Cheap and expensive can be subjective words you know. >_>


Manga is a tiny bit more expensive in the Philippines. 1200 php for Vagabond! T__T

900 dollars? psch that's nothin. My collection is worth about 4000 dollars. And if you add anime, that's about another thousand more.

Not sure if this is true, but i believe the mangaka's have ownership of their materials and not the publishing companies. Whereas, over in the US for example, this wouldn't be the case. Given the recent case about the tv writers who are on strike, they only get a few cents on each sales, but i think someone said that depending on how well it sells they can make a pretty large sum of from that few cents.




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honestly

I wonder if you checked that image out, or just read the title alone.

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I know what you mean.. There aren't mangas anywhere here in Belgium, only Death Note..

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Can someone tell me if Anime is a lot cheaper in Japan like manga is there in comparison to countries outside of it.

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Sorry, were you serious?

$13 for a volume of manga is expensive?

Are you 11 years old with a weekly allowance of $5?



I checked the image, what about it? Is it so difficult to notice a possible mistake on the site? Oh, right, right. Manga is too expensive. A complete generalization over one item on a site. Right, right.

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There are a few shops in Ghent, but they don't have much + 3 times the normal price.
You can find anime here and there, but to expensive for me.

Is manga and anime to expensive?
I really don't know, you'd have to see how much profit is being made by who and look at the accual cost to create it. Only then we'll get an idea if it's "to" expensive or not

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manga is not too expensive...it's not cheap, but it's def. not too expensive. And it has nothing to do with the US publishers. It's more or less the same price in the western world (you can't count China and the rest as people there EARN less so it COSTS less (production and actual buying).

In France depending on the publisher, targeted audience (shounen, seinen, known/unknown artists) manga cost between 5-8€, same for Germany. And the manga for 5-6€ have worse quality than the usual American releases.

@that pic posted: did you notice that it's not amazon who's selling it but "galaxy-book"...? that pic does not say anything at all...PLUS if every volume of Berserk a 'cult manga' has been sold out already it CAN be quite expensive
(i.e.:the first german edition of Berserk costs more on ebay than it did when it was first sold by the publisher)
amazon link for volume 7


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WTH? Doesn't Belgium use the french language? Well France gets way more manga out there than the US and they are also less expensive (US has like 9.99 per manga each + tax, some manga like Berserk will cost you 14.99 all in all)


Not true lol, unless you speak of Glenat.

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Accually in belgium there are 3 languages, dutch, french and german(very small part). My french is really really bad


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Oh I thought so, cause I watched a belgium movie (Calvaire) and the actors were all speaking in french, so I thought that was the dominant language there.

Is it really that valuable?

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O_O what? is that the whole series? i usually buy a volume for 100 php


yup its expensive...you can't expect everyone to have the same allowance as you i'm already college and 500-900 php is the norm for weekly allowance...500... thats already a lot to us but to Americans its only $10