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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2007-08-28 01:37 am
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Losing it repeatedly

I appear to suffer from an odd recurring hallucination, which is that I own Genjuu no Seiza 6, the one with Fuuto riding on a tiger. I was convinced I'd bought it in New York in 2005 along with 7 & 8. I knew I'd seen it among the other manga I brought back from that trip, which sat around the living room in piles for several months before I got around to reading/ shelving them. I was thus confidently assured that I owned 1-3 and 6-8, and it was only when I sat down to read the later volumes that I couldn't find #6 anywhere. But I saw it. I *know* I saw it.

So when I came to order my current volumes I went to check on the shelf to see which ones I had- because I also never believe that I own #8 with its woolly sheep even though I've read it. And I saw volume 6 on the shelf. So I ordered 4&5 and 9&10.

Needless to say, I don't have vol.6. This is obviously of a piece with my clear memory of having bought vol 3 of Ashinaga no Ojisan-tachi, and being kerblonxed to discover that there *is* no vol 3 because the story ends in vol 2. 'But I know I bought it!'

So I'd really like to know what it was I thought I saw on the shelves three weeks ago. And I'd also like to discover a reasonable way of getting vols 11-14 that doesn't involve amazon.jp and combined price of $20 a volume for each tank after shipping and tax. Have looked at bk1 and registered and ordered, but I get to 'Press this button to order' without being given a cost for shipping. Which, y'know, makes me nervous. I have no idea what 実費請求 means at all but it sounds ominously like 'we'll charge you what it costs us and we won't know till we send it.'

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
I could always get them for you here. $10 isn't all that much better, though.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, I found those art books for much cheaper online than Kinokunia wanted for them. I couldn't check to see if it was the one from the show, though. No copy of it up here.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
$10 is a hell of a lot better than what anyone else will charge me though, because US post office postage is nothing. Also bk1 doesn't have 6; or 10 or 11 either, and I'm not skipping books again.

But where did you find the art books online? I'm beginning to itch for the second set of Hundred Demons but the Kinokuniya price is daunting and amazon.jp is, well, amazon.jp.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I found the art books online at amazon.com, third party sellers, though. The little book is from a US publisher anyway ... so it was easy. The other one is harder, but there are plenty of copies floating around.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Art books plural? 'Little book' from a US publisher? I thought we were talking the 100 Demons illustration volume 2. What books are these?

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
LOL! I'm sorry! My mind hasn't caught up to this month yet. I talking about the 100 aspects of the moon art books.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to go look at the 100 Demons illustration volume 2 ...

[identity profile] ayonoi.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
*looks on her own bookshelf" I collected the Japanese version of Genjuu no Seiza up to tankoubon 7. I am missing pretty much 8-13. Kino in S.F has it but...I wonder if I should just wait for the rest of the translated version to come out although I quite treasure my little series. I will probably succomt to buying the rest. When I have money, of course.

I am trying to keep away from amazon.jp, so I order from the Kinokuniya online website for the U.S west coast, especially when it comes to manga. I saw a beautiful version of Hundred Demons at the S.F Kinokuniya but it was over $100 and that really hurt me. I kinda want it *____*

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
kinokuniya's 100%+ markup is ridiculous but it's pretty much in line with what I've seen elsewhere. Cost of shipping from Japan is expensive, yes, especially by air; still- the 100 Demons thing, was that the boxed set or the book? They had the latter listed online at 4900 yen so yeah- over $100 in the final run.

Fiven my huuuuuge reservations about the English GnS, I say hold out for the Japanese. You're reading different series.

When *I* win the lottery I'm funding someone's stay in Japan, just to buy me the books I want.

[identity profile] takumashii.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
IIRC bk1 doesn't total up a cost for shipping before you order because it's by weight; and I think they have a page somewhere on their website where they say how much it is for 100 grams and 200 grams and so on (Oh, here it is (http://www.bk1.jp/docs/help/He_e04)). I've always found them pretty cheap, but that's because I choose one of the "You can send them on a boat, you can send them on a goat..." options.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, now it comes back to me. Thanks. I must have been out of it last night, but I do recall that 'here's what a book weighs' table.

So essentially, they only tell you how much the total comes to when they send your order? It *does* look reasonable. Even airmail looks reasonable, which is incredible. amazon.jp works its magic. It's made airmail from Japan look reasonable.