I Spent $1,000 at Japan's BIGGEST 𝐻Ǝ𝒩𝒯𝒜𝐼 Store
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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Leave it to Toranoana's international shipping service "Anime Otaku Carry Service"
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Today, I got full access to Toranoana in Akihabara (Tokyo, Japan) to try and spend as much money as possible on their massive amount of anime, manga, goods, merch and "nice stuff".
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Sure
I've used AOCS countless times and I would NOT reccomend it until they fix the problems it havem they have a point system that says if you buy a certain number of things, you get extra benefits, except those extra benefits were never seen or heard from, they also have absolutely terrible customer service. Yes it's cheaper than tenso, but the bad parts of it still outweigh the good
$1000 in the title $500 in the video 🤨 🤨
You're damn right I will.
I am sick of getting ripped off by US sellers on eBay.
Good morning from Aus thanks for having something for me to watch when I wake up. It's appreciated you and the TT boys .
Alternate Title: Joey’s average day but recorded this time
Joey's twitter activity, but IRL
More like joey stocks up for the fourth pandemic 🤣.
Joey daily life
I Stan my degen king.
Missed opportunity I'd say
I think this video captures exactly why it's a shame that these kind of shops are disappearing. the "oh this looks interesting" and the "oh I just noticed this and this."
The little discoveries by browsing which you don't get in an online shop.
I do need a list of all the artist/mange names of this episode to look them up because.... whoaw that are a lot.
Connor: We spent $1,000 on crane games
Joey: Hold my beer
Funny enough Connor has mentioned in videos before that he only spends $300 per a person.
@@MineCrunkA yep, $500 each takes too long
Joey: Hold my Dojin
I think it's more "hold my Ramune"
@@Panda_Roll ayo! bruh
I love that CDs are still big in Japan. I collect CDs still, I have hundreds!
Same here!
can you use them? Now devices no longer have cd readers in them
Me: ~opens up the desk drawer I keep my in case cds in~
As Degen as the topic of the video is, it's really wholesome of Joey to give this closing store such a kind send off.
You’re here too!? I’m subbed with notifications on! I guess we watch the same things
Hello Brandon.
Closing?! 😰
Ikr!? I came here just to check out 37mins of degen provided by Joey but stayed for the actual point of this video which was rather pretty heart warming and wholesome.. My fav RUclipsrs for a reason..
They kept the shop open thanks to Joey spending his hard earned money on degen stuff
Drinking game: Take a shot every time Joey says "I follow this artist on Twitter."
I just woke up from an alcoholinduced coma
Joey single handedly keeping the doujin and cultured manga market alive
Ironically, Toranoana closed it's Akiba store at the end of last month 😢
Single handed 😂😂😂
intentional pun?
@@schentler not intentional, but a happy ending
Akabara Manga shogun
Joey: Ever been interested in "Javelin medium antiarmor weapon system"?
Every Ukrainian: YES
Officer, it’s this guy, this is the one that killed me
ахахахаха ти вкрав мою шутку ахахахах
Za Rossiyu!
least cringe ua citizen. Im not suprised why russia attacked you
@@taoretakitsunedude wtf
I genuinely want Joey to make something from the Snoop cookbook now
If he doesn't make a video of him cooking something from it, that would be the ultimate missed opportunity
Up
I'm really surprised Brutalmoose hasn't already.
Joey better act fast before Ian catches wind of this magnificent tome.
great idea joey definitely should do it
Good news. He is. Latest video on his other channel has him making the spaghetti.
Joey's comeback after the sensory deprivation arc he went through
The horny returns first.
And now we have gone through the sensory deprivation arc
@@lucaluca111 after watching this it was sensory activation arc
*sees title and 37 minutes*
Yea that sounds about right
Now we're in the sensory overload arc
3:40 -Tawawa on Monday
4:09 -ureshon!
4:45 - Grand Blue
4:50 -TenPuru
5:39 -Ushiro no Shoumen Kamui-san
5:47 - Temptation of Shiro Gal & Kuro Gal
6:04 - Dai Dark Vol. 5 *
6:15 - Dandadan *
6:49 - Kaya-chan Wa Kowakunai
7:47- Sweet Room Escape
8:36- Gaki Kyonyu
9:00 -From crook to cook - Must have dawg
Ushiro no shoumen kamui san
a true hero
@@styplieat2393 My man.
