for those of us who couldn't afford manga...

[supa dupa ninja]

anyone here,just like me, who couldn't use ten bucks to buy manga?
go ahead and tell us your sob story, I'll listen.

[Mave]

well, I confess that I hold back buying manga in U.S becuase it's so expensive as compared to my home country, Malaysia. Back home I can get the same thing (except that it's in Chinese 0.o) for about U.S $1.00 (do the math ). From what I understand, it's legal and it's published/translated by Taiwanese companies. MichiruT's cost saving strategy: Buy Chinese manga and get translation off the Internet. It doesn't hurt to learn Chinese anyway...

So I'm one of those duds who sneak into a comic shop, look through comics and sneak out quietly through the back store in shame of not buying anything (well, except the occasional American comics...I've bought Tomb raider, Kabuki, Danger Girls etc. before)

I'm going home for vacation this Christmas!!! Yeeaaahhhhh!!! Shopping list for manga....Penguin Brothers, Naruto, HanaKimi, Bleach bla bla bla bla.....I've sobbed for 2 years now (that's how long I haven't been home)...but will rejoice in one month's time!

[ShiroiHikari]

Manga costs a lot.

But so does anime.

So, fer right now I kinda stick to manga anyway. 'Cause I don't have a DVD player. o_O

[AyanamiRei]

Manga costs a lot.

But so does anime.

So, fer right now I kinda stick to manga anyway. 'Cause I don't have a DVD player. o_O

Well if you look at my post that I meant to post here that got turned into a new topic......I'm sellin almost all my manga, becuz I need to clear out the space for new stuff. After Christmas I'mma gunna be sellin the entire series of Burn Up W, along with the first Burn Up. NOTE IT'S IN VHS!! o.o;

[Technomancer]

I almost never buy manga or comics. It's hard to justify the cost, especially when I have access to two excellent library systems (the public one and the university's). In general, I just read webcomics.

As for anime, I can't complain. I can rent DVDs and tapes for $3 a night ($5 for a week) at a local hoby store that's about a 5 minute walk from my house. Also there's the campus club.

[Kuroi Inu]

I'm learning Japanese so I can buy my manga at a local japanese bookstore for $5 a piece instead of $7.95-10.00 a piece!!! 'Coz I'm jus' a poor highschooler!

[LorentzForce]

all i have to do is phone my relatives in Japan or Korea and let them send a whole bunch across. it'll take months for packaging and postal, yes, but at least i can have few hundred manga books at fraction of cost around Sydney...

...or i wait for a year until i go to uni, go to korea, and buy it myself. and while i'm there, i'll buy computer components as well.

[supa dupa ninja]

I almost never buy manga or comics. It's hard to justify the cost, especially when I have access to two excellent library systems (the public one and the university's). In general, I just read webcomics.

As for anime, I can't complain. I can rent DVDs and tapes for $3 a night ($5 for a week) at a local hoby store that's about a 5 minute walk from my house. Also there's the campus club.

same here, I either borrow from my freinds or go to our local library.
it is a shame though that our manga section is in the *ahem* kids section, even though they have mature copies like skullman.

[Technomancer]

Well, I'd meant that I go to the library for novels or non-fiction books rather than comics. Although the Hamilton public library system has started picking up some graphic novels, none of them are the sort that interest me. Ultimately, I can find much greater narrative depth in the webcomics that I read than in the titles currently carried by the library.

[Bobtheduck]

[quote="AyanamiRei"]Well if you look at my post that I meant to post here that got turned into a new topic......I'm sellin almost all my manga, becuz I need to clear out the space for new stuff. After Christmas I'mma gunna be sellin the entire series of Burn Up W, along with the first Burn Up. NOTE IT'S IN VHS!! o.o]

Burn Up??? That shows all about fanservice and seeing naked girls... O_o


Well, to be on topic... Most of the Manga I read, I read in Hastings... I'd just pick it up and go to one of the reading chairs and read to my heart's content... I read a few kodocha, marmelade boy, GTO (didn't like that one much...), chobits (though naming sumomo "plum" about drove me to the assylum), and some anthology mags (animerica extra, one other one I think) It was great! Plus, they had a decent selection of anime for rent... I loved that store... I only bought one manga, though... Before that, I had bought a few individual manga (monthly releases) before reading them, but I dumped all of them eventually... I had 3 pokemon, 3 evangelion, 1 nadesico, 1 Sailormoon, and a sailormoon supers TPB... I dumped them all when I went through my "phase" a few years ago... like 98 or 97? I don't remember... Oh, and I also had some tenchi manga, don't know how many...

Um... I think I got a little off track there... I know this is about people who can't afford manga... The main point I meant to bring up was hastings... If you have a store like that, or maybe Barnes and Nobles, you can read them in the store! Barnes and Nobles may be harder, but I'm pretty sure there are reading chairs and couches in there...

As for anime... 3 dollars a night? Hastings is only 1 dollar a night, except for high status (not the word I'm looking for) anime like when the new akira dub got released... Does anyone have a hastings nearby? They're great stores...

[AyanamiRei]

same here, I either borrow from my freinds or go to our local library.
it is a shame though that our manga section is in the *ahem* kids section, even though they have mature copies like skullman.

Actually I have no idea where that is, cuz most places I see em in have em with all the other comics, or in it's own section over with teens or young teens o.o;; Cuz it's not right that some lil 7 year old should be seeing a ton of Fan Service if you know what I mean, not to mention some of the gore and/or violence an stuffies in these manga, ESPECIALLY in Confidential Confessions. The afformented Manga is REALLY good, but it's REALLY intense and kinda depressing. I mean it's good that they put that stuff out there since it really gives people are more in depth point of view of more contraversial topics such as cutting, and puttin them more into perspective to show that it's a VERY big deal, and it can be VERY hard to quit for some. There was a special movie about it on USA which was really good. It really showed what Cutting was like through the mind of most of the teens who go through it. Not to mention they don't glorify it, but show that it's not some little thing that can be overcome through shame, but an intense thing such as addiction to tobacco/crack/heroine/etc...

[AyanamiRei]

[quote="Bobtheduck"]Burn Up??? That shows all about fanservice and seeing naked girls... O_o

Burn Up isn't ALL about that! It's about justice! Big guns! Gorgeous chicks with great attitudes who kick butt and give the evildoers Hell, along with lots of comedy! Like the scene where one of the lady cops was sniping at a burgler and kept making the guy dance/run and toying with him by shooting at the guy's feet. I mean you just have to love that. ALthough it could use less flesh and sexual fan service>.>;; Still I mean I like how the women overcome their obstacles and are such great heros, even with their obvious flaws with their lust for destruction>.>;

[Locke]

whoa ten bucks is preetyy cheap

i already spent like like $80 bucks on manga

(mostly iniatial D <JIng king of bandits and naruto

^_^ yipi!