A fantastic selection of anime merch and blind boxes. They have such a good array of ichiban kujis to try! This review is belated, but I wanted to praise Li-Wei for being such an excellent store clerk! We went in on the Pokémon kuji and did fairly well. However, we tried to chase one of the prizes. He was so encouraging and positive that it made a financially painful decision so fun. They have a deal where you buy three kujis in one transaction, they give you a small discount. However, I think the more unique kujis are more expensive because they are rarer to find in the US. read more

So much good vibes inside the store. It's an amazing shop with tons of awesome merch! If you're into gacha then come inside and play.

So I don't really like anime at all but I'm very much into short form animation and yurukawaii type mascots. I like to drop by different places like this and see what's available. Usually I'm just happy to find some Chiikawa or Sanrio stuff but this place really surprised me. There is merch from Youtuber Kawaisouni here. I'm a huge fan but I have never heard of any non-Japanese knowing about Npo-chamu etc. as I don't think the episodes are even subtitled in English... I was super happy and totally ready to grab an Opanchu Usagi keychain but it was a very unhappy $14, so I figured I could live without it. For a 2D acrylic keychain I thought this pricing was wack. Everything I saw was so expensive that anything I was remotely interested in became immediately unappealing when I realized how much it was. The gacha is $2 per token, with everything costing upwards of 3-5 tokens (if not sold out already). I am honestly not sure who could pay $10 for a tiny plastic trinket in this economy. Overall, I really wasn't very impressed by most of the things I saw (standard trending anime figures, plushies, etc), but I have to say the selection here was really surprising for it being such a small store (I wasn't able to find any Puppet Sunsun stuff though). So, if you're willing to pay an arm and a leg for niche Japanese stuff, it might be worth having a look. read more

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love it good shop highly recommended ,great anime station. Good to stop by. love it good shop highly recommended ,great anime station. Good to stop by. read more

Anime Station - so cute - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

Fun store with gachapon machines reminds us of our time in Japan. Thanks for bringing this here

I got a kaneki tokyo ghoul fukuya plush, i am also getting gifted 2 free tokens as appreciation.

Good service and variety of different fandom and series. Good customer service and staff are very nice and helpful. The merch and prizes are really cute and fun to do. Overall 10/10 read more

We came in on a noble quest for Demon Slayer merch, armed w wallets and way too much enthusiasm!! This store is absolutely anime heaven. Not only did they deliver the goods, they didn't try to drown us in a sea of Funko Pop figures like some kind of vinyl tsunami. No offense to Funko, but sometimes you want a katana, not another tiny plastic head judging your life choices. Parking: Horrible. You'll have to circle back around 8-ish times to find one. Overall, would definitely stop by again when in the area. Parking is awful, but the shop is amazing!! read more

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Walked down the area and place caught my interest. Definitely pretty good things at a fair price. And my lucky spot thus far, I GOT THE SMISKI I WANTED! Definitely recommend anyone to check it out if you wanna try your luck. read more

Anime Station - Smiskies! - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

This place is great. The selection is incredible, would recommend to anyone. They have multiple thinks for all different price points.

Super fun place to spend time w friends! Love coming here~ i got a super cute gacha too!

Great store! Great gachapons and Smiskis highly recommend to anyone in the area. Good food nearby!

Has so much cute things! Would definitely come back often if you're an anime or Disney fan!!

Service is really good, the selection of anime products are full and that they also have Pokémon cards. They have special sales as well.

Nice little store that smelled very nice inside. The worker Angelica was so nice and helpful.

Cool looking store from the outside, but the claw machines are a total ripoff! If you look at them closely, they're definitely designed to make you lose. We tried playing a few times and were always able to pick up the items, but then the item would slip out of the claw at the last minute. Super shady. Also, really expensive to play! read more

Great service and awesome figures. My friend got a Tokyo ghoul plush and it looks pretty sick. They also have a really sick zero statue in the center. read more

Great store, love the gachas. They had really really small trinkets with cool little gacha and vending machines as some of the trinkets.

Came in and stopped by just to look, Angelica was super sweet and helpful! Would come again!

