Contents
Anime events
[This section is for anime-related events, including club
meetings, that are less frequent than weekly. For regular weekly club
meetings, see Clubs; for non-anime-related Japanese
cultural events (both pop culture and “high” culture), see Japanese cultural events and resources.]
2009-01-05 19:00
Mineola Anime Club (for adults): Film Viewing
(Monday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the adults anime club is Reference,
+1-516-746-8488 x2,
mineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-01-07 16:00
Mineola Anime Club (for young viewers)
(Wednesday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the young viewers anime club is the Children’s Room,
+1-516-746-8488 x319, childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-01-08 19:00
Anime Meetup New York (Thursday)
The New York City Anime Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
2nd Thursday of each month.
At the
Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Anime
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 321 KB).
2009-01-12 19:00
Mineola Anime Club (for adults): Film Viewing
(Monday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the adults anime club is Reference,
+1-516-746-8488 x2,
mineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-01-18 12:00–18:00
Metro Anime Sunday Lunch (Sunday)
This is the regular monthly meeting of Metro Anime, which is normally on the
3rd Sunday of the month.
Potentially featuring
Minami-ke (2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
eps. 11 & 12 (of 13),
Sayonara Zetsubō-sensei [So Long Mr. Despair]
(2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
eps. 11 & 12 (of 12),
Shōnen Onmyōji (2006)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
eps. 17 & 18 (of 26),
Bamboo Blade (2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
eps. 10 & 11 (of 26),
plus anime music videos, early bird screening, & a
“viewers’ choice bring your own anime BYOA” slot.
See the
Metro Anime show descriptions.
At Maui Tacos
(Surfers’ Dining Room, lower level) at 330 5th Ave
(btw 32nd & 33rd St), New York
NY 10001-3101 map,
+1-212-868-9720.
$3.00 cover charge. Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
2009-01-28 19:00
Manga Meetup New York (Wednesday)
The New York City Manga & Comics Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
4th Wednesday of each month.
At the Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Manga
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 319 KB).
2009-02-02 19:00
Mineola Anime Club (for adults): Film Viewing
(Monday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the adults anime club is Reference,
+1-516-746-8488 x2,
mineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-02-04 16:00
Mineola Anime Club (for young viewers)
(Wednesday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the young viewers anime club is the Children’s Room,
+1-516-746-8488 x319, childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-02-06–08 New York Comic Con (NYCC)
(Friday–Sunday)
At the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center,
655 W 34th St, New York NY 10001-1114 map
(see Javits Center
directions).
See Medium at Large,
official blog of the
New York Comic Con (NYCC) and the
New York Anime Festival (NYAF).
See photos of
NYCC 2007 by Ifurita Oni.
2009-02-09 19:00
Mineola Anime Club (for adults): Film Viewing
(Monday)
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers (grade 5 and up), shown on the
library’s events
calendar.
Contact for the adults anime club is Reference,
+1-516-746-8488 x2,
mineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
2009-02-12 19:00
Anime Meetup New York (Thursday)
The New York City Anime Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
2nd Thursday of each month.
Meeting place to be announced; meetings typically have been held at the
Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Anime
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 321 KB).
2009-02-15 12:00–18:00
Metro Anime Sunday Lunch [Date unconfirmed]
(Sunday)
This is the regular monthly meeting of Metro Anime, which is normally on the
3rd Sunday of the month.
Potentially featuring episodes from
Minami-ke (2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb,
Shōnen Onmyōji (2006)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb,
Bamboo Blade (2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb,
plus anime music videos, early bird screening, & a
“viewers’ choice bring your own anime BYOA” slot.
See the
Metro Anime show descriptions.
At Maui Tacos
(Surfers’ Dining Room, lower level) at 330 5th Ave
(btw 32nd & 33rd St), New York
NY 10001-3101 map,
+1-212-868-9720.
$3.00 cover charge. Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
2009-02-25 19:00
Manga Meetup New York (Wednesday)
The New York City Manga & Comics Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
4th Wednesday of each month.
Meeting place to be announced; recent meetings have been held at the Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Manga
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 319 KB).
2009-03-12–06-14 KRAZY!
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games
At the Japan Society, 333
E 47th St (btw 1st & 2nd Ave), New York
NY 10017-2301 map
(see Japan
Society visitor information for directions),
+1-212-832-1155, box office
+1-212-752-3015.
2009-03-12 19:00
Anime Meetup New York (Thursday)
The New York City Anime Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
2nd Thursday of each month.
Meeting place to be announced; meetings typically have been held at the
Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Anime
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 321 KB).
2009-03-14 SpringFest
(Saturday)
Anime festival presented by Polytechnic Anime Society (PAS),
the anime club for the Brooklyn campus of Polytechnic
University.
6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
NY 11201-3840 map
(see Polytechnic directions).
2009-03-15 12:00–18:00
Metro Anime Sunday Lunch [Date unconfirmed]
(Sunday)
This is the regular monthly meeting of Metro Anime, which is normally on the
3rd Sunday of the month.
Potentially featuring episodes from
Shōnen Onmyōji (2006)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb,
Bamboo Blade (2007)
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb,
plus anime music videos, early bird screening, & a
“viewers’ choice bring your own anime BYOA” slot.
See the
Metro Anime show descriptions.
At Maui Tacos
(Surfers’ Dining Room, lower level) at 330 5th Ave
(btw 32nd & 33rd St), New York
NY 10001-3101 map,
+1-212-868-9720.
$3.00 cover charge. Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
2009-03-25 19:00
Manga Meetup New York (Wednesday)
The New York City Manga & Comics Meetup Group is scheduled to meet on the
4th Wednesday of each month.
Meeting place to be announced; recent meetings have been held at the Skylight
Diner,
402 W 34th St btw 9th & Dyer Ave,
New York NY 10001-2321 map,
+1-212-244-0395.
Free admission, but membership and RSVP required.
Attendees are encouraged to buy food.
The minimum order at Skylight Diner is $5.00.
See the Manga
Meetup New York invitations (.pdf, 319 KB).
2009-03-29 Castle Point Anime Convention (CPAC)
[Date changed]
(Sunday)
Presented by Stevens Anime Club.
