Clean up on aisle six! Japanese supermarkets are awash with gaming-related food and snacks.
These photos were taken a several different supermarkets over the course of a month. Many of the supermarkets had the same products, but some items (like the Pokemon fermented beans) were a bit harder to find.
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While Inazuma Eleven and Pokemon certainly have anime tie-ins, I didn't snap photos of purely anime or manga related goodies. The number of Pokemon related products alone is simply staggering.
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