I cant even sniff manga where I live, so sadly I have 0 mangas T_T
the shipping costs a lot.....but I do plan to buy some which I really liked and keep them as memories probably when I make my own money ^^
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I have nothing. haha since i could read it online so, I dont need it. I dont even have the time to go to a bookstore. lol
I dont usually buy manga books because I cant afford them but I do have 5 "My Hime" mangas I bought from a garage sale and I love them so much XD funny story though, I had 5 of them and the one my mother had to try and look at had to be the one with them taking a bath naked in a hot spring at the very beginning, talk about bad luck hahaha XD
I only have Fairy Tail in my shelf. Getting a hand of manga here in our place is really really difficult. >A<)
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I only have 8 Maid-sama manga... I use to have about 150 volumes, but I've been selling them for extra money
I have 40+ and they just keep growing...
I actually don't have any. I will probably try to start collecting some in the near future, since the availability in the U.S is growing, although grabbing some light novels is of higher priority for me right now.
I don't have any …(•̩̩̩̩_•̩̩̩̩) I read manga online but if I ever have the money to buy it I probably gonna have a library of it. \(@ ̄∇ ̄@)/
Unfortunately, I have a perfect 0 score!
Well, I spend a LOT. Especially on food LOL. That's why I barely save any money and I don't have the chance to buy one.
Also, I feel like why do I need to buy manga when I can read it online :3 *me is so bad*
But I borrowed some manga with my otaku friends, which were Pokemon and some vampire thingy manga(forgot the title) XD
Let's see...*digs in box to start counting*
All of Fruits Basket-23 +2 fanbook +1 sticker book + 1 japanese import artbook
About 2/3 of Fullmetal Alchemist-16 or so
Both series of Petshop of Horrors-22, last 4 in Japanese I'm not quite talented enough to read yet
All of Mokke in Japanese I really can't read yet-9
6 volumes of Hetalia
Random short series by Fumi Yoshinaga-5 volumes
House of Five Leaves and other Natsume Ono works-10
No Longer Human-3
Tezuka's Barbara-1
Mihara's Doll-6
2 art/fanbooks of Mahoraba
The 7 volumes of the middle of the Shinji Ikari Raising Project that my library doesn't have and were half price at RightStuf
3 Junko Mizuno's, 1 Moto Hagio, 1 AX, 1 Haruhi spinoff, 1 Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, and Monokuro Kinderbook.
So, =120? Wow. Didn't think there were that many.
Then there are a few book books: 2 Karin light novels(again, library didn't have these volumes), several Otsuichi novels and 2 volumes of Kenji Miyazawa short stories, including Night on the Galactic Railroad and Restaurant of Many Orders.
There's also several volumes of old Japanese literature in English, like the Pillow Book, Tale of Genji (unabridged, of course), Kojiki, Nihongi, other Heian-era diaries, poetry collections and No dramas. 4 volume set of Journey to the West too, but that's Chinese originally.
I probably also go through a few hundred library books a year, and sometimes they purchase things because I've requested them.
I don't like the idea of spending money on a large manga collection, though I do actually have a few books in storage somewhere.
I think it's a load of bull how expensive the people who import manga set the prices. In Japan, isn't manga supposed to be easily available, dirt-cheap and disposable entertainment?
I don't like to buy something expensive so I buy them on Book Sale, a bookstore here in our place. It's sale so the prices are low. But what I like in there is that the book/manga is still in good condition, no folds and looks new, so it's worth it. But then again, the titles are limited.
3 years ago, I was but a humble less than 20 volumes (not including magazines). in the last year, I've increased my property exponentially and it's going to keep growing. Recently B&N had a 3 for 2 sale on manga and I finally decided to buy the SKip Beat manga which I split half and half with my sister on the price since she loves it too. But when it comes time to move, she agreed to let me keep them =D Spent half a day trying to find the best bang for my buck over B&N and rightstuf prices.
I only buy mangas that I really really like/enjoyed which means me rereading them a lot online before finally deciding to purchase them. I mostly buy on ebay since many of the ones I own are OOP and I buy it gently used.
I love manga and I really want to try and support the mangaka so recently it's not like my collection is exclusively OOP. I want to because scanlating is looked down upon by mangakas and it is essentially pirating of mangas. I know I'm not doing anything good by reading it off online but I try to do my part by purchasing eventually.
Also I'll never buy digital manga. NOT WORTH IT
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