Who am I kidding.
After seeing Up in the Air at the Ogden 6, I went next door to the same bargain bookstore I wrote about in Buy and Brag #6. I didn’t buy any anime DVDs, mainly because they didn’t have any new ones, but I did pick up some comics.
Exit Wounds- An excellent Israeli graphic novel. I read this at the library a while ago and loved it.
Once Upon a Glashma- An ADV released manga. The bookstore was having a buy 4 get the 5th free sale so I picked this up because it was the only manga there that was complete in one volume.
Cromartie High School vol. 7- I bought the anime from Right Stuf’s bargain bin a couple of years ago and loved it (I even wrote a paper on it for one of my Communications classes). Easily the funniest anime out there. Up until now I only had the first volume of the manga that came with the DVD artbox. I loved the manga as well, but ADV only released the first 12 volumes and quit so I wasn’t in a rush to pick them up. But why should that ruin my enjoyment. I’ll pick up what I can.
Presents vol. 1- The one I’m most excited for. Someone was praising it on the Underground/Alternative Manga thread at ANN so I picked it up. I could use more horror manga.
Walkin’ Butterfly vol. 1- I’m not into girly manga, but I give josei series a shot.
One Piece! That’s right they had 99 cent One Piece mystery figure boxes. I got Luffy and Chopper/Buggy the clown. I may go back for more.
After that I went to Half Price Books because I got a 20% off coupon for Valentine’s Day weekend. Of course I raided the $2 manga section.
Croquis Pop vol. 1- Don’t know anything about this other than it’s from the same artist as Jack Frost (my favorite series from Yen Plus Magazine).
Hunter x Hunter volumes 3 and 4- I finished the anime last month and loved it. I picked up the first 2 volumes in the $2 manga section last week so of course I had to get these.
Lone Wolf and Cub vol. 1- I think I read this a while ago. Manga Matt ranted about Kazuo Koike the other day so I had to pick it up for this price.
I feel obligated to say within the last two weeks, I also picked up the following in the $2 manga section: Ah! My Goddess volumes 1 and 2 (Kodansha Bilingual Version), Flame of Recca volumes 1-8, Gunhed, Hunter x Hunter volumes 1 and 2, Yu Yu Hakusho vol. 2, and Zombie Powder vol. 1.
Hell yeah VHS!!!! I raid Half Price Books’ VHS section regularly. All videos sell for 50 cents each. Here we have two Mighty Morphin Power Rangers videos, both in the “White Ranger” series. I am more than willing to pick up any MMPR videos, but can you please put more than one episode on these? The other video I picked up was Blue Sonnet vol. 1. I have officially accomplished my goal: buy an anime that never made it to DVD.
All of that cost me $30. And I used my birthday money so yeah. I have actually bought a ton of other stuff since the last Buy and Brag. If you’re interested, here’s my 2010 purchase list.
