From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:p81580$d9k$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 03/10/2018 09:19 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
   >> The manga section of Kinokuniya is always crowded with tourists every   
   >> time I visit.  I still can't bring myself to spend ten dollars for a    
   >> regular TPB and end up walking over to Western Addition library and check    
   >> out manga from there.   
      
   > Well I think I know what you mean about crowded with tourists   
   > but also on weekends with local kids and some adults.  You haven't been   
   > checking the prices lately as the lowest prices on the translated   
   > manga are running $12.99 before tax.  I used to go by the WA branch   
   > Library all the time but since my left knee started hurting in 2015   
   > I have not been getting around as well.  I borrowed most of the   
   >Japanese live action films that I could find from there.   
      
   For translated manga you are being charged American comics prices.  DC and    
   Marvel regularly charge $3.99 for (mere) twenty-two pages.  The original   
   Japanese manga at least comes in a dust jacket.   
      
   Sales tax are very unnerving.  If you go to a restaurant, you pay 10% taxes    
   and 15% tip so something listed as $15 ends up nearly $20.   
      
   >> I have also seen "remake" Dragonball manga where they hire another    
   >> artists to redraw everything aping the original artist.  The earlier    
   >> volumes of Dragonball are quite raunchy and they tend to edit those    
   >> sections out for political correctness.  Strangely, they draw everyone in    
   >> same proportion as Goku as kid so adult characters are deformed.   
   >>   
   > The editing for the US market is annoying.   
      
   Can't beat political correctness.  I wonder they censored the nudities when    
   they showed these anime on Cartoon Network.   
      
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