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12:34 am, Aug 8 2015
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This week's poll is from our member Caiman. It deals with the question of the availability of published manga where you live. Technically I guess it's possible to ship things anywhere, but I adjusted it by stating reasonable shipping as a requirement. Costs to import goods can be outrageous...

You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results
Question: For games that allow you to make your own character
Choices:
I'm male and I tend to make male characters - votes: 3477 (32.3%)
I'm male and I tend to make female characters - votes: 2086 (19.3%)
I'm female and I tend to make male characters - votes: 1324 (12.3%)
I'm female and I tend to make female characters - votes: 3257 (30.2%)
I've never played these kinds of games - votes: 637 (5.9%)
There were 10781 total votes.
The poll ended: August 8th 2015

More men prefer to play female characters than women who prefer to be male characters.

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What an idiotic poll.

If a manga is published in X country, it will obviously be in X country's native language.

You might as well ask "How available is Japanese published manga in the Japanese language and/or country of Japan?

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I can see the question is quite reasonable considering there are so many languages in the world and for smaller nations, it may not be available in the native language at all (only releases english for example even though english is taught as a second language). I'm just taking a guess on the possibility though....

Also despite the availability at major book stores, I rarely buy from them. Last was from B&N for the buy 2 get 1 free manga sale recently and even that was an online order since I couldn't be bothered to drive to the store. Online specialty stores and amazon are usually cheaper. Most of my major purchases were mangas that are OOP from people on ebay too.

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Although I've found some Dutch translated manga's in speciality store or online stores I will never buy them. Reading it in my native language ruins it totally because they do not use suffixes or they only translate stuff like pokemon.

So while there are Dutch translated Naruto and One Piece but if I will ever buy those they will be English because I read those in English scans or saw the anime and having name changes due to translation switches sucks a lot imo.

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Nothing translated into my own language. Out of English-translated manga I've seen some Beyblade, Pokemon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and a few random volumes of, of all things, Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo in stores here; but never the full series for any of them.

So I guess last option for me, since if I buy hard copies online from the US or wherever the shipping prices are just outrageous. As for the digital versions - sure, they're considerably cheaper, but from what I know most of them aren't even available for my region. And I don't have a Kindle, so...

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Quote from imercenary
What an idiotic poll.

If a manga is published in X country, it will obviously be in X country's native language.

You might as well ask "How available is Japanese published manga in the Japanese language and/or country of Japan?


You may think so, but as far as I know, this is hardly the case in Israel.
Since Hebrew is not a widely spoken language, and manga not being massively popular in Israel, it would be very expensive and more importantly, unprofitable, to translate and print manga in Hebrew.
This is also the reason why very few books in Hebrew get hardcovers (but that's besides the point).

I could be wrong, because I don't follow the comics or manga scene in Israel, but as far as I'm aware ( through random searches throughout the years), the only language manga is sold here in is English.

I have no idea how easy it is to get in any Russian speaking country, but they do translate manga, which is awesome. The prices on this site look reasonable, too.
They... have YKK... *faints*

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Quote from Natsuki@
Although I've found some Dutch translated manga's in speciality store or online stores I will never buy them. Reading it in my native language ruins it totally because they do not use suffixes or they only translate stuff like pokemon.

So while there are Dutch translated Naruto and One Piece but i ...


Same reason here. But I only purchase the English manga, not in my native language for the same reason. I purchase them online because this is cheaper than in speciality stores. (paying €9 or €15 per volume is a big difference).

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Meh. Published manga in portuguese (from Portugal) barely exists. I've seen Dragon Ball, Naruto and Death Note. Probably Evangelion. And that's it. Even manga in english is somewhat hard to find around here (only in specialty stores) and I've only seen the mainstream series, nothing else. I wouldn't mind buying if the price wasn't that high. Manga in Japan has a reasonable price, but not here. I'm not willing to purchase a manga volume almost for the same price as a regular book. But well, importing rises the prices... A manga volume here (in english) is around 9€ to 14€. I didn't even see the price of the volumes in portuguese, but given the english price... Nope. Not even tempted to buy them.

And that's why my answer in that poll a few weeks ago about scanlation and piracy was that I don't mind. Of course I don't. I don't have any choice... ._.

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3:58 am, Aug 8 2015
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I understood the question in the poll even though the wording could be interpreted in a couple of ways. To my knowledge, there is no Japanese manga in Queensland bookstores (I'm not sure about other states). My state is probably one of the least multicultural states in Australia (if not the least). I buy all manga from bookdepository.com, which offers free delivery. However, the prices are not very reasonable. I usually pay around $15-$20 for each newly released manga. Books used to be so much cheaper in the 90s! sad

Post #669932 - Reply to (#669923) by imercenary
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Plus, all USA-published manga are in English, which is also the native language of a bunch of countries, and you can mail order it from there.
The same happens with Spanish: most South American countries don't have manga publishers, but they can buy them from other South Amertican countries that do (or even Spain, if they are willing to pay the shipping).

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4:16 am, Aug 8 2015
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I find the question lacking some answers. For example, in my country manga can be bought from specialized stores, but some major book stores (and minor-but-not-specialized ones) sometimes have some in stock, and there are some publishers that release it to newstands and mixed newstand-stationary shops (i.e. stores that sell what you would expect from a newstand and from a stationary shop; also candy).

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Well, there are literally no publications in my 1st language...
But, considering English as my secondary language there are some...!!

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I live in Germany which has one of the most worldwide famous and alive book markets (as much print is "alive" these days) so in most major book stores would be an understatement. I blame it all on Johannes Gutenberg.
I am pretty sure that more manga get licensed in Germany then over the pond. Just look how often my adopted country shows up in the "Associated Names" field. These have also existed since the 80s on a noticeable scale just as the US and we even have a real scanlation scene. I wouldn´t say that you can get rich of publishing manga as it is a niche hobby unless we are talking about huge multimedia successes as Naruto and so on.
It is also a hobby one is supposed to outgrow (even in Japan) but that ship has sailed for me long ago... Non-kids focused anime as Gantz or Hellsing also used to run on TV a decade ago but that one obviously didn´t work out. Just as the US. We also get nearly every Bande dessinée ever and a vast amount of US comics too but none of these are again big unless we are talking about Asterix or Star Wars. You though see all 3 major international comic versions in book shops, libraries (i really won the job lottery), train stations and so on but the digital market is currently a mess so future proof we ain´t as of now.
The only European country that has better access to manga should be France but that is only an educated guess. I may only be 26 but i have been a core comic reader for 2 decades now due to the ease of access before we all got broadband internet. I have even been following Naruto for example before it got an anime and have been reading scanslations since the early 00s so i ain´t you average manga reader either.
@NightSwan Russia gets comics and anime/manga as i read and watched these since kindergarten over there. Consider it my secret origin. (Nice poll Caiman.)

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Post #669942 - Reply to (#669927) by NightSwan
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Quote from NightSwan
You may think so, but as far as I know, this is hardly the case in Israel.
Since Hebrew is not a widely spoken language, and manga not being massively popular in Israel, it would be very expensive and more importantly, unprofitable, to translate and print manga in Hebrew.
This is also the reason w ...


Native language =/= Official language


Post #669943 - Reply to (#669939) by residentgrigo
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Quote from residentgrigo
I live in Germany which has one of the most worldwide famous and alive book markets (as much print is "alive" these days) so in most major book stores would be an understatement.

I am pretty sure that more manga get licensed in Germany then over the ...


No kidding. I don't even know German but I own a manga from germany because it was the last volume of a series that Tokyo Pop had license over and didn't release the last volume due company closure....

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