Checking out Animate shelves!

Posted on 2012/07/29. Used Akihabara, Goods, Manga, Uta no Prince-sama, Yaoi.
Categorized as Pop Culture

Checking out Animate Akihabara now!
You can find out what Japanese otaku girls are interested in, by looking at Animate shelves all in one glance.

Akihabara at night

Animate Akihabara

The current hot topic is Uta no Prince-sama (うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪). The special campaign is being conducted to mark the release of the new character song CD “Shining All Star CD.”

Utapri corner in Animate

In front of the cash register is also completely full up with Utapri!

Utapri campaign in Animate

Utapri characters’ cookies. Is Len Jinguji the most popular?

Utapri cookie

The school seal accessory. Kawaii!

Utapri school seal accessory

OH! Keigo Atobe (跡部景吾), the popular character of the Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様) is picking up girls!
“俺様の美技に酔いな！ (Be awed at the sight of my prowess!)”

Keigo Atobe in Animate

The Prince of Tennis in Animate

Unfortunately the anime of Gintama (銀魂) ended, but it is still very popular.

Gintama in Animate

So many character goods are here…

Inside of Animate Akihabara

Now we focus our eyes to manga for Otome & Yaoi fans.

Yaoi comics in Animate

Recently, Kuroko’s Basketball (黒子のバスケ) is hot.

Yaoi comics of Kuriko's Basketball

One of the big bestseller, “Junjo Romantica (純情ロマンチカ) series” has won enthusiastic support from many fans as a leading manga of Yaoi category over the past 10 years. The author, Shungiku Nakamura (中村春菊)’s other manga are very popular as well, especially “Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (世界一初恋)” is recent hottest one. It is partly linked “Junjo Romantica.”

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi

Shungiku Nakamura’s illustrations are really attractive.

Junjo Romantica

Today, my interest was “Iyayo Yameteyo (いやよやめてよ).” The author, Lalako Kojima (小嶋ララ子) is a new yaoi manga artist, but her illustrations are very pretty and the story also looks interesting. You can see her blog here. >> mim.vivian.discotica

Iyayo Yameteyo comic

These days you can often spot “Shirokuma Cafe (しろくまカフェ)” as well. (This is not yaoi manga!)

Shirokuma cafe comic

The anime has been on the air since April.

I found very very cute cosplay bears, “Kumamate (くまめいと)”! You can dress the bears in your favorite anime character’s costumes. The bears and costumes both are for about 800 yen. I wanted to buy a bear and Utapri’s costume, but bears are sold out because it is now becoming popular. What a pity!

K-On! (けいおん！) cosplayed black bear.

K-On! cosplay bear