CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

So has anyone heard of these? I think it's utter genius. I first heard about them from my uncle, who lived in Japan for a period of time. He said there are "cafes" where you can go and pay a certain amount of money to read as much manga as you want. For example, you can pay for 30 minutes, and read as much as you want for 30 minutes. Isn't that awesome?!? I wish we had those in the US but I don't think manga is quite that popular... *yet*

Here is a link to more information on manga cafes: http://www.tjf.or.jp/eng/ge/ge27mangakissa.htm

Something to add to your "when I go to Japan" to-do list!

wow, that would be so freaking cool! I wonder if that kind of idea would fly at all here...that would rock. maybe combined with like...an internet cafe or something like that.

Well that site said that most manga cafes also offer internet, music, tv and video games... so I guess there's pretty much something for everybody.

Wow! Those would be a really neat way to preview manga and anime while having fun with friends.

Being the freeloader I am, I could do the same at Barnes and Noble for free, but the selection here would be MUCH larger, not to mention the free drinks. I can't argue with free drinks. *Puts this on his "To-Do-If-I-Ever-Go-To-Japan List*

Wow, that sounds like paradise! I'd pay to get drinks and all the manga I can read!

They actually do have manga in some of the boba and tapioca tea cafes by my house, but it's only Shounen Jump and it's all in Chinese. u_u;

*dies* TAKE ME TO JAPAN!! But teach me Japanese first....^^;;;

oh! I have one kind of close to my house. I have never been in, though. ^-^;;

That would be fun.
Now all it would take is say MONEY and the knowledge of Japanese.
I could see someone like Yumiko from Read Or Die or Michelle and
Maggie from the sequel to it R.O.D The Tv spending literally forever in a place like that.As long as there's books involved.

I've seriously thought about opening something like this after I get my business major. But I'd have to do alot of research to see if it would be something you could make money doing.

When I visited a friend in LA, she took me to a boba drink place called Tea Spirit, I think. Anyway, this was a very hardcore Asian place and they had bookshelves on one wall, filled with manga and Japanese maganizes for people to read. I don't know if you had to pay or not, but I thought that was cool. It would be nice if there was such a place closer to home.

I remember reading about those online once. Sounds pretty cool. It would actually be something I could see some College Anime club doing....lol.

ShiroiHikari wrote:wow, that would be so freaking cool! I wonder if that kind of idea would fly at all here...that would rock. maybe combined with like...an internet cafe or something like that.

Dude.. that would be awesome!

Sounds awesome! I wanna go to one! ^_^
Osaka if you open one you will have to tell us all!

Why Pay?!? As Fireproof said, just visit your local B&N. And if you feel like you have to pay[you masochists], then buy something from the Starbucks cafe....

About manga cafes in America... there is one with over 200,000 titles that just opened in New York! Not sure if they're translated/not translated/both, but still with that many titles and paying only $5 to read as many as you want... what a bargain!

EDIT: there's over 20,000 made up of both orginal and translated manga

Tenshi no Ai wrote:About manga cafes in America... there is one with over 200,000 titles that just opened in New York! Not sure if they're translated/not translated/both, but still with that many titles and paying only $5 to read as many as you want... what a bargain!

EDIT: there's over 20,000 made up of both orginal and translated manga

20,000 titles!? Oh my gosh. I wouldn't even know where to start!

The site that you linked to is really cool. ^^ It has alot of valuable information on it.
Thanks for linking it! *bookmarks it*
And yes, the idea of a manga cafe is VERY neat...though expensive >"<