A Beginner’s Manga Collection Tour 📚 550+ Volumes in 1.5 Years

In this video, I go through the manga collection I have accumulated over the past 1.5 years since beginning my manga collecting journey!

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[BoogieSnacks]

just started walking - stands behind a massive manga collection - GAVIN'S MANGA ERA IS GOING TO BE A MOMENT FOR SURE :)

[GhoulBunny]

Gavin it’s lowkey insane how your manga collection has grown in a year 😭🤣

[AKookieForYou]

For manga youtubers, I highly recommend Colleen's Manga Recs. Her vids are SO good! There's a variety of content too, usually essays about various aspects of manga, but they also have videos dedicated to specific series, like 7SEEDS, Mars, and Skip Beat etc., where spoilers for certain aspects of those stories are abound haha, as well as her thoughts on them. I especially love their vids because she focuses on shoujo and josei titles. Sadly those demographics tend to be overshadowed by shounen and seinen, especially in the western fanbases, so it's cool to see someone making a point to discuss them in depth.

[drivenspirit]

Sweat and Soap is 11 volumes and ends up being SUCH a heartwarming romance. I love that the story focuses on how their relationship progresses rather than just focusing on how they get together

[Geboss]

For Jujutsu Kaisen 0, it’s actually a prequel volume to the main story that was the first thing the author wrote in that universe. A lot of the characters got integrated into the main story proper, so it’s canon to the events. I would suggest reading it around volume 8

[kashmir-nabi]

You're halfway through owning a second home library, this time for mangas (and manhwas in the future hopefully) ;)

[xina]

Oh wow, I remember you starting with reading manga and now you have more than twice as much than I do :0

Prayers to your wallet, so sad that collecting is so expensive!

[mythosmanaged]

Fruits basket was one of my favorite series when i was younger i kept binging them and restarting and i always skip the 1st volumes, it gets better later on and much deeper writing. Just my opinion that its worth it to keep reading 😊❤

[NoNamedShadow]

While I love seeing manga becoming more known through booktube, I do fear many treat it in an unbalanced way with priority over collecting than enjoying, so I love seeing you prioritize what you’ve read and should get to.

[jennas]

I LOVE The Promised Neverland! One of my favorite mangas of all time. I just purchased the box set and it’s absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend you continue it, it’s amazing!

[mintman]

I unfortunately lost my job. But I’ve been using my local library they have so much. It’s been invaluable to keep up my manga reading and I’ve saved like 500 bucks. I’m definitely going to get the complete set of Fruits Basket though, just to have.
Edit: are you subbed to Boogie Snacks? He’s a manga YouTuber and he discusses some of the manga in his collection.

[asiantrumbles]

Toni’s Manga and Tsukkinotes do monthly wrap ups and talk about what they read. I enjoy ThatMangaDude’s First Volume Impressions series too.

I hope you next first volume readathon you throw in:
1. Delicious in Dungeon (think Frieren + Food Wars). The final volume is being released in a few months.
2. The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again - Cat manga thats so relatable
3. Otherside Picnic - A sapphic horror
4. She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat - sapphic food manga :))
5. Nina the Starry Bride - Fantasy Shoujo

Oh btw Homunculus has on-page SA of a minor in the second omnibus. I immediately dropped after that, so wanted to give a warning if you look out for that. It didn’t even give horror/thriller that was expected, just uncomfortable edgelord type read (IMO).

[sneeeeeeeeeeeeee]

something i love about watching your manga themed content is that you are so open to so many different genres and stories, as clearly evidenced by your collection 😂 i feel that after so many years i'm so subconsciously prejudiced against certain genres or series. it's just nice to see your genuine excitement for manga, inspires me to be less crochety about my taste lol

edit: idk if anyone else mentioned it but given actually got a sequel set 10 years in the future that just started publishing monthly in japan, i think only 2 or 3 chapters are out now! the author commited CRIMES against uenoyamas hair

[DragonHeart]

"Our dreams at dusk" is only 4 volumes and it's a chef's kiss. It follows a cast of LGBTQA+ characters.
"Wotakoi: Love is hard for Otaku" is so much fun and one of the few that feature a full adult cast of office workers.
"Bungo Stray Dogs" is a must for any bookworm. Full of literary Easter eggs. It's so absurdity extra sometimes and I love it.
"Black Butler" is a classic at this point 😅 worth checking the 1st volume.
"Can't stop cursing you" is 4vol total. I started this recently and I loved the first volume. Supernatural/mystery/horror/a little gore..
"A sign of Affection" is one of the most popular shoujos right now, featuring a deaf MC.

[opalrust]

1:34 Battle angel Alita is a favorite of mine! Such a fantastic sci fi story that subverted my expectations. The deluxe editions also look great next to my berserk deluxe

[danielmoloney]

That collection is awesome. I’ve been collecting mangas for six years, and even much, much longer because I started getting them for the first time in 2011 when a friend gave me a Naruto manga. As far as my collection now, I have all of Naruto, all the current volumes of Boruto, all of Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball, all the current omnibuses of One Piece, a few volumes of Bleach, Burn The Witch, all of Yu Yu Hakusho, all the currently made volumes of Hunter x Hunter, every single Yu-Gi-Oh! volume as well as all the spin-off mangas of it, I’m working on finishing Rurouni Kenshin, I have all the current ones for My Hero Academia, the two volumes of Barrage, all the current volumes of One-Punch Man, all of Dr. Stone, Food Wars, Assassination Classroom, Demon Slayer, The Promised Neverland, some of Jujutsu Kaisen, Slam Dunk, Haikyu, D.Gray-Man, Claymore, Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, Kaiju No. 8, Shaman King, Toriko, Gintama, Blue Exorcist, Undead Unluck, all of the current volumes of Black Clover, all of Death Note, the first volumes of all the JoJo parts so far, some of Inuyasha and Yashahime, some of Black Lagoon and Sailor Moon, all of Fairy Tail, The Seven Deadly Sins, some of Vagabond as well as all the Colossal Editions of Attack On Titan and all the Deluxe Editions of Berserk. I’m hoping to get a box set for Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul: Re. A good amount of these were hard to get since some weren’t sold where I am, I had to order some series from America like Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Toriko and Gintama. I like to have all my Shonen Jump mangas together and I personally prefer getting omnibus versions of manga so a lot of the ones I listed are in 3 in 1 omnibus editions. I wish a lot more had omnibuses, but I’m still super happy with my collection and can’t wait to get more. I also have a lot of these as anime DVDs and Blu-Rays and many other like all the Studio Ghibli movies, Code Geass and so much more. I also have a ton of different anime character collectibles from series like Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter, My Hero Academia and many others.

[ninarasm]

I’m in the middle of Witch Hat Atelier series. Loooove it! I will have to hurry up and read the rest before your vlog comes 😄 Can’t wait to hear what you think. I want to make a cosplay of their uniform so badly!

[Jenna-uldi]

Ascendancy of a Bookworm is amazing. Definitely read the light novels, they are much further along in the story.

[VeiledReflections]

I love how happy you are with your collection! There's so much excitement and appreciation in your voice. You bring joy to so many people so it's always nice to see joy in you.

Looking forward to all your manga review plans!

[crystalcounterman]

I'm not that into Manga (although you have influenced me to branch out into some Manga series) but I will watch whatever video you put out. It just feels like a nice chat with a friend and I love all your videos Gavin. ❤