Asahiya Books closing in NYC

[Madara]

Asahiya Books on E. 45 St. is one of the few places I've been able to get brand new H!P and other J-pop releases. Well, they're closing for good. They've been around at one location or another as long as I've been into Japanese films/anime/manga/music. But they were never very western-friendly. (Unlike the refurbished Kinokuniya.) For one thing, they were way more expensive than any other place. But they often had sales.



Anyway, I was there tonight and I finally picked up that Rika Ishikawa "Most Crisis! in Hawaii" DVD that I've been curious about. Plus a BoA CD/DVD ("The Face"), a TM Network CD ("The Singles One") and three Final Fantasy XI soundtrack CDs (once recommended to me by Kappa). That's 6 items and the discounted price for all of them came out to $37.02. Plus, since I had a members' card with some more discounting on it, the whole thing came out to $27.52. Not bad. But still, I hate to see the store go.



But they don't have much left, if any of you in the New York area want to check it out.

[sadude]

Excellent, thanks for the tip. I haven't been there in a while, but I'll see if I can stop by tomorrow.



I am sad to see it go as well. It was the shiniest of the bookstores. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ryalot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':XD:' />