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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
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My dream for my small manga collection ( and my family photo albums ) is to get a used refrigerator and put it in my garage, unplugged in the winter. If it is cleaned once in a while with ordinary household cleaners, there is no danger of mold or crud. I've seen small automotive shops keep air filters and other car parts clean this way.
Of course, that's less money I'd have for anime and manga. And I'd have to clean out the garage... someday. 
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I have Yoko Kanno's autograph and it is also completely legible. But yeah I couldn't tell you what any of my other Japanese autographs say. But then since I was physically there when they signed it, I know it's theirs. And well I am not planning on selling them. Of course when I die, no one else will know what they are. lol I also have Mamoru Hosoda's autograph, I can't read his signature itself, but then he drew Makoto from Girl Who Leapt Through Time for me. Anyways all the talk about manga yellowing has me worried. I keep mine on the shelf but not in plastic wrap. I haven't had any problems yet (and I've been collecting for 14 years) but one of my artbooks did suddenly have pages sticking together. edit: some of my Japanese autograph pictures (photo quality is not the best) Yoko Kanno and Seki Tomokazu on Escaflowne. Yoko Kanno is towards the top, Seki at the bottom. http://kimalysong.tumblr.com/post/58631818329/otakon-2013-great-con-with-probably-the-best Gen Urobuchi and Tetsuya Kakihara (easy to tell what is what bc of what they signed) http://kimalysong.tumblr.com/image/28452930865 Mamoru Hosoda http://kimalysong.tumblr.com/image/45027017906 |
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The yellowing may also depend on how it's kept prior to purchase, like conditions at the warehouse. Also for stores, I've seen new manga in B&N and previously at Borders in poor condition, like with bent spines and bent pages. People leafing through manga also adds to future deterioration with added oils and acids from hands. Plus one of my local BNs has its manga section next to the cafeteria, so the added steam and humidity and likelihood of pastry-fat works against it.
It's the reason why except for a couple things, I now order manga online and I still download the scans. Having DRM-free digital manga like some of DMP's title helps too. For wrapping or bagging, I think it would need to be vacuum packed to be effective, otherwise I'd just avoid handling them and stick them in a box instead of a shelf. |
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phia_one
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I've only been buying manga since 2005 and some of the earlier books in different series (all Viz) have already started turning yellow. It's a shame because I take very good care of my books.
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Covnam
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I just cleaned up/organized a good portion of my manga collection tonight coincidentally and most of my books looked fine going by the top of the spines. I did see some that were yellower than others though, but it wasn't consistent by publisher or series. Just a random book every once in a while.
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ColonelYao47
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I see you did the last two Otakons as well. At the time, I didn't have a special item for Gen Urobuchi. I also admit envying your Hosoda autograph. I met him when he did his Wolf Children tour but he was too tired to do autographs by the time I got to him. It's doubly disappointing when people from an earlier screening got sketches and autographs. |
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I was at Otakon this year, but I didn't even attempt to get Yoko Kanno's autograph. Considering what a madhouse it was just getting tickets to her concert, I wasn't willing to put in the effort it likely would have taken to get a ticket to her autograph session. I was quite happy getting the autographs of Tsukasa Fushimi (author of Oreimo) and Hiroyuki Kanbe (director of the anime), plus you know, getting to see Yoko Kanno's concert. While I am a big fan of getting autographs and have about a dozen of them from various Japanese guests at conventions, I also am fine with passing on them if I view the hassle of obtaining one to be too much of a cost in time and effort.
Personally, I like what Aniplex did for cons where they were at where if you bought a certain item, you'd get a ticket for an autograph session provided you were one of the first 100 or so people to buy it. If I can use money to save me time spent sitting in line with no guarantees of an autograph to actually guarantee an autograph, I'll do it in a heartbeat. |
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TarsTarkas
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I would like to take care of my manga and much older anime magazines. But it makes no sense to have books on a shelf in plastic. If you want to protect them for the long haul, buy one for the shelves and one to be sealed for storage.
Sadly for space concerns, I have too much in boxes in the garage. Which is no where ideal. You can't control humidity in the garage, and there is the ever present danger of insects. |
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bones2039
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I just looked at some of my older volumes of manga(which are only 9-10 years old), and while comparing them to newer volumes I can see some yellowing, Its not to a point that it really bothers me. My Ranma 1/2 collection is more bothersome because its flipped than because its sort of yellow.
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EnigmaticSky
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[quote="Maidenoftheredhand"]
I... i... WHAT. I am so incredibly jealous... ________ Answerman, awesome on your new setup. If anyone tells you that a 1080p projector isn't enough, depending on how close you plan on sitting, you can pretty much just call bullocks. Unless you're projecting in an entire movie theater, it's really unnecessary. http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/01/27/resolution_chart.jpg I really look forward to getting a legit home-theater set up. Until then I'll be happy sitting like 3 feet away from my 50 inch tv in my tiny dorm room darting from the bottom of the screen to read subs to the full thing. |
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fuuma_monou
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Not to mention that there's not much 4K source material available to consumers. |
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enurtsol
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I've met people who set up a projection screen on their backyard from their 2nd floor window. A theater in the backyard. 
Whatacowinkidink. I just talked today with a guy who has a Sony 4K TV. Apparently he gets his 4K sources from Sony that's only available to subscribers. Seems Sony is encoding some films into 4K. (Oh, we're trying out some movies on a new curved LG 55" OLED Cinema 3D Smart TV...... thin as a glass for sale for a low low price of $9999........ Looks nice though...... Wonder how anime would look........ )
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fuuma_monou
Posts: 1817 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Heard about that from David Pogue's column in Scientific American. Apparently Sony ships the files on hard drives. I'm guessing the portable kind that can be powered by a USB port. IIRC Warner Brothers had its entire film catalog encoded in 4K or even 8K for archival purposes. If so, I'm still waiting for Blu-rays of The Iron Giant and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. When I bought my Samsung HDTV and Blu-ray player, the package included a six-month subscription for Blu-ray rentals. |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I got mine at the NY Int'l Children's film festival. I wasn't expecting autographs but I bought my DVD just in case and then some little girl asked during audience questions...I was quite grateful to that little girl. Where did you meet him?
I admit if I was on my own I might not have tried either but I was with another friend who is a huge Yoko Kanno fan who flew in from California to get her autograph who was so determined and well that kind of encouraged me to not give up. I was one of the last few people who got in the line but I have to say how they handled Yoko Kanno was way more organized than Otakon's usual autograph policy. They left the line open outside and the first 100 people to get in got their tickets. As long as you lined up early you were good, there was no the usual shoving and stampede to get in the autograph line (although that one I've kind of mastered after doing it for so many years, it's never pleasant). |
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ColonelYao47
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Oh my goodness, were you at that 4:00 screening on 23rd Street? I got the 6:30 one. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. Watching Wolf Children for the first time with him there was an absolutely amazing experience. Not bad for my first festival...hope there will be more good times this year with Patema Inverted. |
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