u/MangaRoyalty

Every post I make, seems to bring out the haters. It’s like fuel for me. So let’s see how much this pisses them off 🤣

Yugioh was incredibly nostalgic for me. Watching the anime, collecting and playing the tcg etc. I knew I had to have the Volume 1 manga to compliment my collection.

Luckily, I had the opportunity to purchase not only the BGS 9.2, but also the 9.4. Which, last I checked, was the highest grade being a POP 3 (only 2 being white pages).

Now for the financials:

I purchased the 9.2 for $1239.99 on 15 Feb 26 and another copy sold on heritage for $8750 on 27 Mar 26.

The 9.4 I picked up for $3039.99 on 25 Feb 26 and the last one sold (which was off white/ white pages) for $12,900 on heritage on 9 Mar 26.

Even though some mangas are retracing, there are exceptions and my guess is that the next copy of this above a 9 that sells, could break another record.

I would love to one day own a high grade first appearance yugioh shonen jump and English serialised.

If you have one of these and are willing to sell or trade it, hit me up! 🤙

I enjoyed the first couple of seasons, but stopped about half way through season 3. I prefer more serious tones to my shows. I’ll pick it back up at some point.

When I first purchased this, it was around POP 16 out of 199 graded. Pretty difficult for a modern manga!

For the financials..

Purchase for $800 on 16 Jan 26. There hasn’t been a public sale for a 9.8 copy with an obi since, but an obi-less copy did sell for over $2k on eBay. Annoyingly, I can’t find the screenshot that I had and the eBay sale has gone. If I can remember correctly, it was an auction.

NOW, here is my take on the current market. Hopefully this helps clear some things up.

The market is young. BGS has only been grading manga for 2 years. We will see both ridiculous highs and lows. We will eventually hit an equilibrium. Many modern tanks are down over 50% from their all time highs already. E.g demonslayer selling for $7.9k recently when it previously sold on heritage for over $20k a few months ago.

Will the drop for both modern last forever? Will there be an unlimited supply of first prints for modern? No one knows. But time is an incredible thing, we will see what happens.

There has also been slight drops in some areas of vintage. But for the most part, we’re still seeing either record sales each time or stagnation. The market is trying to find itself.

Now, is there an unlimited supply of first print vintage? Again, no one knows. But I think it’s highly doubtful.

As for this particular copy, I currently have it up for sale or trade if anyone is interested. It is with rainierconsignment on eBay. He can also arrange a trade. Looking for nm serialised English or just feel free to show me what you’ve got.

And for those thinking it, no the reason I made this post isn’t to advertise that it’s for sale. I genuinely don’t care if it sells or not. I’ll keep it if doesn’t. I have other modern manga I’ll be keeping for a long time anyways. This particular manga just isn’t one of my personal favourites and I have other goals.

Edit - demonslayer actually sold for over $20k on heritage in April, I thought it was $16k from memory.

An exceptional grade for a 37 year old manga. The highest grade in existence and currently stands alone as a POP 1.

Why is Dragon Ball #17 so significant?

It is the volume which started the entire Dragon Ball Z storyline.

In my opinion, this would place in the top 5 most historically important Dragon Ball tankõbons.

For those interested in the financial side of things, I purchased this 9.6 copy on 15th Jan 26 for £345 (GBP) and a 9.2 sold for $3.9k on 25th Jul 26.

Hi,

Thought I’d start to share some of my graded manga collection.

I typically collect first print Japanese, as well as English serialised /5000 foil copies in the highest grade possible.

Attack on Titan is my favourite anime and so it was only fitting that I made it my first purchase.

I’d love to one day upgrade to a 9.8 copy.

For those of you interested in the financial side of things, it was purchased for $750 on 14th Dec 25 and the most recent copy sold for $5100 on 5th Jul 26.