G&C Podcast - Episode 156: Talking Manga And How We Started Collecting It!

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[00:00:05] It is... It was so goofy looking. I'm like, I need to know.

[00:00:10] And it's little... what?

[00:00:11] What's it sealed?

[00:00:13] No, it wasn't. That's the fun part. It's literally... it's literally...

[00:00:17] No, the rule bill! If it's sealed it means one of two things. Actually it means three things. It's goring. It's porny. Or it's both.

[00:00:29] Well, there's also the, there's a new phenomenon where there's some

[00:00:33] series that are releasing them wrapped, even though they have no reason to be

[00:00:36] wrapped.

[00:00:38] Are there adding secret gore?

[00:00:41] No.

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[00:01:08] Shit! No!

[00:01:11] Well, that sent me the episode out.

[00:01:18] I'm saying it was in the end. It's gonna be... you're going, "Cheat, no, it's gonna be rego, "Cheat, no!"

[00:01:23] So how you been?

[00:01:24] No, shit! The last time we were going was...

[00:01:30] Like a day ago.

[00:01:32] Like a day ago. So not much has changed. It's now instead of Friday, it's Sunday.

[00:01:37] Yeah, 'cause we're trying to build a little backlog so we don't have to record it.

[00:01:41] It's crack of dog to get an episode out again.

[00:01:44] Well, we went, well yesterday, I did about nothing.

[00:01:49] Oh, but you went on a five-year swerve, bitch.

[00:01:54] Yeah, I just played sport. It was over three hours. I looked at the play time. It was only for about three hours.

[00:02:00] So it wasn't that long.

[00:02:01] You're already complaining that you want to play, you'd play more.

[00:02:04] No, it's a fucked game. I want to play more than sport. There's so many times where I go,

[00:02:10] "Oh, I'm gonna play that after. I'm gonna watch the after and I don't."

[00:02:13] When I finally followed through, so don't fucking judge me.

[00:02:16] But yeah, yesterday, I didn't do much besides I played sport.

[00:02:21] I went grocery shopping and I went to Target, which is always a time.

[00:02:26] Trying to get baskets, didn't get baskets, 'cause they didn't have the sizes I wanted.

[00:02:30] And I was like, "Man, I'm not gonna buy something. I don't want."

[00:02:35] But I did get, I was trying to get, so I'm making chicken this week, but I wanted to marinate it.

[00:02:42] And I didn't have a marinating Tupperware.

[00:02:46] So I used, I ended buying something else, and it didn't fucking work.

[00:02:50] And Teriyaki sauce got everywhere on Kitchen, which was a time, especially when I had to go.

[00:02:57] 'Till he know, 'till he knows, 'cause you kept trying to eat it, so I made it work.

[00:03:02] I just had to flip the chicken breast individually instead of doing the shake and flip method.

[00:03:10] Yeah, now I've done.

[00:03:11] I did pretty much nothing yesterday. I really, I went out and did food shopping,

[00:03:16] I worked out in the morning, mostly just hung out, 'cause I was really tired yesterday for some reason.

[00:03:22] Yeah, because we were really late the night before.

[00:03:25] Yeah, especially when my bedtime is like 9 and 10.

[00:03:30] And that's when we started recording, so yeah, it was a little, I was tired.

[00:03:37] And then like last night, I just, I woke up at 2 and I couldn't fall back asleep until like 6.

[00:03:42] And then I had to wake up at 7, 'cause we wanted to get breakfast at 8 before it got crazy.

[00:03:47] And so I didn't fuck the same place tonight.

[00:03:51] So, I'm like tired.

[00:03:53] We went to Cracker Barrel this morning and it was like a ghost town there this morning.

[00:03:57] Yeah, it was very, I was surprised how empty it was today.

[00:04:02] I mean, 'cause I didn't get there pretty much at 8, like a little, like 8, 8, 30, so I guess it wasn't early.

[00:04:09] But even then, I feel like we've gone around that time and it's still been pretty packed.

[00:04:13] You're in and out of there in less than an hour and they were very efficient.

[00:04:18] You know, we usually do get there a little later 'cause usually when we go to Cracker Barrel, it's 'cause Tillie's going to the groomers.

[00:04:25] And I, her appointments are always at 8, 30, and it takes a bit to drop her off and get back.

[00:04:30] So, yeah, so I guess it was, we probably just missed the rush.

[00:04:34] Yeah, that was good though, made a good waiter, he was very nice.

[00:04:38] Yeah, he was super nice.

[00:04:40] And then we got a beverages from the local coffee shop that's falling apart.

[00:04:45] Yeah, it's really sad, I used to love, I'm not gonna name it, but he used to love this place.

[00:04:50] You should go like when I lived closer to it, I would go and stop every Friday on my way to work at one of my old jobs.

[00:04:57] And it just, it fell off and it's really sad.

[00:05:01] You expressed some machine exploded while we were there.

[00:05:04] Yeah, something, I don't know what happened, something exploded.

[00:05:07] Well, at first, there was like, it was leaking everywhere and they were like, that's not good, then five minutes later we just hear.

[00:05:11] But it's like, let's get out of here.

[00:05:17] It's just so sad, I used to love that place, but I only go if I'm going out there, like, I don't go out of my way to go there anymore.

[00:05:24] Which is sad, 'cause I used to go, I would go drive out there all the time.

[00:05:27] So, now we just go to the local place.

[00:05:32] Yeah, or I just like go to like a Duncan or something.

[00:05:35] Yeah.

[00:05:36] I want to find some more coffee shops, like, I want to keep track, because I need to be a place in town, but sometimes I just want to try something different.

[00:05:44] Like, today I got a match up, a blended match at drink, because, I don't know, I just like, I feel like I've been drinking so much coffee, because I've been so tired.

