[General Discussion] Recent Anime/Manga purchases

Went out tonight and picked up the DearS - Volume 7. I also went and preordered the last of the series' manga (Volume 8) as well. I'll have to wait until November to get it though.


I was speaking idiomatically.

Well... i did just finaly picked up my Samuria Champloo V2 and my NGE - Angelic Days V1 and FMA V8...but then i brought my car into the shop to get an oil change and well they found a big problem...and that part they need to buy costs like $500!!!!! and that along with all the other stuff that i need to get done to it will cost me $1500!!! T_T well it looks like i wont be posting in this thread for a while....this sucks...
FYI the guy is my neighbor so i know he isnt just charging me out the ass for nothing... but still. $1500! youd think hed give a yough guy a break T_T

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

This makes me sort of glad I don't own a car.

.... or not. -_-

Just bought the Berserk complete DVD box set. Never watched it beforehand, but I have to say it is a bit over-rated. I'm one to prefer the manga over the anime, as the anime feels kinda watered down in comparison, and I'm not too impressed with the soundtrack either.

*Patiently waits for volume 31*

FELIPE NO

COMPLETE!

I now have my hands on the final DVD for the Ah! My Goddess DVD set and I'm loading Belldandy's hot sweet ass into my DVD player as we speak. Hot, hot, hot, sweet Belldandy (Shortly behind Misato and Narusegawa). Also on pre-order are Hare+Guu disks 4 and 5 (I ran out of monies to finish the pre-orders).

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

:coloringbook101:

Most amazing jew boots

I bought too much manga this past week!

I went to BN.com and bought One Piece 1-3. I remembered reading this manga in Shonen Jump a while back and really enjoying it, so I decided to buy it. The Buggy the Clown book seemed a little confused to me, but overall, it's a good manga.

Also, on Sunday, I bought Ruruoni Kenshin 14-16. I've been collecting this one since my husband bought me the first two books for Christmas '05. The translations seemed a little awkward to me, but again, it's a good series overall.

I don't know which manga I want to collect next. I want to finish Utena, but I cannot find books 2 and 3. The BN website has several editions listed, so it's hard to find the edition I want. I would also like to finish Magic Knights Rayearth. =) Any suggestions?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

heh i finally bought a bunch of manga

this week::

xxxholic vol 6 (one more and im finally caught up with the U.S releases)

Battle Royale vol 7 (damn good manga just 8 more to go)

tsukuyomii:MoonPhase vol 2 (first vol was ultra cute so i had to pick up the next vol)

Boys Be vol 6 (i can't get enough of this manga just took awhile to actually pick up another vol of it)

GodChild vol 1 (eh somebody was talking about it at a get together i went to plus the art is sexy)

D.Gray.Man (i ask all of y'all to get this manga its not mind blowing or anything its just cool)

i forgot to update actually for these so i just name them

Yotsuba vol 2/3

was bored and i re-organized my entire collection..took a hour but it looks better :biggrin:

How ya doing, buddy?

I counted my manga recently.

197 volumes (English + Japanese; Japanese majority), and around 20 serialization magazines (Japanese), 3 serialization magazines (English), and about the same numbers for Japanese and English animation magazines.

I'll edit this when I get home to actually recount that shit.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Best Buy now carries the Excel Saga in a slimpack, $38. Since I have yet to see the very sexy regular box set, I had to settle for this. 7 complete sets! YAY!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hrm...well, recently went on a bit of a spending spree.

Bought some Inu Yasha DVDs and the fourth Inu Yasha movie, but that's it for anime.

Tried to get Chun Rhang Yhur Jhun volume 1, but it's "temporarily out of stock" so I passed on it in order to get the rest of that order shipped, which includes Warcraft vol. 2, Flame of Recca 19 and Chronicles of the Cursed Sword vol 1.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Same here . I wanted to buy just D.Grayman vol 2 until i found Shonan Junai Gumi vol 1 and Air Gear v1. Good thing Del Rey licensed the manga. Otherwise there wouldn't be any color pages (For AG that is).

