How to buy from Mandarake from overseas
Mandarake is the best-known secondhand specialist for manga, doujinshi, vintage anime merchandise, production cels and collector toys. Stock is listed per physical store, which affects how orders ship.
Either service works
If you can complete the order yourself, use your free Japanese address and we will forward it. If the shop rejects your card or address, send us the link instead and we will buy it for you.
Mandarake does ship internationally on its own. Use us when you want to combine it with orders from other shops into a single parcel, or for items it will not send to your country.
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What to know before you order from Mandarake
- Every item is held at a specific branch — Nakano, Sahra, Grandchaos and others. Items from different branches ship separately and are charged separately.
- Where you can, filter to a single branch. It keeps domestic shipping down before we consolidate everything into one international parcel.
- Vintage stock here is genuinely one-off. Unlike new goods, a sold item does not come back.
Worth knowing
Items sometimes sell in the physical store before the website updates, so an order can be cancelled shortly after being placed.
How it works
- Send the link or place the order. Paste the product URL into your account and we quote the total, including our commission, before anything is bought.
- We receive and check it. Your item arrives at our Osaka warehouse, where we photograph it and record its weight and dimensions. Storage is free for the first 30 days.
- Combine with anything else. Keep shopping at other stores. Everything waiting in your warehouse can go into a single parcel, so you pay international shipping once rather than once per shop.
- We pack and ship. Choose your carrier and we repack to remove wasted space, quote the exact rate, and send it with tracking.
What shipping will cost
Shipping is charged on the packed parcel, not per item, so the cost depends on where it is going and what it weighs. Real rates by weight for each destination:
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