I think it's a good thing long term. Since a growing manga industry in the English language will mean more manga will be printed. My favorite manga kingdom hasn't been printed in english even though it's been out for a decade and has a anime
Another method I’d recommend is try going to your local book store or any place that sells manga a week or two early cause some sellers will have them in stock a few weeks before the release date there’s a local manga store in my city that always has manga out weeks before it’s official release that’s how I’ve been getting new Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen volumes very early
Yeah I've had that happen a few times as well, but usually only a couple of days before a volume releases. Its good advice though. Thank you for watching!
I feel like this video is a year late. Is there a shortage in manga? No. Are certain volumes of a series out of stock? Yes. That’s because manga popularity has expanded by tenfold recently. There’s more demand than there’s supply. But you can walk into any brick and mortar bookstore like Barnes and Noble for example and their shelves will be STACKED with manga. Will they have some volumes of a series out of stock? Yes but they’ll have more than just that one volume you’re missing.
There is definitely a shortage of manga, but it might be because some Barnes and Noble american stores steal priority from others. Like I have been unable to get a volume 4 from my LCS which I have it on pull-list so they take it in on release, and then I have been unable to get it through rightstuf backorders. And I put up that order in may 2021. It will soon be 1 year that they were in "waiting on restock". And that is just my longest waiting one. I also have about 15 others waiting since August and October last year, as well as missing about 15 other titles I have yet tried to set up an order for since I'm waiting on a sale at rightstuf to make the order big enough to warrent the shipping expenses. I've been thinking of maybe looking into ebay or amazon to pick up some missing ones since it would feel a bit silly to put even more backorder orders on rightstuf when I have 3 from last year.
Dorohedoro last volume and so many more manga have been out of stock for such a long time. Paper pieces have increased,covid,anime and manga getting more popular.and more reasons why manga is getting out of stock
Man I remember I was going to buy most of the Dorohedoro volumes in a Buy 2 Get 1 Free Sale back in Dec 2020. I ended up not buying them though and kinda regret it now haha. Thank you for watching!
Yeah those are definitely some of the most difficult to complete the full sets of. I think as time goes on it'll become easier, but in the meantime it is annoying if you have gaps in your set. Thank you for watching!
@@lorenzomabalos9851 I think for demon slayer specifically more people tend to buy the box set in English now (when it’s actually in stock) since it’s a better deal overall. The series popularity might’ve already peaked for French readers, but I’m not too familiar with what’s popular in the French manga scene.
Also most other series, though. I have difficulty completing Promised Neverland, OnePunch Man, Inside Mari, Spy Family, Beastars, Zom100, Twilight Princess, Kakegurui, etc.
tried to grab volumes of JJK all year last year, and i was very unsuccessful, my luck finally turned around in january tho, finally got my hands on Vol.0 which i’ve wanted to get for sooooo long
Yeah, i really felt this out of stock problems in my country (France)because 18 year old student recieved a cultural pass in 2021 to buy anything related to books, music, movies...with a budget of 300 hundred dollars i think (translatd by myself), and of course many used it to buy as much manga as they can with it, so popular manga were sold out for month when a trailer for the anime adaptation just got out some example are : attack on titan (especially since the end of the manga people wanted to buy the first volume so yeah out of stock), Chainsaw man (it was out of stock for 5 MONTH ,i'm not even joking, i literally struggled so much just to get the first few volumes), blue lock (at the time only 2-3 volume was out and i couldn't find it anywhere during the same period as Chainsaw man), My hero academia, Demon Slayer, Tokyo Revengers (one of the worst because until October i couldn't find any except the new one but i wasn't in this far in the manga) That was so annoying, fortunately all the unknown one that i liked were kind of safe but even manga like Konosuba, Kaguya sama love is war, Kingdom, Berserk, Vinland saga and others were out of stock. Now it has calmed down, i could buy almost everything i wanted and there is not that much problem now lol.
Finally, managed to get all Chainsaw Man that's been released so far. Man, that was a long wait! Now I need to wait for the Berserk Deluxe editions to come back in stock in my area.
I Dead Used To Walk Into An Anime Store In 2014-2015 And They Had Every Volume Of One Piece And Naruto Now They That I Started Collecting Again They Had Like 10 Volumes Of Each.
Yeah I remember when I started collecting around 2014-2015 and it was never really a worry finding specific volumes of popular series. Nowadays it seems a lot harder to complete a set of whatever is mainstream at the moment. So I feel for anyone that's getting back into collecting or new to the hobby. Thank you for watching!
Had to wait about 7 months to finally get Vol. 2 of chainsawman. I remember seeing it and thinking ill pick it up next time. Didnt expect to wait 7 months. For real if you see it and can then pick it up right then and there
for years i was really never into picking up and collecting manga. I was just reading them online but lately i read a physical copy of chainsaw man volume 1 and i really enjoyed it so i decided to pick up the rest of the series. Picked up volume 2-9 really easily .
I collected a lot of manga about 10 years ago and then kinda lost interest but recently I was itching to at least fill some holes in the collection but soon realized that 1) all the volumes was out of stock or 2) the price had sky-rocketed to many $100!! Insane...
