Why don't you take the physical pill

I don't believe in physical possessions

I did for about 10 years then sold it all off

I don't read digital. I'm part of a community that alerts members to manga dumps and fire sales. I have 3400ish volumes that cost me like $400 total. Most were literally tossed out by libraries and private collectors.

Because I'm not in Japan and don't want to pay and wait for shipping. A bunch of series I read are digital only.

>>280360512 (OP)
Shipping by ship costs five times the Items I want.
Shipping by Air cost twice than the items I want.
I can only buy when I visit there.

>>280360512 (OP)
People dont own homes and so they prioritize necessities that would be practical to move to the next slave pen

>>280360644
thats cool. wish I could get in on that. sadly every place I live in closes their recycling to the public where are you?

>>280360512 (OP)
I do buy physicals of series I enjoy and which I'll probably reread.

>>280360755
Melbourne

>>280361005
>Melbourne
>aus
oh no wonder.

>>280360636
Why? I have 600+ tankoubon at home and i'm wondering if should just sell it all but i don't have the motivation to do it. Why did you do it anon?

>>280360512 (OP)
English manga is fairly expensive for what it is, and can also be hard to find depending on the series. But it is more enjoyable to read physical.

>>280361145
Was moving later in the year, needed some extra money and I just didn't need Bankers Boxes full of manga taking up space. Had a few hundred not quite that many.

>>280361236
>But it is more enjoyable to read physical.
Than Japanese manga?

>>280361269
Compared to digital on the computer.

>>280361241
I see. I guess i will wait until i move out of my current flat then, that's the only way

I have some physical manga. Honestly, they're way less comfortable to read than just reading them on my PC.

>>280360512 (OP)
Because its silly.
Buying certain stuff you like a lot or because you prefer reading physical is one thing, but objectively physical collection is worse than digital for anything besides displaying.
More expensive, harder to store, easier to lose. No matter what you do, most jap manga and ln today are basically printed on toiletpaper, so they might just fall apart on their own after some time.

I always collect everything worth keeping at least also digitally.

>paying for atoms

>>280361417
I have manga printed in the 80s. you're an idiot.

>>280360512 (OP)
I did for years but I've been running out of space + most series take forever to be licensed in my language if at all and importing is a bitch. It all comes down to convenience. Though I still find myself occasionally searching out a series that may have caught my eye as something special.

That being said physical manga are tangible objects that you can care for and display while digital is a borderline brainrotted amalgamation of pixels that will never love you. In 100 years my tanks will become an army of beautiful tsukumogami and your ssd will be fried.

>>280360512 (OP)
I did though

>>280360512 (OP)
Manga I'd actually enjoy having on my shelf doesn't have an official english translation, and the rest is not worth the huge amount of money I'd have to give to have complete collection+shipping.
And then there is stuff like Detective Conan, whose official translation comes with retarded localization, and would probably require me to dedicate a whole room to store all that.

>>280360512 (OP)
I like to live light and not be bogged down by too many physical possessions.

>>280360512 (OP)
>Recently get into physical
>Physical (english) manga will always be years behind the current japanese chapters
How do people manage this? Do you wait or do you read online and buy the books as they're published? (and read again?)

>>280360512 (OP)
I do. It's called a hard drive

>>280361699
>In 100 years my tanks will become an army of beautiful tsukumogami and your ssd will be fried.
Based. Can't fucking wait for my child to have a Berserk tsukumogami by his side when i'm dead

>>280360512 (OP)
because piracy exists

>>280360512 (OP)
>they say americans don't read
>manga selling like hot cakes in usa now
what happened

>>280362086
always easier with pictures

>>280360512 (OP)
I only buy physical if there are absolutely no scans online
so basically just private press stuff and doujinshi

>>280360512 (OP)
because I don't own a house, nigger.

>>280362086
Clearly that's a French bookstore. The industry wishes Americans bought half as many manga as the French.

I own a house but my weeb room is already filled with plastic butts. I have several bookshelves with manga but I don't think it looks good if all the shelves are 100% full, especially since I keep some smaller figures displayed on the relevant rack of the bookshelf instead of in display cases.

Ive been buying anime DVDs / BDs since ~2000.
But started manga around 2018, when Dragon Half was released.

>>280360512 (OP)
>completely yellows in a year

>>280363063
>Buying mass printed battle shounenshit

>>280360512 (OP)
>start buying physical copies because fan translations are suspect and scan quality is trash.
>after several years, clean digital copies with proper though not perfect translations come out.
>stopped buying new volumes after several years.
Do I continue to buy to complete the sets, or cut my losses and sell?

