Selling anime and making anime are, of course, two very different things.
Follow Casey on Twitter, where he’s thinking he really should make another trip to Animate and/or Matsumoto sometime soon.
For anime characters, does the light novel section count as non-fiction?
Several other Twitter users who’ve also been to Animate’s Matsumoto branch chimed in to say that they too were startled to find Hanamaru doing some shopping right next to them.