@@user-wu7ew8yb3w wait I kinda get that. The way the spines are different with the different parts, it wouldn’t be like putting regular manga backwards
I'm curious if Manhwa gets a pass here. I purchased a 9 volume collection that was split into groups of three, all ordered from right to left. It's the original Korean and the only manhwa I own. Not sure if this is consistent with all collections or unique to this one series.
Lol… I used to keep my manga in my windowsill and let me tell you, you can yellow your pages pretty damn quick. Didn’t have em there for over a month, but some of these volumes are looking worse off than some books from the mid 20th century I’ve seen 😂😂😂 (it was mostly my MHA collection so I’m not all that torn up but still)
Same I use to have a few books on my windowsill back when I use to share bedroom with my mother as a kid. There really was zero room to put stuff like a shelf or desk plus it looked nice on near the window... the sun ate those books up... fortunately books I didnt care for,, Twilight (yes i tried it didnt like it) Beautiful Creatures (school bookclub freebie) and 2 other Latin books...
Exactly what I came here to say. There are Turkish smoking pipes called Meerchaum pipes (probably spelled that horribly wrong) and they start out white but over many years of use they age and get more yellow to brown and it makes them look cooler. Aged books are like that but more healthy 😅
Scalpers can rot in hell, honestly, our community doesn't need that on top of shortages and covid related stuff on top of out of print and stretched out reprints, it drives me crazy that I have to be on my game for every release where 4 or 5 years ago I felt no worry what so ever, like it was more like there were too many printings back then.
Personally, I like to wrap in plastic my manga, but not with that cheap ass plastic bags you showed. Those can actually cause damage to the manga, because they have at least a little bit of acid. I use especial manga bags for different sizes, acid free and with uv protection, so the pages dont turn yellow, and the dust doesnt affect the volume. Also, these plastic bags are almost to perfect fit, so theres no much room for moisture to be inside. Great video tho ❤️
Plastic wrapping will help inhibit oxidation and that is about it. You are right though, and it will trap moisture and lead to a mold trap. It will have degassed plastic odor make the volume smell. It will not stop fading from UV light damage. Yellow pages are inherent with the cheap newspaper-like Acid containing paper used in most manga. If it wasn't meant to turn yellow, it would use Acid-free paper like any hardcover novel, or glossy acid-free paper like those Berserk Deluxe behind you. The best way to store manga would be in an oxygen free room with dust-free circulation from HVAC, 50% humidity, 70deg F, no light whatsoever, volumes stored upright position and tight but not too tight to each other with space behind and in front for circulation. For those of us in the real world, just stick a Contact paper on it, store it on a nice shelf away from the light in a comfortable room.
sadly i am one of the people who wrap their mangas in plastic, but the manga in Mexico although it is cheap also brings many quality problems most of the time causing it to turn yellow too quickly, so the best way to maintain a manga in good condition is leaving them in that plastic that in fact they sell it to you from the store, but I totally agree that it is a kick in the butt that when you want to read one of your manga you have to go through removing the plastic first xD
Tienes razon, e leido mucho que la calidad de los mangas de panini se hacen amarillos rapido, la verdad por eso compro manga en ingles, afortunadamente tengo un buen conocimiento del lenguaje y la calidad de muchos mangas es mejor.
I live in Japan and they sell plastic covers that just sit snug around the covers of the volumes, started wrapping all my volumes in them and it actually looks really nice
Hey Raian I was collecting chainsaw man and usually the volumes go for a good $20 and I patiently waited around 4 months and final I have the whole set for each volume costing me around $8-$10. Patience pays off and saves you money.
to people who read digital manga. don't talk all about all the latest chapters as if the rest of the world has already read them. you'll only give spoilers to people who read physical manga and the anime only watchers.
Yes!!! I was spoiled on something from Jujutsu Kaisen because of a headline of an article about what happened in the digitals which is at 170+ and I was only on chapter 90 (vol 11). Why?!? (T_T) now I am afraid to look at anything that mentions JJK.
I’m guilty in putting plastic sleeves on my manga but my place has roaches. And I’m tired of finding bug poop on my books 📚 thank goodness I’m moving out this year 😂
I really hate those scalpers.. I've been trying to collect My Dress-Up Darling but everytime there's a stock that just came out.. They're gone and people already are selling the copies they got for like 25% more than the original price. it freaking sucks haha
That happened with Sono Bisque Doll volume 8. The 1st edition came up with an special artbook, but it was instantly sold here in Japan, and now if I want the artbook it costs more than $200.
@@GohHuu that's weird.. some reseller here in my country when vol 8 came out they're just selling them with the artbook for around 30usd (converted from my currency)
the wrapping actually makes sense when you live in a country where the humidity would destroy anything, like Vietnam. I have some manga a while ago and since I didn't know how to preserve them, they didn't turn only yellow but they turned moldy, not to mention the mites
I agree with you about the yellowing of the pages. To me as long as I can read it it's fine. I guess something that bothers me is when someone bends the pages or the cover to hold their place instead of using a bookmark or a piece of paper ( or anything)
So, I agree with everything you say! Here in Mexico every single volume is plastic wrapped, and the manga stores even sell you plastic bags if you want to rewrap your manga. I personally don't like it, since, as you say, it's annoying to have to take it out every single time i want to check out any volumes (plus, imo, it makes you want to interact less and less with your collection, since everything is wrapped, you won't want to ruin the bag). People here do it mostly about the yellowing, but also for the "new" smell to stay and because it's less probably that it'll get messed up by moisture. Over here is easier to have it wrapped than it not since when you buy it it's already like that, but i do understand why it's weird over there since you'll have to go out of your way to always wrap it up.
