Manga Collecting Tips and Advice | Starting and Maintaining Your Manga Library
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Are you trying to start collecting manga and need a bit of help? Been collecting for a while and want some useful advice on maintaining your collection? This might be the video for you!
In this video I will be giving advice about budgeting, organization, shelving, cleanliness, hunting for rare books, and some collecting DOS and DON'TS! I've been collecting for almost twenty years and want to help all of YOU in any way that I can!
0:00 Introduction
1:16 How I Started Collecting
3:30 What I Did at 13 to Earn Money to Buy Manga
5:25 Budgeting for Manga Collecting
7:50 Budgeting 2: How Do You Know What To Buy (with your monthly budget)?
9:30 Budgeting 3: Keeping Up With New Releases
11:43 Budgeting 4: Fight FOMO, Set Goals, Buy What You Like
14:30 Where to Shop?
16:56 Rare Book Hunting
24:10 Shelving: What to Buy and Where?
30:00 Organization
32:28 Cleanliness
35:09 Avoiding Yellowing
37:40 Cleaning or Repairing Ex-Library Books
39:20 Safely Moving Your Collection to a New Home
41:55 Things NOT To Do
44:50 Ending Thoughts
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Cannot stress enough. Do not buy something ***SOLELY*** for the reason that you're afraid it won't be available later. If you're not particularly interested in a book, fear of missing out should never be the only reason to buy it. Genuinely wanting to read it? Now *that* is a great reason to buy it.
You have decades and decades of time to buy books. Your shelf will not remain empty because you missed that one this month.
I agree
Unless you are buying a Dark Horse series, because they are terrible about ending print runs within a year after final volume release. Second hand markets know this well and crank up the costs.
More like: Don't feel like you need to buy it immediately. Even collector editions will last a few months/maybe one or two years max before running out.
Telling them "You have decades and decades to buy books" is terrible advise. All editions go out of print and will eventually run out. After that your only option is aftermarket/used versions and that, 90% of the time, increases the price a ton, often times making them 5-10 times more expensive depending on the series/author and how long has it been out of print. It's fine to wait a couple of months, but waiting years is only if you want to intentionally screw yourself over and be forced to sell a kidney to get what costed a couple hundred bucks or less originally.
Imdid that last week😅 It was the first volume of Spy x Family. I regret nothing. Its SO HARD to find it where i am. Its rare to find any spy x family volumes but it was my first time finding the first volume so i grabbed it and ran to the cashier.
Lol not unless prices go up
Step 1: get money
Step 2: find product
Step 3: spend money
im stuck at step 1
Step 4: get product
Step 5: find satisfaction (dependent on level of joy or avarice as a result. Results may vary)
@@YaburuRunyaru step 6: sell all your manga because youre no longer interested and youre broke
@@beratsamil oof, I hope to never reach stage 6
*s t e p o n e*
I'm legit glad I found this channel
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Definitely agreed
Agreed!! his content is really entertaining
Same
Me too
'Don't buy because it's popular' is definitely one of the best tips here.
I'd personally NOT recommend Rightstuf if you are outside of America. Their shipping is absolutely ridiculous and once you factor in customs you've spent more than you would be buying from a local shop/amazon/book depository etc.
Unless dragonball and JoJo honestly
@@watchforever1724 Disagree. But they're on the Jump app anyways so imo no reason to not try them out before blindly buying as it is.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy when it comes to series like those I like getting those volumes which is the editions
@@watchforever1724 yeah but you already know you love the series so it's worth the investment.
But for someone who doesn't know the series the Jump app is perfect to try before gambling money
@@ThatLightNovelGuy fair enough but considering these are considered fan favorites worldwide I don’t see the issue especially when you can find the anime series to watch on Blu-ray/dvd .In fact that’s how I started dragonball back then
This reminds me of a conversation my dad would have with me during a long car ride. Thank you for the wisdom 🙏
Being a lover of literature as well I set the following rule for myself a year ago and it has been working great: I can only buy a new volume of manga, if I have finished reading a novel/non-fiction book. This keeps me motivated to read more and also prevents me from blowing through my manga budget!
*looks at bookshelves full of unread omnis*
Ah crap.
