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Anime Stores, Rentals and Theaters?
ajaygautam asks: "For the past few months (on and off), I have been trying to locate Anime stores, rentals and theaters in and around Central New Jersey, but have not been able to find much. Only Blockbuster, which carries a very limited selection. I was wondering if there is a list of such things on the Internet somewhere. I propose that we create this 'Ask Slashdot' a comprehensive list of Anime stores, rental locations and theaters that do show Anime movies."
Down the street from Vanderbilt Uni on Belcourt Avenue.. Besides doing art-film movies and Rocky Horror on Fridays, they also show Anime (Metropolis being their latest..)
Cosmic Castle on High Point Rd has a good selection of titles for sale, and a knowledgeable staff. They also stock tabletop RPG's, t-shirts and other paraphenalia. And pocky!
I've found that a lot of tabletop gaming and comic book stores sell/rent anime as well.. Seems the genres go hand-in-hand. Good thing, too.. I always know where to look for my anime when I move to a new city.
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Many anime shops are very localized, the only big one I can name is AnimeNation, and they're at www.animenation.com
;P)
Most others are tiny and usually exclusive to a city. The majority of anime/manga is distributed retail, through Suncoast/MediaPlay/Best Buy (same Conglom-o), and small comics shops/book stores (by means of Diamond Comics.
Or imports. R2s cost a shitload though, and include no subtitles or english dub (for the illiterate
As for theaters that actually SHOW anime, look to any LARGE city. Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, many large West and East coast cities will get Anime prints (primarily because prints cost a LOT and the US companies that do this are SMALL).
Rental:
netflix.com does dvd rental in general, including a lot of anime. Many blockbuster stores/other rental chains are starting to carry a lot of anime, or just ask your local anime geek. I myself have over 130 discs and do more loaning than any of the local stores (and I have been tempted to charge).
As an aside:
DOWNLOADING LICENSED ANIME ONLY HURTS THOSE WHO ARE ON YOUR SIDE.
Companies like A.D. Vision (biggest North American animation distributor second only to Disney) and Bandai Entertainmet are full of sane geeks like us who despise legislation like CARP, the DMCA, and the various Hollings crapscrolls, and avoid using any content control methods whenever possible. SUPPORT THEM.
Have you checked Netflix's anime section? What about other DVD mailers?
You're kidding.. there are movies of real people having sex out there? You mean I've been wasting my time watching all this hentai?!?
Man... if I'd ONLY KNOWN!
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The best way I know of is a little backwards. The first step is to find the closest anime convention in your area. The Anime Web Turnpike is a good spot for this. There con page is here
Once you find a local con, find out who is sponsoring it. There is usually one or two anime stores in the area that are paying for ad space.
Also see if there is a MediaPlay or a Suncoast store near you. They tend have a pretty decet selection of anime.
Good luck.
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For those not fluent or brave enough to order/talk to someone in Japan you can always go to...
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp
There are other stores but they require you to know some Japanese to read their catalog and order. I've never been let down by CDJapan and constantly recommend it to the "I don't know what 'gaijin' means" people who want to order stuff directly from Japan.
Tokyo Kid at the Garage in Harvard Square is probably all you'll ever need for rentals. There are also a lot of good clubs in the area, particularly the MIT Anime Club.
Buying is often cheaper online however, if you shop around.
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The majority of what is carried on ebay and half.com tends to be bootleg.
Bootleg = bad.
Especially the ones that promote series with English and Chinese subs, Region 0, and entire 26 episode series on 3 discs.
AVOID BUYING THESE, you hurt both the legal licensors and the Japanese company that produced the work (hey, we're all about fair compensation here on slashdot, aren't we?)
Check out NetFlix.
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Yes they are bootlegs. Almost EXCLUSIVELY.
You do not want to buy bootlegs, if you profess to want to compensate the creators fairly. (as the majority of Slashdot seems to want to).
We bitch about how the companies don't go after the big time bootleggers, but the easiest way to hinder them is to NOT BUY FROM THEM.
