A geeky saturday~

Every weekend, I promise to have my ME time (if I have the chance to go out). October 20, Saturday, I decided to go on a manga hunt on a very far place which I barely know. Actually I'm kinda familiar with that place, and I use google map to locate it (and luckily, I barely know the landmarks and route). I am used to go on an adventure alone, I grabbed that chance to buy manga. The problem is, it's raw, if only I can read and understand Japanese very well, but what the heck, I'll go hahah.

paradise, yeah it is~

By the time I got to the place, I'm so excited and giggly (mumbling to myself--again). The place is actually a Japanese surplus shop that sells not only manga and figures, but also furnitures, clothings. designer bags like Louis Vuitton, etc. At first, I can't find their manga section so I asked, he then brought me to PARADISE. I really though it was a library, I took  photos and video of the whole manga section. It's freaking awesome, damn you poor nihonggo knowledge.

I find it hard on where I'll start browsing, I don't know the manner of the arrangements, is it alphabetical (good luck), by genre, by publisher? i really don't know. And also the overwhelming Japanese characters everywhere, I think I'm gonna die...so dizzy.

Good thing I went there alone, because it really needs time to find a good manga. Mangas are dated from 2000-2005, I think.

Manga being read online?
In Japan, they spend more papers on manga than on toilet paper
Seeing the amount of effort of Mangakas in Japan are so overwhelming, and it is really a work paid-off if your manga will turn into an anime. But unfortunately, not all of them have this chance.

Reading manga online? 

I wonder how Mangakas respond to this issue. I think I just started 5 years ago since manga are available online, many manga online sites are started to boom. I wonder how the mangakas will profit in these kind of "reading". And what about the printed manga? is this where the manga production started to overly produce? Oh I am so wrong, it's not overly produce, it is not just selling...because of online reading?? I think.

So if you are looking for a certain title, I guess it's kinda impossible to find it (not unless you can read nihonggo). I was lucky to find some familiar titles (I just randomly picking them up, then weee!! LUCKY~!) and also looked up for the publisher's name. Here are some famous manga title turned into an awesome anime we love~

The World God Only Knows
(Elsie on the cover)

ZETMAN
(recently released anime last season-summer 2012)

Ouran High School Host Club
(with Haruhi on the cover- the heroine)

Crayon Shinchan
(funny anime, especially the dubbed in Filipino haha)

One piece
(Book 1 available!!)

Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
(Popular anime OUTSIDE Japan)

Daa! Daa! Daa!
aka UFO Baby
(one of my favorite since HighSchool)
I bought this!

Katekyo Hitman Reborn
(still has Book 1!)

Gakuen Alice/ Alice Academy
(also my fave)
Also bought this!

Ship Beat!

Working

Special A

It doesn't turn into an anime
but I took a picture of this because of my
niece love this manga

I bought this! haha
Who doesn't know Inu Yasha and Koga?!

School Rumble
(another hilarious anime, I've watched)

When I'm done buying manga, my hands are full of dust. I gotta wash my hands before leaving. And next time, I am bringing a sanitizer haha. I'll revisit this shop when I am devilishly awesome at reading and speaking Nihonggo. Hell yeah! And when that time comes, I'll be buying manga in all expense that I can.