How much do you spend on anime/manga goods? You can interpret the question as "goods" referring to any sort of merchandise related to anime/manga

Question: How much money (in US dollars) do you spend on anime/manga goods per year?
Choices:
None - votes: 5175 (39.6%)
0-100 - votes: 4565 (35%)
100-500 - votes: 2169 (16.6%)
500-1000 - votes: 580 (4.4%)
1000+ - votes: 570 (4.4%)
There were 13059 total votes.
The poll ended: May 7th 2011

Last edited by lambchopsil at 1:58 am, May 7 2011

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

Last year I spent over $1,000 for sure, and that's solely manga. My collection grew by at least 100 volumes, probably more.

Not bad for a person with no job

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Between 100 and 500.

Manga and such can get pretty expensive, man.

Between 500-1000+ mostly manga. I buy in bulk every couple of months (or so). So far this year, I've already spent around 400.

less than a hundred for these years.. i didn't buy anything significant for two years, i rent anime n manga.
i used to spend a lot of money on buying manga and related items (from 7th grade up till early years in college). Got my room full of stuffs!

Last edited by comel at 3:25 am, Apr 30 2011

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500-1000, though I'm thinking of cutting back spending as much this year. I'm very ashamed of myself.

Manga is very expensive...especially if you buy it in bundles of 5-10.

1000+ i buy most of the time 1 volume each week.
But still i know the pool is new but 37.7% never bought any goods that's kind of sad.

I know it's still new but...NONE? REALLY?! Even if i'm mostly an online reader/watcher, I at least spend some money for anime/manga goods. I buy things like: posters, nendroids, cd's, renting manga/anime, anime magic things (sakura cards/naruto headband anyone?) even those stuff with anime (-- may it be notebooks,keychains,pens,mirrors,bags,or products with completely unrelated anime images). Hmmm... but we'll see at the end of the poll

For me, I spend about 100-500$ (maximun 120$) every year
::Lucky star, Yotsuba&!, Vampire Knight, posters, stuff with anime/cute things,keychains,accessories::

I'd say 0 - 100 for the past 2 years. I'm up to date with all the manga I'm collecting at the moment, and the new volumes that come out are usually a trickle, so my spending on manga has decreased over the years.

Don't get me started on how much it must have cost when I began collecting though. I don't even want to think about it.
I don't buy anime because that really is too expensive and I haven't been able to find any decent deals on them so I just don't buy them.
As for merchandise related things, I don't really buy them either. Maybe if there's a sale on or something but usually I don't. My posters that I have are freebies advertising when the anime's DVD is coming out or something. Not that I care because hey, I got them for free.

I basically spend the money on manga

The figures definitely push it over the 1000€, at least for the last 1 1/2 years (since I started working).

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0-100... and in my country that's already a lot of mangas.. i never buy merchandise, even though there are many shops for that here....

The last 3-4 years I haven't bought one single volume, but I've begun buying again. I just love the smell of new manga volumes. Oh, the pleasure! Don't think I'll ever buy any anime, though. I'm probably gonna spend something between 100-300 dollars on manga this year.

I've also begun feeling that I need to support the companies that translate Japanese mangas to English a bit more. It would be sad if it was impossible to get ahold of English translated manga paperbacks. I keep to buying short manga stories though, not gonna buy any of those crazy long series, maybe except for a couple of random volumes.

Generally, I spend 0-100 dollars a year on manga. If it's a good year and I have a lot of money/there are a lot of books I want then it's usually 100-500 dollars. I wish I had enough money to spend 1000+ though, that would be amazing. As it is, I usually have to pick and choose the manga I want. The worst thing is I'm still not up to date with a lot of my series and I don't even follow any crazy long ones. There's too much manga I want

Around 1000 this year, it'll be 1000+ by the end of the year (by next month actually but never mind)

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just this year alone I've spent/will spend around $200 on manga, and in the past... at least $500 - so yeah, around $700 spent on manga... I don't buy anime- wait, no that isn't true, I did buy some movies... but they wouldn't change the price much~ OMG! I need to stop wasting money on these things XD!