The Japanese animation store “Torano’s Cave”, which focuses on doujinshi and animation products, issued an announcement today (5th) that shocked the Japanese house circle. Due to the long-term epidemic, the performance has not improved, and it will close 5 branches at the end of August. , since then there is only one “Tiger’s Den” left in Japan.
From Akihabara store A, Shinjuku store, Chiba store in Kanto to Namba store and Umeda store in Kansai, all lights out at the end of August, and Akihabara is the birthplace of Toranoden, which is particularly meaningful. After that, only the Ikebukuro store remained. According to the official announcement, the Ikebukuro store will continue to focus on female doujinshi.
By the way, besides Ikebukuro, the only physical store is in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Tiger’s Cave announcement emphasized that although the closing of the store will lead to a decrease in the sales of directly-operated stores, it has been implemented since last year, and the “in shop” model of using online orders to pick up goods at designated places (usually other brick-and-mortar bookstores) has been implemented. continues to expand. Considering that the epidemic situation in the future is still severe, it has also strengthened the development of online business, including online shopping, or platforms such as Fantia.
Tiger’s Cave also produced a report chart to prove that there have been fewer and fewer customers in physical stores over the years. This is also in line with what was mentioned in the previous financial report of Torano’s Cave, to reduce the physical storefront and increase the model of “shop in shop” and pop-up stores.
Tiger Cave finally mentioned in the announcement that the follow-up issues arising from the closure of the store for the members of “Tiger Marriage” (とら Marriage, which was opened by Tiger Cave) will be addressed in the announcement. A further announcement will be made later.