China Capital Arts

As previously mentioned in the first blog, a China Capital Arts used to be in Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.  Though it is no longer there, there are still China Capital Arts stores located in places like Taylor Kalamazoo, and Portage.  I felt it was a unique shopping location worth visiting and blogging about.  Personally, I hope that they open another one closer to the former location in Great Lakes Crossing but I went to the Taylor location that was quite similar to the one in Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.

China Capital Arts has an interesting array of merchandise.  There are a lot of collectibles and décor items.  Most of the themes of the décor are Asian culture.  There are a lot of Buddha type decorations, which include little Buddha to nearly life size Buddha.  There are also stereotypical Asian decorations like gongs.  In addition, there are various cat decorations that I would have to assume are part of the Asian culture.   These are everything from cat clocks to giant white tiger statues.  There are also Chinese tables, lucky bamboo plants, fountains, and incense holders with incense. 

People who are interested in Anime or Japanese culture would love this store.  There are countless anime movies and Manga books.  They have stuffed animals of a variety of Anime characters.  They also have body pillows and blankets of Anime characters.   Pokémon is a huge part of this Anime collection in China Capital Arts.  Along with a few other Pokémon characters, there are Pikachu hats, slippers, mittens, gloves, backpacks, shirts, etc.  There was a whole display of Pikachu merchandise.  There is also Anime merchandise for Naruto, Final Fantasy, Vampire Knight, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, and Fruits Basket.  There are Cosplay costumes that allow people to dress up like characters in Animes for events like Halloween or Anime Conventions.  They have video game merchandise too.  There is a huge Yoshi stuffed animal bigger than me in addition to Mario toys, stuffed animals, soundtracks etc.  Most of the videogame stuff was Mario but there were other games like Legend of Zelda too. 

China Capital Arts sells a lot of weapons used for things like martial arts or even just decoration.  The biggest selection is of swords.  While there, I saw someone buy a Legend of Zelda sword and shield based off the video game.   This is just one of the many swords and shields that China Capital Arts sells as seen in the picture below.  In addition to swords, there are all different sizes of knives.  Some seem to be a Chinese style but there are others that were military knives.  Moreover, they even sell shurikens, which are Japanese throwing knives that look like stars.  Along with swords, shields, and knives, they sell nunchucks. 

China Capital Arts also sells random items.  There are all types of water pipes, hookahs, and other glass or wooden pipes.  The also sell Harry Potter wands.  There are a lot of Japanese food items too, everything from sushi making kits, to cook books, to Japanese candy like pocki and mochi.  It was sort of ironic that a Chinese store would sell so many Japanese things.  Nonetheless, this store was an interesting and fun place to shop.