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   From: fred@nospam.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , B Sellers   
    writes   
      
   >   
   [Re: Yawara]   
      
   >       Note never legally released in the West.   
   >       Maybe you could get it via a used manga shop in Japan.   
      
    I've seen shrink-wrap complete runs of Yawara manga in more than one   
   Book-Off store in Japan. From memory it costs about 2500-3000 yen   
   over-the-counter or about 30 bucks US. Individual volumes sell for the   
   Book-Off 105 yen base price -- it's not regarded as a premium title. The   
   problem for most manga fans in the west who might buy it is that it's   
   all in Japanese which makes it hard to read, and shipping costs would   
   treble that price.   
      
    Scanlators might move down to supplying translation scripts for mangas   
   rather than doing the scan/edit/release process they do now but it would   
   be predicated on there being raws released on the Internet somewhere or   
   a mechanism for fans to buy mangas from Japanese sources at reasonable   
   prices.   
      
   (I've done a bit of scanlation myself, mostly slipstream stuff plus a   
   couple of chapters of obscure mangas that never seem to get an   
   English-language release).   
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