And Bestprices and DVDPlanet are cheaper than most retailers, and are 100% legit!
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They have a lot of anime, plus you can buy special "anime only" packages of rentals.
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Many computer/video gaming stores have gotten into the anime video business. In the New Jersey area, I know that Software Etc. in particular has taken a liking to selling these products. Some of their stores have dedicated entire racks of shelves if not isles to anime.
Big combo stores such as Best Buy and Circuit City also tend to have reasonably-sized anime collections. At least one Northern NJ Best Buy has a rack or two of anime DVDs. A Circuit City store local to me had everything (DVD, soundtrack CD, orchastral CD) related to Princess Mononoke, as well as some obscure stuff. Their prices are a bit better than the video game stores.
Unfortunately, gaming stores tend to price their anime a bit high in cost, but if you want to find something quickly, I would recommend at least touring your local computer/video game stores. The selection may not be the best, but you may find what you want.
Please note that my views are of somewhat that tends to deal in mainstream anime; if you are looking for something obscure, you may have to go online.
Why not just rent your anime ovre the internet? DVDOvernight and Netflix both have a wide selection of anime titles, and with netflix, you can even get a free trial. You rent up to three movies at a time, they mail them to you, and you keep them as long as you want, and when you're finished, you mail them back in a pre-paid envelope they provide. Now you can watch something other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns while sitting alone by yourself in your parents' basement.
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Kinokuniya Bookstore is a Japanese Bookstore that has the largest selection of manga/anime goods, there is one in New Jersey and one in New York city. Another good bet is to go to a Media Play or a Suncoast that is near a college or University. Here at RIT we have a huge anime club, possibly the largest on the east coast, as far as we know. The Media Play next to our school has just as much anime as it does Action Movies, on DVD. It also special orders graphic novels and magazines like Animerica and Animerica Extra. They also get other stuff like posters, novelties, action figures, that are anime related. I've been to other media plays, and they don't have the selection that ours does. Another good bet is to buy online *gasp*. I mean for DVDs just check www.animeondvd.com to see what's coming out, then go to www.mediaplay.com to buy it.
Don't think I'm a Media Play salesman or something, it's just the store I go to.
Oh yeah, another good way to get lots of anime is to go to anime conventions. Anime Expo is this weekend, and Otakon is at the end of July. Expo is in CA, but Otakon is in Baltimore, MD. Cons are great places to buy all kinds of anime stuff you can't get anywhere else. They're also a great place to meet freaky freaky people and laugh at or with them. And they're also where my roomate hunts catgirls ^_^ You also might want to ask the forums at www.dubthis.net. There are a lot of anime fans there.
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If you're ever in Ames, IA. check that place out, they rent anime and have a huge selection.
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There's always the user friendly J-List! I mean, their slogan is even "you've got a friend in Japan..." Oh yeah, and they sell the famous Hello Kitty Vibrator, and a t-shirt that says looking for a japanese girlfriend -- in Japanese... Man, I love this site.
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I've heard that in the UK it's possible to walk into any consumer electronics store and ask for the DVD player you buy to be modded to play all regions, and they'll do it for a nominal charge. However, unfortunately, I don't live in the UK, but in the USA - and I'd like to watch international DVDs (as a British ex-pat, my interest lies more in classic UK television than in Anime, but I figure Anime fans face the same problem).
/. readers know whether there's any way to get existing cheap crappy players like mine modded to be region-free, or whether I'll need to buy a new one - and if the latter, where I can get region-free DVD players at a good price?
I have a regular old cheap commodity DVD player from GE. Any
I was surprised to find a lot of anime at the Fry's Electronics in San Diego. I'm not a big anime fan, but from what I do know, they had all the classics. Also, they had a lot of "adult" anime (read: tentacle rape)
They had 2 whole shelf units full. Thats about (rough estimate from memory) 200 - 300 DVDs.
Try this
They seem to have some anime stuff, but I'm not sure what you like...