@@styplieat2393 thank you hero-san
I salute you.
Man I miss the monthly otaku reviews that Josh the Manga Lad used to do. They were always great ways for me to discover some unknown mangas. Not exactly a monthly otaku review, but I'll take those recommendations
i miss Josh too
i would drink coffee to it so hard
JUST pick one up and read it lol, jk jk
Same
"The plural of manga is manga" because the Japanese language lacks plurals.
Doujin artist: *exists*
Joey: "I actually follow them on Twitter"
Joey: sees any artist.
Also joey: I actually follow them on Twitter.
Big props to the editor for making this video possible
It's always sad to see stores like that lose a physical location
I'm sure another location will pop up somewhere. Land lease like these expire from time to time. It's like every time a part of Kabukicho is "supposedly" being torn down, they claim they are cleaning up for public image but really it's just change in land lease and or update building out of "construction" code. There not cleaning anything up the same tenants come right back again. Just political optics.
Ong..
Sadly I agree
Ever since the pandemic it seems a lot of Akibhabara places started closing after another...
this was one of the main stores i wanted to visit when i would eventually visit Japan. sucks that they're closing down
It makes me sad that so many physical places are slowly disappearing in Japan before I can actually go there and see them myself... I originally had plans to go to Japan in spring 2020 but well we all know what happened there and I have been waiting so long for the country to fully open back up and it's torture to see things vanish 1 by 1 from a distance without being able to experience them 😢
That can summarize my entire life.
I'm still fucking pissed that the Sega arcade (the one with cool escalator in the side) closed down before I had a chance to get over there.
I'm going in December, staying in Akihabra so hopefully something is still left standing. Reminds me of what happened to the big shopping streets in London. Only got a couple of days in Tokyo to see friends and do a bit of touristy things so Akihabra is relatively central and not the most expensive place in the world.
When I was 12 I went to Tokyo and Akihabara for an afternoon. But my nephew was about to faint from the heat so we barely spent 2 hrs. And also, I was 12. I couldn't see most of the stuff there obviously.
Yeah its rough isn't it? My friends and I are planning to go to Japan in 2025 for the World Fair in Osaka. It might be a little more expensive to get there though haha. It would be my 3rd time going to Japan though! Amazingly beautiful and fun place to visit ❤️
Joey’s love for horse girls will always be a question yet to be answered
Yet that store offered some wild stuff
We need more "Joey going to places buying interesting stuff" content, those the most fun to watch
I do as well enjoy that type of content. I watch many different people do that as I know I'll never go these places and I love seeing it.
@Eren Jaeger There are not only Dojin shops in japan :d
So happy to hear a shoutout for Dai Dark! Such an amazing manga and Q Hayashida (the mangaka) is actually a woman who is absolutely killing it!
I'm so saddened by the news, I would frequent this store whenever I was in Tokyo, well literally every day. Also really sad that I can't go visit Japan due to the lockdown. So thank you so much for making this video and see it for the last time! :D
Omg noo Ill never get to experience Toranoana in Akihabara now...(other than their online store) 🥺🥺🥺 Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you!!
They got one in Taiwan
@@theboibc0522 Although as small as the one at Ikebukuro
I know right? It's so sad that so many things in Japan have been shutting down that I will never get to experience because I never made it to Japan :(
There's another 7 floor Tora no Ana in Nagoya, near Nagoya Station.
Ahh apparently it also recently closed wtf!
When it came to those niche doujins of military stuff all I could think of is that they'd be great reference material for artists and writers, it's all been researched and compacted by someone else who probably knows their shit so your don't need to spend the time doing research yourself
Yeah it's actually a great reference
Wish I could buy the tank book. Been trying to draw tanks and all of that, drawing tanks isn't fun. I may love the tanks but they are hard as hell to draw
@@mephilesshadow1 I feel ya, I really wish reference books were normalized here in the US. I'd get one for hands and trees.
@@thelostmessenger I had found one book at a sun n fun down here called tanks of world war 2. It helps me a little bit as the book has multiple views of each vehicle and has a couple tanks I draw. Wish I could find more of these books but sun n fun doesn't come till April.
Joey showing us that even though he is barely the anime man anymore he is still the manga lad through and through
This is great stuff.. thanks doujin man!
