[Gokudera]

Between the economy being in the state it is now, the fact that anime is still very much underground, and amount of money it takes to translate/import merchandise I'm not suprised by the fact that anime stores are closing down.
Where I live anime isn't very popular. I went to the bookstore last month, and they got rid of one whole shelf of manga. Considering that they only had one asile with manga, I was very depressed. I think that we're lucky to even have an anime convention in this state at all. >.>