From: bliss@california.com
Aya the Vampire Slayer wrote:
> 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.
I like long stories but if someone cannot tell a story as
good as Genshiken in 9 volumes they are not trying. And Maison Ikkoku
ran to 14 or 15 but it kept my interest as Godai suffered all those
distractions before he found his vocation, working with children and
Kyoko got over her self-dramatizing grief.
>
> 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.
I am stuck on a lot of series as well. Which to buy next? Can only
afford a couple of volume most months.
>
> 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.
Start by listing what you have and then figure out what you don't want
to keep and publish that list. Remembering condition you might be able
to recoup a good deal of your investment so that you can
buy more shelves for the stuff you want to hang onto. I say shelves
because while I was away from home in the military my mother moved my
Tolkien LOTR first editions into the garage. That dimmed her halo for
me after a rainy winter.
> 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!)
I've got to catch up with you on Tramps (and a lot of other series most
likely.)
later
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