[00:05:54] And I feel like I got a little coffee down, so I've been trying to change up with more teas.

[00:06:01] Yeah, I only drink black coffee, so if I find a good black coffee place, I'm gonna be going.

[00:06:07] Yeah.

[00:06:09] You have it other than that, nothing too crazy new.

[00:06:15] Yeah. Oh my god, Tilly was also, well, that's probably why I got woken up.

[00:06:19] Tilly was just like a nightmare last night. She just kept, like, clawing me, and like,

[00:06:25] well, she needs her nails trimmed. Like, I was supposed to have an appointment last weekend.

[00:06:30] And it got canceled because of the snowstorm, so her next appointment is next weekend on Saturday at noon,

[00:06:37] so not my normal time, so I'm just gonna have to run and drop her off, and then pop around and pick her up, but yeah.

[00:06:44] But she needs those nails trimmed because they keep clawing into my flesh and it hurts.

[00:06:49] And because Tilly is, she's a good girl, but she's also a nightmare.

[00:06:54] Yeah, she's so, like, it's so funny, because sometimes she's like a little angel.

[00:07:00] She is, but she is like a literal bipolar cat.

[00:07:02] Yeah, sometimes she, like, always wants to be by my side recently, which is really cute and nice.

[00:07:09] Not right now, she's upstairs napping, but like, if I'm downstairs, she's usually downstairs.

[00:07:15] Like, when I was playing sports, she was just on the couch watching me the whole time.

[00:07:18] It's cute, or she actually waited up here for a little bit too.

[00:07:23] Well, I was playing, so yeah, Tilly updates, but yeah, I knew from us since it's only been a day since we recorded, so.

[00:07:34] Yeah. Yeah, but I guess we've got a good seven minute intro, so I guess now going to a little bit.

[00:07:40] Oh, correct. Six minutes in 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 seconds.

[00:07:53] Yeah, but for our topic for this episode, we're actually going to be covering a new topic, something that we've kind of alluded to in the past, but not like, really gone deep into.

[00:08:02] And that is Mango's. We're now Mango farmers. Yeah, so we've talked gaming. We've talked the anime, but now we want to talk about another hobby of ours is manga.

[00:08:14] Mango farming. And manga, monk is a really interesting thing because like, it has blown up so much in the last like three or four years.

[00:08:25] Like, to the point where now it's like starting to like become like, almost like a major part of any like bookstore, or like, or just like reading in general.

[00:08:35] I mean, it makes money. People want to go and buy it. So, stores are going to have it now, which is awesome.

[00:08:42] It's crazy because I remember back in the day, like you'd go to a bookstore because bookstores do still exist, as I've learned to like especially in our area.

[00:08:50] Yeah.

[00:08:51] They, um, you go to, you used to go to a bookstore back in day though, and they'd be like this tiny little manga section in the back corner that would have like maybe like four or five little volumes and like, it was usually just like the mainstream stuff.

[00:09:05] Or like we, we have a local chain up here called Newberry comics and they, um, they back in the day had a tiny little manga section because they were mostly a comic store.

[00:09:14] Yeah. And now you go in there and it's like, they have a whole wall like areas, they have a whole section that's anime and manga like, oh, yeah. Because it's an expense, it's, it's crazy how quick it's expanding. Like, we have a Barnes & Noble where there's a legit entire wall of the building that is just nothing but manga.

[00:09:35] Yeah. And like, I mean, even going on newberry, like now in like newberry, I feel like it's one of those places where you kind of find the stuff you don't always see too like the out of print stuff because I know like that's where I found like I'm trying to collect a certain series and I've only been able to find it there. I can't find it at Barnes & Noble. So yeah, it's just struggle.

[00:09:56] Yeah, it's, it's tough and especially like Amazon, it's hard to find certain series and it's like really easy. But yeah, yes, it like sucks to because like, of course, when you get into a show, it's out of print and you're like,

[00:10:10] "Okay, I just want to collect it all."

[00:10:12] It's interesting though because comparing manga to comics is a really fascinating thing because manga has been overtaking American style comics for a while now, because American comics are a very outdated

[00:10:26] method where as much as I like them, they're so hard to get into. Like, because it's one giant story. And like, there's like so much backstory you need information on that like it's such the barrier of entry for comic books is so difficult as opposed to manga where it's like, stay you want to get into a series. It's like, okay, this series has approximately 12 volumes, that's all you need.

[00:10:55] And then you can start, where do you start? All you move on. It's like, and it's just, it's more like you get more in a smaller in a more convenient package to like I know like most comic books like it's their thinner, their bigger, their harder to store and like, manga is it's book. Like it's so much easier to store. You just store it on a bookshelf. Like, that's another thing. It feels like more bang for your buck too because you're getting so much more content out of something.

[00:11:25] that's, that's the big thing that's killing comics right now is American comics, like a floppy single issue is about like $5, $4 to $5 for like what is essentially like, 12 pages at like about like 10 minutes of content, really. And you have to click, and they only come out weekly and they're like some bi-weekly and it's like, you're paying all this money just for like, these tiny increments. And then once the screen is a one of the bit of money, it's just a shot of the music like a book, it's actually a sub-

[00:11:31] comics, like a floppy single issue is about like $5, $4 to $5 for like what is essentially

[00:11:39] like 12 pages, about like 10 minutes of content, really. And you have to collect. And they

[00:11:46] only come out weekly and they're like some bi-weekly and it's like, you're paying all this

[00:11:51] money just for like these tiny increments. And then once the story's done, it's like, hey, you

[00:11:57] need to pay $30 for the trade collection, which has everything collected into a nice look.

[00:12:02] And it's like in reality, you'd think, oh, I just wait to get the trades. But if you don't

[00:12:05] buy the floppies and the trades never get made because they have no reason to make them

[00:12:08] because they didn't so well, it's like, yeah, it's a weird slope.

