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himiko-chan
Posts: 26 Location: NJ |
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Absolutely!!! Except they're all way younger than me. High school and younger. (Even ones young enough where mom has to say, "You can buy this one, but that one goes back on the shelf.") Usually they shop one or two at a time. On the other hand, at the manga rack at Suncoast you'll see big groups of girls and guys together shopping the manga. (I suppose they are there mall-crawling. Do people still use that word?)
I've seen guys camp out on the floor or pull over a chair and read, right in the middle of the shelves. Not often, but... (Well, maybe they were waiting for someone, because, like you said, more often they do the grab and run.) I know anytime I wanted to have a good read through a chapter or more I would take it elsewhere in the store so as not to be in the way! 
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molloaggie
 Posts: 578 Location: Texas |
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I guess it bodes badly for Animerica Extra that nobody here recognizes it as a monthly shoujo magazine. I know Viz said it was going to go all shoujo but it has no life in it. I like Fushigi Yugi and I'm collecting it but I haven't ever been attracted by the other titles in it.
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Yeah, I don't really consider Animerica Extra a full shoujo mag. Sure it has Fushigi Yugi and Utena, but everything else is questionable in the genre. Viz has lots of other shoujo titles that could easily make up a wonderful shoujo magazine, but they aren't jumping for it it seems. |
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molloaggie
Posts: 578 Location: Texas |
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And we girls had such hopes after Viz came out with Shonen Jump...
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haze-chan
Posts: 33 Location: University Park, PA |
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You will frequently find me angsting on what to spend that sacred $8-$15 on at WB or BN (heck even Suncoast!).
I don't sit there forever looking, unless they have a HUGE selection, but you will see me hold one book in one hand and one in the other and trying to decide which one I get. |
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Dilandau
 Posts: 525 Location: Tea House |
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This is my thread so I can ask stupid questions 
As a guy, when I have to choose between 2 manga, I almost always pick the one with the prettier cover. Can a guy say 'prettier'?  lol.
Is that 'usual' for a deciding factor? |
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Cerberus
 Posts: 120 Location: In front of a monitor |
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Well that has happened to me a few times, but you know what they say: "Don't judge a book by its cover." Sometimes if I'm sure that the manga that might not have the nicer cover is good, I'll get it. For example, I have to say I didn't like the first cover to Rurouni Kenshin too much, yet I still bought that over Naruto 2. |
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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-_- I'm guilty of judging manga by the cover, which I don't do with regular books. I'm an art whore, so if the manga has gorgeous art, I'll probably pick it over something I haven't read or heard anything about that doesn't look as pretty. |
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haze-chan
Posts: 33 Location: University Park, PA |
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Not for me. When I become totally indecisive, I go by the amount of pages the book has. |
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molloaggie
Posts: 578 Location: Texas |
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I try to get series that I will enjoy immensely the second time arround. It hurt, but I've dropped series because I know I'll barely read them. I picked up Basara recently even though the art is kinda weird to some people. The cover doesn't look anything like a shoujo. There's some guy in ragged dress in a desert with a sword. I'd passed it up before. But then I noticed how Viz had written shoujo on the cover and took a peak it. I was hooked It was only after I'd bought and read the first volume I learned I'd gotten myself into another huge series.
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sacchan
Posts: 277 Location: Okinawa, Japan |
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Basara is one series I read over and over again!
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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I think part of manga's growth is it's really fairly cost effective.
DVD's require players and TV's, and are between 17 and 30 bucks a pop. Spread that out over an average release and you've got one helluva investment. I love X TV, but lordy lordy $27 a volume for 8 volumes is a trip through thin wallet lane. I recently finished collecting Mars, and bare cost (not counting sales tax) for all 15 volumes is $150. Collecting all of X will set me back in total $216. Not a big difference, but still, less of a dent per volume and less of an overall dent is what it is. Besides, gotta love the variety. Manga has made it easy for me to fill a shelf with stories about racing Toyotas, ditzy lovelorn angels, and vicious reincarnated vampires. |
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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Yeah, portability and variety are strengths that books, not just manga, have. Nothing beats being able to take a story virtually wherever you go with relative ease. I love the fact that even if you have the anime, that the manga gives either a different perspective on the story or offers a lot of insight you couldn't get with the anime. |
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Dilandau
Posts: 525 Location: Tea House |
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Many of the manga series, DRASTICALLY differ from the anime versions. If you really like a series of anime, you HAVE to find the graphic novels, because they are probably different. It astounds me that so many Bebop fanatics that cry about There being no more Bebop don't know that their is a completely different series of manga from the anime. There is the normal series and then the 'alternate' series "Shooting Stars". The escaflowne manga is a completely different series, as well as many others. I'm a Uni student in a big city, I always carry a bag; and a book or manga is always amongst its contents. 
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L337Llama
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The things I'd like to see the most:
Slightly lower prices (like a dollar or two less) It'll probably happen in the future, like the way SHonen Jump stuff is priced less than Tokyopop, etc. More magazines (like Shonen jump, but other types of series as well) And something I'm very interested in: more stuff from American authors. How has the American-made series been selling? |
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