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Title: how BIG is your collection?
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rei-laa - April 25, 2009 12:35 PM (GMT)
OYASUMI MINA ! ~

i wanna know how big your manga collection is : )

and what you are planning to do with them in future.

i know, i know. it seems impossible for us to ever let go of them ;_;

but as we grow, we change our prospectives..

tears**

can't think of letting it go....


anyways. ill tell you guys about mine.

i have about 60 manga books altogether. worth about AU$1,300

$_$

in my collection i only have about 5 completed series within my 26 series and 2 being one-shots. : )

my included series are:
- afterschool nightmare [1,2]
- backstage prince [complete]
-because you smile when i sing [one-shot]
- captive heart [1]
-chibi vampire [2,4]
-chrono crusade [2,4,5,6]
-cybelievers [1]
-d.gray-man [6]
-fruits basket[3,16,17,22,23]
-highschool debut [1,2,3]
-kyohaku's dog [one-shot]
-la corda d'oro [1,2]
-love master [complete]
- merupuri [1,2,4]
-millenium snow [complete]
-negima [1,2,3,4]
-ouran high host club [1,2,3,4,5,6,11,13]
-phantom's dream [1,2]
-special A [1,2]
-the devil within [complete]
-the gentleman's alliance [1,2,3]
-trinity blood [1,2,3,4]
-the girl who leapt through time [one-shot]
-vampire knight [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
-wanted [one-shot]
-wild ones [1,2]
-yubisaki milk tea [1]

>and that's all there is to my collection ^^

and what am i going to do with it?

ill probably keep them at least till im 25...or more if i succeed my dream of becoming a mangaka and graphics designer : )

i want to hold on to them as long as i can

<3

now rei-laa wants to hear about yours :)

sekiiro - April 28, 2009 08:22 AM (GMT)
I haven't started counting and I don't intend to because I have too many!! Last night I just packed away one box and it had Kaguya Hime, Beauty Pop, Crimson Hero, some oneshots and some shorter series. I have around 4 boxes of them and then two shelves, double layered (because the rest are being packed away) of manga including Skip Beat, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge, Musashi No. 9 (incl. sequel), Blood+ and a few others.

I'm keeping them for now, we're planning to move sometime so I'll think about it after we move into the new house. For now, they're just going to be safely packed away.

jhealizzie - April 28, 2009 10:55 AM (GMT)
aw.
you guys are really rich.
i have TONS of collection.

but a download collection :D
hahaha XD

there's no manga here in our country,
or let's just say, they sell, the most nonsense manga here.
the only good manga they are selling here is suzuka.
that's IT!
dang.

so jealous.
i hope i can buy manga too
>_<

rei-laa - April 30, 2009 03:15 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (jhealizzie @ Apr 28 2009, 10:55 AM)
aw.
you guys are really rich.
i have TONS of collection.

but a download collection :D
hahaha XD

there's no manga here in our country,
or let's just say, they sell, the most nonsense manga here.
the only good manga they are selling here is suzuka.
that's IT!
dang.

so jealous.
i hope i can buy manga too
>_<

weeee !~ suzuka ><

love that series ! <3

Sexethang82 - April 30, 2009 08:48 PM (GMT)
Nice collection rei-chan!

But I can guarantee my collection is twice the size of yours with purchased manga.

-Angel Sanctuary (21 vols)
-Fruits Basket (22 vols)
-Naruto (35 vols)
-Hana Kimi (23 vols)
-Hellsing (7 vols)
-Her Majesty's Dog (11 vols)
-Ouran Host Club (11 vols)
-D.Gray-man (12 vols)
-Tsubasa Chronicles (20 vols)
-Legal Drug (3 vols)
-Skip Beat (17 vols)
-La Corda d'Oro (9 vols)
-Wild Ones (6 vols)
-Beauty Pop (9 vols)
-Punch! (3 vols)
-MeriPuri (4 vols)
-Vampire Knights (6 vols)
-SA (9 vols)
-Bound Beauty (2 vols)
-V.B. Rose (5 vols)
-Fairy Cube (3 vols)
-High School Debut (8 vols)
-Silver Diamond (4 vols)
-Princess Princess (5 vols)
-Gakuen Alice (6 vols)
-Juvenille Orion (5 vols)
-Tenchi ja Nai! (8 vols)
-Gentleman's Alliance (8 vols)
-Sensual Phrase (18 vols)
-Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden (8 vols)
-Alice 19th (7 vols)
-Millenium Snow (2 vols)

I think that's it...but I honestly can't remember since I've bought so many over the years, I actually have a list at home to tell me what volume I'm on for what series (to help with purchasing). My friends call me "the New Borders" since I loan out my manga. :hahaha:

This list doesn't even include my harddrive which has 15 gbs of manga on it, or the Japanese RAWS I buy for scanning for Intercross. It pays to have a job.

