>>282272450
>Akiba
That’s were I went. I went the famous 8 story book tower and Yuri was on the eighth floor with a tiny section to it (like maybe the size of home bookshelf) which it shared with some other genre. It did have some interesting and known stuff though that I’ve read.
Boy love on the other hand had almost an entire floor dedicated to it, as well as additional shelves littered around other floors.
I went to another multi-story otaku stop and it didn’t even have a dedicated Yuri section, just an odd Yuri here or there in the romance section and green manga. Yaoi however had an ENTIRE floor (which also had green manga there btw)
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>>282270818
I think a divisive aspect of supporting manga as a western vs nip is that manga is cheap as hell there: a volume costs less than £5, in the west you’re buying an imported, likely officially translated, later edition. So a volume of a manga you have had to read online already simply out of availability will run you upward of £15 and a lot of those proceeds probably go to the importers anyways
You live in Japan you can just rock up to your local shop and pick up the freshly released first edition for like ¥600. These first editions/japanese versions also seem more cheaply produced compared to imported ones (thinner pages, thinner cover, likely fewer coloured pages etc)