| I've been buying manga for about 2 years. I'm really bored so I decided to see how much money I actually spent on Japanese comic books. Warning math. I live in Canada so this is all CAD Shelf 1:http://i.imgur.com/aVea92Z.jpg Kamisama Kiss volume 15: $12.99 Voice Over volume 5: $12.99 D Gray Man volume 1: $12.99 Gintama volumes 15 and 22: ($12.99 each) $25.98 Vampire Knight volume 1: $10.99 Inu X Boku volume 1: $12.99 Soul Eater volume 22: $14.00 Future Diary volumes 6-7: ($13.99 each) $27.98 One Punch Man volume 4: $12.99 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun volume 1: $15.50 High School DxD volume 1: $14.00 No Game No Life volume 1: $14.99 Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! volume 7 : $9.99 ChocoMimi volume 4: $9.99 Attack on Titan Junior High volume 1: $18.99 Attack on Titan Guidebook: $26.99 Shelf 1 total: $254.35 Shelf 2:http://i.imgur.com/k96Ig68.jpg (Some manga I bought in Japan and Taiwan so I'll be converting) 1 Japanese Yen is 0.012 of the Canadian dollar. 1 New Taiwan Dollar is 0.043 of the Canadian dollar. Nisekoi volumes 1-9: ($12.99 each) $116.91 Nisekoi volumes 10-11: (¥400 each) ¥800 or $9.68 Nisekoi volumes 12-17: (100NTD each) 600NTD or $25.61 Himouto Umaru Chan volumes 1-2: (¥514 each) ¥1,028 or $12.44 Bakuman volume 20: $12.99 Summer Wars part 1: $16.95 Shelf 2 total: $181.59 Shelf 3:http://i.imgur.com/dLyAuyA.jpg Owari no Serpah volumes 2-7: ($12.99 each) $77.94 Azumanga Daioh: $29.99 Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? volume 1: $14.00 Noragami volume 5: $11.99 Assassination Classroom volume 1: $12.99 Deadman Wonderland volumes 2 and 4: ($12.99 each) $25.98 No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! volumes 5 and 7: ($14.00 each) $28.00 Tokyo Ghoul volumes 1 and 2: ($14.99 each) $29.98 Shelf 3 total: $220.87 Total cost: $220.87+$181.59+$254.35 =$656.81 How much did you guys spend? |
ichainsawJan 11, 2016 8:38 PM
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| If i categorize everything i would spend a month. But i can estimate that i already spent more than five thousand easily (i started reading manga when i was 14 ~ 15 years old because almost everyone on my school read it, and i am 26 so...) because almost everything that i read i buy. |
| I have to much to count, I'll estimate around $400+ |
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| I have just under 200 volumes I believe... the prices vary too much though. Anywhere from 12.99 to like 29.99. My guesstimate is somewhere around $2500 CAD, not counting my old shonen jump magazines I collected growing up. Those probably push the total over $3000. |
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| I have around 900 volumes so a guessimate would be $9,000 to $10,000 dollars. But I've been collecting since like '00. |
| Manga is a new, but expanding hobby of mine. I've spent about $425 on it in the last year and have about another $140 set aside for preorders I have. |
| "More than the cherry blossoms, Inviting a wind to blow them away, I am wondering what to do, With the remaining springtime." -Asano Naganori |
| I have 194 volumes and 66 of them are in French, they're more expensive (14$), the rest are in English, which is around 11-12$, but I have 4 omnibus as well (Blood Lad and D.Gray-man), and they cost around 16$, so total is around (taxes not included): 2476$ CAD. |
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| Haven't bought alot, a few volumes of one piece, berserk, aku no hana and NHK. I'd say around £100. |
| 1$ Seriously, I just pick up Weekly Shounen Jump magazines for free, and bought a pre-owned Medarot for 1$ |
Monstrum said: for free? How does that work.1$ Seriously, I just pick up Weekly Shounen Jump magazines for free, and bought a pre-owned Medarot for 1$ |
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| I think I must have spend like 350 euros in manga. |
| Well since I first started purchasing until now I think I have around 200 volumes if not more, and at a rate of $13-15 per volume, I've spent about $2600-3000CAD in my time collecting... this is over the course of fifteen years though. |
| about 50 euro but I don't really run in to much stores where they sell manga I do wanna buy the volumes of boku no hero and one punch man :) |
| I have been into Japanese comics since I was about 9. How much have I spent over a dozen years of reading Japanese comics you ask? Absolutely nothing. |
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| Too much. But I still continue to buy it anyway. |
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| Nothing. I only have two volumes on my bookshelf, and I got them for free from my local library :D |
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| The total costprice is €3119.85, but this also includes the manga I've sold second hand. I sold 367 manga for €933.9 (they costed €1188.34). The cost price of the manga I have on the moment is €2865.41 for 365 manga's. If you question how I know this, I've got a list were I hold all the information on from the manga I own. I did have some time to make a list of it, so now I know how much it costs. Also, I started with collecting in 2010. |
darkbirtJan 17, 2016 9:52 AM
| Let's see... my first volume was in 2002 (I was a wee 7 yr old) and my last was around 2011. The early ones were cheaper so altogether they vary from $10-12 each; I'd say around $572 minimum. Looking back on it now, I really wouldn't have bought some of the series I did. They weren't worth it. I should have waited until they were done publishing and that I was absolutely sure I wanted it, not just for the sake of having them (the tsubasa series... lord...) I'm debating on selling some of them now actually, if I can ignore the attachment :/ |
