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CrazyCanuck
 Posts: 102 Location: Canada |
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When I pulled up my list and selected those I had marked as complete I got 458 title!
Now, I admit many of those are one volume titles, and I mark cancelled titles as complete even if more volumes exist in Japan. So I filtered down to complete titles with more than ten volumes. A bit of further editing to exclude cancelled titles and a few duplicates (I have both the complete Tokyopop and Kodansha versions of Sailor Moon for example) and technically ongoing titles that are on hiatus left me with 46 complete titles with over 10 volumes. They are: Astro Boy Banana Fish Bakuman Black Cat Black God Black Jack Ceres: Celestial Legend Cirque du Freak Death Note Dr. Slump Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z Dragon Knights Flame of Recca Fruits Basket Fullmetal Alchemist Fushigi Yugi Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden Great Teacher Onizuka Great Teacher Onizuka: The Early Years Inu Yasha Kare Kano Love Hina Lupin III Maison Ikkoku MÄR Nabari No Ou Negima Phoenix Project ARMS Psychic Academy Ranma 1/2 Rurouni Kenshin Sailor Moon Silent Mobius Sorcerer Hunters Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning Tenchi Muyo: No Need for Tenchi! Tenjho Tenge Threads of Time Trigun Maximum Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Video Girl Ai What's Michael? XXXholic Yakitate!! Japan Yu Yu Hakusho Admittedly, with 3182 volumes of manga my shelves are more than full. Interestingly, I only own four of the titles on the list in the article. |
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Jayhosh
 Posts: 972 Location: Millmont, Pennsylvania |
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Wow, you guys must have a lot of spare money laying around. I only have 5 manga series and of those only two are completed. Akira and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. I have every released volume of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I'm still waiting on the last volume to come in the mail. I even ordered that Japanese special edition just for the stupid bookend. The other two series are relatively recent ones, Nisekoi and Attack on Titan. If I had more free time on my hands I'd read more series.
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7985 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I think most of my unfinished series are due to publishing companies dieing rather than lack of space or money.
The ones I've personally completed are: Ai Yori Aoshi (17) Black Bird (18) Boogiepop Dual (2) Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh (2) Bunny Drop (10) Chobits (8) Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunally (5) Gunslinger Girl (15) Hellsing (10) Kare Kano (21) Midori Days (8) Planetes (5) Scryed (5) Seikai Trilogy (3) Although there are more series I have completed collecting but not read yet. Also several ongoing long series like Claymore, D.Gray-man, and Oh My Goddess. |
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 9861 Location: Virginia |
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I haven't updated my list of manga volumes since January so there may be some omissions. I can't list all completed titles it would be too many, but I'll provide the top 10.
At top is Inu Yasha at 56 volumes. Next is Oh My Goddess! at 46 and continuing. Samurai Deeper Kyo is complete at 38 volumes however the last two volumes were two volume omnibus editions so the actual count is 36. Boys over Flowers at 37 volumes. Negima! at 37 volumes. I also picked up the first 6 of the omnibus volumes covering the first 18 volumes of the series. Ranma 1/2 at 36 volumes The Wall Flower at 33 volumes and continuing Initial D is at 33 volumes but is incomplete because Tokyo Pop quit publishing it. Skip Beat is at 31 and continuing And rounding it off, Blade of the Immortal at 30 volumes with one to go. I'm not really sure how you would count something like GTO. Technically, GTO at 25 volumes, GTO the Early Years at 15 volumes (one missing, blast it) and GTO 14 days in Shonan are three different series but they involve a single main character and the same continuity. This is complicated by the fact that GTO the Early Years is in omnibus volumes here and was 31 volumes in Japan. Omnibus volumes are great for buying purposes but make it difficult to make lists like this. There is another dozen titles with 20 or more volumes in my collection. As of last January, I had in excess of 650 titles in my collection but a lot of those are incomplete, mostly because the publisher quit issuing them. |
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Top Gun
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The same amount that I own in any form--zero! Though at the very least I've seriously considered buying Nausicaa someday. That hardcover collection of it looks pretty damn awesome.