[00:12:14] It's I, yeah, we're definitely with manga, you kind of get those single ones. But it's kind

[00:12:21] of you just get those trades at the end. Like it's just you get the volume that takes the

[00:12:25] chapters that you may receive weekly through like shown in jump or the Viz app. You get those

[00:12:31] chapters, but they you just buy them all as one big volume set. Which I mean super helpful.

[00:12:38] And then of course now they're series like, I mean, one piece Naruto and Dragon Ball in like

[00:12:44] Attack on Titan where they're doing these combo books too, which isn't even better deal

[00:12:48] because I mean, like the just experienced the one piece, three of ones, they're like 15

[00:12:55] talks in like just one novel, one volume of one piece is nine books. It's like a deal. Well,

[00:13:02] well, yeah, 12. But like, so I'm assuming then the three ones are probably more like a

[00:13:07] little more expensive, but like it's a bang for your book. Like you want to just go for that

[00:13:11] and was good. Better. Yeah, like going back to the pricing thing, it's like, like we said,

[00:13:18] like $5 for like 10 minutes of content at most. Manga, you're paying $12 usually

[00:13:25] max used to be nine. But inflation, you know, um, like $12 for essentially like a half an hour

[00:13:32] to like a couple hours worth of content. Like you basically get a small little chapter book.

[00:13:38] Yeah, which is nice. I mean, some volumes are bigger than others. It all depends on

[00:13:42] how much they want to cram in there. But then like Zags would say and like you get like

[00:13:47] big long-running series that have been going on forever now have these like collectors

[00:13:51] edition, like three in one's or like, yeah, anthology releases, which are just like full set

[00:13:58] the, the biz bigs like the Onion ones, too. Yeah, the bigs were an interesting thing

[00:14:03] because they were big. I don't think biz does them anymore, but they were doing them for

[00:14:08] a while. They were like specific series, particularly either Yashida. That's how I, I guess

[00:14:12] we can go into that now. How we started, like, for me, I guess I'll let Alex go first,

[00:14:17] 'cause she kind of got me into it. Oh, yeah, I forgot what I saw the first one I collected

[00:14:24] was I, uh, when I was, well, I'm still super into Jojo's and I haven't collected all of

[00:14:30] it yet, but I at least try to get the first volume out of each one. So I started out with

[00:14:35] just like the first, the first volumes of parts one, two, three. And of course, one, four,

[00:14:40] five and six came out. I got those as well. Um, but yeah, that's kind of where it all started

[00:14:45] was the Jojo's ones, which the Jojo's ones, I'm kind of paused on collecting the fold just

[00:14:51] because they're, they're hard. They're all so nice. Like the quality of the Jojo's ones,

[00:14:55] I mean, it's understandable when you like look at the manuka and look at all his other

[00:15:00] work and stuff, like he does not put out crap. Like he wants it to be nice and luxurious.

[00:15:06] And it's, I feel like it's just kind of part of the series. Um, so the manga is all

[00:15:10] hardcover. Like you can't buy a softcover book of Jojo's, it's only hardcover. Um, super

[00:15:16] nice quality. Um, they're the art is beautiful. Covers are beautiful. Nice page paper.

[00:15:23] No, yeah, they're super nice. And, but they're expensive. So that's why I've only

[00:15:27] gotten the volume ones eventually all start going into collecting the smaller parts as well,

[00:15:33] but it's hard on the wallet. Um, especially because like this is generally the cheapest

[00:15:40] set of all of the the manga publishers. Um, what's interesting about this, though, is their

[00:15:45] quality varies a lot in their volumes. Like my favorite is like you buy those nice leather

[00:15:52] bounds. Like, and those are super nice and even your dough cradora set. Those are, those

[00:15:56] are those are, those are part of the signature line, which is cares a little bit more about

[00:16:00] yeah, say the single issue floppies, like one of my favorites is I collected a black

[00:16:06] clover. And you look at my black clover sets. And the spines don't line up at all.

[00:16:11] Like they're, no, yeah, I have a, I have one to you. That's like a hat. So. Yeah, it's,

[00:16:17] it's like little minor things that like, I've, I've seen on the manga collecting subreddit.

[00:16:21] Some people are very neurotic about their manga. Like they, it's not a big deal. No, it's

[00:16:27] not at all. It, I don't understand why they, some people are like, there's a crinkle and

[00:16:33] they're like, it's ruined forever must burn it and buy a new one. I'm like, honestly, as long

[00:16:37] as like, as long as the images look good on the actual pages, and you can read it, nothing's

[00:16:43] cut off, I don't care. It's fine. As long as I can enjoy the content, that's really all

[00:16:47] that matters. I mean, especially where coming from a manufacturing background, it's so

[00:16:54] hard to call it and control all those defects, especially where something like printing.

[00:16:58] It's kind of a one and done thing if it's not perfect and they're like, say for the

[00:17:03] jojos, I'm sure they have to scrap out a lot of the stuff that ends up, you know, not

[00:17:08] being as perfect. But with those other lines, like the black Clover one, I'm sure that

[00:17:12] they're kind of defect scale. It's probably a little bigger as long as like it's readable,

[00:17:17] that's fine. But even then, I mean, mistakes happen. I'm sure you could find some of them

[00:17:21] that just get past quality inspections. One of my favorites is this is a, I guess, a big like

[00:17:28] this print that went around for a while

[00:17:30] Still Finding It Is, there's a couple volumes of Jujutsu Kaitsin, like there was a run of a certain volume of Jujutsu Kaitsin that like you read halfway through it and then the second half of the manga just turns into chainsaw and then my mistake.

[00:17:44] That's hilarious. Oh my god. You know the point is that it probably just kind of flows pretty naturally too because of just the similar like story vibes and then until you're like wait a minute. This doesn't seem right.

