About Us

A Little About Otakume

Who are We?

Otaku ME started out as one man’s passion for the hobby but is now the biggest plastic model hobby shop in the UAE and GCC.

We are the exclusive distributor of giant brands like Tamiya and Bandai in the region. We have also expanded our products range from just solely Gunpla to scale models, anime kits, hobby paints, tools, and supplies. Italeri, Zvezda, Mr. Hobby, Hasegawa, Ammo, Aoshima are just some of the brands we carry and we have so much more.

Whether you are ordering online or through one of our stores, we promise to provide you with excellent customer service and products. We also offer services like building stations, painting stations, Mini 4WD race track, and tutorials on how to build, paint, and enjoy this amazing hobby.

Our main goal is to spread and get more people into the plastic model hobby. We have years of knowledge and experience in building model kits and we are more than happy to share what we know with our customers.

How did this thing happen?

Otaku ME was started up by Qais Sedki, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award winning author of the Gold Ring Arabic manga series. Building Gundam plastic model kits has been a personal interest of Qais' since 2006 when he picked up a model kit on a trip to Japan. Since then, he's been hooked and started picking up a few kits with every new trip to Japan. As Qais got more interested in plastic modelling, especially of Gundam kits, he wondered if others shared the passion and took quick steps to test the market for interest in a regional online retailer for these kits. Sure enough, there was quite an appetite for these kits and Otaku ME took off.