My husband and I will be moving to the area this summer. Currently where we live there's a fairly large anime store that carries a lot of Japanese imports (Demon Slayer, MHA, Sailor Moon, etc. pretty much anything you can think of). There's also a gaming store where he goes to play the My Hero Academy CCG weekly. Is there anything like either of those stores that you would recommend?

Hopefully this was the correct place/time to post. Thanks in advance for the help!

Edit: Gonna be in Ashland

Comments

vtbeavens t1_j9zyqdv wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:29 PM

#2,003,770

I'm not sure about the anime side of things, but I've definitely seen numerous gaming stores that are located throughout the area.

Where are you located? That might help drive suggestions.

Xanryuu t1_ja080mv wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:33 PM

#2,005,450

There USED to be a gaming place called The Forge, but that closed during the first part of the Pandemic unfortunately. I've heard of two card places but have never been.

One Eyed Jacques
Battlegrounds

As for anime shops? I know Third Eye Comics (Mechanicsville and Short Pump) and a few other comic shops carry anime and manga related merchandise. There's also apparently a placed called BoxLunch in Bon Air that apparently seems interesting, but I haven't gone down that way yet.

Jellyfishes_OW t1_ja0e9lg wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:17 PM

#2,006,416

2nd and Charles has both an anime section and gaming section (video and board). They have 2 locations, one on broad street (closest to you) and one in midlothian (nice to go see their selection too occassionally).

They are a chain where you can buy and sell used items too!

austramaus t1_ja0gr6a wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:35 PM

#2,006,864

I think Dawnstar has some of this.

Big_daddy_c t1_ja0o5cf wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:30 PM

#2,008,109

Alpha comics & games in Willow Lawn has a bunch of gaming stuff.

The_UnknownTA t1_ja0qwzp wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:51 PM

#2,008,597

Not a store but we also have conventions like Galaxycon that have vendors with all kinds of anime/gaming merchandise. It usually happens in March.

balance07 t1_ja1alf2 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:25 AM

#2,012,371

Replying to The_UnknownTA (#2,008,597)

VA Comicon too, they have events a few times a year.

CrawDaddyMikaykay OP t1_ja1rihw wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:51 AM

#2,015,669

This is great, thank you everyone for your suggestions!

tiny_B0NES t1_ja2yax5 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:29 PM

#2,022,606

Replying to Xanryuu (#2,005,450)

Yep, in the Chesterfield Towne Center mall there's a store named Box Lunch that sells a bunch of anime/disney/harry potter related merch, mostly clothes. I can't remember if they have figures for sale. No arcade machines afaik. (It's a small store)

On that same note, in that same mall, Barnes & Noble, Hot Topic, & Spencer's apparently also have a bunch of anime merch now. (Not sure how old your child is or what you want them around, but Spencer's is more geared towards late teens & adults. E.g. The back wall has sex toys & lingerie iirc.)

w3bcrawl3r t1_ja5jxjn wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:19 AM

#2,039,986

The Tech Exchange near VCU has used games & other nerd shit (spoken with affection as a nerd myself), and are locally owned

PennyLane7714 t1_jackydk wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:48 PM

#2,103,404

Paper Tiger in Forest Hill has a manga/anime figures section