@@whyamialive2168 Ikr?! Almost fell of my chair and had to tripple check just to make sure it was 100 not 10.0 😳 if I'd known I would've collected more in the past 😅 especially the ones that went out of print but that I absolutely love, like Pandora Hearts 💔 rip 😭
I ended up pay $20 a volume for chainsaw man and afew weeks ago I walked into the book store and they had the whole series in stock at regular price it's getting really old fast 😤😡
I wanted the Jujutsu Kaisen volume 0 for some time, then kinda forgot about it. A few days ago, I saw a picture of a comic book store shelf and it had a very familiar book cover right in the corner of the picture. You could only see like a lit bit of the cover, but I could recognize that cover anywhere, it was THE JUJUTSU KAISEN VOLUME 0 AND I HAVE IT NOW. IM HAPPY
explains why it took me damn nearly 6 months to finally grab a copy of chainsaw man volume 1, literally strolled into my local shop on the off chance it might be there and there it was, last one in stock.
I started collecting manga in July 2016 when Haikyu was released here in the states, and from then I've continued to collect other manga I enjoy. Your video was really helpful in understanding why it became such a challenge to collect manga when the pandemic started. Cause from July 2016 to December 2019, it was super chill to get manga at the store and there was always plenty to go around. And I'm grateful you explained to avoid scalpers cause it's worth it to just wait for a restock. I waited FOREVER for a copy of Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 9, and I got it for 8.99. I only fork out large amounts of money for manga that's out of print like Shaman King, I finished collecting all original 32 Viz volumes right as the pandemic started, cause I know that one WAS out of print before Kodansha reprinted it! (I prefer the OG Viz volumes though) I'm currently STILL waiting for Bungo Stray Dogs volumes 13 and 14. I'm not paying 90 bucks for those lol
Worse if the country you're living in only has book depository as the cheapest option. Man I wish Rightstuf ships internationally for free. This higher demand is good in the long term, wish more publishers have warehouses all over the world.
Yeah you're right that certain countries don't have many options and that compounds the issue even more. I think eventually there will be more worldwide availability, but its going to take publishers a while to increase their reach. Thank you for watching!
I got the first 3 eternal editions of sailor moon for Christmas which started my interest in collecting manga again, and oh boy the worst time to get back in the hobby i cannot find volume 4 anywhere, and it's just volume 4
Yeah it sucks when you can’t find 1 volume of a specific series for a long time. I had the same issue with volume 19 of Hunter x Hunter over the past year. It was really difficult to find in Canada, but I was finally able to complete my set when I saw it went back in stock recently. I’ve thought about collecting Sailor moon for a while. I’m not really the biggest fan of shojo manga, but I do like to read some series occasionally. I’m pretty interested in sailor moon specifically because the mangaka of it (Naoko Takeuchi) is married to Yoshihiro Togashi the mangaka of Hunter x Hunter. It’d be cool to see what her storytelling is like and just experience one of the most iconic shojo series. I hope that you’re able to find the volume for a reasonable price soon. Thanks for watching!
I've been buying manga for almost 20 years and have been an anime fan pretty much since I came out of the womb. I miss those old days where people didn't really care but if you were a fan you still always were able to get what you wanted and were able to find a friend to talk about it too at the very least online. I've made many of my friends like this over the years and the current state of fandoms is definitely much more volatile probably also because so many new people who haven't learned the rules of fandom and instead just jumped right in have entered it. Has little to do with the shortage but still I'm watching this all from a distance and don't know how I feel about it.
I'm cut from the same cloth as you are except I know how I feel and I'm not happy with the state of the current fandom. Too many people collecting for clout, not cause they enjoy what they're buying. Too many People watching shows just cause they're trending. Too many fans treating what Ani-tuber influencers say as gospel. Too many new fans trying to Change things which is pushing out veteran fans. I miss the old days when Anime was popular but still niche.
Honestly I'm not too familiar with the American comic industry. While I was researching for this video I did glance through this article bleedingcool.com/comics/there-is-not-enough-paper-in-america-for-comic-books-right-now/ I'm not sure how bad the paper shortage is at this point in time, but It seems like the production did slow down at some points as well.
Yes but only for Omnibuses, there's already robust secondary market for western Omnibuses because most of that demographic is 35+ yrs old who either need room or have room for comic/omnibuses. Western comics have been in STEEP decline for the past 10 years. One theory is that western comics have been fucking with characters' character- dissing their original fanbase. I'm 45 and most of my comic collecting peers have switched over to manga because there's still this edge and energy to the genre , especially the older mangas of the 80's-90's.
Great video mate, cheers for the info! I was trying to buy a series a few days ago only to find a lot of random volumes where out of print, so it's nice to know I'm not the only one haha. One editing tip though, the sound effects in the video are a little too loud to the point where I couldn't hear your voice. Sound effects shouldn't be super loud if they're just being used for emphasis
Supply chain issues are number one reason. Glue for binding and paper are literally back ordered because of an inconsistent supply chain, everything else is just slightly contributing or just noise. Just sayin…
I placed a back order on Murcielago volumes 1 & 2 and it got cancelled after 2 months of waiting. guess i'll have to wait more. hopefully it restocks by fall but jeez, shit's getting crazy and i'm not paying more than retail for a damn book.
