Today I accompanied my parents to the mall and to see Christmas lights. But the latter's not important. What's important is while inside the mall, my mom and sister went into Payless, while I decided to head into the book store at the other side of the hall. Normally I wouldn't really bother with going in there, but it felt as though something was actually drawing me in, as if I knew that I'd find something of interest in there, even though I didn't really have anything in mind. And guess what I found inside the book store? That's right, I found books. And among these books, I found a couple shelves full of manga.
I think this is my first encoutner with printed manga. Unless that Mario Adventures comic in Nintendo Power was manga (it kinda resembled it at least). I haven't looked at much manga on the net either. So, seeing these two shelves was a pleasant surprise to me. The shelves weren't very big, but they had a pretty decent amount of manga, ranging from Dragonball/Z, to Yu-Gi-Oh, to a few of the Gundam series (mostly G Gundam and Gundam Seed), to YuYu Hakusho (er, however that's spelled), to Rurouni Kenshin.
I wanted to get one or two, but I couldn't decide. Had they the first volume of Dragonball, I would've instantly grabbed that (the earliest they had was volume 3, where Roshi first tells Goku to get him a girl; the mermaid incident went somewhat different than Toonami's cartoon). They had the first volume of Dragonball Z, but I passed on it since it only covered up to Raditz's death. Speaking of which, man, those fight scenes go soooo much faster in the manga. The most tempting was G Gundam, since that's one of my favorite animes, and it took up only 3 volumes (all three they had) when most of the other manga went up past 10 volumes. Or I could've grabbed something at random in hopes that I'd wind up with something good. But nope, I couldn't decide.
So, I kinda need a little help. I convinced my parents to go to the mall on another Saturday (no specific date; I just told them that the next time they want to go to the mall, make it on a Saturday and bring me), at which point I'd go and buy one or two. Any recommendations?
I think this is my first encoutner with printed manga. Unless that Mario Adventures comic in Nintendo Power was manga (it kinda resembled it at least). I haven't looked at much manga on the net either. So, seeing these two shelves was a pleasant surprise to me. The shelves weren't very big, but they had a pretty decent amount of manga, ranging from Dragonball/Z, to Yu-Gi-Oh, to a few of the Gundam series (mostly G Gundam and Gundam Seed), to YuYu Hakusho (er, however that's spelled), to Rurouni Kenshin.
I wanted to get one or two, but I couldn't decide. Had they the first volume of Dragonball, I would've instantly grabbed that (the earliest they had was volume 3, where Roshi first tells Goku to get him a girl; the mermaid incident went somewhat different than Toonami's cartoon). They had the first volume of Dragonball Z, but I passed on it since it only covered up to Raditz's death. Speaking of which, man, those fight scenes go soooo much faster in the manga. The most tempting was G Gundam, since that's one of my favorite animes, and it took up only 3 volumes (all three they had) when most of the other manga went up past 10 volumes. Or I could've grabbed something at random in hopes that I'd wind up with something good. But nope, I couldn't decide.
So, I kinda need a little help. I convinced my parents to go to the mall on another Saturday (no specific date; I just told them that the next time they want to go to the mall, make it on a Saturday and bring me), at which point I'd go and buy one or two. Any recommendations?
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