Comments on: Rising Manga Prices

By: Persocom

Persocom — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:49:11 +0000

Oh great. I haven’t bought manga in a couple months and this is what happens? Well I almost exclusively buy from Barnes & Noble, but this sucks.

By: phossil

phossil — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:39:30 +0000

I prefer buying Megami magazine than manga for $10..

By: ShadowKit

ShadowKit — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:03:57 +0000

What’s been bothering me more than the rising prices, is Tokyopop becoming even further of a bitch. I bought the first volume of Future Diary (I really love that manga and have yet to find it in Japanese), opening it up… and noticing the volume was 11 dollars for cheap-ass paper that you can see through. How dare they drop the quality of the books AND raise the price!

They’re on a complete ban list for me from here on out – I’m even going to be buying the rest of Gakuen Alice and Your and My Secret in Japanese now, because I’m sick of their bullshit.

I don’t mind paying a bit more for quality (just look at all the spelling and grammar errors you see in a lot of the VIZ titles that you don’t see in Yen Press or Del Ray – that extra dollar or two is worth it when it comes down to it with the good publishers), but I refuse to pay more when they’re being assholes.

By: kazearashi

kazearashi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:00:54 +0000

I’ve realized that there are some price increase in Japanese books… Recently bought some shonen jump manga in Kinokuniya, and the price was increased by 1 SGD o_O light novel and magazine price is going up too… ugh

By: gordanham

gordanham — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:51:01 +0000

This sucks. I new they were doing that with Naruto, but I didn’t know they were changing so many other titles too. Now my 25% off Borders coupons bearly mean anything! Not as bad as Dark Horses spike for Berserk though. It’s $15 now.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:31:08 +0000

Tokyopop raised their prices from $9.99 to $10.99 and I’ve heard rumors it could go up again. I kind of expected Viz to go up to $10, but I was hoping they might not too. I already thought it was expensive, ouch.