14:00
“We got the greatest game ever to be created, Genshin Impact”
I can smell the sarcasm from a mile away, good sir
Found the mustache guy again
YAY hes back
Whoa
Original comment got buried down, so just trying to bump it up
Stuff mentioned + other stuff I guess
(timestamps)
[1st Floor]
3:39 - Getsuyoubi no Tawawa (manga, looks like the serialized twitter version), artist: @Strangestone on twt
4:07 - Ureshon! (manga, piss fetish)
4:44 - Grand Blue, Temple (ecchi manga, same artist)
5:26 - Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san (you already know this one)
5:35 - Ushiro no Shoumen Kamui-san (ecchi manga, ghosts and exorcism stuff)
5:45 - Shiro Gyaru to Kuro Gyaru no Yuuwaku (ecchi manga, actually Shoujo-Ai)
5:56 - Dai Dark (manga, making a tl;dr doesn't do it justice)
6:13 - Dandadan (you already know this one)
6:35 - Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai (horror manga)
7:34 - Sweet Room Escape (BL manga)
8:38 - (not mentioned) artist @Kaedeko111 on twt
8:46 - model @iorimoe_five on twt, for the manga Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu
9:00 - Snoop Dog Cooking Book (feat. MACK and CHEESE, Spaghetti de la Hood)
9:11 - Animage (magazine)
10:04 - Young Animal Magazine (cover: @enako_cos on twt)
10:06 - Young Champion Magazine (cover: @p_tomo0812 on twt)
10:08 - Young Gangan Magazine (cover:@enako_cos as well)
10:07 - (not mentioned, the one with the 2d cover) Young Comic, cover art by @mugika_pcpc_ on twt
10:10 - (not mentioned, far left) Kindai Mahjong (mahjong-focused magazine), cover:@enako_cos once again
[2nd Floor]
11:05 - Shachiku San to Iede Shojo (yuri manga). Notes: artist is Tatsunokosso, and is not the same for the manga Joey mentioned (Yuyushiki, artist:Mikami Komata), but he is technically right as well since the said artist DID draw a Yuyushiki doujin :)
11:28 - Rezu fuuzoku ansorojii (Lez Fuuzoku Anthology, Yuri anthology basically), multiple artists since it's an anthology, but the cover artist is @Blood_Edge on twt
11:54 - Dark Souls Trilogy Art Book
12:16 - Atelier Ryza (looks like the manga adaptation one)
12:36 - Mishima Kurone Konosuba Art Book 2 (mentioned offhand earlier: Kantai Collection, looks like the Vol.3 of the Art Book but not so sure)
12:46 - Dear Smile Art Book (LETSGOOOO)
13:10 - Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo suru (you already know this one)
13:35 - Arknights Comic Anthology vol. 5 ResidentSleeper
13:57 - Genshin Impact Comic Anthology (looks like vol. 2) ResidentSleeper ResidentSleeper
14:10 - (not featured) Uma Musume stuff I guess
14:42 - Eromanga-sensei LN vol. 13 (LETSGOOOOOO - nevermind it's the end)
15:08 - some other LNs mentioned (Violet Evergarden, Goblin Slayer)
15:19 - some hot manga (Spy X Family, Eighty-Six), the one Joey didn't recognize is Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken, a romcom slice of life manga adapted from the LN of the same name (also getting an anime)
15:23 - more manga (Black Lagoon, some Yabuki Kentaro stuff like To Love-ru, To Love-ru Darkness and his latest ecchi manga Ayakashi Triangle)
15:56 - Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san (ecchi manga, artist is @yuichi_hiiragi on twt btw)
16:11 - Mishiranu Joshikousei ni Kankensareta Mangaka no Hanashi (looks like the serialized version, the original series is on the artist's pixiv, @R_Kitada on twt)
16:33 - (not featured, thank god) Isekai/Fantasy Corner zzZZZ
[3rd Floor]
17:25 - Talking about CD culture in Japan
18:00 - Doujin definition + some Touhou stuff (if you are interested, the album he picked is called Hanabata by SOUND HOLIC feat. YURiCa/Hanatan)
19:12 - Hololive stuff (Mori jumpscare)
20:22 - Vocaloid stuff
20:58 - Uma Musume music stuff
21:10 - Figurine stuff (feat. pixels)
[4th Floor]
23:19 - Fate/ GO Memo 4 (artist: @tsubuanfes on twt)
23:45 - Tsukihime Shingetsu Bon (artist: @tsubuanfes as well)
23:59 - Love - Wada Arco Fate ART WORKS (@tsubuanfes once again)
24:06 - Code Geass Noise Pollution Vol.4.5 (as seen from 23:52, artist: @ccreayus on twt, LETSGOOOO)
24:10 - Ippai taberu kimi ga syuuki (artist: @URAN1017 on twt)
24:46 - Vtuber Scribbling (artist: @armadillo_daiji on twt)
25:24 - Ganbare, Douki-chan (artist: @y_o_m_y_o_m on twt)
26:00 - Niche doujin stuff
27:40 - (not featured) some parody doujins (Rolling Girls, Sailor Moon, Eva, etc.)
