It all started with konpeito. I wanted to try it. I thought about ordering it online, but the shipping is annoying. So, I searched for maybe possibly some stores where I live that might sell it. Well, guess what? Just a 30 minute drive from my house is a store called Mitsuwa. Their website advertises them as the largest Japanese Supermarket in the United States. And on top of that, the store closest to me is in fact the largest one in their chain! Not only was there a supermarket filled with amazing amounts of Japanese food and snacks, but there was also a whole food court inside the building! There was ramen stall, and a bakery among other things.
But this is not the end of my story! The best part is the bookstore that is adjacent to the food building. This bookstore is fantastic. There was 2 whole aisles of magazines, and about 6 aisles of manga. And the best part is that about 90% of everything in that store was in Japanese. I really went crazy in here, and I bought a whole bunch of stuff, as you can see in the pictures. I was going to take pictures inside the store, but I chickened out.
I walked away with Volume 5 of The World God Only Knows manga, 2011 Vol 1 Megami Magazine, 2011 Vol 1 Newtype Magazine, 2010 Vol 13 Nyantype Magazine, 2011 Vol 1 G's Magazine, 2010 Vol 11 Shounen Ace, and one final magazine whose name I can not read... (It's full of text, but it had index on the cover, so I bought it xD) This magazine also came with a disc that has something like a card maker... I think... Like New Years Cards, and Birthday cards and such. It comes with images as well to decorate the cards. G's Magazine came with a nice mini figure of chibi Kiririn. And last but not least, all of the posters! Too many to count. I'll be taping these to my ceiling later, and I'll follow up with a post about that haha.
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| Excuse the crappy pictures D: |
