st_owly said:
Can you actually read Japanese or are they just for show?
I'm gradually teaching myself to read Japanese, and using manga/light novels as both a learning method and a motivation to do so.
I can generally follow series with furigana without having to look stuff up very often, but things without are still very much slow progress at present (Morita-san wa Mukuchi being an exception to this latter point on account of it being such basic language for the most part).
I've yet to get more than a few pages into a Japanese language light novel, but all in good time.
About other random stuff:
- The 4 random manga volumes on top of Tasogare/Morita-san were things I picked up in the 5 for a pound deal at forbidden planet's stand at last year's MCM expo.
- Medaka Box volume 1 is in storage, while the later volumes are not. Iris Zero volume 1, on the other hand, is currently under my bed.
- Yes, the Tsubasa volumes are all upside-down. Some of them are ex-library books, which is why they have that sticker on them.
- Any anime series that have volumes missing means that I don't own those volumes. I did at one point have all volumes of FMP, but some of them turned out to be from the US so I took them back to the shop. I don't own any US DVDs/Blu-rays and have no intention of changing that - if I'm going to import something, I'll import from Japan, not America.