Had dinner at the plaza and shopped at another business, and we were about to get back in the car when we saw anime Station. So yeah, we put away the leftover and explored another shop. I took a photo from outside before heading in, and took a photo of another displayer just inside, but was told by staff that photography was not allowed. Display were laid out neatly. I enjoyed the life size Anime statue in the middle of the store. They have a lot of plushies, Funko Pops and some claw machines too. My sister and nieces also checked out their selections, but we did not end up getting anything. Pricing for the smaller items felt fair, not a "steal". The larger items had no prices at all, so that is a sign that it is not in my budget and there were also many signs informing the customers to NOT touch the merch. Anyway, fun store to explore and window shop, especially to kill some time if stuck on a waiting list for a popular restaurant. And a must for anime collectors. read more

Anime Station - Contraband photo of one of their displays. - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

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I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON A LABUBU!!! Anime Station is such a cute hobby shop. Among their items for sale, they also have gachas, claws, and mystery bags. They have an awesome selection of anime, blind box, and sanrio items, but I wish their mystery bags had more variety. I feel like most of them were AOT, JJK, and Pokémon. I would've been all over a Bluelock or Hatsune Miku bag lol. The service was great! It was fun sharing the excitement of opening up my labubu with the staff. I was so sure these were gonna be sold out, but they sell one per customer and one per set to give everyone a chance to buy one. read more

Its a cool place and if you are an Anime lover and collector its a must to visit. It's not a complete collection but its okay to buy pack. Just for fun. You can't compare if you go in person to Anime Expo. Staff not too friendly but not too bad. read more

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This store always has a really good selection of blind boxes and plushies. I especially like the gachapon wall and small claw machines they have in the corners of the store. I feel like the play to win rate is pretty decent for the pricing and they have a good selection of small plushies. The staff are really friendly and helpful if you need a toy to be moved if it's unreachable or if you wanted to win something in particular. I just purchased a blind box Smiski that was broken in the packaging, but they let me exchange it for a new box which was really kind! read more

Bought a naruto blind box, knew something was strange but gave a benefit of the doubt. Opened it and it turned out to be a fake replica. Would not come back. So much of being authentic. Sakura doesnt match like the picture and she is stiff. I have Sasuke and he was exactly like in the picture. What a bummer. read more

Anime Station - Sakura from naruto blind box - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

There are many Japanese anime products here. It's a very fun and enjoyable place to visit. read more

Anime Station - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

This place is a dream for anime fans! It's packed with a fantastic selection of merchandise, from figures and posters to plushies and even claw machines/gotcha balls. The store itself has a great atmosphere, with shelves full of high-quality products and anime-themed décor that makes it feel like you're stepping into another world. The staff was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly, offering recommendations and answering any questions I had with enthusiasm. I also loved the variety of items available, from classic favorites to newer releases, making it easy to find something for every anime fan. They also have many different mystery boxes like Sonny angels, smiski, and more. If you're into anime, Anime Station is definitely worth a visit. I left with plushie Psyduck and some pins. read more

Anime Station - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

Visited this store while waiting to eat in the plaza. It's super well laid out and clean with a variety of anime/ Japanese toys and collectibles. Also a lot of cool gashapons too. The prices were very fair for the quality of the plushies and accessories. I love crane games so I had to try after seeing all the cute, high quality plushies they had to offer. I was kind of surprised by the crane game prices (2 tokens per play). I exchanged $20 for 10 tokens for better value, otherwise it was $5 for 2 tokens. I won the sleeping charizard on the first try. The cranes were very mobile and the claw itself actually had good grip on the prizes. Definitely will be back again. It was a fun place to visit :) read more

Anime Station - Crane game prizes - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

amazing selection and great service very nice place they have anime playing in the background

Selection is plentiful but some of the merch are obviously fake/not authentic. Service is a hit or miss, mostly a miss. I saw another customer exchange their duplicate gacha toy and I asked the girl worker who told me she will exchange if you get duplicates, nothing else. Lo and behold, I got a duplicate but because I "opened" it (not the package but from the gacha plastic ball), she can't exchange it. There was no tape or seal around the gacha ball. I asked her how would you know if you got a duplicate... her reply? "Sometimes you can see through the hole". On another visit, this same worker didn't let me choose my kuji prize (from the lower prizes with multiple options). She just handed me a random one but if you play kujis you should know that customers are able to choose from what is available. Never supporting this business again read more

I usually go to Anime Station when I feel like I'm in the mood to eat in the area! The selection of items is great due to having gashapons and claw machines! The service is great because even the owners saw how eager I was to win this Pokémon and the value of items are good if you play ichiban kujis! They usually have a discount if you buy 3 tickets! read more

Anime Station - Plushie - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

I make it a habit to swing by every week to check for anything new or that I might've missed. Sometimes just browsing, but always find something interesting read more