exactly! but i go to a specific store where they ask if you want the books wrapped, i always say yes just so i can have it wrapped for now before i read it, after i read it i just save the plastic bag somewhere just in-case and just put it on my shelf
Can't speak for all. But for the wrapped collections I've seen, you can still look through the pages. It's only the cover that's really wrapped, kinda like a dust jacket. I only really like it to prevent scratching and stuff
I don’t mind wrapping my manga collection. Other than preventing brown pages, I usually don’t touch a manga I finished for a long time, so I don’t really have any issues with interactivity, also I like to take a book or 2 when I go out and I’d like to minimize as much damage as possible when carrying it in a bag or leaving it on a table. But that’s just me
Kinokuniya bookstore in the US wraps their manga in shrink wraps to prevent "manga cows" from reading every single volume without buying. Also it prevents wear & tear, dirt, and oil from grubby hands. LOL It's better to use book cover so that you can read the book while keep it pristine.
To protect it from dust, place a sheet of newspaper on top, to protect from yellowing, store in place of the room, where the sun never shines. You could also keep it in their boxset, or make a boxset.
As some comments have already said, in Mexico is pretty common to keep your mangas wrapped in plastic lol and most content creators inside the community encourages people to do the same. Every single manga in mexico is sold wrapped in a bag, and its reusable. I think its more common to do that here because the quality of the volumes is lower than the english volumes (they are not bad, is just that the covers tend to be thinner). Some covers can get scratched easily, or get stained
Fr fr. Its to keep the books in good quality. Alot of these store have open doors, no ac and near the windows/doors. All the dirt heat and sunlight diminishes the books real quick.
Really like this video !!! Drives me crazy when people just throw the manga anywhere, like when they had no careful at all and the manga just get all banged up. I mean, Manga is aesthetic and not to mention how expensive it is.
Honestly, I wrap my mangas with clear opp plastics "professionallly" and they look brand new asf. the plastics are not even visible on the spines because I made them look like "booker-kun". I personally do this to protect them. you can add silica gels though if they get wiggly.
I was the guy that thought that plastic bags were ridiculous, but guess what? The only place where I can store my mangas is in a room where bats tend to poop and... the top of my recently bought Berk vols has stains of POOP because of that, so I will put bags in all of them.
Great video Raian! I am guilty of using plastic sleeves on my manga LOL BUT it's only after I finish reading them. I bought the sleeves because I come from America comics and it's normal to bag + board your comic books. Obviously with manga, it is far less common but I decided to buy the sleeves and see how I liked it. TBH, I wasn't a fan at first because it doesn't fully protect the manga (VIZ/Shonen titles in particular). I did continue to sleeve them up because the pack came with 100 and it grew on me. I sleeve them up as the "final step" after completing a volume. I hope I made a good case for sleeving up manga 😅
I plastic wrap my manga, and Idk I've found bags that wrap the average Viz volume very nicely. It isn't even that noticeable when on the shelves. Unless the volumes have a different form factor (Berserk deluxe or even Box Sets), I prefer bagging those I can. It eases my mind, and I prefer them that way considering I regularly have dust and cat hair in my house.
I just clean my shelf’s about twice a month and keep the sun out of my room. Curtains must stay closed. Some sun like gets in but I try to make sure it never touches my books. 👍
I agree with Raian here, basically everything included in this video is SO bad for your manga and makes it worse so listen to us manga collectors, *_dont do it_*
if you want to read it later, put them all on the shelf and then take out the ones your going to read, then you'll still have space for it when your ready to put it back organizing it backwards is worse than color coding your entire collection
When I was beginning to collect/read manga I fell into that phase of wrapping my manga in those plastic sleeves. I had the sudden realization of how much money I spent on a series, and so I obviously wanted to protect it. It only lasted for a few months, and then I got rid of all of the plastic sleeves lol. It's just stupid honestly, it entirely defeats the purpose of a collection to begin with. Half the point of buying/collecting is being able to freely pick up and glance through them. When they are in those annoying sleeves, they end up just sitting on your shelf, and you never actually look at them. It's almost like you don't even own the books, and they are more for display.
Yeah well as a collector I thought it was just right to try to have your books as clean and protected as you can, I know that it's not like every manga is an Amazing Fantasy #15, but still want them to live as long as they can
I actually recently wrapped my Manga in plastic but in a way that I can still open it and look inside of it without any problem, it doesn't have any annoying plastic bags but it can stick easily to the other ones. I prob won't be wrapping them any more since it's so time consuming.
I had my whole collection in plastic for a while (acide-free BCW bags), because I've moved several times and have seen my books get damaged in the process. However, I don't really like the look, so I'm taking most out of the plastic now. I have some rare horror titles from the 90s and early 00s that will probably never get reprinted, though, and I'm going to keep those wrapped. They'll be too expensive to replace if they get ruined.
