figure was a mission.
Now they seem to be popping up more and more, both physical stores and online stores are finally letting South African otaku's get the figures and goods they want.

I still get most of my stuff online though ^^;

in la paz there no store of otaku goods, only videogames, the gundam and other otaku stuff i get via internet

don't have otaku goods store around here, so sad. TAT

Around where I live, Waterstones has a suprisingly good selection of manga. If I travel a bit further then Forbidden Planet has even more manga and the very odd otaku goodie (such as my Yume Asakura figurine). But for everything else, it's online - not suprisingly, I seem to have been buying a lot of manga recently...

Ok for anime i go to Forbidden planet london, HMV and Zavi on oxford street.
for manga Forbidden Planet or Orbital Manga (great store)
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London, England
WC2H 9NY

For all my Uk otaku's they mainly have alot of Manga, Figures, Magazines and Manga magazines like Shoenen jump ect.
a few mags on eroge too.

I also go Tokyo toys Trocedero and Japan center.

For Eroges i use http://www.mangagamer.com

For manga, I go to Barnes and Noble or to Borders, since I have a huge stock of gift certs for those stores. For snacks like Pocky or those tasty Kasugai gummies, I go to Cost Plus World Market. For virtually everything else, though, I go online or wait until AX. There's no store that sells goodies like figures locally anymore (we had one, but it was in a weird part of town we've taken to calling the Bermuda Triangle, because businesses there will mysteriously disappear never to be seen again.) I also tend to either buy anime online in boxed sets or used for cheap, or pull a Jack Sparrow on it. ^^;

Otaku center in Brazil? No such thing.
I mean, there is one... but it's not in my city. 5 hour bus trip.
Here where I live, there's one small store that sells HQ, Manga and RPG stuff.
I don't go there very often because most of those I already order online with lower prices.

We do have some small japanese-culture events that happens very irregularly... only happened once this year, though last year we had more than 5 of them.
But lots of otaku gather there.

If you live in California you have to go to LA to get to any good anime/japanese shops, and they are way expensive.

For anime I usually go to Fry's Electronics, which is basically a warehouse for Best Buy. They have a great selection, and it's well priced. For manga I go to either my comic book shop (where I pre-order all the new stuff I read) or Barnes and Noble (where I tend to buy older books or 'back issues') because they have a great selection here. For figures I again go to my comic book stores where I buy what the have, or pre-order through Diamond.
If there's something I really want that I can't find at any of those places I order it online.
I live in the Dallas area, so there might be more specialty stores here. But I don't really drive around anywhere. I do know that there's a sort of poster store out here that also sells wall scrolls.

The closest anime store in the middle of nowhere is about a half-hour away! Run by fellow gaijin, apparently. Awesome, should I ever have more disposable income.

There isn't any specific places to buy otaku goods in my area so I have to do all of my ordering online.

it used to be the Smith Haven Mall and I-Con Convention near me here on Long Island...now I shop from me since I'm a dealer. Its very tempting to keep my own stock ^^; I've mainly saved the Yamashita figures and Haruhi Suzumiya figures as they come in.

I don't do a lot of shopping for stuff, but if I have to buy something I order it online.

I guess I can go to New York City, but I wouldn't know where to look.

I get animé from Best Buy (usually) and manga from Borders/Barnes & Noble. Anything else I either order online, or purchase at conventions. There is one store in the area (Outer Limits Rt. 46 E, Clifton, NJ) that sells Gundam models and other figures.

E^D

The intarwebzzzz!

Okay, okay, other than that, Little Tokyo is probably the best place so far for me. For books, it's usually Kinokuniya, which luckily is near my place in both California and Oregon. There's also Asahiya Express which is closer to my university, so sometimes I go there for books. What's cool about that place is that there's a whole bunch of restaurants to eat at.

Recently I discovered Power Anime, which is located on the first floor of Westside Pavilion. It's a neat little place, but I haven't seen anything that I'd like to buy there just yet.

Anime - Best Buy

Manga - Books A Million, Barnes and Noble, Boarders.

Figures - only online! :(

Though I go to the book stores for manga, they really don't carry a good selection around here.

