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This is probably not going to get much in the way of responses, however I have a desperate plea! Last night, through drunken antics I genuinely can't remember, I ended up seriously damaging my Kill la Kill boxset

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Does anyone know any way of possibly acquiring just the collector's box? I'd be willing to buy it off someone if anyone, for some reason, feels like being generous and just selling me the box. I'm not sure if anyone at AL can possible hook me up with a replacement if they have any spares (Paging @anime_andrew / @Jeremy Graves) but I'm not holding out much hope. I'm really mad at myself for damaging something that's going to be rather hard to come by >_>
 
What's the cheapest, easiest way to read One Piece? Is it the big boxes on Amazon for like £60/70? I'd quite like to watch One Piece but starting the anime from the start and watching all those episodes is simply out of the question for me (seriously, it would probably take me about 6 years....) so was thinking about reading the manga up to the current anime arc then switching over....
 
Doing the quick sums, I'd say the 3 in 1 omnibus volumes would be best. Approx £7-8 each on Amazon Marketplace. The big box set aren't much more expensive as they work out at about £3 per volume based on the marketplace price.
 
Anyone ever bought any ex-library Manga? I'm trying to fill a gap in a series I stopped on and I either buy a 3 in 1 edition to cover 1 missing volume or there's a very good ex library going cheap, I just don't know 100% what to expect. It's from the US rather than UK if that makes a difference to library items.
 
Rosencrantz said:
Anyone ever bought any ex-library Manga? I'm trying to fill a gap in a series I stopped on and I either buy a 3 in 1 edition to cover 1 missing volume or there's a very good ex library going cheap, I just don't know 100% what to expect. It's from the US rather than UK if that makes a difference to library items.
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I haven't bought any personally, but I've seen manga being sold off at my local library. There'll likely be some kind of stock-keeping info with date and price and such ink-stamped onto one of the early pages. There may also be damage where the date-stamp card has been torn off the page it was stuck to.

I can only really comment on what I've seen here in the UK, so I'm not sure about US libraries. Hopefully that's at least of some help to you, though. :)
 
Do i need to watch any of the previous Gundam series before i watch Gundam Reconguista in G? Seeing peoples reactions to it on here has me curious to see if it's really that bad.
 
So how is it that MMPR is being released in season boxsets where as Dino Charge is getting released across about 5 volumes of 4 episodes? Obviously MMPR has a lot more episodes so it would take a lot longer to come out that way, but this sort of thing has always puzzled me...

Why is kids' TV generally released in this sort of format? A typical prime time TV show will usually have a complete season boxes by the end of its tenure, usually a few months after the last episode airs, but where a cartoon or kids show is concerned, it usually gets a bunch of cheap releases with 4-5 episodes a disc and even then it never usually covers the entire series anyway. What's different about kids TV that warrants a different release model to pretty much every other kind of series?

I know this isn't strictly anime-related, but does anyone know why this is? This has puzzled me for years...
 
I assume its something that has continued from the VHS days. Anime used to be released the same way up until about 10 years ago. At least the sets are a lot cheaper than they used to be. I'd also guess its a supermarket requirement to get them on their shelves. I don't think they are fond are boxsets. I remember a few years back Manga broke down the orange box DBZ sets to single discs releases to get them into places like Asda.
 
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