Physical Manga

Yes, stay mad faggot.

I buy most of my manga. Call me a fucking boomer, but there's just something about having a physical book in your hands. I got into manga with monthly Shonen Jump way back when and I've just been slowly picking up volumes ever since. Right now I'm reading the Yu-Gi-Oh omnibuses for something different.

no one wants to read your blog, reddit.

>Police rookie Kiruko-san
Now that's one manga I'd never thought I'd see on anyone's shelf.

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What does it feel like to buy something in a store with a bunch of huge tits on the cover?

Only original Japanese language Manga I have are series that never got an official English release like Medaka Box

I've only bought two series. Nausicaa in the hardcover box set, and Summit of the Gods.

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>Only original Japanese language Manga I have are series that never got an official English release like Medaka Box

I wish Squid Girl got an English release.

I really only buy what I've enjoyed or what I know am going to re-read in the future.

Same with literature too. Also maximum comfy reading both manga and books in your hands.

I'm currently reading Summit of the Gods at the moment. I'm enjoying how Everest itself is used as a way for characters to conquer their own personal demons and inner conflicts. The amount of obsession and dedication Habu has for climbing is admirable. I've really enjoyed the second volume the most so far especially when he was alone on the mountain and hallucinating. I always try and buy Taniguchi whenever I can since his works have a bad habit of going in and out of print in English. Glad The Walking Man is getting a hardcover re-realse later this year.

>I always try and buy Taniguchi whenever I can
It's twice as expensive buying Taniguchi as anything else. Some of his earlier stuff is very difficult to find.
>Glad The Walking Man is getting a hardcover re-realse later this year
I held off buying that one because it's ridiculously priced on the secondary market. A hardcover release will be affordable comparatively. When it comes to normal books, I try getting them in hardcover whenever possible. Paperbacks are flimsy and annoying. Being able to get some good manga in hardcover will be satisfying indeed.

Only Japanese gochiusa because koi sensei deserves it for bringing my waifu into the world. Figured it was the most direct way to support him less throwing money at him.
and the scanlations are kinda slow so buying and reading the tankoubon is honestly faster.

I missed out on buying The Walking Man in paperback but I'm glad I did now since the hardcover for A Distant Neighbourhood is really nice and one of the most beautiful looking books I own. I love the watercolour cover. Hoping The Walking Man's is just as nice.

I only recently started purchasing physical manga. I’ve always liked collecting things, so I guess this is my new hobby.

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>I only recently started purchasing physical manga. I’ve always liked collecting things, so I guess this is my new hobby.

Same here user.

Own all volumes of

>Mushishi
>Fire Punch
>Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou
>Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa
>Planetes
>Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Wish I had enough money to get all volumes of Vagabond and Kokou no Hito (or to be able to find all of them).

Thank you Mandarake.

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I've got a collection of non-h physical doujinshi. I much prefer digital, I always get stressed over whether I'm bending the pages too much or otherwise damaging the books during reading, hate not being able to bring all my books with me whenever I travel, I also like reading outside, which isn't something I could comfortably do with a physical book. Wish more mangaka would release digital, I get that they're probably concerned about piracy or something, but after a while you can only find things secondhand, if you can find them at all, so it really doesn't make sense to me.
Mangaka get a much larger cut out of digital sales than they do physical ones.

Yes, but generally I avoid English translated manga
Honestly English translated manga is pure garbage, many publishers just don't give a shit and the end result is printed on cheap paper and doesn't come with the extra cover that hides bonus art
Pic related, left from a quality publisher with removable matte cover with glossy accents, right from an English publisher which is just a regular cardboard cover and nothing else
In fact, none of the English manga that I own have those removable covers

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I have a problem. I'm looking to get some Chinese-of-a-Japanese pages translated (got them all in png format), but i have no idea where to look. Where should i ask, and how much will it cost me? 24 pages in total.

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Scratch that - 17 pages.

I used to until I realized just how much money I was spending trying to fill out my shelves. I don't even want to count how many thousands I've spent on my collection. It's just not worth it when I can read it for free on the internet and save it. I'd rather spend my money on things that are harder to get.

trying too hard to fit in

so stop trying so hard, fag.

I usually buy manga in my native language or english and usually buy either the whole manga at once or 5 to 10 volumes at a time. I'll get either Astra Lost in Space or Girls' Last Tour in a couple of weeks.

English translated versions, but I try to only buy releases with good translations and actual effort put into them.
Not always easy to find information about that before buying a volume though.

Good on you for not buying localized shit like the average Yea Forums pleb, OP, even if your taste is irredeemable garbage.

Is this the wrong place to ask?

Cringe.

I buy a mix of English and Japanese manga. I have to really like the series to buy it physically though.

I used to buy a lot as a kid and in my teens but mostly shonen shit. I have the entire collection of dragonball in swedish, everything that was released of one piece in swedish. Entire collection of Claymore, Negima, soul eater and a bunch of other crap. I mostly buy Light novels these days.

Good.

I only buy untranslated (save for a few exceptions) manga for collection's sake, since I can easily read english ones on the net.

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Based and Boneheadpilled

The colours on the spine look so nice on the Japanese editions of Punpun compared to the English release.

Yes, but only in spanish or japanese

Can you actually read Japanese or did you buy these for actually no reason at all?

I try to buy at leasta few volumes of series I enjoy a lot. Translated because what would be the point otherwise.

I buy physical manga occasionally. Mostly in English but I have some stuff (One Piece, Patlabor) in Japanese.

I wanna collect manga that Loved reading digitally.

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french i presume?

>A Distant Neighbourhood
there is a Live adaptation made by french i think

french manga edition are always like the japanese (same size and dust cover)

I tried collecting D-Frag and vol 3 is not in production anymore here..? (Canada)
I tried collecting Mayo-Chiki and dark horse stopped the production of the manga and switched to omnibus.. so gave up.
I’m collecting Bungou Stray Dogs right now and I want to collect Kekkai Sensen but that is out of production..

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Of course.

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The only manga that I loved so much I started geting every new volume of in physical (Japanese) is Houseki no Kuni. I also have a couple of single volumes (Hinamatsuri, Golden Kamui) but am probably not buying more volumes of those. Manga takes too much space compared to my books.

i used to buy physical but with god awful censorship (mainly jojo and some berserk), i just read fan translations

I don't know about Jojo besides the name changes but was anything censored in Berserk in the Dark Horse releases? Unless you're talking about a country other than the US.

>bought physical manga once for something I had already read
>shit is like 8 inches tall

why would I want to cram my face into a book to appreciate the artwork when I can look at it on a screen that's a much larger size?

I don’t typically buy manga, I buy books. I’m not saying that in a snobbish way. I buy classics - Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, Tennyson, Rilke, Goethe, William Gaddis, Julio Cortazar, Ford Madox Ford.

But I put my HxH volumes on the same shelves as them. Proudly. There’s a feeling that resonates deeply with me - that the storming of the palace onward is capital-A ART. That the series’ main focus is to render humanity and nothing more or less. The way all the extremes of human nature are displayed in the Chimera Ant arc feels like reading a sort of contemporary Odyssey. It is epic in the original sense of the word -- something majestic that shines light on the nature of living.

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read more, hxh is pretty bad

sure they dont censor TOO much in berserk, but sometimes it feels a little iffy

pretty good taste

Scan quality, even official scan quality, varies quite a bit. For some stuff the physical release is the only way you're going to get good quality. Though I think for series where this is the case you might have trouble even finding physical versions of it. I've noticed a lot of official digital releases don't splice page spreads together too, which is annoying as shit. And even if you try and fit them together they don't really fit because they were designed with the way a book fits together. I'm fine with either though but sometimes it's just nice having an actual book.

>hxh is pretty bad
>9.13 on mal
user, your opinions aren't facts

based hunterchad

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>mal
lol ok naruto boy

Based and nenpilled

cringe and plebpilled

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Do you have any examples of censorship? Is it censorship of the actual art or just translations that you disagree with?

I buy Polish translations, I'm pretty poor and shipping from Japan is really expensive here

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My humble weeb shelf. I need to find better shelving with good support.

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I only buy those that I reallly like

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I'm jelly.

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I only own the first vol of Citrus, nothing more.

That goddamned volume 6 color. When I first bought it I thought I had got the wrong edition or something.

I do. I prefer the English translation. I have a lot of them. Too many to photograph.

I'd get really pissed off having an incomplete work on my shelf so for my own sanity I can't.
Not paying the prices I saw for completed work boxsets either, I like reading this shit but not that much, I read for free already so its like they're trying to retroactively bill me.

