Went to Edinburgh Weaverley station yesterday to buy anime related stuff.

Bought Anime blurays from HMV and Fopp. Got 10% off using a bar code in the unidays app.

Visited a model shop called Wanderland Models. Had little gunpla but good prices.

Visited Forbidden Planet. They had some nice figurine Haruhi tucked away in an inconspicuous place. Manga selection was kinda small but they had 3 for the price of 2 promotion. The student discount doesn’t apply for the 2 for 3 deal cause “it’s already discounted.” They also have more and better gunpla tho prices seemed higher. Store is a bit small so it gets crowded easily.

Visited Anime Republic which is a anime merch store near the train station again. There were some decent looking things like keychains but anime hoodies seemed kind of cheaply made. Also a friend told me their merch is not official but I couldn’t say just by looking at it. There were some tables at the back where some people seemed to be playing a trading card game.

Went to Happy Lamb hot pot to eat a hot pot style buffet. It filled me up but not sure it tasted good enough for £36, the “ulitmate” meal. Maybe I should check the cheaper meals. I wouldn’t have minded paying £24 for a similar meal. My friend thought staff was kind of cold compared to last time he was there but I didn’t notice it, though I struggled to communicate with them cause both staff and I have a thick accent. What I can say however is that it kinda felt like a race cause of the 100 minute limit. There was only one set of tongs so it was kinda annoying having to share it, as was keeping track of what I and others put into the hot pot. Still definitely worth trying at least once. The best food was the Wagyu which honestly didn’t taste that different than normal beef for me but then again I like beef. The worst food I put in the hot pot was the eggplant noodles. Go for udon.

Finally went to Blackwell’s bookshop after getting the road wrong a bit cause Edinburgh is not a flat city, at least not this part. By far the best manga and book selection. I wanted to buy the Genki Japanese textbook but it was like £60 or thereabouts. Far more expensive than online.

Heard there might be some anime collab merch at uniqlo but was too tired to go there by this point.

The whole trip cost £200 which included 3 blurays (steins gate, code geass season 1&2, and Gunbuster) and three omnibus volumes 1-3 for £46