Animate Hiroshima — Local services in Hiroshima

Super helpful and friendly staff always available - they helped me with my questions and showed me where to find what I was looking for. I also had a great conversation with the lovely lady at the cashier desk about Detective Conan and which characters were our favourites - she even gave me two free items as a present with my purchase, one of which turned out to be a Conan plastic wallet which I can use for my IC card 🥰.

Wide variety of IPs covered with manga, DVDs, and general merch available as well as a large gachapon area and arcade with crane games on the ground floor. I wasn't expecting to find many Conan items, but there was a whole section! I just wish there were more types of items than collectible cards and figure stands like there were for some...

Not as impressive as those in Osaka and Hiroshima, but was to be expected. Only one shop caught my attention, in the upper floor, with lot's of figures and character goods. Managed to get some dirt cheap clear files there, never seen them anywhere before, some limited stuff. If you're after Mangas and stuff, definitely good here, also a three-story shop next to it with used and new books,...

damn good animate outlet!!! it has such a good variety of merch and it’s really big too, even though it’s one floor. the most variety i’ve ever seen in the few cities i’ve been from Osaka to Kyoto to Kyushu and Hokkaido!

They start closing around 7:45pm so so prepare to get here earlier to shop slowly. There’s a whole floor of gacha machines on the ground floor too, the whole building...