Are you an Anime fan in the Greater Cleveland Area? You're in luck. Aside from the surprising amount of anime titles one can find in your average neighborhood video rental store (Blockbuster's, Hollywood Video, York Video, etc), you're at most an hour's drive from two excellent specialty video stores. Both of these stores have to be seen to be believed, and I highly recommend any local otakus to check them out.
Retropolis is located at 12816 Detroit Ave (Lakewood OH) open on Wednesday through Sunday (12-8pm), and can be reached at (216) 227-8577. This store specializes exclusively in Anime, with a tiny bit of Manga, toys, and some random Hong Kong live-action titles on the side.
B-Ware Video (13367 Madison Ave, Lakewood, 216-521-2210) is a different kind of creature entirely. Packed full of B-Movies, art films, foreign films, indie films, horror films, and anything else imaginable, it also carries several shelves' full of anime.
We now have a local anime convention in Cleveland, namely ColossalCon. Of course, there's always the bigger conventions down in Columbus - OhayoCon and the massive Origins.