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NewGeekPhilosopher Wizard Basement from Sydney, Australia Since: Jul, 2009
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#1: Oct 27th 2010 at 7:28:47 PM

What are the shelf worthy manga you consider worthy of your bookshelf?

Here is my list:

Genshiken

MW

Apollo's Song

Buddha

Yotsuba&!

Azumanga Daioh

Solanin

Card Captor Sakura

Akira

Maybe Ghost in the Shell

Read or Die

The Box Man

Red Snow

A Drifting Life

Tekkonkinkreet

Dragon Ball/Z

FLCL

Any more suggestions?

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Oct 27th 2010 at 7:35:16 PM

I have a small bookshelf, so the only volumes I have on it are Negima, King Of Bandits Jing, and the Suzumiya novels.

It's been fun.
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#4: Oct 27th 2010 at 8:00:02 PM

Blame.

It's the only one I actually own.

The Haruhi novels as well I guess.

edited 27th Oct '10 8:05:11 PM by snowbull

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#6: Oct 27th 2010 at 8:12:11 PM

On my mid-sized bookshelf I have/plan to have

... I read a lot of fighting series >.<

edited 27th Oct '10 8:12:55 PM by KSPAM

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BrightBlueInk It's all a conspiracy. from Colorado, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#8: Oct 27th 2010 at 8:25:19 PM

I currently own (at least some of the volumes of): Fruits Basket, Chrono Crusade, Azumanga Daioh, Fullmetal Alchemist, Afterschool Charisma, Neon Genesis Evangelion, DN Angel...I might be forgetting some, but those are at least some of them.

Stuff I want but haven't bought yet: Yotsubato!, Pandora Hearts, Neon Genesis Evangelion Campus Apocalypse

I'm probably forgetting some stuff...and there's some series I own part of that I'm not crazy enough to really declare it shelfworthy.

edited 27th Oct '10 8:26:14 PM by BrightBlueInk

Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.
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#10: Oct 27th 2010 at 9:08:14 PM

Whatever manga you own is shelf worthy. Have no shame in displaying the products you liked enough to buy?

Plus how often do your friends and family go through your bookshelves anyways?

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#11: Oct 27th 2010 at 9:19:37 PM

Akira and Berserk

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Jordan Azor Ahai from Westeros Since: Jan, 2001
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#12: Oct 27th 2010 at 9:59:27 PM

I currently own most of the Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei volumes to date.

I'm tempted to buy the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but since a website has some of it scanned, I'll probably go the illegal route for now.

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#13: Oct 27th 2010 at 10:23:45 PM

Ones not already mentioned:

Jojos Bizarre Adventure

Pet Shop Of Horrors

Gals!

Genju No Seiza

Beauty Pop

Cromartie High School

Black Jack

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Saiyuki

Oh, and Arakure, some Demon City Shinjuku manga, Otogi Zoshi, Episode Zero of Gundam Wing, some Naruto in French, some Godchild, and Satisfaction Guaranteed.

edited 27th Oct '10 10:25:44 PM by FurikoMaru

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#14: Oct 27th 2010 at 10:27:20 PM

My bookshelf currently has:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Death Note
vols. 1 and 2 of Ranma One Half
Uzumaki
Gundam Wing Blind Target, Episode Zero, and Battlefield of Pacifists
Mobile Suit Gundam Blue Destiny
Chobits
Evangelion (the real thing, not any of the spinoffs)
Love Hina
Negima (through vol. 27)
Ghost In The Shell (original, Human Error Processor, and Man-Machine Interface)
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (through vol. 7)
Akira
Dance In The Vampire Bund (through vol. 8)

I had Gyo but I sold it to Hastings a coupla weeks ago...it just didn't click with me like Uzumaki did.

edited 27th Oct '10 10:29:37 PM by Willbyr

Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
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#15: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:06:20 PM

What do I have...