27:55 - Generator 2020-2021 Illustration Book (artist: @Eigo_Ichii on twt)
28:20 - Eyes & Thunderbolt Illustration Book (artist: @ramdayo1122 on twt)
28:41 - Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi (manga, artist: @saiso_ on twt)
29:05 - another niche doujin Yama no Onsen he Susume (the inspiration mentioned was Yama no Susume, a cute-girls-doing-mountain-climbing-things anime and manga from the early 2010s)
[5th Floor]
welp, all pixels
30:47 - Mahou Shoujo Saimin PakopaCause Soushuuhen (a Prisma Illya 18+ doujin, artist: @kinsanta on twt)
31:01 - Mousou Diary (an im@s:Shiny Colors 18+ doujin, artist: @ydh2101 on twt :))
[6th Floor]
:(
32:06 - sigh artist: @gozu_farm on twitter ...
[Secret Bottom 1st Floor??]
33:59 - (only based on what i heard Joey said, can't confirm 100%) P0rn0 Switch (change the 0s to o's, artist: @nekomanHisasi on twt)
34:13 - artist @mitibmg20 on twt (can't work out what could it be. Probably a Seikatsu Shuukan one or S&M Dreaming idk)
credits to @weeweoo
I still buy CD's! I love a good physical copy of an album I like, and I'm also a KPOP fan so there's some more incentive to buy their albums, as they come with cool fan content like posters and photocards.
It's such a shame though that physical stores like this are disappearing all over the world, to me, nothing beats walking into a store and spending hours in there hunting for the manga and books you love.
"Sorry for being a creepy boyfriend".
Well, most of Garnt's waifus looks like Sydney, so, it's not exactly out of the ordinary.
I actually felt emotional at the end there. Maaaan what a Chad Journey the company has been, blesss
To be honest it feels quite sad seeing all of those old iconic stores close all around Japan while I havent even visited them at least once.
23:06 absolutely love how AoCF Reisen is leaning into the video like that
It's always a shame to hear that such great shops are closing. Unfortunately, in recent years it has often been the case with other businesses to such as restaurants or cafes
Rents and bills are just TOO DAMN HIGH
WOW that’s an old meme from the depths of my cranium
The thing I wonder is why, is it got to do with online shopping becoming more prominent also never been to Japan but something is happening similar here in America and it Makes me sad because I feel like Amazon and many of those other companies is killing off the free market making even harder to actually shop in person not only that but it eliminates the competition and I feel like there should be protection acts against these online companies to force them to comply with the free market better and protect small businesses or physical businesses from closing also adding a bill were you can only purchase phones and laptops between the ages of 16 and up to help circumvent physical stores from closing not sure if this is a bad idea or what but honestly I see online as more of ruining culture and ruining social interaction with physical stores going away its going to cause the the world to get worse. Okay what I mean by that Is because there wont be any physical stores i feel like it will more then likely harm the people who work at those places as well as harm the economy as whole because soon everyone will have no other choice to buy online and there be very few places to physically shop I like going in person even though my anxiety is extremely bad. I just see this as becoming more of problem then solving the problem not to mention those who refuse to use online who dont like the online market but I'm hoping that Japan doesn't end up having a massive problem like that like were starting here in America so hopefully there be some law passed that balances online shopping and physical shopping like a protection act not sure again this could be viewed as bad but still it does co concern me hate seeing stores close sadly.
[Edit ignore the bad grammar I sometimes mess up when typing long paragraphs on phones so If I made any grammar mistakes apologizes]
Entire 3rd floor is dedicated to V-Tubers? Crazy how far and fast that part of Japanese entertainment media production industry has come in just a few years.
