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Animate Akihabara November 2012

Yohco — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:30:22 +0000

Took a monthly pilgrimage to Animate Akihabara. We can find new goods in this store every time.

Tiger&Bunny section.

Hetalia goods.

Magi is rapidly gaining in popularity with starting the TV anime series.

Current hottest genre, Kuroko’s Basketball section.

Other manga goods from Weekly Shonen Jump.

Hakuouki section♡

Do you know about this? A popular otome game “Hiiro no Kakera (緋色の欠片).”

Starry Sky.

The biggest section in the girls’ floor is for Uta no Prince-sama!

I want to this one! Sho-chan’s earphone jack for iPhone.

SO MANY MANY UTAPRI POSTERS!!!

Let’s take selective buying at Yaoi manga section♪

Kyaaaaa!! How kawaii boys!!! I decided buying this one♡

Umm… this one looks nice as well…

Animate staff’s recommendation message helps us.

Actually I love “Megane Danshi (眼鏡男子; boys with eyeglasses)”… so this one should be nice…

Fumu fumu… “Ao Haru Ride” is current popular shōjo manga.

★Today’s catch at Animate Akihabara

Yaoi manga “RUSH!” by Aoi Hashimoto, and “Katakoi Sokuhou” by Mayami!

↓ “RUSH!”

↓ “Katakou Sokuhou”

Animate Akihabara August 31

Yohco — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:32:16 +0000

Visited Animate Akihabara to buy commercial yaoi manga. I have read them at manga cafe, and also I have bought yaoi dojinshi a hundred times, but to tell the truth, this was the first time for me to buy commercial yaoi manga. I was so pulsated! (In Japanese, waku waku doki doki♡)

This is it! Let’s hurry inside!

What you can see in Animate at first is “otaku souvenirs.”

Let’s go up to the floor for girls.

Found Kumamate at girls’ floor. You can play dress-up with teddy bears. These bears were sold out last time! At this time, I got full range of bears!

A thousand of anime and manga goods… I’ll not get bored looking at the shop until morning.

Commercial Manga and Books section. There are so many kawaii yaoi manga that I can’t decide what to buy! I think that yaoi manga artists have great skill in painting.

Of course you can find “not yaoi” at Animate.

Today’s catch at Animate Akihabara
Kumamate with Case Closed and Uta no Prince-sama’s costumes, and three commercial yaoi manga! All of these manga are really nice! Especially “Best Ending? (ベストエンディング？)” by Junta Mio (三尾じゅん太) is so cute. I became huge fan of this manga artist!

Checking out Animate shelves!

Yohco — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:06:05 +0000

Checking out Animate Akihabara now!
You can find out what Japanese otaku girls are interested in, by looking at Animate shelves all in one glance.

The current hot topic is Uta no Prince-sama (うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪). The special campaign is being conducted to mark the release of the new character song CD “Shining All Star CD.”

In front of the cash register is also completely full up with Utapri!

Utapri characters’ cookies. Is Len Jinguji the most popular?

The school seal accessory. Kawaii!

OH! Keigo Atobe (跡部景吾), the popular character of the Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様) is picking up girls!
“俺様の美技に酔いな！ (Be awed at the sight of my prowess!)”

Unfortunately the anime of Gintama (銀魂) ended, but it is still very popular.

So many character goods are here…

Now we focus our eyes to manga for Otome & Yaoi fans.

Recently, Kuroko’s Basketball (黒子のバスケ) is hot.

One of the big bestseller, “Junjo Romantica (純情ロマンチカ) series” has won enthusiastic support from many fans as a leading manga of Yaoi category over the past 10 years. The author, Shungiku Nakamura (中村春菊)’s other manga are very popular as well, especially “Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (世界一初恋)” is recent hottest one. It is partly linked “Junjo Romantica.”

Shungiku Nakamura’s illustrations are really attractive.

Today, my interest was “Iyayo Yameteyo (いやよやめてよ).” The author, Lalako Kojima (小嶋ララ子) is a new yaoi manga artist, but her illustrations are very pretty and the story also looks interesting. You can see her blog here. >> mim.vivian.discotica

These days you can often spot “Shirokuma Cafe (しろくまカフェ)” as well. (This is not yaoi manga!)

The anime has been on the air since April.

I found very very cute cosplay bears, “Kumamate (くまめいと)”! You can dress the bears in your favorite anime character’s costumes. The bears and costumes both are for about 800 yen. I wanted to buy a bear and Utapri’s costume, but bears are sold out because it is now becoming popular. What a pity!

K-On! (けいおん！) cosplayed black bear.

Nintama Rantaro (忍たま乱太郎). I could see only black colored bears, but there are other colored bears.

WOW! Various costumes! OHH I REALLY WANT THE BEAR!!!

Kumamate Official Website: くまめいと (Japanese only)

For your information, you can get your costumes in Animate Akihabara as well.

Coruscating Dōjin World

Yohco — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:06:48 +0000

Have you ever seen dōjinshi?
Dōjinshi (同人誌) is the Japanese term for self-published manga, sometimes include novels. Dōjinshi are often the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular industry. Groups of dōjinshi artists refer to themselves as a sākuru (サークル, circle), and in many cases each sākuru consist of members with the same favorite manga or anime. A number of such groups actually consist of a single artist: they are sometimes called kojin sākuru (個人サークル, personal circles).

I’m crazy for dōjinshi, and I have several hundred dōjinshi on Gintama, Reborn!, Sengoku Basara, Uta no prince sama, and everything else. The piece of them is here.

Dōjinshi is worked by amateurs, but they have professional-level proficiency. They build side stories of some manga or anime, and create our paradise. Sometimes our favorite characters fall in love, and sometimes powerful and heroic battles unfold. Dōjinshi offers a different way of how to enjoy manga that has even attracted otaku, and the market is estimated at more than 50 billion yen.

You can get Dōjinshi at The Comic Market, and Dōjinshi stores like “Mandarake”, “Toranoana” and “Animate”. The average price of them is from ¥500 to ¥2000, depends on the page count.

Link to Mandarake (English, Japanese, Korean)

Toranoana (Japanese)

Animate (Japanese)

You can get some dōjinshi on Amazon.com.