| Today I found some manga at goodwill (an american thrift store chain) and it was cardcaptor sakura! (released by tokyopop so u know its old lol) It was instantly nostalgic for a late 90s kid like me. my girlfriends found the first volume of revolutionary girl utena and some random yaoi at goodwill at the past. Anyways i started this thread because i was wondering what other mangas everyone else randomly found at thrift stores, maybe any hidden gems or just...heaps of garbage. |
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| People from my country are not rich enough to donate manga volumes to the thrift stores. |
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| Haven't been on one of them so I don't know what kind of manga there are. It's very cheap but it's raw so I can't read it unfortunately. |
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| I've never found any used Manga anywhere, but a few years back, I found 5 issues of Shoujo Beat in my local thrift store, so I bought them. |
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| i randomly found the 5th volume of hikaru no go a few weeks ago at a good will. in terms of anime ( at good will) i found the complete series of gantz before as well as, the movie steel boy and just last week i found the British releases of bayblade. if you want cheap manga go to HPB (half price books) they usually have a good amount. |
| Well not thrift shops but i have come across cowboy bepop and yu gi oh in second hand bookshops here |
"Life and death have been in love, For longer than we have words to describe, Life sends countless gifts to death, And death keeps them forever."  |
Swagernator said: People from my country are not rich enough to donate manga volumes to the thrift stores. where are you from? |
| Ideals, philosophy, art, culture. They live and die for the meme. - Kamukura Izuru |
| There are hardly any thrift shops in my country also not many read mangas and not much is shipped here either. |
| I'm not even sure we have stores like that in my country that sell stuff other than clothes. But I do buy a lot of used manga on the internet (my country's version of craigslist basically - recently got all of MARS and Dragon Ball from there for example) or my local convention (they always have one bring & buy room where people can bring stuff and put it up for sale and anyone can buy them. Got a bunch of Manga and anime from there in the past too. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I actually wished I found manga. Actually, I wish I would find anything anime-related in a thrift store. I can barely find any anime retail stores either :( |
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| Late to this forum but... I grew up in this rural mountain town and I didn't know a lot of people who read manga there. I went to the town's bookstore; a tiny little house like bookstore that the town kinda dumps there old paperbacks at. Well sitting on top of this huge stack of boxes there was the third book in the manhua series My Boyfriend is a Vampire. It was a glorious surprise. Binge read the series that night like a guilty pleasure. |
| Local Goodwill stores here always seem to have some sort of manga collection, even if small. They usually tend to be volumes of stuff that you'd maybe see in Shonen Jump. A lot of stuff that is maybe for younger audiences, or stuff that I would have read as a kid/teen. Naruto is probably the most common one I see. Though a couple of weeks ago, I happened upon the book section and somebody had donated at least ten of the Japanese volumes of Katekyo Hitman Reborn! so that was pretty cool. I think there were even a few of the visual novels in there as well. I should have picked a few of them up, but oh well. I don't imagine foreign language stuff sells all too well in places like that, so maybe if I go back some of them might still be there. |
| And Now for Something Completely Different |
| I have no idea where to look for in first place. Thrift stores for clothes yes, but for books I'm not aware of it. Although, the goodwill will be present if I request to borrow it because many girls are into reading books :p |
| I actually bought 21 volumes of Initial D at my local bookstore that gets their books donated to them. Not exactly a thrift shop but close enough. I just bought them because I had extra money and I wanted to read a manga that wasn't the typical action adventure stuff I normally read. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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| I found the first four volumes of Sailor Moon at a secondhand store back in middle school, which I did pick up but have since donated again lol |
| There's a second hand book store near my college that has quite a few manga, even found some kinda obscure ones. It's a tiny little store absolutely cram packed with books so it's not really surprising there'd be at least some manga there lol. |
| We have a local chain here that takes second-hand manga (along with retro games and anime DVDs and not much else) but normal op-shops don't. There are 3 of these stores in fairly easy to get to areas luckily. Manga is very expensive here (a single volume new averages about $20-30) so even second-hand manga is pretty expensive unless it's something like Bleach or Naruto which generally only go for a few dollars for anything past the first volumes. I tend to drop in and check the manga fairly regularly... Or at least I did before lock-down. One of these stores is in the shopping centre across from my work so I go there whenever I'm in the office. |
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| I always enter secondhand bookstores with the hope that they sell a manga I know lol. Some do sell them but they almost only have obscure titles; so far, the only ones I was familiar with and bought are 1 volume each of Oresama Teacher and Air Gear. |
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| Rarely, but when I do manage to find manga at a thrift store it's usually something neat and/or obscure. I once found a couple issues of Shojo Beat, and when I was a kid I found an issue of the Dengeki Pikachu manga. (I still have it, haha.) Just a couple weeks ago I found the first volume of Sailor V at a thrift store! |
| Yes but I think it was Naruto. I don't often look though |
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| There is a local shop that specializes in second-hand video games, playing cards, books and stuff of that nature. I remember seeing some Dragonball and Naruto mangas there, however it has been some years since I was last in it. It wouldn't surprise me if there was manga of a newer show, now that anime is more wide-spread. |
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| Hell yeah, I've found tons of manga from thrift stores. I got the entire series of O-Parts Hunter volumes 1-19 at a thrift store. I also got the complete series of Saiyuuki Reload volumes 1-10, Shaman King volumes 1-8, the first Bleach boxset volumes 1-21, and a ton more random single volumes of series. Not to mention all the anime merchandise (dvds, blankets, pictures, plushies) I've found. Usually, volumes range from $3 to $5 each at the stores I go to. |
| Of course, I bought DVDs from there too. But I hardly see them nowadays compared to many years ago, either people bought them already or people are becoming more stingy lol I remember getting Naruto vols 1-12 at Goodwill 50% off on a Friday (50 cents each no tax) got a ton of random but incomplete anime/manga like One Piece vols 1-11, Death Note vols 1-12, Peach Girl, Absolute Boyfriend, Kare First Love, etc. I'd say I got into Full Metal Alchemist, Wolf's Rain, Ergo Proxy, Samurai Champloo because I found them from the Thrift stores (thanks to whoever donated them 😂) but I only got the first volume of Ergo Proxy with Japanese audio only and I'm still missing Samurai Champloo vol 5. |
sunsetoceanSep 14, 2020 12:55 AM
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| I've never found something good at a thrift store irl before (used bookstores yes but that's different). The closest I've come is Amazon listings by a Cincinnati Goodwill (who knew they sold on Amazon? I sure didn't!) for the first two volumes of Sanctuary. They were super cheap too, what a great deal. |
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