Complete (or at least current to English releases): - Full Metal Alchemist - Hellsing - Chrono Crusade - Death Note - Detroit Metal City - Chis Sweet Home

And I also have Revolutionary Girl Utena (Can't find the final volume, because it's apparently out of print), D Gray Man (decided it wasn't for me) and assorted volumes of the Cowboy Bebop, Haruhi and Code Geass manga spinoff mangas that I mostly got cheap.

I have a lot more DV Ds, actually.

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#16: Oct 28th 2010 at 12:30:17 AM

Mahou Sensei Negima and One Piece. Namely, whatever few manga I read, I tend to buy.

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#17: Oct 28th 2010 at 1:45:39 AM

Um... Genshiken, Death Note, 8 volumes of Black Lagoon and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, 10 volumes of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, the Azumanga Daioh Omnibus...

On another shelf, I have the whole Mai-HiME manga (offered by friends because they knew I loved the anime), and hidden somewhere I have the first volume of a random Boys' Love manga (Love Mode, I think), offered by the same as a joke.

NatTheWriter Since: Oct, 2011
#18: Oct 28th 2010 at 4:08:50 AM

I don't have much manga, so it's all squeezed on one shelf with several other graphic novels to make a general "comics section".

I own:

Azumanga Daioh (doorstopping omnibus)
Yotsuba! (1-6)
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Bakuman
.hack//Legend of the Twilight
Higurashi
Neon Genesis Evangelion (5)
Honey and Clover
20th Century Boys (1-3)
Monster (1, 2, 8)

The only manga that really shouldn't be on there is .hack//Legend of the Twilight, which I only own because I bought it at a garage sale. I'll probably sell it at some point.

Manga/light novels I want to have:

Haruhi Suzumiya light novels
Berserk
Baccano! light novels, if they ever get officially translated
Genshiken
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

edited 28th Oct '10 4:09:52 AM by NatTheWriter

AckSed Pat. St. of Archive Binge from Pure Imagination Since: Jan, 2001
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#19: Oct 28th 2010 at 2:59:24 PM

Gadzooks! Lots of shelves filled with books! I tend to go for depth,not breadth.

All current volumes:
AI Love You
Battle Angel Alita
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
FLCL
Fullmetal Alchemist
Genshiken
Great Teacher Onizuka
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Moyashimon
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
Negima

Most of them:
Bleach v. 1-30
Dragon Ball (Viz Big ed.) v. 1-3
Naruto v. 1-32
The Wallflower v. 1-19 (dear Tomoko Hayakawa - END IT ALREADY)
One Piece v. 1-26

edited 28th Oct '10 2:59:38 PM by AckSed

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#20: Oct 28th 2010 at 5:45:47 PM

I have really limited shelf space and funds:

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Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
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#21: Oct 28th 2010 at 6:09:44 PM

...And that's all the manga I own. I also have the first two Haruhi Suzumiya light novels, if you want to count those.

I guess it is.
AckSed Pat. St. of Archive Binge from Pure Imagination Since: Jan, 2001
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#22: Oct 29th 2010 at 5:29:15 PM

Scanslation-wise,these are all worth your time:

Change 123
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Nana To Kaoru
Nononono
Toshiue No Hito (NSFW)
The World God Only Knows

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
AckSed Pat. St. of Archive Binge from Pure Imagination Since: Jan, 2001
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#24: Nov 9th 2010 at 8:13:54 AM

Now here's an interesting manga: I Am A Hero

So far it seems to be about a paranoid NEET (loner) and his delusions,but it's oddly... hopeful. Beautifully drawn in a lifelike Kurosagi style.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#25: Nov 9th 2010 at 12:29:10 PM

To me, the ideal is that every manga series that I enjoy is shelf worthy by default.

Unfortunately, whether I have the funds, shelf space, and suppliers to act on the ideal is another question.

Anyhow, books I got, in no particular order:

Wow, quite a collecting, looking at it. Still not half of what I should own considering my ideal.

edited 9th Nov '10 12:29:28 PM by Kayeka


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