I live in WIS, and sadly there isn't a single anime/manga shop around here. Im speaking more along the terms of a store dedicated to it.

Greenhills, in San Juan, Manila~

Though if i had chances to visit other countries, I'd go find shops in the area too :)

Buys figures at a local retailer here. Only around 9 train stations away, so near~~

The only things I can get locally are anime and manga at places like Best Buy and Books a Million. Anything else, like figures, I have to mail order.

I usually get my stuff in Conventions and sometimes in Goldcrest near Glorietta.

I've been to Greenhills many times but I usually have little money to buy anything there at the time. ^^;

Chinatown and Little Tokyo here and the Anime Expo once a year...

Nothing where I live. However, if you go to Sydney (4-5 hour drive) there's a lot of stuff there.

Nothing here too. India is as barren as a desert for finding any otaku related stuff.

The Japan Centre is in London's Piccadilly, and it has a great selection of Japanese food. Packs of House Curry were recently on special offer at just 99p each, so I bought a massive stash of them. Last weekend they also had a huge new selection of instant Miso soups, but the Pocky selection was a bit uninspiring.

It's also a bit sparse when it comes to otaku goods (e.g. figures etc.) though. Forbidden Planet has much more things of that ilk.

Erm, no good otaku stores in my country. Only one I can name is a bookshop (www.kriso.ee) from where I can order manga. Usually they have some more popular manga on the shelves too. And it is usually cheaper than ordering from USA or Japan.

Not really any malls but asian malls often have anime stores like Sakura Media here

eh i'd probably end up showing them my computer and introduce them to ebay and amazon and then take them to a few malls to show them the book stored for manga and this good place for dvds and if it was the right time of year i'd take them to an anime con in eau clair ^

eh i'd probably end up showing them my computer and introduce them to ebay and amazon and then take them to a few malls to show them the book stored for manga and this good place for dvds and if it was the right time of year i'd take them to an anime con in eau clair ^

I go to Little Tokyo or Japantown depending on if I'm in the Bay Area or down in Los Angeles. Convenient that there's Kinokuniya bookstores in those two places.

Suburb about 40 mins away...but I think the shop has closed down didn't even know the name of the shop but the figures where hell expensive and cheaply made >_>.

ahhh... Greenhills.. the big "Vacuum Cleaner"! 'cos everytime I go there, my wallet is sucked dry. T_T

Haven't been to greenhills in quite a while. I purchase all my stuff online at these places:
play-asia.com
wasabitoys.com (they have a store in greenhills i think)
cdjapan.co.jp

:D

So sad that the biggest city in the U.S. has only one Kinokuniya. Although there doesn't seem to be "one" place to buy otaku goods, there's a fairly good amount of stores scattered around, and chances are that you'd have a store near you. I was pretty surprised when I was told that Anime Castle was moving out of Queens that their new location would literally be 10 min away from me.

Still do nearly all my shopping online, though. Covienient locations and open 24/7! I am also a cheapskate.

Otaku goods locations are really rare around here, but there are some shops in the mall that stock them. I remember there used to be a really good place nearby-SamGoody's-but unfortunately, the closed it down. The rest of my shopping has to be done on the net.

Buying brand new stuff can be a bit painful, especially from stores because to the retail price they add taxes, shipping and their profit costs.

I suggest to look online places like "Japan's Garage Sale" in livejournal; I sell stuff there too and you can find very good deals (I made Higurashi fans happy selling some figurines for real cheap, for instance)

Orbital manga in london Lesticer S.Q

I am luck enought o have Best Buy less the 5 mile away from my house for most of my anime needs.

Plus the suermarket I work at ahs a great Sushi bar.

Best Buy, Online, and conventions...
Only places I can kinda trust.

Best Buy, Online, and conventions...
Only places I can kinda trust.

Best Buy, Online, and conventions...
Only places I can kinda trust.

over here we dnt hav even one place to go for otaku goods

yeup little tokyo, its pretty much the most obvious choice, i just hate driving there with all of the one way streets and what not

pandora's cube in college park maryland has some figures and other things, but i haven't been to the store in at least 5 years. other than that, i stick to j-list, amazon and a couple other sites to get otaku goods..

In Mall. In Mall usually there a Anime shop