How to Protect Your Manga! Yellowing and Fading
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2021
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East: “What was the first thing I mentioned that hurts manga the most”
Me: Cat Pee
lmaooooo
I know it's pretty randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to watch newly released series online ?
@Holden Rey Lately I have been using Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
@Jerry Jad yea, have been using FlixZone for since march myself :D
@Jerry Jad thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it !!
Im pretty lucky my manga shelf isnt under direct sunlight and I live in a dry climate great vid tho
Thats a good combo!
Hey you got the same first name as me
This was a good basics on the topic. Ultimately most manga will yellow over time. UV light causes the lignin in the paper to polymerize. The florescent bulbs at book stores as well as sunlight (which you mentioned) accelerates the chemical process. Also, oxygen is a huge enemy. Obviously it's hard to store your manga in inert gases or a vacuum. However, the real enemy to manga longevity is glue actually. I've been collecting for about 20 years now. Stuff I bought new back in the early 2Ks are starting to come unglued. This is why I love companies like Kodansha and Dark Horse doing sewn bindings on bleached paper in hardbacks. These will last much much longer and resist yellowing.
Hey man i know this comment is Late but apart from Jojo’s, do you happen to know what other manga are sewnback or hardcover?
@@RomeoHatesShrimp lots actually. Off the top of my head Fist of the North Star, Junji Ito's stuff, Vinland Saga, High School of the Dead full color editor, the new Toriyama anthology.
Heat can be a problem also. Best to keep it in a cool dry area of your house.
100%
The question is, whereee?
@@loudeillunzaga4476 in your fridge lol
@@loudeillunzaga4476 large spaces with a lot of shadows (living room, closet etc)
For the person with the smoker parents: if the room you keep your manga in is one you could reliably keep closed, an air purifier that uses real HEPA filters could help. It would probably be a relatively expensive choice since having to filter out all that smoke will most likely make you go through HEPA filters pretty quickly, but it's an option if you *really* want to keep your manga out and can afford to change out the filter a few times a year.
Thank you I hope your pillow is cold when you turn it over 😀
i smoke but i keep my manga in storage drawers and smoke out of my window but im still paranoid about it. you should be fine as long as the person isnt a heavy smoker and if ur manga isnt on a too high book shelf
@@da3329 Should be more paranoid about your lungs
I use to vape in my room but I’m not gonna do it anymore cause I want my collection to be clean
Hmm... I’m curious about the humidity in my room. I have lots of books that still look great, including some comics I’ve had since I was a kid and I really want my manga to look just as good in the long run so thanks for this video!
This was a very interesting video! I leave my manga just on the shelfs, unprotected but there's a tree outside of my window, yea there's still sunlight coming in my room, but I don't think it's really direct. So hopefully that still won't ruin my manga.
Yea its not really that serious unlike your like mine and the sun just beams straight on them lol
I appreciate it. This was helpful. Will buy these soon
Thanks for the tips!😘
East doing bits for the community 💪 love it! Let’s all protect our manga collection ✨
Haha thanks!
very helpful!!! I started collecting a couple months ago, and I never really thought about it
Thank you so much for this video!!!
I’ve had this problem as well. Very informative video. Keep up the bangers man 🙌
Appreciate it!
i don’t really mind the yellowing unless it’s like severe severe but great video as always east coast! 🙂
thanks dude really appreciate this video i just started collecting manga and planning on buying a bookshelf this month and i was kinda scared of damaging my books so thank you love your videos man ^-^
Youre welcome!
Great video and tips! I can't speak on what to do if you live in a house with smoke or smells, however I did have an issue once where I received books from ebay that smelled strongly of smoke. I searched online and found this helpful tip: put the manga/books in a ziploc bag with some baking soda or activated charcoal, which will absorb the smell, then you can shake off the powder afterward. I kept them in the bag for almost a week and although it wasn't perfect, the majority of the smell did dissipate. Hope this can help anyone that has this problem! Keep up the great work and videos! :)
For sure a good tip! smoke is a pain but atleast has some tricks to get rid of a decent amount of the smell
Loved the vid brotha great tips as always
Thanks!
If you have the money, I would bail on the curtain idea and swap it out with a uv filtering acrylic sheet to cover each shelf or better yet diy it into a cabinet door. Not only will you protect it from sunlight but you’ll be able to protect it from dust and enjoy viewing it. There are also such things as UV blocking window film that you can also place on your windows to prevent harmful light to reach your manga. Also when it comes to moisture and odor control, get both a dehumidifier and an air purifier.
I was hoping you would make a video on this!!! Great tips👍🤗
Glad it was helpful!
been waiting for this video ; )
Hope it helps a bit!
Same!
I have to use bath curtains for my manga shelves 😂 it’s just so much easier to cut up the curtains than to find curtains that match the size of my bookcases. The curtains are also white, so they match my cases just fine!
I just reorganized my books and I placed the mangas on a shelf in my closet. It looks a lot better and also protects them
Awesome idea!
As a bookseller, I can add that book cover bleaching by the sunlight can vary depending on the type of ink used on the cover. We usually let our window display facing the street up to one month (and in direct contact with the sunlight) and one book in particular strike me as whitening hyper fast (it had an orange cover that just turned yellow IN TWO WEEKS!!!, you could see a very sharp contrast between the back and the front). Most book can take it, but some book are hopeless.
Also for the smoke issue, it does get better after some time, I'm hyper sensitive to odour but I buy a lot of second hand book and one was particularly extreme in its condition (but it was a rare book so I couldn't just abandon it). It actually stink my room for a week (I had to put it elsewhere for some time) and 4 years later (I just did a smell test for this comment), it barely still smells (there's a very faint odour still left) and doesn't leave smell on my hand anymore. So, yes, if you can avoid smoke, it can be good, but with time, it will come off.
If anybody needs anymore tips Lohali did another amazing video on how to protect your manga/manga quality! his is more of a guide so this video and this one work so well together for beginners :)!
I think an air filter that can filter out cigarette smoke and cigarette particles would also be an option. Im not a smoker/never lived in a smoking household, but I think it would help in addition to the other options in this video
Great, great tips!
Thanks!
I was legit looking for this
That’s legit crazy
Ayeeee
Tysm brotherrr
Great Video!!
Thanks!
I really like this video (and your channel) and I want to leave a comment, but I don't know what to say lol.
Good video!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tips. It gets humid here in the summer, might get a dehumidifier.
You can buy a smaller one for a room thats not too expensive on amazon
What I do to present sunlight damage to my manga is place index cards on the top of each row. So far it’s helped!
oooh interesting
There are dehumidifiers for cheap in Daiso! I use those around my house and they work very well!
Truth
You can also get window tints that go directly onto the window/glass and it stoped the sun rays from going through
another option
What I do with the manga that is by my window is I have a black out curtain that I just always have closed on my windows. Im not home during the day much anyway cause of my job and its not that big of a deal too me. So that is definitely an option for people like me.
Contact paper seems to be really effective, here's the name of a video that covers the topic nicely:
TUTORIAL: HOW TO PROTECT/PRESERVE YOUR BOOK COLLECTION. W/Plastic Book Jacket Covers & Contact Paper
3:44 Looks like you're setting up some sort of shrine 🤣
Would it be safe to put manga in a “manga bag” with a silica packet so that there will never be moisture? Would that silica packet harm the cover over back?
I will on occasion burn incense in my room totally didn’t think how it would effect my manga 😳
Also a good trick for getting rid of yellowing is use really fine sandpaper and sand it off. Doesn’t make it look new but will help a lot
have been needing this!! especially since i buy alot of my manga from a local used manga store. brand new is too expensive for collecting:(
also is there any way to clean manga covers? (specifically for used ones)
Whyd this man say pop quiz likes he our teacher I'm scared
Out of all of these moisture is the biggest problem for me. I remember how hard of a time I had when collecting pokemon cards but in that case I used protective sleeves
My mom insists on waving insence around my room at least once a day :/ no one comes over to see a displays anyway I'll survive tucking it away
Sunlight doesn't yellow the paper. The atmosphere does. That's why the whole page is yellow, and not just the edge exposed to the light. Ultraviolet light does fade the dyes in the inks on your covers and spines though. The actual pages yellow from the chemical reaction happening in the cellulose from oxidation. This is the point of bags. They're acid free, and protect your manga from oxidation. Humidity shouldn't be a problem in most climates while using bags.
originally bought case closed as a big manga lot and some of the volumes are super yellow just like you showed 🤣 gonna replace those soon
I wonder if you could revert revert yellowing with the same method as retrobrighting (of course without the hydrogen peroxide)
Thanks
Welcome!
My manga are in room where It’s not direct sunlight and their is fan cool off the room and weed smoke is so strong that it could leave objects smelling like it for weeks I know from experience
Drying sheets between the sheets of Manga helps I've heard for cigarette smoke
I am just starting my Manga collection and I live in a quite rainy environment where I live now it's currently summer I don't really have to worry abt the sunlight because mostly in my country when it's summer there like maybe 2 or 3 days in a week where the sun shines and I for now put my Manga in my closet cause I have some space so there out of the sunlight however both my parents do smoke but mostly downstairs or in their room so I think I am kind of safe with al of this I hope if anyone has some other tips please let me know it would be greatly appreciated
Only seeing this for the first time, I live in a humid and hot environment 😬
The only manga I would put in direct sunlight is my death note black edition.
My mangas never gets yellow, but I do have yellow one because I bought some used mangas
Lol I live in an extremely hot country so there tends to be a lot of humidity and because of that I leave my mangas on display during winter and put them in drawers during summer to protect them. Not to mention the shelves are right in front of the window.
Thats smart
Does anyone know how to keep the front page flat or how to turn it back to flat after the front page slightly opens up
after i read the manga i cover it with plastic. not just the cover page, i mean the entire book itself :D i had a book that i covered 3 years ago and the pages are still white. i think it works as long as it's airtight 😊
How are the edges? Do you have yellowing sections?
before i put them in the bags i will take a screenshot and check every month if they are alright and check if anything changed because i am keeping them away from light and i dont smoke so they should be fine
@@vegitoblue137 hey, how are they doing now? Does bagging help with yellowing? Is it worth to bag manga that have started yellowing?