I have been waiting for Monster:The perfect edition volume 9 to be back in stock for about 5 months now🥲...its the final volume i need to. Complete the series 🤧
vol 6 of the promised neverland was out of stock for an entire year or maybe even more but i managed to get my hands on it recently cause i think it got printed again😅 Edit: but it is impossible for me to get tokyo ghoul vol 12 right now cause the prices for it right now...like 28 euros im not gonna spend that much on 1 volume😭
It is pretty crazy. I'm trying to find the last two volumes I need of Monster by Naoki Urusawa. I ordered them from RightStuf in July 2021 and am still waiting for them to get more in.
Man I really want to get the Vagabond VizBig's. I love Inoue's other works. I hope that you're able to complete your set for a reasonable price soon. Thank you for watching!
I was trying to get a copy of don’t meddle with my daughter volume 3. What can I say? Guilty pleasure. Now, I thought nothing of volume 3 only being available via scalpers. The publisher stopped making copies. It’s whatever. Now I’m finding out that all manga has to deal with this? Bro, this is reality now. Supply chain issues my ass, this is our new reality.
Like Food wars... i've been searching for MONTHS to find even one no matter which volume in my country i swear it's impossible as well as Re:zero light novel like what the hell ?? So i just ended up buying on Amazon in English (not my first language) because i was tired of finding them nowhere, so now i even transformed it as a quest with my friend so when we go out, the first to find even one volume win something (spoiler: we didn't found anything lmao)
love how you used Steins;Gate as the visual novel example. One thing I noticed though is that most people don't even know that its a game they just know about the anime. That being said I highly recommend reading Steins;Gate. You won't be disappointed, even if you have seen the anime, there is a lot more content in the vn as well as more endings. The anime follows the true ending
Hmm, the ladies at Books-a-Million told me that the Naruto box set 1 was no longer going to be printed...I think they are assuming that because they can't order anymore of them. I want to buy it but can't justify spending $200 on it. This video helped a lot thanks!
Yeah Dark Horse is definitely the exception to that haha. They've been releasing some other popular titles in the Deluxe Editions over the past few years (Blade of the Immortal and Hellsing). More obscure stuff is definitely a toss up on whether it'll get reprinted or released in a different format. Which sucks if you're into collecting less mainstream stuff. Also thank you for watching!
I know I’m not the only one, but I kind of miss being an anime fan pre this explosion in popularity. The funny part is I still barely have any friends into anime/manga lmao
If you think that you are out of stock, you are very wrong. In turkey you cant find 1.vol of any manga.we are waiting for it to be pressed again, and when it is pressed, it ends immediately because it is pressed less. and there is already very little variety For example, tokyo revengers 1.vol was newly printed
I guess people won’t laugh at me anymore. I have over 1,000 volumes of manga. I never had to deal with manga shortages in my 16 year collecting existence until recently. Now I’m worried if I will ever finish collecting longer series on my radar such as Hunter x Hunter and Fairy Tail.
i have been waiting over a year the same 2 omnibus volumes of one piece. they cover the end of alabasta, all of jaya and the start of skypeia. fuck sake, its one of the most important acs of the series in the most popular manga in the world, and the only copy i can find is used and for almost $100. i get that there are supply chain issues, but you'd think the most popular manga in the world would be more readily available. i'm not trying to blame anyone, im just really frustrated with the situation.
honestly i used to be a person that hated anime or manga my whole life till last year in 2021 i made some new friends and i ended up having a crush on this girl in that friend group she ended up giving me anime recommendations cause i told her ive never watched anime in my whole life i obviously said yes cause i liked this girl alot i she gave me 12 animes to watch 1 being demon slayer which i watched first & i ended up loving it i ended up watching all 12 animes in a week LOL now im 50 or so animes in and im starting to collect manga things change once u like someone LOL
Sick video dude!! I think in influx of new fans over the last few years has not helped this situation either. I don't know if we'll ever stop having out of stock manga. Good luck to us all
oh thats why i havent been able to find any of the next volumes of manga ive been collecting for the past 2 years..... i thought i was just extremely unlucky lmao
I've been collecting since 2016 and luckily I have most of the series I care about its always been hard to get some things in England but its almost impossible to find manga now (especially where I live)
i live in canada and we have indigo, but i think ill wait for csm vol 1 to restock, its basically the only vol thats not there they have a bunch of vol 2-10
Three months later and it’s still the same😢 I really want to get all three Naruto manga set boxes, but one of them costs 800$ on Amazon, that’s insane… when in really it costs like 200$ or even less but you know.. OUT OF STOCK😭
Was collecting Wake up Sleeping Beauty, I’ve collected all the volumes except for vol.4 and it’s been out of stock over a year. I haven’t even touched it because I really want to binge read it once I have all 6 volumes in my hand… almost resorting to reading just the 4 vol. online
the worst thing is the box sets. Thank god I was watching for the Tokyo Ghoul: re box set restock like a hawk so I can actually get it at msrp from amazon. Now i really want the Bleach and/or One Piece box sets but there is just no way right now i'm paying a reseller for their insane prices
Ive only recently gotten into manga collection. I’ve casually collected manga in the past but this year I’ve gotten into it in a bigger way and decided to collect two currently ongoing series that I’ve been meaning to read for a while (wish me luck theyre both so long lol). I tend to buy my manga secondhand coz I care more about reading it than displaying it so as long as its in okay condition, I’m happy. But one of the series has several of the volumes I now need out of stock every where and the only places I can find them have them listed at ridiculous prices (one of them is going for £45 when its retail price is £7.99). Given the ones before and after these seem to be very available, I’m hoping theyre being reprinted and will eventually be available at retail price again coz theres no way im paying £45 for a single manga.