At Stevens Institute of Technology,
Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken NJ 07030-5991,
+1-201-216-5000.
Redirection: http://www.castlepointanime.com/
redirects to http://www.stevens.edu/anime/cpac/
2009-04-03–05
I-CON (Friday–Sunday)
I-CON is a science fiction convention
with an anime track.
“The Northeast’s Largest Convention of Science Fiction,
Fact and Fantasy.
” I-CON has been held
annually starting in 1982;
it has included an anime track (or mini-convention, once called ChibiCon)
starting in 1991. The anime track is extensive, and includes video rooms,
panels, contests, and guests of honor.
On Long Island at the Brentwood campus of Suffolk Community College (note that
this is a different location from that of the last several years).
Membership fee for 2008 ranged from $13.00 to $50.00 depending on age,
student status, number of days attending, & volume discount.
See photos of
I-CON 2007 by Ifurita Oni.
2009-06-12–14:
AnimeNEXT (Friday–Sunday)
The New York City area’s oldest suviving annual anime convention.
At the Garden State Exhibit Center (GSEC),
50 Atrium Dr, Somerset NJ 08873-4163
map (see
GSEC Maps & Directions),
+1-732-469-4000.
Registration fee for AnimeNEXT 2008 was $20.00–55.00 depending on age,
time of registration, and number of days.
See the staff photographer’s pictures of AnimeNEXT 2003 through 2007
at Ng-Master AnimeNEXT
photos.
Planned and organized by Universal Animation, Inc., a
non-profit educational anime advocacy group; they also plan and organize MangaNEXT.
2009-09-25–27
New York Anime Festival (NYAF)
(Friday–Sunday)
Organized by
Reed Exhibitions, organizers of the
New York Comic Con (NYCC).
At the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center,
655 W 34th St, New York NY 10001-1114 map
(see Javits Center
directions).
See Medium at Large,
official blog of the
New York Comic Con (NYCC) and the
New York Anime Festival (NYAF).
See also the
NYAF Youtube videos,
the NYAF Myspace page,
& the 2007 New York Anime Festival Photo Gallery.
See photo galleries for more NYAF photo galleries.
Registration cost for 2008 ranged from $35.00 to $55.00
depending on number and choice of days.
2009-10?
MangaNEXT (Friday–Sunday)
Manga convention.
Held in 2008 at the Doubletree Hotel &
Executive Meeting Center Somerset, 200 Atrium Dr, Somerset
NJ 08873-4197 map,
+1-732-469-2600.
Planned and organized by Universal Animation, Inc., a
non-profit educational anime advocacy group; they also plan and organize AnimeNEXT.
Japanese cultural events and resources
[This section is for selected non-anime-related events &
resources involving Japanese culture, both popular culture and
“high” culture, with emphasis on items of interest to anime fans,
manga fans, and gamers, and films from Japan or about the Japanese; for
anime-related events, see Anime events.]
Cultural event listings
“Complete
NYC Calendar for Japanese Film Screenings
” maintained by
the Japan Foundation New York
Cultural
Events is an outstanding list maintained by the Consulate-General of Japan in
New York. Organizations can submit events to appear here.
(Note: url has changed; former url was http://www.cgj.org/en/n/01.html
[Gone])
Subway Cinema
News [Stale]
“A list of Asian film and popular culture events in the NYC
area
” Last updated May 2008
Cultural events
2008-10-17–2009-05-22 Best of Tora-san
Screenings of select films from the long-running Tora-san
series Wikipedia.
At the Japan Society,
333 E 47th St (btw 1st & 2nd Ave), New York
NY 10017-2301 map
(see Japan
Society visitor information for directions),
+1-212-832-1155, box office
+1-212-752-3015.
Tickets for each screening $11.00;
$7.00 for Japan Society members, students, & seniors.
2009-01-10 19:00 Japanese Language Meetup New York
(Sunday)
Location shown only to members; many recent meetups have been
at The Delancey,
168 Delancey St at Clinton St, New York NY 10002
map,
+1-212-254-9920.
Note: there has been a tendency to postpone these meetups on short notice;
the December meetup was postponed from 2008-12-13
to 2008-12-21.
2009-01-18 15:00
Singer Furuuchi Toko appearance and signing at
Kinokuniya
(Sunday)
At Kinokuniya
Bookstores,
1073 6th Ave (btw 40th & 41st St), New York
NY 10018 (new main NYC store) map,
+1-212-869-1700, open
Monday–Saturday 10:00–20:00,
Sunday 11:00–19:30
2009 Spring
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
(Saturday?)
The festival has been held annually starting in 1980.
The 2007 festival was held on
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St btw 2nd & 3rd Ave
2009 Spring Japan Day Festival
Typically held near the beginning of June in Central Park
2009 Spring 10:00–18:00
Sakura Matsuri Brooklyn
(Saturday & Sunday)
Annual Cherry Blossom Festival on one weekend near the end of April or the
beginning of May.
2008 decription:
“...over 60 events and performances. Enjoy traditional Japanese music
and dance, taiko drumming, ikebana flower arranging, presentations on Japanese
Manga art, tea ceremonies, craft demonstrations, and workshops for all
ages.
”
At the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden (BBG), 900 Washington Ave, Brooklyn
NY 11225 map,
+1-718-623-7200; see BBG
directions and maps.
Festival admission is free with BBG admission; BBG admission is $8.00 for
adults, $4.00 for seniors and students with ID,
free for members & children under 12.
See photos of Sakura Matsuri 2000
by me & photos of
Sakura Matsuri 2007 by Ifurita Oni.
2009 Summer New York Asian Film
Festival (NYAFF) Typically held in late June and early July.
2009 Summer Obon
Festival
(Sunday)
Traditional festival to honor ancestors and other dead, typically held on a
Sunday in early or mid-July.
Description of 2008 festival:
“The event will feature hours of fun, merriment, Japanese folk
dancing, and taiko (Japanese drumming) performances, plus tables of activities
for children and adults.
”
Presented by the New York Buddhist
Church.
2008 festival was held in Bryant Park
on 6th Ave btw W 41st St & W 42nd St, New York
NY 10036 map
Here is a video of a
New York Obon festival.
