30/04/2026
New week, new spotlight on the types of books you’ll see in our library! 🙌
We’re pretty excited to let you know that our library has a collection of some new and old issues from Japanese anime (and lifestyle) magazines you can browse and read such as Animage, Animedia, PASH!, Spoon.2Di, CUT, an an, and Megami Magazine.
These magazines typically have furoku (collectible free stuff such as stickers, trading cards, pin-ups, posters, coasters, book sleeves, etc.) inside them. Some we’ve already taken out, while some are still intact. They’re very attractive for fans to collect, but for us to be able to continuously add more issues to our catalog, we expect readers to respect these books and our space and do not tear them apart, vandalize, or take them home.
My positive opinion for the library is it is a good place to visit if you wish to “try” and “look” at books before you decide to purchase them yourselves, as we personally ended up becoming a manga collector after being exposed to the library and being able to afford them eventually. It made us feel like “We want one for ourselves” and we want you to also have that feeling after browsing books for a while with us. We would be glad if we see each other in the bookstores later on. 🤝
If you wish to purchase books on your own, you can order them through the bookstore links we have on our website. (With other non-manga-books-but-are-in-our-library making way there in the future).
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We’ve noticed some issues from the past with furoku that were ripped and stolen, and we had CCTVs cross-checked for them. We’re pretty heartbroken having to resort to that and finding out we have people who cannot respect property that we’re lending. Being able to use the library doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want and treat our books and decor for granted. Please, please, please be mindful that we’re mainly doing the whole library thing out of love and passion, and we don’t want to stop this because of a certain, avoidable incident. So let’s not make things harder for everybody else, okay?
Browse the shelves, read a book, return it once you’re done. Pretty easy, right? ;)