| Eh? There's no limit to how long a manga can be serialised, basically as long as it's profitable for the magazine and it's popular it'll continue. I believe there's a couple that have been running over half a century, Sennin Buraku is one of those I believe. |
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| You can buy used copies, look for shops where they still have a few left, or go on a stealing spree. If a series is popular enough, it will eventually get reprinted. |
| Manga translated and sold in North America go out of print based on how long the publishers have the license for and if they plan on releasing different editions. Example, chobits published by Tokyopop is now out of print. Another example is the first edition of Cardcaptors Sakura which was also reversed so pages turn from right to left instead of left to right. |
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| A lot of manga in the US has only one print run so technically after that it is out of print. Now, that print run may have had enough copies printed that you will still see it on store shelves for a long while after. Other times the print run is so small that certain volumes are really hard to find and demand a high resale cost (Ex: Basara). Some titles are super popular (Ex: Naruto, FMA) that they get multiple print runs and stay in print longer. |
BrandMar 28, 2011 1:29 PM
| What Brand said. My solution: buy stuff that you think may go out of print in the future as soon as it's released, or within 6 months or so of its release. It can too late to buy some things even within a year of their release so there are times when you shouldn't delay! Now, how to tell when something will go OOP? Part of it is a guessing game, the less appealing it is to the masses, the less copies should be printed of future volumes and the faster it will go OOP. If the internets, such as Amazon or the The Right Stuf, stops selling any random volume in the series, that means that the rest are likely to follow suit at varying rates (a recent example is Monster, volume 3 went OOP, then another 4 random volumes seemed to follow that within 2 or 3 months) and that you should hurry up and get the rest if you'd been collecting them only here and there. There's really no way to predict which particular volumes will go OOP first with US releases because I swear they just pick a volume number out of a hat and let that one go OOP first. Sadly, you cannot predict series either, but there are little clues here and there that that it might be suddenly about to start going OOP. Really, the only thing you can do is get the series you like as they're coming out so at least you're ok on that series. Find out about something way later after it's gone OOP far before you even knew about it? Good luck, you're likely to get some of the volumes for cheap but at least 3 will cost 5 times as much as any other volume in the series for no good reason (case and point, Firefighter Daigo, still trying to track down vol 6) But yes, popular things like FMA are gonna stick around for ages. My friend got me volume 5 for Xmas, I checked what printing it was, it was the sixth or something! Used stores can have unexpected finds though, and even not OOP stuff for cheaper, so be sure to check them out. |
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