If you can't wait to finish a story you might want to check it out online, most publishers have been putting back chapters online, plus there free fan translation sites that do pretty good jobs, I'll see if the story stays interesting and if so then I'll try to get it and if it out of stock or backordered then I'll at least will have read the story. And with these shortage and such that might be the best or only way to read some titles for a while.
everything im collecting im missing like 1 or 2 volumes and its so annoying as they,ve not been in stock for months, one series i got scammed trying to buy it and another i accidentally got it in german lol
I've been waiting to pick up the rest of the Naruto manga for a while as well. I picked up the first box set when it was in stock a few months back for the lowest price I've ever seen it (in Canada), but finding the second and third has been a struggle. I hope you're able to get them eventually. Thank you for watching!
Same I ordered OP box 3 & 4 2 finally came in last October so I’m hopeful. Besides, I got all of Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan and Berserk to finish before continuing One Piece.
I miss the day when I got bullied for liking anime and manga and there was no manga shortage 😩😭
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I think it's a good thing long term. Since a growing manga industry in the English language will mean more manga will be printed. My favorite manga kingdom hasn't been printed in english even though it's been out for a decade and has a anime
Another method I’d recommend is try going to your local book store or any place that sells manga a week or two early cause some sellers will have them in stock a few weeks before the release date there’s a local manga store in my city that always has manga out weeks before it’s official release that’s how I’ve been getting new Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen volumes very early
Yeah I've had that happen a few times as well, but usually only a couple of days before a volume releases. Its good advice though. Thank you for watching!
i our country you cant get any manga not a single store
thanks for the tip bro i actually got jjk vol 14 rly early because of this
That's how I get my CSM copies
@@brandonw6139 same bro they had every volume up to 8 i think and volume one was out of stock
As a person who works at a bookstore i appreciate you taking the time to make something like this :)
I appreciate you taking time out of your day to check out my video. Thank you for watching!
I want to apply for kinokuniya is close to me , so how is the experience of working on a book store ?
Trying to collect Hells Paradise has been hell itself...
Right? And I nearly bought a german version on book depository thinking english was finally on stock- jsjsjsjs
@@cherri520 lmao
I feel like this video is a year late. Is there a shortage in manga? No. Are certain volumes of a series out of stock? Yes. That’s because manga popularity has expanded by tenfold recently. There’s more demand than there’s supply. But you can walk into any brick and mortar bookstore like Barnes and Noble for example and their shelves will be STACKED with manga. Will they have some volumes of a series out of stock? Yes but they’ll have more than just that one volume you’re missing.
Nah I'd say theirs still a shortage certain series litterally haven't been in stock for months where i live
There is definitely a shortage of manga, but it might be because some Barnes and Noble american stores steal priority from others. Like I have been unable to get a volume 4 from my LCS which I have it on pull-list so they take it in on release, and then I have been unable to get it through rightstuf backorders. And I put up that order in may 2021. It will soon be 1 year that they were in "waiting on restock".
And that is just my longest waiting one. I also have about 15 others waiting since August and October last year, as well as missing about 15 other titles I have yet tried to set up an order for since I'm waiting on a sale at rightstuf to make the order big enough to warrent the shipping expenses.
I've been thinking of maybe looking into ebay or amazon to pick up some missing ones since it would feel a bit silly to put even more backorder orders on rightstuf when I have 3 from last year.
Dorohedoro last volume and so many more manga have been out of stock for such a long time.
Paper pieces have increased,covid,anime and manga getting more popular.and more reasons why manga is getting out of stock
Man I remember I was going to buy most of the Dorohedoro volumes in a Buy 2 Get 1 Free Sale back in Dec 2020. I ended up not buying them though and kinda regret it now haha. Thank you for watching!
@@GurkiratGhuman np
Yeah it’s insane how paper pieces have increased
dorohedoro vol 23 has been out of stock for about 2 years now
@@magmarr8304 yea ik I hope it gets back in stock soon
wow this was an amazing and fascinating video!! Thank you for such a detailed walkthrough, incredibly informative.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching!
Never thought I would see you here
I swear its always Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man volumes that are the annoying ones to find.
Yeah those are definitely some of the most difficult to complete the full sets of. I think as time goes on it'll become easier, but in the meantime it is annoying if you have gaps in your set. Thank you for watching!
