For manga collectors
Edition Compass
You found a manga you want. Now the hard part: which edition should you actually buy?
- Which languages has it been released in — and which ones haven't happened yet?
- Which publisher, how many volumes, and does that edition still exist in print?
- Tankōbon, bunko, kanzenban, omnibus — what's the real difference?
- What does the whole set cost, new and used?
Every edition, by manga
Gintama — the 54 volumes never published in English, and what they costVIZ published 23 of 77 volumes in English, then stopped · what the remaining 54 cost new from Japan right now, volume by volume with ISBNs
Devilman — every edition, and which one to actually buy
18 print editions, 1972–2018 · Japanese publishers, volume counts, ISBNs, and what each one costs new and used right now
Hajime no Ippo — what you can read in English, and what you can't
Kodansha's own English app stops 1,278 chapters short of its Japanese one · no English print edition exists · what all 145 Japanese volumes cost used, with a buy link for 142 of them
Getting the books
Buying manga from Japan, when Rakuten will not sell to youSeven countries can no longer order from Rakuten Ichiba directly · what still works, what the forwarding route costs, and what we could not measure
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