Cultural resources
aozora NYC “Japanese Culture,
Arts, Music, Food, People and More in NYC
”
Asia Society 725
Park Ave at 70th St, New York
NY 10021-5025 map
(see Asia Society
New York directions),
+1-212-288-6400
Chopsticks New York
“The Most Convenient and Comprehensive Resource For All Things
Japanese in New York!
”
Columbia Japan
Society
Donald Keene
Center of Japanese Culture of Columbia University “is dedicated to
advancing the understanding of Japan and its culture in the United States
through university instruction, research, and public education.
”
The Center hosts exhibits, lectures, and special events, which I do not
attempt fully to document on this page; refer to their site.
Redirection: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/dkc/
redirects to http://www.donaldkeenecenter.org/cu/ealac/dkc/
Genki Shock
is a meet-up group for Japanese pop culture events in NYC. They have a
meet-up site and a
MySpace site.
Hammond Museum and
Japanese Stroll Garden, 28 Deveau Rd, North Salem
NY 10560-2115 in Westchester County
map,
+1-914-669-5033; see the directions
to Hammond Museum.
Henry Smith’s
home page. Professor Henry D.
Smith II, Ph.D. teaches Japanese History at the
Weatherhead East Asian
Institute (WEAI) at
Columbia University,
and is faculty director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese
Culture.
The site features
copyrighted essays, articles, and books in electronic form, written or edited
by Smith, about Japanese history and language. These include detailed
discussions of the Chushingura (47 Ronin) incident, a November 2005 report on
Japanese electronic dictionaries, and the book
Learning from Shogun (1975)
amazon
about the James Clavell novel Shogun (1975)
amazon
Wikipedia
and its relation to real Japanese history.
At the Anime Symposium at the Japan Society in January 1999, Dr.
Smith gave a fine talk on the cultural and historical background of
Miyazaki Hayao’s anime film
Princess Mononoke
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb;
unfortunately, this site does not
include that talk or anything else about anime.
Japan Society, 333
E 47th St (btw 1st & 2nd Ave), New York
NY 10017-2301 map
(see Japan
Society visitor information for directions),
+1-212-832-1155, box office
+1-212-752-3015. The
Japan Society hosts exhibits, lectures, and special events, which
I do not attempt fully to document on this page; refer to their site.
The Society has
a multimedia page with
full-length event videos,
a YouTube page,
& a Facebook
page.
The multimedia page
includes a full-length video of Dan Pink’s Adventures in Manga, a
presentation given on 2008-10-06.
(Note the site url is now
http://japansociety.org/
The old url http://www.jpnsoc.org/ no longer works.)
Japanese
Resources in NYC by the JET Alumni
Association of New York (JET is the Japan Exchange and Teaching
Programme).
New York-Tokyo (NYT), 580 Broadway,
New York
NY 10012,
+1-212-965-6751.
NYT presents major and minor events related
to Japanese pop culture, including anime, live-action film, gaming, music, and
robots.
NYT events tend to be announced with rather short notice, and some events are
announced on the NYT mailing list without being mentioned on the NYT web site;
sign up for the NYT mailing list to be notified.
“NEWYORK-TOKYO LLC. is a girl friend of PRO TECH DESIGN
CORP
”
- Monthly (in theory) NYT events:
(Note: NYT has started to present some film and gaming events far from NYC, and
some seemingly unconnected with Japanese pop culture; I do not track those
here.)
- Annual (in theory) NYT events:
NYC Japan
“Everything Japanese in New York.
” There is some interesting
stuff here, and some outdated and/or useless stuff. The Japanese supermarkets section
looks very good. The Japanese Restaurants guide is simply a bad link to
the Zagat site.
The Japanese Books
section is outdated: it lists 4 locations for 3 stores, and 3 of those
locations are no longer there.
Weatherhead East
Asian Institute (WEAI)
At Columbia University.
420 W 118th St (at Amsterdam Ave), International Affairs Bldg,
9th Fl, Mail Code 3333, New York
NY 10027-7235 map,
+1-212-854-2592; see WEAI directions
Anime clubs
Animated Perspectives
Official animation club of
the State University
of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY-SB) aka Stony Brook University,
100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook
NY 11794 map
on Long Island, +1-631-632-6000; see
SUNY-SB
directions & SUNY-SB campus maps.
The club has a
forum
and a
facebook
group.
Site last updated 2008-10-08.
Anime
Alliance, formerly the Atlantic Anime Alliance, is (was?) a club of
clubs, which organizes (organized?) activities such as the New York City Anime
Tour (NYCAT), although that activity seemed to be taken over by the Rutgers JCA [Japanese Cultural Association].
(There was an old Anime Alliance site http://www.otaking.com/aa/aa.html
[Gone], which evidently had not been touched
after July 1999; previously at http://www.shizukapress.com/Otaking/aa/aa.html [Gone].)
Here are photos of the Atlantic Anime Alliance Picnic
1998
Anime Club of
Long Island (ACOLI) [Stale]
A relatively new club. The site has very little public information about the
club itself, and none about its events or meetings; you need to register and
log in to find out about these things.
Site last updated 2008-04-03.
Anime Game Tech is the anime and gaming
club of Middlesex County College (MCC),
2600 Woodbridge Ave, Edison NJ 08837-3604
map
(see Anime Game Tech
directions; see also maps and
directions for Middlesex County College)
+1-732-548-6000.
Starting in Fall 2008, Anime Game Tech meets in TSC100.
In the previous school year, the club had weekly meetings
14:00–17:00 Thursdays in the Instructional
Resource Center (IRC) room 131 during the school year; meetings were free and
open to the public.
Site last updated 2008-08-27.
Anime-niacs
at the New York Institute of Technology, Old
Westbury campus, Northern Blvd, PO Box 8000, Old Westbury
NY 11568-8000,
+1-516-686-7516.
Anime Meetup New
York is a page for for New York anime fans to arrange online to meet in
person. Meetings are scheduled for the 2nd Thursday of each
month at 19:00; occasionally, additional meetings are scheduled, as for
2007-06-07. (It is not exactly a club, but where
else do I put it?)
