Manga question

KaizokuFan22

Even if you cannot read japanese do you still buy the JP tankobons(sp?)(JP volumes)

I do..but now i am not allowed since my family thinks theyre considered junk if I cant read them:sad:

Mr. Lucci

I'm sorry, but what's a tankobon?

Rixter

I buy both, because I'm awesome like that. I have more of the English releases, though.

Setzer

I'm sorry, but what's a tankobon?

The volume books.

I don't buy the Japanese, but I do buy a lot of English releases.

Roz

I buy all of the English volumes as they are released, and I have purchased two of the Japanese volumes (Intro to Water 7 and Sea Train flashback).

I may get impatient and buy more Japanese volumes, but I don't really know at this point. I definitely want to own

! whatever volume has Iceberg repairing Merry, but he doesn't know why he's doing it.

WanMQ

I'm planning on starting to collect them, mostly because I'm no longer satisfied reading the translations (I've started studying Japanese. In the meantime I'll use Stephen's scripts). Yet, first I've got to find a place that sells them.

HEATXZ

I buy the japanese mangas but sometimes i can't understand what they are saying

Impel Down

If I can't read it, then hell no, I can just read it here. Although, I would love to get just the cover of the chapter where Luffy fight Foxy in the afro.

Mr. Evil

Yes, I plan on collecting the whole series once I've learned Japanese (I'm learning right now) I already have volumes 42 and 43 as well as the Red and Blue databooks, they were gifts from a friend who went to Japan.

I really hate reading on a computer actually, sitting down and reading in book form is so much better IMO.

Iwin Ulose

I would like to own them just for the hell of it, but I don't have the money right now.

BTW, Setzer, FF6 rawks. XD

Rockschmock

What should I pick when I buy them and and am able to read them? Because that's what I do. I have all 45 volumes, plus RED, BLUE and Wanted. And I'm buying Weekly Jump since 2002 or 2003, but have been too lazy to throw any of them away… orz

@Roz
That'd be volume 44 ; D

Mr. Lucci

Right now I just read the manga on the internet, I would love to buy them though, but I don't have the money at the moment, and I can't seem to find them anywhere, crappyass bookstores in my neighborhood don't have many one piece manga volumes, only naruto(to much naruto in my opinion)

warp

I buy them. I have 20-44 and 1-13 in english =D. I plan to own 45 soon, I need to go up to my japanese bookstore again.

Roz

@Rockschmock:

@Roz
That'd be volume 44 ; D

That doesn't sound right. I thought that the beginning of Water 7 and the Sea Train flashback were mid-40s.

! If I remember correctly, the whole deal with Iceberg repairing Merry for some unknown reason doesn't go on until after Enies Lobby.

KaizokuFan22

if youre talking abotu the flashback iceberg has about the ship..its ch.430 in Vol 44

Bounty1Berry

I want a Japanese volume or two (I'd love to get 42, cos I like the cover, and maybe 44), but since there's no shop locally, I'm looking for an excuse, like a trip to somewhere that does sell them (I spent a day in San Jose and all I could find was frustration that the 'Japantown' stop on the light-rail was in the middle of a residential district with nothing looking like a bookshop in sight.

SaiyaJedi

I buy them, but I can read the language. So I guess I can't vote. :getlost:

Roz

Well shuck my corn, you guys were right.

Yeah. I definitely gotta have that volume at some point because I LOVED that part.

Caracal

@Mr.:

I really hate reading on a computer actually, sitting down and reading in book form is so much better IMO.

I agree, but I'm willing to read at my computer to catch up and keep up to date.

About a year or so ago I was really keen to buy the tankos and learn to read Japanese but the idea has died down. I may do so eventually but for now I'm happy with the Viz translation.

nickel56

I currently don't own any, but I intend to buy them all when I make my trip to Japan one day. Gotta get it in boxes then, heh..
(cause it's kinda expensive if I buy it from a lcoal Kinokuniya, around twice the original price!)

Smoker

Of sure, I LOVE tankobon, I've all of them!

Fleur

I currently have the first 40 Japanese volumes/tankobon of OP. But because I can read them. ^^
Like seiyajedi I can't vote either…

There should be an option for that. XD

Zephos

I have the first 43 and can't read them.

Why?
I read them online, than have the tankos for art and collectibility factor.
And also so Im not stealing.

Its totally worth the money. They're actually cheaper than US releases if you find the right place.

Fleur

@Zephos:

I have the first 43 and can't read them.

