|☁ Anime & Manga Club ☁ | Dress up Competition RESULT pg117

[sunbeast]

@Shasha~

You may want to try J-List, Right Stuf, or Otakumode. They have a fair amount of merch stuff, though it does tend to lean more towards figurines, notebooks, keychains, etc., rather than apparel.
Does anyone here buy the little figurines? People seem to be pretty split about buying them.

[Uchuujin]

Guyyssss
Help me buy some Anime merch.
Do you guys know any only stores that relatively cheap stuff and are trust worthy?
And not those places where the item cost $2 but shipping costs $10
;u;
I have a lack of merch...I need to show my pride...
xD

Some things about this -

In Japan, anime merch is absurdly cheap. Plenty of times, figures that sell for 50/60 USD outside of Japan are only about 8 USD in Japan. And unfortunately the only way you're getting merchandise at the Japanese prices is if you buy a) from a seller in Japan or b) from a seller who gets their stuff from Japan. Meaning either way, shipping is going to be ridiculously expensive because it's coming from Japan.

However, if you're looking for cheaper shipping, that usually means paying more for the product because they already factored the cost of shipping it to their store in the final price.

Mandarake is one of my favorite merchandise stores in Japan. They have multiple locations, but each location is like a massive warehouse of pre-owned anime/video game merchandise (including the DVDs or games themselves). Most of the time, people will win items from UFO machines that they didn't necessarily want, or they got the wrong figure from blind boxes, so they'll take it to Mandarake to get a couple hundred yen back. They have a site in English and you can browse a lot of the stuff in their stores. The site will even tell you which store location the item can be found at. However, to buy the item, you're going to be paying a whole buttload for someone in Japan to ship them to you. So really, this defeats the purpose of buying the item really cheap. Sure, you can get a really awesome figure for 50 USD that would be like 100 USD overseas, but when you have to pay 40 dollars to get it shipped to you, it's hardly worth it. The same is going to be true for most merch sites that have Japanese prices. However, Mandarake also has loads and loads of rare or hard-to-get items for auction on their site. So in that case you may find it's worth it.

With all that depressing heartbreaking stuff being said, I have to say that my favorite place to order merchandise from is AmiAmi. It's a website that sells the newest products, meaning the older stuff or really high-demand stuff is always sold out. But if you watch it like a hawk, it can actually be a really good means of buying the newest stuff coming out right now. AmiAmi is where I buy all of my anime merchandise that I don't buy when I'm in Japan. Their prices aren't the cheapest, but the prices are very very competitive, and the best thing is that for most places the shipping isn't going to break your bank. So I say try there? Unless you're trying to get merch for older series.

I think J-List is also a really good place to try, but I notice their prices are all over the freaking place. Sometimes their most recent figures and merch is competitive with AmiAmi, though.

[vanitas.]

@ Carnage and @ Anime Freak -
Oh yeah xD I'm usually hesitant on Hot Topic just because it's so known for having Designers who steal other people's art and frankly...it kind of scares me at time xD but I'll be buying a shirt from there~ 9 bucks~!

@ sunbeast - I use Otaku Mode but I'll totally check the other places out. And are you talking about Nendroids? If so then I love them (*˘︶˘*) they're adorable~

@Uchuujin -
Omg, yeah, I know ;n;
I've seen how you can get stuff that's expensive here for a couple 100 yen over there...
Maybe one day I'll go site seeing though. When I have more money xD
But I'll totally check that stuff out !

Thanks guys~!
I'll look into this stuff soon~!
;u;
I'll tell you if in totally broke by the end of the day or not xD

[dorkasaurus]

sorry, I am absolutely no help when it comes to merch ;;w;
I do like to get stuff at redbubble occasionally (usually phone
cases because the durable ones are great), but it's pretty pricey,
so very rarely :v

snk soundtrack gets me so pumped ngl

[rosedream]

hi o.o
just stopping by for a few recommendations..

I have watched SAO, (which I loved,) some of fairytail, and some of Fullmetal Alchemist. I watched these on netflix, so am not sure if there are other seasons of something (I heard about a SOA2?)

anyways, I want to know if there are any websites you guys like that I can use to watch anime, and what anime you guys think I should watch.

thanks!! (:

[Sh4dowDr4gon]

Username: Sh4dowDr4gon
Nickname: Sh4dow
Favorite Anime: idk, i love SAO,FT,OP,Naruto,ONS
Favorite Manga: FT, OP, Full metal wing, "" same as top most likely : P,
Any Questions? (Optional): Heyyyy sooo i really wanted to ask where could read ONS (owari no seraph) chapter 34? i have been looking for ages as i think it should have come out on the 8th? thank you !!!Xxx

[Lolitaa]

Username: Sh4dowDr4gon
Nickname: Sh4dow
Favorite Anime: idk, i love SAO,FT,OP,Naruto,ONS
Favorite Manga: FT, OP, Full metal wing, "" same as top most likely : P,
Any Questions? (Optional): Heyyyy sooo i really wanted to ask where could read ONS (owari no seraph) chapter 34? i have been looking for ages as i think it should have come out on the 8th? thank you !!!Xxx

Hope this helps.

[Death Of A Strawbrry]

hi o.o
just stopping by for a few recommendations..

I have watched SAO, (which I loved,) some of fairytail, and some of Fullmetal Alchemist. I watched these on netflix, so am not sure if there are other seasons of something (I heard about a SOA2?)

anyways, I want to know if there are any websites you guys like that I can use to watch anime, and what anime you guys think I should watch.

thanks!! (:

Most of the time I just google "watch fairy tail episode 1 english sub/dub" and it will pick up a website. Fairy tail has about 230 episodes, Fullmetal Alchemist has 51 episodes, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has 64 episodes. I don't know how many seasons. I've been using Ryuanime to watch Fairy Tail, but sometimes I use animefreak.tv, crunchyroll, or YouTube. Depends on what you're looking for.

My recommendations: Kaichou wa Maid-Sama, Durarara!!, Free!, Noragami, Ouran High School Host Club, Deadman Wonderland

[rosedream]

hi o.o
just stopping by for a few recommendations..

I have watched SAO, (which I loved,) some of fairytail, and some of Fullmetal Alchemist. I watched these on netflix, so am not sure if there are other seasons of something (I heard about a SOA2?)

anyways, I want to know if there are any websites you guys like that I can use to watch anime, and what anime you guys think I should watch.

thanks!! (:

Most of the time I just google "watch fairy tail episode 1 english sub/dub" and it will pick up a website. Fairy tail has about 230 episodes, Fullmetal Alchemist has 51 episodes, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has 64 episodes. I don't know how many seasons. I've been using Ryuanime to watch Fairy Tail, but sometimes I use animefreak.tv, crunchyroll, or YouTube. Depends on what you're looking for.

My recommendations: Kaichou wa Maid-Sama, Durarara!!, Free!, Noragami, Ouran High School Host Club, Deadman Wonderland

thanks so much! it really helps a lot (:

[sunbeast]

The site I really like to use now for anime is kissanime.me. They tend to have HD options and don't have annoying before-video ads. For manga, you may want to try mangareader.net. For the popular manga, there tends to be a dedicated translation group that uploads the new chapters. I don't know if there are any other places, but these are the ones that I have the best experiences with! Crunchyroll is good too, but it depends. I have problems with getting the video player to work for me.

My current recommendation for anime right now is Mushishi. It's older, but it got a new season fairly recently. I like it a lot. The other recommendations that people have given are good and have a large fanbase, so watch those too!