Anime Syndicate
[Stale] is (was?) the new
name for the Queens College Science Fiction
and Animation Club, formerly known as Bukimi Anime. This bare-bones,
undated page has some contact and location information, but no schedule.
“Welcome to our really old website. There is no new site at the
moment. Thank you for your interest in our club.
” Bukimi
Anime used to hold its normal meetings every other Monday at noon.
AnimeNYC is a Yahoo! group
page for New York City anime fans and events.
(http://www.clik.to/animenyc
[Gone]
formerly redirected to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/animenyc/)
Bronx
Science Anime Club
The anime club of the
Bronx High School of Science,
75 Bronx Science Blvd (W 205th St btw Paul & Goulden Ave), Bronx,
NY 10468-1052 map,
+1-718-817-7700.
Meets on Tuesdays.
(Former sites were
http://anime.bxscience.edu/
[Missing] &
http://www.bxscience.edu/clubs/anime/
[Missing])
Bushido Anime Club is the anime club of
Lehman College in the Bronx.
The club email is bushidoanimeclub@aol.com.
The club web address was http://www.bushidoanimeclub.com/
[Missing].
The club held the first Lehman College Cosplay Party, called Ransegan,
on 2007-11-29.
Columbia University Anime Club
(CUAC) [Stale]
The club itself is alive and active. Its fall
2008 meetings were from
2008-09-04 through
2008-12-04.
The minimal web site is (at last viewing) stale, with info about club officers
for the 2007–2008 school year and a
“forum” link that points to an off-site link farm.
The club meets weekly on Thursdays
21:00–23:00 in the West Ramp lounge in Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920
Broadway, New York NY 10027-7004 map,
+1-212-854-9067.
In addition to the weekly meetings, the club also presents special events and
screenings, like the screening of Princess Mononoke on
2008-10-10.
I am told that you must have a current valid Columbia University ID, or
a photo ID and someone with Columbia ID to sign you in, to enter Lerner Hall.
Heart of Anime [Missing] is (was?) one of the anime clubs at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St, New
York NY 10282-1000 map,
+1-212-312-4800. The club meets twice a
week.
(Another anime club at Stuyvesant is Neo Gokuraku.)
Hudson Heights Anime Club
meets on Monday nights in Hudson Heights, near 187th St & Broadway
map.
A record of their screenings
2005-02-21–09-26 is here:
http://accela.net/~dankna/hhac/.
(The club formerly had a site here: http://home.beseen.com/twenties/vashthestampede1/hudson.html
[Missing])
Ikimas Anime Club
is the anime & manga club of Bronx Community College (BCC).
The club meets Thursday afternoons
12:00–13:50,
usually in room 207 on the 2nd floor of Bliss Hall (Art Department),
but sometimes in room 33 or 35 on the 2nd floor of New Hall.
The club also holds special events like a game tournament on
2008-10-09. They were to hold a mini anime
convention on 2008-11-13, but that was cancelled.
At Bronx Community College (BCC),
2183 University Ave at 181st St, Bronx NY 10453
map
(see BCC directions
& BCC campus map),
+1-718-289-5100.
The club has an open facebook group,
BCC Animeclub.
Japanese Anime Asylum is the anime club of
Baruch College in Manhattan.
The club meets on Tuesdays for video games and on Thursdays for anime
screenings.
The club can be contacted at japanimeasylum@gmail.com.
The club has an open facebook group,
Japanese Anime
Asylum of Baruch College.
The club is listed in Baruch student clubs.
Megazone NJ
[Gone], previously at
http://www.shizukapress.com/Otaking/mznj/mznj.html
[Gone].
Metro Anime presents Sunday screenings,
starting at noon and lasting about six hours, one or two Sundays each month.
Recent screenings generally have been held at
Maui Tacos
(Surfers’ Dining Room, lower level) at
330 5th Ave (btw 32nd & 33rd St),
New York NY 10001-3101 map,
+1-212-868-9720.
Some screenings may be held at Zaro’s Bakery,
920 Broadway at 21st St, New York
NY 10010 map,
+1-212-260-5327.
Regular screenings are normally on the 3rd Sunday of each month,
irregular screenings (“fests”) are normally on the 5th
Sunday of any month with 5 Sundays,
and special events can be scheduled any time.
(Regular and irregular screening dates may be shifted from the normal dates due
to holidays, anime conventions, and other factors.)
Metro also has outings for movies and other events, plus (theoretically)
annual picnics & semi-annual Sunday manga swaps;
the only manga swap so far was 2007-07-15
(one was scheduled for 2008-01-06 but cancelled);
the most recent picnic and barbecue was
2007-08-04.
The next regular screening is
2008-12-21;
see “Anime Events” for event details.
Metro Anime has given special presentations at the
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) as
part of MoCCA’s former series
“MoCCA Mondays”,
most recently on 2007-12-10;
further Metro Anime presentations at MoCCA are being planned, but are not yet
scheduled.
The most recent regular screening was
2008-11-16,
the most recent irregular screening was
Fantasy Fest II
2008-07-27,
the most recent MoCCA presentation was
2007-12-10, &
the most recent (first and only) manga swap event was
2007-07-15.
The club is also an active on-line entity with mailing lists.
Redirection: Formerly redirected to
http://geocities.com/metroanime/ [Stripped], then to http://metroanime.sweetestdreams.net/ [Gone], then to http://www.celestialusagi.net/metroanime/ [Gone], and then to
http://metroanime.celestialusagi.net/ [Stale]: last updated
2005-08-14.)
(Note: an outdated Metro Anime page is still up at
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/4548/mafiles/MAmainpg.html
[Stale]: last updated
2000-10-23.)
Metro Anime Lending
Library (MALL) [Stale] exists to lend both
fan-subtitled and commercial anime to its members. Site apparently last
updated 2000-08-24; I do not know the status of
the library.
For pictures of the 1999 MALL party, see ConPix.
Mineola Library Anime Clubs
The
Mineola Memorial Library
on Long Island hosts anime club meetings 3 times per month:
2 meetings for adults and 1 for young viewers. See
“Anime Events” or the library’s events
calendar for curent dates; club meetings have been scheduled through
2009-02-09.
Contact for the adults anime club is Reference,
+1-516-746-8488 x2,
mineola@nassaulibrary.org.
