Southern California is one of the best places to find Macross Goods. Mandarake is a used Manga shop (2nd largest in Japan). They recently opened their first US store in Torrace California on August 1999. They will be opening another location in New York within the next year. The store is absolutely incredible-it really feels like you are shopping in Japan. Large lighted display cabinets, almost entirely Japanese staff(fun at best to ask questions!) and tons of Anime products. They really did pick up a piece of Japan and ship it here! Model, posters, videos, books, magazines and about 10 billion anime cels. Stop in!
Another great place to get Macross goods is to shop around the Little Toyko area in Los Angeles. Two great places are Yaohan plaza(Kunikuniya bookstore!) and Bunka do. Bunka do is a little store that has been around for 54 years now and has the nicest staff you'll find. When you walk into the store make the first RIGHT you can and go up the stairs to Laser Disc heaven!
340
East First Street
Los Angeles,CA
90012
(213)
625-0123
I recently took a camera one day and grabbed some pics of my little adventure!
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Inside
Bunkado. These are their laser disc box sets
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Bunkado
LD singles
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Macross
LDs
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Outside
Bunkado
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Bunkado
has been in here for 54 years!
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Bunkado
anime cd's
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Inside
Kunikuniya bookstore in LA. There is one in San Diego, L.A., Costa
Mesa, and another in Torrance next to Mandarake
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Inside
another bookstore in Little Tokyo
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Kunikuniya
magazines
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Kunikuniya
magazines
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Walking
down the street in Little Tokyo.
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Am
I in LA?
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Here
is the Gundam cabinet at Mandarake(this shot was for a friend)
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Mandarake
poster
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Mandarake
Macross case
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The
left side shelf is 1/2 of the anime books there. Everything else
you see are magazines-Animage, The Anime-Out...
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Miscellaneous
aisle with stuff-like a Crusher Joe picture frame
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1/2
the posters-runs the entire back length of the store
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The
Gundam case. If only I knew what half this stuff was.
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Nice
shot of the display cabinets
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They
have lighted cabinets along the entire inside and outside perimeter
of the store-stuff like this.
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Another
shot of the books and magazines
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The
middle aisle goodie section. Along the bottom are laserdisc box
sets and video tapes. Along the top are large toys and more videos.
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Close
up of the middle aisle goodies section-Macross!
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Some
of their anime cels and drawings. Rare but expensive
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More
cels and drawings
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3/4
shot of the store
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