I'm 26 years old and don't plan on ever getting rid of my manga EVER!!! :LUV~!:

---nica - May 1, 2009 02:39 AM (GMT)
Sexe is amazing!

I'm still starting with my collection, because I haven't started 'til recently.... So I only have

-Fruits Basket (1-23)
-Hana Kimi (1-23)
-Shaman King (1-32)
-Meru Puri (1-4)
-Time Stranger Kyoko (1-3)
-Shinshi Doumei Cross (1-11)
-Gakuen Alice (1-5)

If something is available in English, then I buy it, but if not, then I just get the Japanese ones. :)

Mine is nowhere near everyone's, though!

EDIT!!!
-Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! (1-8)
-Ouran High School Host Club (1-8)
-Nana (1-11)
-Full Moon wo Sagashite (1-7)
-Inuyasha (1-30)
-Ranma 1/2 (1-30)

I'm starting to think of buying a bookshelf or two, since my stuff's starting to become big (still nowhere everyone's, though). One bookshelf is for English mangas and the other for Japanese ones.

rei-laa - May 1, 2009 06:28 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Sexethang82 @ Apr 30 2009, 08:48 PM)
Nice collection rei-chan!

But I can guarantee my collection is twice the size of yours with purchased manga.

-Angel Sanctuary (21 vols)
-Fruits Basket (22 vols)
-Naruto (35 vols)
-Hana Kimi (23 vols)
-Hellsing (7 vols)
-Her Majesty's Dog (11 vols)
-Ouran Host Club (11 vols)
-D.Gray-man (12 vols)
-Tsubasa Chronicles (20 vols)
-Legal Drug (3 vols)
-Skip Beat (17 vols)
-La Corda d'Oro (9 vols)
-Wild Ones (6 vols)
-Beauty Pop (9 vols)
-Punch! (3 vols)
-MeriPuri (4 vols)
-Vampire Knights (6 vols)
-SA (9 vols)
-Bound Beauty (2 vols)
-V.B. Rose (5 vols)
-Fairy Cube (3 vols)
-High School Debut (8 vols)
-Silver Diamond (4 vols)
-Princess Princess (5 vols)
-Gakuen Alice (6 vols)
-Juvenille Orion (5 vols)
-Tenchi ja Nai! (8 vols)
-Gentleman's Alliance (8 vols)
-Sensual Phrase (18 vols)
-Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden (8 vols)
-Alice 19th (7 vols)
-Millenium Snow (2 vols)

I think that's it...but I honestly can't remember since I've bought so many over the years, I actually have a list at home to tell me what volume I'm on for what series (to help with purchasing). My friends call me "the New Borders" since I loan out my manga. :hahaha:

This list doesn't even include my harddrive which has 15 gbs of manga on it, or the Japanese RAWS I buy for scanning for Intercross. It pays to have a job.

I'm 26 years old and don't plan on ever getting rid of my manga EVER!!! :LUV~!:

haha NICE ! <3

ive always wanted to start on reading her majesty's dog. seems really cool.

and is princess princess yaoi? its cover makes it seem so

BUT AWESOME STUFF ><

rei-laa - May 1, 2009 06:30 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (---nica @ May 1 2009, 02:39 AM)
Sexe is amazing!

I'm still starting with my collection, because I haven't started 'til recently.... So I only have

-Fruits Basket (1-23)
-Hana Kimi (1-23)
-Shaman King (1-32)
-Meru Puri (1-4)
-Time Stranger Kyoko (1-3)
-Shinshi Doumei Cross (1-11)
-Gakuen Alice (1-5)

If something is available in English, then I buy it, but if not, then I just get the Japanese ones. :)

Mine is nowhere near everyone's, though!

what you serious?! your part of teh big kids now ;D

of course your collection is big. most of your series are those long, long ones...

ZOMG TIME STRANGER KYOKO IS AWESOME !!