Contact for the young viewers anime club is the Children’s Room,
+1-516-746-8488 x319, childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.
At the
Mineola Memorial Library,
195 Marcellus Rd, Mineola NY 11501-2413
map,
+1-516-746-8488
Neo Gokuraku is one of the anime clubs at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St, New
York NY 10282-1000 map,
+1-212-312-4800. The club meets every
Thursday and Friday afternoon while school is in session. The
club’s main web presence is the Neo Gokuraku Yahoo!
group;
there is also a Neo Gokuraku administrative
page in the clubs section of the Stuyvesant site.
(Another anime club at Stuyvesant is (was?) Heart of Anime.)
(There is an old site still up for Neo Gokuraku at
http://neogokuraku.tripod.com/
[Stale], apparently last updated June 2001;
also an old bulletin board [Stale])
NYO! Cosplay [Stale] “We are the New York
tri-state area’s anime / cosplay group known as NYO! Cosplay (formerly
BAAF Cosplayers). Periodically, we get together for parties, anime
screening, trips, cosplay gear, you name it!
”
Site last updated 2005-11-04.
There is also a private, unjoinable NYO! Cosplay Yahoo! group.
(Note that NYO! Cosplay is not affiliated with planned convention NYOCon.)
Redirection: http://nyocosplay.com/
redirects to http://djranmas.net/nyocosplay/
NYU Club
Anime [Stale]
This club meets (met?) 19:00–22:00 Thursdays
in the Helen and Martin Kimmel
Center for Student Life, New York University, 60 Washington Square South, New
York NY 10012-1019 map.
See the web site for a schedule of meetings with specific dates and room
numbers.
Regular Thursday meetings of the 2007–2008
school year were scheduled for
2007-09-20–2008-05-01.
Redirection: http://www.nyu.edu/clubs/anime/
redirects to http://www.lunchtrayninja.com/anime/
which redirects to http://www.nyuclubanime.org/
(An older site is still up at http://clubanime.projectilemuffin.com/
[Stale] (last updated September 2006);
http://www.nyu.edu/clubs/anime
formerly redirected to http://www.animeforum.com/nyu/
[Gone].)
Otaku Army is a Yahoo!
group page for anime fans in the Northeast. Has many members, activities,
and links in New York City.
Parsons Anime Screening
Society (PASS) Associated with the
Parsons School of Design in Manhattan,
PASS holds (held?) two or three screenings per month most months, and none in
the months of June, July, and August. Screenings are in the Parsons
Auditorium. Parsons Auditorium is at 66 5th Ave, New York
NY 10011-8802 map,
“the building with the glass doors, and the auditorium is
all the way in the back, to the left.
”
(PASS had a web site, which seems to be gone:
http://www.animepass.com/
[Missing])
PAS ([Brooklyn]
Polytechnic Anime Society)
PAS is the anime club for the Brooklyn campus of Polytechnic
University.
PAS’ office is in room RH010 in the basement of
Rogers Hall, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
NY 11201-3840 map
(see Polytechnic directions).
PAS holds one or two anime or game festivals in the spring, or close to the
spring, or on the first Saturday of spring break; the most next one is
2009-03-14.
PAS is (was?) considered the sister organization of the Columbia University Anime
Club.
Many Polytechnic students have anime-related
pages.
The link above is to the club’s new domain pasweb.info; the older url
pas.poly.edu still works and points to
the same, current site.
(http://pasforum.redirectme.net/
[Missing] formerly redirected to
http://s94187492.onlinehome.us/forum/
[Stripped], which was the PAS
forum.)
(A former temporary PAS page was here:
http://chii.servehttp.com/ [Missing])
See also the Unofficial site of PAS
[Stale]
([Brooklyn] Polytechnic Anime Society) by Calvin “Clam” Lam;
apparently last updated 2001-08-09.
Pratt Anime
Club at the Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn(?) campus, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn,
NY 11205-3817 map
(see Pratt directions),
+1-718-636-3600.
Quest
Anime [Missing] “on hiatus until
September [2004]
”, is (was?) the anime
club of the School of
Visual Arts at 209 E 23rd St (at 3rd Ave), New York
NY 10010-3901 map,
+1-212-592-2000.
Meets (formerly met?) regularly on Friday nights while school is in session,
according to my sources, though their site no longer says so.
(The club formerly had a web page at
http://www.geocities.com/quest_anime/
[Missing])
RIT Anime Club
presents regular screenings on Mondays, Thursdays, & Fridays, as well as
special events.
At the Rochester Institute of Technology,
1 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester
NY 14623-5603 map
(see RIT directions & maps),
+1-585-475-2411.
(The old url http://www.rit.edu/~ritanime/
now redirects to the new url http://animehost.rit.edu/)
Rutgers Japanese Cultural
Association (RUJCA, JCA)
[Stale]
holds (held?) screenings almost every Friday
19:00–21:00 in 100 Milledoler Hall;
web site last updated Spring 2007.
The club has a
facebook
group.
At Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (see Rutgers New Brunswick campus
directions).
Events presented by JCA in the past included the annual(?) spring
SakuraFest fair and the twice-yearly New York City Anime Tour (NYCAT).
(Outdated JCA resources include the
RUJCA Yahoo! group
[Stale], final update (announced as final) on
2005-09-16; an ezboard forum
[Stale], last substantive update apparently
in 2004;
http://rujca.com/ [Stripped], formerly redirected to
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~mcantoni/rujca/
[Gone];
http://www.rujca.org/ [Missing],
last updated 2002-02-27;
http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/geography/880/
[Stale], last updated in 1999;
and the JCA-Soc Mailing
List [Gone], previously at
http://www.shizukapress.com/Otaking/ML/jca-soc.html
[Gone].)
Rutgers Anime
Club [Gone], previously at
http://www.shizukapress.com/Otaking/rac/rac.html
[Gone]. This content looked old.
Check out Rutgers JCA instead.
SGA
(Sci-Fi/Games/Anime) club at the City
College of New York (CCNY).
South Jersey Anime
Society (SJAS). “In April 2005, SJAS officially removed itself as
a public anime club and is now an underground, private anime
organization.
