Manga Wet-Spells

It’s already March and things are starting to pick-up in my classes.  I just have a ton of papers left to write (-_-), but once I’m done with them it’ll be time for finals and finally summer break will begin…at least the two weeks before I start my summer history class.  In the meantime, I finally managed to have the chance to go book shopping and wound up finding some great deals.  I grabbed xxxholic vol. 7, Wallflower 18 and Kitchen Princess vol. 7 for only $2.50 each!  I also got two more books in the Wild Ones series (vol. 2 and 4 which I was missing) and on a recent trip to a used bookstore found Skip-Beat Vol. 8 and the last two volumes of the Fruits Basket series.

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When I first started reading, I remember having trouble finding series that I wanted to really read.  Shonen Jump hadn’t been around for long (a year maybe) and a lot of the series I found didn’t really grab me.  I read through Inu-Yasha, Flame of Recca, Marmalade Boy, Mars and a few others as Shonen Jump slowly released titles.  I ended up not collecting series for a long time because I got tired of waiting for series and didn’t really have time.  So for two years I didn’t read or buy any series until when I picked up last summer again because I had the time.  At that point I realized I had a lot of catching up to do.

Granted I hadn’t stopped reading (I just borrowed manga for those 2 year) I hadn’t realized how many series had come out and how many volumes had been released.  At current there are over 380 manga books on my amazon.com wishlist.  Slowly I’ll catch up…or not.  It feels like there are more manga series released of great quality than most fans will ever be able to read. 

So, slowly I’m trying to finish reading the series that I do already read, there are so many great series that I want to read too.  In what used to be a limited selection only a few years ago, is now a monumental growth with almost too many series.  At present I’m currently reading 30+ series and with scanlations, that number increases because some series aren’t out anywhere outside Japan.  So much manga….

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