Why?
I read them online, than have the tankos for art and collectibility factor.
And also so Im not stealing.

Its totally worth the money. They're actually cheaper than US releases if you find the right place.

Yeah, I got every volume for 250 yen in Japan, which is about $3.00 each, here.

CosmicDebris

I buy them, since it will be forever until the English versions come out.

Faaip de Oiad

I have the german volumes, they're really up to date, they are at 43 Volumes already

bevin

I get the tankos, mainly because I like being able to read them when I'm not at the computer, plus it helps me stay in practice with Japanese since I'm not taking any classes right now, and while I have the first four volumes of the English release, the cheesy pirate lingo really started irritating me and I stopped getting them.

mugiwara

I've got all the Japanese tanks and Color Walks. I also decided to buy the english volumes as well, that way other people can enjoy it too!!!

Roz

I'm endlessly amazed at how much the German translations are on top of things.

KaizokuFan22

@Faaip:

I have the german volumes, they're really up to date, they are at 43 Volumes already

Volume 43?!:blink:

Zephos

Cool as that is for Germany, the collector/artist in me has to (no offense) barf whenever I see the covers for thier releases.
http://www.eastblue.net/pages/manga/couvertures/couverture.php?id=Allemagne

Thats some insanely inept design sense.

In fact alot of European releases have ugly covers,
France
http://www.glenatmanga.com/
Italy
http://cover.starcomics.com/3934.2.jpg

end rant.

Fleur

Really? The German are just seem simplistic to me, even if they're not great; same with the French ones. But only when you compare them to the Japanese ones.

On the other hand, the Italian ones…now that is just awful. It looks like something made in paint by a 10 year-old.

Bounty1Berry

One thing you have to give the American releasers credit for: They keep at least most of the logo.

KaizokuFan22

why is the logo in baby blue and baby pink?

Zephos

@Fleur:

Really? The German are just seem simplistic to me, even if they're not great; same with the French ones. But only when you compare them to the Japanese ones.

On the other hand, the Italian ones…now that is just awful. It looks like something made in paint by a 10 year-old.

Thats exactly it, in comparison to the original.
I really love the OP covers. When I was a kid I bought loads of Goosebumps books just because I loved thier color schemes with a well drawn picture combo, it was all about collectibility, I hardly READ the things.
With OP I got the same with insides I really liked.
So to see the german books, with thier brilliant choice of "hey guyz lets have navy blue and orange for every single book" I just feel like wrong is being commited.
This is the sort of thing I'm OCD about :D.

I don't own any of them, but I will buy them when I get the money.

jinjue

I buy all of the Japanese tankouban as they come out, which means currently I've got Red, Blue, Wanted, and volumes 1-45. I do not, however, own any of the English releases from Viz.

I'm by no means fluent in Japanese, but I can read the language – the furigana helps lots! – and I know enough to get by. What I can't figure out or puzzle through offhand I can look up in a dictionary, and translations by fluent people like Stephen are also super mega helpful. But even though I cannot read them easily, I still collect all of the books pretty religiously. I've got a few reasons for that, the first being that I just like to actually have them. I buy the tankouban for all of the different series that I follow, and One Piece is no exception. Also, when I first got into One Piece, it was either buying the tankouban or…nothing. Scanlations didn't exist back then, and professionally published English versions were a pipedream. So even if I didn't already have a habit of buying everything that I was interested in, there were no other options readily available for me to follow the series.

Once upon a time I dallied with the notion of picking up the English releases from Viz when they finally came out, but now I'm glad that I never actually followed through on that.

EDIT: Man, some of those European covers are fug-lay! I'd need a few drinks in me before I could be conviced to crack open some of those.

~ jj ~

Pants-eater

I don't buy anything.

Except when told to go buy groceries or if I'm allowed to.

And comics are definitely out.

Zephos

@jinjue:

EDIT: Man, some of those European covers are fug-lay! I'd need a few drinks in me before I could be conviced to crack open some of those.

~ jj ~

Your all right with me pal! :D

Faaip de Oiad

^ they might be ugly, but at least the german version is up to date and thats far more important for me (even though they could have put more effort into the covers)

Zephos

Fie on that.
An OCD about aesthetic collectibility person dosen't take all navy blue for a compromise.
If I lived in Germany I would import tankos anyway.

I can't read japanese and have litle knowlege of the language. but i belive it would be bether to read it on japanece because the writen language is difrent then the latin based that we use… hard to explain and my english is realy bad.