Forum - View topicWhy must I be an Englishman in love...
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Truered
 Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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...with manga?
Damn, the one store in my town that had a half decent selection of titles has closed. (It was brought by the company that owns the largest book store in my town, ran for a while and Friday I noticed it had been boarded up) That basically leaves one Tokypop rotating stand across my entire town. Thank you Amazon  . However after a bit of a struggle I was able to find some editions of school rumble, and .Hack. Also with just two exceptions I am found to be the only one looking at manga- the other times middle aged men were looking at them. One walked off, while the other read a novel for about five minutes before leaving
Any other people from England or Britain here? How is it for you? (In HMV there does appear to be quite a few anime titles though) |
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hentai4me
 Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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Where I am all anime and manga is considered porn and is as such in the 'appropriate' section section.
Despite this both are becoming easier to get a hold of as Waterstones now has a small section and I often go in to get Negima. Check out Play.com right now as at the moment they have a massive sale on anime (not sure about manga) with titles going from £3.99 a DVD with free postage. (as opposed to what...£19.99 a DVD on Amazon...£14.99 on play.com normally) |
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Neverwhere
 Posts: 351 Location: socal |
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I hear Brighton is *the* place to go for copious amounts of (shockingly cheap) manga.
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hentai4me
Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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Great...that'll only take 6 hours and about 4 different trains with 'scheduled' stops in such wonderful places as 'A bush overlooking a quarry'. Which only only cost the sum of £67.50...on the cheapest possible ticket arrangement. I love English trains... |
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EVA fiend
 Posts: 314 Location: Somewhere in the UK. |
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The book shops in my town carry only a smattering of manga titles; the collection I have at home would take up more shelf space in the store than their paltry selections. Ever since the comic shop closed in my town, I buy all my manga online, primarily from amazon, importing from TFAW.com, & occasionally eBay for out-of-print stuff.
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Space_cowboy64
 Posts: 337 Location: Great Britain...not all that great |
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so true dude so [expletive] true. theres a comic store called daves. well theres two and one just sells comics and the other sells alot of manga. its the only place i could find vol 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 of one piece. and i bought them all  had to beat a few friends up and borrow money of random people but there was no way i was missing it.
by the way where abouts in kent are you. my girlfriend lives in maidstone and i visit her quite often. |
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Neverwhere
Posts: 351 Location: socal |
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I think you meant to ask Truered this, right? 
I did live in Surrey for many years, but alas, no longer. Woe. *sniff* 
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Space_cowboy64
Posts: 337 Location: Great Britain...not all that great |
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sorry dude  i ment the topic starter. he's from kent as it says in his name. slightly off topic i know by ahwell.
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Truered
Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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I'm kind of on a border of about three tiny places.
I just state I live in Tunbridge Wells, which you probably haven't heard of. Urban dictionary has it down to a tee: "Unsurprisingly dull place. Highlights include the "I'm sorry to bother you" man, pram pushin pikey teens, and a high quantity of very dubious looking trannies." *Hopes one of fellow posters doesn't point out existence of vast manga store ten minutes away from town, making me look like prat* |
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Space_cowboy64
Posts: 337 Location: Great Britain...not all that great |
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haha yea i been to tombridge. wasnt as bad as chatham or as i like to call it chavam.
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BobafettBH
 Posts: 35 Location: USA |
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I can see you have a problem, lol. Thankfully i have two Large stores in my area that have a large quantity of Manga. But if your looking to buy some off the internet id also check out [url]Deepdiscount.com[/url] they have DVD's, Books, CD's. And there selection is great. And they do ship internationally for a fair price.
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BobafettBH
Posts: 35 Location: USA |
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I can see you have a problem, lol. Thankfully i have two Large stores in my area that have a large quantity of Manga. But if your looking to buy some off the internet id also check out Deepdiscount.com they have DVD's, Books, CD's. And there selection is great. And they do ship internationally for a fair price.
(Sorry i couldnt make the URL, the tags dont seem to be working) |
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Levitz9
 Posts: 1022 Location: Puerto Rico |
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And again, you think that's tough? 3 hour drive to the (closest) Borders, people!! Am I ranting to myself on this?! Ah, well, we all have hardships... |
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Not a Jellyfish
 Posts: 539 Location: Boston, MA |
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Oh, you live in Puerto Rico? Wow, that's gotta stink as far as manga availability goes. I don't envy you. And though I do want to move back to England, if the manga situation is that bad there, I may reconsider.... 
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Ramadahl
Posts: 325 Location: MK, UK |
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It's not too hard to get ahold of manga in the UK. The amount in Waterstones seems to be increasing recently with a few good titles available, and Forbidden Planet tends to have a very large selection. Failing that, it's easy to get it from online stores like amazon, play, up1, etc.
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