Manga recs

[rachelmanija]

So, I recall that Comic Con frequently has dealers selling manga at reduced rates like 25% off. I see an opportunity to reduce the enormous amount I spend on manga. Other than Rurouni Kenshin, Blade of the Immortal, and Hikaru no Go, what series should I buy up that I don't already have? I have only read Her Majesty's Dog from Go!Comi, but I LOVED it and am interested in checking out their other series.

Off the top of my head, I already have all or most of what's been released of Fruits Basket, Naruto, X/1999. X-Day, Wish, Planetes, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Death Note, Planet Ladder, Demon Diary, Gravitation, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Chobits, Clover, Alice 19th, Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, Mars, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Paradise Kiss, Nana, His Majesty's Dog, Legal Drug, Dragon Head, DramaCon, Scott Pilgrim, Eternal Sabbath, and Absolute Boyfriend.

I have some of, but have not yet started reading or have only gotten a little way into Crimson Hero, Angel Sanctuary, Hana-Kimi, Beck, Tramps Like Us, Please Save My Earth, Monster, Ceres: Celestial Legend, and Hot Gimmick (I blame Mely for the last.)

I burned out on Fushigi Yuugi and Trigun.

The underage-looking kiddies in Shinobu Kokoro freaked me out, though I liked the snow spirit story.

Based on this, what should I stock up on?

Comments

Discounts and Free Stuff

[marfisa.livejournal.com]

The TokyoPop and Viz booths usually have stacks of several different free paperback samplers featuring excerpts of some of their newer manga. CMX, the DC Comics manga imprint, occasionally produces these samplers, too, although in the past they've handed them out to attendees at the CMX panel instead of leaving them lying around for anyone to take in the already-crowded DC booth.

TokyoPop usually sells manga at their booth for five books for the price of four, which comes out to a 20% discount if all five books are the same price. Cold Cut Distributors, whose booth is traditionally attached to the indy comics creators' sales collective Indy Island (usually recognizable from a distance by the large fake palm tree in the middle), sells overstock and allegedly damaged books (I didn't notice anything visibly wrong with some of the stuff I bought there last year) at some price per pound which usually works out to more than 25% off the cover price.

Margaret