It's fear of spending money, when it could be spent on: food, better TVs, better monitors, better computers, cars, debt, bills, other electronics, other hobbies, clothing, etc.

You can get it for free and in most cases, upwards of 90% the same or better quality as a legal alternative. Anime routinely has the best quality as far as movies rips from what I've seen.

Lack of money, rather spend it on technology/furniture to upgrade my room.

I'm a downloadfag, but I do buy manga/dvd/etc. if I really like the series.

I only do this for the sake of collection.
I care not for the actual industry that profits from this.

>>loved my collection of one piece
obvious troll is obvious

I buy manga I like, and that is why I have a 400+ collection.

:T

Hmmm.... I think I have a problem.

There's hardly anyone against buying manga, specially for unscanlated works and great seinen series.

>>28444712
Why is a mention of One Piece trolling these days? Sure it isn't the most intellectual series ever created but I like it, it got me into anime and manga.

I don't buy as much manga anymore. Only buy the odd Urasawa and CLAMP title here and there.

Because I've recently developed an expensive taste when it comes to clothes and make-up.

But I suspect it's not just the act of buying the manga or anime. We bought a lot in February-March when Best Buy was having their awesome sale. It's more than anime and manga are just more expensive than we feel they should be.

I had huge threads confirming that several hundred people would buy more manga if it were at the Japanese prices of like $5-6 dollars brand new, $1-2 dollars used. When the stuff is at its cheapest of $7.99, it's just seen as needlessly pricey.

Because I spend my money on things that matter.

Clothes. Dinner with friends. Textbooks. Save the rest.

I don't have time to buy some shitty books I could just as easily save on a hardrive.

Honestly, it's a problem of money for me. Not only that, but I prefer not to have anything physical that can identify me as a weeaboo.

Image the situation. Your friend walks in your dorm room and by some strange chance the first thing he sees is your manga collection. He pays no attention to anything else. He walks over and check out the small collection you have and asks: "What the f*** is 'Hayate the Combat Butler'?"

I wouldn't buy anime anymore, but I'm not a big fan of TV.

I have spent a good bit on money on manga lately.

Bought in English:
Negima 1-24
Koukou Debut 1-3
Crimson Hero 1-4 +6

In Japanese:
Noramimi 9
The World God Only Knows 5, 6
Ice Revolution 1-3

glad to know i'm not the only one who laughed when you said "collection of one piece". why would you buy that?! Onemanga has it all and its so long too. Also, many of the arcs suck. Maybe if you said you only buy some volumes, i would laugh less. Like the past 4 or 5 arcs, then i would approve.

I see no point. Small manga volume vs superior HQ scans. I would rather buy another figurine.

>>28444995
>Noramimi 9
I mean 8, the last volume.

>>28444914

Like, I would love to buy Moyashimon, but not for eleven dollars a volume. Same with Inukami!. I just don't see the price versus time ratio to be a worthwhile expenditure.

>>28444914
$7.99? Pluto sells for £9.99 per volume in Forbidden Planet, and the smaller volumes for shonen etc. were around £6.99. I would love your low US prices, we pay double. Granted, the Pluto volumes were very nicely printed, as in you could open the page fully without bending the thing irreparably.

>>28444939
You say "manga". Unless he is a complete faggot, he shouldn't care. Get some better friends.

i buy a few series. Negima in BOTH languages (english has censoring occasionally), Karin (Chibi vampire), My dearest devil princess, and rurouni kenshin.

>>28445030
I'd buy it all if I could get it at 1/10 the price. I bought the first so many volumes because the scans where crap at the time.

I do buy manga, thats how i get my Excel Saga!

>>28445030
The scanlations for the early volumes are beyond shit. I can understand why one would want to buy them. Then again, I'm guessing you're a troll as you speak of Onemanga.

>>28445030
One Piece scans are pretty awful, even the new ones have a retarded grid effect on the gray areas

Picture it.

Your friends walk into your room, anime and manga on your shelf. Since you live in a country where people bias everything from a single look, they decide to go home and never talk to you again.

That's what I think will happen to me, so I keep my goddamn room free of anything that isn't related to my personal likings, seriously.

But I have to admit, I do have 2 Card Captor Sakura: Master of the Clow books and a Danboard (but everyone just thinks he's fucking adorable).

That's just my two cents (or, two pennys if you count on where I live)

>>28445180
Nah, i just named a famous online manga reader thing. I download my chapters personally but i've found out that most of /a/ doesn't.

>>28445210

That's probably from the cheap-ass newsprint that Jump is printed on.

>>28445157
>TF2 Disk Version
I thought I was the only one!

>one piece
enjoy your zolo, faggot

>>28445215
I had that a couple of times, but I just shrugged and said if its a problem we probably shouldn't be friends.

Most people are just confused and think its all porn. I always assure them it isn't and we have no problems after that. Some of them even said they checked out a series online after I showed it to them and I really liked it.

Its just a stupid social taboo thing, decent people will get over it.

