Japan-bound - where do I go for cels?

buma · Post by **buma** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:00 am

Okay gang - I'm heading out to Japan in less than a week and wanted to know where I should go for cels? I'll be in Tokyo for like 4 days, so wanted to find out where my roaming cel fingers can go to find stuff.

The most obvious choice would be Mandarake, but wanted to see if there other places that I could easily find as well.

If you could, please share your cel-shops you've found in Tokyo! And thanks in advance!

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:25 am

Nakano, mandarake

Titania · Post by **Titania** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:40 pm

You can also occasionally find some bargain cels in the K Books bins in Ikebukuro (the one 2 doors down from the Animate). Depends on what folks felt like selling back. Can't tell you the number of relizu I've seen dumped there....

buma · Post by **buma** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:45 pm

yesh - Madarake Nakano is definitely on the list!

K Books, huh? must find that one...

Thanks for the suggestions! anyplace else anyone want to share??

Titania · Post by **Titania** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:54 pm

buma wrote:yesh - Madarake Nakano is definitely on the list!

K Books, huh? must find that one...

Thanks for the suggestions! anyplace else anyone want to share??

The Shibuya Mandarake also has cels -- and there's another cel/sketch store in Nakano, where I nabbed a Jump Festa Bleach sketch set (it's up on the 3rd or 4th floor) this past August.

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:48 pm

Titania wrote:and there's another cel/sketch store in Nakano

Probably Anime World Star.

Titania · Post by **Titania** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:52 pm

kymaera wrote:
Titania wrote:and there's another cel/sketch store in Nakano
Probably Anime World Star.

Actually nope. I forgot about them. There's another place, that's mostly sketches, up another floor, tucked away in a corner. I always forget about AWS since they have mostly cels from older shows that I don't collect.

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:52 pm

Also, for general anime-related shopping, this is a good book. Though, it's a bit out of date.

RX78GP02AGUNDAM · Post by **RX78GP02AGUNDAM** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:20 pm

Titania wrote: Actually nope. I forgot about them. There's another place, that's mostly sketches, up another floor, tucked away in a corner. I always forget about AWS since they have mostly cels from older shows that I don't collect.

That would be Anime Shop Commit, with consignments from Parthenon Production. 4th floor near Mandarake Cel Store.

buma · Post by **buma** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:06 am

woo - more things to add to my 'go and look for' lists

thanks all of you who have responded!