[00:17:57] Well the arc changes so drastically and it's like- Oh yeah, but I feel like though too like if you weren't, if someone like picked up the book and just started reading it they'd probably just be like this is a weird episode.

[00:18:09] Jujutsu Kaitsin, they just opened it to that section. Yeah, like that's a pretty well known misprint that's been going around. I guarantee you this, there's probably a couple of them at our local bars in Noble if we actually look through all the Jujutsu Kaisins, we probably could find one.

[00:18:22] That's a serious, I want to collect eventually Jujutsu Kaitsin and Chainsaw man, but money. You want to talk though like this you got to give this some get to give them a little leeway though cuz they publish by far the mood.

[00:18:36] Oh yeah and that's why I'm very like I don't mind because like they provide so much content to us like it's fine to me like as long as I can enjoy it that's fine you know.

[00:18:49] The thing is it's like this publishes the most and they're not even the worst about quality control.

[00:18:55] No yeah, like condition is by far the worst. Like both in terms of their quality and like overall, like consistency cuz like their paper is by far the cheapest feeling like I have a few

[00:19:09] it's fine it's not like unreachable but let's like you compare it next to a visit and you're like yeah you can see where they cheaped out a little.

[00:19:18] No you can see the differences.

[00:19:21] But I mean you also take they are they're also a lot more expensive than visitors to which makes even worse. Yeah.

[00:19:29] But you also though the biggest thing with the prices like be happy that this is a cheap as it is cuz you look at say like seven seas which are by far the most expensive.

[00:19:41] Well not counting those berserk like collectors editions but yes, the dark horse ones.

[00:19:48] Seven seas as by far the best paper and like. Oh yeah print quality but they're the most expensive and god forbid you're collecting a series that's old because they don't reprint a lot so.

[00:20:00] No yeah I am collecting one of those right now and as soon as something comes out I buy it because of that reason you know I don't want to risk not getting it all.

[00:20:10] Seven seas also it's funny to me how all the different publishers they publish very unique like things like this has like pretty much all the shown in jump stuff on lockdown.

[00:20:27] And then they also have so much on their plates too because they do stuff like I mean they kind of do all the time.

[00:20:53] the top series like one piece Naruto Dragon Ball they Joe Joe's. Do they do a bleach. I think they're bleached too. I think yeah so they do all the really big long running one so I get why they'd be like probably have to say no to some but I'm sure the.

[00:21:18] Right back on it now and they just start banging their heads against the wall. Yeah because it's like, other than that than you look at like yen press yen press covers a lot more of like the slice of life like.

[00:21:31] I don't think you do you know I don't know like yen press for example does stuff like.

[00:21:39] For baskets for example, they also so an interesting one is I have my collections sorted by publisher with a few exceptions like the one big exception.

[00:21:47] That's one big exception is I have hockey as someone with Oh she no co because it's the same author. Yeah.

[00:21:54] Hockey as I'm as done by Viz oh she no goes done by yen press.

[00:21:58] It is interesting when you see like an author switch switch companies because I know I collected all the door he doe row.

[00:22:07] Which I will say the quality is wonderful with those is the signature one.

[00:22:13] You can definitely see like it's much nicer compared to some of my other bit stuff.

[00:22:19] It's also really funny just going into sense I'm talking about it now. I love how bill notices this every time you can tell like in the beginning they were like okay.

[00:22:27] All of them are the same size and then you get to like the last couple like you get to.

[00:22:34] 19 and you're like oh that's bigger 20 and you're like oh that's still big 20 on 22 and then 23 is like.

[00:22:41] They just like all right time to finish it.

[00:22:44] The chalk it's like the you know yash of bigs bigs yeah that's like a 52 volume manga that's they can they compressed down into.

[00:22:55] 18 vids bigs yep and the last two 70 and 18 are four and one's supposed to three in ones because it was there's thick.

[00:23:03] Yeah they're almost too big to read sometimes.

[00:23:07] Oh but kind of why brother door he door was that it went from the vids signature line and then their new series died arc is now 7c's.

[00:23:18] Which a part of me is grateful for because like the quality I mean even though the vids signature is really nice but I don't know I just I kind of like the size of like die york better.

[00:23:32] Like that more smaller traditional manga size I just kind of prefer I don't know I just kind of like a smaller the the bigger one I don't know I just got the normal.

[00:23:41] 7c's is sizes are a little smaller than like the standard manga size but they're very comfortable to read.

[00:23:48] Oh my God yeah and like just you hold that book I mean you bought me one for for Christmas and just the feeling like the quality of the paper and stuff it's just so different like it is thick paper because it has a weight to it.

[00:24:01] And even like the cover too like the covers really nice the colors are really outstanding and especially I think to with them just just their art style it's very detailed very sketchy and if it's not printed well it will not come across well.

[00:24:21] It's just their art style so I'm glad that they actually switch to 70s for the quality reasons because like it really just brings out their art.

[00:24:32] Which is funny to because die struck is a weird series to have on seven seas because seven seas is mostly known for like the bottom of the barrel like slice of life like the we the most.

[00:24:46] The ship that that like the whole like perception of like the manga nerd oh yeah, a door you must be the bull I mean a diar must be the black sheep because it's the story is very similar to door if you door but in space so.

[00:25:02] But I haven't completely fully read the series yet but I'm loving it so far, but like for example, when's.

[00:25:11] Oh god, oh I was just saying when I went to what con was it that I bought the posters for door, or he door or.

[00:25:20] That was Connecticut that was Connecticut I was chatting with the guy because he was like oh my god so in length door he door on I was like yes, I do.

[00:25:27] So, because I bought the two posters and then the gyoza man fairy cheek keychain which is my favorite keychain in the whole world that I've ever bought and because it's so silly.

