[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to be able to purchase digital, legal manga translated into English, presumably at a lower cost than what the physical copies go for. Even if I could regularly afford $10 for a book I'd finish in under an hour, I don't have the physical shelf space.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god this. I used to buy all the manga I could get my hands on.

Then I had to move several times and fuck, trying to move that much manga? I sold most of it.

If I could buy legal scanlations, download to keep (and readable on e-readers!) I would in a heartbeat. So much easier to read quickly in a digital format.

(Of course, a good chunk of what I read/read has either never been licensed, or was licensed and dropped.)

[othellia]

This. This right here. I used to buy so much manga in high school. Like almost $2000 worth of "so much".

Then I moved to college, bouncing back and forth between small apartments over the past four years, and I practically had to give my collection away. I kept maybe like 2 or 3 really short series and Rurouni Kenshin (which is still at my mom's house).

Not to mention that I used to live in Hawaii so having physical books was a lot more risky with the humidity and book worms and stuff. Also there was a Japanese store in the big mall downtown that sold untranslated manga anywhere between $1-$5 dollars. That shit was cheap and more compact

So yeah, definitely want to support the makers but not any other of the bullshit that gets packaged in.

[natural_blue_26.livejournal.com]

I kept...Rurouni Kenshin (which is still at my mom's house).

I applaud your taste sir-or-ma'am.

[othellia]

Why thank you. Nine years down the road and it's still one of my favorite manga of all time.

[natural_blue_26.livejournal.com]

Excited apprehension for the movie, then?

[(Anonymous)]

This. There are about three series I would go out and buy every single book of if I had the physical space for them, but I don't. I've already had to sell off a lot of my collection due to lack of space.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, there are actually lots of options now for that! Most major publishers have some way of getting their manga out digitally, be it a website or ipad/iphone/android apps.

The big ones:
- JManga (http://www.jmanga.com/) - Lots of previously-unlicensed stuff and some old Tokyopop/Kodansha things.
- Viz Manga (http://www.vizmanga.com/) - Shonen Jump stuff, mainly, but they're adding in Shojo Beat titles too as time goes on.
- Yen Press has a monthly magazine called Yen Plus that has ongoing chapters from some of their titles (http://www.yenpress.com/yenplus/). They also have an iPad app where you can buy whole volumes, I think.
- eManga (http://www.emanga.com/) - DMP's website. Pretty much the place to go if you want yaoi or those weird Harlequin-Romance-turned-manga.
- Square Enix Manga (http://publications.na.square-enix.com/na/us/top) - Has manga that were originally published by Square Enix.

Amazon also has a pretty sizable library of downloadable manga, with some overlap with the previously mentioned.


(This thread on ANN has a roundup of a lot of other places: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=258212 )