Cheap manga
If you like manga then Japan is your paradise, manga is cheap here and there are millions of them. If you buy new manga it costs around 400 and 600 Yen, but if you buy used manga volumes then you only have to pay around 100 Yen (1.1$). Even though manga is still popular, the industry is immersed in big crisis and people talks about the 90s as the golden decade for manga and anime. If people read manga while commuting in the old time, now people prefers to use their keitais (mobile phones) to read the latest news or send emails and play with their Nintendo DS or PSP.
100 Yen manga
250 Yen
100 Yen
100 Yen
Comments
ale/pepino
22 January, 2008
The 250 sign is meant for buying some popular and new manga from particulars.
But if you were to sell some unpopular or too common manga second-hand to a shop, you may get an average of 5% of that.
sheerblade
22 January, 2008
Omg manga paradise!!! Words escape me from these pictures.
Neil Duckett
23 January, 2008
Not to mention the street vendors are selling it for next to nicks after picking up left behind copies from trains and cafe’s etc. Nice bit of entrepeneurialship (if thats a word) from those guys!
Neil Duckett
23 January, 2008
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Jon
23 January, 2008
They need to put manga in digital format so pleople can view them on their mobile devices.
kirai
24 January, 2008
Jon: many companies are doing that
tricia
24 January, 2008
holy shit!!! manga awesomeness!!! for 1.1!!!!!??!!
yay!!! ^^
Apple Otaku
25 January, 2008
Can the Amazon Kindle properly display manga?
I like visiting my local Book-Off when I can’t find it at Kinokuniya.
Even then, I still had to contact my friend in Japan when I wanted a copy of Toilet Hakase.
Akumu
30 January, 2008
omg!! so !cheap :OO
I want too :33
carrie
06 April, 2008
OMG I WOULD HAVE SERIOUSLY BOUGHT A FEW ROWS OF THOSE 100yen manga books! It goes up so much in price when translated :3 BUT OMG I WANT NOW!
Pejjo
04 May, 2009
Does they have any english manga?
Charisma
25 May, 2009
Very neat, but there’s one thing— wouldn’t they be in Japanese, and not English? D: