Animon News

  • Dear Animon Shoppers,

    In observance of the upcoming Independence Day holiday and our team’s attendance at Anime Expo 2026, there will be temporary changes to our store hours, fulfillment schedule, and customer support response time.

    📍 San Francisco Store

    • Closed: July 4

    • July 1, 2 & 6: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

    • July 3 & 5: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    📍 Hayward Store

    • Closed: July 1 - 12

    • Our team will be attending Anime Expo 2026, find us at WH-1128!

    📦 Online Orders Notice

    • Order processing & fulfillment will be temporarily paused beginning June 26th.

    • Processing resumes July 8. (i.e.g., if you placed an in-stock order on June 26th, it won’t be processed after July 8th).

    • Due to higher-than-usual inquiry volume, email responses may take up to 72 hours

    ✅ Ongoing events and preorder updates remain unaffected.

    We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this busy convention season, and we look forward to seeing many of you at Anime Expo 2026!

    Our Anime Expo 2026 catalog will be live soon.

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Upcoming Event

Genshin Impact: Fun in the Snow Pop-Up Event

Travelers, Genshin Impact: Fun in the Snow is coming to Animon Life starting July 25, 2026! Visit our San Francisco Japantown and Hayward retail stores to shop the new official Fun in the Snow merchandise collection, featuring six Genshin Impact characters in a cozy winter theme. Enjoy themed in-store displays and exclusive event freebies available while supplies last.

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NorCal Bay Area’s FIRST

Collective Mobile Game Theme Shop. Find us in San Francisco and the East Bay Hayward.
⭐ Find your trusted official merchandise
⭐ Decorated, hand-crafted, and curated space with different theme.
⭐ Small business founded by a group of ACG enthuastics.

Physical Store Locations

Find out about our past events here

Multiple vintage televisions displaying cartoon characters and text, stacked with stereo speakers, a DVD player, and other audio equipment, creating a retro entertainment setup.
Display shelves in a store featuring Genshin Impact merchandise, including keychains, pins, and postcards.
Entrance of a retail store named Anim, with glass doors, purple shelves inside, and posters of animated characters on the window.
Black bookshelf filled with video game cases and a cardboard cutout of a character from the game 'Splatoon'.
Shelves filled with anime-themed merchandise including keychains, pins, stickers, and other collectibles in a retail store.

Cosplay Gathering Recap

Animon’s first “Bay Area Autumn Season: Cosplay Gathering,” a Hoyoverse fan-run theme social event where we encourage all local bay area attendees, cosplayers, photographer to hang out on September 21, 2024.

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    -Animon Life