Get any new manga recently? Know where to buy cheap?

[Tanooki]

I took the plunge and checked out Book Off down in San Diego today and yum it's nice getting 50% off or better manga.

I ended up getting a few things which were pretty cool to find, would get more but I'm tight right now with the little lady looking for a job.

I ended up with Metropolis, Golgo-13 Vol 11: The Wrong Man, and 2 Legend of Zelda books 'Minish Cap' and 'Majora's Mask.' Short of the Seasons/Ages Oracle stories I have that set down. Golgo has a lot of books, and I'm up to like 4 of I think 12 of so I'd have to look. Metropolis I've heard great things about and it's by Osamu Tezuka known for Astro Boy and the 'Phoenix' series. I used to have a couple Phoenix books, pisses me off I sacrificed them for the move. :\ I saw one of those at the place but resisted for now on that.

Anyone here know places that do specials on new/used manga anyway? The stuff I got today were all new and 50% off. Sure there's ebay, but it's not so much a deal with how so many douchebags on there ask like $7 for shipping on a $3 cost to ship item to cover their posting charges/ebay losses.

[Joey D]

I gotta say, the only manga I read is the stuff my friends send back from Japan. Use it to practice Japanese. I insist they buy me some of the oldest shit they can find... no idea why.

That said... a place like Book Off is probably your best bet. Large used book stores are GREAT for manga, plays, poetry and the like. I'm totally in the party of used bookery and its benefits.

[Tanooki]

Book Off and in the shopping center attached to it is this 'ranch market' type setup for Japanese things that has manga, video games, books, cutesy stuff, an eatery, grocery store, etc all in one. Beyond that, which bugs me, there doesn't seem to be much and in SD county there's a huge asian population so it doesn't add up at all.

If I could float a large loan I'd open up a shop myself in north county and make a killing on the used book racket as it just doesn't exist at all short of some really lame specialty used book shops with little to them at all widely and sparsely spread out.


You'd love Book Off, they got like 800 stores in Japan, 6-8ish within various US states. The US stores are split like 30/70 English/Japanese and the manga section is like 10-20x larger than the english side...it's nuts. If it were 9 years ago and I was still well enough versed I'd be all over that.