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1821 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Yes it is. the only caveat I have with the hardcover set is that Viz left in some typos in the lettering. |
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Chibiterasu11
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Sad to say that I haven't completed a lot of my series. Mostly, my completed series are shorter series from authors that I really love, or series that were short to begin with.
1. Clover 2. Wish 3. Suki 4. Devil May Cry 3, a manga that I despise for its overly serious take on the source material - that works a little better for the scenes featuring Vergil, but not Dante. This could be considered a peer into the game series' dark future with DmC: Devil May Cry. 5. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 6. Dragon Ball (volumes 1-16. I haven't completed the DBZ manga series yet) Can't remember any others right now. |
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sunflower
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I think the longest complete sets I have are Ouran High School Host Club (18) and Otomen (18). Natsume Yuujincho is getting close to that number though it won't be complete for a while. Oh wait, Basara. I forgot about Basara (27). Most of the series I have are 10-12 vols.
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EyeOfPain
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Negima! (38) is my longest, but I don't think any of my other completed series come close. Berserk (37) will likely outstrip that, if it's ever finished.
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catandmouse
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Finished:
Earthian (4 volumes).....Legal Drug (3 volumes) RG Veda (10 volumes).....CLAMP School Defenders (2 volumes) Tokyo Babylon (7 volumes)....Tsubasa:Those with Wings (3 vol) Zig*Zag (9 volumes)....Seven Days (2 volumes) Model (7 volumes).... X-Kai (2 volumes) Kill Me, Kiss Me (5 volumes)....Gundam Seed/Destiny( 9 volumes) Shout Out Loud (5 volumes)....Koi Ni Nare! (1 Volume) X (18 volumes)........Hana no Mizo Shiru (3 volumes) Card Captor Sakura (12 volumes) After School Nightmare (10 volumes) Cynical Orange (10 volumes) Angel Diary(13 volumes)....Eensy Weensy Monster (2 vol) Phantom Dream (5 volumes) Fruits Basket (23 volumes) Nabari no Ou (14 volumes) NG Life (9 volumes) Unfinished/In progress: Loveless (12 single volumes, 4 2 in 1 vol.) After School Charisma (3 vol.) Kiss and Never Cry (7 vol.) Honey Bitter (4 vol.) Natsume's Book of Friends (16 vol) Tsubasa Reservoir (24 vol) Trinity Blood (12 vol) I'm sure I have more, but those are the ones I could remember/see on my bookcase. |
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Crisha
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My longest completed series has actually never been finished in English, so I bought all of the Japanese volumes.
3x3 Eyes (40) Basara (27) Fruits Basket (23) 20th Century Boys (22) Please Save My Earth (21) Monster (18) From Far Away (14) Twin Spica (12) Emma, a Victorian Romance (10) No. 6 (9) Story of Saiunkoku (9) Chrono Crusade (8) Cross Game (8) Parasyte (8) Magic Knight Rayearth (6) (MIXX edition) 7 Billion Needles (4) Puella Magi Madoka Magica (3) 21st Century Boys (2) Girl Friends (2) Magic Knight Rayearth (2) (Darkhorse ediiton) Nausicaa (2) Heart of Thomas (1) Sakuran (1) Uzumaki (1) And then there are a few series where I have collected everything that has been currently been brought out (all Darkhorse titles), but it's not the entire series: Eden: It's an Endless World (14) Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (13) Translucent (3) And then I have approximately 15 other series that I'm at varying stages of collecting. I estimate I'm at about 350 volumes. Man, I miss long-running, adventure, fantasy shoujo. I would love to see Yona of the Dawn and 7 Seeds picked up. 7 Seeds is a pipe dream, but I think that Yona may be possible. |
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southplumb
Posts: 35 Location: Durham, North Carolina |
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I have a lot of manga volumes, but so far the only complete series I have are:
Hagakure and Che Guevara are both only one volume long Alien Nine A Perfect Day for Love Letters The Day of Revolution Figure 17 Genshiken Girl Got Game Kill Me, Kiss Me Here Is Greenwood Marmalade Boy (I've seen the anime, but I haven't actually read the manga yet) Parasyte Pretty Maniacs Welcome to the NHK (almost done) also the Haruhi light novels Last edited by southplumb on Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8462 Location: Penguinopolis |
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I have all of 20th Century Boys (22) and its two volume sequel/epilogue 21st Century Boys, Fullmetal Alchemist (27), Death Note, Trigun (2 large editions) and Trigun Maximum (14), all of the Gunsmith Cats omnibus editions (4 super-sized), all of MW (1 super large collection) and Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (3 super large volumes).
