Thursday, January 13, 2011

Quite a Haul - Onion's Happy Day


It all started with konpeito. I wanted to try it. I thought about ordering it online, but the shipping is annoying. So, I searched for maybe possibly some stores where I live that might sell it. Well, guess what? Just a 30 minute drive from my house is a store called Mitsuwa. Their website advertises them as the largest Japanese Supermarket in the United States. And on top of that, the store closest to me is in fact the largest one in their chain! Not only was there a supermarket filled with amazing amounts of Japanese food and snacks, but there was also a whole food court inside the building! There was ramen stall, and a bakery among other things.


   But this is not the end of my story! The best part is the bookstore that is adjacent to the food building. This bookstore is fantastic. There was 2 whole aisles of magazines, and about 6 aisles of manga. And the best part is that about 90% of everything in that store was in Japanese. I really went crazy in here, and I bought a whole bunch of stuff, as you can see in the pictures. I was going to take pictures inside the store, but I chickened out.


    I walked away with Volume 5 of The World God Only Knows manga, 2011 Vol 1 Megami Magazine, 2011 Vol 1 Newtype Magazine, 2010 Vol 13 Nyantype Magazine, 2011 Vol 1 G's Magazine, 2010 Vol 11 Shounen Ace, and one final magazine whose name I can not read... (It's full of text, but it had index on the cover, so I bought it xD) This magazine also came with a disc that has something like a card maker... I think... Like New Years Cards, and Birthday cards and such. It comes with images as well to decorate the cards. G's Magazine came with a nice mini figure of chibi Kiririn. And last but not least, all of the posters! Too many to count. I'll be taping these to my ceiling later, and I'll follow up with a post about that haha.

Excuse the crappy pictures D:
   In the end, after searching for the konpeito for 15 minutes, I still hadn't found it. So, I bought some pocky and some other candies and that was that. It's a great place to visit. It's like being in Japan for a while, and I was smiling the whole time. When I brought that load of books up to the cash register, I'm sure the cashier was thinking some weird thoughts, but oh well! I was surrounded by Japanese books, there was no shipping fee, so it was time to go all-out, or go home with nothing!

6 comments:

ScarredBushido said...

whats the magazine called with sora no otoshimono on the front of it?

Onion said...

That's Shounen Ace 2010 Volume 11. The chapter of Sora Oto in it is the one where Tomoki get's his p***s chopped by Mitsuki and he splits into a mini Tomoki and Tomoko. XD

atvrcr said...

Nice. I have a small haul to post soon as well, but I have to wait until Monday. Oh and how did you get the lightbox working again?

ScarredBushido said...

just wondering because i Googled Japanese magazine store and apparently i do have a store in the city =D and it had a list of manga magazines....its gonna be hard to tell which one is called shounen ace....

Onion said...

Oh, no, you should have no problem finding it if you judge by thickness. This book was pretty much the fattest thing in the area. Or you can just look for the giant "A" in the top right corner. Good luck! Let me know how it turns out :D

ScarredBushido said...

well when i get the chance to go to that store, which wont be for awhile i'll tell ya xD

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