larsbrown

December 18, 2009 10:47 pm Good man, I could always count on him as a managing editor so I'm sure the army will be able to count on him as well.

February 4, 2009 3:24 pm

Quentin: There's an American Comic Book shop in Shibuya, I think, somewhere. I remember they had Lost at Sea and Creature Tech there amongst others (including manga translated into English, hmmm). Also I most remember seeing translated Hellboy books in a lot of stores, but I ended up buying part of the Xecutioner's song Xmen run in Japanese for 100 yen.

That's something that needs mentioning, price. Jump size books are 390 yen! That's about 4 bucks for a 200+ page digest book and they come out every 2 months. The Kodansha books (think Blade of the Immortal and Eden) are more like 500 yen (about 5 bucks) and there's some weird large size thats about 900 yen (9 bucks), the more adult books come out about 6-9 months. I got a slipcase, hardcover deluxe copy of Clamp's "Reservoir Chronicle" for 100 yen, but it was still  only 1143 yen unused.

Not to mention the wealth of used manga stores and Book-Offs with clearance sections with thousands of books for 100 yen. Good times.