I buy manga physically whenever I can, I despise reading on my phone/pc/etc. Something comfy about having actual books. Takes up space pretty quick, though.
Right now I've got Nichijou, Girl's Last Tour, Chibi Vampire, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and Machimaho on my 'to-buy' list.
even though the English releases for Machimaho take way too fucking long

My sister owned old manga and I asked to inherit it. I also had to order the last volume of Rumiko Takahashi's One Pound Gospel to finish the whole manga.

I was thinking about buying Girl's Last Tour cause I watched the anime and really liked it. Would it be worth getting the manga or would I just read all the same stu egg f I already saw?

Only physical manga I've bought is in Japanese because it is unlikely it'll be translated to Spanish

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>Latin and 100 Handred
Nice, I was thinking about picking them up soon myself. RIP Enaga

All my shelf space is occupied by regular books so I have to stack my small collection in a drawer.

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The manga's definitely worth a read if you really liked the anime. It followed the manga really closely, but even re-reading the parts I watched was still a good time, Plus the parts after the anime ends are great. The ending is really well done too.

I think I'll buy it then. Thanks!

I do Japanese as practice and English to read most of the time.

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I only buy physical if the series is less than 15 volumes or the manga has a boxset. Some exceptions are made for manga in my 3x3 like Berserk and Dorohedoro

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>The author of Machimaho throwing a bitch fit towards scanlations made people not bother scanlating it anymore

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>he copied fine art
>so intellectual
Literally reference comedy tier.

Its light novels and its english only, if I managed to learn japanese I would never get as good at it as I am at english, even with english its easy to make little mistakes the first time you read something without noticing, with a decent level of japanese this problem would be far worse. If there was no english translation then it'd be fine though.
Translaters are bound to make mistakes eventually but they go over it several times to catch the mistakes as it is their job, which is more than the average reader would. Normal readers seriously overestimate their own skills and don't notice their own mistakes and have no way for others to correct them other than posting online and being wrong.

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I would love to do such, but i have little money for manga, the ones i do have are from my local library giving them away in events or they realized its not appropriate.
It would certainly push me to learn jap even more, but ive lost so much motivation after April and ive started working which leaves like 8 hours of limited free time every week.

I bought a watamote mango when I was 15
buying it at the jap store with my parents was embarrassing

I don't buy manga, I've always, always hated books.

I really wish there was a better alternative. E-books are dogshit, you can't even set up double page spreads on that kind of system, and actual manga scans are incredibly hit and miss in terms of quality.

Maybe in another 20 years print will be finally dead and I can enjoy manga through some kind of subscription service to a folding E-ink device with a high resolution and a fast refresh rate, but I'm really not holding my breath.

>I've always, always hated books
Why?

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Good taste. How's Dragon Half? I was on the fence about picking it up, wanted to read something different.

Only of series I really, really love.

selling manga is actually not as profitable as you might think. if you really want to support the author you should pirate the media and buy official figurines/dakis/posters from japan.

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I used to have hundreds of volumes of manga. Probably 300-400. But this was back some 15 years ago. Sold most of it off, though I wish I hadn't, because books of any type have basically zero resale value. And a lot of that older stuff is almost impossible to find now.

Now I've got maybe 30-40 volumes of manga, because I've really only recently gotten back into it.

i know what you mean. one of the first romance mangas i ever read was 'boys be' and i was hooked. since it was licensed i've never been able to find any scanlations, everything is in print.

based and polandpilled

Not that user, but from what I remember series have toned down insults to keep from offending people. For example a foreigner called a Japanese character "yellow skinned", while the translation called them "golden skinned". The intention was clear since yellow is more of a racial slur, while calling someone golden is usually done in a positive context.

I buy too many different series and never finish a set

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How are the Fullmetal hardcovers? I heard the omakes from the single volumes aren't in.

They're larger than normal manga size and also the paper quality is much higher and really makes the art pop more

Had to this since no faggot scanned the licensed english release. Fuck em

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>buy and collect manga
>go out of my way to fish for deals on OOP sets
>leave them on my library and never read them
>just read shit on scanlation sites

I need a screen to read anything nowadays.

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Also, im not scanning either since fuck you. Lzy bums

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It still pisses me off that the English release of Land of the Lustrous doesn't have the holographic covers. What were they thinking.

Plus Sized Elf vol 1 and 2 recently arrived for me
They call the hobbit a kobold instead.
Fucking middle earth bullshit I assume.