@@balkthor lmao I felt this
Using this thanks fam
I read things so fast, i buy multiple volumes of manga, buy time i get my next paycheck and put in an order for ore, im either finished by time it gets to my house, or have a chapter left. I have 9 series im currently reading, but thats only because they are out of stock everywhere so when one thing is out of stock i can go down the list and get whats next. By the end of the year ill probably have finished 3 or 4 series lol
Good idea! I usually buy 2 volumes every few months and even if I’m craving the series then I try to hold off until I get too impatient to wait anymore.
"Your collection is gonna be perfect for you in the time you spent building it because you're putting your effort into it, you're putting your love of the medium into it to create the perfect curated collection for yourself."
This was great, i have a pretty big collection myself and never knew how to get started but that quote is really all it comes down to.
Was able to start collecting manga when you confirmed that Berserk is getting reprinted. Now I am collecting Jujutsu Kaisen and The Promised Neverland. More power to your youtube channel
I declare this as my comfort yt channel
definitely! I consider the omnibus collector a father figure
I never had a plan when collecting manga growing up. It wasn't until last year that I said "Alright, let's sit down and figure out what series I need to finish and which ones I need to focus on." Best thing I ever did for my collection. Gave me focus and I've stopped buying volume 1s of new series.
thats exactly what im doing at the moment im putting a pause on all my shonen series and im focusing on my shoujo series because thats what i enjoy
That’s how I started my comic collection and regretted it best advice finish a series then go to the next or get 3 volumes and if you like it continue it and if you don’t stop the series then and there don’t collect for the sake of collecting it’ll help you money wise
I tend to buy just the first volumes of a series i’m interested in. If the story is long enough, and I enjoy it, i’ll move towards reading online. I’d love to collect entire series’, but I don’t know how some of you have so much shelf space.
Im 26 years old and got into manga last year. I was buying everything in paper but recently I had this same conversation with myself. I need to de clutter series I’m eh about and actually focus on what I truly love on my shelf to finish.
Considering mangas are more like novels then western comics, in that theres actually a finite story to tell, I definitely agree w/ setting the goal of finishing a series before starting a new one. I bought all the 3-in-1s of FMA, now I'm working on getting the last couple 3-in-1s of Bleach, then I'm thinking getting the 3 Hellsing Deluxe next.
This is a good idea. I cast my net waaay too wide and now I've got like 10 series on the go all at once
Yeah the 3 in 1 editions for Fullmental alchemist manga is a great idea
I have 1 and 2 of Hellsing Deluxe Edition and 1-3 waiting on 4 for Soul Eater The Perfect Edition.
Can definitely recommend Hellsing Deluxe 1-3. But ad you said, finish your other reading obligations first.
They're actually pretty similar. Comics have long running stuff like the main Spider-Man or Batman series (there's a ton of finite side series) and manga has stuff like One Piece and Naruto. Comics also has thousands of finite stories like Preacher, Sandman, V for Vendetta just like Manga has Spirit Circle or Samurai Executioner.
I’m a 11 year old I started collecting anime merchandise since 7 almost 8, I was getting 5 bucks a week for the first year for vacuuming both my parents houses then at 9 I mopped and vacuumed for 10 a week now I get 20 a week for mopping vacuuming cleaning mirrors disinfectant and clean toilets and I have a pretty good Collection I’d say
What do you have as a manga . Like what volumes do you have now
@@itachiiscoldfacts2481 I have volume all of diamond is unbreakable 9 volume of demon slayer 1 volume of Komi can’t communicate vol 1,2,3,47,8,9 of Dragon Balls Super and volume 1,2 3in1 DBZ
@@Adonis-- dragon balls
@@shidenfarden3662 lol whoops
@@Adonis-- I dont know if youd like this but you should watch full metal panic. I dont think the manga looks as good as the a time though.
I’m just starting out collecting but I think I have a tip about the budget things. I noticed after ordering two batches of mangas that I am very bad at sticking to my budget so I have now set up (or rather gotten my mom to help me lol) a separate bank account specifically dedicated towards buying mangas, so each month 200kr (about $22, I’m Swedish) goes into that account and I can spend that money without having to worry about overspending cause that money has been set aside for that purpose and that purpose only. I thought it was pretty smart so I’m sharing it in case someone else wanna do it as well, idk if this is like a duh thing or not but yeah, that’s it
I can't even tell you how incredible this guide is. It's pretty much the definitive guide for manga-collecting! After a couple minutes, I found myself taking notes because of how awesome the advice was! :)
I would love to watch those videos you suggested at the end. That's exactly the kind of information I would want to go alongside this guide.