FELIPE NO

Just bought the Zeta Gundam limited edition 10 disc set with pencil sharpeners and posters. $74 brand new factory sealed on ebay too. Happy birthday to me =P

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

went overboard with manga shopping again heh

bought online
Lupin III vol 9/10 (so close yet so far away.. 4 more vols till finish)
the ring manga vol 1/2/3 (2 more and i finished the series)

at the comic bookstore

D.Gray Man vol 2 (damn good series can't wait for the anime in october)
Battle Royale vol 8/9 ( it just gets more fuck up by the minute)
XxX:Holic vol 7 (im caught up fuck yes)
Galaxy Angel Beta Vol 2 (its actually the best vol out of the series)

100 dollars worth of manga i really should back away from this shit but i just can't :biggrin:

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was supposed to pick up the new volume of Yubisaki Milk Tea but instead of going directly to Fantasiapelit to buy it, I decided to turn around and walk to the other side of town to visit Good Fellows and Fennica Comics since I haven't been to either for ages.

Good Fellows, usually the most expensive of the three stores, had a window sale, and I managed to pick up both volumes of Heartbroken Angels for €4 each. Always wanted to buy them, but they're hardcover too, and have always been a tad pricy. Read the first volume on the train home and was trying to contain my laughter. Really funny stuff <3

Anyway, besides that, Good Fellows was selling all Tokyopop graphic novels for €10 (usually $9.99 books are €12 here), so I ended up buying the whole series of Peach Girl - Change of Heart. Well, almost the whole series since they didn't have vol. 2, so I picked that up from Fantasiapelit along with Yubisaki Vol. 2 (which Good Fellows didn't have yet).



All in all, not cheap, but I did save around 25-35 euro considering Heartbroken Angels was so cheap and I've always wanted to get them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'll be nice to the 56k losers. This was from today's raid of the bookstores. Copied and pasted from journal but postcount +1 so whatever.

Pictures!:

My bag of tricks.



Fullmetal Alchemist 14 ($5.66), Bleach 11 & 12 ($5.66/ea). I have to go back and buy another copy of Fullmetal Alchemist 14 tomorrow because there is a special limited edition version floating around with Volume 0. I must have it.



One Piece 11-13 ($3.00/ea). I'm getting closer...



.hack//Twilight 1 ($1.00), One Piece 9 ($3.00), Soul Eater 4 ($5.50). Should have been Soul Eater 6, picked up the wrong copy. I'm gonna try to exchange it tomorrow.



RAVE animanga 2 (I to take a picture of 1) ($1.00/ea), Kyomu Iin 4 ($1.00), JINKI:EXTEND 2 ($1.00). I thought the RAVE was the actual manga but I was mistaken. Only $2.00 so it wasn't a big loss. Kyomu Iin is excellent, and I only need volume 3 and 5 to have the complete series. Sadly, only Bookoff carries the series, so its a waiting game.



Island 1 ($1.00), Vaizard 1 ($1.00), Eremantar Gerad 8 (I forgot to take a picture of 2)($1.00/ea). I love deals. Island is freaky shit. Not gonna buy anymore of it, since I have 1-3.



Vaizard 2 ($1.00), Trigun Maximum 4 (I forgot to take a picture of 8)($1.00/ea), JINKI:EXTEND 3 ($1.00).



My new bookshelf. Getting a second one to give a home to my other books and get rid of the ugly shelf I was using.



Japanese stuff that has no home.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I gotta ask...what do you mean by "no home?"

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Lukage

I gotta ask...what do you mean by "no home?"

Haha, certainly not what you think. I've been trying to get new bookshelves since for the past few months I've been using something that I found in the basement that's probably older than I am. Its really ugly. Pretty much those are the books that did not fit on my new bookshelf, that will be going on the second one when I get it. (Along with my English manga and the stuff that I didn't take a picture of.)

