An Otaku in Tokyo Ikebukuro's Animate

For the first time ever, an otaku steps foot onto their most anticipated countries ever--Japan, Tokyo.

Hello! My name is Faith, you can call me Fae, it’s my nickname. Today, I will be showing some pictures I took when I went to the ANIMATE at Ikebukuro which was near to the SUNSHINE CITY PRINCE HOTEL IKEBUKURO that I stayed at. It was in 2016.

It was my first time in Japan and I was ecstatic to be there, of course, since I was an otaku. Through my pictures, I hope that those who are unable to visit Japan's ANIMATE will get to experience ANIMATE from a computer screen/phone screen from the comfort of your homes! Having seen many pictures online, I had high expectations and the real building did not disappoint me! Enjoy~

I saw Nacchan (Natsuki Hanae) & Ono Yuuki!

Free! wall posters on the way to ANIMATE

Right side of ANIMATE. Starmyu <3 The number of girls there was crazy! Well, since Ikebukuro appeals to the female otakus~

Left side of ANIMATE. There's Osomatsu-san and some gashapon machines below. Hmm, there’s Detective Conan, Haruhi Suzumiya, Kuroko no Basket and many ikemen anime I don’t know. They cost 300 yen, at about 5 Singapore dollars ($5). I didn’t buy any since I was mainly looking for Tokyo Ghoul merchandise. So this is how ANIMATE looks on the inside. Some magazines, banners. And I spotted Bungou Stray Dogs just inside! Let’s see… they have keychains, files, cushion keychains. So tempting. Ooo! Body Mist. 1800 yen + tax so around $22. It seemed Dazai was sold out, as expected of a popular character XD More BSD merchandise. BSD was very popular around the time I went. Haikyuu, Prince of Tennis, Natsume Yuujinchou. The way they display the items make me want to buy them and they’re all so cute! Just look at this beautiful lift! Attack on Titan’s Eren! There’s Mikasa. This is the inside of the lift. So beautiful.  This was probably one of the posters outside the lift. I can’t quite remember. An Eren’s cardboard stand. It was human size. About my height, 158cm. Floor poster of B-Project’s Nome. Some posters lined the walls along the stairway! There’s some magazines of AOT and Eromanga Sensei on the side. I see Code Geass on the left and some ikemen anime I don’t know. I went upstairs by the lift and found Boys’ Love CDs. Didn’t take many photos on this floor, people be thinking I’m weird by taking pictures of BL merchandise xD Then, I decided to go down by the stairs and spotted Akashi from Kuroko’s Basketball. Some beautiful artwork of Code Geass when I went down the stairs. Yuri on ice merchandise! Another popular anime! It’s a fangirl’s heaven. Scrunchies, keychains… Some posters. After that, I left ANIMATE since I couldn’t find any Tokyo Ghoul merchandise and visited K Books, which is also an anime shop store selling merchandise like ANIMATE and bought these Kaneki keychains. So cute! They cost me about $40. All in all, Ikebukuro is the right place for girls to buy merchandise of their favorite boys while Akihabara is for guys to buy merchandise of their girl idols. I went Akihabara and didn’t buy much since the target audience was guys and I’m a girl. Didn’t take much pics of Akihabara since it started raining heavily and I was stuck there in the cold 5 degrees with the heavy rain and winds blowing, freezing my ass off. Here’s the only 2 pictures I took. As you can see, there are many guys and it was about to rain. So that’s about it, you all! Stay tuned though, I will be uploading other pictures of me roaming about Japan as I did go other places other than Ikebukuro & Akihabara 😊