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⌈ Secret Post #5785 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Another Italian F!S anon. I had to take a double take on that cover LMAO
Man, I read this manga in middle school. Nobody ever checked your ID when you bought something for a "mature audience" when you were still visibly a minor. I even read Berserk around that time. WILD. I wonder if they check now. Knowing Italy, I doubt it.
I love how in the cover the currency is still lire and not euro. IMHO 1995-2005 were the best years for manga pubblication in Italy. A lot of titles that were published in Italy and still are not translated in any other language. But then again I grew up those years so I'm probably very biased.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol I also scrolled down to go comment then went "wait a sec..." and scrolled back up to confirm it was, in fact, the italian cover. Wouldn't be surprised if we are the only country other than Japan with an official release of this manga lmaooo

Absolutely, comic shop owners gave 0 fucks about what you were buying, cue 12-13 year old me also reading things I prob should've not been reading at that age, like this manga and Berserk. Ah, fun times.

Right there with you with the "those were the best years for manga in Italy" bias. There was SO MUCH good stuff, and the prices were actually affordable for even a middle schooler. Nowadays I only really buy stuff I've already read and I know I'm into, with how expensive things are : v

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OH lord, we have some fucked up shit translated here that the American market just doesn't know about. Usually it's stuff from the 80s and 90s.

>> Nowadays I only really buy stuff I've already read and I know I'm into
SAME. I can now read Japanese too (huge weaboo then huge weaboo now) so I just buy the Japanese volumes after having read the scanlations online.
There are few exceptions like Cesare by Fuyumi Soryo and old manga by Riyoko Ikeda or Junji Ito. Usually the Italian editions are very well curated.

But recent manga like Shounen title? NOPE. I hate that they don't translate the onomatopeas anymore. They started that shit back in like 2005 with big titles like FullMetal Alchemist and I find it infuriating. If I have an Italian volume I want to read it IN ITALIAN. You don't deserve my money!!!
Lately I've seen volumes from like StarComics, so basically cheap editions, up to 6 euros each and FUCK OFF THAT'S 12.000 lire there!!! I'm old and poor lol

This post is probably very off topic, probably makes no sense. Every time I encounter another Italian in the wilds of F!S I become a mess DON'T GO AWAY, ITALIAN NONNY

[(Anonymous)]

I always find myself smiling like a vaguely condescending grandma whenever Americans talking about anime/manga speak about the boom in popularity in the west as if it all started in their country and it's all Thanks To The Americans. Meanwhile I'm sitting here chortling going like "Oh, sweetie. Been there, done that, since like the late 70s/early 80s. You have *no idea* of what Italy has been through" lmao

(the anime airing was just as wild as the manga publishing. To this day I still have endless fun talking with italians who grew up in different regions from mine and trying to find out which regional channel got which anime back in the day loool)

(I grew up near Rome, so it was Super3 for me. The stuff I've seen on that channel while growing up, man 😂)

The best part about the inordinate amount of manga we got back in the day was that you'd inevitably get some Hot Garbage between the Good Stuff. And honestly I have just as many fond memories of passing around volume 1s of seriously bad manga between friends to make fun of it endlessly as I do reading very good ones. That's just not something that happens anymore, nowadays, thanks to the internet.

(Back then it wasn't necessarily better than now. Just... Different. And it had bad sides and good sides just as our current days do, I guess)

Yeah prices today are ridiculous, especially when you take in consideration the relative quality of the volumes? Like you can't be sellin' volumes with toilet paper pages and thin cardboard covers that inevitably stays bent after a couple of hours reading for those prices, bro, you're being absolutely crazy!

(And don't get me started how pointless it has become going to cons, for me. I used to go hunt for deals on second-hand stuff, and they were *actual* deals. I feel like rn unless you are searching for something super old and rare there's no point trying to buy second-hand for relatively recent stuff, might as well buy new :v)

[(Anonymous)]

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“I always find myself smiling like a vaguely condescending grandma whenever Americans talking about anime/manga speak about the boom in popularity in the west as if it all started in their country and it's all Thanks To The Americans. Meanwhile I'm sitting here chortling going like "Oh, sweetie. Been there, done that, since like the late 70s/early 80s. You have *no idea* of what Italy has been through" lmao”

I’m American, but I’m also an Oldtaku who got into anime before the American boom, so I definitely understand what you’re saying. I’m glad that people younger than me got into and enjoy anime, so I’m not laughing at them. But a lot of them really do act like anime might as well have not existed at all in the West before the 90s, besides localized chopjobs like Robotech or Speed Racer. When anime has been in the West, even in America, before shows like Dragon Ball Z and and Sailor Moon got brought over. You just needed to know where to look or who to know.

And as a diehard mahou shoujo fan, I’ve known that most of the classics had the biggest fandoms outside of Japan in Europe and Latin America. And sometimes were only ever brought over to air on television in countries like Germany and Italy, pretty much never America. I’ve read so many stories from European fans of growing up with these amazing anime on TV and having merchandise be sold in stores. They’re fun to read but I can’t help but feel a little jealous lol.