Those are just the manga I have all of. I have a bunch of unfinished manga series that I've not finished collecting (and some I probably never will). Last edited by penguintruth on Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:59 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Ehehehe. Here's a fun question. I have...
.hack//Legend of the Twilight (3 volumes) [at] Full Moon (2 volumes) A Devil and Her Love Song (13 volumes) After School Nightmare (10 volumes) Ai Ore! (8 volumes) Alice in the Country of Clover: Ace of Hearts (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Clover: Bloody Twins (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz (7 volumes) Alice in the Country of Clover: March Hare (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Clover: Nightmare (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Hearts (3 volumes) Alice in the Country of Hearts: Love Labyrinth of Thorns (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit (2 volumes) Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story (1 volume) Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Mad Hatter’s Late Night Tea Party (2 volumes) Alice Love Fables: Toy Box (1 volume) All Nippon Airline: Paradise at 30000 Feet (1 volume) Andromeda Stories (3 volumes) Angel (1 volume) Angel Nest (1 volume) Angelic Layer (2 volumes) Arisa (12 volumes) Azumanga Daioh! (1 volume) Backstage Prince (2 volumes) Bad Teacher's Equation (5 volumes) Barbara (1 volume) Battle Royale: Angel’s Border (1 volume) Be With You (1 volume) Beast Master (2 volumes) Beautiful People (1 volume) Between the Sheets (1 volume) Blank Slate (2 volumes) Bloody Kiss (2 volumes) Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love (4 volumes) Bring it on! (5 volumes) Bunny Drop (10 volumes) Bus Gamer - The Pilot Edition (1 volume) Butterflies, Flowers (8 volumes) Butterfly of the Distant Day (1 volume) Cardcaptor Sakura (4 volumes) Castle Mango (2 volumes) Castle of Dreams (1 volumes) Chobits (8 volumes) Chocolat (8 volumes) Clamp School Defenders Duklyon (2 volumes) Clamp School Detectives (3 volumes) Clamp School Paranormal Investigators (3 volumes) Clover (1 volume) Confidential Confessions (8 volumes) Crimson Empire (3 volumes) Crimson-Shell (1 volume) Cynical Orange (9 volumes) Dawn of the Arcana (13 volumes) Death Note: Another Note (1 volume) Death Note: L Change the World (1 volume) Deja Vu Love Story (1 volume) Demon Love Spell (6 volumes) Desire - Dangerous Feelings (1 volume) DOLL (6 volumes) Dolls (4 volumes) Eensy Weensy Monster (2 volumes) Entangled Circumstances (1 volume) Fairy Cube (3 volumes) FAKE (7 volumes) Flower in a Storm (2 volumes) Flower of Life (4 volumes) Forest of Grey City (2 volumes) Four Shoujo Stories (1 volume) Freefall Romance (1 volume) Fruits Basket (23 volumes) Fruits Basket Banquet (1 volume) Fruits Basket Fan Book - Cat (1 volume) Full Metal Alchemist (27 volumes) Full Moon (7 volumes) Fushigi Yuugi (18 volumes) Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden (12 volumes) Gakuen Heaven (3 volumes) Garden Dreams (1 volume) Garden Sky (1 volume) Genkaku Picasso (3 volumes) Gerard and Jacques (2 volumes) Girl Friends (2 volumes) Godchild (8 volumes) Grand Guignol Orchestra (5 volumes) Hanami: International Love Story (4 volumes) Happy Mania (11 volumes) Haruka Beyond the Stream of Time (17 volumes) Haunted House (1 volume) Heaven's Will (1 volume) Helter Skelter (1 volume) Honey and Clover (10 volumes) Hot Gimmick (12 volumes Hot Gimmick S (1 volume) I am Here (2 