@javierhugocaballero3558 I've got a couple copies of Umezu's Scary Book, Inuki's School Zone, a bunch old Hideshi Hino books, including a near-complete collection of the Hino Horror series, and some other random titles like Reiko the Zombie Shop. I had some older paperback Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu books that I sold a while back as well.
I made the mistake two times in the past when I bought a random manga from the book store, they seemed fine on the covers, but they still had plastic wrapping so I couldn't look in it. I will never make that mistake again.
I was kinda confused as to why goblin slayer and berserk were the only volumes that came in plastic wrap. Now that you mentioned that about bookstores, that makes a fuckton of sense
Yes! I used to collect oop Del Rey and Tokyopop manga. And those scalpers wanted so much! I did spend $80 for one of the Ravemaster manga. I gave up trying to collect Battle Royale, Welcome to the NHK and Mushishi
Great Video btw, I'm guilty for your second point, I have been wrapping my manga with booker-kuns as well as putting them in these translucent white bags that often holds clothes. But I do have my reasons, 1 The place where I store my manga right now is in a box basket, the ones that store fruits, very sturdy and it doesn't damage my manga. 2. I'm waiting to have more space in my room to buy a shelf, after I graduate I'll finally be able to do that. But I take care of it, and taking it out every time isn't a big deal to me. Those bags are ziplocked so I really try my hardest to not put moisture into it. But hopefully, one day, I could see the whole beauty of it all.
I'm an artist and seeing the art on manga media is a big part of how I experience it. So, in case the edges start to get yellow or a bug start eating and making holes on it, that would really distract from the piece. Therefore, I try to read it and after that put a baggy on it to protect them from that kind of things until I want to read it again.
I think it's fine when someone (who has infinite time on their hands) wrap their manga individually, like you know using those clear book wrapper that we used to do with our textbooks in school with the tape and all. It looks neat so gotta admire their efforts to do that. But if they just shove/put their manga inside a plastic bag like that, then sorry but it just looks ugly lol
My manga is just randomly put onto a shelf, not in any order. Also if you are going to wrap a manga in plastic, just put a white cloth over it like they do for in certain museums or with famous art. Or at that point just put the manga in a box somewhere, only put the manga you want to read or display on the shelf
I've tried many ways of displaying my books and manga. Trying to make them look better on the shelf. After 30 minutes I just go back to displaying them in alphabetical order like I always do.
In my country we read from right to left, I just found out that I subconsciously organised my manga like that. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll go change it right now!
It's just too cumbersome to put a manga volume in a plastic bag to prevent from deterioration. I normally use inexpensive cellophane sheet as book cover for new manga volume and it protects the cover while I read the manga. When I get tired of it, I still can sell it as used in good condition and book cover helps.
I still have my Sailor moon and Ranma 1/2 manga from the late 90s and the yellowing is minimal if any, I also don't think people have to get so worried about it that they wrap each volume
I cannot understand the hatred of yellowed pages. I was into books way before I was into manga, and I personally love a yellowed book that smells like an old book. Newer white ones cannot compare to an older book (with a cover and spine in great condition though). I actually will enjoy it when my manga look somewhat aged.
I personally haven't seen organised spines across volumes, I'll have to check what I have again but yea I never though right to left organised, don't know much about japan but one thing I do know is that japan doesn't do right to left organising numbers the yellowing though... someone saying it adds character. I'm about to pass out from a panic attack here! just keep them out of direct sunlight. someone get me some oxygen..
I think I can deal with reading backwards but organizing them even if we were supposed to, would just drive me crazy until I put them to my liking lol.
Bcw manga bags dont really have a glare and look perfectly fine on a shelf. Bags prevent yellowing by limiting the oxidation process and prevent shelfwear
I have some series arranged backwards lol, but that’s not because they are manga, if you look in my normal bookshelf with all the other books, there’s also some series which are sorted backwards and some which are sorted forwards…Don’t ask me why, it just happened to be so. Maybe I should take some time to organise it a bit more xD And yea, who would use such plastic bags? I mean maybe in some countries where they aren’t that high quality but still it looks just awful.
Well I organize my manga backwards because it’s just how my shelf is layed out if I put the manga in the front than they would fall over so I just do it backwards
I couldn't leave my manga or books in general in plastic. Scalpers are ruining the industry. Vols 2-4of Jujutsu Kaisen are terrible to find.(had to edit this just found vol 8 for free) I won't pay the 25 it's valued on book depo..I'll just wait for rightstuf to email me for when they have it.
Initial D is one of the few series my brother wants to get, but because of the combination of scalpers and their not being that many copies of the English release, it's likely gonna take him forever to get the series
Its true that yellowing of my manga scares me but I think that is okay and natural... :)) also, old books smells great than the new ones. idk. hehehehe :))
Yea scalpers are really annoying, I currently want to buy all the volumes of One Piece, but getting from 3-70 is very difficult for me. I have to buy all my manga online as there’s no stores that stock Manga in my country. I’ve bought from 1-3 & 70-98, but getting all the earlier volumes is hard, the first 3 box sets have been sold out for months, I can get them on eBay but they’re at the very least double the price, some 5x the price.
Yeah I agree, I only wrap old volumes pre-90s because they tend to degrade. Anything older has oxygen exposure issues to the air, and the manga will turn blue. Especially Japanese prints. The yellowing is less of an issue. If you are in a humid climate too you should almost never bag things because like you said, traps moisture, it's really for dry environments. (Which is ironic since Japan is THE WORST PLACE TO BAG MANGA) I actually bag the rarer manga I just don't want people touching and keep them aside. Otherwise, manga shouldn't be bagged.
