Animate to open at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Kansai! In addition to selling anime goods, there will also be a pop-up space!Animate Co., Ltd. has decided to open a store in the “Sky Plaza Area” at the 2025 World Expo, Japan (hereinafter referred to as the Osaka-Kansai Expo)!

Animate is a specialty store for anime, comics, and games, with 124 stores across Japan and 12 stores in countries and regions such as China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States, selling products such as anime, comics, and games.

The “Sky Plaza Area” where the store will open this time is located in a location close to the overseas pavilions, and will be an area where you can enjoy the diversity of the future, including facilities where you can enjoy food and drinks from around the world and stores that are working to realize a future society with an awareness of the SDGs. In addition to selling anime goods, the store plans to create a pop-up space where Japan’s proud anime works and related products will be exhibited, with themes changing every period.

Animate, as one of Japan’s leading anime stores, aims to be a store that can be enjoyed by many customers both in Japan and overseas.

△ Animate promotional character “Anime Manager”

[Store name] Animate Osaka Kansai Expo Store

[Event period] April 13th to October 13th, 2025

[Event location] Osaka Yumeshima Sky Plaza Area Ringside Marketplace West 1st floor

*Please note that the content may be changed, postponed, or canceled due to various circumstances.

Animate is a specialty store for anime, comics, and games that operates both in Japan and overseas, and opened its first store, Animate Ikebukuro, in front of Ikebukuro Sunshine City in March 1983. Since then, it has expanded to 124 stores across Japan, and 12 stores outside of Japan in major East Asian cities such as Shanghai, Seoul, Bangkok, and Taipei, as well as Los Angeles in North America, selling products such as anime, comics, and games (as of the end of September 2024).

Animate Ikebukuro Main Store will expand in March 2023, and will be recognized by the Guinness World Records™ as the Largest anime shop/store in March 2024. Animate Umeda in Umeda, Osaka is scheduled to relocate and renovate in November 2024.

In order to spread anime culture around the world, we are developing stores where customers can enjoy themselves.

・”Animate” homepage

・”Osaka-Kansai Expo” homepage