”
(http://www.sjas.org/
[Gone]
formerly redirected to http://home.comcast.net/~whitestar73/sjas/sjas.html;
http://www.sjas.org/
[Gone] formerly redirected to
http://www.voicenet.com/~aegis/sjas/sjas.html
[Gone])
Stevens Anime Club
is the anime club of the
Stevens Institute of Technology,
Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken NJ 07030-5991,
+1-201-216-5000. The club has showings at
21:00 (almost) every Friday night at 570 River St at 6th St, Hoboken
NJ 07030 map;
see directions.
The club held a Halloween 100 Stories Marathon on
2007-10-26.
The club also presents the
Castle Point Anime Convention
(CPAC), first held 2008-04-13.
This is one of the few school-related anime clubs that has showings during the
summer.
In the past, they’ve often held an all-night showing in the spring.
Redirection: http://www.stevens.edu/anime/
redirects to http://www.stevens.edu/anime/cgi-bin/index.php
(Note this is the current, relatively new url; the old url was
http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/anime/
[Gone])
Teaneck Public Library Anime
Club at the Teaneck Public
Library, 840 Teaneck Rd at Cedar Ln, Teaneck
NJ 07666-4502 map
(see library
directions) meets one evening (almost) every month starting
2006-03-20 for anime screenings and
discussion; see their calendar.
The club is for teens 13 and up. Registration is not required. For
more information, call the Children’s
Department at +1-201-837-4171 extension 3.
The most recent monthly meeting was
2008-11-24.
The next monthly meeting has not been announced.
The library has also hosted special anime events, including
Anime Trivia Night on Tuesday 2007-10-16.
Photo galleries
Anime Expo New York 2002 galleries:
http://www.bandai-ent.com/galleries/2002_axny/
http://www.cosplay.com/eventphotos/category/C21/
http://www.anime-cons.com/reports/photos.shtml/axny2002
http://ng-master.org/cm/index.php?cat=40
(mixed in with photos of the Big Apple Anime Fest)
AnimeJutsu
A project by Gordon of Anime Game Tech,
AnimeJutsu is a social site for anime fans, mostly devoted to photo sharing.
Fans can set up their own galleries and upload photos here.
Includes photos from AnimeNEXT 2006, AnimeNEXT 2007, MangaNEXT 2007,
Cosplay Day at Kinokuniya (2008-08-17), and more.
AnimeNEXT
See the staff photographer’s pictures of AnimeNEXT 2003 through 2007
at Ng-Master AnimeNEXT
photos.
Atlantic Anime
Alliance Picnic 1998 photos
Big Apple Anime Fest (BAAF) 2002:
2002 Pics 1
[Gone],
2002 Pics 2
[Gone], &
2002 Pics 3
[Gone];
more at Ng-Master BAAF
photos.
ConPix is my massive site of
pictures taken at anime conventions and other anime-fan-related events.
NYC area content includes MALL (Metro Anime Lending Library) Party 1999,
Sakura Matsuri Brooklyn 2000, Shoujocon 2000,
& Matsuri on 47th Street 2000.
A Fan’s View
Kevin Lillard’s pictures and reports on anime conventions,
including NYC area conventions AnimeNEXT 2002, 2004, 2005, & 2006,
& the New York Anime Festival (NYAF) 2007.
Fly By Night
Design is a page by Terry Chu (alias Doc the Stampede) of
“anything media related.
” It includes Terry’s numerous
fine pictures of several anime conventions from
2000–2001, and
“preview” pictures of conventions from
2002–2004.
Griffin
Waldau’s page shows his art and his love for
Nausicaä
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
and Miyazaki Hayao’s other creations.
It used to show Griffin’s NYFF
1999 pictures [Missing] of
Miyazaki’s visit
to the New York Film Festival, but that page along with several other items on
this site have gone missing.
Ifurita
Oni shows photos of I-CON
2007, New York
Comic Con (NYCC) 2007, & Sakura
Matsuri 2007.
Metro Anime photos
The official photo gallery of the
Metro Anime club.
New York Anime Festival Cosplay (2007)
New York Anime Festival Photo Gallery (2007)
Ng-Master Anime
Conventions showcases David Ng’s anime convention photographs,
including photos of Anime Expo New York 2002, Big Apple Anime Fest, &
AnimeNEXT 2003–2006.
Reviews
Clyde’s Anime
Reviews originally appeared on the now-defunct Anime Colony site
[Stripped] of New York City-based USA Network’s
Sci-Fi Channel.
MangaManiacs
[Stale] Manga information and reviews, concentrating
on manga published in the U.S.; apparently last revised
2003-08-21.
TheGline.com
includes anime DVD reviews and manga reviews by Serdar Yegulalp.
Art
Abby Denson’s
Official Website (formerly called ABBYMANIA!!!!!) shows off some of
manga-lover Abby’s anime-inspired comics.
This is the relatively new domain and url http://abbycomix.com/
replacing the old url http://www.audiokio.com/abbycomix/ [Gone]
Enrico Casarosa’s Portfolio
showcases Enrico’s fine art, some of it anime-inspired.
Estrigious Studio
(the name is from STGS, Sparkle Twinkle Glitter Shine) consists of five artists
(Melissa “Mel” DeJesus, Jennifer Quick,
Rebecca “Becky” Cloonan, Risa “Hwan” Cho, &
Alana “A.Ro” Roberts) who create cool art, much of
it anime-inspired. Their link
page points to other pages by artists and art groups, many of them New York
City-based.
Felaxx’s Gallery
is the site of artist Amy Kim Ganter.
Griffin
Waldau’s page shows his art and his love for
Nausicaä
amazon
Wikipedia
ANN
IMDb
It used to show Griffin’s NYFF
1999 pictures [Missing] of
Miyazaki’s visit
to the New York Film Festival, but that page along with several other items on
this site have gone missing.
Mustard Seed
Comics Manga-style comics
Fansubs
Aoshi’s Anime
Realm [Gone] is a fan-subtitled anime tape
distributor with an outstanding reputation.
NYU Blue
[Stale]
is an NYU-based BitTorrent fansub distributor.
Site last updated 2007-06-03.
