I am from a country where they don't sell manga, people usually have no idea what manga is or that those few "weird cartoons" u can find in tv are called anime... and personally i love the question:"manga? do u mean mango? wth? how can u read fruit? are u making fun of me?" and when i explain:"so... u are reading... comics... ?" (usually when u say comics in my country = comics for children >_>)

so for me the only way would be to purchase them from some english/french speaking(only foreign languages i know) countries and that means... definitely expensive... so i would be able to read what? one volume monthly maybe? *cries*

and i know how impatient i am, waiting for one chapter, so i cannot imagine waiting for whole volumes till they get licensed... ugh...

I chose "It would take more money than I can afford" since my salary is not that much. I buy my manga from Kinokuniya, but i still depend on scanlation for hentai and yaoi which are not allowed here. ^^

I probably read the question wrong, since it would be hard to get my manga without the internet. I buy my manga online .

In any case, for some reason, non of the nearby bookstores where i live sell manga. I have to drive a good hour to the nearest barnes and nobles to find manga. Heck, even american comic books are hard to find out in the real world. I haven't found a comic book store around either. 'Course, I haven't exacly been looking, they could be hiding.

<_< >_>

Ditto what the person above said: I buy my manga online. I don't fly to Japan just to purchase the raws. Also, no bookstore I'm at ever has the volumes I want anyway.

Otherwise, I chose "Yes", it's impossible, because how would I even know this manga exists to buy it? I've been down the route of buying random manga in a bookstore based on it's blurb, and almost all of those purchases have been mistakes, whereas the internet researched ones (especially ones found via MangaUpdates' search engine) have always been great. Without the internet, I might buy 0.001% of the manga I do now.

The question in the Manga poll was bad made for a yes/no question.

well, forget about the question, but, Yes, It would be impossible to read manga in my country, in nearby contries, and the whole region without the online manga readers, and I`m from Venezuela, so forget about the idea of some publisher trying to sell manga here, in my country has never been sold manga, and Why is that? Because first arrive the animation than the manga, so a very very few people would buy the manga of a serie,for purposes of collecting, That`s Why!!!. this is not a profitable business, in my country.

As far as I know, the only country in South America where manga is sold is Argentina, and there were a couple of times that the idea of buying the original volumes of my favorite manga was very attractive, even If I had had to travel to Argentina or had to buy them by mail, until I read the list of manga published by the editorial and publisher, and well, the manga of dragon ball had not yet been fully published, at that time the last saga dragon ball, dragon ball gt had been transmitted for the last time two years ago , After repeatedly retransmitting.

So, How do you expect to sell manga in my country to be profitable in these conditions?, and hey There a lot of people in my country who read manga, they keep reading every week, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Kenichi, and a lot more of mangas.

So Without the online manga readers, We`re FUCKED!.

Some people can say: Hey! relax you still have the scanlators, but remenber, first the censorship in the manga loli/Shota (as if that would stop all those rapists and pedophiles on the streets), second they are taking down the Online manga readers!.

What`s next? Taking down the scanlators,one by one, although this will take time, they will do.

Mangaupdates also be prepared because they will go after you, this page is a very important connection between the series and scanlators without this web the misinformation will reign.

and well sorry about the complain with the question. Everyboy has been upset with this big problem.

Why the sad face? Many of us don't want to be in relationships :X

If only the price on manga was a little lower then I'd be happy.
I'd be even more happy to have the same for price that they have in Japan.
And I still have 200 manga pockets in my house.

Sure there are a few of us that don't have the luxury of getting ahold of manga at all or atleast for a reasonble price.

BUT
This is for 90% of the people on the net reading manga, although the sad part is that probably less 5% of those are going to read this post.
Most people are:
1. Lazy.
Too lazy to get off their chairs and leave their house to buy that manga.
2. They think that everything should be free.
Why should it? Without money being paid for the manga it wouldn't exist.

Oh and there is no such thing as an unlicensed manga. Every manga is licensed in Japan.

One last thing. I must admit that alot of the scanlators do alot better work than some publishers and yes it would be great if the japanese publishers went more for technology and could provide us with manga online, but for a price though.

I said no.

I have local bookstores, all of whom who are also willing to order manga if they don't have it in stock for me, which doesn't cost anything extra. A good library system, also willing to listen to requests to get in more manga since more manga equals more people checking out books which in turn equals larger budget to buy more books in general. The only thing I don't have is a really great selection of used bookstores for when my wallet can't keep up with my current reading list and I go looking for local deals.

Isn't "It would take more money than I can afford" the same as "hard or impossible"?

Manga is not difficult for me to access at all. However, finding good manga is another thing. I'm a relatively picky reader, and I'd rather not go to a store littered with Naruto and InuYasha manga, y'know? We also don't have enough yaoi out here, especially at the Barnes & Noble I go to.

If you are willing to sacrifice your gas, water, electric , and food bill you can pretty much buy most of the raw/chinese translated manga you want from Bookoff, Kinokuniya and Asahiya. The problem comes when you want translated works. Then the availability is limited to licensed crap. Really, internet is the way to go.

manga in my country many but some (more than half) of the series is not published yet (and maybe never), only the most popular one is published
it seems that ecchi manga that's a bit "too much" will never get here no matter what...
the translator is good, but somehow i feel like to read the scanlation better than the one with my language, maybe because of the scanlator note and or because of my language is not rich enough to make the words translated perfectly...
and they neglected the suffix (-san, -chan, etc) when the last time i read it (maybe nowadays they put it in)
off course i don't have enough money to import manga...
and there are many other problems that i don't care to explain..

Heh, it's almost impossible. I already live in Brazil, where most people need to translate even from english to portuguese to read mangas, and I live in a very small city(25~30k people). I only know 3 people who read mangas/watch animes, and without internet, none of us would know about it.

its not like its hard to find manga in my country, but for god sake the censorship here is like crazy. And not much title released in my country, and even when it released a lot of times the volume i want to read doesnt even come to my city x(.

It would be simple enough to get hold of a few series that I'm following, but if I stopped using the internet, I'd be dropping 95% or more of the manga I'm reading, including most of my favorites.

In my country there are enough shops that sell manga. Not only the main stream manga, but also some less popular ones. But at the shop I frequent, they try to get some manga I like every week, they just never get delivered.

I'm looking for about 1year for a volume, and they are requesting it every week, but it just won't deliver.

Anyways: I put in "it would take more money", cuz I'm a student and college is pretty expensive. If I got like 500 euro's extra a month, it would be very easy to buy the manga I love, but right now I just can't pay for them. I really hope manga will be on the web for a long time, as I found manga trough the web and would never have bought them if I didn't know it, as comics are usually for little children, and not teenagers to adults.