The formerly tiny Akiba Mandarake has been replaced by a larger dojin and anime goods shop dubbed “Mandarake Complex” a block away.
The picturesque Tokyo neighborhood finally gets a branch of the famous dojinshi and manga shop.
More thanks for our sponsors: to everyone at Marui One, Tokyo’s biggest lolita department store, for your kind hospitality! Our lolita tour guests will be received specialized service and a coupon good at any of the store’s many boutiques.
The final price for our this August is $2,198 plus fuel surcharge — but if you apply before June 2, we’ll take $100 off your tour price! Click here to download the application.
Day 1 (and a half) of the Cold Steel Tour is now up on YouTube in video form!
Cosplayers marched down the main drag in the otaku neighborhood of Denden Town in Nipponbashi, Osaka March 20, Iza News Reports. They were protesting nothing in particular, but there was a guy dressed like Porco Rosso.
The old Namba Osaka location of Mandarake, the Japanese comics and doujinshi chain, has closed to make room for Mandarake Grand Chaos, a new store in Amerika-mura, a fashion neighborhood not known for otaku.
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed Doraemon, the cartoon robot cat well-loved in Japan and Asia but little-known in the United States, last week to be Japan’s world ambassador for anime.
Wow!!! In just two weeks our Japan L.A. Tokyo Toy Show tour has completely sold out! That makes it a confirmed go! I’m in shock here. Thank you, toy-lovers! We’ve got some amazing plans for you!