Used to have a complete collection of physical copies for Inuyasha but gave them away

Dragon Ball Kurwa

>Franken Fran
>Go for it Nakamura!
My man!
>Vovnich Hotel
YO
THAT GOT A TRANSLATION?

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Are there any localizations of manga with special covers that keep them? Viz didn't keep Dorohedoro's textured covers either. Viz also doesn't keep color pages most of the time but at least other companies do, at least sometimes. US manga releases are already $10+ so I imagine keeping special covers like that would jack up the price even more. Though I remember when it first came out, the first volume of Naruto had a holographic cover (at least one version of it) and Viz did keep that back then.

LotL isn't Viz though I'm pretty sure but Viz embodies the worst aspects of US manga localization.

I used to buy Hustler, lotion and tissues at once at my local supermarket so I don’t think buying drawn tits could be more embarrassing

When I was a child, a book killed my parents

Voynich Hotel is a sign of great taste my friend.

You must become a book to avenge them

Batman didn't become a petty thug to avenge his parents you idiot
I'd have to become something that books fear.
I would become Tabletman! With the ability of rendering physical books obsolete!

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The only physical manga I own are Galaxy Angel, which are the weakest medium compared to its games and anime and Bamboo Blade.

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Yeah I buy translated stuff. Reading digital just isnt the same to me.

This is all I have out in my tiny living space but I have loads more stored away.

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I don’t have a picture but my manga collection consists of
>One Piece 1-5 & 59
>Slam Dunk 1-2 & 4-6
>Death Note 1-4
>Ranma 1/2 1-4
>Blue Exorcist 1
>Akame Ga Kill 1
>Tokyo Ghoul 1-2
>Berserk 1-4
>GTO:Shonan Days 1
>Fullmetal Alchemist 1 & 4-6
>Ghost in the Shell 1
>Nichijou 8
>Devil is a Part-timer 5-6
>Bleach 1-4
>Gunsmith Cats 1-2
>Crying Freeman 1
>Assassination Classroom 1-2

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Both.
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How are the translations of Jitsu Wa?
Not as butchered as the title, I hope?

>Fakku
Oh no no no no

forgot about
>Dragon Ball 1-2 & 4

It's fine. Pretty much most everything gets across. The english term they use for Akari, spinster, sounds a bit awkard to me though. Not sure if the japanese is the same.

>one time walking through a thrift store
>see like 4 volumes of black lagoon
>ignored it, knew I shouldn't waste my money even though I had more then enough at the time
>regretted it later the same day
>they were gone by the time I got back

pretty sure his parents died to thugs who also happen to be bats

I'm loaded with manga. I may never read 90% of it because I'm lazy and Internet-addicted. If it appears to be mostly shoujo from before 2010, it's because it is stuff my sister bought and left to sit in a storage unit for years.

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>2019
>paper

Joe Chill was a bunch of bats in a man costume?

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basically

Hey man
Once paper becomes a rare commodity we're all millionaires

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It's not just because cutting down trees and making paper is quite contaminant. And unneeded.
During your life, you'll have to move a few times of house. Then you'll realize how annoying those tons of accumulated paper really are.

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Wow, I'm gonna have to move an additional 2-3 cardboard boxes of books
Woe is fucking me.

Your sister was, and probably still is, a fujo, you know this, right?

>During your life, you'll have to move a few times of house. Then you'll realize how annoying those tons of accumulated paper really are.

This is exactly why I have manga. My sister's moving across the country and realized how high shipping rates are. Now it is my burden.

Looks like you'll become a super billionaire!

probably

she has an enduring friendship with a gay NEET who is really into yaoi

they probably bond over shoujo and yaoi

I know right!?
No just the paper from the books, but the cardboard boxes too!

I don't want people to know that I read anime books.

How different is physical manga compared to LCD or E-ink screen anons?

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Yes and it depends. I bought english Fire Punch and GLT but I'll be buying nip HnK. Recent additions to my small collection are Darker than Black and Sumire 16-sai!!

The Kodansha comics version of Sailor Moon keeps the colour pages, but only at the beginning of each volume. I think the Eternal Edition fixes that and has colour pages whenever they were in colour. Unfortunately I already bought the whole series so I'm not sure if I should buy it all again.

Yes. It's fun developing a collection. I can't read Japanese so English is the way to go for me.

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Which games have the KH manga not covered yet?

