During last week I went to São Paulo with my family, and I wanted to go specially because of a certain place: it's the Bairro da Liberdade (literally Freedom neighborhood in portuguese), nicknamed Liba by brazilians. Well, thing is, this place has many japanese people who came from migration decades ago, and is where they set up their homes. They currently use it to spread some of their culture of commerce, and that's the part I love.
Liba is known by most brazilians as the source of japanese food, animes and mangas, as well as accessories and a bit of culture in overall. Unfortunately, coreans and chinese people have been coming to the same place and kind of mixing all up, putting the japanese people aside. But you still can find a lot of things related to Japan there. In there I got the opportunity to taste many Japan foods I always had the curiosity for:
Gyoza, Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki, Miso Soup, Ramen and of course,
Pocky!! And many different types of Pocky: Chocolate, strawberry, crunchy chocolate and crunchy strawberry. Hehe..:P Liba is a great source of Pocky.
Now, if you go to Liba to find anime/manga related stuff, your place is SoGo Plaza Shopping.
It has 3 floors full of stores dedicated to anime and manga. Most stores contain
gashapons (anime action figures),
DVDs (from animes, tokusatsu, music artists, films, live actions and dramas),
mangas (a lot of them), and minor accessories such as clothes and keyrings. Below are some pictures of products me and my sister took while in there:
Like I said it's really fun. It's worth to check if you are the "Otaku" kind of person. That's it of Liba for now. Maybe I can add some other stuff such as food places around there.
Comments, anyone?