Joey grabbing a Tsukihime doujin for Garnt thinking its a Fate doujin is hilarious. If that doesn't describe half of people's experience with Tsukihime I don't know what will
And I guess the other half learned of Tsukihime through Melty Blood then?
1st Floor
3:40 -Tawawa on Monday
4:09 -ureshon!
4:45 - Grand Blue
4:50 -TenPuru
5:39 -Ushiro no Shoumen Kamui-san
5:47 - Temptation of Shiro Gal & Kuro Gal
6:04 - Dai Dark Vol. 5 *
6:15 - Dandadan *
6:49 - Kaya-chan Wa Kowakunai
7:47- Sweet Room Escape
8:36- Gaki Kyonyu
9:00 -From crook to cook - Must have dawg
Has anyone listed the second floor. I need the yuri manga!
11:27 ?
Joey: I will spent $500.
*looks at title*
Me: well that was a lie.
Yep
Did u see the ending?
The title is not actually clickbait lmao
He did lol, at the end. He spent $1,000.
@@spacewalrus9210 its more like 650$ but ok
31:00 you know it's bad when you know the doujin, even blurred.
I don’t know what to feel when I could recognize some of the 18+ stuff even when they’re heavily censored
0-0
Congratulations, you are a weeblord ! :P
Especially the omnibus he held up once he entered the R18 doujin floor. It's a Prisma Iliya parody doujin that released at C100. I just know about it from seeing it on the Melonbooks website.
You're in too deep man...
Teach me the ways milord.
17:40 Peep the Rushia nendoroid on the left shelf 😭
19:52 Damn Joey lmao
I can see Tian guan ci fu in the BL section and I was really hoping Joey would pick it up. MXTX's books are amazing, but it's pretty big for someone who doesn't really read bl
Hi fellow MTXT fan, I agree tgcf, mdzs and svss are one best books that ever read.
joey should really bring back the manga recommendations videos
His taste in manga is rly rly good.
"We don't talk about this one"
That double killed me dawg
It hurt the soul lol.
But, I swear I hear an angel that sounds just like her somewhere...
Context pls?
@@MorTphyr The VTuber shown here is Uruha Rushia, ex-Hololive, whose contract was terminated earlier this year after allegations of mishandling sensitive information.
it was a figure for one of the hololive vtubers (rushia) that got expelled a while ago.
Man utterly gutted Toranoana is basically closing everything besides the Ikebukuro store... can attest just how damned easy it is to just blow so much when doing the rounds on Toranoana. Wish I had the chance to do one more round =(
Hopefully they'll be back once Jp goes back to normal... so much iconic Akiba places going these past 2 years..
Connor: "Today we're going to spend $500 each on crane games"
*spends only 300* (nothting wrong with that btw)
Joes: "Today im going to spend about $500 on doujins/manga"
Also Joey:
He was saving up for this lol
well to be fair at today's exchange rate (1usd = 140jpy) he only spent $700
@@anustubhmishra I looked it up. He spent 675,30 us-dollars. So it's fine isn't it?
I'm definitely with you on CDs. I hesitate to call myself a music snob, but let's be honest- that is exactly what other people would call me. Like you, I am huge fan of Sigur Rós and other post rock/progressive rock bands like Pelican, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and The Devin Townsend Project. I buy vinyls almost exclusively, and I will only buy CDs if it is a collector's item and/or signed by the artist. Those CDs never see any use. They just sit on a shelf as a display piece. If I am going to listen to the music, I do so on vinyl or online. Hella jealous of that Mori Calliope vinyl, by the way, especially since you have the chance to get it signed IRL!
I am also sad to hear this store is closing its doors. It seems like an incredible place! If I ever have a chance to visit Japan in the near future, Akihabara is definitely on my list of stops!
28:55 “The girl [character] is really cute, cuz like she almost reminds me of Aki a little bit. So uh…yeah👀”
That was really cute ngl 😭❤
I love how at 16:20 he's like oh this is probably kinda dark and psychological n shi and in reality it is just a wholesome little series :)
what is the name of the book?
@@xanxusroysama "The story of a mangaka who becomes imprisoned by a mysterious high school girl"
I feel like I'm missing out on having a physical store to walk into and explore...