ARINA TANEMURA FTW~

><

you are so getting there <3

Sexethang82 - May 1, 2009 03:31 PM (GMT)
Hahaha...yep. I'm perpetually broke from buying anime and manga (you should see my purchased anime collection~ -_- ). If I had to estimate, I've probably spent a good $6000 on both over the years (not including Intercross manga purchases~) @.@


Oooh, and I noticed when I got home that I forgot:

Loveless (8 vols)
Full Moon wo Sagashite (7 vols)

"Princess Princess" is more shounen-ai than yaoi. There's no boy kissing or making out. It's just that they cross-dress the boys as girls and get chased around. It's really funny so I highly recommend it! ;)

momei - May 3, 2009 01:27 AM (GMT)
My manga books are not that extensive but I do have a lot of downloaded scanlations. I think I have 400 GB of both completed and on-going/dropped.

lwintercross - May 28, 2009 02:13 AM (GMT)
I have a very small collection since I read all my manga online.

baka_inu15 - July 9, 2009 07:43 AM (GMT)
oh dear, oh dear. a number of books? impossible. but i can state most of the series/books i own.

let's see:

DNAngel (1-11)
Chibi Vampire (1-13)
Mugen Spiral (1-2)
S.A. (1, 5, 6, 7?)
V.B.Rose (1-5)
Gentleman's Alliance (1-6)
Mixed Vegetables (1-3)
MagicalxMiracle (1-6)
Dramacon (1-3)
St. Lunatic Highschool (1-2)
Short Sunzen! (1-2)
Tsubasa Those With Wings (1)
Kamichama Karin (1-7)
Full Moon wo Sagashite (1-7)
FLCL (1-2)
The Devil Within (1-2)
Kedamono Damono (1-2)
Time Stranger Kyoko (1-3)

And lots of misc. books like Rizelmine, Fruits Basket #1, Konkon Kokon, Shinshoku Kiss, and Gakuen Alice #1.

What am I going to do with them? hell if i know. probably either keep 'em till i die or sell them at a garage sale when i'm on my deathbed. either way, they'll be with me for some time. :)

jcamour - July 11, 2009 04:44 AM (GMT)
well all the manga i find on the web so haha no collection (:

Taiya - July 17, 2009 03:55 AM (GMT)
ahaha i have a pretty small collection
Nakayoshi (12/08,01/09,02/09,03/09,04/09)
Shugo chara (1-6)
skip beat 1 lol

I am planning to buy more but right now not really lol =D :FOOD!: but yea i will buy the rest of skip beat i think :music: its just soo good. Oh note these are all in japanese lol. I dont do the english manga bookslol. I rather read scalations lol =D

Hina-Chan - July 19, 2009 01:03 AM (GMT)
I haven't actually ever counted my collection, but I have a lot of Manga. They take up 3 shelves and about 2 closets (I have spare room, so kill me). I plan on keeping them. No way in hell am I ever going to give them away or sell them, my Manga are my life. I live for them and they exist for me.

Kinn - July 20, 2009 06:20 PM (GMT)
My collection is not very large: T.T

Honey& Honey drops [8 vols]
Fiebre de amor [2,3 vols]
Midnight children [2 vols]
Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru [1 vols]
Gekka no kimi^[1 vols]
Nagatacho Strawberry [1 vols]
Ai Ore![1 vols]
Love Beast [take one]

I have several series started and the end some day but I need the money Joooo ... I'm sure it will end is Ai Ore! ... I love him ;) ... here in Spain was published first, and since then I have been delighted ... and then I also have a series of a lot of manga but all in Spanish scand :YAY!: .

Fubblez - October 9, 2009 08:06 AM (GMT)
i have over 300 books and 50 GB of scanlation manga from downloading.. i keerp them safe in the shelf and in my HDD. no plan to thow them away

oloore - May 11, 2010 03:07 PM (GMT)
As for now my manga book collection is rather small:
5-10 volumes of Petshop of horrors,
1 volume of Oyome ni Ikenai
5-6 volumes of Momoiro heaven
7 volume of Shitshujisama no Okiniiri
5 volume of Kamisama hajimemashita
9 volume of Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
and a few manga megazines
And I plan to expand my collection in the future:)))

faechilde - May 12, 2010 12:54 AM (GMT)
I don't have a physical manga book collection but I do have about 90 GBs of Shoujo, 20 GBs of Shounen, 10 Gbs of Shounen Ai, 10 GBs of Josei,, 10 GBs of Seinen and 40 GBs Yaoi. Lots of them are series that haven't been completely scanlated as yet. I don't make a decision as to whether or not I'm going to keep a manga or series until I've read it in its entirety. LOL

