Every year around my birthday I end up at B F Clyde’s Cidar Mill and then Old Mystic Village to celebrate. We were a few weeks late this year but I was super happy to see a few new shops in the village, one of which was this anime shop, the likes of which I’ve never been in before.

We were immediately greeted with life size Dragon Ball statues (and look at me knowing where they were from! There’s hope for me yet.) The ceiling was adorned with paper lanterns and the isles were full of anime inspired plush toys, including a whole Hello Kitty corner which I’ll admit had a squishmallow type plushie that was sooo soft I almost lugged it home!

From here the back wall was one big bookshelf for comic anime and the other section of the store was all noodles and novelty snack foods. I couldn’t identify most of them. Maybe next time I’ll be brave and try something, on this day I was already stuffed to the gills on apple cidar doughnuts.