Anime Station - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

Had just left Infinity Claws, and as a die hard anime fan, I decided to pay Anime Station a visit. As a vlogger I enjoy documenting my visits to arcades, hobby shops and restaurants. I was taking pictures of their claw machines because I was excited to see they had some, when suddenly an employee came up to me to tell me that photos and video recording are not allowed (which I'm surprised now that I looked at reviews because there are many reviews with photos). Anyway, respectfully, I apologized and explained that it was my first time there. I later went to the register to purchase (overpriced) tokens for the claw machines (extremely rigged), and the clerk at the register didn't look too happy to help me. While I was playing the claw machines I turned to see the employees looking at me and laughing. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and ignored it, thinking they could have been laughing at something else. They did have a lot of cool anime collectibles though so that was really cool to see, and frankly the only pro. The cons were the poor customer service and their overpriced merchandise. I wanted to love this place, because it gave me shops at Little Tokyo vibes, but my experience there was an extreme disappointment. I am hoping this was an isolated incident, and if I'm in the area again MAYBE I'll give this place another chance, but it's definitely not at the top of my list of places I want to revisit. Tl/dr: Employees are rude and unfriendly, their merchandise is overpriced (some of it even fake), and the claw machines are rigged. read more

Anime Station - Anime Station exterior - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

Very hilariously, when you drive a bit more deeply into Diamond Plaza, the sign for Anime Station is calls out to you in its eye catching DBZ font. This is another one of their store branches, with the other one being in Little Tokyo and I'm glad Rowland Heights gets another source of anime goodness (here's hoping that they have events just like the one in LT too). My inherent fear for visiting any anime store is that it'd be a cesspool for normies or 80% Funko Pops, but I'm glad this isn't one of them! There's only a small corner of them lol. But I digress. This is a pretty solid anime merch store and a great place to visit and look around once you're walking off a meal here. There are crane machines, the gachapon token machines, mystery gift bags, prize figures, larger scale figures, keychains/straps, plushies of all sizes, stickers, anime themed and general snacks from Japan, and other miscellaneous goods (acrylic stands, pop sockets, wafer trading card packs, etc.). From what I could see a large number of goods are for these series: Demon Slayer, Spy x Family, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, DBZ, Naruto, Re: Zero, Chainsawman, Kirby, and Vocaloid (obviously mostly Miku). There were also some goods for the Promised Neverland, Death Note, Bleach, Attack on Titan, Ghibli, and Poke'mon. Sadly only 1 FGO item there (Mordred noodle stopper prize figure), but that's alright. Most interesting to me were the anime themed and imported snacks from Japan, mainly the oppai pudding (lol) and the Spy x Family/Poke'mon print cookies. They also surprisingly had some pricey (understandable) goods from Duffy and Friends Disney Asia series which are a bit harder to come by. There's also a life sized (probably) Zoro statue from One Piece for pictures. Overall a decent anime store in the area. Note: It does get SUPER hot in the store but they have some fans turned on throughout. Hoping that this is a temporary thing since they've just opened and eventually they can get a stronger AC system going. read more

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Great anime store! Angelica assisted me with my purchases, she was very friendly! Will be back again so happy I found an anime store so close by! read more

Whether you're a hardcore collector or just getting into anime, this place is a must-visit. Highly recommended! read more

Anime Station - Bookstores Near Me - Rowland Heights, California

Scammers. Asked a price over the phone they told me it's $35 Showed up and said "Nevermind it's $55, we just changed the price" Trash people. You'll see what's coming read more

I love coming to this anime store to browse as their selection is pretty big however their prices are a bit high for some of the stuff there. I like to go there for the mofusand figures! Last time I went unfortunately they were out of stock though. If you like Sonny angels they have a very wide selection! In terms of the claw machines they are all payout based instead of skill based which is disheartening and staff won't rearrange things for you if the items are out of reach of the claw. The staff when I went were very nice and friendly which made the experience good. Depending on what you're looking for you can get things that are hard to find in normal anime stores while others you can find cheaper online or at other stores. Just always keep a lookout and it's fun to browse here! read more

My wife really likes the ufo catchers and they have the mini ones with studio ghibli dolls. You have to exchange money for their tokens. We had our eye on one of them to the side. the claw could not reach. In retrospect we should've aimed for something else or even just skip the store entirely bc the staff member was not helpful. We told him what happened, and he replied saying that likely a previous customer dropped it out of reach and that the store only rearranged prizes in the mornings. We were going not asking for a reasonable chance. read more

I went this afternoon with my daughter to Anime Station to check out the blind boxes and what was in stock. My daughter was excited to see what they have and to check out the store. When we got into the store, we saw two girls behind the register just chit chatting about personal stuff. They were not friendly and didn't even greet us like the duo snack shop a few doors down. When we were browsing , I heard one of the girls say "what the fu*k do white people like". I felt that was not professional and it was said in front of my young daughter. Cursing and a racist comment, not good. There was no apology at least for her comments, they just kept talking and didn't seem interested in running the store. It was evident since no one offered to help us. Overall, definitely not a good experience and will not recommend this place to my friends and family anymore. However, I can tell the business owner loves his store, a lot of great merchandise and it's beautiful inside but the customer service and staffing was disappointing. read more

Wilson & Liwei were great guys here at the anime station! They had a huge variety and really good prices! Cool place ‍