VioletRose - May 12, 2010 02:17 PM (GMT)
oh i have a large collection in my computer and in my bookshelf
it like really full

austrelle - May 19, 2010 08:54 PM (GMT)
thousand to count in my external hard drive but i have my own collection that i did bought licensed. I have fews but completed volume. Every single manga thats been release except for yaoi, hentai or rather explicit I have none thoug i have smut ofcourse... I have tons and tons and I cant get enough of it. I had my hard drive fulled up that i have to delete some.. i am getting bigger external so that i could keep everything.. im so manga maniac..

unnoseonna - May 20, 2010 07:39 PM (GMT)
like i seems I'm pretty much of a manga freak... I have:
all 20 vol of angel santuary
all 8 vol of godchild
collecting tsubasa chronicles (have only the 1st for now)
all 10 of mushishi
i sold most of my kenshin (so sad), but i have only 3-6 now.
1st vol of trigun
2 vol of chobits
26th (or 25) vol of inuyasha
rikioh - i think I have all vols... but I can't remember if I ever did a sell on it - Xx well.
kamui
lupin III

---
junk (XD i sell it for people in need btw)
comics party vol 1
x 1999 vol 0
death note vol 1 (french) and vol... 7? i think... the special one, with l's true name XD (in japanese)
d.n angel vol 7 i think in english, while 1st in swedish.
vol 6 or 7 i can't remember or see from here without my glasses... of demon diary (manhwa)
and that's i think pretty much i can offer.
lol.
I'm in love with the angel sanctuary series so even from 1000 euro i wont sell it. XD really.



well OO if someone has any tsubasa vol (IN VERY GOOD SHAPE), he can offer me it by a pm :O if it costs less than 6 euro - 'cause the amazon sell it for 6.

LokiOneeSama - September 1, 2010 05:10 PM (GMT)
Naruto(10v)
Bleach(3v)
Ranma1\2(14v)
Skip Beat!(4v)
CROWN (1v)
Dragon Ball (5v)
Tokebi World(1v)
One( 2v)
Midori no hibi (5v)
Petshop of horrors (10v)
Faeries' Landing (2v)
Little Queen (3v)
Divine Melody(4v)
The Bride of the Water God (3v)
Dramacon (3v)
Provance (2v)

I read them and read and... and I don't what else but I not getting rid of them ... maybe ever?

Leaf - September 7, 2010 01:07 AM (GMT)
ahem, to list all the manga that I have would be a disaster. I have a separate room to keep all my manga series. I have been buying and keeping manga for more than 10 years now. Every week, I always bought about 5-10 books. Yeah, it can be called a huge collection. Planning to open a renting manga shop so that I can have benefit from it hahahah :hahaha:

kutu_loncat - September 22, 2010 01:15 AM (GMT)
i've got a lot at the moment about 200 gb and most of them was lost when i transferred it to my harddisk. i can't live without them. T.T

keiko9 - September 22, 2010 02:00 AM (GMT)
My manga collection includes:

Hana Kimi - 18 vol
Merupuri - 4 vol (complete)
Kodocha - 10 vol (complete)
Beauty Pop - 1 vol
Marmalady Boy - 4 vol
Cardcaptor Sakura - 1 vol
Day of Revolution - 2 vol (complete)
Absolute Boyfriend - 2 vol
Kare Kano - 3 vol

For now I'm still thinking of keeping them, but one day I would like to have the Japanese version of them.

And of course my download collection is much bigger than this but I won't write them because it's too much trouble.

animegirl101100 - September 22, 2010 11:20 PM (GMT)
HEY there rock fans :P
i OWN 117 different series :)
and i believe about 600 different volumes :)
i plan on keeping them forever :) or to sell them to awesome collectors in tip top condition for triple what i bought them for :p okay maybe double

OKAY this is consentualized k

$10 each volume times that by 600 you get $6000 T.T
now think harder for about 380 volumes it was bought at 12 to 13 dollars each... >.< kyaan
and one series was $15 each for 11 volumes geh

