November is my birth month, which means I had a ton of manga and anime related things for free. So many Barnes and Noble gift cards…
November also marked a return to my fandom roots and a few other anime purchases worth mentioning — hit the jump!
Spell of Desire, Volume 2
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Volume 2
Black Rose Alice, Volume 2
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Omnibus 1
Barakamon, Volume 1
Say I Love You, Volume 4
Watamote, Volume 4
Animal Land, Volume 10
Ubel Blatt, Volume 0
A Bride’s Story, Volume 6
Prophecy
Anime
Sailor Moon Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack, Set 1
The Flowers of Evil Blu-ray Set
Watamote Blu-ray Set
Among other things I wound up with 50 bucks in Barnes and Noble giftcards for my birthday, so everything from Spell of Desire through Barakamon I picked up with those, save $20 extra dollars. I don’t normally go on big book binges in store, so it was a cool feeling carrying loads of manga to the register. It guess it kind of offset taking a wrong turn on the way home…
I mentioned last month that one of my Rightstuf orders had been split between months, and it just so happened that when I returned home from the bookstore an hour later (wrong turn and all) that box had arrived too! So pretty much all of my manga for the month arrived on the same day, then I held off on buying anything else (except for Prophecy) because of the holidays.
Notable manga pick-ups included Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and Ubel Blatt, though both were notable for entirely different reasons. Lucifer in particular I was blown away by, and it may very well be one of my manga of the year. Ubel Blatt, well, is not that, if just because of the oddly placed gratuitous sex…
While I consume and purchase anime at a far slower rate than anime, it seemed fitting that the show that started it all showed up around my birthday: Sailor Moon! I got the Blu-ray DVD combo pack from Rightstuf, though I missed out on the limited edition coin. Surprisingly, I find myself still enjoying the show a decade plus later (hell almost two decades now).
My roommate and long time best pal is well aware of my anime/manga fandoms — she’s fan too and also has to live with my swelling manga collection — and she went out of her way to purchase both the Watamote and The Flowers of Evil Blu-ray sets for my birthday.
Overall, it was a great (and cheap!) month for anime and manga. What manga did you buy to read after your Thanksgiving dinner?
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