It is interesting that in Quebec, the French versions of the manga are intact as almost nobody buys them.
@@lorenzomabalos9851 I think for demon slayer specifically more people tend to buy the box set in English now (when it’s actually in stock) since it’s a better deal overall. The series popularity might’ve already peaked for French readers, but I’m not too familiar with what’s popular in the French manga scene.
Also most other series, though. I have difficulty completing Promised Neverland, OnePunch Man, Inside Mari, Spy Family, Beastars, Zom100, Twilight Princess, Kakegurui, etc.
I finally have Chainsaw Man volumes 1-9
tried to grab volumes of JJK all year last year, and i was very unsuccessful, my luck finally turned around in january tho, finally got my hands on Vol.0 which i’ve wanted to get for sooooo long
same, I've been collecting jjk since july 2021 and I finally collected all last month :')
Yeah, i really felt this out of stock problems in my country (France)because 18 year old student recieved a cultural pass in 2021 to buy anything related to books, music, movies...with a budget of 300 hundred dollars i think (translatd by myself), and of course many used it to buy as much manga as they can with it, so popular manga were sold out for month when a trailer for the anime adaptation just got out some example are : attack on titan (especially since the end of the manga people wanted to buy the first volume so yeah out of stock), Chainsaw man (it was out of stock for 5 MONTH ,i'm not even joking, i literally struggled so much just to get the first few volumes), blue lock (at the time only 2-3 volume was out and i couldn't find it anywhere during the same period as Chainsaw man), My hero academia, Demon Slayer, Tokyo Revengers (one of the worst because until October i couldn't find any except the new one but i wasn't in this far in the manga) That was so annoying, fortunately all the unknown one that i liked were kind of safe but even manga like Konosuba, Kaguya sama love is war, Kingdom, Berserk, Vinland saga and others were out of stock. Now it has calmed down, i could buy almost everything i wanted and there is not that much problem now lol.
Finally, managed to get all Chainsaw Man that's been released so far. Man, that was a long wait! Now I need to wait for the Berserk Deluxe editions to come back in stock in my area.
Use Amazon
I was able to get all of them relatively quickly but jjk did take awhile
my barnes and nobles has berserk deluxe 1,3,4,5,8. if i had space for it i would buy it
@@Acatlike_ yeah im waiting for vol 2 and 4
I Dead Used To Walk Into An Anime Store In 2014-2015 And They Had Every Volume Of One Piece And Naruto Now They That I Started Collecting Again They Had Like 10 Volumes Of Each.
Yeah I remember when I started collecting around 2014-2015 and it was never really a worry finding specific volumes of popular series. Nowadays it seems a lot harder to complete a set of whatever is mainstream at the moment. So I feel for anyone that's getting back into collecting or new to the hobby. Thank you for watching!
Had to wait about 7 months to finally get Vol. 2 of chainsawman. I remember seeing it and thinking ill pick it up next time. Didnt expect to wait 7 months. For real if you see it and can then pick it up right then and there
same i just got my chainsaw man vol 1 after waiting for a year
for years i was really never into picking up and collecting manga. I was just reading them online but lately i read a physical copy of chainsaw man volume 1 and i really enjoyed it so i decided to pick up the rest of the series. Picked up volume 2-9 really easily .
Volume 1 of jujutsu Kaisen: everywhere
Volume 4: TURN THE LIGHTS ON I CANT FIND NOTHING
You'd think that volume 1 would have more people buying it
I collected a lot of manga about 10 years ago and then kinda lost interest but recently I was itching to at least fill some holes in the collection but soon realized that 1) all the volumes was out of stock or 2) the price had sky-rocketed to many $100!! Insane...
Feel ya. Wanted to finish “ShiKi” but from volume 4 and up it mostly costs 100€. That’s just insane!
@@whyamialive2168 Ikr?! Almost fell of my chair and had to tripple check just to make sure it was 100 not 10.0 😳 if I'd known I would've collected more in the past 😅 especially the ones that went out of print but that I absolutely love, like Pandora Hearts 💔 rip 😭
Yeah, I wanted to finish buying Togainu no chi & vassalord, but can't find the actual prints.
I ended up pay $20 a volume for chainsaw man and afew weeks ago I walked into the book store and they had the whole series in stock at regular price it's getting really old fast 😤😡
I get them easily for $7
Never give in to scalpers. Literally
Well where I'm from is around 20 dollars all of you are lucky
I wanted the Jujutsu Kaisen volume 0 for some time, then kinda forgot about it. A few days ago, I saw a picture of a comic book store shelf and it had a very familiar book cover right in the corner of the picture. You could only see like a lit bit of the cover, but I could recognize that cover anywhere, it was THE JUJUTSU KAISEN VOLUME 0
AND I HAVE IT NOW. IM HAPPY
explains why it took me damn nearly 6 months to finally grab a copy of chainsaw man volume 1, literally strolled into my local shop on the off chance it might be there and there it was, last one in stock.
