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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] 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.