But thank you! Now I know how to really start collecting manga. :D
As a 13 year old I’m very happy I found this
Same I’m 12 soon to be 13 I’m looking forward to chores because of this dude
@@AlexMortonYoung why?
@Seems Legit you guys get money from doing chores??.!
I actually remember getting manga for the first time in 2013 and honestly for some of these series I can find some of them at my local library 📚.I didn’t buy a lot of manga til I graduated high school in 2016
Recently found Hellsing 6-10 for 4$ each at a second hand store! They are always great places to look for manga! Fantastic video man!
I just started my manga collection and my sole rule (other than my available manga budget), is that I will only buy manga I've already read or watched as anime and that I loved which means that once those real books come home, I will, for sure, read them over and over again. Yes, I should be supporting the creators, but as a teenagers who isn't allowed to work yet and doesn't get an allowance (I live off new years money for stuff I want), I have to use that money and holiday gifts to my advantage. I currently have the entire given and 86 series, which are fairly small,but I am incredibly, happy
Great video helped me a lot in starting a collection!
Good advices for sure, budgeting and fomo are my main enemies atm, I literally have 30+ volumes series complete that I haven't started reading. I'm a pretty good judge of what I'm going to like but I definitely need to stop buying more than i read (same with videogames).
It's hard for me to not take advantage of sales and the biggest publisher in Mexico for manga does a lot of them through the year, so I end up getting many volumes for either different series or many for just 1 or 2.
Thanks man, i've just started collecting and this helped so much
Exactly what I needed to know with great additional tips! Thanks a lot
Thanks mate, I love comics and manga and need some more of em
Fantastic video as always, man. A lot of great points I'll implement
Hands down best video for manga collectors. Thank you for making this!
This is an absolutely wonderful video!! Thank you so much for putting it together!! :D
you helped me A LOT. really, thanks! :)
Thanks for making this video. I'm very excited to start my collection and this helped me a lot.
Thank you so much for the budgeting tips, really useful.
Thank you so much for this video 😭😭😭 it was so helpful, especially because I started collecting in February!
I was looking for THIS channel! Superb content, mate. Thank you so much.
This is the video I was looking for! Loyal subscriber right here🙂
Honestly, this is the best video I’ve seen on this topic. Thank you for always bringing us quality 🙏🏻
this video is so helpful and engaging. thank you for the great advice!
Thank you for this. I used to collect manga in middle school but then stopped. I discovered your channel and it got me back into it. This video is definitely useful now that I'm going to start collecting to it
Thank you so much for sharing !! I just got into collecting manga physically and these tips are so helpful. 😍
Excellent video!! I felt like you was giving me a pep talk even though I knew alot of your info as well. Thank you for so much knowledge sir.
Really loved watching this, I'm starting a manga collection and so far I'm really enjoying it thanks for all the advice! :)
I've been waiting for this video for a while, i'll make some time to watch it all the way through :) keep doing what you're doing bro you're awesome!
I really appreciate how you also address younger audiences!
Just the Vid I needed to watch and get started with.
Diving right in, thanks!
Love the intro man.
Glad to see your channel and TikTok blowing up lately! I have been watching your videos since I was about 16 and this channel is the reason I started collecting omnis.
man what a chill video that was just also super informative even tho I don't have much books yet made me aware of problems that might arise in the future. VERY EPIC
Thank you so much for this, I JUST started collecting and was already suffering from fomo and buying lots of volumes ahead of time before even knowing if i like it. I learned so much from this and have already changed a lot about all of it for the better. Everything in this video was amazing and super helpful. Thanks so much and you did an amazing job
Dude… CONGRATS!!
This guide is so complete, it answered questions I didn’t even know I had. I definitely wanna get into collecting manga in the near future, will definitely use all these tips!!
Wow, thanks for the detailed tips, it really gave me new insights
My collection is only 38 (so far) and this video was extremely helpful keep up the great work :)
i’m glad i found this channel and video i just started to collect manga a couple of months ago and this is a great video if your getting into it!
I cannot express how amazing and helpful this video is. You are a blessing to all manga collectors, my friend.
ty for existing, this was usefull
This was a very helpful video thanks👍
Great Video! I’m now a fan!
