As you are all already aware, today, August 31, is the last day for the Toranoana Akihabara A store to be in operation.
Speaking of other nearby businesses, Melon Books, another dojinshi specialty store, has a branch just two blocks away from Toranoana’s Akihabara shop.
But that was all ending on Wednesday night, so we made our way out to Akihabara.
This year, August 31 was especially bittersweet for otaku, though, because it marked the final day of the last remaining Akihabara branch of Toranoana, which was once one of Japan’s premier dojinshi (self-published manga) stores.