What the Games!?

Like woah! Can I totally update my wishlist?? Haha. There are some really awesome sounding games that I totally want to get now. Like uhh... first of all, I totally want a PS Vita now. That way I can get my hands on, let's see, PERSONA 4: THE GOLDEN? Yes sir! And then there's this other game I just looked at that looks really cool... Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. Plus there's a sort of pre-cursor game called 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for the DS.

By the way, I also snagged the first 5 volumes of Penguin Revolution from BookOff. Sakura Tsukuba is one of my favorite authors, and I've only now decided that it would be a good idea to start buying her series :| ... Well, the company who published them before is out of business, so it's going to be hard to get a complete set (especially the last few volumes as usual). This means I'm going to start investing in The Land of the Blindfolded soon.

Some Very Pretty Manga

Here are some pictures of manga that I have bought and have arrived this month =]
The first three pictures consist of the same manga shot from three different angles.

Oresama Teacher by Izumi Tsubaki (V.7, 10, 11)
Strobe Edge by Io Sakisaka (V.1)
Soul Eater NOT! by Atsushi Ohkubo (V.2)
Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma (V.11)

In this picture, are the Japanese manga that I bought through Kuroneko's piggy-back service =] What you can see here are:

Love Com TWO by Aya Nakahara
Sukitte Iwaseru Houhou by Masami Nagata (V.2)

I also bought this wonderful tank from Sanseido in Mitsuwa Marketplace.

Hirunaka no Ryuusei by Mika Yamamori (V.4)

I think I also bought High School Debut volume 12, Love Com volume 10 and Chocolat (Manhwa) volume 6 this month as well... but I forgot to take a picture of them. Oh well, whatever~ I'll take a picture when I have the complete set :'D

Making Plans for Buying Comics!

My plan of attack involves getting most of my Bakuman, Oresama Teacher and Yotsuba&!? volumes from Anime Expo 2013. There are usually some pretty nice discounts for NEW books at Anime Expo to try and get you to buy the manga there. The first time I went there, it was 30% off your entire purchase, so I just snagged the rest of my Spiral collection from there ;D The used books booths usually have 50% off, which is nice, but it's hard to find newer series there. Most of the titles are obscure of have been out for a long time in America (ie. Naruto, Bleach, Skip Beat). I will buy Strobe Edge, Pokemon Adventures DPP, Soul Eater Not! and Otomen as they come out (most likely in Barnes&Nobles where I can get a discount on them). Anything else, I'll probably just find cheap used copies online or at BookOff ^___^

This gets even better. So lots of the series I'm collecting at the moment are coming to an end in America! They include Bakuman, Otomen and also Chocolat (manhwa).

• Bakuman ends in 20 volumes.
  I've got about 6 non-consecutive volumes at the moment.
  VIZ's Shonen Jump is releasing every month until they hit the last two volumes. Then they'll wait a month for those two, I believe. That's fine with me. By the time Anime Expo hits, I think it might actually finish.
  Sooo... that means, if I don't find anymore volumes in the next 10 months (I'm sure I will lol) At 30% off an entire purchase, it'll cost me $90.90, plus potential tax, so that sound round up to about $100 for 13 volumes. Not bad, but I could probably do better lol.
  I should be finished with this series before the end of 2013
• Otomen seems like it's ending with 17 volumes in Japan.
  Volume 13 is on the way for me, that means there's only 4 volumes left to buy if that's true.
  American releases of Otomen are pretty much caught up, the 14th volume is already listed for New Years. That's about a 4 month delay, and I expect it to be the same for the rest of the volumes. Japan is releasing the 16th volume later THIS month.
  This allll means that I should be done with this series by the start of 2014 =]
• Chocolat will be done by the end of 2012, I don't think I need to say much about this LOL

 I hope that next year, I'll hear some nice new licensing agreements! I would love to hear if VIZ is planning to do the HGSS arc after they finish DPP and Platinum, because they're finally caught up in publishing the volumes in Japan. My other hopeful is a RE-license of Gakuen Alice because that's on it's last arc in Japan, and it's one of my favorite and most precious series! Oh yes, and with the coming of Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun's anime in October and success on the Oricon manga charts, I WISH that Kodansha USA would publish it in English! That would seriously be awesome.

If I hear some news about a licensing of new works from Natsuki Takaya, Aya Nakahara, Kawahara Kazune, Izumi Tsubaki and Sakisaka Io... I will be SOOOO excited!

My final hope is that Yen Press will be able to pick up a nice new manhwa title or two next year! It's tough getting a license for Korean comics because their industry isn't as stable as Japan's comic industry. Often, series get cut left and right, plus they're only starting to get a little popular. Manhwa (currently) has a certain taste to it that's a little different than Japanese manga that caters to a whole assortment of people.