>>280363228
is there even any manga you would go back to?

I have hundreds of doujinshi because the stuff I collect is sold only at small series/character specific events and has almost zero chance of getting scanned online unless the artist decides to upload to their own Pixiv. Fortunately it takes up a fraction of the space of regular manga.

>>280360512 (OP)
I don't re-read manga. Physical books just take up space. I wouldn't mind renting them if that was a thing.

>>280360921
I actually just bought the physicals of these the other day. They're arriving today. I'm looking forward to rereading it. It's such a cute series.

>>280363516
Like... a library?

>>280360512 (OP)
because people are poor

>>280360512 (OP)
im broke and live in a commieblock like everyone else who isn't a richfag.

>>280361939
that's why you scan it and share it with us.

>>280361269
I can't read Japanese, so yea.

It's degrading and I am downloading everything for free

>>280363902
Share pics of your comfyblock

>>280364145
How much manga do you read and how long have you been at it?

>>280361939
2nd is better in physical, idiot. The other ones are pure failing as artists of a medium

>>280363516
Renting... I wonder...

Possessions never meant anything to me
I'm not crazy

>>280360512 (OP)
I imported some physical volumes of Yotsuba for Japanese study.

>>280360512 (OP)
I feel like i do both

I like to read Manga online but if i like a certain Manga (call of the night) ill buy it physical.

I still like physical because i own it instead of renting it like online

>>280365043
I also live in a pod
And eat bugs if that matters

I bought a bunch physical Manga, Manhua and Manhwa two decades ago before I sold them or giving them to orphanage It's why I never pull any punches whenever Gookfags and Chinkfags become annoying. At least i contributed something to Chinks and Gooks industry than just reading comic/novel for free

>>280365222
No, that's not how the song goes

>>280360512 (OP)
Money

>>280361005
Where do you find out about these things?
Also, any in Japanese or is it all English?
>>280361069
There's a Melbourne in Florida, USA, too.

>>280362086
During the pandemic it was, now? Not really, I work at a bookstore that sells manga and our sales are down by a lot compared to the pandemic, close to even pre pandemic levels.

>>280366210
posers, the lot of them

>>280360512 (OP)
do you know how much manga I read

>>280367678
>french supporting the whole fucking manga industry by themselves
Feel good to be a frog

>>280360512 (OP)
I have a pretty large collection that keeps growing, but I only buy stuff I liked reading online, usually 1-2 vols in I buy a box set if it has one, or all the available volumes.

>>280366210
I still cant fathom that the "pandemic" was such a big change for people...

>>280368728
>I still cant fathom that the "pandemic" was such a big change for people...
Most series I was watching went on break so I started reading the originals. Then I realized pirated copies sucked and began using paid subscriptions. Then I began reading the included magazines to get most out of the subscription. And that's what really got me into manga.

i will
once i master the language

>>280369739
This
Imagine buying manga/games or any other japanese media touched by american trannylators

>>280365005
>woosh

>>280360512 (OP)
Not enough shelves in the world.

>>280362086
If you are refering to the image, then that's france which is the second biggest manga market behind japan.
And they definitely don't sell like hot cakes in the US, only during the height of covid and even then only compared to before that.
Most people in the US and a lot of other countries still refuse to read manga.
But they are the same people who complain about spoilers non stop. They would rather wait 2-3 years for another filler heavy season or a adaptation that potentially never happens than sit down for a weekend and catch up with the manga.

Has any of you tried printing and bookbinding any manga? Got any tips. Somehow got the urge to do it with something ero-related,half for shits and giggles,half for having some analog wank material,just in case. Feels like something i should have already done way back somehow. The question is what to pick.

>>280360512 (OP)
I don’t have enough space currently.

>>280360512 (OP)
>wsj was the only translated physical release (which I used to purchase) and it discontinued
>easily costs hundreds of dollars to own a full set of volumes, which are of dubious print quality at best

>>280360651

I stopped buying from japan or overseas in general because i got tired of ten people selling the same item which none have in their possession because its at a store over there, you buy it and you get a refund after a month because someone local actually bought the item before you did and they never took their listing down for it.

>>280361939

This is why i dont buy manga in book form.

>>280360512 (OP)
The exorbitant prices and the fact that the only reasonable way to buy is through amazon. I'm fine with using my e-reader for the time being even though the screen is a bit too small

>>280360512 (OP)
i'm poor