Not sure. Never really looked into it, just bought those cause they were on sale. I think Birth by Sleep is a light novel though. Fun read, if you played the games of course.

>Dr. Slump
A sign of excellent taste.

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I'm weak for Rightstuf sales. About to buy the entire To Love-ru this week. Next month is gonna be murder with their birthdwy sale. Lost a couple hundred last July

The only reason I want a good job is so I can afford all the manga I want, I could live off neetbux if it wasn't for that.

Fucking same. It's just so easy to pick up a whole series.

I rad HxH and Berserk as far as vol 17 for both series online, and bought the rest physically because Rightstuf had them in sets of like 8 vols apiece. Hoping to grab the earlier vols for both

>anime books.

Thats the most normalfag thing to say manga is Japanese comic books you fag.

is manga still 16-20$ a volume still?
i remember going to many joints back in the late 90's early 00's and being amazed at the prices of some of them. i'm sure it was mostly bookstore mark up but still.

I remember Viz volumes used to be $8 in the mid 00s or so when I bought most of the stuff I have from them. Don't know if that's still the case but other companies' manga is usually $10-$12 these days. That's US though, don't know if that's where you're talking about. And the thing that gets me is you're paying $12 for a single book and it's sometimes still missing things that the Japanese volumes have (textured covers, color pages) despite being a lot more expensive. At least they're usually larger than the Japanese volumes.

yeah, i'm talking about the US. i recall the mangos i would browse being boiler plate, not even the author's notes or anything, just ads at the back. pretty disappointing.

I buy alot of doujinshi. A new store that sells it opened up in my town and they do local pick-up and drop off. Pretty sick actually, don't have to worry about being vanned.

How's the english release of Spice&Wolf? I was thinking of getting the manga.

Yes. But rarely. I only buy manga based on some criteria

1) I find it 'interesting'
2) It hasn't been scanned
3) It has to be from a monthly magazine.

If I didn't following the latter two criteria, then I just do not have enough room on my bookshelf to store it all. Hell, there have been times where I have to get rid of manga just to conserve space (mainly because it went to shit in latter volumes [think Fairy Tail])

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>$12.00 vs. 400 yen
I guess I'm paying for localization fees and maybe a slightly larger book but the pricing difference still amazes me.

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Some of the manga volume I buy are 16 USD at most. I think "The Promised Neverland" is 13 USD at my local bookstore (cheaper online I bet).

The only manga volumes that I've seen that are over 16 USD are omnibuses (The whole collection of A Silent Voice was 80 USD at my local bookstore for some reason)

I get mine about $10 each online. Often less if I shop around. I usually just throw on another volume of something if I'm ordering crap on amazon and need to hit the free shipping line.

they learn their lesson early on
there is still one big blemish though
but don't worry, it's just a sexual act

I'm lending out a few at the moment, but here's what I have here, plus the Splatoon 1 and Dark Souls 3 artbooks in japanese. I usually get english releases, but I may just import japanese versions for untranslated series or ones with bad TLs.

On that note, does anyone here have the english release of Dungeon Meshi/ Delicious in Dungeon? I've heard that the TL work is pretty weak, and I'd like to confirm that.

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Spice & Wolf is one of my favorite series (can you tell?) so I'm going to tell you to get it regardless. It seems to not flow as well in the middle though. I don't know if that's me, the translation, or the plot becoming too heavy. The manga is still very good. Pick it up.
Also Spice and Wolf is a terrible series to use as an introduction to Japanese. (The light novels in are all 狼と香辛料 but even the manga is heavy on complicated grammar and academic vocabulary). Stick to よつばと！

Not much. All the English stuff is from other people that didn't want them. Excuse the random out of order volumes. I read the rest online so I didn't bother buying the whole set.
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I prefer reading Japanese manga online because it's easier to make out the tiny kanji. I have some LNs too. Cop Craft is next on my radar, really enjoying that one.
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How's the kare kano manga compared to the anime?

This is my stuff, only thing missing from the pic is ghost in the shell.
I'll need more shelves if i want to complete the stuff i'm trying to get right now.

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Yes, in english. I own over 2,000 volumes, and still buy more every month. I got the majority of my collection at clearanced or half price, but I've still invested a lot into it.

Because they're NEVER EVER series for translation, I intend on buying Binbougami Ga and Medaka Box in japanese later this year.