I started collecting manga in July 2016 when Haikyu was released here in the states, and from then I've continued to collect other manga I enjoy. Your video was really helpful in understanding why it became such a challenge to collect manga when the pandemic started. Cause from July 2016 to December 2019, it was super chill to get manga at the store and there was always plenty to go around. And I'm grateful you explained to avoid scalpers cause it's worth it to just wait for a restock. I waited FOREVER for a copy of Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 9, and I got it for 8.99. I only fork out large amounts of money for manga that's out of print like Shaman King, I finished collecting all original 32 Viz volumes right as the pandemic started, cause I know that one WAS out of print before Kodansha reprinted it! (I prefer the OG Viz volumes though) I'm currently STILL waiting for Bungo Stray Dogs volumes 13 and 14. I'm not paying 90 bucks for those lol
This is why I’m struggling to pick up YuYu Hakusho since some volumes 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 are out of stock and it’s so frustrating when it is.
Worse if the country you're living in only has book depository as the cheapest option. Man I wish Rightstuf ships internationally for free. This higher demand is good in the long term, wish more publishers have warehouses all over the world.
Yeah you're right that certain countries don't have many options and that compounds the issue even more. I think eventually there will be more worldwide availability, but its going to take publishers a while to increase their reach. Thank you for watching!
For some reason I just can’t find attack on Titan volume 5
Shout out to anyone trying to collect Dorohedoro lol :')
I'm waiting for Blue Period vol 1 & 3, and To Your Eternity vol 3 to come back. PLEASE
all available on book depository with free shipping ☺️
Ahh, so this is why I can't find Kuroko no basket vol 1 anywhere ;(
I got the first 3 eternal editions of sailor moon for Christmas which started my interest in collecting manga again, and oh boy the worst time to get back in the hobby i cannot find volume 4 anywhere, and it's just volume 4
Yeah it sucks when you can’t find 1 volume of a specific series for a long time. I had the same issue with volume 19 of Hunter x Hunter over the past year. It was really difficult to find in Canada, but I was finally able to complete my set when I saw it went back in stock recently.
I’ve thought about collecting Sailor moon for a while. I’m not really the biggest fan of shojo manga, but I do like to read some series occasionally. I’m pretty interested in sailor moon specifically because the mangaka of it (Naoko Takeuchi) is married to Yoshihiro Togashi the mangaka of Hunter x Hunter. It’d be cool to see what her storytelling is like and just experience one of the most iconic shojo series.
I hope that you’re able to find the volume for a reasonable price soon. Thanks for watching!
I've been waiting for the Tokyo ghoul box set to restock for well over a year
Reselling books for a ridiculous price should be illegal
I've been buying manga for almost 20 years and have been an anime fan pretty much since I came out of the womb. I miss those old days where people didn't really care but if you were a fan you still always were able to get what you wanted and were able to find a friend to talk about it too at the very least online.
I've made many of my friends like this over the years and the current state of fandoms is definitely much more volatile probably also because so many new people who haven't learned the rules of fandom and instead just jumped right in have entered it. Has little to do with the shortage but still I'm watching this all from a distance and don't know how I feel about it.
I'm cut from the same cloth as you are except I know how I feel and I'm not happy with the state of the current fandom. Too many people collecting for clout, not cause they enjoy what they're buying. Too many People watching shows just cause they're trending. Too many fans treating what Ani-tuber influencers say as gospel. Too many new fans trying to Change things which is pushing out veteran fans. I miss the old days when Anime was popular but still niche.
do american comics have the same problem right now?
Honestly I'm not too familiar with the American comic industry. While I was researching for this video I did glance through this article bleedingcool.com/comics/there-is-not-enough-paper-in-america-for-comic-books-right-now/
I'm not sure how bad the paper shortage is at this point in time, but It seems like the production did slow down at some points as well.
Yes but only for Omnibuses, there's already robust secondary market for western Omnibuses because most of that demographic is 35+ yrs old who either need room or have room for comic/omnibuses. Western comics have been in STEEP decline for the past 10 years. One theory is that western comics have been fucking with characters' character- dissing their original fanbase. I'm 45 and most of my comic collecting peers have switched over to manga because there's still this edge and energy to the genre , especially the older mangas of the 80's-90's.
@@nightlam3419 interesting. I don't know anything about collecting American comics, so this is enlightening
Great video mate, cheers for the info! I was trying to buy a series a few days ago only to find a lot of random volumes where out of print, so it's nice to know I'm not the only one haha. One editing tip though, the sound effects in the video are a little too loud to the point where I couldn't hear your voice. Sound effects shouldn't be super loud if they're just being used for emphasis
Supply chain issues are number one reason. Glue for binding and paper are literally back ordered because of an inconsistent supply chain, everything else is just slightly contributing or just noise. Just sayin…
I've been trying to collect One Punch Man but everywhere I look it's out if stock...this explained a lot! Thanks dude
I placed a back order on Murcielago volumes 1 & 2 and it got cancelled after 2 months of waiting. guess i'll have to wait more. hopefully it restocks by fall but jeez, shit's getting crazy and i'm not paying more than retail for a damn book.