I wrap some of my manga , my two Japanese series Black Jack and Kinnikuman nisei but there old and not the best condition . Along with some of my others but that’s mainly because I have cats and no real book shelf . I probably won’t do it once I have actual shelves that I can better clean
I never really thought about that you read it right to left but you store then left to right. On the One Punch-Man Japanese version, I only have 1-10 and 19. On the One-Punch Man English version I never group them together. I have them in the box by when I got them. Never figured out why the (-) is moved on the two versions. When I talk to most people they just say One Punch. When you say the bag traps the air inside how would it do that? It’s not air tight. On the protection from Sunlight most bags don’t protect from that. They have to be UV museum grade to do that and some bag provide no protection and can damage your Manga. Having your Manga on book shelves will damage your manga over time. I could talk about paper and how to best preserve it all day. Just know direct sunlight is not a friend to paper. Just take some photos of a new manga volume and put it on your book shelf and come back in a year and take another photo and compare the two. There will be a difference where the book was exposed to the elements. Scalpers are the worse. There should be a law against those kinds of people.
So when he brought up the whole right to left thing on book shelfs I felt kinda dumb cause I've only been doing it cause idk I guess it became a natural habit and thought that it was an ok way to put em
Hate scalpers, one punch man volume 4 was sold out everywhere WHY ONLY VOLUME 4? Anyways found one on Mercari for 16 bucks, I either did that or waited 1 month and a half for more prints, and I’m impatient
i ziplock my manga because the level of humidity in my area is so high, it make death note black edition get yellowing. you just need find fit size manga ziplock. it cheap and does the job
Bro one time i gave my friend one time a manga that have one pages when they some b###s and when I got it back he say mmmm I spell som water on it sorry and when I look on it it’s where hard to upen and then I see he have jerk of when he saw that manga page I just say what wrong whit you and he say he will give me a new one but no I say give me the money I going to buy it and it cost like 110kr in Norwegian money who it’s 12$-14$
Organizing my manga backwards never once even crossed my mind. Its crazy to me to hear that people do that.
I only have the urge to do that with JoJo's
idk why but it just feels so wrong from left to right lol
@@user-wu7ew8yb3w I still don't get this
@@user-wu7ew8yb3w wait I kinda get that. The way the spines are different with the different parts, it wouldn’t be like putting regular manga backwards
Indeed, this is the first I've heard of this. Madness. :D
I'm curious if Manhwa gets a pass here. I purchased a 9 volume collection that was split into groups of three, all ordered from right to left. It's the original Korean and the only manhwa I own. Not sure if this is consistent with all collections or unique to this one series.
I don't mind a little yellow on my manga coz it proves that I have had it a long time amd it says that I loved this manga to still hold onto it 😊
Lol… I used to keep my manga in my windowsill and let me tell you, you can yellow your pages pretty damn quick. Didn’t have em there for over a month, but some of these volumes are looking worse off than some books from the mid 20th century I’ve seen 😂😂😂 (it was mostly my MHA collection so I’m not all that torn up but still)
@@hobogoat2 oooooofffff poor deku
@@bobafrogs ouch 🤕 he might be able to master one for all but there’s no stopping sun damage, buddy
Same I use to have a few books on my windowsill back when I use to share bedroom with my mother as a kid. There really was zero room to put stuff like a shelf or desk plus it looked nice on near the window... the sun ate those books up... fortunately books I didnt care for,, Twilight (yes i tried it didnt like it) Beautiful Creatures (school bookclub freebie) and 2 other Latin books...
Exactly what I came here to say. There are Turkish smoking pipes called Meerchaum pipes (probably spelled that horribly wrong) and they start out white but over many years of use they age and get more yellow to brown and it makes them look cooler. Aged books are like that but more healthy 😅
Scalpers can rot in hell, honestly, our community doesn't need that on top of shortages and covid related stuff on top of out of print and stretched out reprints, it drives me crazy that I have to be on my game for every release where 4 or 5 years ago I felt no worry what so ever, like it was more like there were too many printings back then.
Yeah like scalpers ruin everything fun
Personally, I like to wrap in plastic my manga, but not with that cheap ass plastic bags you showed. Those can actually cause damage to the manga, because they have at least a little bit of acid. I use especial manga bags for different sizes, acid free and with uv protection, so the pages dont turn yellow, and the dust doesnt affect the volume. Also, these plastic bags are almost to perfect fit, so theres no much room for moisture to be inside. Great video tho ❤️
May I ask what is it called? The Manga bags?
Where do you get your manga bags?
They're books. Even libraries/book collectors don't seal their rare, expensive antique books in plastic.
What are thes bags?
I guess you are not familiar with comics collectors, plastic on every single edition
Plastic wrapping will help inhibit oxidation and that is about it.
You are right though, and it will trap moisture and lead to a mold trap. It will have degassed plastic odor make the volume smell. It will not stop fading from UV light damage.
Yellow pages are inherent with the cheap newspaper-like Acid containing paper used in most manga. If it wasn't meant to turn yellow, it would use Acid-free paper like any hardcover novel, or glossy acid-free paper like those Berserk Deluxe behind you.