CMYKJan 18, 2016 2:22 AM
| Nothing. I don't buy stuff I can read online for free. |
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| Currently I only have the four English volumes of both Tokyo Ghoul and One Punch-Man, as well as three volumes of Kekkai Sensen. Probably spent around $100 in total. |
| Like 30 bucks. LOL. I really need to step up my collecting game for sure. |
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| A lot. I have no idea. I don't pay full price for anything, and hell, I just picked up 50 manga for $10! Awesome sale, lol, but I typically get my manga for half off these days (30% off being a low percentage). Been collecting since 02' though, I probably buy 20 manga a month maybe? Depending on what comes out. |
| Hi! I started to buy manga 4 years ago. Now I have 85 volumes and I spent about €350 (383 dollars) |
| 0$, everything online |
| I've lost count. Had been buying manga since I was 10. So I have a lot of older titles like Doraemon, Dragon Ball, etc... |
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| High school of the dead Volumes 1($14) and 2($14) = $28 + Sankarea Volume 1($10.99) = $38.99 + My little monster Volumes 1-3($10.99 each) = $71.96 + Mayo Chiki Volumes 1-5($12.99 each) = $136.91 + Toradora Volumes 1-6($11.99 each) = $208.85 + The Devil is a part timer 1-3($13 each) = $247.85 + High school DxD Volumes 1-3($13 each) = $286.85 + Oreimo Volumes 1-4($10.99 each) = $330.81 + Parasyte Volume 1($10.99) = $341.80 + Rosario + Vampire Volumes 1($9.99) and 2($9.99) = $361.78 + Is this a zombie? Volume 1($13) = $374.78 + Ani-Imo Volume 1($13) = $387.78 + Kuroneko Oreimo Volume 1($10.99) = $398.77 + No Game No Life Volume 1($12.99) = $411.76 So $411.76 is my total so far. I may have forgot some In fact I know I Left some out because I bought everything from SAO for one of my friends for her Birthday/Hanuka. |
| "I'm just a humble monk. I'm just trying to get by." |
| $0 i don't usually find stores that sell manga. |
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| ~200$ My manga collection is not that big yet :/ |
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| Manga is so expensive in english. I've just been buying magazines and volumes from Amazon Japan for scanlation purposes. From 20$ a month to 50-100$ lmao. It gets really addicting. One volume is like 5 bucks. |
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| 3 Shonen Jumps plus Naruto Handbook around $60 CAD I think. I got the first volume of Anima+ for free as well. |
| For people that buy volumes, do you read it online first and buy for re-reads or just buy it the first time around? I used to buy Dragonball Z and Shin Chan when younger but since I started reading online, I haven't spent anything on physical copies. Personally, I like to binge read manga and I'm a fast reader so it'd be too expensive to buy everything. Also, I prefer fan translations to official ones that dumb it down/censor for the uptight. And nowadays, there's less reason to go a bookstore/library when everything is online. Also, english volumes take foreverrr to come out |
aCommunistSpy said: I rarely blind buy, because I'm not always sure if it's a good series or not. So, yes I read online first.For people that buy volumes, do you read it online first and buy for re-reads or just buy it the first time around? I've only blind bought four times: 2 single volumes (as in they weren't scanlated online and had only one volume) 1 series (eternal sabbath volume 4-6 because I thought I would love this series as much as I loved Mars) 1 series (Saturn Apartments volume 1, 4-7, because it looks like Aria/Honey and Clover and I actually liked it) |
Mayuka said: i blind buy after reading a few pages of a book. I bought Ajin cause I heard it was good.aCommunistSpy said: I rarely blind buy, because I'm not always sure if it's a good series or not. So, yes I read online first.For people that buy volumes, do you read it online first and buy for re-reads or just buy it the first time around? I've only blind bought four times: 2 single volumes (as in they weren't scanlated online and had only one volume) 1 series (eternal sabbath volume 4-6 because I thought I would love this series as much as I loved Mars) 1 series (Saturn Apartments volume 1, 4-7, because it looks like Aria/Honey and Clover and I actually liked it) |
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| About 400 rubles. I bought the translation of Brothers Karamazov adaptation as a souvenir, other than that I've been reading scans online. |
| About $450. (Canadian dollars) aCommunistSpy said: The only series I blind bought was Gyakuten Saiban..but it's based on one of my fave video games series so that was my main reason. Turned out to be fantastic.For people that buy volumes, do you read it online first and buy for re-reads or just buy it the first time around? Aside from that I got a couple volume 1's as birthday presents and kinda got into them so I bought more in the series. But no I won't just pick something up off the shelf without knowing anything about it. |
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| probably around $200 or so, i usually buy second hand; or the librarians give me the ones that're out ofcirculation |
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