Love this vid man, great advice and good tips👌🏽
This has been very insightful. I will continue to apply these tips, especially regarding FOMO and buying what I want to read personally.
Just before Black Clovers anime started airing, I saw the first 2 volumes in my bookstore and curiously decided to buy them, and it was the first manga series that I began collecting and one that I still enjoy to this day.
FOMO and budgeting were major issues I fell into right at the start of my collecting. Fortunately I’ve started to lower my fear of missing titles and focus on the titles I want to read and fill my shelves with. Great informative video here, absolutely love your channel!
This is a great informational video.
Heya! Just a few other pieces of advice I'd like to add as a librarian, especially for people collecting used books:
1) If the book is a library discard and has any permanent marker on the cover, get that marker off immediately. It can be very damaging, not just to the book that it's on, but also to the book beside it. It can be easily removed most of the time with rubbing alcohol.
2) For any repair involving paper, I use a combination of two products from Lineco: their acid free PVA glue, and their document repair tape. Both can be a bit tricky to use, because the PVA dries very quickly, and the repair tape is tissue thin, but both have completely changed the way I repair books at home. I wouldn't recommend using any rubber cement or super glue or anything other than PVA (or starch paste, but that's its own thing) anywhere near something made of paper because in the long run, those glues can do more harm than good. They don't have the flexibility of PVA, and I'm not aware of any that are acid-free.
love love love the old comic shops when it comes to finding rare volumes
What a fantastic video Ryley! So many good tips. Many I use in practice, others I've gathered from the farm and some I've even learned the hard way. (FOMO). Your budgeting tips are very helpful. I usually plan out my buys for the year via a spreadsheet (your Viz 4th quarter video was so helpful). I also keep a list of "Series I'd like to own" for the next time a sale hits. (there tends to be sales a few times a year up North). Your hunting tips were spot on too. What I really enjoyed though was your tips to start out for a younger audience. I think most youtubers forget there are a ton of people watch video. It was also nice to learn I wasn't the only person who was mowing relative and neighbours lawns to earn extra money as a pre-teen.
Omar gives me all the comics advice I could need and Riley gives me all the manga advice I could need. Incredible community!
oh can you tell me the name of the comics channel?
@@KS-ks6wz Near Mint Condition
@@RetroChampion thanks
I will forever be grateful that early on in my manga reading journey, I discovered the wonders of the public library system. I got very familiar with the library collection at 3-4 libraries within driving distance of where I lived. Lots of libraries have ebooks and online catalogs that allow you the put on hold. Saved me so much money, leaving me to only have to invest in things I already knew I liked. I was able to read a lot of older and more obscure stuff as well
This is really some pretty good advice for the near future, sooner or later I will find a job that I'm comfortable with and start making a budget for the things that I need and then for the things that I desire to have, thanks for the advice and tips.
I startedmy collection a few years ago after reading the mangas at the school library or the ones I borrowed from my friends. I then wanted to get my own little collection of the mangas I liked or the ones I was interested in! I always had fun looking for the series I wanted and reading the books as soon as I got home and I am still enjoying it! I'm really proud of the almost 80 volumes I have and realy happy to get some tips from this video as my collection grows slowly but surely
Hi Ryley, I just wanted to say you did a really great job on this video.
Seriously, this is deeply insightful not only for Manga or Comic collecting, but for Novels, Figures, Trading Cards, and other collectibles out there.
Now, I'm not that big of a Manga collector but I do collect Comic books and Cards, I was watching a video on card collecting and the TH-cam algorithm brought me here, so again, good job on making this video, expanding your viewership, and your wife definitely deserves some credit for suggesting the idea.
Subscribed. (:
This video is a life saver for manga collectors.
Thanks for the video.
I love this video. Its applicable to literally anything you're gonna spend money on. Very useful for life in general or people who have a hard time saving money
Thank you for talking about younger collectors who don't have jobs! This video covered everything I needed to know. Now I know what to do and what to not do, thanks for the valuable information!
ALSO YOUR BOOKSHELF IS EPIC.
I have been watching your videos for support and I now I know your intro out of my head haha.
I have a collection of around 102 manga volumes (counted on Excel) worth of almost a 1000€. I love it with all my heart. I remember watching your videos for the first and being really excited about collecting, looking back you've helped me A TON!