I LOVE MY MANGA WITH A BURNING PASSION~! :hahaha:
i also have a huge downloaded collection which amounts to around 85 series maybe?
have my series which i own own like in *able to touch form* is about at the halfway mark so yuppers :) I HOPE TO be asked if i have read any certain manga if i have i will totally talk to you about it in full depth kay! -_-

skyfish - October 2, 2010 11:45 AM (GMT)
I had over 200 mangas @.@ , but I sold the all!:_: I didnt have place anymore...and the prices..

kissoutelle - November 4, 2010 06:54 PM (GMT)
Wowow... That is a lot xDD

Ive got :
Fruit basket
Galism
Hakoniwa Angel
Koakuma Cafe
H3 School
Full moon
Sugar Sugar Rune
Hua Qian (flower ring)
Urukyu
Rockin Heaven
FIVE
... And others that i need to sell Because it takes to much space >__<

kookiemonstar - November 26, 2010 05:48 AM (GMT)
Kill me kiss me vol 1
Dnangel vol 1
Fruits basket vol 1
Mars vol 1

I got it for 3$ each on ebay :)

fritefal - January 2, 2011 03:06 AM (GMT)
Wow, I'm so amazed by your collections! 200+?! That sounds like a lot of work, especially money-wise. I only collect the titles that I really love, mainly Skip Beat!, some Fruits Basket (I mean, who doesn't have Fruits Basket?) and some Ouran High School Host Club, as well.

With all the available manga online, I pretty much keep a huge folder with all the other titles that I love but haven't been licensed by U.S. publishers yet. Suits me just fine.

bunny51033 - January 3, 2011 02:29 AM (GMT)
the series i own are....
- v.b. rose
- angel diary
- tears of a lamb
- skip beat
- vampire knight (just some)
- rasetsu
- beauty pop
- Gakuen Alice (in mandarin)
- dazzle
- kadocha

i sold some of my other mangas... i guess i just got older and changed preferences

yukisora - February 14, 2011 01:00 PM (GMT)
The collections:
D gray man vol 8-17
Love so life vol 2-4
Oresama Teacher vol 6-8
Otomen vol 6-10
Tonari no Atashi vol 3-4
My Hero vol 1-2
Kaichou wa maid sama vol 1-2

shakey - April 28, 2011 08:12 AM (GMT)
my mom burnt my manga that's why i dont have to count them anymore. hehe, thanks mom., :FOOD!:

queeny03 - May 17, 2011 08:45 PM (GMT)
i dont really buy mangas, its too expensive
i just mostly read them online..
sometimes i buy raws even when i couldnt understand it.

fairie-writer17 - August 5, 2011 12:53 AM (GMT)
I have over a hundred in my collection..so far! :FOOD!: I read a lot online but if I REALLY like them, I'll start buying them.

Some in my collection are: (because I can't remember them all atm)
We were there (bokura ga ita)
Mars
Absolute Boyfriend
Mekkashi no Kuni
H3
Mixed Vegetables
Sand Chronicles
Chobits
Kimi Ni Todoke
Honey Hunt
Lovely Complex
and many more!
:YAY!:

PAH - August 11, 2011 05:58 AM (GMT)
Vampire Knight 1-7
Her Majesty's Dog 1
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden 3
Cross Roads 1
Wanted (oneshot)

I'm talking about volumes. Hrms. I've come to notice that buying mangas are really expensive!!. Therefore I've stopped buying them and started reading online. That saves a lot of money. I think I'm gonna save my books, unless someone wanted to buy them from me. I'm fine with it. XD

ceruleancrescent - August 20, 2011 07:59 PM (GMT)
My collection is huge. It takes up one tall bookcase with volumes double stacked and turned sideways. I really don't know what I'll do with it, probably save my absolute favorites and sell the others eventually.

rynellanimenia - September 11, 2011 05:31 AM (GMT)
For hardcopy, I only buy short stories.. upto 6 volumes only.. but for softcopy, I have a lot.. burn them in a DVD so that it won't be lost.. hehe.. I have about 12 DVD now.. ^_^

quitlater2 - January 13, 2012 06:38 AM (GMT)
sadly I have "NONE" and my sister who doesn't read NEARLY as much manga than me has more (around 12 bks) but if I had a collection I'd make a miniature library or store it in a little cabinet (titled "shoujo corner") and recline to my cushion when I feel like relaxing and pick book to read) (it'd be nice to have 20 or so.




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