The best way to store manga would be in an oxygen free room with dust-free circulation from HVAC, 50% humidity, 70deg F, no light whatsoever, volumes stored upright position and tight but not too tight to each other with space behind and in front for circulation. For those of us in the real world, just stick a Contact paper on it, store it on a nice shelf away from the light in a comfortable room.
sadly i am one of the people who wrap their mangas in plastic, but the manga in Mexico although it is cheap also brings many quality problems most of the time causing it to turn yellow too quickly, so the best way to maintain a manga in good condition is leaving them in that plastic that in fact they sell it to you from the store, but I totally agree that it is a kick in the butt that when you want to read one of your manga you have to go through removing the plastic first xD
Tienes razon, e leido mucho que la calidad de los mangas de panini se hacen amarillos rapido, la verdad por eso compro manga en ingles, afortunadamente tengo un buen conocimiento del lenguaje y la calidad de muchos mangas es mejor.
@@brandonreyes719 panini made yellow pages for my manga so I don’t have to worry about anything 😂
Si tambien no te dejan leerlo
I live in Japan and they sell plastic covers that just sit snug around the covers of the volumes, started wrapping all my volumes in them and it actually looks really nice
Hey Raian I was collecting chainsaw man and usually the volumes go for a good $20 and I patiently waited around 4 months and final I have the whole set for each volume costing me around $8-$10. Patience pays off and saves you money.
Same got it all retail on amazon prime
Lmao people get desperate friends
i just got #9 not gonna read it for a while i already read it all, idk how long ago waiting for the anime so it can all come back to me
so you say i one of lucky ppl who can get retail price per volume?
I got them retail or less than retail on amazon from independent sellers and it all is in good condition
Hey Raian! I actually am not sure if you have checked out a manga called After the Rain. One of my favorites. It's a romance.
to people who read digital manga. don't talk all about all the latest chapters as if the rest of the world has already read them. you'll only give spoilers to people who read physical manga and the anime only watchers.
Yes!!! I was spoiled on something from Jujutsu Kaisen because of a headline of an article about what happened in the digitals which is at 170+ and I was only on chapter 90 (vol 11). Why?!? (T_T) now I am afraid to look at anything that mentions JJK.
@@_Cinun_ Yes, JJK got spoiled to me too... because of a comment.
I bag my manga just so the covers don't get bent and it keeps it's shape. It doesn't bother me to unwrap it and wrap it back up.
I also agree with the yellowing. Don't really see the big deal, it all looks the same inside and really gives it character!
Organising manga in a colour gradient over all series is one I've seen that just looks wrong
XD How are you supposed to find anything
I’m guilty in putting plastic sleeves on my manga but my place has roaches. And I’m tired of finding bug poop on my books 📚 thank goodness I’m moving out this year 😂
Hows the move?
@@ms.pirate lol
I think the roaches ate this guy
I really hate those scalpers.. I've been trying to collect My Dress-Up Darling but everytime there's a stock that just came out.. They're gone and people already are selling the copies they got for like 25% more than the original price. it freaking sucks haha
Me too I have to wait until June 8th to get mine online 😭😭😭
That happened with Sono Bisque Doll volume 8. The 1st edition came up with an special artbook, but it was instantly sold here in Japan, and now if I want the artbook it costs more than $200.
@@GohHuu that's weird.. some reseller here in my country when vol 8 came out they're just selling them with the artbook for around 30usd (converted from my currency)
@@akifumicos wait really, the Japanese artbook?
@@GohHuu yeah.. saw the art book and for me it's not worth it. I actually bought one but decided it's not worth it so I sold it to my friend.
Yellowing pages? Bro, my harry potter books have BROWNED😂
i put my mangas in plastic bags bcuz i do not own a bookshelf and i dont want it to collect dust on the table...
wrapping manga in bags has always been kinda strange to me. And organizing manga backwards has always driving me crazy lol
the wrapping actually makes sense when you live in a country where the humidity would destroy anything, like Vietnam. I have some manga a while ago and since I didn't know how to preserve them, they didn't turn only yellow but they turned moldy, not to mention the mites
I agree with you about the yellowing of the pages. To me as long as I can read it it's fine. I guess something that bothers me is when someone bends the pages or the cover to hold their place instead of using a bookmark or a piece of paper ( or anything)
Bends the page! Who is that menance ?
@@jumkarmarde9499 me.
So, I agree with everything you say! Here in Mexico every single volume is plastic wrapped, and the manga stores even sell you plastic bags if you want to rewrap your manga. I personally don't like it, since, as you say, it's annoying to have to take it out every single time i want to check out any volumes (plus, imo, it makes you want to interact less and less with your collection, since everything is wrapped, you won't want to ruin the bag).