This company rents you unlimited DVDs for a monthly fee. You can have 3 DVDs out at a time, and when you return them (at company's expense) you can get your next selection (shipped at their expense as well). No late fees or anything since you pay by month not quantity.
I don't know anything about this company but I've heard people talk about it at work, and they're apparently pretty good except getting new releases might be difficult (not a problem if all you want is anime, I suppose.)
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We've got a wonderful small-chain store local to the Puget Sound (Seattle, WA) region that specializes in nothing but DVDs and CDs. It's called 'Silver Platters.' They've got their web site still in the 'Under Construction' state, but you're going to be able to do online ordering Real Soon Now.
No, I don't work for them. My wife and I just happen to be very regular customers. We were in just yesterday (Saturday, June 29), and the Anime section had just been restocked. They were carrying, among other things, a newly-released boxed set of 'Sailor Moon.' I've also seen several 'Urusei Yatsura' DVDs there, and I know they can order (or at least try to order) just about anything a customer might want.
If you're local to the Puget Sound region, they have stores in at least Bellevue and Southcenter (Tukwila). Check the phone book.
Good hunting.
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I've never quite understood it.
I see it mentioned on here a lot. I've seen a few things but have never gotten into it.
Am I missing something?
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The Chobits Soundtrack costs 2520 Japanese Yen. Just because I'm lazy I always figure that the conversion from Dollars->Yen is something around 1->100. That means that this CD is about $30(after shipping)! Chobits 2 is priced at 6300 yen, well we won't go there. People would freak in the US if asked if they want to buy a $30 CD let alone a $50+ DVD...
So why is it so expensive? There are a number of reasons. Remember when Presidents complain about Japanese not exactly playing by Free Trade rules? There are laws in place to fix minimum pricing on many goods. Copying is pretty rampant over there but unlike the US Japanese companies realize this and live with it. They treat DVDs and CDs sold as more "regal" items so they charge more. Scales in the economy seem to support itself at these more expensive prices just as well because they know die hard fans will buy DVDs and CDs with the extra goodies and price items accordingly. In fact chasing pirates is detrimental because it costs money.
So yes there is price fixing. Yes rampant copying does exist. No they really aren't related.
Buying from Japan isn't for the faint of heart or light of wallet. You don't have to get stuff directly from Japan but you miss out on a lot of good expensive stuff!
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...coming to DVD by the end of the year. This is going to be the Anime release of the year. There will be both a dubbed and a subbed version on the DVD. The folks at ADVision are releasing this.
I wish they'd release Nuku Nuku the TV series but the reissue of the OAV on DVD is pretty damn cool. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so. Funny, cool and one kick-ass female (well, robot that looks like a girl with the brain of a cat) character. This was created by the same guy who did 3X3 Eyes.
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I'd recommend Tasogare Anime, which you can find at 4503 34th St. The owner carries a nice selection of DVDs as well as imported magazines, action figures, art books, soundtracks, wallscrolls, calendars, and so forth, plus she'll special order anything you ask for -- in my experience, she can usually get domestically released stuff in about a week, stuff from Japan will take longer depending on how easy it is to acquire.
Also, as a personal plug -- I'm the president of the Texas Tech anime club, which meets every Wednesday and Saturday as long as college is in session. It's absolutely free and open to everybody, even if you're not a student!
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Ummm....they're okay, for the occasional lucky used purchase, but check out Scarecrow Video it's THE place for movies in Seattle. It's one of the best movie rental places in the world--in fact it's a destination store for many directors, screenwriters, various and sundry Hollywood refugees...
Their collection is a great place to start learning about any kind of film--they also sell region free dvd players, new and used dvd's, etc. Truly an amazing place and one of the cultural treasures of Seattle.
If you don't want to rent, you can buy there, or you can go to Kicks or any number of grey market places in Chinatown (only anglos call Chinatown the International District by the way). There's also the place in the Great Wall mall down in Tukwila, but I'd stay away from them for the fact that many of their dvd's don't work quite right, but to be fair, they've always been really great about returns and customer service.
