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If been here before. A friend and I went through Tenjin to go shopping. Of course we searched for cheap thing :D
Here we didn't find anything...This building is very very irritating. Or say it differently we are not used to it..
It is like there is a front and a back building. After we went up one elevator we realised that there is another one. Therefore the shopping route went on ^^

My friend tried so many things on and really wanted to buy a thing...It was her idea to go shoppíng. I just wanted to accompany her! When we left this building a got a new jacket ^^

Now I knew the right way to find the shop! Just going in and taking the escalator which is farer away.
On the sides of the escalator are many signs which says that Cospa is lokated at the 5th floor (Japanese and American counting). By entering the 6th floor I thought that there would be a mistake ^^
I havn't seen a anime shop at the 5th floor...
At this floor was a big Anime store. Therefore that must been it. As I entered I saw the latest Mangas followed by calendars at first. Then there were some special sweets belonging to Anime series. For example there are drops which has got a speical taste. Unfortunately this one I was surching for wasn't there....At Canal City I saw beer drops ^^
I havn't ever seen such a thing before! Everyboy would love this one thing. But right now I'm not able to find them anymore :(
A few times I went to Canal City again. All the time I couldn't find it...

Then there was something else that was funny and somehow interesting in this shop. You could buy a building set of the Sunny Go (the ship of One Piece). This ship would only be out of cardboard. It really didn't look so robust.

Leaving all this behind I entered the Cd-area. It isn't so difficult to find a Cd you are looking for :) I even could find a few games. But first of all I had to realise that these really were just a few.... :(
At the beginning I thought that more would follow ^^ After 10 minutes I gave up to search for them ^^
I went on my way. When I had seen nearly the whole shop I remembered that I should take some fotos so I got at least a few.
Prepared with a sentence I went straight to a sales assistant. I asked if I would be Ok to take some fotos. This time the answer was different from the others. She showed a area of the shop to me where it would be Ok.
Even with this admission I wasn't so sure about it...So I decided to take pictures without using flashlight...and I tried to make them without people seeing me taking them ^^
That was of course not necessary ^^
I looked around all the time and were somehow afraid of the other shop assistants. Maybe it would be only Ok for this one I already asked...
Therefore I went on my mission taking pictures like a spy :D

And here a some of this top secret pictures ^^

This was the first picture. I hadn't expected to find keyboards in a shop like that. It is an anime store and not a computer store. These keyboards are special because of their design. They are decorated with pictures of famous anime. That's why they fit in :)

Here are some different things which can be bought: Some stuffed figures. It's strange what kind of things you could buy..
I also saw pendants for mobile phones which should look like cookies which are designed like faces of Anime actors.
Japanese people really love such things. Especially when they are supposed to be a pendant for a mobile phone.

There were a few things I like in that shop. Especially all the little things I liked :D
There are so many racks filled with them that it really takes you a nice time to look at all :D

As you can see this is just one rack at the right side of the picture.
But before I could see this I saw many articles which belong to cosplay. If you are not used to it it seems kinda strange :S


I feeled remembered about carnival^^ But these many costumes (and there were really many!) wasn't the strangest thing.
When I turned around I saw thousands of perukes...

It looked kinda normal to sell so many in a "normal" shop. In Germany you have to go to a special shop which only sells perukes. And there you wouldn't be able to find it. Also a normal peruke is really expensive. But at this shop it lookd like a normal product you just buy everyday ^^
I looked it up at the internet and it really was cheap! Maybe I will go to this shop once again to check the prices ^^
And come on, have you looked at the colours? These are really just perukes for cosplay!
Maybe I will be mistaken by seeing a girl wearing it on the street ^^
In Japan everything is possible!
So often I saw girls who looked like living puppets! And this is very normal!
If I see a girl wearing a peruke on a normal day I will let you know :D

The last this that I really liked at this shop was the drawing corner!


A few years ago I ofter draw anime pictures. I hadn't so much time the last years...Therefore I nearly stopped it. Before that I bought neopico and I alway wanted to buy screen tones.
But now I'm not so into it any more. That's good for my money :D
Even by that it took me some time to get away of this place ^^

Just look at all these colours :D

After I could get away of this spot I saw something I really do not know what it is exacly :S
It is just a thin kind of folder. On the front you can see a picture and on the back a description (of course in Japanese WITH kanji..) There were so many that it must be something everyone wants to have.
My explanation: These folders contain pictures of mangas and anime. With the support of these pictures you should be able to draw them. Maybe it is for computer drawing or just for colouring the existing picture on the paper.
Just maybe ^^

At the end there were again books. Therefore I searched for the famouse ones. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find them. And this time I'm not too silly to find them. It was really strange!
Irritated I went out of the shop and saw the books I searched for at the outside :S
That was really really strange.
If someone would do that in a different country all books will be stolen over the time ^^

On the right side of this shop is another one. I thought that this one would be Cospa. Right now I know that this shop is called hobitan.

This one isn't my type...I think you can buy articles for cosplay here as well but the other products looked a bit rummage..

While I was at the escalator I got to know that I hadn't been to Cospa. I had been at Animate :S
So were could that shop be? Once again I went up. When I entered the 5th floor again I couldn't see a anime store once again. There were just shops for men. I really wanted to find it! Once again up and down, gooing to first part of the building and again I couldn't find it.....After I really got frustrated I decided to check the mens floor. Every male looked at me like I'm totally wrong. That's exacly how I felt ^^
And this I really found it! I couldn't believe ^^

Unfortunatels I wasn't allowed again to take pictures from the inside...Therefore I took one from the outside without flashlight to get sure ^^
Inside are many clothes with printings of anime and manga on them. A few article which belong to Anime and Manga can be also seen. I think that was nearly everything.

I got some money from my company to bye me something to eat for example. Therefore I decided to buy something that's also a nice thing for them.  I went down the shopping area of Tenjin to go back to my work. At a shop where you can buy nearly everything (clothes, bags, jewellery, sweets and so on) I found something cute :D
I went to the cassier and said what I should say if I wanted to buy something. Therfore I got a special receipt.
Everything went well. Finally back at my office I presented what I bought.
Especially Shin-kun who is the sun of my boss was happy about it^^

Even though it was kinda exhausting I enjoyed that trip :)
I saw thing I didn't know they are there in Tenjin. Also the weather was very nice. So I enjoyed it a bit more to be outside :D