People here do it mostly about the yellowing, but also for the "new" smell to stay and because it's less probably that it'll get messed up by moisture. Over here is easier to have it wrapped than it not since when you buy it it's already like that, but i do understand why it's weird over there since you'll have to go out of your way to always wrap it up.
exactly! but i go to a specific store where they ask if you want the books wrapped, i always say yes just so i can have it wrapped for now before i read it, after i read it i just save the plastic bag somewhere just in-case and just put it on my shelf
Can't speak for all. But for the wrapped collections I've seen, you can still look through the pages. It's only the cover that's really wrapped, kinda like a dust jacket. I only really like it to prevent scratching and stuff
I don’t mind wrapping my manga collection. Other than preventing brown pages, I usually don’t touch a manga I finished for a long time, so I don’t really have any issues with interactivity, also I like to take a book or 2 when I go out and I’d like to minimize as much damage as possible when carrying it in a bag or leaving it on a table. But that’s just me
Kinokuniya bookstore in the US wraps their manga in shrink wraps to prevent "manga cows" from reading every single volume without buying. Also it prevents wear & tear, dirt, and oil from grubby hands. LOL
It's better to use book cover so that you can read the book while keep it pristine.
To protect it from dust, place a sheet of newspaper on top, to protect from yellowing, store in place of the room, where the sun never shines. You could also keep it in their boxset, or make a boxset.
As some comments have already said, in Mexico is pretty common to keep your mangas wrapped in plastic lol and most content creators inside the community encourages people to do the same. Every single manga in mexico is sold wrapped in a bag, and its reusable. I think its more common to do that here because the quality of the volumes is lower than the english volumes (they are not bad, is just that the covers tend to be thinner).
Some covers can get scratched easily, or get stained
Fr fr. Its to keep the books in good quality. Alot of these store have open doors, no ac and near the windows/doors. All the dirt heat and sunlight diminishes the books real quick.
Really like this video !!!
Drives me crazy when people just throw the manga anywhere, like when they had no careful at all and the manga just get all banged up. I mean, Manga is aesthetic and not to mention how expensive it is.
Honestly, I wrap my mangas with clear opp plastics "professionallly" and they look brand new asf. the plastics are not even visible on the spines because I made them look like "booker-kun". I personally do this to protect them. you can add silica gels though if they get wiggly.
I was the guy that thought that plastic bags were ridiculous, but guess what? The only place where I can store my mangas is in a room where bats tend to poop and... the top of my recently bought Berk vols has stains of POOP because of that, so I will put bags in all of them.
I wrap my books. But I make my wrap skin tight it doesn’t look that bad.
I work in a book store and run the manga section. I've had to stop other staff doing this before. They think they're being smart and sophisticated
YOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! NEW VIDEO!!!
Also thanks for making this, I have anxiety and this should help with me worrying about messing up my collection.
The truth is, you can't mess up your collection! Do what makes you happy! It's yours! :D
True! Just with the yellowing, people are infact way to sensitive about it! Again, thanks for the awesome video 🤩
Great video Raian! I am guilty of using plastic sleeves on my manga LOL BUT it's only after I finish reading them. I bought the sleeves because I come from America comics and it's normal to bag + board your comic books. Obviously with manga, it is far less common but I decided to buy the sleeves and see how I liked it. TBH, I wasn't a fan at first because it doesn't fully protect the manga (VIZ/Shonen titles in particular). I did continue to sleeve them up because the pack came with 100 and it grew on me. I sleeve them up as the "final step" after completing a volume. I hope I made a good case for sleeving up manga 😅
Having poly bagged comic books for years, I can tell you that it does work and it prevents micro molds which is why books start to yellow.
I plastic wrap my manga, and Idk I've found bags that wrap the average Viz volume very nicely. It isn't even that noticeable when on the shelves. Unless the volumes have a different form factor (Berserk deluxe or even Box Sets), I prefer bagging those I can. It eases my mind, and I prefer them that way considering I regularly have dust and cat hair in my house.
Plastic wrapping is weird, I wonder are they comic book people? Like how you bag & board all the floppies.
I just clean my shelf’s about twice a month and keep the sun out of my room. Curtains must stay closed. Some sun like gets in but I try to make sure it never touches my books. 👍
when you said dont organize your manga backwards i thought you meant the pages showing instead of the spines
Me too.. 😳 it’s embarrassing-
I agree with Raian here, basically everything included in this video is SO bad for your manga and makes it worse so listen to us manga collectors, *_dont do it_*
if you want to read it later, put them all on the shelf and then take out the ones your going to read, then you'll still have space for it when your ready to put it back organizing it backwards is worse than color coding your entire collection
I was surprised about the yellowing thing. I spilt ketchup all over a manga once, still have it to this day.
When I was beginning to collect/read manga I fell into that phase of wrapping my manga in those plastic sleeves. I had the sudden realization of how much money I spent on a series, and so I obviously wanted to protect it. It only lasted for a few months, and then I got rid of all of the plastic sleeves lol. It's just stupid honestly, it entirely defeats the purpose of a collection to begin with. Half the point of buying/collecting is being able to freely pick up and glance through them. When they are in those annoying sleeves, they end up just sitting on your shelf, and you never actually look at them. It's almost like you don't even own the books, and they are more for display.
Yeah well as a collector I thought it was just right to try to have your books as clean and protected as you can, I know that it's not like every manga is an Amazing Fantasy #15, but still want them to live as long as they can
The books right to left kill me inside every time I see it.
I actually recently wrapped my Manga in plastic but in a way that I can still open it and look inside of it without any problem, it doesn't have any annoying plastic bags but it can stick easily to the other ones. I prob won't be wrapping them any more since it's so time consuming.
I had my whole collection in plastic for a while (acide-free BCW bags), because I've moved several times and have seen my books get damaged in the process. However, I don't really like the look, so I'm taking most out of the plastic now.
