Animate Akihabara
Multi-building anime, manga and character-goods complex with an event floor for fan meet and greets.
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This guide to Animate Akihabara in Tokyo traces the shop back to a young man walking between animation studios in the early 1980s, collecting the cels and storyboards nobody else wanted, convinced that fans of 1960s and 70s cartoons had grown up without losing their love for them. It follows Yutaka Takahashi's 1983 gamble outside Ikebukuro's Sunshine City through the branch's own recent history, rebuilt building by building between 2022 and 2024. The event space at the top still hosts the kind of creator signings he once noticed nobody else was serving.
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