And for seeing anime in theaters, well, you're very lucky to be in Seattle--even some of the biggies downtown show anime, particular the theater in Pacific Place, but the one that shows the most is the Varsity on University Way.
Have fun.
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There was one up on University Way (aka "The Ave"), and another down in Burien. Both seemed pretty well-stocked, but it's been over a year since I've been to either of them.
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Ebay has lots of anime for sale. You can find alot of anime dvds there. Also, you could go the fansub route and get an entire series that has not been released in the US for about $15 on ebay. You can also download those same fansubs from IRC.
Feel the power of the net!
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Charles Street Theatre showes alternate movies and Anime .. not a great location though.
.. try my friend Dave Bowers at Time Warp Comics in the Oranges .. he is a good guy.
and Otakucon is there next month i believe.
Both of the book stores in towson carry a good supply, As well as Legend's Comics, and believe it or not, suncoast video in the mall
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Their anime selection is terrible.
There are only 4 Ranma videos. You can forget Urusei Yatsura. (Oh wait- they have Beautiful Dreamer; Who doesn't?) At least they have SOME of Tenchi. Ah My Goddess? Not a one. Mononoke Hime is their sole Miyazaki- nary a Totoro even.
Talk about poor selection...
Here's a couple more places that have Anime as a listed genre:
Rent my DVD
DVD Avenue
DVD Barn
As for geographic location, which impacts how fast your Discs arrive, RentmyDVD has facilities both California and New Jersey. DVD Barn is based in Arizona, while Dvd Avenue is in Maryland.
I don't know about New Jersey, but here's what I know about Toronto:
Up until AnimeXtreme opened a store on 315 Spadina Ave. (a block north of Dundas), Suspect Video had the best selection of anime for rent. I haven't had a chance to visit the AnimeXtreme store (it just opened a week ago or so), so Suspect may still be king. There's two locations for Suspect, one on 619 Queen St. W. and one on 605 Markham St., just below Bloor (on the far west side of Honest Ed's).
The AnimeXtreme club also shows anime at Bloor Cinema every other Saturday. The cinema is located at 506 Bloor St. W. (just around the corner from Suspect, actually).
As far as purchasing anime, I've found no better place than The Beguiling. Very knowledgeable staff. This is just south of Suspect on Markham. Again, the new AnimeXtreme store may have better selection, I haven't scoped it out.
That's all I've got. Hope this helps.
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someone mentioned AniPike in a previous message, but they didn't mention this specific list
Anime Web TurnPike's Online Shopping guide
other lists I know of:
Anime Web Turnpike's Shopping Guide
Anime Shopping Guide/Ratings not sure who maintains this, its also included in the above link
Manga and Anime Stores (this is an AOL link though, don't know if it will work
One thing to keep in mind, not all anime you come across on the web or in RL is legit. I've seen tons of bootlegs for sale, even after anime is becoming more available domestically. Watch out for independent stores/sites in particular. Some bootleg packaging is looking more legit than licensed stuff. I can think of a half dozen sites/stores that carry bootlegs, and I've seen several mentioned already, but I hesitate to name them for fear of being sued or something. Not only are you ripping off the creators and giving money to immoral types, but you generally get really crappy quality. The packaging is NOT representative of the product at all. You are likely to find horrible translations with unreadable grammar, poorly timed subtitles, subtitles that are a bad color or cut off at the ends and just low grade video and audio in general. Sometimes its a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of some guys VHS tape off of tv, even though its on DVD.
And finally, because I've spent around $10k on anime in the past 10 years, I'll list a few of the places the majority of money has gone to and I've never had any problems with (DVD bootlegs, bad service, etc...):
Anime Castle
Anime Plus
Nikaku
Amazon.com
and Media Play (pricey!) for those anime cravings so severe you just can't wait for the webstores to deliver
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His shop in Red Bank, Jay and Bob's Secret Stash, has virtually nothing. Don't get me wrong, a cleaner, nicer comic book store never have I seen. It's got an interesting color scheme, it's not cramped, and there's a lot of neat props and such from his movies in display cases.