I have some rare horror titles from the 90s and early 00s that will probably never get reprinted, though, and I'm going to keep those wrapped. They'll be too expensive to replace if they get ruined.
What horror titles? 👀
@javierhugocaballero3558 I've got a couple copies of Umezu's Scary Book, Inuki's School Zone, a bunch old Hideshi Hino books, including a near-complete collection of the Hino Horror series, and some other random titles like Reiko the Zombie Shop. I had some older paperback Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu books that I sold a while back as well.
I made the mistake two times in the past when I bought a random manga from the book store, they seemed fine on the covers, but they still had plastic wrapping so I couldn't look in it.
I will never make that mistake again.
I was kinda confused as to why goblin slayer and berserk were the only volumes that came in plastic wrap.
Now that you mentioned that about bookstores, that makes a fuckton of sense
Raian, i’ma just say your videos are SO SO good, your the first manga/anime youtube i’ve watched and i love them, keep making these bangers, much love
Thank you so much!
One thing that I find very annoying is when people mix volumes from different series just to organize them by color.
Yes!
I used to collect oop Del Rey and Tokyopop manga. And those scalpers wanted so much! I did spend $80 for one of the Ravemaster manga. I gave up trying to collect Battle Royale, Welcome to the NHK and Mushishi
I hate when the corners of manga get bent idk why I just hate it.
I will return them if there like that, I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my manga😂
Great Video btw, I'm guilty for your second point, I have been wrapping my manga with booker-kuns as well as putting them in these translucent white bags that often holds clothes. But I do have my reasons, 1 The place where I store my manga right now is in a box basket, the ones that store fruits, very sturdy and it doesn't damage my manga. 2. I'm waiting to have more space in my room to buy a shelf, after I graduate I'll finally be able to do that. But I take care of it, and taking it out every time isn't a big deal to me. Those bags are ziplocked so I really try my hardest to not put moisture into it. But hopefully, one day, I could see the whole beauty of it all.
I will keep this in mind I want to start a manga collection!!!
I'm an artist and seeing the art on manga media is a big part of how I experience it. So, in case the edges start to get yellow or a bug start eating and making holes on it, that would really distract from the piece. Therefore, I try to read it and after that put a baggy on it to protect them from that kind of things until I want to read it again.
I think it's fine when someone (who has infinite time on their hands) wrap their manga individually, like you know using those clear book wrapper that we used to do with our textbooks in school with the tape and all. It looks neat so gotta admire their efforts to do that. But if they just shove/put their manga inside a plastic bag like that, then sorry but it just looks ugly lol
My manga is just randomly put onto a shelf, not in any order. Also if you are going to wrap a manga in plastic, just put a white cloth over it like they do for in certain museums or with famous art. Or at that point just put the manga in a box somewhere, only put the manga you want to read or display on the shelf
A thing that bothers me is how far out English releases are when compared to the Japanese.
I've tried many ways of displaying my books and manga. Trying to make them look better on the shelf. After 30 minutes I just go back to displaying them in alphabetical order like I always do.
Finally, someone who doesn't wrap their manga in plastic bags. Thank you
I’ve never heard of any of these ways of organizing it’s crazy to me that people do any of this
I put my manga backwards because my shelf’s a part of my bed and when I sit up I want the lowest ones close to me.
I actually dont mind the pages turning yellow, but my house has too much dusts so....I still keep them in plastic wraps
In my country we read from right to left, I just found out that I subconsciously organised my manga like that.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll go change it right now!
It's just too cumbersome to put a manga volume in a plastic bag to prevent from deterioration. I normally use inexpensive cellophane sheet as book cover for new manga volume and it protects the cover while I read the manga. When I get tired of it, I still can sell it as used in good condition and book cover helps.
I still have my Sailor moon and Ranma 1/2 manga from the late 90s and the yellowing is minimal if any, I also don't think people have to get so worried about it that they wrap each volume
I cannot understand the hatred of yellowed pages. I was into books way before I was into manga, and I personally love a yellowed book that smells like an old book. Newer white ones cannot compare to an older book (with a cover and spine in great condition though). I actually will enjoy it when my manga look somewhat aged.
Dragon ball - dragon ball super spines literally flow together and the only one I have plastic wrapped is my first edition Japanese One Piece print
I personally haven't seen organised spines across volumes, I'll have to check what I have again but yea I never though right to left organised, don't know much about japan but one thing I do know is that japan doesn't do right to left organising numbers
the yellowing though... someone saying it adds character. I'm about to pass out from a panic attack here! just keep them out of direct sunlight. someone get me some oxygen..
I think I can deal with reading backwards but organizing them even if we were supposed to, would just drive me crazy until I put them to my liking lol.
Bcw manga bags dont really have a glare and look perfectly fine on a shelf. Bags prevent yellowing by limiting the oxidation process and prevent shelfwear
I wanna wrap all the manga ive read in plastic like how the berserk volumes are wrapped, protect the book but barely noticeable
Some people organise their manga backwards because they have a volume missing or they have a duplicate
I agree with yellowing! I think it’s kinda nice…as long as I can read the manga then I’m good lol
I feel like the bag thing is a comic thing to preserve a comic you want to bag and board it
I have some series arranged backwards lol, but that’s not because they are manga, if you look in my normal bookshelf with all the other books, there’s also some series which are sorted backwards and some which are sorted forwards…Don’t ask me why, it just happened to be so.