(The former url was http://www.lunchtrayninja.com/anime/,
which now redirects to NYU Club
Anime.)
Soldats Net is a fan
subtitling team including at least three New-York-City-based members. The news
page was last updated 2006-03-15.
Merchandise
Japanese food
Japanese
Grocery Stores in the New York Area is a fine list by the Consulate General of Japan in New York.
Japanese
restaurants in New York City is CitySearch’s list.
Japanese
restaurants in the greater New York area is a no-frills list from
Telephone Guide,
“English & Japanese Bilingual
Online Telephone Directory of the U.S.A.
”
Japanese
supermarkets in New York City and vicinity is a fine list by NYC Japan.
Japanese/Sushi
restaurants in New York City is a list of reviews in New York magazine.
Otafuku
offers authentic Japanese okonomiyaki at reasonable prices. (I do not
normally list individual restaurants or food stores, but this seems to me a
special case.)
236 E 9th St (btw 2nd and 3rd Ave), New York
NY 10003-7503 map,
+1-212-353-8503
Sushi NYC
A site reviewing and discussing Sushi places in New York City.
Anime shopping guides
Anime/Manga
Shopper’s Guide to New York City [Stale]
(last update 1997-09-17) This is one of the
later copies of the classic guide
by the late Steve “Otaking” Pearl’s that
was updated frequently through most of the 1990s.
aozora NYC “Japanese Culture,
Arts, Music, Food, People and More in NYC
”
Manga in NYC A fine list by
aozora NYC
Blue Shinra Project:
Reeve’s Northeast Corridor J-Pop Shopping Guide for anime and other
Japanese merchandise; seems pretty good and comprehensive.
Updated July 2008.
Manga Chase, New York
City [Stale]
by Ed Sindelar, has detailed reviews of a few select stores for buying
manga. The poor guy missed Book-Off, though.
Last update 2003-04-26.
New York City
Anime Guide [Stale] is a years-old archive
copy (last update Autumn 1998) of Ralph’s great guide.
(Originally posted at http://nyc-anime.com/, which domain is now used for
this current New York City Anime page; formerly redirected to
http://home.att.net/~ralph.young/ [Missing]).
NYC Japan
“Everything Japanese in New York.
” There is some interesting
stuff here, and some outdated and/or useless stuff. The Japanese supermarkets section
looks very good.
The Restaurants Guide is simply a bad link to
the Zagat site.
The Japanese Books
section is outdated: it lists 4 locations for 3 stores, and 3 of those
locations are no longer there.
“Rummaging
for Japanese Comics & Toys”
The 2008-04-10 Time Out New York
article featuring Clyde Adams III, your humble webmaster.
Shun-chan’s Guide to Anime
Shopping in New York City updated
2003-04-24.
Anime vendors
Anime Castle
has a physical store on Long Island and an extensive online store; it claims to
have the “largest selection of Anime Merchandise in New York
City.
”
Long Island Warehouse/Showroom,
77 Searing Ave, Mineola NY 11501-3027
map,
+1-516-214-4484
Queens Store, 35-32 Union St, Flushing
NY 11354 map,
+1-347-438-1296,
info@animecastle.com
Web site revamped Spring 2004.
Anime Castle has an anime social networking site
http://animehit.com/.
(They formerly used animehit.com for a
collection of anime links; after that, it was apparently a video sharing site.)
Asahiya
Bookstores New York at 360 Madison Ave at 45th St, New York
NY 10017 map
(entrance on 45th St btw 5th & Madison Ave),
+1-212-883-0011, opened
in late 2003. (There was a former Asahiya bookstore at 52 Vanderbilt
Ave, a short distance away, which closed in March 2003.) This new store
is now shown on the list of U.S.
Asahiya stores.
This store is smaller than the previous one, and it now mostly caters to
Japanese speakers;
English-language books, manga, & video are in very short supply.
Banzai
“99 cent plus” stores are franchised by the Japanese chain of
Banzai 100-yen stores. Their shop information shows 7 Banzai
stores in Queens, 1 in Brooklyn, and 3 in New Jersey selling low-price Japanese
products.
Be Beautiful Manga
Publisher and online store specializing in Yaoi.
Book-Off
The number-one area store for used manga.
Manhattan: 14 E 41st St (btw 5th & Madison Ave), New York
NY 10017-6200 map,
+1-212-685-1410
Westchester: 1-15 N Central Ave at Hartsdale Ave, Hartsdale
NY 10530 map,
+1-914-683-5440
Bulletproof Comics Incorporated
A comic book store that sells manga.
2178 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn NY 11210-3024
map
(main location),
+1-718-434-1800
4507 Fort Hamilton Pkwy, Brooklyn
NY 11219-2411 map,
+1-718-854-3367
8109 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn NY 11236
map,
+1-718-531-6415
Central Park
Media Central Park Media (parent company of US Manga Corps,
Software Sculptors, CPM Press,
& Anime 18)
is one of New York City’s own anime & manga publishers.
250 W 57th St Ste 317, New York
NY 10107-0300 map,
+1-212-977-7456
Chameleon Comics &
Cards A comic book store that sells manga, anime, and anime-related
merchandise. See the short anime/japanime page on their site.
3 Maiden Ln Ste 1 (nr Broadway), New York
NY 10038-4008 map,
+1-212-587-1603 or
+1-212-587-3411
D & V Import
[Empty]
One of many stores
(mostly without web sites) in Chinatown that sell anime videos and music.
“Under Construction Web Site Opening Soon !
”
210 Canal St (btw Baxter & Mulberry St), New York
NY 10013-4155 map,
+1-212-227-2212
60 Mott St (btw Canal & Bayard St), New York
NY 10013-4811 map
(non-deliverable address), +1-212-791-3391
Forbidden Planet NYC
A long-lasting (25 years) and well-regarded store selling science fiction,
fantasy, and comics; it offers an exceptionally good selection of manga, as
well as anime DVDs & anime-related soundtracks, art books, figurines, and
posters.
840 Broadway at E 13th St, New York
NY 10003-4890 map,
+1-212-475-6161
There was another web site http://www.forbiddenplanetnyc.com/
that (as far as I know) never had any content.
