Where do you go for your manga fix? I'm not keeping up with anything and rarely buy any more, but I used to buy at Barnes & Noble and Boarders, but they seem to sell mostly Tokyopop and I fucking hate most of the titles Tokyopop handles.
I'm trying my damnedest to collect what I'm missing in Sailor Moon through eBay and Amazon, but out of print titles are so freaking expensive D:
I would like to buy the whole run of Welcome to NHK in one go, but don't know where to go for it. Anyone know?
what's 'buy'?
is that some form of piracy?
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Seriously though, where can I buy hard copies of NHK for reasonable price/shipping?
I actually bought NHK at Borders although they don't have all of them out yet maybe you should just find a bigger store somewhere or try to get them to order it for you
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I just ordered a few manga and light novels using that.
how bout onemanga or mangafox? :p
There is a difference between reading manga online and actually owning them anyway I can understand onemanga but mangafox is slow too slow to make it even enjoyable mangahut is better
i never bought manga,comics in my life and i never will, thank you piracy gods!
But in capitalism, isn't it the people who buy stuff who ultimately decide what's worth making more of? I couldn't understand the notion of not buying something you like. To the maker, that's someone saying that their product isn't worth buying. If enough people complained in such a fashion then the publisher might even drop a title due to lack of demand.
amazon.com
>>10 Because we are pirates, although i used to have a code where if something blew my mind i would purchase it afterwards ..but now? Not really, pirate away.
I go to waterstones. Which is great, but the amount of manga varies. I went to a borders in london once. They had alot more manga. I remember feeling upset because I'd bought manga in the waterstones on the same street, and in borders they had even more, plus a 3 for 2 on, so I could have effectively left with 9 volumes instead of 6. They also had some volumes which I can never find in my own waterstones, which I needed to continue my collection. So it was really annoying that I'd mistakenly gone to waterstones. I would have bought the same manga, probably, but I would have been able to pick more, instead of making some tricky decisions between volumes based on the likelyhood on them turning up at my own waterstones, the price etc.
I also order some manga from amazon, though normally it's manga that never ever normally turns up in waterstones, such as Genshiken, later volumes of fruits basket, welcome to the N.H.K, some shoujo ones which I read online and wanted to own.. etc etc. I read most manga online, as there is a greater variety, especially because some series have not been published in the US (and therefore not in the UK, as my waterstones mainly stocks stuff from tokyo pop and del rey, viz..) or the interest in them is so low there is not much likely hood of them ever being picked up anyway. But I do like to own volumes. There are often extras at the end which you can't find on the pc, and some volumes have glossy colour images which just give an added bonus. The quality of art is also better in print compared to scans. I also like the feeling of completing a series, though I have only successfully completed two so far, due to my waterstones not stocking later volumes or due to missing volumes half way through a series that is inhibiting me from being able to buy the later volumes (I have to buy them in order).
I've been going on for too long. ^_^
To summarise: waterstones and amazon to buy, onemanga, mangafox etc to read online.
Finding a place that sells decent manga is difficult ever since I moved to the UK (Not to mention that the selection is quite limited). So I end up ordering mine from United Publications.
I usually buy from Barnes and Noble. Its about an hours drive to go see my family in the next state over, and for years a few of us get together and hang out every other weekend and sometimes other times too. We often go to the mall and they have a Barnes and Noble there so I usually buy my manga there, but on occasion I'm able to go to a mall that is closer to where I live and they have Borders but I swear that lately everytime I go there the manga section gets smaller and smaller. I also buy manga on ebay and amazon a lot. Manga lots ftw ^,^)/
Borders definitally. but, it could just be that my borders has an awesome collection and most don't..... but ya, if that doesn't work amazon is ok... but isn't there a place to buy them from the official company online? (whatever it is you want)
I can't stand the stickers Borders puts on the back of their products.
Well, I got to Borders usually, if not then usually either Barnes & Nobles, two of my local comic stores, and that's all I now for now.
>:D I buy mine from friends, they usally have stuff i watn but if not i go to Books A Million an traed all the books i don't want for store credit, It quite benifical since the books r in good shape an r only 3-4$ ;D
i get mine from amazon or borders, borders has a coffee shop so its great
There’s a site called Mamanga.com where you can trade. The site came out recently, so there’s not much traffic yet, but you can list your items for free if you don’t choose any fancy options. They’re currently having a “Zero End of Item Fee Campaign” now, so you don’t have to pay anything even if your manga sells. They’re doing this to attract more sellers to increase traffic and it looks like it’s gonna stay that way until the site becomes more popular.
You can also earn credits by posting comments in the forum and those credits can be used to list your item.
here’s the link:
http://www.mamanga.com
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i use to get mine in walden books in our mall BUT GUESS What all the boarders asnd waldenbooks stores that r n the malls r closing DOWN! }: It makes me mad so i have to either order mine offline (Not goin to happen) Or go to a bookstore n a other town!) Now that sucks! I mean there r other stores but they dont have no manga's u have to order them to!!! So that sucks for me and for other people who didnt know Borders and waldenbooks r going out in malls i feel sorry for u to! Peace!
Book-Off when inside Japan, Amazon.co.jp and YesAsia.com when outside.
buyin? why should i buy something that i can get free on the net
Japan = Manga Paradise
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I Don't have a book store that has manga's in my town at Walmart they do but... i don't like there's its only blech and nartuo and pokemon too... :(
So every so often i have to go out of town to go get a manga!
Amazon.co.jp most of the time.
Book-off, amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Better World Books, Powell's, Mitsuwa
I buy most of mine used either from eBay, Amazon, or Half-Priced Books. It's a lot cheaper.
Occasionally I'll get them new from Borders or Barnes & Nobles but ever since they closed down the Borders at our mall that's been super rare.
For those of use who use mangafox and the like: Why not just download your manga and use a program like mangameeya to read? I've always found it less troublesome. No pop up ads and everything.
As far as buying, Amazon.