Maybe I should take some time to organise it a bit more xD
And yea, who would use such plastic bags? I mean maybe in some countries where they aren’t that high quality but still it looks just awful.
Bro the scalpers for fruit baskets is insane and maid sama
Well I organize my manga backwards because it’s just how my shelf is layed out if I put the manga in the front than they would fall over so I just do it backwards
I couldn't leave my manga or books in general in plastic. Scalpers are ruining the industry. Vols 2-4of Jujutsu Kaisen are terrible to find.(had to edit this just found vol 8 for free)
I won't pay the 25 it's valued on book depo..I'll just wait for rightstuf to email me for when they have it.
Initial D is one of the few series my brother wants to get, but because of the combination of scalpers and their not being that many copies of the English release, it's likely gonna take him forever to get the series
Its true that yellowing of my manga scares me but I think that is okay and natural... :)) also, old books smells great than the new ones. idk. hehehehe :))
big brain.....japanese read right to left....1000 must mean zero zero zero one
Yea scalpers are really annoying, I currently want to buy all the volumes of One Piece, but getting from 3-70 is very difficult for me. I have to buy all my manga online as there’s no stores that stock Manga in my country.
I’ve bought from 1-3 & 70-98, but getting all the earlier volumes is hard, the first 3 box sets have been sold out for months, I can get them on eBay but they’re at the very least double the price, some 5x the price.
Hey Raian I would love to see another vlog style video like the one you did when you went to find the Remina volume. Anyway keep up the great work!!
I organise them randomly ,for example on one self they could be right to left and on another left to right
Only reason i dislike yellowing is for manga like berserk or vagabond that have lots of detail within the black white and gray
Yeah I agree, I only wrap old volumes pre-90s because they tend to degrade. Anything older has oxygen exposure issues to the air, and the manga will turn blue. Especially Japanese prints. The yellowing is less of an issue. If you are in a humid climate too you should almost never bag things because like you said, traps moisture, it's really for dry environments. (Which is ironic since Japan is THE WORST PLACE TO BAG MANGA) I actually bag the rarer manga I just don't want people touching and keep them aside. Otherwise, manga shouldn't be bagged.
scalpers in the vietnam manga community is the true nightmare whenever there's a limited edition volume comes out
I saw the aot volume 34 in your self and I bet that we are going to get a aot video
I hope so! But my AOT manga is at the old house and I'm not caught up! 😭
@@CaptainRAIAN broooo that is sad but the end is very good and if someone spoil the end you will be mad 💢
I wrap some of my manga , my two Japanese series Black Jack and Kinnikuman nisei but there old and not the best condition . Along with some of my others but that’s mainly because I have cats and no real book shelf . I probably won’t do it once I have actual shelves that I can better clean
The plastic on covers peel off so that’s why people want to protect it from humidity
I was looking into wrapping mine to avoid booklice. Idk if I’m just too paranoid.
Have you read Kaiju No. 8??? Volume 1 gave me some My Hero vibes, and I enjoyed it alot!!
Not yet!
Sometimes when people out they bag up manga so it doesn't get damaged wet etc and thats understandable but i don't get book wrapping your collection
I plastic wrap because I'm an idiot. I read manga online, but like having physical copies of the series I enjoy. So you can air tight wrap it.
I wrap my manga but I specifically have covers that allow me to still read them, I try to keep the covers and spines from shelf wear or any scuffing 😂
I never really thought about that you read it right to left but you store then left to right. On the One Punch-Man Japanese version, I only have 1-10 and 19. On the One-Punch Man English version I never group them together. I have them in the box by when I got them. Never figured out why the (-) is moved on the two versions. When I talk to most people they just say One Punch. When you say the bag traps the air inside how would it do that? It’s not air tight. On the protection from Sunlight most bags don’t protect from that. They have to be UV museum grade to do that and some bag provide no protection and can damage your Manga. Having your Manga on book shelves will damage your manga over time. I could talk about paper and how to best preserve it all day. Just know direct sunlight is not a friend to paper. Just take some photos of a new manga volume and put it on your book shelf and come back in a year and take another photo and compare the two. There will be a difference where the book was exposed to the elements.
Scalpers are the worse. There should be a law against those kinds of people.
So when he brought up the whole right to left thing on book shelfs I felt kinda dumb cause I've only been doing it cause idk I guess it became a natural habit and thought that it was an ok way to put em
Thx for uploading.
Best manga channel 🔥🔥🔥
I spent hundreds on my gantz manga singles, why on gods green earth would i not plastic wrap them
Hate scalpers, one punch man volume 4 was sold out everywhere WHY ONLY VOLUME 4? Anyways found one on Mercari for 16 bucks, I either did that or waited 1 month and a half for more prints, and I’m impatient
i ziplock my manga because the level of humidity in my area is so high, it make death note black edition get yellowing.
you just need find fit size manga ziplock. it cheap and does the job
Bro one time i gave my friend one time a manga that have one pages when they some b###s and when I got it back he say mmmm I spell som water on it sorry and when I look on it it’s where hard to upen and then I see he have jerk of when he saw that manga page I just say what wrong whit you and he say he will give me a new one but no I say give me the money I going to buy it and it cost like 110kr in Norwegian money who it’s 12$-14$