[00:25:39] But he's chatting about it and I didn't know die dark existed at the time and he said Oh, you should really read die dark and I was like Oh, what's die dark and he's like it's door he door but in space and I said.

[00:25:50] And I read I was like yeah, it's dark star one space. Yeah, but yeah love that's yours it's funny though because for example like to compare some of the other seven seas stuff that I have.

[00:26:04] We've got.

[00:26:06] or Aurora slice of life, you got the darkness of my heart or dangers in my heart and other slice of life.

[00:26:15] Golden time slice of life, yeah, classroom of the elite, that's another.

[00:26:22] Place of life like from komish one hit home each hand is shy with strangers. Basically it's all like it's not door it's not dark.

[00:26:33] No, it's it's an interesting thing and interestingly talking about seven seas. This is where I'd like to bring up like finding out of print manga and be fucking miserable sometimes.

[00:26:44] Oh, yeah, oh yeah trust me I'm feeling it with one of the series I got into last year, which I wasn't expecting was Moggie. I freaking love Moggie, but like Moggie has not been airing since like the 2010s and the mogg is been out of print for a while so.

[00:27:05] Not so much out of print more out of stock than anything. Yeah, like none of it's available like even like I've been trying to just find it like on Amazon and eBay and it's like.

[00:27:17] Like chapter three is like a hundred dollars on some sites and it's just like because it's so out of print and I'm like come on I just want to read.

[00:27:25] Yeah.

[00:27:26] Yeah, like a big one that's pretty infamous is you you honk a show like goes out of stock like routinely.

[00:27:32] Yeah, you're part of the problem. Well, you bought it all at once.

[00:27:38] Well that's what happened. Like it had been out of stock for like months and then like I went into Newbury on like Black Friday and they had the entire series and I had gift cards and I said fuck it I'm just going to buy all nineteen volumes right now.

[00:27:53] Yeah, that was pretty funny what you just were like.

[00:27:57] Just fucking obliterated the shells.

[00:28:00] I do that reminds me I want to start collecting Hunter Hunter at some point.

[00:28:05] Oh I because I love that series as well.

[00:28:08] You have finished that at some point.

[00:28:10] Yeah, it's on my list. I got that.

[00:28:12] Oh any tension now and then back on Titan and the tougher.

[00:28:15] And the tactics that yeah you have to do attack on Titan. I am contemplating getting the big volumes of attack on Titan because I say I haven't been.

[00:28:27] So yet.

[00:28:28] I'm sorry.

[00:28:29] I will watch the tub soon. I'll finish it soon.

[00:28:33] That's next.

[00:28:35] I haven't done this afternoon actually.

[00:28:37] Maybe I'm cooking while you're playing sport.

[00:28:40] Yeah, the same time.

[00:28:41] Well no I can't do both ends the same time because if I place for I will get too distracting I will burn my food. So I can't do that.

[00:28:47] But maybe I could probably watch some attack on Titan.

[00:28:49] Well I do that.

[00:28:51] Yeah, I think the most expensive manga I've ever bought is so I'm probably one of the bigger fans of golden time like probably one of it's my favorite.

[00:29:01] Rom romance like slice of life anime ever just because I've said it before it's a.

[00:29:07] It's a fun take on the whole slice of life genre where it's not about high school is it's about college adults so they can get away with, they can get away with more without without it feeling creepy.

[00:29:17] Yeah, and I feel like you kind of can relate to it more as a neighbor because you're more closer to that age than in high school.

[00:29:27] Well it's like the weird fan service seen this of like romance anime in manga it's not nearly as weird in like a series that you know their college age like their their legal adults it's like.

[00:29:42] Because it's really funny because golden time the author the writer anyways because a lot you'll notice with a lot of seven sees stuff like they have writers and then artists separate artists because a lot of them are actually based off of the.

[00:29:56] Like all night novels.

[00:29:58] Well I like novels. Oh, like no yeah, sorry.

[00:30:02] So the art the author for golden time is the same author that wrote toward or.

[00:30:09] And they have very similar shows but toward or is it typical high school setting golden time is a adults, but on gold, so tore door is still in print like because it's an ongoing manga even though the stories been done for years.

[00:30:26] Um, golden time is shorter so it's been finished for a long time and it's been out of print from seven sees for very long time.

[00:30:37] So you spent big bucks getting that.

[00:30:40] I got I found some guy in eBay who was selling every volume except for six and.

[00:30:48] Eight, he had a full set all of them, but those two and he wanted for like 50 bucks so I grabbed that.

[00:30:55] Then I found eight for like 20 which I mean wasn't too bad six was fucking two hundred dollars.

[00:31:04] And still expensive to this Oh my god wow. Yeah, I was like are and it's, of course it's like right in the middle to have the story. Yeah.

[00:31:14] I mean thankfully there is many a website that.

[00:31:19] I mean, you kind of have to sell the seven season in different way in northern.

[00:31:24] Yeah, that's by far the worst. I'm the most expensive I've ever paid because that's one that just never is going to go down just because it's such a.

[00:31:33] Oh well, I was going to finish finish first.

[00:31:38] Well, I was just going to say because like sometimes you'll get a.

[00:31:41] You'll get a series that's like.

[00:31:43] It'll have like one volume that's out of stock and it's just like inflated price wise like to me a big one was.

[00:31:49] All of Maggie.

[00:31:50] Yeah.

[00:31:52] I've been collecting Pokemon adventures and a big one for me was.

[00:31:58] A volume one of Pokemon adventures black and white too.

[00:32:04] That was like 80 to $90 for a while because it was at a stock.

[00:32:09] And I I was I begrudgingly held off because I was like this is still an ongoing series. There's no way it's going to be down forever.

[00:32:16] And sure enough like a month later, they had a restock and it was back down to $9 and I was like.

