Comic Toranoana
{{Short description|Japanese company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Toranoana Inc.
| logo =
| type = Kabushiki kaisha
| foundation = July 22, 1996
| location = Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
| area_served = Japan
| products = Books, magazines
| revenue = JPN 20,000,000
| homepage = {{url|www.toranoana.jp}}
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Comic Toranoana (コミックとらのあな) is a dōjin shop operated by the Toranoana Inc. (株式会社 虎の穴). This shop specializes in selling manga-related items. It is also known by the name, "Toranoana", or simply, "Tora".
History
In 1996, the company was established as a yugen kaisha. Soon the company expanded, with Akihabara as a center of this expansion, to many places in Tokyo and other large cities. Then in 2003, the company was converted into a kabushiki kaisha.
Name
The name, "Toranoana", comes from the name of the professional wrestling company of the same name in the anime series Tiger Mask.
List of stores
File:Comic Toranoana Akihabara 20070811.jpg
Currently there are 15 stores in Japan, three of which closed a few years ago.
=Japan=
- Sapporo store (Hokkaidō)
- Sendai store (Miyagi)
- Akihabara main store (Tokyo)
- Akihabara store #2 (Tokyo)
- Ikebukuro store (Tokyo)
- Shinjuku store (Tokyo)
- Machida store (Tokyo)
- Yokohama store (Kanagawa)
- Nagoya store (Aichi)
- Umeda store (Osaka)
- Namba store #1 (Osaka)
- Namba store #2 (Osaka)
- Sannomiya store (Hyogo)
- Hiroshima store (Hiroshima)
- Fukuoka store (Fukuoka)
=Taiwan=
- Taipei store (Taipei)
External links
{{Commons category|Toranoana}}
- [http://www.toranoana.jp/ Official Site] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Retail companies based in Tokyo
Category:Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Category:Retail companies established in 1996
Category:Japanese companies established in 1996
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