So my order from Amazon UK came in today and I finally got my hands on these four lovely volumes:
I’m especially excited to finally have the 3-in-1 edition of Skip Beat in my hands. Nothing like re-reading at a slower pace with the book in front of me~ Picked up volumes 10 and 11 of Fushigi Yugi because I’m closing in on the end of the series, so I want to finish it off now (that and I was originally going to pick up volume 14 and 15 of Boys over Flowers/Hana Yori Dango, except they went out of stock the very next day when I had added the funds to my credit card. Talk about bad luck! DDD: So I went with FY as my second choice for two volumes of a longer manga). Finally, I got the second volume of Wedding Peach as my choice of one volume of a shorter series because I’ve been taking forever to pick up the rest of the volumes and I’m a bit worried about them going out of print given the situation with Viz’s less popular shoujo manga…) That said, I probably won’t get to read these any time soon as I still have to finish off volumes 16-21 of Please Save My Earth first.
Has anyone recently picked up any manga?
–SW
16/05/2012 at 12:47 am
I finished collecting Fushigi Yugi which I’m quite happy about. I’ve been trying to finish my collection of Ceres: Celestial Legend. That’s pretty much what I picked up recently. I actually would have finished the whole collection by now if the comic book store I went to had the final volume. I checked on Amazon and apparently it’s considered out of print. I’m quite upset about that, but I will be purchasing the final volume at some point. I really need to see how the manga ends.
I think next up for my collection will be Boys Over Flowers. That will be a huge project!
16/05/2012 at 12:55 pm
7 more volumes to go for me. I’m actually getting quite excited to finish it. I’ve been collecting it for so long (even have the first edition of volume 1 as I started collecting way back in the day but I kept putting it on and off).
Ugh, is even Ceres going out of print? Nothing is safe anymore it seems. D: I thought for sure that Watase’s manga would be safe given their popularity, so this is not good news to me. D: I hope the third parties don’t jack up the prices like they have with a few series. I hate missing volumes. ;__;
Yeah, Boys Over Flowers is a pretty big project. I’ve ordered volume 14 via a third party seller on Amazon so I should get that later this month, but I am still nowhere near finishing it and it’s another series that’s now out of print (with a few random volumes still in stock here and there). ;__; The longest series I’ve finished collecting was Basara at 27 volumes.
17/05/2012 at 3:13 am
I hate that. I really wish series didn’t have random volumes in print and other volumes out of print. The publishers might as well make the whole series out of print instead of having one or two still in print.
The final volume of Ceres is my biggest annoyance in regards to this. *sighs*
16/05/2012 at 5:16 pm
Yay, Skip Beat! Hope you have fun re-reading it. :) And how are you liking Wedding Peach?
16/05/2012 at 6:16 pm
I skimmed through it last night and I was already fan girling again. I can tell I’m going to have a lot of fun re-reading it. The beginning was also my favourite part of the manga because Kyoko was crazier then. I still really like her in the latest chapters, but she’s been mellowing out and I do miss her crazy vengefulness from the early bits a bit.
No idea. I picked up volume 1 about 4 years ago and it got pushed aside for other things. I’m actually wondering how I’ll feel about it now that my tastes have matured more. Granted, it’s mahou shoujo and that’s my weak spot so unless it’s Mermaid Melody bad, I’ll probably still like it. I remember volume 1 was very reminiscent of the Sailor Moon anime for me in the sense that the heroine and the male love interest would bicker and the male love interest liked to tease the heroine like Mamoru from the anime teased Usagi about her grades and hair. I really liked that about volume 1.
18/05/2012 at 7:10 pm
You know it’s funny, at a glance I probably would not identify that as Skip Beat. Erm, without the title of course. Somehow it just does not look like Kyoko to me, hmm.
Random trivia time! Fushigi Yuugi is actually one of those relatively few cases where I’ve both read the original manga and seen the anime adaptation. I’m not sure why…
18/05/2012 at 8:26 pm
Now that you mention it, she does look a little off in the 3-in-1 cover. :| I have no idea why that is either. Maybe Viz is trying to tell us subtly to go buy the original volumes? xD
What did you think of the manga and anime? :3 (I personally haven’t seen the anime, but I’ve heard people say it’s not as good as the manga. No idea how true that is though).
21/05/2012 at 8:17 am
I actually saw the anime fist, but it has been years since so it’s a bit difficult to draw comparisons. The anime was pretty low budget I think, though it had decent voice work (Midorikawa Hikaru as Tamahome = win). From what I recall pretty much the same things happened in both, so I guess it was a faithful adaptation for the most part. Sorry for the vagueness, I really don’t remember enough to compare. I can say though, that Fushigi Yuugi is probably one the, eh, “shoujo-est” things I ever read/watched. xD
“Miaka” “Tamahome” “Miaka” “Tamahome” “Miaka” “Tamahome” Everyone else: “Get a room!”
21/05/2012 at 5:19 pm
No problem. I was just curious because most people on anime and manga based sites never really liked the anime.
Haha, I feel the same honestly. FY is a pretty good read, but the main characters are really shallow and not very engaging. It’s a shame because if they were done better, FY could have been really really good. Genbu is like the better version of FY, or so I hear, because the main leads are actually interesting. I can’t wait to try Genbu because of this. I haven’t tried it yet because I wanted to finish off the original series before starting Genbu (especially because I have a bad habit of trying too many different series and never finishing them. ^__^;;; )
19/05/2012 at 3:26 pm
Fushigi Yugi and Skip Beat! That reminds me that I need to get the next volumes of Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden and Skip Beat. There’s so much I want to buy right now. T_T I’m trying to save some money so, I just joined this manga swap site called Mangatude. Have you heard of it?
19/05/2012 at 7:15 pm
Ugh, tell me about it. I’m importing these and the exchange rate is not in my favour so each volume is pretty expensive for me and as such, I can only buy a few every couple of months. D:
I haven’t heard of it actually, but is it international? I’m outside North America (in Poland to be exact).
19/05/2012 at 9:21 pm
As far as I know it is. I haven’t seen anything that says it is or isn’t. Most of the users seem to be from the USA, but I’ve seen some users from the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. I don’t know how difficult it would be to trade with someone overseas and I haven’t been on the site long enough to tell you if it works well or not, but if you’re curious, here’s the address of the site: http://www.mangatude.com
19/05/2012 at 10:11 pm
Ah, it’s a trading site. For some reason I thought you could trade or pay. My mistake. I don’t really have anything I want to get rid of at the moment. (I got rid of most of the manga I didn’t like before I moved to Europe), so I can’t even use it anyway. ^__^;;;
I remember ebay used to have so many nice deals, but lately it’s pretty hard to find stuff on there for a good deal. I wonder what happened. :(
08/06/2012 at 11:08 pm
Hey. I just found your blog and it seems very cool ;) Tell me… IIf I started a blog for reviewing and posting photos and videos of my manga pick up, would you follow it? xD
08/06/2012 at 11:31 pm
Yup, I would. Just give me the link in a reply below, ok? :) I’m always interested in what others have to say about different manga.
08/06/2012 at 11:53 pm
Thank you :D I will probably create one. When I do that, I’ll send you the link. Thanks ;)
09/06/2012 at 12:09 am
No problem. I’m looking forward to it. :)