It's just that the selection of stuff that's not somehow related to Smith (e.g. the racks and racks of movie-based t-shirts) is quite poor.
There's not that many new comics, and most of them are from the big three, with few independents. There are hardly any back issues at all. (IIRC there were less than ten long boxes worth) The video selection is extremely small, and I don't recall that they rent. Not a hell of a lot of graphic novels either.
If I were you, I'd stick with a store that had a good selection of stuff, and was willing to deal with -- and try to promote -- anything. I'm actually in South Jersey, and while the store I shop at (Fat Jack's in Oaklyn) is, to be honest, falling apart, they've been very good with the exception of having good prices on their back issues. It's as though they've never heard of a 25-cent bin or something.
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I think anime's shit, but Salzer's Video is the mecca of it for Ventura County, CA, just NW of LA. If you need to see it, it's there.
Great foreign/mystery/TV/art video stuff in general.
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And they're also where my roomate hunts catgirls ^_^
:-P (though I suppose anyone who attends dressed as a catgirl is probably an attention-seeker)
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That's where you go to find Anime in my neck of the woods. Also, some of the mall movie stores (sales, not rental) have decent Anime stock.
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They have all sorts of stuff and a lot of fansubs that they will reproduce for a fee of a VHS tape. They also sell some games and such.
Another place is Sakura Media in Burnaby and Richmond. They carry a lot of CDs, DVDs, and posters.
Both UC schools. I used to go to UC Davis, and they had an incredible anime/asian rental place called "Alternative Universe," and I figured I might be able to find something like that when I moved to Berkeley, but surprise surprise. Despite this being a large university town, there are no good anime rental places. There's one small store which shares an insignificant amount of space with a travel agency, but the selection isn't very good. Even blockbuster seems better at time. Then again, there are many surprising things about Berkeley. You wouldn't think they'd have a piss-poor recycling system, but they do. It's a bizarre town that never seems to be what people think of it.
I guess I'm just not seeing the relation...
I think of "nerds" as computer people... programmers like myself.
I think of Anime as Japanese cartoons. Am I the only computer person out there that thinks indifferently of them?
I guess the closet correlation I can come up with is computer games which are often using pieces of Asian culture in them.
I guess my original question is, why is it news for nerds? Why not some other hobby that really isn't related such as Fish aquariums or something.
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They're not actually out of business yet? I thought they had their big going out of business sale months ago...
Anyways, for rentals, there's Vulcan Video. Doesn't Blockbuster carry anime? I haven't actually been to one in years...
I generally buy anime online, but Dragon's Lair Comics, Fry's Electronics, and Suncoast Video stock anime too.
And I think most of the arthouse type theatres in town have shown anime... Metropolis and Jin-Roh were at the Dobie, Perfect Blue at the now-closed Arbor 7, Princess Mononoke at the Paramount, and I'm pretty sure the Alamo Drafthouse has played anime, although I can't think of any titles...
Well, I think it's clear that "Hentai" is a subgenre of "Anime," though some really snooty anime fans wouldn't admit it. I think it's especially true given the "acceptability" of Hentai anime in its home country, where jokes about it are sometimes found in less explicit anime, where less explicit anime is still often more explicit than U.S. custom would dictate, and where sexuality itself is viewed in a better light.
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While I don't watch Hentai anime, I have to admit being a fan of the quality games in the Hentai subgenre as well. Most Hentai games are thin excuses for looking at dirty manga/anime, but several of them are worthy RPGs or interactive fiction in themselves, like *Divi Dead*, *Eve Burst Error* (sexually explicit scenes were cut for non-Japanese versions), *True Love*, *Season of the Sakura*, *3 Sisters' Story*, etc.
I just wish more of the Japanese greats in the Hentai game category would be translated into English, since unlike with anime you can't really keep up with what's going on, or even play the game passably, unless you can read the dialogue. Most of the Hentai games translated into English have been the low-quality ones, with a few exceptions like the ones I listed above. But unfortunately the market for such games in English is relatively small, meaning the greats in Japan would often be too expensive to license for American transklation and sales.