[00:32:22] Nice.

[00:32:23] Good thing I went. Yeah, because I was like.

[00:32:26] It's just one of those things.

[00:32:28] Yeah.

[00:32:29] I was going to ask because I mean I go to your house and I seat but you should really.

[00:32:34] List all the different series that you collect and like and then notify if they're complete like so say like eating.

[00:32:42] Action complete or like ocean.

[00:32:43] I'm really sure I'm curious I want to know.

[00:32:47] As of right now, I have this little app called the Yama app.

[00:32:51] It's an in progress manga collecting app that's still in development but it's it's okay for what it's it's got some issues, but it's it's kind of a lot.

[00:32:59] Everything does everything so.

[00:33:01] So going through it as of right now.

[00:33:04] What I'm collecting. I've gotoshino.

[00:33:06] That's ongoing.

[00:33:07] I've got a silent voice complete tale of the secret saying is ongoing. I've got a cure towards Molly accepted the year that's a single one in done.

[00:33:15] I was a manga dial. That's a one in done.

[00:33:18] There's a Batman manga that's ongoing so that's ongoing.

[00:33:21] A black clover's ongoing chainsaw man's ongoing cheeky brats ongoing.

[00:33:30] Last month, the elite is ongoing.

[00:33:32] I don't have death note completely.

[00:33:34] I only have the first two volumes of that.

[00:33:37] Not guitar was ongoing.

[00:33:39] As I Dragon Ball Super's ongoing.

[00:33:41] I have the first big of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.

[00:33:45] But I don't have that.

[00:33:47] That's going to be a project for probably way down the line.

[00:33:51] Yeah.

[00:33:52] I have all of fruit baskets collectors additions all of fruit baskets another.

[00:33:57] All of the full metal alchemist three in ones so I can all of golden time.

[00:34:02] But, I told me chance I'm going.

[00:34:05] Got all of you new Yasha.

[00:34:06] I want to eat your pancreas. That's a one in done.

[00:34:10] Read that one if you want to cry.

[00:34:13] I've heard that one's very sad.

[00:34:16] Yeah.

[00:34:17] Kagi Asama's ongoing although there's only one volume left so that'll be done pretty soon.

[00:34:22] Keke Gharui that's ongoing.

[00:34:25] Ok.

[00:34:27] Kimi and todoki.

[00:34:29] Kimi need todoki.

[00:34:31] So I see it and that's complete but I only have 21 volumes so far.

[00:34:35] Kiss him not me.

[00:34:37] I have all of.

[00:34:39] Comey is ongoing.

[00:34:41] I forgot you had that one.

[00:34:43] Kiss him not me.

[00:34:44] Yeah.

[00:34:45] I found that for a deal online.

[00:34:46] Kona Soba that I have the first five volumes of that that's ongoing still.

[00:34:52] Okay.

[00:34:53] Um, may ason Eko kuru.

[00:34:56] Eko ku.

[00:34:57] That's that's another room.

[00:35:00] have all of Mao's ongoing. Mermaids saga have everything. Meriko Chan is ongoing. My

[00:35:08] sent by is annoying is ongoing. My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected. I have all

[00:35:15] of the light novels. The manga is still ongoing. I have all of the persona four manga. I have

[00:35:22] all of Pokemon adventures up through X and Y. They're currently doing the Ruby and Sapphire

[00:35:29] like complete editions. That's the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire complete editions I should

[00:35:34] say. They're currently doing those so that's ongoing. R rainbow one half. I've been collecting

[00:35:41] the two ones. These are historically out of stock so that one's probably going to be a while.

[00:35:48] Take a little bit. Yeah. There is over 19 of them. Oh my God. That's going to be a while.

[00:35:57] Renee that's another Amika Takashi. That's complete but I only have 15 volumes out of 40.

[00:36:04] Buroni tension. I have all the three and ones. Saka motor days is ongoing spy family's

[00:36:10] ongoing. I have all of tales of Burseria because it's only three volumes. That time I got

[00:36:18] reincarnated as a slime that's ongoing. Changes in my heart is ongoing. A sky in the cool

[00:36:25] girl. That's kind of ongoing. Some of these titles are pretty ridiculous. Fun away. Rising

[00:36:34] of the shield here I bought the first two volumes. I'm not super in a hurry to collect that.

[00:36:38] Is it light novel or longer? I'm good. Okay. This one's fun. The saviors book cap story

[00:36:46] and another one. Huh. It looked interesting so I bought it. That's only five volumes.

[00:36:53] It's complete. Toro Doro is ongoing. Or it say it's Sarah is a complete. I have all that.

[00:36:59] I'm all of weathering with you. Yasha, he may as ongoing. I've got all of your name and I've

[00:37:04] got all of you how to show. And that's it? That's it for now. There was a few singles in there

[00:37:11] I probably missed but other than that, that's most of what I've got going on. Yeah. It's been

[00:37:16] interesting watching your collection expand and expand over time. So it got me more into

[00:37:22] collecting too because for a while I was mostly just focused on collecting one piece. That was

[00:37:29] your first major completion too. Well, I mean ongoing. Like I got ongoing. Yeah. Well,

[00:37:36] and so I guess I can go into mine. So I have all of the one piece three and ones. I have

[00:37:46] all the ones that are currently out. And my plan is to start collecting the singles as

[00:37:51] well, because I'm a freak. Clickly and say yes, clickly and say, aka freak is going. And then

[00:38:00] the next so I guess the first thing I started collecting was JoJo's, which I have just

[00:38:06] the volume ones of all the parts. I'll collect the others eventually. Then I started collecting

[00:38:15] well, then it was one piece and then after one piece I got, I think the next one I got was

[00:38:23] the would JoJo spin off, which was the, the tales of like Ro Hong-Kashime, the spoke