Yes, both. I love physical copies. No physical, no buy. I buy ones I want a physical copy of and pirate everything else.
Fuck paying for digital distribution and fuck anyone that does. Either buy a physical copy if you want one and one is offered, or pirate if you don't want one, one isn't offered, or you don't want a physical copy.
I bought the Akira 35th anniversary box set recently and am looking forward to Witch Craft Works Volume 12 which I have on pre order

>How's the kare kano manga compared to the anime?
Wouldn't know. Monster and Deathnote are the only English manga I read on my shelf. But the anime was already a slideshow, so I don't think they'd differ too much.

I have all the kanto Pokemon adventures manga but I dont put it there.

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Dumb wanni

You aren't a boomer, you just didn't fall for the digital distribution industry's brainwashing

>gochiusa
Nice
>support
You shouldn't pay for digital, everything you said makes me think you're some limp wristed faggot
>Wish more mangaka would release digital
Fuck you, less should release digitally. Manga is like the only form of media where they are focused on selling physical copies, at least let there be one type of media where they aren't pushing digital as hard as possible.
>larger cut
So what? That shouldn't even be a factor in buying a physical copy over giving them a literal donation for a digital
>support the author
That shouldn't be a factor. If you buy something you should buy it because you want it, not because you want to "support the creator". The "support the creator" line is one of the lines they have used to push digital and normalize paying for a download
The concept of paid digital distribution should not exist because people should not be willing to pay for a download and "piracy", aka unauthorized copy and pasting, should be legal.

>US manga releases are already $10+
And those special JP releases are like $5 at most

>City
>KF

Great taste.

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Pls no bully, she is cute autist wani

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What are the best and cheapest places to buy english translated manga?
Here in my country there's lots of published stuff but everything is so damn expensive.

Amazon or bookdepository

Amazon is cheap and fast (with prime) but the chances of you getting damaged goods is higher. They don't package shit that well. I've received plenty of dented/bent books and even one with pages ripped out.

where the hell is that, I wish a doujin shop would open near me lol

I got the first volume of the Berserk deluxe edition. It's nice and I look forward to getting the others but I really wish they'd release these at a faster rate. The way it's going we'll still be rereleasing Golden Age till sometime next year. Im sick of the Golden Age!

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I gota tidy it up but this what I got

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I really need to buy more shelves

this one is actually pretty crap, was like 30$ in ikea

I bought most of my collection during my teens, now I’m in my late 20s and I still haven’t finished Rave Master.

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I really want to newer print of Ghost in the Shell, but I understand it's censored. I don't care if even Shirow said it was pure gratuity, I don't want to not have an incomplete print. It's important to maintain even the weirdest parts of a book. Also lesbians.

Hi, me.

>selling manga is actually not as profitable as you might think. if you really want to support the author you should pirate the media and buy official figurines/dakis/posters from japan.
Yet your chart has nothing on manga sales, doesn't it? Also, yes, the manga sales are profitable, and where the most authors get their money. Only the very few at the top get anything real from emrchandise and other licensing.

No I don't. I do buy art books, thoug, which are Japanese by proxy. One doesn't have much of a choice. Got ~50 more stashed in boxes at my parent's place. Also have all volumes of Dragonball and X from what feels like 20 years ago. Translated, of course.

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Yes, I have so many I stopped counting. I buy the French translations, the only manga I buy in Japanese is Maken-Ki! since it got fucked in my country, thank god for Book Walker and VPNs.

I only buy manga when it's on sale for a good price, so right now I'm keeping tabs on:
>Dorohedoro
>One Piece box sets
>Azumanga Daioh
>more Fire Punch and Monster Musume

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>4 volumes of Berserk
>when the deluxe edition is cheaper, larger, and significantly nicer
Shit nigger what are you doing?

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>bought both Pancreas manga AND novel
Why
It's awful

Why do you only have 1-17 and not 1-21+1-4 of Spice and wolf and Wolf and parchment?

Generally no, I find it far easier to read on a screen and I don't think it's good value for money with how quickly you can blow through volumes.

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Cringe. I bet none of you posers can even actually read Japanese.

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I only ever bought the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier because I liked the art so much that I needed a physical copy. It's in Japanese as well.

>Copying art and putting it in your Manga
>>I'm 14 and this is deep

How do you prioritize what series to buy more volumes of next? My LCS does a pretty good deal on Viz media related manga so I just buy what they have in deals and wait for several volumes to come out so I can get them in bulk.