When he said that there is a new Tokyo Mew Mew anime coming out, that caught my attention! I first saw Tokyo Mew Mew in France back in 2007, but it was all in French so I just enjoyed what was going on in the show, instead of listening to the characters talking in language I did not understand.
"This is really cute, also because it reminds me of Aki" That was so wholesome and cute I could explode
Joey randomly picking Touhou just got to be from my favourite singer ever! I hope you do seriously give it a listen, Hanatan ( 花たん) - or Yurica, whatever alias she used for that album (probably the latter) is a very awsome and potentially (literally) breathtaking singer. And her work with Sondholic (the circle that made that album) is absolutely great
Joey really doubled the budget on his title huh, gotta respect it
@@sennemichiels6748 well yes but actually no
It's so sad how many of these places are closing down in Tokyo...🥲 and I still can´t afford it to visit Japan ..
I visited once about 6 months ago and goddamn was it fun. Will definitely revisit the place once I actually get a good job. Hopefully, not all of the good places disappear by then.
That’s not too bad. I’ve definitely spent hundreds in Akiba and they was me holding back
8:56 You've got to do at least one video trying to cook some of those snoop dogg recipes! 🤣
19:07 frame absolutely meme worthy.
Either have Aki or Meilyne collab to try out the snoop dog cook book.
Sometimes, i wish i could do 2 specific things:
-Go to Japan on an unlimited budget
-Read Japanese
Because god damn i would be taking their entire stock.
Joey finally has the opportunity to flex all the manga hes been reading instead of the anime he hasn't watched.
Joey, mid first floor: We're gonna need a bigger boat.
sad to hear that it's closing. I'll have to mark that off my list of stuff to do in Japan.
What is it that closing? One of the section?
@@nightday2030 the entire store
that makes me sad that I will never get a chance ton see that store in person but at least its documented in a wide birth so that we can appreciate that it once existed thanks for showing us this place Anime Man
I can't believe the store close down since, I remember a couple of years ago spending astronomical amount in this shop where the recipe is over a meter long. The donjin level is dangerous to my wallet. Let hope that one day they will return to Akihabara, akihabara just hit different without this place, along with the Sega arcades.
CD culture is still very strong among the audiophile community, which is very strong in Japan, as CDs have lossless quality (as opposed to the compressed streaming quality of songs from streaming services such as Spotify). Some offer lossless quality like Tidal but some say it still isn't the same quality as a physical CD.
"Doujin for tanks from Russia"
weird way to spell Girls und Panzer doujin
Joey:
* mentions that *
Me:
Hey, I've seen that one.
It's a classic!
20:39 there’s pjsekai too and rad dogs was playing on the TV
Joey on the 2nd floor: "We're not at degen hours quite yet. We'll save it for the higher floors."
Joey on the 1st floor within a minute of browsing: *Puts Ureshon! in his basket* 🤣
This is such sad news.
I always went to Toranoana every time I went to Japan.
So many stores have went away since I started going there.
I remember being really sad when The My Ways went away but this is for me pretty damn sad.
"floors 1-2 you can show your parents 🙂"
*Shows women urinating on each other while on the first floor*
As a member of the touhou community, having joey mention it is a huge w.
Alternative title: "I list off every person that I follow on Twitter"
Joey calling himself degen, meanwhile I'm out here wondering if they sell shota doujins
Man gonna miss this store, was always so fun with all the different floors
Tbh the best thing in this whole store was the Snoop Dogg cook book
like that's something you won't expect sitting there but still it do be giving some good recipes
It's a shame that so many of these places are closing down in Tokyo...
I cam glad I went way back in 2010 (highschool exchange)
Every single VOCALOID album on that shelf is a masterpiece. SAKKAC CRAFT!!
I died when he put the Rushia figures face down
I was wondering what that was about
Big OOF but it's hella funny lol
@@sasshiro the gist of it is that Rushia (the figure that was put face down) is a recently terminated/graduated member of hololive so seeing her merch is a bit awkward lol
@@Jotchae oh trust me, I’m totally aware of the drama and also following her reincarnation. Thanks!
Great video as always Joey! Now, little bit off-topic about the value of the Yen:
Unless this video was filmed in January or February 2022, Joey actually spent closer to $700 (675) than $1000 in this video. At first I believed the title because Yen's value is usually 1/100th of US Dollar but when the total amount was shown at the end (¥97,064), I was shocked to learn that the value of JPY has PLUNGED hard against the USD in the last 6 months (the current dip started in March 2022). Idk the reason for the fall (it can't be the pandemic because Yen was still hovering around 0.008-0.01 USD until March 2022) but Yen is currently pretty weak against the dollar.