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've got the same problem for some of my stuff. My shelves are well....unworthy of storing my DVDs and my few manga that I have. Considering the shitmess my room is, I doubt I can fit any more storage in here to preserve the anime goodness.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

No camera, so unfortunately no pix! In the last couple of weeks I've bought more manga than I have the entire year, so... yay for the manga industry I guess. Oh fandom, you make me poor.

Puchased:

Full Moon O Sagashite Volumes 1-6 (v7 coming out in a few months)
Yotsuba&! Volume 3 (finally)
ARIA Volume 1 (FINALLY A STORE THAT HAD IT WOOOOOOOO)

There were some other series that I saw that I might like to own (Voices of a Distant Star, High School Girls, Someday's Dreamers... I found a well-stocked store for once) but alas, only so much money. For now I'll just be content with my mass of shoujo stuff.

How ya doing, buddy?

I just got my Yoshitoshi ABe Lain Illustrations "Rebuild an Omnipresence in the Wired" in the mail a few days ago from Overstock. For anyone that likes ABe's artwork, this new US version is definitely worth it. (Thank you, DMP.)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Just bought this in a quickie anime spree:



Yes, it's YAAAAOI. And it's quite graphic. I actually have the scanlation of this, but I prefer having the actual book. They're releasing all the stuff that I have scanlated, and I can't help but want to replace it all! Man.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yay !

Next one is Rahxephon complete boxset.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So I got my second bookshelf today, this excites me a lot. I put it together and rearranged two parts of my room, although I'm not quite done cleaning.

Room Pics:

Purchases for today are the following. I already put them on my shelf so no pictures this time.

BLEACH 14-18 ($5.66/ea)
Fullmetal Alchemist Animanga 3 & 4 [Special Edition w/ Jigsaw puzzles] ($9.50/ea)
One Piece 15 ($3.00)
Yotsubato! 1 ($5.00)
Erementar Gerad 7 ($1.00)
Fullmetal Alchemist 14 Special Edition w/ Rough Sketch Gallery ($8.00)
Exchanged Soul Eater 4 for Soul Eater 6

Originally Posted by Sirmackerel

I just got my Yoshitoshi ABe Lain Illustrations "Rebuild an Omnipresence in the Wired" in the mail a few days ago from Overstock. For anyone that likes ABe's artwork, this new US version is definitely worth it. (Thank you, DMP.)

There's a US version now? How useless, the Japanese version hardly has any japanese.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Went over to my local video stores for once today, intending to find out how much it would cost me to order the third Patlabor TV series boxset through them. Turns out it's actually not going to cost me that much since the boxes have gotten a lot cheaper everywhere, so order placed, I should be able to pick up mine in a few weeks.

The store also had an aussie Haibane Renmei box, which looked wonderful, but it cost a ridiculous €80, which is way too steep for any 13 episode series for me, as much as I adore HR ;_;


So I stopped by another video store near there and ended up buying Akira on DVD for €7.90. I've always loved the film, but like Ghost in the Shell, getting it on DVD has been a long and perilous task.



They've been selling a "special Ultimate super mega pack" version of the movie for ages, but I haven't felt like paying €32 for a box that has a 16:9 widescreen version of the movie on one disc, with japanese and english audio, and then a 4:3, dub-only version of the film on another disc =/

This "no extras" version has been going around at an equally ridiculous €19.90 in every regular store, so I'm quite pleased for getting it for under 8 euro. I love how the sticker on the wrapper enthusiastically speaks of an exclusive bonus DVD included, which is basically a second disc with simply 60 minutes of Manga Entertainment trailers =x

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

whoo i finished off two series since the last time i posted in this thread

galaxy angel beta vol 3 (compelete)
Lupin III vol 10/11/12/13/14/15 (compelete)

also there is the ones i still to finish

battle royale vol 10 (im thinking of holding off on getting new shoes just to finish this series next week seriously :lolsign: )

Ultima i saw some series and games we both share horray for Otaku swag

i'll put up pictures of my bookself next week :biggrin:

I was speaking idiomatically.