I have been waiting for Monster:The perfect edition volume 9 to be back in stock for about 5 months now🥲...its the final volume i need to. Complete the series 🤧
I feel ur pain 🤧
Dont lose hope man!
vol 6 of the promised neverland was out of stock for an entire year or maybe even more but i managed to get my hands on it recently cause i think it got printed again😅
Edit: but it is impossible for me to get tokyo ghoul vol 12 right now cause the prices for it right now...like 28 euros im not gonna spend that much on 1 volume😭
It is pretty crazy. I'm trying to find the last two volumes I need of Monster by Naoki Urusawa. I ordered them from RightStuf in July 2021 and am still waiting for them to get more in.
Yeah, I noticed. Everything I want is out of stock... mostly. Guess I'll continue reading online. Been doing so for more than 16 years.
I’d love to get the 12th deluxe book for Vagabond to complete my set. Not paying $100.00 for it though.
Man I really want to get the Vagabond VizBig's. I love Inoue's other works. I hope that you're able to complete your set for a reasonable price soon. Thank you for watching!
I still need volume 5
I was trying to get a copy of don’t meddle with my daughter volume 3. What can I say? Guilty pleasure. Now, I thought nothing of volume 3 only being available via scalpers. The publisher stopped making copies. It’s whatever. Now I’m finding out that all manga has to deal with this?
Bro, this is reality now. Supply chain issues my ass, this is our new reality.
And not just New and Upcoming manga, even old manga that isnt really popular is also out of stock
Like Food wars... i've been searching for MONTHS to find even one no matter which volume in my country i swear it's impossible as well as Re:zero light novel like what the hell ?? So i just ended up buying on Amazon in English (not my first language) because i was tired of finding them nowhere, so now i even transformed it as a quest with my friend so when we go out, the first to find even one volume win something (spoiler: we didn't found anything lmao)
They need to reprint faster.
Yuyu Hakusho is like 3-5 times more expensive for some early copies.
"Why is EVERY Manga Out of Stock?" Demand has exceeded supply.
I get all my manga from goodwill. It’s cheap it’s only 2.00 dollars each manga. Sometimes they come brand new.
I’m just trying to find the box sets for one piece , I got 4 at a local store. (Got very lucky)
Bootleg manga...😓
love how you used Steins;Gate as the visual novel example. One thing I noticed though is that most people don't even know that its a game they just know about the anime. That being said I highly recommend reading Steins;Gate. You won't be disappointed, even if you have seen the anime, there is a lot more content in the vn as well as more endings. The anime follows the true ending
Hmm, the ladies at Books-a-Million told me that the Naruto box set 1 was no longer going to be printed...I think they are assuming that because they can't order anymore of them. I want to buy it but can't justify spending $200 on it.
This video helped a lot thanks!
Unless it’s dark horse in which case out of stock means out of print unless the series is beserk
Yeah Dark Horse is definitely the exception to that haha. They've been releasing some other popular titles in the Deluxe Editions over the past few years (Blade of the Immortal and Hellsing). More obscure stuff is definitely a toss up on whether it'll get reprinted or released in a different format. Which sucks if you're into collecting less mainstream stuff. Also thank you for watching!
I know I’m not the only one, but I kind of miss being an anime fan pre this explosion in popularity. The funny part is I still barely have any friends into anime/manga lmao
If you think that you are out of stock, you are very wrong. In turkey you cant find 1.vol of any manga.we are waiting for it to be pressed again, and when it is pressed, it ends immediately because it is pressed less. and there is already very little variety For example, tokyo revengers 1.vol was newly printed
I guess people won’t laugh at me anymore. I have over 1,000 volumes of manga.
I never had to deal with manga shortages in my 16 year collecting existence until recently. Now I’m worried if I will ever finish collecting longer series on my radar such as Hunter x Hunter and Fairy Tail.
In Europe, if you want to find an English version of manga, good luck! They are expensive and hard to find
i have been waiting over a year the same 2 omnibus volumes of one piece. they cover the end of alabasta, all of jaya and the start of skypeia. fuck sake, its one of the most important acs of the series in the most popular manga in the world, and the only copy i can find is used and for almost $100. i get that there are supply chain issues, but you'd think the most popular manga in the world would be more readily available.
i'm not trying to blame anyone, im just really frustrated with the situation.
honestly i used to be a person that hated anime or manga my whole life till last year in 2021 i made some new friends and i ended up having a crush on this girl in that friend group she ended up giving me anime recommendations cause i told her ive never watched anime in my whole life i obviously said yes cause i liked this girl alot i she gave me 12 animes to watch 1 being demon slayer which i watched first & i ended up loving it i ended up watching all 12 animes in a week LOL now im 50 or so animes in and im starting to collect manga things change once u like someone LOL
Read Berserk that's all I'll say.
I started reading Tokyo Ghoul and regret it because I can't finish it because the issues I'm on are backordered
Sick video dude!!
I think in influx of new fans over the last few years has not helped this situation either.
I don't know if we'll ever stop having out of stock manga.