[00:38:31] Ro Hong-Kashime, which is only two volumes. I'm pretty certain that's it. So that one's

[00:38:36] done. Then I started collecting. Welcome to Demon School of RumaCon, because I love that

[00:38:43] series, and they started releasing the manga. So I was like, I'm going to buy these. So I can

[00:38:47] read it. And then I started collecting parasite, the maximum with the full color edition,

[00:38:54] which has been really cool. They're really nice quality as well. Then I bought all of

[00:39:02] Dorothy Doro, because I freaking love Doro. And then I started collecting die dark. I have

[00:39:09] one through six. They'll got me number six for Christmas. Then I started collecting my

[00:39:15] happy marriage, because that show is wonderful. And I wanted the manga too, which it only

[00:39:19] has four volumes out. So I'm caught up on that. I have three volumes of Orient, which

[00:39:26] is the author of Maugie's success first, because they follow up at show. Manga, sorry, words

[00:39:33] are hard. I have just the first two volumes of Maugie. And then I also have. And then

[00:39:42] I started collecting Dragon Ball Super, because Bill gave me the first two volumes of Dragon

[00:39:46] Ball, so you gave me the first volume. I had the next copy of the next two. No, I only had

[00:39:51] the first copy of one. Yeah. So I did that. And I actually looked out. So I had a, I got

[00:39:58] a gift card for Christmas, so I bought a big chunk of it then. And then we there's this

[00:40:04] story at the game exchange. And someone just sold like all of their, basically our whole

[00:40:10] collection of Dragon Ball Super, minus volume 15. And I just bought it. And they were all

[00:40:15] like five dollars a copy. So I got like Dragon Ball Super for so freaking cheap.

[00:40:20] They saw manga mad cheap there. Well, because it's used. So a lot of people just sell

[00:40:25] it. So yeah, I was like five bucks a book. So I just literally need 15. And then I think

[00:40:32] that's it. The only thing it's not really manga. It's more of like a graphic novel, I guess

[00:40:37] you can say, but I have been collecting Laura Olympics, which is a, it's on the WebTune app.

[00:40:43] It's probably one of the biggest series on WebTune app probably. But I've been collecting

[00:40:48] that as well, which those are really nice and pretty, because those are all full color

[00:40:51] prints as well. Oh, and I do have one. I went to see the My Hero Academia movie, the third

[00:40:58] movie. And when you went, they gave you a little mini manga. So I have that as well.

[00:41:03] Yeah, it's funny. Like sometimes I'll go to the manga store like Barnes and Noble or just

[00:41:09] like Newberry or any like store that sells manga. And I'll be just browsing the shelves.

[00:41:14] Sometimes you'll see like a manga like volume that just looks so ridiculous that you just

[00:41:20] have to pick it up at a curiosity. And one of the ones I bought that it looked so dumb at

[00:41:27] a read it was, it was a single volume storyline. It was just called, do you like the nerdy

[00:41:34] nurse? It was so goofy looking. I'm like, I need to know, it's little. What? What's

[00:41:43] it sealed? No, it wasn't. That's the fun part. It's literally, it's

[00:41:49] you know the rule, Bill. If it's sealed, it means one of two things. Actually, it means three

[00:41:55] things. It's boring. It's porny, or it's both. Well, there's also the, there's a new phenomenon

[00:42:04] where there's some series that are releasing them wrapped, even though they have no

[00:42:07] reason to be wrapped, are there any secret gore? No, the, the persona for arena and arena

[00:42:17] all the mix of volumes have been wrapped for some reason. Did you read them? Yeah, they're,

[00:42:22] they're just, they're just persona for. Bill, oh, you do have something to say to the

[00:42:30] question. No, it's persona for arena in all the mix. There's nothing to hide there. No,

[00:42:36] but anyways, so this, the, the, the nerdy nurse book, it's literally a wholesome story about

[00:42:42] a nurse at a high school who's a nerd and she's into anime and manga and the whole

[00:42:47] times she's basically just like trying to be like a nurse at the same time while also being

[00:42:51] freaking nerd. It's just like, it's a really cute wholesome story. There's like nothing

[00:42:56] bad about that at all. And I was like, wow, this was fun all right. I'll believe it for

[00:43:04] now. Until let's see it wrapped in the market. There's like no fan service in it at all.

[00:43:13] No, it's fun. It's great how much, how much more accessible it is now and also how normalized

[00:43:22] it is now. And I'm sure Barnes and Noble appreciates it because I'm sure there's a lot more

[00:43:27] people buying books but I think I read they've opened more stores because of the manga

[00:43:31] info. But obviously, you know, it kind of makes me happy too. It's like, Hey, if it's

[00:43:36] getting people into reading, you know, maybe it's not the normal style of reading a book,

[00:43:41] but hey, people are reading kids are reading people are reading. And that's awesome because

[00:43:45] I know for so long, like they'd always encourage it in high school like of, you know,

[00:43:50] you have to read your summer reading. But when they don't give you really a choice in what

[00:43:55] you need to read, it like sucks like when you're being forced to read something you don't

[00:43:59] want to read.

[00:44:00] You want to get me going on a tangible my life and school is garbage. They when they're like,

[00:44:05] we need you to read. So you decide, okay, I'm going to read a manga. They're like, that

[00:44:08] does account. I'm like, what's different about it?

[00:44:11] No, yeah, I've never used to.

[00:44:13] I actually got into argument with the teacher once about this in high school. They claim

[00:44:19] that comics and manga did not count as actual reading. And I looked them in the face and

[00:44:23] said, explain why. And they could not give me an answer. They literally told me to shut

[00:44:29] up and go back to my seat.

[00:44:31] I basically told them to. There's a reason why my English teachers hated me because I did

[00:44:36] not give a shit about their causes because stuff like that.

