Stores like Borders and Barnes and Noble only carry mainstream stuff like One Piece , Bleach, Naruto. I don't like any of the mainstream stuff. And If I did order a series I liked. They eventually just got dropped. Good titles that I have actually been interested in have all been dropped. Whats the point of buying manga if the series is going to get dropped. Some titles I could mention include Rure, Junai Tokkou Taichou! , Apothecarius Argentum and a bunch of other titles that where dropped. All most all other titles I read ,have not been published in English. I would buy the manga if it where available in English. But its not and if they are they have a high percentage of being dropped. . I think publishers are hypocrites. They are fighting and demanding manga scanlations to be taken of the internet, but they cant even continue a series they pick up. I get excited when I stumble on a series I actually like, buy it, happily expecting another volume,only to find it it was drooped. Yeah published titles should be taken of the web. Since you could buy it in stores. But what about the rest? I think they should stay. Since where else can we read them? Unfinsed series have just left a sour taste in my mouth, and utter disappointment. And considering the publishing company lack of creditability in general , why should I buy a title when the series could just get dropped the next month.

I agree. I have already have many thousands of dollars into my collection, and I am still waiting for more books to be released that I have already read, which will push it up a few thousand more. However!! I also have many that I can not get, because people like ADV got the license, and then dropped it.. and while they are still released in Japan, they can never be released here. Or, they are released and so heavily edited that even it is pretty obvious it is false (getting drunk off of hot sauce?)
So we factor in the high cost, the inability to ensure that we will ever be able to finish our collection, space for our collections (this is a bit of a more non-issue if you want to buy books), and the difficulty in finding slightly more non-mainstream stuff... and it is a pain to collect manga in some places. I really wish these groups wouldn't take licenses, monopolize them, and then stop distribution so nobody can finish it.

They are just hiding. Around here (Kansas City, Mo, USA) there are probably 10+ Comic book shops within 100+ Miles.

I voted "It would take more money than I can afford". I have bought 200-400 USD in manga, but to buy all the manga I have read online at USA prices then it would cost over $4000 (maybe over $10000). And most of the manga I read is not licensed in the USA, and some of it was licensed to CPM (so I cannot get it even if I want to)

where do you live?

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whatphotoshopmypicswhatliesdoyouspeakof?! >D

why not bb?

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whatphotoshopmypicswhatliesdoyouspeakof?! >D

i highly doubt that's the case for 76% people

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whatphotoshopmypicswhatliesdoyouspeakof?! >D

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

Not if you can't find any even if you were willing to pay

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.

Hmm maybe, as someone suggested, they really should convert MU to a singles dating site. With manga as a common interest. Then the coalition can't shut this site down because it's infringing on a different set of rights or something.

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.

Heh, not sure how many know this country, but Romania, situated somewhere In Eastern Europe. >_>

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Oh I do, I was wondering if you were perhaphs from Eastern Europe.

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whatphotoshopmypicswhatliesdoyouspeakof?! >D

No, what I mean is, "I can't afford it" is one of the many things that fall under the "Yes" answer. It doesn't need its own option.

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..

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