Because manga is a one-time deal. Re-reading manga is boring as shit as long as your memory is better than a child's because you can remember the storylines and even some pages after just a glance. Think about it, a minimum of $8 for some SJ volume takes on average 60 minutes to read if you slow down and appreciate the artwork. That's an expensive hour, plus the cost of the time you spent making that money and the time you could have spent doing something worthwhile.

Believe me. I bought a ton of fucking manga right after I got into reading them, and all they do is collect dust and unwanted questions from anyone venturing into my bedroom. DVDs are a slightly smaller waste of money because they can be had for cheap(er) if you look, there is re-watch value in the best shows, and you can actually sell them once you're tired of looking at them. Collecting anime/manga is just that-- collecting. Even fags who spend all day F5ing /a/ and fap to their waifus are really just casual fans with too much time. Take away that free time and it's a pretty easy habit to break.

I hate spending money on something I know I could get for free. Also, I really don't want physical copies of stuff. I watch everything on my computer, swapping out DVDs sucks, they take up space, get scratched, etc. If I did buy any I would just end up ripping them to disk anyway. Plus, it's easier to hide your power level this way.

>>28445306
>implying I can't get over the change from an r to an l

>>28445567
>Re-reading manga is boring as shit as long as your memory is better than a child's because you can remember the storylines and even some pages after just a glance.

Depends on the manga. Rereading something that's got some measure of depth to it, even if it's as little as Death Note or Elfin Lied, can wind up with you teasing out some detail or another meaning you missed the first time, giving you a better appreciation of the story at large.

Buying manga is OK.

I like to have manga in my hands when I read it. I don't care about DVD's, the fan-subs are good enough. And I got shit loads of money that I can spend on what ever I want

Does anyone remember that rhyming story against bookstores?

>>28445732
>mentions Elfen Lied

Preparing for shitstorm.

I buy manga because I'm a bookfag.

Anime DVDs are horribly overpriced and are always 1-2 years behind the current season. Also, the original animators rarely profit from localized DVD sales so it's not like you're really supporting the anime industry.

>>28445567
This post is good and constructive. I agree with it. I have re-read some series after forgetting most of the details, but mostly the books just lay there for years.

I still buy manga occasionally because I feel I need to support the artists, but that's just the moralfag in me.

>>28445916
I doubt the manga artists see anything other than the licensing fees from Viz or whoever is publishing in English. I do like physical copies of manga but I have no allusions that my money is going anywhere except into their pocket. At least the English companies bring a lot of good series over here, I hope that eventually there will be series that are more popular here than Japan.

>>28444914
>I had huge threads confirming that several hundred people would buy more manga if it were at the Japanese prices of like $5-6 dollars brand new, $1-2 dollars used.
A silly idea, considering that English language volumes are physically bigger and printed on much better paper.

>>28445064
>Pluto sells for £9.99 per volume in Forbidden Planet.
You know it's like £4 cheaper than that on Amazon, right?
Why would you buy stuff on the high-street when online retailers are guaranteed to have it cheaper?

>>28445567
You must have ADD, I've re-read every single one of my manga volumes at least three times. Upwards of 5 in the case of really re-readable ones like Yotsuba&. And I think my Azumanga Daioh omnibus has probably seen about 7 re-reads worth (I tend to just pick it up and open at a random page).

Granted my collection is relatively small, but so what?

>>28446112
>You know it's like £4 cheaper than that on Amazon, right?

Yeah I do, but that is the RRP for new titles. I don't reckon Amazon cuts the cost of new releases.

Lack of money. I'd prefer to support my alcoholism.

I began rereading Excel Saga and was shocked by how different it was after five years of training. Aside from how childish the anime was.

I endorse the buying of things you like.

>>28446112

I'm partial to the smaller books and the dust jackets that Japanese manga get, but you are right with the issue of paper quality.

But also let us not forget than they buy shouen jump in telephone books for real cheap.

>>28446215
Well Yotsuba& vol. 7 is going for just under £6, and while I don't know what the official RRP for it in the UK is, that's less than the £6.75 you get if you convert it from the US RRP, and I'm not sure it's even out yet.

This is including postage, by the way.

I buy whatever I can. That interests me, of course. Now, you do raise a good point though.

I need to build me a shelf. A damn fine one, too. Hmmm....

i lack of money.

and if i had money to waste i'd be blowing it on upgrading practically all my fucking electronics since they're discounting everything hoping to boost sales for christmas.

i don't mind buying manga. printed volumes are better than reading it off a monitor.

anime...the problem is, most anime goes and pulls some horrible asspulls or turns to shit. There's just so much of it isn't worth owning. You'd have to be a braindead ANN drone to argue you should buy it all. Do those reviewers they have pay for the shit? oh, they get merchandise sent to them for free? i guess they're not real fans either :3

>>28444751
If it is a problem, then we share that problem.

So fear not.

I love buying manga and anime but I don't have a job so I have to buy in heavy moderation. Once I get a job my collection will skyrocket.

Money is meant to spent on hookers and blow.

why the hell would I? I can walk down the street to the manga cafe and pay 500円 an hour for all the manga I want.

>>28446607
/a/ doesn't do 3D

>>28445567

I like you.

I used to get it from the library mainly, but I've kinda been put off after an incident with Ah! My Goddess and the pages being stuck together with jizz.