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More on the way! Comiket 108 was a gold mine for me

I just went to a comic bookstore and I just wanted to know what this manga series is I took a picture of the whole shelf but couldn’t figure out what this one was. It is in English and I think the kodansha logos on it.

So yesterday, I went to out local independent bookstore to wait for a friend, and I wasn’t going to buy anything. Then I saw an almost complete collection for Yuyu Hakusho in very good condition in the five dollar used book section. I debated on whether or not I should get it. After lunch and some quick thought, I decided to get them. Five dollars each for sixteen books is not bad, considering that each of them were $9.99 originally. I was thinking of old Shonen Jump prices that were $7.99, but each volume of these were $9.99 before they were donated. So I’m only missing three volumes! Hopefully I can find them in good condition.

Covers are so beautiful

My dad a few days ago literally texted me “send me the link to the books you want” I started jumping with joy, about 100 bucks brand new which I feel like is decent pricing

At the expense of space and 6 stuffed bookshelves (though mostly novels with one shelf for comics and manga) so planning what to do with these as I complete them will be interesting.

Backstory: I’m old. Read manga through the 2000’s from printed books (and the shonen jump mags when they started though I’ve long since gave them away) because anime dvd’s were still in the era of 2-3 episodes on $40 discs while a tankoban cost $10 (and shonen jump releases were $8 so reading bleach and yugioh was balling on a budget) and came across a few series in my collection. In the 2010’s I read a few series in Jump but aside from One Piece I’ve kind of fallen in and out of manga reading between 2009-2024 when I decided to subscribe to the jump app and read back catalogue. I also started reading a lot more light novels now that a lot more mainstream ones are getting presence in book stores and they’re always mixed in with the manga or they’re right next to it so had to double dip eventually.

Now I’m coming full circle and slowly going to build both missing volumes from the series I still had, as well as pick up more including special printings of classics from even back in my days (seriously I loved seeing dragon ball, dr slump, fist of the North Star, tomorrow’s Joe, urusei yatsura, slam dunk, yu yu hakusho, and plenty other old manga still gets shelf space). In the last couple years it’s been an occasional purchase of single volumes or very short stuff, but now seeing some of the options at the store I’ve fallen back into the old habits. So here’s the haul from this past weekend. The Hokuto no Ken hardcovers are so nice and going to blow out my budget and I had the dangerous discovery that FMA has a similar printing. More expensive, but getting the colour pages reprinted looks so much better than the old trades we grew up with. Not to mention I keep seeing other classics like Lone Wolf and Cub, Berserk, Vagabond, Vinland Saga, Jojo in similar formats.

May share some collections if I get the chance. There’s a box of gems likely in my parent’s basement (hopefully not destroyed) and again lack of space can’t really share pics at my full power, but there’s a lot of stuff to pick up that either got missed on my student budget or the new series that have become modern classics! For now though feel free to check out some of my nostalgia and one of my modern favorites I figured wouldn’t be bad to collect while there’s only 3 (4 next month) volumes so far.

I'm almost done with my original set of Red River (I only need vol. 12 now!). Idk if I want to keep both the originals and omnibus ones or just 1 version. Which one would you keep? Or would you keep both sets of original and 3-in-1 editions? I'm on the fence. I didn't think I'd ever find the originals for a decent price. That's why I bought all the omnibus ones so far.

Cookie - august issue 2009

August 2009 issue of Cookie is highly significant because it contains the official editorial announcement of the indefinite NANA hiatus due to creator Ai Yazawa’s sudden, severe illness.

Moving all the manga took the most time lmao

Well Sony basically implied this would happen and it finally did. Sucks for multiple reasons but for a minute CR store had some really good deals it’s a shame how much worse Sony and CR are becoming by the minute.

Some exciting stuff coming! Hope to see some of you there :)

I am from india and i bought it from a store. I thought it was a fake but google saying real

Still building my humble manga collection up! I was a collector of general merch a long time before I started properly reading manga (as you can probably tell) so my shelves have become a blend of all of that.

Over time I’ve had to switch my displays up a lot, and they’re certainly not done. There’s lots of ideas I have but I tend to get a bit overwhelmed with reorganising things. I do want to get proper book stands/frames for certain bits and risers to help maximise on space for sure. The vision is generally quite maximalist right now, which I’m not sure I love tbh… but I just love stuff lol. I’m interested to hear if others have this same problem! Also, no points for guessing my favourite series 😅