Despite the healthy dose of new titles coming out, there wasn’t much in the way of new titles I was looking for when I hit up my local comic shop this week. But Strange Adventures never fails to offer and lo and behold they had stacks and stacks of manga sets for cheap!
Though I may’ve wanted more, saving for holiday shopping took precedant this week so I opted for only three semi-complete series. I purchased volumes 1-14 of Ouran Host Club, volumes 1-10 of Beauty Pop and volumes 1-8 of Monkey High!. I fell in love with Ouran Host Club upon watching the anime (which has a fantastic dub thanks to Funimation). As for both Monkey High! and Beauty Pop, I’ve read a few volumes of each from my local library and am looking forward to reading the rest. Time for some marathoning – but which to start on first?
In contrast to the sets, I picked up a handful of one-shots as well. For some more shoujo-goodness, I purchased Short-Tempered Melancholic, Heaven’s Will and Gaba Kawa. I also purchased the horror (?) manga Goth which I reviewed on Tuesday. Heaven’s Will seems the most interesting of the batch simply because of the premise – girl who can see spirits teams up with a vampire and cross-dressing exorcist. We shall see how this plays out.
And lastly, and more recent, I bought the Seven Seas omnibus edition of Hayate x Blade. I liked the first volume so hopefully that continues for this edition which covers the first three.
Those were my purchases for the week – how about you? With this week marking Black Friday/Thanksgiving time for Americans, I imagine there are many manga-fans out for good bargains as well. Any especially fabulous finds? Feel free to share!
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