- On the lookout for a good Bismarck, because mine could do with small improvements in places
- This one is good because it has chunky details around the chest and neck. It's the equivalent of putting greebles on space stations
- Locations: Cospa/Cospatio (maybe), A-Cos (bottom of Gamers, out the back), Mandarake, animate
- Other location: Don Quixote! Up on the top floor, they're awesome
- Miko cosplay
- Comes in two styles, traditional (long) and miniskirt (it's uhhh... "modernised")
- Should be easy to find, mikos are always popular
- Location: Don Quixote will have cheapie costume-y ones probably
- Cospa? Expensive
- Mia, but where is their store...
Weekends and public holidays only, I think: http://mia.shop-pro.jp/?mode=f15
Cheap example: http://mia.shop-pro.jp/?pid=8592877
They have a couple of photo studios too it seems: http://beautybeast.main.jp/mia/map.html
Store is 4F here, right next to Via Inn Akiba: http://lamoe.oops.jp/miacafe1/inf10.cgi?mode=main&cno=25
- A-Cos at animate (just north of JR Akiba on the right side of the strip)
- Beatless - Tool for the Outsourcers (book+CD)
- This is an artbook and CD collaboration between redjuice and kz
- Likely to be found in a bookstore like K-Books, as it's not a doujin
- Location: K-Books, ground floor of the Akiba Culture Zone (the new building roughly west and slightly-north of JR Akiba), maybe Melonbooks (under one of the arcades, the orange one)
- Beatless (a sketch/art book)
- Only ISBN (9784041102909) is known, not much other detail
- Location: probably K-Books is best bet again, or Melonbooks
- Touhou glasses
Background explanation: http://otakumode.com/news/51008ef20b648d3e2000068b/TOHO-MEGANE-Fashionable-Glasses-Themed-After-Touhou-Characters-to-Be-Re-Released!?lang=en
What they look like: http://myfigurecollection.net/blog/10061
Official homepage: http://eyemirror.jp/tohomegane/
- Ooh they have some new models, Tenshi (rainbow) and Yuuka (pink plaid and green)
OMG they have a physical store! http://www.eyemirror.jp/
- Location:
- Address: 豊島区東池袋1-31-13-101 (East Ikebukuro)
- Ro-chan doujin
- Released at Comiket 88 this year, so should be easier to find (maybe on the "island" stands instead of on the shelves)
- By ナイトウテクノロジー (naitou technology)
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=51661747
Listing: http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/32/96/040030329631.html
Artist's homepage: http://ryunaitou.jp/
- Location: Toranoana (the big tall orange building with the kitty/tiger mascot), or Melonbooks
- Another Kancolle doujin book
- Released at Comiket 88 this year, so should be easier to find (maybe on the "island" stands instead of on the shelves)
- Also by naitou technology
Listing at Melonbooks: https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/detail/detail.php?product_id=136098
- Location: Melonbooks or Toranoana
- CAT MAX doujin
Released at Comiket 88 this year, so should be easier to find in theory - might not be in stores
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?illust_id=51874350&mode=medium
Homepage 1: http://excel.zuya.jp/
Homepage 2: http://gewalt.militaryblog.jp/
- Not optimistic about this one being in stores
- Location: Toranoana, Melonbooks, Comic ZIN
Suggestions
- Go check out the Zettai Ryouiki store
- Idol photobooks: Go visit the idol goods store in Akiba Culture Zone, I'll be surprised if you don't find something great there
- Cameras: Fujiya in Nakano
- Cameras: Map Camera