HQ Video Japanese video sales and rental.
21 W 45th St Fl 2 (btw 5th & 6th Ave),
New York NY 10036-4908 map,
+1-212-221-0027
Image Anime Image Anime
(once known as Hyper Hobby) sells anime merchandise
in their store and online.
242 W 30th St (btw 7th & 8th Ave), New York
NY 10001 map
(see info for directions; note this is a the new address as of August 2007),
+1-212-631-0966, open
Monday–Friday
11:00–19:00, Saturday
12:00–18:00
http://imageanime.com/
is a Yahoo! store site with an alias or mirror
at http://store.imageanime.com/.
(http://imageanime.com/
formerly redirected to http://matrixcollectibles.site.yahoo.com/,
which itself now redirects to http://store.imageanime.com/.)
JBC Books
Probably the number-two area store for used manga (it is a
poor second to Book-Off, though).
725 River Rd #33, Edgewater NJ 07020
map,
+1-201-941-4417, a couple of
blocks from Mitsuwa
Marketplace
Open daily 11:00–19:00.
Jim Hanley’s
Universe A comic book store that sells manga.
Manhattan: 4 W 33rd St at 5th Ave (across from the Empire State
Building), New York NY 10001-3302
map,
+1-212-268-7088, open
Monday & Tuesday 09:00–23:00,
Wednesday 08:30–23:00,
Thursday–Saturday 09:00–23:00, &
Sunday 09:00–21:00
Staten Island: 325 New Dorp Ln, Staten Island
NY 10306-3005 map,
+1-718-351-6299, open 7 days
12:00–21:00
Kim’s Video
[Empty]
Has displayed this message for many months:
“Temporarily down for maintenance.
We’ll be back up shortly.
”
Has 4 locations in the NYC area and an online store. Browse their anime
section.
Redirection: http://www.kimsvideo.com/
redirects to http://www.mondokims.com/
Kidrobot
New York
Sells toys, many inspired by anime.
118 Prince St (btw Wooster & Greene St), New York
NY 10012 map,
+1-212-966-6688
Kinokuniya
Bookstores
1073 6th Ave (btw 40th & 41st St), New York
NY 10018 (new main NYC store) map,
+1-212-869-1700, open
Monday–Saturday 10:00–20:00,
Sunday 11:00–19:30
3360 Palisades Center Dr, West Nyack
NY 10994-6603 map,
+1-845-353-6600
(Note that the area Kinokuniya stores at the following addresses have
closed:
595 River Road #B-101,
in Mitsuwa Marketplace,
formerly Yaohan, Edgewater NJ 07020,
+1-201-941-7580
10 W 49th St (in Rockefeller Plaza),
New York NY 10020-2205,
+1-212-765-7766)
Manga Cafe Atom
[Closed]
A cafe where you can read manga for $5.00/hour or $12.00 for 3 hours. Soft
drinks are $1.00 with free refills. Open
11:00 am–02:00 am.
38 W 38th St (btw 5th & 6th Ave) Fl 3, New York
NY 10018-0029 map,
+1-212-221-0615
Media
Blasters is one of New York City’s own anime publishers.
519 8th Ave, New York NY 10018 map,
+1-212-944-9224
Midtown
Comics A comic book store that sells manga, anime DVDs, and anime-related
collectibles.
Times Square: 200 W 40th St (at 7th Ave) 2nd & 3rd Fl,
New York NY 10018 map
Grand Central: 459 Lexington Ave at 45th St,
New York, NY 10017 map
+1-212-302-8192, +1-800-411-3341.
Open Monday–Saturday 11:00–21:00,
Sunday 12:00–19:00
Mitsuwa Marketplace
Mitsuwa (formerly Yaohan) is a Japanese shopping center.
595 River Rd,
Edgewater NJ 07020-1104 map
(see Mitsuwa location and Mitsuwa shuttle),
+1-201-941-9113.
Open 9:00–21:00 every day.
OCS Bookstore
Japanese book store that sells some manga.
5 E 44th St (btw 5th & Madison Ave), New York
NY 10017-3607 map,
+1-212-599-5886
Samurai Japanese Outlet
Store [Site missing] has stores in Queens
(and Brooklyn?) and sells all kinds of Japanese products.
107-50 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills
NY 11375,
+1-718-261-1515
3108-10 Steinway St, Astoria NY 11103,
+1-718-278-1434
92-03 Roosevelt Ave, Jackson Heights
NY 11372,
+1-718-205-3836
136-41 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing
NY 11354,
+1-718-381-1283
Sanseido Bookstore 595 River Rd #120,
Edgewater NJ 07020-1104
in Mitsuwa shopping center map
(see Mitsuwa location and Mitsuwa shuttle),
+1-201-941-1564.
Open 10:00–20:00 every day.
St. Mark’s Comics
A comic book store that sells manga.
Manhattan: 11 St Mark’s Pl (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave),
New York NY 10003 map,
+1-212-598-9439
Brooklyn: 148 Montague St,
Brooklyn NY 11201 map,
+1-718-935-0911
Toy Tokyo
Sells toys and models, many inspired by anime.
121 2nd Ave 2nd Fl (btw S. Marks Pl & E 7th St), New York
NY 10003 map,
+1-212-673-5424
Still more NYC anime sites
Anime Hit
Anime social networking site started and run by folks from the
Anime Castle store.
The site is up and running, but it is also somewhat under construction.
(This domain animehit.com was once used for
Anime Castle’s collection of anime links,
and then apparently for a video sharing site.)
MY STADY
Anime-related blog by Alain-Christian
Medium at Large
Official blog of the
New York Comic Con (NYCC) and the
New York Anime Festival (NYAF).
Covers certain anime-related and manga-related events throughout the year.
Lawrence Brenner
Among his many other activities, Lawrence cosplays (as Lupin III and as Saito
Wikipedia
of Section 9 from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), and he
takes and publishes pictures and videos of anime-related activities.
See his YouTube channel.
Something
Deeper: Anime, Manga and Comics
JP’s
Anime Blog
Anime Angel Blue’s
Cosplay Anime Angel Blue is active in NYO! Cosplay.
Momo Mashimaro Studios is a
New Jersey-based proli