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    Much as the question in the title, I was going through my stuff and found manga books I had either forgotten that I had owned or had not successfully gotten rid of. I have a total of 17 separate books, two complete series, and one omnibus.

    To be absolutely honest, I feel like I've begun to move away from manga as a whole and feel that . . . on a certain level, no longer in my palate, at least not for some time anyways. While I have 17 manga books, I have nearly quadruple that in novels, ranging from Stephen King, Dan Abnett, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy etcetera.

    Do you still collect? Do you ever get rid of your sets or books? How many do you own? Any regerts?
     
    I don't collect manga and only own two novels at the moment which are the first two Naruto mangas :)
     
    A lot...?

    I can't really quantify it, exactly. I do a lot of my manga reading in bookstores (probably to the employee's chagrin) and only really buy if I see a good deal- not because I'm not interested in buying them, I do want to support the publishers and the author, but it's more that buying manga in stores generally ends up with me regretting not paying for the cheaper amazon priced stuff. Such was the case of Attack on Titan volume 16 (Special Edition). Came with a cool as hell custom cover and a pack of playing cards, buuuuut I looked online and it was almost half the price. After that, the only manga I bought were AssClass volume 1 and Bort, because for some reason they were in Best Buy of all places for 4 bucks a pop. They were a steal, I tell ya.

    But other than that, I have a lot from when I was younger. I would mostly just read manga from my library, but stuff that I was actively following I would buy, sometimes. So this was your Naruto and your Zatch Bell and your One Piece, things I was watching the anime of (or did watch the anime of) and just really enjoyed reading for whatever reason. The ones I own are pretty inconsistent and I don't own /too/ many. Like, from Naruto I have stuff from the Chuunin exams and that's it, from One Piece I have stuff specifically from the Arlong arc and the first two volumes which I got years later. And Zatch Bell, which I probably own the most of, goes all over the place.

    Ah...good times.
     
    Maybe around 100 that amassed over a chunk of years, but in the last five or six years I've stopped buying manga, because I don't read as much as I used to. Also, because if there is a series that I do occasionally enjoy, I can usually find it online, or I buy it on Kindle. orz
     
    Maybe around fifty.

    I prefer to borrow from libraries since it's free. It's easier, and I can take them out whenever I want. The only manga I buy these days is the Kagepro manga, anyway.
     
    I actually own way more than most in here do. According to my spreadsheet that I use to track them (because I've accidentally bought volumes I already owned on several occasions), I own 568 books that are parts of manga series, including 46 Pokemon-related ones.

    I own an additional 20 Japanese-origin light novels as well, which, as it turns out, is still less than my collection of novels by western authors (that sits at 66 books).

    JDJacket said:
    To be absolutely honest, I feel like I've begun to move away from manga as a whole and feel that . . . on a certain level, no longer in my palate, at least not for some time anyways. While I have 17 manga books, I have nearly quadruple that in novels, ranging from Stephen King, Dan Abnett, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy etcetera.
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    That's kind of the opposite direction that I've gone, since I used to read a lot of western novels from professional authors who tend to churn out a novel every year or two or three (especially Tom Clancy novels) back when I was 14, but now I have a massive bias toward manga. I think 14 year old me felt this need to always be reading serious stories to be "mature", but now I generally like to relax with less serious stories that are also relatively bite-size reads per book.
     
    In total I own thirteen volumes. Ten make up all of Ikigami, two are omnibuses of Girl Friends and one is a random volume of Ikigami my cousin bought for me in Japan. There are only a few manga I deem worthy to buy because of emotional value.
     
    Mind you, my aunt started collecting the Naruto manga when it first started coming out, and I would visit her and read them in my spare time. This was also around the time period where I began to immerse myself into the world of anime <3

    Once I had entered High School, I found myself continuing the collection she had started (she never continued over to Naruto Shippuden). Eventually, once I managed to get over 40 of Shippuden, she eventually gifted her original collection to me, allowing me to own even more.

    I had stopped collecting at 67, and eventually I'll pick up the wallet and finish it up (or at least up to where it is now)

    However, I have also started up a Bleach collection (a friend of mine decided to give me three of his Bleach books, not in order and completely spread out, giving me the urge to fill the gaps), as well as One-Punch Man.

    So I'm collecting three different manga series' at the moment, yep yep.
     
    About 150? I think last time I checked. But I stopped collecting manga about two years ago because all it does it collect dust on my shelf. I have some of the original print of One Piece (the gold volumes), Tokyo Pop serializations, SGT Frog (which is also Tokyo Pop and extremely hard to find I'm always on the hunt for it!), and my favorite - the whole collection of Akira all 6 volumes. It took me a long time to collect all 6 and I'd say it's well worth it.

    SGT Frog is very rare, and out of print. I'm not going out of my way to buy manga online, but if I find hard-to-find volumes that are out of print (like keroro) in thrift stores or comic shops that aren't owned by big companies like Barnes N Noble, then I'll def pick them up. I live in Florida, I'm hoping to go to New York sometime this year (maybe for my birthday which is in June) any good Manga/Comic stores in New York I can check out that may have Tokyo Pop?

    I really am looking for more volumes of Keroro, and maybe some Japanese volumes too of series I might already have or not have.

    Idk if I'll start reading something again, maybe. I mostly read online. Not really worth the money anymore. Again, unless it's rare.
     
    YellowSwagMaster420 said:
    About 150? I think last time I checked. But I stopped collecting manga about two years ago because all it does it collect dust on my shelf. I have some of the original print of One Piece (the gold volumes), Tokyo Pop serializations, SGT Frog (which is also Tokyo Pop and extremely hard to find I'm always on the hunt for it!), and my favorite - the whole collection of Akira all 6 volumes. It took me a long time to collect all 6 and I'd say it's well worth it.

    SGT Frog is very rare, and out of print. I'm not going out of my way to buy manga online, but if I find hard-to-find volumes that are out of print (like keroro) in thrift stores or comic shops that aren't owned by big companies like Barnes N Noble, then I'll def pick them up. I live in Florida, I'm hoping to go to New York sometime this year (maybe for my birthday which is in June) any good Manga/Comic stores in New York I can check out that may have Tokyo Pop?

    I really am looking for more volumes of Keroro, and maybe some Japanese volumes too of series I might already have or not have.

    Idk if I'll start reading something again, maybe. I mostly read online. Not really worth the money anymore. Again, unless it's rare.
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    I wish you posted on this part of the forum more often.
     
    just a few

    my goal in life is to have a completely inuyasha series though
     
    Something around 50-60. I like to read Manga and collect them but don't have that many space to store everything I want :D
    I like them on a shelf so everyone can see what I'm reading but most of this things go to the drawers :)
     
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