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U.K.

From personal experience, there are a number of good places to go:
In London: Forbidden Planet (New Oxford St), Japan Centre (Piccadilly), Yaohan Centre (Edgware), and 2nd hand bookshops for manga etc. outside the Yaohan Centre and in Brewer St. (?).
The Japan Centre has some videos you might find very interesting: original Miyazaki, also World Masterpiece Theater movie versions and suchlike. Bring your credit card...
The Virgin Megastore at Oxford Circus has the largest stock of UK anime videos.
For comics, there are two shops a few minutes from the British Museum. There's also a Japanese bookshop just by St Paul's Underground - in a pedestrian precinct.
Also try the Chinese district around Gerrard St, Soho, for mangas and PAL anime videos.
Outside London there's a comic shop in Aylesbury, and also the Sheffield Space Centre. The latter does mail order.
There was a more detailed version of this list at the Animejin site but I can't get it anymore. Try Britanime instead.
Generally, anime videos, mostly Manga Video, can be found in videostores, though non-Manga titles are rather thin on the shelves. Remember that you can order current U.K. videos from ANY high street video outlet, so long as the distribution chain can reach there (ask!).

If you want videos released in, say, the USA or France, it is, at the moment, quite legal to order them from another EC country for your own use. It's also legal to carry in such unlicensed videos for your own use (provided that they don't contravene the obscenity laws, of course!) A number of French market anime videos are, I'm told, released in PAL as well at in SECAM. A list of these is given in the French section.

SHOP BY PHONE. You can mail order any current UK-market anime by ringing 0990-334578 (UK). If you live somewhere else, search for the HMV International web site.

Manga Video news and stuff, online shopping for videos. Check Catalogue. You can order a large selection of subtitled Manga Videos not available in shops. Take care to specify it's the subtitled version you want.

Pioneer. Pioneer USA website for software.

Otaku Publishing Commercial site; catalogue; also has a few reviews of UK anime.

USA

Buy>Anime Plus Various.
Manga Entertainment Inc.
Sakura Soft Games
Central Park Media
Nikaku Animart Various
AD Vision
Pioneer. Pioneer USA website.

WWW.Jlist.com Various

France

A list of videos from Kaze Animation, said to be available in both SECAM and PAL video formats.
"Anyway, here's the list of stuff indicated to be available in PAL. (Apart from the Hentai column which I wasn't looking at...)"
D=dub, S=sub.
Armitage III 1-4 D
Baoh D
Bubblegum Crisis 1-6 S
Burn Up S
Lodoss War 1-6 S
1-3 D
Dancougar D
DBZ 12 D
El Hazard 1-3 D
GE 999 D
Golden Boy 1-3 D
Gunsmith Cats 1-2 D
Iria 1-3 S
Kamui D
Kishin Heidan 1-4 D
Kojiro 1-4 D
Kojiro Film D
Mysterious Cities of Gold 1-6 D
Legend of Lemnear S
Macross II 1-3 D
Maps 1-2 S
Magical Twinlight 1-3 D
Moldiver 1-3 D
"Moonlight la Pierre de Lune" D
(don't know what this is)
KOR (OAV?) 1-3 D
Plastic Little D
Green Legend : Ran 1-3 D
Tatoon Master 1 D
Tenchi Muyo 1-3 D
The Cockpit D
Yoma D
Phantom Quest Corp 1-3 D
+ ("I have these, although they weren't listed")
Ranma 1/2 OAV 1-2 S
(Should be #3 too? Haven't seen it though...)
[thanks to:- Matt Francis]

Japan

[I haven't tried using the company entered below but you can check out their website- G.C.]

We are a Japanese company based in Tokyo. We have access to all the new anime products as soon as they are released, as well as out of print goods. We have just set up a new web site introducing Japanese animation products and information.Our goal is to provide people with information about new releases and latest trends.
You can find us at http://www.animerica.com We hope to hear from you soon.
[G.Cowie 26.9.98]