Best place to buy Manga (online or offline)

[19Nyoi-bō95]

Where is the best place to buy Manga/ Daizenshuu's?

This would be a big help, Thanks.

[VegettoEX]

You'll need to clarify quite a bit, here.

- Which country do you live in?
- Which language are you looking to purchase this stuff in (Japanese, English, some other language?)
- What are you willing to pay in shipping?

[rereboy]

If you want manga in english and want to buy online, use bookdepository.com.

It has free worldwide shipping and a great variety.

[19Nyoi-bō95]

You'll need to clarify quite a bit, here.

- Which country do you live in?
- Which language are you looking to purchase this stuff in (Japanese, English, some other language?)
- What are you willing to pay in shipping?

Very sorry.

- U.S.A
- English for regular manga, Japanese for stuff like Daizenshuus ect.
- Hopefully free but I'm willing to pay up if I have too

[VegettoEX]

If you're in the good ol' USA, you really have no excuse for not just wandering into your local book store or ordering from Amazon. DB's still on the shelves in Barnes & Noble (particularly with the recent Viz Big editions), and everything under the sun from Viz is available online.

As for Japanese guide books, you need to keep in mind that the daizenshuu have been out-of-print for years -- you're not going to find them new anywhere. Your best bet is eBay, or if you're lucky enough to live in an area that has a Book-Off, trawling the shelves there every couple months. Even some of what I still consider the "recent" guide books (basically anything published after the year 2000) are getting a little more difficult to purchase new.

Welcome to the world of second-hand deal searching.

[StarRot]

Mandarake also sells the Daizenshuu volumes for decent prices.

I've been shopping at that store for ages, but I've only now notice that the name is Mandarake not Mandrake, wtf self.

[19Nyoi-bō95]

Thank you guys, very helpful.

[Goku100xKamehameha]

Use Yahoo! Auctions Japan to buy the Daizenshuus (you have to use Celga or any other deputy service site, though).

[.:PoetikaL:.]

Strictly manga, I either shop in store at Barnes and Noble or go to their site. I think now I'm gonna buy at Amazon since I got Amazon Prime for a year free, and that means free 2 day shipping.

[Super Sonic]

Don't forget comic shops. Sometimes you can find manga there that Borders and Barnes and Noble don't keep in stock, except online.

[TheGreatness25]

I'd love to own the Japanese version of the manga and then maybe one day get the English version just to kind of be able to translate it. I saw the entire thing on Ebay (in Japanese) for $110, but then the shipping and handling was like $130. I was considering it, but then decided that it's not worth the money. I'd pay the $110 for it easy though.

[TheLegendary117]

surf ebay and amazon on a daily basis. I got my manga sets, American and Japanese sets, on Ebay from the same seller
Dragonball and Dragonball Z American sets for $75
Dragonball and Dragonball Z Japanese sets for $100
Japanese Dragonball Z set Full color for $150

You may not find them that cheap with one search but if you search often enough and be patient, you may get lucky

[TheGreatness25]

It's not so much that it's too much money, I just don't want to really pay more for shipping from Japan than the actual price.