volumes) I.O.N (1 volume) IC in a Sunflower (1 volume) Ichigenme - The First Class is Civil Law (2 volumes) In Clothes Called Fat (1 volume) Insufficient Direction (1 volume) Jyu-Oh Sei (3 volumes) Kamikaze Girls (1 volume) Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (7 volumes) Kaoru Mori Anything and Something (1 volume) Karakuri Odette (6 volumes) Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances (21 volumes) Kill Me Kiss Me (5 volumes) Kisses, Sighs and Cherry Blossom Pink (1 volume) Kitchen Princess (10 volumes) Kitchen Princess Novel (1 volume) Kobato. (6 volumes) La Corda d'Oro (17 volumes) Legal Drug (3 volumes) Legend of Chun Hyang (1 volume) Like a Love Comedy (1 volume) Limit (6 volumes) Little Darling (1 volume) Love Hina (5 volumes) Lover's Flat (1 volume) Lovers in the Night (1 volume) Lychee Light Club (1 volume) Magic Knight Rayearth (6 volumes) Maison Ikkoku (15 volumes) Man of Many Faces (2 volumes) Marmalade Boy (8 volumes) Mistress Fortune (1 volume) Miyuki-chan in Wonderland (1 volume) NG Life (9 volumes) NightS (1 volume) No. 6 (9 volumes) Nothing But Loving You (1 volume) Okimono Kimono (1 volume) Olympos (1 volume) Only Serious About You (2 volumes) Ordinary Crush (2 volumes) Otomen (18 volumes) Ouran High School Host Club (18 volumes) Paradise Kiss (3 volumes) Pink (1 volume) Princess Knight (2 volumes) Princess Princess (5 volumes) Princess Princess + (1 volume) Puella Magi Kazumi Magica (5 volumes) Puella Magi Madoka Magica (3 volumes) Puella Magi Oriko Magica (2 volumes) RG Veda (10 volumes) Rizelmine (1 volume) Saiyuki (9 volumes) Sakura Hime - The Legend of Princess Sakura (12 volumes) Sand Chronicles (10 volumes) Sensual Phrase (18 volumes) Shirahame-Syo (1 volume) Short Tempered Melancholic (1 volume) Sickness Unto Death (2 volumes) Sleeping Moon (2 volumes) Socrates in Love (1 volume) Solfege (1 volume) Spell (1 volume) Strawberry Panic (1 volume) Strobe Edge (10 volumes) Suki -A like story- (3 volumes) Sunflower (2 volumes) Tenshi ja Nai!! (8 volumes) The Antique Gift Shop (10 volumes) The Aromatic Bitter (1 volume) The Cain Saga (5 volumes) The Earl and the Fairy (4 volumes) The Flowers of Evil (11 volumes) The Gentleman's Alliance Cross (11 volumes) The Man of Tango (1 volume) The Moon and Sandals (2 volumes) The One I Love (1 volume) The Rules of Love (1 volume) The Story of Saiunkoku ( 9 volumes) Tiger and Bunny Comic Anthology (2 volumes) Tiger and Bunny The Beginning (2 volumes) Time Killers (1 volume) Time Stranger Kyoko (3 volumes) Times Two (1 volume) To Terra... (3 volumes) Tokyo Babylon (7 volumes) Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (1 volume) Train Train (3 volumes) Trash (1 volume) Truly Kindly (1 volume) Tsubasa RESERvoir CHRONiCLE (28 volumes) Twin Spica (12 volumes) Ultra Maniac (5 volumes) Until the Full Moon (2 volumes) Utsubora (1 volume) Vampire Doll ~Guilt-na Zan~ (6 volumes) Very! Very! Sweet (8 volumes) Voices of a Distant Star (1 volume) We Were There (16 volumes) Wild Com (1 volume) Wish (4 volumes) X-Day (2 volumes) XXXHOLiC (19 volumes) XXXHOLiC: ANOTHERHOLiC (1 volume) Yume Kira Dreame Shoppe (1 volume) And a whole load more I've not finished yet.... 11 years and counting. There's also some I've sold off over the years as well. Moving house is horrible. |
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Wooga
 Posts: 916 Location: Tucson |
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I'm proud to have all 33 volumes of Flame of Recca
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