[00:44:39] I just find it like sad. I mean like, hey, honestly, like just it's just like when you

[00:44:45] give kids children's books in the beginning. They're primarily like, you know, literature

[00:44:49] with pictures with them. But like there's people who like some people just they learn

[00:44:55] visually. They learn like there's different learning styles. Not everyone can just

[00:44:59] fully comprehend something by reading the text. You know, some people they need a little

[00:45:04] more to that to fully comprehend what's going on. And especially where somebody's stories

[00:45:09] are so complex and some of them are so long and ongoing. Like, I mean, like one piece like

[00:45:16] I talk about it all the time, but like there's so much story to it. Then there's so

[00:45:21] many things that if you really read and like take a deep look into it. Like it's crazy

[00:45:27] how much stuff comes back later up. Like, I just I hate that like it's not considered

[00:45:33] traditional reading to a lot of people because I mean, if it's getting people to go out

[00:45:37] read and buy a book, that's awesome. Like that's great. I don't know why we aren't

[00:45:41] encouraging it more.

[00:45:43] So like to me also to the big a big thing about manga that I that like I really enjoy

[00:45:50] is like sometimes the art is able to speak like tell the story in just visually. Yeah,

[00:45:55] like one of the biggest ones to me recently is um Katsuki Fujimoto with Jainsaw man. Like

[00:46:01] there is chainsaw man to me is a very quick read because a lot of what makes chainsaw

[00:46:07] man enjoyable is the art because the art really sells what the story is at times.

[00:46:14] Oh yeah. I agree with Darahedaro. The art is just like there is so much detail and

[00:46:21] care put into all of it that like it just it can like you can read into it. Like it gives

[00:46:28] you more context like remember those exercises you didn't your English language arts classes

[00:46:34] where they're like the sky was blue and they're like all right. But what does he mean by

[00:46:38] the sky was blue? And like you can do the same thing with just what's visually happening.

[00:46:43] Like it tells the story to get two things.

[00:46:44] Honestly, it's it's better than that English class level bullshit because it was like

[00:46:49] you actually get to visualize it what they're trying what they mean by the text and it's

[00:46:53] like you'll notice from this conversation I was not a fan of high school English but um

[00:46:59] No I don't mean like it's not it's not for everyone. Of course like it's good knowledge

[00:47:05] to have you should learn basic skills like being able to write a paper write a document you

[00:47:10] know that kind of stuff. I just think teachers are out of touch that's really my big

[00:47:14] problem with school. Well I'm hoping that especially now where they're such a new like

[00:47:18] when we were in school the generation of teachers now is probably completely different

[00:47:23] because a lot of people aren't age are now teachers so hopefully like because there's people

[00:47:29] are age they will consider those things more like if you're getting someone to read that's

[00:47:34] great whether it be a comic book, a manga or even a picture book if it's as long as they're

[00:47:40] reading that's great. Like I won't I won't say names because obvious reasons but like

[00:47:46] our history teacher in high school you know the one the cool guy. The reason why I think

[00:47:55] he was such a great teacher is because he was in touch with modern society like he was

[00:48:00] a big tech guy like he knew and I was like okay he knows how to teach us as kids

[00:48:06] and he's not like stuck in the fucking 80s or 70s. This is where I thought this podcast

[00:48:12] was going to go but I'm enjoying it you know. You got me on a tangent now because

[00:48:16] I have a lot of problems with education, let's just say. No, it's hard. I think now the world

[00:48:27] is very much more understanding that everyone learns differently. There's so many different

[00:48:31] patterns when it comes to learning where it be visual where it be hands-on learning

[00:48:36] or it be you know listening. Some people like they they that's why podcasts are so great

[00:48:41] because people just they love to listen and like they're getting the context of the

[00:48:45] story and it's all or audiobooks like you're getting the context of a story but they don't

[00:48:51] have to sit down and look at a page like I love the fact that Spotify now has like

[00:48:57] audiobooks too like I just read well I just listened to like the Britney Spears autobiography

[00:49:04] that is her like her life story is heartbreaking and it was like so soon I'd listened

[00:49:10] to you but I'm glad but I probably wouldn't have picked up the book just because like I don't

[00:49:15] necessarily go and open a book like unless it's a manga it's hard for me to go and read

[00:49:20] that because I just I get bored like my eyes get tired and I just can't do it but

[00:49:26] I basically read listen to the whole book in like two days so like another thing too

[00:49:34] with manga that I really like is how diverse the art styles are. Like my favorite artist

[00:49:40] by far is from eco Takahashi and she has such a distinct art style like the way she just

[00:49:46] draws things like yeah you see a Remiko Takahashi book and you know immediately that's

[00:49:51] her style same with Oda for example Oda's art is very aspect well in a Qishida for Dora

[00:50:00] or Dardark there are very much there so you can tell it's their work.

[00:50:06] Kira took a Curatoriama. No yeah all of them I think have pretty like I'd say all of

[00:50:12] them have a pretty distinctive ones because even like I'm not super into it but like

[00:50:16] demon slayer like that's a very like you recognize that art style like that's specifically

[00:50:21] demon slayer yeah yeah it's just a we could probably go on for hours but we're going

[00:50:29] to probably visit manga yeah I'd like to maybe do this like annually or maybe like with some

[00:50:35] other friends who also collect manga because I know our collections are probably going

[00:50:39] to change by next year so or maybe even halfway through the year so we can do a collecting

[00:50:44] update but yeah this was fun because I definitely want to collect more I'm happy it's

[00:50:50] given me back into reading because you know because reading is great it is really

[00:50:56] a great thing and it's just different ways of taking it in whether it be an audiobook

[00:51:01] podcast or a visual novel or graphic novel it's all reading yeah no matter what the teachers

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