Need help in finding anime related shops in the UK

Where abouts in the UK are they heading?

This link should be a uesful guide

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G6-Nj6Vby54J:www.ryouko.demon.co.uk/ukshop.htm+UKI+anime+shops%5D&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

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Tokyo Toys isnt on that list for some reason- Its probably considered the biggest anime shop in England, ( even though it is a very small shop).
Its on London- heres the link

http://www.tokyotoys.com/

However the website does not include all the items in the shop by a long way- as I discovered when i went there- which is annoying.

Tokyo Toys is really the only place in retail you can get figures, but they are expensive due to the import fees. For anime DVD's try Forbidden Planet. There's a mega store not too far from Tokyo Toys in London.

Personally, I would say to stay away from Tokyo Toys unless you're fully prepared to pay way-over-the-top prices or don't mind bootlegs ^^;

To be honest the UK isn't a particularly good place to buy figures. There are a few decent domestic online stores, but as far as physical ones go they're either overpriced or don't carry much in the way of interesting stock. Anime DVDs can be found in regular stores like HMV, as well as some of the better comic book stores (like Space Centre in Sheffield, and Forbidden Planet). Some comic book stores may also carry imported art books, magazines and manga in Japanese. Manga can be found in comic book stores and chain book stores.

If they're going to be in reach of central London, the Japan Centre near Regent Street has a good (if expensive) range of merchandise, manga and magazines like Shounen Jump, all in Japanese.

I'd say that most of us in the UK buy primarily online.