@@pastelmacaroon these plastic bags are good
question, do you have to keep it out from the light (from light bulbs) too?
I just put all of mine in a storage container where it can’t get any sunlight lol.
My bookshelf with manga currently lives inside my closet, and I open the closet to display the manga when the sun is down. That's really the solution I have for now, I'm not sure how long will that last if my collection keeps growing. Bookshelves with doors may help too. I recently got a "new" manga from Rightstuf that came with yellowing :/ Do you recommend to sandpaper the edges down to remove the yellow?
Honestly I buy a lot of used manga so yellowing doesn't really bother me if I buy it like that. I guess it depends on how bad the yellowing is
Does keeping a manga in a Ziploc bag prevent yellowing due to sunlight and my main question,the humidity from harming my manga too?
would burning candles affect manga yellowing? because i usually have my candles on and i don’t know if that would damage the manga?
Is indirect sunlight from a window that is slightly open also bad?
Put manga in card board box I have no room to put it any other place not sure if I should cut small holes on box to let air ventilation go through it or keep box intact hole free
I can’t cover the sunlight, and I live in Florida just like you east coast. So I don’t know what to do. I need advice!
Something I never see discussed as a solution to smoke, mold, and other smells: ozone machines can be used in these instances to remove the odors. They're $50 - 100 depending on the brand.
These can be very dangerous machines if the proper precautions aren't taken. The machines should be placed in air tight containers with the books and left on for a few hours. The edges and such for the container should be sealed with tape or putty so nothing escapes. They're easy machines to use but you gotta be careful. They can cause breathing problems, eye irritation, nausea, fatigue, etc if you don't contain it.
They're pretty expensive but you never know when you'll need to use one. Maybe a used car you bought was owned by a smoker or there's an accidental fire in your kitchen. Or you get mold after a flood. It also removes cat and dog urine odors, but you'd probably need a bigger machine and it'd have to be left for at least a day in those instances (and you can't be in the house).
actually, omnibus collector talked about this, if the environment where your mangas are, is too dry it can also cause issues such as yellowing, brittleness and dryness.🤓🤓🤓
What about fairy lights that stick to the edges of the book shelf?
Would led strip lights hurt it ( mine are pretty dim and always on the colour purple)
Hayyyy…question how do you keep your covers from like sticking out it really bugs me
East with the hacks!!!!!!!
yurrrrrr
Open or closed book shelf ? In a humid environment ..
And why ?
my mangas are inside my closet & no light or anything so i dont know why its becoming yellow
could you show us what the curtains end up looking like on any of your social media :))
Will do! Ive been super lazy setting them up because I know that these won't be my final bookshelves
So we can unwarp manga? Have you tried using ordor removing spray? 😅
u could also just turn your shelfs around to protect your mangas from the sunlight :^ )
Well that is another option haha
So should I keep my lights of when I’m not reading
Newspapers help with getting smells out of books. Wrap in Newspaper let sit a week or two. Or store them in newpapers.
Is it bad to keep manga in the bedroom? Since you make a lot of humidity when sleeping maybe?
I am now paranoid about all elements now
I keep my manga in a bookshelf with glass doors :D
yo thx
Welcome!
Hey I have a lizard in my room and it has a heat lamp so it gets very hot in my room would I worry?
I have my manga right next to my led light strip is that bad ?
Yellowing wasn't so bad. It looks great to me.
Question: you know how some people have glass doors on their bookshelf’s? Would that be a good way to prevent smoke from damaging the manga?
Same question here , though it’s obvious that it won’t block the UV rays from the sunlight, as for the moisture maybe (based on what I saw from Joe’s glass cube, from “YOU”.)
@@atom6175 yeah the sun will still effect it xD
i actually use a bookshelf with glass, do i still need to put curtains on it or nah? its also kinda direct to my window
Unless the class specifically reflects UV light, then yes
I’m lucky to have all my manga in my game room where the lights are always off. Like I’m that serious about it. My wife or kids turn the light on we fighting ☺️
I've heard yellowing is caused by oxidation. Idk 🤷♀️
Why not a air purifier for the smoking prob
does yellowing destroy the manga or is it just astetics
My question is what happens when you keep your manga in a box even though it's a manga box-set?
Ive never seen any issues personally
Hello, quick question... is it normal for your edges of your manga to peel a bit ??
Yeah that’s usually just how some are manufactured. It’s v common dw!! They used to bother me a lot but in the end when they sit in ur shelf it’ll be hard to tell :)
If yellowing is caused by the sun, does that mean it getting a tan?
I have a window curtain to maintain from sunlight
Window Curtains do the job. I just like having the sun in the room personally
Siblings... Jk very helpful video i will definitely be using this info
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Poggers m8
do led lights also hurt manga? Because i installed some lights to make them look nicer
Honestly I have no idea
LED lights don't have as much UV light as fluorescent lights but they still emit a small amount
SPF for books
Bookscreen spf 200
I only have two volumes manga so yeah have no problem with sunlight at all 💀 🤧
haha fair enough
can aircon damge your manga?]