It's all fun and games until Garnt sees the Isekai section
Can someone explain what Joey meant by "it becoming a bit Horimiya"?
I enjoyed that show, does something happen in the manga/light novel that I'm unaware of?
16:55 Suisei in the corner, let's GOOO. Go buy her blu-ray.
I'm so sad that Toranoana is shutting down their physical stores. That's really a huge loss.
I buy CDs. It is like a token for me. Also I was a full pirate in my teenage broke years and having a CD was a true owning of music for me back then. I guess it stayed with me.
Also it is funny to get foreign disc, especially Japanese ones with their different presentations.
I would be the same if I had the space for it. I already collect books, I don't have room for both books and cds lol. One day hopefully.
@@LuciusHill the limitations of physical media and liking too many things. I feel you
I dont stream music at all. and I like owning the physical copy of albums i like. I almost only buy vinyl since all punk and metal is easily/only available in that format. But when i cant. I buy it on CD. I'm also big into idol music. And thats rarely ever available on vinyl. So i will buy the CDs for that.
I don't really buy the CD anymore not because I can stream it but I move to buy the digital files for 24bit or DSD format.
Oh wow I remember this store and building from my visit to Japan in 2012. Sad to hear it's going away, glad to have seen and visited it when I could!
Joey in video: I'll spend 500 dollars
Joey in title: I spent 1000 dollars
Me: Things just got out of hand 🥴
Joey in Real live: i spend 700 dollars
8:50 I didn’t think he was about to say magazine
It's like Joey's twitter activity, but IRL
The CD medium is def underrated if you ask me, owning your favourite thing physically is so nice
Spaghetti de la Hood, Dōujin about Russian Tanks... The store sure knows how to be cultured so much, even a petri dish cant beat it
Lmao, seeing joey freaking out on eromanga sensei is hella hilarious
Okay, this video finally broke me & I just signed up for Joey's Patreon 🌚
Was it worth it? 😅
Thanks for playing E.T for Atari in the second half of the video! I can feel the nostalgic pixels.
Admittedly lost myself when you talked about the Touhou doujin scene, especially with the fact you could clearly see Cool & Create’s label on the shelf in the background.
Personally would recommend Tokyo Active NEETs for anyone who wants to give the doujin music a try.
Yeah, a big name in the scene for doujin music (and they have done commercial music, even composing and arranging an original song for Houshou Marine).
Oh, and beatMARIO is also a Vtuber now in his spare time. Some hype streams when he's playing Touhou-related rhythm games.
I'll also recommend IOSYS and ShibayanRecords for some nice music.
I just kinda find it funny that he picked a SOUND HOLIC CD because the cover reminded him of Night of Nights and it's one of the most "Night of Nights-esque" Touhou doujin circles out there.
Also those FELT CDs...
Also gonna recommend another amazing circle such as Akatsuki Record, because Stack.
Accord on Codes is another really good Touhou doujin circle for jazz. They’re small but they’re my favorite jazz circle.
I work in a warehouse in the UK for the largest book wholesaler in europe that distributes every kind of book you can think of too everywhere including Japan, and when I mean every kind of book, I mean every KIND of book 😉😁👍. So I have seen that Snoop Dogg cook book thousands of times and the title floors me everytime I read it.
Holy crap, you were able to go to the physical store before they closed! Lucky you, Joey and thanks for sharing the visit.
I definitely still buy CDs when I can, especially older albums, and regularly will import from Japan soundtracks for games and some anime. Given how much more I can buy now with the USD being hella strong, I've been doing that a bit more lately (along with some doujins).
Also, yeah, doujin manga can quickly add up. I've gone into anime convention merchant alleys looking to just buy $300 worth, and ended up buying up to $600 worth by the end of the last convention I attended a month before the Beer Bug™️ came through. Even now, it can be daunting just ordering online. Spent $300 on C100 doujins last month when I was looking to spend $150 LOL.
YD artist is a BEAST! their work is nothing short of amazing
clicking on this video knowing full well i dont pay for the uncensored patreon version expecting everything to be blurred XD