From: ryoko@gatech.rmv.this.part.edu   
      
   Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers  wa:   
   >Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers  wrote:   
   >> Volume 20 of YamaNade seems to be out, and I heard a mention that it   
   >> were the final volume. Can anyone confirm this?   
      
   >Looks like vol. 21 is announced at the end of vol. 20, so The Wallflower   
   >will probably be around a little longer. ^_^   
      
   What's your take on series length?   
      
   For my part, if there's an actual story to it, like Basara, I don't mind   
   the author taking 20+ volumes to finish the series (although I do get   
   annoyed when they're obviously dragging it out). But for the episodic   
   high school comedy type stories, like YamaNade and HanaDan, I really   
   wish they'd end the stories in about 10 volumes or less.   
      
   I find recently that I don't really like collecting stuff anymore that   
   doesn't have a pretty obvious goal/end in sight (either it ended in   
   Japan or it has an actual story that indicates it will end when a   
   certain event happens that the characters are working toward). And   
   that seems to be true even if I really like the series, which is sad   
   considering one of the genres I tend to like a lot is the episodic   
   shoujo high school drama and/or comedy fluff.   
      
   So, I've kind of petered off in collecting series like that lately.   
   Nodame is stuck at 6 right now, YamaNade is at 10, HanaDan is at 19 and   
   HanaKimi is at 14 on my shelf. And I really have no desire to buy any   
   more of any of those at the moment, even though I like all 4 of those   
   series and they have been released in R1 pretty far past those volumes.   
      
   Perhaps a large part of that is I'm quickly running out of shelf space;   
   I've already filled two 116qt (~110 liters) storage bins with manga and   
   shoved them into a corner in the basement, not wanting to throw them   
   away because they were expensive, but not really sure what to do with   
   them now that I've read them (I only store away the ones that I've   
   read). Part of me (the collector in me, I suppose) wants to keep them,   
   but part of me wants to get rid of them somehow, and perhaps recoup some   
   of the money spent on them, as unlikely as that may be.   
      
   Anyway, dangit Viz, release the last two volumes of Basara already!!!   
      
   (I should be able to get the last volume of Kimi wa Petto/Tramp Like Us   
   here soon, yayyayyay!)   
      
      
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   be sticked by dusts and hand-fat." --Japanese Translators   
      
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