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IanC · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: How do you buy manga?

Do you buy each volume of a series as it comes out, or do you do a monthly purchase of several titles?

Im a little of both, if i remember i pick up things when there out, otherwise i place a amazon order with 4 or 5 books in.
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Toraman · Shinigami Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2047 Location: London

I buy volume 1s pretty much at random if they look interesting to me. After that it's I buy as I see them in the shops money permitting. I try to plan my spending but I often get distracted by other series. I rarely keep up with new releases for this reason.

I only really order manga online if I can't find it anywhere else first. Not sure why though...

IanC · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

Noratav · Newbie Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 15

I only order books online if I can't find them in the shops locally, and manga is no exception.

I also have a limit on the number of series I read at any one time, and a limit of two volumes per series in my backlog pile. If I see the next volume of a series in a bookshop and there's space for it in my backlog pile, I'll buy it. Otherwise, I order them off Amazon 4 or 5 books at a time, as and when space in my backlog pile permits.

Fudce · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

I buy mine online, but if I'm going to town, I often check there too, as there are some decent offline offers on manga.
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PaleBlack · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject:

I buy all my manga online - mostly from Amazon.

Partly because I pretty much just read shojo and a bit of some shounen (Case Closed, Inuyasha etc.) and most of that isn't available in the UK (I have a part time job in a bookshop so I've checked it out in great detail) and secondly, I would only ever order it through work, and I think they'd all disapprove - though we have got one volume of Elemental Gelade that we ordered in by mistake! That said, I have got it through work a couple of times, but as I said, there aren't that many titles I'm interested in.

Well, that made me blab on for a bit! Laughing

Toraman · Shinigami Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2047 Location: London

Random buys in 3 for 2 offers seem to be the method of choice for me these days... are Waterstones still doing that one? It's been a couple weeks since I last went.

PaleBlack · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

I think they are, though I don't tend to go into Waterstones much. Cool

Damo · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

They were when I went in Waterstoens over the weekend. the manga section in the Manchester Arndale Centre branch has spread too, there's now an extra stand promoting viz's stuff.
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