I was thinking recently about series that I initially am less than enthused about so I give away or swap the books. Then after a period of time I decide to give the manga another chance and really regret getting rid of volumes I originally bought. For me the series I’m thinking about trying to acquire again are:
From Far Away: I think I bought the first five volumes of this magical girl fantasy series with 1980s era art and got rid of them before one of my cross country moves. I ended up finishing reading the series by checking volumes out of the library or browsing in bookstores. I bought the last volume to see how it concluded. Now I wish I owned more volumes than I do.
Please Save My Earth: Since most of this series is out of print, I’m probably out of luck. I think I read the first 6 volumes and donated them to the local public library because I was getting impatient with the glacial pace of the plot development in the series. Still, many people whose opinions I respect love this series, and I suspect I’d have liked it more if I was reading it in chunks of several volumes at a time.
Saiyuki: This I actually have a decent chance of rereading because even though I stalled out on buying the volumes when they came out, I still have all but the 9th volume of the first series and I was able to pick up 5 volumes of Reload on Paperbackswap.com. So I’ll definitely revisit this manga.
Love Com: Got the first couple volumes, wasn’t sure if I wanted to start collecting a 17 volume shoujo series, even if it did seem quite charming.
Do you have any manga that you regret getting rid of?
Aw, Love Com is a great series. It only started to slow down for me by the 10th volume or so. I’ve never rid any of my mangas. I spent so much on them so I don’t think I will be parting with any anytime soon.
I’m just running out of manga storage space, so I do get rid of things that I think I won’t reread again. Sometimes I’m a little too hasty to get rid of stuff though!
I got rid of the first 8 volumes of the Getbackers but have recently had a hankering to restart the series. Also I read the first 5 or so volumes of Bleach, and didn’t like the way the series was going so I sold them on Ebay. But then I started watching the anime and liked it, so I wanted to go back and read the manga.
I still have a bunch of volumes of Bleach, but I stopped collecting it when the volume count was in the mid-teens. That’s another series I might want to try again someday.
I gave my two volumes of Nana to one of my friends and I don’t know why I did. But, I got them all back plus vols. 3 & 4 recently on paperbackswap.com. I regret giving away Flame of Recca as well.
Nana is really worth keeping! At least Paperbackswap is around to help people get old volumes back. I’ve been using it for that too.