So yesterday I officially reached 307 manga. I think it's a big milestone for me at least, im almost to where I was before my last collection got stolen from me. But collecting manga is so fun to me, there's not really a way to explain it everyone has hobbies and this one is mine. Im proud of my collection and can't wait to get more
Also the Perfect Edition
And the Limited First-Print Foil Edition (I can't take a video of the foil as I don't have the ability to or something like I can't add videos to posts)
From Waterstones (English book shop) if anyone is curious
Have been collecting for rougly 5 years. Stopped buying new stuff in 2023, picked the hobby back up this year and doubled my collection.
It's always the out of town finds that hit the hardest!
Been collecting for a few months now and was curious to know if anyone has any advice as far as fitting a single series into one cube of an IKEA Kallax? I have seen others here elevate later volumes behind the front row but mostly with the deeper Billy Bookcases; has anyone managed to make it look decent in a Kallax before?
Los mangas de Doujin republic que llegaron hoy
Started this collection 3 weeks ago and am quickly running out of room. I gotta say I’ve gotten pretty lucky with these finds, a lot of them were local pawn shops or Facebook market place. The more I add to the collection the more I want. Every time I look at my shelves it scratches an itch in my brain. Sorry about the crooked books, from where I was sitting at my desk they looked straight so I did straighten them after this photo was taken. I should also add that I’ve read all of these (some before I bought and most after). This was really a stars align opportunity where Facebook market place and a local pawn shop had deals I couldn’t pass up. For numbers sake I probably paid 30% of the overall total of this collection. I don’t buy myself much and am a minimalist so this was really my first major purchase other than my car, bills and rent.
What do y’all think? I was surprised to find a new manga by One on the shelf. I’m a big fan of Mob Psycho and One Punch Man, this seems to be a bit of a deviation of his usual style although I’ve only read the synopsis so far. Anyone read it yet?
Excited I got some shelfs. Finally able to display part of my collection. Got thousands of comics/floppies but they’re not as display friendly sadly. Currently reading Fullmetal Alchemist for the first time and loving it so far.
I have 1200+ currently.
The first picture is mostly light novels minus Berserk, Vineland Saga and Trigun collectors edition.
The shelf on the top right are japanese light novels.
Pet girl of sakurasou, Chivalry of a failed knight and Monogatari series. Its hard to source Japanese light novels where I live in the states, so I have very few of those.
The 2nd picture is all manga.
A bit of background I guess.
I have been reading Manga since I was around 9-10 years old (currently 31). I grew up pretty poor, so most of my reading was done digitally on various forums at the time. I have been very fortunate since then to be able to have enough disposable income to amass a collection of this size in 2 years.
My preferred media is Light Novels now, so that is why that section is laid out a bit nicer.
I am aware the tv is off center lol. There was not a stud for the mount in the right spot to center it. Ill eventually get a different mount that allows for more horizon movement. For now lets just say it was intentional so my frieren figure does not block the tv screen.
I've gotten a few more things since I took these pictures, but its only like 6-10 manga, and 3 light novels so I didn't feel like taking a new picture.
I moved my collection into this spare room over a weekend, and there was not a lot of planning that went into it minus measuring, and putting together the 3 short bookshelves. You really don't understand how many books are on a shelf until you take them off and move them.
Feel free to ask me questions, and I will try and reply to them as fast as I can.
I have 2 of the (3?) covers for jjk vol 30. Which do you like better? I know it's basic to like jjk but I actually did enjoy reading it.
Edit: apparently there are 6 cover variants!
Running out of space FAST lmao
I just got bug ego in the mailbox today, and flipped through some pages. To me it looks awesome. Is this story going to be wild?
I had to limit at one per manga collection or tokyo ghoul would have taken all the places.
What is y'all favorite one ?