At any rate, any anime fans interested in the good Hentai video games out there could take a look at these links:
Reviews:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Divi
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2218
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=True
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http://www.peachprincess.com/Merchant2/pp.mv
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In Columbus, Ohio, try renting anime at SHOCC Comics on Bethel(wide selection on tape, but they only recently started acquiring DVDs) or North Campus Video on High Street(many DVDs, but smaller overall selection -- and when stuff gets stolen from them, they never, ever replace it).
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I was a member, but I recently cancelled my membership. The problem? They have a "wide" selection of anime titles, but when you get 3 or 4 discs into a 10-disc series, you discover that that's all they have. I emailed them a couple of times about it, and customer service indicates they have no plans to stock the rest. Specific examples I've bumped into:
Gasaraki: they have 1-4, but there are 8 total
Bubblegum Crisis 2040: they have 3 of 6
Neon Genesis Evangelion: they have 3 of 8 series discs, and neither of the 2 movie DVDs
Trigun: they have 6 of 8
Slayers: they have one movie, and 3 out of 52(!!!!) episodes.
Blue Submarine #6: they have all of the series, but are missing the movie.
Tenchi Universe: they have 6 of 8
I will apologize now if any of these movies are unavailable in region 1-- I didn't have time to check 'em all. But most of these certainly are.
It would be really nice if you could finish watching what you started, but sadly, that's not the case with Netflix.
Go to Rutgers NB. There's almost certainly an anime shop around there; and if not ShogoCon(sp?) is supposed to be there next month, and should have shitloads for sale.
Southeast of Orlando and south of Kennedy Space Center is Famous Faces and Funnies, which has a great selection of manga, US comics, action figures, and some anime on DVD. They also carry some Japanese language manga, and know a lot about what they sell. The store is very spacious and brightly lit. They have to keep it that way because it's in a popular shopping center with a supermarket.
For a while they were showing some anime at a 2nd run theater every Friday night, like 3 movies for $5, and despite having a poor projector and a smoky theater, it was great being around all those people who really liked anime. But it was kinda against copyright since they were showing VHSs so they quit.
Specialty stores are great, but manga and anime need to show up in mainstream stores to really succeed because they're so convenient and because many people probably feel that specialty stores are creepy. Luckily, Barnes & Noble has a comics shelf or two (much of which is manga), and Suncoast has several shelves of anime. Movie theaters and Blockbuster need improvement.
In the mean time, I've been giving manga and anime to my library for free circulation. That's as good a place for exposure as any.
I recommend Movie Madness on Belmont and 43rd (I think). for a lot of anime; they're a rental house that has all the movies you'd think no one stocked anymore. They've got all the anime classics, I think; Evangelion, Lain, Akira, and the like. They also have enough kung-fu flicks to confuse your mind forever. ;)
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At the Westfarms mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on the 2nd floor there is a store called FYE... they've got an entire aisle devoted to anime, and they have a lot of complete sets...
Now, the only downside is that everything is like $30, which is especially crap when there's like 6 or 8 dvds in the series
the Best Buy which is near westfarms has some anime dvds, at slighlty better prices. They're stuffed away in the Science Fiction section, so you've gotta look. The prices are a little less outrageous... (I did find 'Devil Hunter Yohko' for $15, but everything else is in the mid $20's)
the internet really is the best place for anime, and netflix is also definitely not the place to go..
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Just head over to mitsuwa plaza in edgewater. There is a mini-japanese mall, with a Kinokyunia (japanese book store which has a couple videos), japanese grocery store, an import video game/toy shop.
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down the road is jcb or jbc books which sells used and new manga and magazines in addition to regular books.
Edgewater is right accross the hudson river( near the george washington bridge.
Additionally there are a bunch of places in NYC, including another kinokyunia and anime crash or something like that.
I'm not sure how anone can miss finding mitsuwa plaza if you live anywhere near NYC.
http://www.users.voicenet.com/~aegis/sjas/shopp
is a list of places in NYC area, but mostly New Jersey.
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