I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this. When it was still in business, the Borders in this mall was notorious for having a bunch of teenage otaku losers loitering in the manga aisles, sitting around, not buying anything, and reading all the manga they wanted like a free all-you-can-eat buffet. With the departure of Borders, it would seem appropriate that these weeaboos would need an outlet for their fixation with all things anime and manga related.
But man, talk about a lack of effort in some regards. A nondescript black sign with the most weeaboo word in the entire fucking weeaboo dictionary in all-caps Lucida Console? That just screams “quick, let’s get a store together, name it something really attractive to weeaboos, and fill it with popular anime and Hello Kitty shit, as soon as humanly possible and sell it at marked up prices.“
I’ll give this place until April at the latest, before it goes under. Remember, I used to work at an anime store in a shopping mall. And I can’t imagine this place having as much distributor connections as the place I once worked too, so that means higher costs to the consumers. So in other words, this place could very well become a show room for the many anime crap retailers across the country, and very well be gone by April.
But seriously, “Kawaii?” I’m still kind of surprised it’s taken this long before this to actually come to fruition.
