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trigunner
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What's the price of manga in your area? mine is about $7.95 U.S Is this cheap or hyper-inflated? [ if you are planing on replying please use U.S dollars so we all know where your coming from ]
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Tis Grief
Posts: 51 Location: Currently, G'Chaat |
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It should depend on the publisher really. But for me,
Tokyopop = $10 Viz = Varies, from $8 for the Shonen Jump GN to $10 for others, and still more for $15 I don't many others because I don't buy their titles. |
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BFLP1
Posts: 9 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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$10-15 depending on which manga it is. Basically whatever the MSRP printed on the cover is.
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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MSRP. So basically about $14.99 for Viz titles, $9.99 for everyone else.
Geez Viz, get with the times. 
Stop flipping the damn things, too. 
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Ryuko
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Go to a comic shop and check it out, Nagisa! Viz is getting with the times!
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rage-demon
 Posts: 356 Location: WA, USA |
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As with everyone else, i pay the MSRP that's printed on the manga i buy. This runs anywhere from $7.95 to around $15 for Viz, $10 for Tokyopop, and about $15-$20 for Dark Horse. But if you buy it online, like at amazon.com, you can sometimes get it cheaper (or in my case, i get it from a Japanese hobby shop where the guy who runs it gives me a 10% discount since i buy so much from him
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Although i have to admit at times i think anything over $10 is too much, but if it's a good manga i will pay for it. |
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Arkard
 Posts: 677 Location: Poland |
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If you change it to dollars it would be about 4$ tops. Except for Ghost in the Shell - that was about 12$. But almost all titles - about 4$
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Nagisa
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Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Well then how come every copy of X, Inu-Yasha, and Evangelion I find is still $15? If they're lowering prices, they should start with older properties. |
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Kanna no Mai
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The prices for mangas in my area are...
Viz $3-16 Tokyopop $9-14 Darkhorse $14-20 CPM $9-14 I'm not sure about the rest of the publishers Also, the publisher that isn't getting with the times is Dark Horse because they're still selling their mangas $14 and up. |
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The Ramblin' Wreck
 Posts: 924 Location: Teaching Robot Women How To Love |
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Those are the older editions of the titles. Viz has released cheaper second editions of their older titles such as X and Inu-Yasha. Your comic store must be trying to get rid of their older stock. Ask for the second editions or order them online. |
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L337Llama
Posts: 79 |
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I pay 10% off the MSRP because I get stuff from Barnes and Noble.
The prices I've seen most are: 10 for Tokyopop and some Viz(2nd edition Ranma 1/2) 9 for other Viz, 2nd edition Inuyasha, other titles. 8 for SJ manga I haven't seen much older versions of Viz and other publishers. One thing I noticed is that my SUncoast was doing 2, get 1 free for all Viz titles they had. Too bad most of thier manga was Tokyopop when I got to it. One question, how much does Manga usually cost in Japan? I heard its about 40% of all published novels, so I assume its closer to the price of normal paper backs, like around 5$ a GN. Is this close, or am I way off? |
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Nuriko-chan
 Posts: 192 Location: Konan |
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Well, it really depends, but it's always the MSRP on the back. It can fluxuate, though. For instance, my Zoids manga goes for $5, but a lt of the Viz stuff goes for $15. I don't get Dark Horse because I like to finish the series I'm working on before I start a new one, and I'm already doing 9 series. It's mainly $9.95 for what I get because I get a load of Tokyopop
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rage-demon
Posts: 356 Location: WA, USA |
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Yeah and Dark Horse still has the problem of very slowly releasing it's manga (like about one every 3 months). With Viz and Tokyopop it's no problem if one or two of their series are released slowly because there are so many mangas that i get from them, but the only Dark Horse mangas that i like are Oh My Goddess and Trigun. But at least they have learned to *finally* start printing the volume numbers on the covers. Both Viz and DH had a bad habit of not doing that. And if i'm not mistaken, CPM still has a bad habit of not doing that with some of its manga. |
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mihoshidragon
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$5.00-$20.00
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Shorty22
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I pay the MSRP usually. Sometimes they're having a deal "Buy one get the second half off" or something.
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