You're a huge inspiration for me, thank you.
I've been collecting manga since about 2008, and this advice is absolutely golden. Unfortunetly, I havent been able to collect as much as i was for years, (i was averageing about 10 books a month before, but new job i wasnt as blessed with time) . You did such a good job explaining and giving peoples tips! Sub!
This video is really helpful! Thank you for making this. =)
Not far in yet but i really appreciate how clear and in depth this video is. :)
Thanks for creating this as my 13yr old has just started collecting and so I've started too. Appreciate budgeting tips as it's an expensive genre.
This is a fantastic video man - plenty of great advice here I wish I knew when I started collecting!
Thanks for the help man I am sure your tips will we alot useful
Desperately needed this video! This was incredible, as a new collector I suffer from FOMO! Your advice is sound ! Incredible video
@@aariz611 hahaha kinda but not exactly! I don’t suffer from the work part! Too funny, love that show !
This was very informative and helpful, well done! I would add that, if you want to prevent your books from yellowing, separate your healthy books from the ones that aren't. I have found that if you put a new book besides a book that it's yellowed or is starting to, most of the time, it propagates to the new book as if it were a virus.
Really informative thanks for this video!!!
Great Video! Very good tips, being a long time collector myself (mostly movies and games, but also comics and books) it's really interesting to hear other collectors habits. Learning from others to listen to the voice of your reason it's also really important, as I struggle with things of wanting to buy collections I'm not so sure or the FOMO, which is my mayor problem (specially in VGames, since there's sooo many limited collections all the time).
This is a really good video, lots of lesson in it
Great video and the shirt 💯🔥
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the budgeting tips!
Thank you so much for this~ 😌 It helps a lot. 🤝
idk about the figures but your bookshelfs are cool as hell. So much manga
Thank you for this video.
As a beginner manga collector this video helped allot! Thank you! :D
So I just started collecting last year bc I had just rewatched FMA brotherhood and randomly went into Barnes And Nobles and happened to find the first 2 volumes of the Fullmetal manga editions. Ever since I've been up to date on the collection and have since grown mine to most of a bookshelf. That said, I'm glad I found this video bc it offered insights into this new hobby that would hopefully save my wallet a few bucks and help focus what I want in my collection :) thank you sir for showing up in my dash when you did
Amazing video, also great shirt
I've done the whole popping into old comic shops thing quite a few times. I had an interview a couple of months ago and decided to stop by a comic shop about 15 minutes away from where I was interviewing after I got done, and was pleasantly surprised to find that this shop had some old Shaman King books there (the original Viz-printed ones). I was able to pick up a few of the later volumes for the price of what one of them goes for currently.
A much needed video! The tips on FOMO and on not buying something just because it's popular in the collector circle are EXTREMELY important. FOMO is my biggest enemy (mainly with omnibus/hardcover collections for American comics), but I've been getting better at keeping it in check. The "not buying just because it's popular" really rings true for newer/younger collectors, I think. They're more impressionable, and get excited about being able to say they got some popular or sought after book/series. Then it either sits on their shelf forever, or they read it and find out it's not for them.
I mean FOMO is trash though. Just buy the book if you have the money now. because yo will regret it later. there been plenty of manga and even novels that I never bought when it was low and interested in and now there's like triple or even 10x the price it was.
This is very educational, I really appreciate the effort you've put into this video! Definitely subscribing! Also I just ordered my first ever couple volumes and I'm excited to see where this goes and maybe one day I'll have a decent little collection of my own! Thanks a bunch!
i respect that jojo shirt and im hyped for part 5
It’s easy to get carried away . Good message thanks!
One of my favorite things to do when I'm reading a new series is to borrow the first few from the library. If I enjoy them them I can always go back and buy them for my personal collection. That way I don't have to worry about wasting money on series I end up not liking!
Great advice -- especially regarding care and transportation
Damn what a video...it was super informative and really relaxing. I really appreciated it.
I just got into collecting/reading manga back in 2018 and it's probably one of my favorite hobbies besides gaming.
Great video my man
this is honestly so so so helpful, im pretty young so getting manga with my own money is hard. so this vid helped with tips
You inspired me to start collecting again, Thank You sir
Yeah i just started, barely. This was so helpful