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[telophase]

Telophase's Massive Manga Dump

Dumping a bunch of my manga that I no longer read, whether it's because I decided I didn't like it after reading 1 or 2 issues, or because I thought it was good but not good enough to read again, or because I have duplicates.

Up for sale or swap with manga, books, or interesting stuff - if you want to buy, it's $5/each just because it's a nice round number and about half the price of them normally. Or, hell, just make an offer, I'll probably accept it to get them the hell out of the apartment unless someone else trumps you with a bigger offer. :) Either post here or email telophase14 {at} gmail {dot} com.

My current wish list consists solely of Vagabond 12 , Rurouni Kenshin 6 , and Usagi Yojimbo 6, but feel free to let me know of anything you've got, including paperbacks and random interesting stuff. :)

[ edit 1 ] Also check the comments for things other people have up for trade.
[ edit 2 ] I've dropped my address into the friendslocked post after this one, with all comments screened so that you can drop your address there with impunity.



Alichino 1 (Gothy-type manga)
Banana Fish 1-4, 6
Ceres Celestial Legend 1
Chicago: Book of Self, 1
CLAMP School Detectives 1
CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators 1 (novel, not manga)
Confidential Confessions 1-2
Crazy Love Story 1
Crying Freeman: Portrait of a Killer
Dance Till Tomorrow 3 [****]
DEATH: At Death's Door 1
Descendants of Darkness 1-4 [*]
Dolls 1 [*****]
Doubt!! 1
Dragon Knights 1
Duck Prince 1
Excel Saga 1
Fake 1
Get Backers 1
Golden Cain (yaoi)
Gunslinger Girl 1
Imadoki 1
Inu-Yasha 1-5, 9, 11
Kare First Love 1
Kare Kano 1
Kill Me, Kiss Me 1
Kodocha 1-2
Love Hina 1 (bilingual edition with Japanese and English)
Lupin III 1-3, 5 [**]
Marmalade Boy 1-2
Megatokyo 1 [***]
Onegai Teacher 1
Peacemaker Kurogane 1
Pocket Manga 1 Shoujo (Antarctic Press anthology)
Priest 1
Ragnarok 1-3
Rebirth 1
Revolutionary Girl Utena 4 and 5 (I managed to accidentally buy them twice)
Selfish Love 1 (yaoi)
Shadow Star 1-5
Shadow Star 4 (was duplicate)
Slayers 1-3 (manga, not the novels)
Snow Drop 1-5
Tokyo Babylon 1
The Vision of Escaflowne 1 (shounen version)
What's Michael? Show Time
What's Michael? A Hard Day's Life
X/1999 1
X-Day 1-2


Notes:


[*] (Descendants of Darkness) Yes, I'm getting rid of it - I can't tell who any of the characters are, nor do I care. I'll probably Netflix the DVDs, though, since I've heard they're better than the manga.


[**] (Lupin III) I wanted to like this, I really did. I love the Lupin III movies and the TV episodes I've seen, but the manga didn't do a thing for me. I probably have book 4 around here somewhere, but I'll be damned if I know where.


[***] (Megatokyo) 376/500, signed by Largo. No, I wasn't impressed, either.


[****] (Dance Till Tomorrow) I've got most of the rest of them, but they're in boxes in my mom's house. It's also got a lot of semi-explicit sex in it - a hard R rating, I think.


[*****] (Dolls) This is not the Tokyopop DOLL, it's the VIZ Dolls, which is actually much the same thing only the dolls are plants instead of robots.

Comments

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Awwww, no love for Kodocha? If you don't mind waiting until mid-July for the manga:

-$15 and the first two volumes of Stone for Banana Fish (all).
-$5 and the first volume of Alice 19 for X-day (all)
-$10 for Tokyo Babylon and Doubt!!

Or if you don't want the manga I could substitute cash. Stone has a plot like Waterworld's and some really funky pencil-drawn backgrounds, but the point is to reference as many sci-fi movies as possible and I'm not getting the references. Alice 19th is from the Ceres manga-ka, and it's about a shy girl learning to stand up for herself. The love interest, as always, looks exactly like Tamahome.

What are Shadow Star and Snow Drop?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Shadow Star concerns these kids who've found these star-like aliens and bonded with them. The main character is Good, but the others are Evil and are out to kil/maim/whatever. The art style is kinda funky and scratchy, and it can get fairly violent and intense.

Snow Drop is a highschool romance manwha - rich reclusive girl who loves plants falling in love with a not-so-well-off boy named after one of the characters in a book her mother wrote. Complications ensue, not the least of which is her father engaging her to the son of one of his business partners. The boyfriend is also a model (well, who isn't in manga/manwha?), because his mother's in the hospital and he's earning money.

I haven't read either Stone or Alice 19, so I'm up for that - sounds good. :)

[ninjashira.livejournal.com]

Alice 19 is really good, but it takes until the second volume to actually get real interesting. So it's definitely worth getting, but don't be disappointed after volume 1, cause it does get better.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*And I just found Snow Drop 5 hiding on my bookshelf.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've never read Korean romance manga before--just some historical/action stuff. I think I'll pass, though, because my budget is getting sort of stretched and the girl sounds like someone I'd get mad at every two pages. (Why aren't you doing anything! Stop staring and brooding and blushing and make a move already!!! That sort of thing.)

But Shadow Star sounds great. It's exactly like the plot of Scorpion Shards (trilogy by Neil Shusterman) except that the main character is good and not evil. $20 for 1-5, no duplicates? That will bring me up to a nice round $50.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heehee. OK, sounds good, Shadow Star it is, then. :) I'm going to post my address in a friendslocked entry and keep the comments screened so people can feel free to post their addresses there without them being out in the open.