The manga section of Kinokuniya is always crowded with tourists every time I visit. I still can't bring myself to spend ten dollars for a regular TPB
and end up walking over to Western Addition library and check out manga from there.

I have also seen "remake" Dragonball manga where they hire another artists
to redraw everything aping the original artist. The earlier volumes of Dragonball are quite raunchy and they tend to edit those sections out for political correctness. Strangely, they draw everyone in same proportion as Goku as kid so adult characters are deformed.

Ken

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Hi readers and typers,
I found occasion to stop by the Kinokinya manga shop at Webster and
Geary today. I bought nothing today but I wanted to tell you that
I saw some interesting stuff.
A hard cover Dragonball in Color!
Another hard cover of Battle Angel Alita! Checked the price and BAA is
at $29.95.
Seem to be lots of classic manga coming out including Gundam
books.

If you are in the neighborhood I think the manga shop deserves a visit.
Maybe after you pick up Poky at the Ichiban Kan or the Super Mira.
Don't forget to check out the New People building.

bliss

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On 03/10/2018 09:19 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:

The manga section of Kinokuniya is always crowded with tourists every
time I visit.  I still can't bring myself to spend ten dollars for a
regular TPB and end up walking over to Western Addition library and
check out manga from there.

Well I think I know what you mean about crowded with tourists
but also on weekends with local kids and some adults. You haven't been checking the prices lately as the lowest prices on the translated
manga are running $12.99 before tax. I used to go by the WA branch
Library all the time but since my left knee started hurting in 2015
I have not been getting around as well. I borrowed most of the
Japanese live action films that I could find from there.

I have also seen "remake" Dragonball manga where they hire another
artists to redraw everything aping the original artist.  The earlier
volumes of Dragonball are quite raunchy and they tend to edit those
sections out for political correctness.  Strangely, they draw everyone
in same proportion as Goku as kid so adult characters are deformed.

Ken

The editing for the US market is annoying.

"Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:p7v2fl$597$1@dont-email.me...

Hi readers and typers,
I found occasion to stop by the Kinokinya manga shop at Webster and
Geary today.  I bought nothing today but I wanted to tell you that
I saw some interesting stuff.
A hard cover Dragonball in Color!
Another hard cover of Battle Angel Alita! Checked the price and BAA is
at $29.95.
Seem to be lots of classic manga coming out including Gundam
books.

If you are in the neighborhood I think the manga shop deserves a visit.
 Maybe after you pick up Poky at the Ichiban Kan or the Super Mira.
Don't forget to check out the New People building.

bliss

Do I need to say that the opportunity to exchange a few words
with you has been one of the highlights of my last month, Kenneth.
I spent the last full week of February and the first week of March
resting mostly with a very bad cold. Too tired to find interesting
new manga online.

Bobbie

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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:p81580$d9k$1@dont-email.me...

On 03/10/2018 09:19 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:

The manga section of Kinokuniya is always crowded with tourists every
time I visit. I still can't bring myself to spend ten dollars for a
regular TPB and end up walking over to Western Addition library and check >> out manga from there.

Well I think I know what you mean about crowded with tourists
but also on weekends with local kids and some adults. You haven't been checking the prices lately as the lowest prices on the translated
manga are running $12.99 before tax. I used to go by the WA branch
Library all the time but since my left knee started hurting in 2015
I have not been getting around as well. I borrowed most of the
Japanese live action films that I could find from there.

For translated manga you are being charged American comics prices. DC and Marvel regularly charge $3.99 for (mere) twenty-two pages. The original Japanese manga at least comes in a dust jacket.

Sales tax are very unnerving. If you go to a restaurant, you pay 10% taxes and 15% tip so something listed as $15 ends up nearly $20.

I have also seen "remake" Dragonball manga where they hire another
artists to redraw everything aping the original artist. The earlier
volumes of Dragonball are quite raunchy and they tend to edit those
sections out for political correctness. Strangely, they draw everyone in >> same proportion as Goku as kid so adult characters are deformed.

The editing for the US market is annoying.

Can't beat political correctness. I wonder they censored the nudities when they showed these anime on Cartoon Network.

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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:p81580$d9k$1@dont-email.me...

On 03/10/2018 09:19 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:

The manga section of Kinokuniya is always crowded with tourists every
time I visit. I still can't bring myself to spend ten dollars for a
regular TPB and end up walking over to Western Addition library and check >> out manga from there.

Well I think I know what you mean about crowded with tourists
but also on weekends with local kids and some adults. You haven't been checking the prices lately as the lowest prices on the translated
manga are running $12.99 before tax. I used to go by the WA branch
Library all the time but since my left knee started hurting in 2015
I have not been getting around as well. I borrowed most of the
Japanese live action films that I could find from there.

I have also seen "remake" Dragonball manga where they hire another
artists to redraw everything aping the original artist. The earlier
volumes of Dragonball are quite raunchy and they tend to edit those
sections out for political correctness. Strangely, they draw everyone in >> same proportion as Goku as kid so adult characters are deformed.

The editing for the US market is annoying.

Considering that every single book is shrink-wrapped, it's amazing how many customers are hanging out at the manga section as it doesn't not allow browsing. Kinokuniya also have their own barcodes so I wonder how much
extra labor cost is involved in putting on a barcode sticker and shrink- wrapping every single book. And I wonder if they have a central location to process the books or if they are done at each store after shipment.

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