Good luck to us all
I just want Naruto manga box set 1 and 3 😭to complete my Naruto collection
oh thats why i havent been able to find any of the next volumes of manga ive been collecting for the past 2 years..... i thought i was just extremely unlucky lmao
Jjk Volume 4 has been out of stock for a long time and new volumes come out yet they dont bother reprinting that particular volume for some reason
I REMEMBER THAT POST ON REDDIT 6:20 I couldn't stop laughing. I mean, I felt bad, but we all laughed. Admit it.
Who knows, maybe I’ll get the vols for Hells Paradise sometime this century.
I just want to read Ajin ☠
Not just manga other many things been out of stock with restriction & long hold period.
I was about to lose my patience until I seen this video... thanks man
I'm having trouble evening getting kaiji volume 3 😭
When I tell you it's taking me over a year to get the completed series of Monster
I've been collecting since 2016 and luckily I have most of the series I care about its always been hard to get some things in England but its almost impossible to find manga now (especially where I live)
I purchased volume 2 of chainsaw man yesterday and all I can say is that I was so lucky that happened to me.
B&N has been the goat during the shortage.
I just want the black butler manga to come in in my local swedish bookstore😭😭
r.i.p chainsaw man vol 1, also jjk vol 8 since it covers s2 ep 1, but man i really wanted to get vol 1 of chainsaw man in anticipation of the anime
i live in canada and we have indigo, but i think ill wait for csm vol 1 to restock, its basically the only vol thats not there they have a bunch of vol 2-10
Three months later and it’s still the same😢 I really want to get all three Naruto manga set boxes, but one of them costs 800$ on Amazon, that’s insane… when in really it costs like 200$ or even less but you know.. OUT OF STOCK😭
For the life of me I can't find Kaguya 10. That volume better have some crazy shit in it for the year search I've got for it
My sister who works at a manga store, told me I couldn't realise my own manga at a better time. I see why now XD
Was collecting Wake up Sleeping Beauty, I’ve collected all the volumes except for vol.4 and it’s been out of stock over a year. I haven’t even touched it because I really want to binge read it once I have all 6 volumes in my hand… almost resorting to reading just the 4 vol. online
the worst thing is the box sets. Thank god I was watching for the Tokyo Ghoul: re box set restock like a hawk so I can actually get it at msrp from amazon. Now i really want the Bleach and/or One Piece box sets but there is just no way right now i'm paying a reseller for their insane prices
Ive only recently gotten into manga collection. I’ve casually collected manga in the past but this year I’ve gotten into it in a bigger way and decided to collect two currently ongoing series that I’ve been meaning to read for a while (wish me luck theyre both so long lol). I tend to buy my manga secondhand coz I care more about reading it than displaying it so as long as its in okay condition, I’m happy. But one of the series has several of the volumes I now need out of stock every where and the only places I can find them have them listed at ridiculous prices (one of them is going for £45 when its retail price is £7.99). Given the ones before and after these seem to be very available, I’m hoping theyre being reprinted and will eventually be available at retail price again coz theres no way im paying £45 for a single manga.
A lot of good information, great video!
I appreciate it. Thank you for watching!
Haven’t watched the video yet but I literally bought demon slayer volume 1 yesterday lol
I cant find to your eternity volume 3 and mieruko-chan volume 2 anywhere! Lol
v. helpful video! Thanks for making this!
Oh I didn’t realise Jujutsu Kaisen outsold Demon Slayer last year, I thought it was the top seller.
If you can't wait to finish a story you might want to check it out online, most publishers have been putting back chapters online, plus there free fan translation sites that do pretty good jobs, I'll see if the story stays interesting and if so then I'll try to get it and if it out of stock or backordered then I'll at least will have read the story. And with these shortage and such that might be the best or only way to read some titles for a while.
Oh my fucking god….NOT ANOTHER ONE!!!
It really irritates me how other buys manga for aesthetic and trend, like bro do y'all realize how hard to collect those
God please make this a huge manga shortage in exchange of the graphics card shortage, we can't have both at the same time
Not surprising, trending animes like the one's shown in the video obviously sells more.
everything im collecting im missing like 1 or 2 volumes and its so annoying as they,ve not been in stock for months, one series i got scammed trying to buy it and another i accidentally got it in german lol
Gpu flashbacks (not even flashbacks)
there 1 main reason. creating face shortages. we are short so buy from this mysteries reseller for more that is not use at all.
I've been waiting for one piece box sets, and naruto box set 3 to come in stock for so long. The same goes for food wars vol 3-12ish
I've been waiting to pick up the rest of the Naruto manga for a while as well. I picked up the first box set when it was in stock a few months back for the lowest price I've ever seen it (in Canada), but finding the second and third has been a struggle. I hope you're able to get them eventually. Thank you for watching!
@@GurkiratGhuman I believe on right stuf anime the naruto box set 2 is in stock, I just bought it about a week ago
Same
I ordered OP box 3 & 4
2 finally came in last October so I’m hopeful. Besides, I got all of Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan and Berserk to finish before continuing One Piece.
Viz digital manga subscription is $2 a month
Will the One Piece box sets come back into print?
bezerk deluxe is out alot too I'm getting into it
Good thing that i buy manga in japanese!
man , Japan just got the west hooked
It's annoying having to wait months for books
it was sooo much worse in the summer though