/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>23286336
The first album I got was Akyuu's Untouched Score vol 2 (Mystic Square OST) from Ebay. It was like $40, so I wouldn't recommend that.

For the two latest albums, I got them from Toranoana/Melonbooks (can't remember which) via a proxy service. Averaging out the shipping cost with the other stuff I ship out simultaneously, the cost for both was about $20, or $10 each.

For everything else, I went to Japan in 2016 and bought all of the other PC-98 and ZUN CDs at a shop called サーパラショップ, which IIRC was the last purist 2hu shop in Akihabara. It closed in early 2019, but honestly I'm surprised it lasted even that long, since they really only had a small set of merchandise that could mostly be found elsewhere (like Akiba-Hobby, which was still doing good in 2019).

So I'd basically do it in this order:
>New
Melonbooks
Toranoana
Akiba-Hobby
Akibao
>Used lightly
Surugaya
Melonbooks
Mandarake
>Used
Yahoo Auctions
Ebay (West)

All of the above have some form of online store, so once the corona situation is under control it would probably be best to hunt through these sites and use a buying/proxy service.