22/10/2014: New Manga Releases This Week

Rosencrantz said:
Aaron said:
Sankarea is one of my favourites. I'll just wait a couple of weeks for the Kindle price to drop to the usual £4.06, then I'm on it.

How is reading Manga on kindle?

My collection takes up a little too much space so buying future stuff electronically sounds good

It's really good actually, and certainly saves on the pennies (and shelf space)

The Kindle app used to be a little slow, but I think they've plugged in some updates and it feels a lot slicker now - everything really springs from the page nice and cleanly, and it's great to be able to pick out all the detail.

But yeah, main reason is just that everything's usually at least a couple of quid cheaper on the kindle + I know Viz do a lot of first volumes in series for under £2 quid to hook you in.
 
I'll start Monster soon. My friends considering picking up the Black Bird Box Set but I hope she'll decide not too since she'll inevitably make me read it.
 
Rosencrantz said:
Aaron said:
Sankarea is one of my favourites. I'll just wait a couple of weeks for the Kindle price to drop to the usual £4.06, then I'm on it.

How is reading Manga on kindle?

My collection takes up a little too much space so buying future stuff electronically sounds good
It's generally pretty awesome. As the Kindle Fire is only a little bit smaller than an average manga volume, I don't really have any trouble reading text or need to zoom in. If I'd bought physical copies of everything I've got digitally, I'd probably have to buy a new house to store it all in (and have less in my wallet).

Most of the series I get are from Kodansha and they're all really good image quality (something like Sankarea looks a lot nicer than say, Love Hina, but that's to be expected). Yen Press seems OK too (I've not got much from them yet though) and Vertical are on there too. You can also get Seven Seas stuff via the Comixology app.

The quality of Viz stuff is really inconsistent though. Some I've bought (like newer volumes of Naruto) are perfect, on par with Kodansha's. Others (like Rosario + Vampire 1, Psyren 1 and Bleach 22) are noticeably a lower resolution...I'm not massively fussy about stuff like that, but they're just blurry and hard to read. Nisekoi 1 looks great...Nisekoi 2 is horrible and blurry. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

I contacted Viz about it a while ago and they said they'd identified the problem and supposedly fixed it...but I've tried deleting and redownloading them and no difference.

In short: Kindle manga = YES. Viz Kindle manga = kinda maybe some.
 
The other good thing about digital manga is you pretty much always get the colour inserts (obviously) due to it being digital, and not printed on the standard paper.
 
bakum4tsu said:
Can someone get photos from that Attack on Titan boxset? Is that like a vizbig or what? I still have to start buying the manga but I've decided the singles over the colossal edition. But now this...


I've decided to google it and this is what I've found.

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2297 ... k-on-titan


Also, there's a box for the spinoffs.. Looks horrible to me. I guess I'll stick to the original single volumes.
 
That box seems pretty pointless to me - if it's basically just the singles in a box, it seems cheaper and more effective just to buy them individual - second hand copies must be going for a couple of quid at this point.
 


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