Anime fans shouldn't choose between streaming and owning. We're building an independent anime retailer focused on increasing physicals.

Anime fans still want physical media.

We're building a retailer dedicated to making more anime Blu-rays, DVDs, and manga available by purchasing existing releases in larger quantities and putting them directly in front of fans.

Streaming has made anime easier to watch than ever. But watching something isn't the same as owning it.

Physical anime and manga are becoming harder to find, retailers are carrying less of it, and the availability of many titles can depend on whether a store believes there is enough demand to justify carrying them.

So we're going to try something different.

We're starting an independent anime retailer whose goal is simple:

Buy more physical anime.

Sell more physical anime.

Keep the physical market alive.

But we're not asking you to simply fund a store.

We're asking you to help us prove that the demand is still here.

If enough people want this, we'll find out just how far we can take it.

And if we succeed, we hope the results won't just benefit Cherry Hill.

They'll give the industry something it needs: evidence that fans are still willing to show up for physical media.

Help us start the snowball.

Your contribution helps us take the first step toward building the infrastructure, purchasing the inventory, and testing the model.

Every contribution helps us get closer to answering one very important question:

How much can fans accomplish when they collectively decide what they want to see available?

And so…We believe there is another way.

Instead of watching physical anime become harder to find, we're going to increase the amount we buy using your requests as a measure of interest.

If there's demand, we'll stock it.

When…

You tell us what you want. We buy it.

We'll create a landing page where fans can tell us which anime and manga they want to see available.

That information gives us something traditional retailers don't always have: a direct measure of what fans are asking for.

The more people who tell us what they want, the more leverage we have when approaching distributors and making larger purchasing decisions.

That creates a simple feedback loop:

Fans tell us what they want → we buy it → fans buy it → the demand becomes measurable → we use that information to buy more.

The goal isn't simply to become another anime retailer.

It's to demonstrate just how much demand for physical anime and manga is actually out there.

We're testing a different way to do anime retail.

We don't want to argue about whether the physical anime market is worth investing in.

We want to measure it.

By allowing fans to directly tell us what they want, we can turn those requests and purchases into real information about demand.

That information can eventually show publishers, distributors, creators, and other retailers what fans are actually asking for.

We're not promising that we can fix the entire industry overnight.

We're building an experiment to find out how far this model can go.

Funding Breakdown

250k.…………………...Warehouse acquisition

250k.……………………. Fulfillment operations

250k………………….Incorporation/staff costs

We're being upfront about where the money goes because this isn't about asking people to simply trust us.

We want you to be able to see what your contribution is helping build.

The goal is to establish the infrastructure necessary to purchase, store, fulfill, and sell physical anime and manga at a scale large enough to test whether this model can work.

Where we are now

We see this as a opportunity to show publishers, distributors, and creators just how serious the demand for manga and anime really is and publicly fund a experiment on how we think anime should be done in terms of logistics and availability. Help us start this snowball by funding us today!

We don't know how far this can go yet.

We do know that anime fans still want physical media.

We know that retailers are carrying less of it.

And we know that doing nothing guarantees that things won't improve.

So we're going to try something different.

We're starting an independent anime retailer whose goal is simple:

Buy more physical anime. Sell more physical anime. Keep the physical market alive.

We'll show you what works, what doesn't, who says yes, who says no, and what we learn along the way.

If enough people want this, we'll find out just how far we can take it.