So... there are my hopes! =]

Pictures of July

Here we go~ I'm going to try to post more pictures of my bookshelf and stuff to make this blog a little more interesting.

Here are pictures of the all the manga I bought and received in July. (Oh, and ignore my clothes in the corner haha.)

I bought most of the volumes from two different BookOff's, my friend bought me a volume of "The Magic Touch" when we dropped by Barnes&Nobles, and I snagged Hirunak no Ryuusei from Sanseido as per usual.

I regret not buying that random volume of Sukitte Iwaseru Houhou when I visited Kinokuniya, but... that's in the past now... I can't change anything haha

And here's what my bookshelf looks like now that's it's been updated and reorganized into a JP and KR only bookshelf!

It features some of the things I got from Kuroneko of Omari's Sisters and the new Pokemon Conquest game =]

Fruits Basket is on loan to a friend of mine for now, so that's what that big gap in the middle is between Full Moon and Comic Party.

I hope to be able to review volumes or series every now and then on this blog. So yup! If there's any particular volume that you'd like to get reviewed, tell me and I'll do it as long as I have it.

Scannalanna and a-lotta manga

YEAH! FINAL STRETCH OF SUMMER VAY-CAY AND IT'S STILL MANGA BASED!!

Hehehe, I don't think I should be happy, but I am, but I'm not... but... YEAHHH!! (Is all I have to say about that)

I got to buy a lot of manga! I feel bad for dragging people around for me to do that though...
NEVERTHELESS, LET US NEVER REGRET!!

So here's my stash 8D

• Lots of High School Debut
• A couple of Love*Com
• A handful of The Magic Touch
• A small dose of Bakuman
• And the prized Hirunaka no Ryuusei (JP)

I accidentally bought, two of the same volumes of The Magic Touch, so that's a bit problematic... Ehhh...

I also bought Pokemon Conquest! I hope it's fun! Big money spending spree o____x

 Mhmkay, and yeah! I've got lots of scanlation work too! I'm glad people are relying on me (not that I actually wanted more work...) Yeah, that's the part that makes me happy, but not too excited at the same time.

• SDS - Joint stuff! And whatever~!
• OS - Speed typesetting!
• EF - Lots of cleaning O:
• HH - Cleaning... and lots of cloning D':

Ohhh... scary...

More Borders Purchases!!

Wow... bought some more stuff 70% off, it only gets better, really XD Haha, yeah, so now I'm trying to make some sort of investment off TokyoPop books (so I can use the money to buy other manga @__@ or whatnot.)

It should be interesting if I actually sell anything. A link to my Amazon Seller's account dacatmango. There's not much in the inventory, but there it is.

Some things I bought for myself were Bakuman V.3, High School Debut V.2-3 and Love.com V.15-16. It was really cheap... there was no point in buying it .___. Now I kinda want buy whole series (USED PRICES THOUGH!!) Such a mangaholic :\

Manhwa Dig at BookOff

I came back from an incredibly tipsy turvy, rocky and bumpy experience at my Youth Camp. I kind of liked it--pretty nice comparatively to me during the other camps.

We came back from Julian to San Diego and had a going away meal with all you can eat Korean BBQ (up to 2 hours). After stuffing ourselves like no tomorrow, my loving mom was willing to listen to a silly daughter's request to go to BookOff one last time before moving up north!

Imagine my joy when I saw that they were having a sale on already cheap manga!! Instead of a Manga Haul (since the series I wanted were newer, and I didn't see anything else that caught my eye), I had more of a Manhwa Haul. I picked up the entire series of Priceless (3 volumes), Pig Bride (volumes 1-4; missing 5) and Good Luck (Volumes 1-3&5, missing 4). I hope I enjoy them ^__^

Priceless is by Lee Young-You, author of Moon Boy, so I'm excited to read this since it's one of her earlier works. I hope it's better than Kill Me, Kiss Me, though o=
License: This was licensed by Tokyopop, which is now out of business. You'll probably only find it in secondhand bookstores or sellers.

Pig Bride is a joint between Kook-Hwa Huh and Su-Jin Kim. I read the first volume years ago, and was amused by it because I wasn't into manhwa so much then. Even though I skimmed through the ending, and didn't find it too hot--I hope to come to like this series and appreciate the ending a little more... when I buy it ^^
License: This is currently licensed by Yen Press, so it should be in print for a while.

Good Luck is by E-Jin Kang. I... well I didn't think much when I bought this. I actually saw the ad for it in Priceless, when I was checking for the end of the series. I thought it looked good and to my relief, I found most of the volumes :] I really don't know what to expect for this series, so I hope it's refreshing in some way or another!
License: This was licensed by Tokyopop, which is now out of business. You'll probably only find it in secondhand bookstores or sellers.