I forgot to mention this but I DO have plenty of room to grow. The shelves I have now are almost completely full but there’s space beyond the current shelves for about ten additional bookcases. Here’s to the future!
One series that I didn’t see in there that I thought you might like: Mysterious Girlfriend X. Though it has that controversial beginning, the rest of the series is actually quite wholesome and really doesn’t focus on that aspect much at all. Appealing art alongside a cute rom-com. It does have some ecchi elements, but the heart of the series is more of a wholesome one than that of a “pervert” like most series with fanservice. The series’ great omnibuses were just re-printed not too long ago, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find. I hope you enjoy!😊
I just saw this message and I'm pretty sure at this rate he hasn't read 80% of what he collects. There's not enough time for it. Taking also into account he collects comics too.
With each passing day the reality of how little of Urasawa's work has been translated is insane. Most of his longer series still not available for English, big opportunity VIZ is missing out on!
I wish his work would get the deluxe hardcover treatment similar to Berserk or Blade of the Immortal. None of his works seem to be in hardcover format in English. Italy and Germany usually get some of the nicer hardcover for manga that are not out in English. Not sure why.
I'm a passery-by. What a cool video that was to see such a large physical manga collection! I myself am more of a digital collector mainly due to my lifestlye and preferences, and so a lot of my pictures, videos, movies, games, music, etc are kept in large storage external hard drives. I guess I like to have everything in one place. Thanks for sharing your collection and making this video. Have a great day!
Hi Ryley! This is my first comment in 15 years of being on youtube (since 2007) and I just want to say how much inspiration you give me for collecting manga myself. You took your time to create a long detailed video so I want to show my appreciate with a long comment. I wish there was a way I could see your entire reading/read list (similar to myanimelist). Would be great just to follow along and see more detail, even if you don't want to share your score! I watched the entire video and didn't see Wotakoi and Vanitas in your collection (albeit on 1.5 speed so I might have missed it). Firstly, I would highly recommend Wotakoi (Kodansha). I'm similar to you as my preferred genre is for shonen, however Wotakoi hit me like a breath of fresh air as a fun (Josei) slice of life comedy about every day working adults and their shame/pride of enjoying otaku culture. I guess why it struck me more than others applying the same trope was because I experienced a similar thing growing up with friends and family thinking that manga/anime was "weird", and I'm only starting to feel more comfortable now as I get older as a working class adult. The series has finished and only has 5 volumes so it's an easy read. Would love to hear your thoughts about it (no offense if you don't like it!) Secondly, I would also highly recommend Vanitas (Square Enix). I must admit that I was first introduced through the anime which I thought was gorgeous. Then when I read the manga, the art was even more beautiful than I expected. The story is set in Paris 19th century and centers around a supposed 'Doctor' who can cure Vampires, but the story is so much more complex than that. The author takes you on a fantasy journey with the main character saving lives whilst rejecting any attempt from others to save himself. The story is still a shonen manga at heart, but also deals with comedy, friendship, selfworth, and despair. The story is ongoing and there are currently 8 english volumes out now. Thanks for reading my comment and thanks for sharing your awesome collection!
The Case Study of Vanitas is Yen Press, but I do highly recommend it as well! It’s so good! Pandora Hearts is also really great and was also created by Jun Mochizuki. It also has a beautiful box set, great for collecting.
absolutely insane collection. how much do you think your collection's worth? on another note, I'm so happy that you're collecting/reading shoujo! a lot of creators seem to push shoujo aside unless they're mainly collecting series in that demographic so I'm glad you're giving them a chance ☺️
That collection is incredible. 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, all the current volumes of Jujutsu Kaisen, some of 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.
Nice collection! I hope to one day have a manga room half as grand as this haha. I have a couple suggestions for some really good manga that you may want to check out! 1) My main suggestion would be My Monster Secret by Eiji Masuda. It's a shonen romcom which ended back in 2017 and it is genuinely my favorite in the genre. The gags are incredibly funny and I love how the author uses repetition and callbacks of specific gags (in a good way), but modifies the situation or context slightly to change how the joke applies and keeps things fresh. It also does a fantastic job with a romance that has actual emotional payoffs and a progression throughout the series. The characters are all extremely loveable, and when you get the the end you might shed a tear or two saying goodbye to all of them haha. It is an absolutely amazing series and probably one of my favorite (if not my absolute favorite) manga. The main issue is some early volumes are out of print (and probably will not be reprinted), so you'll have to go used for those. Volumes 4 and 7 (I think?) are the hardest to get. I got my copies through a manga trading group on facebook for a very reasonable price, so just be prepared for that. Absolutely worth it though. 2) Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki (this author also wrote The Case Study of Vanitas). I feel like you would have this one but I didn't see it in the video, apologies if I missed it. It's a action/mystery? series about a boy who is cast into a place called the abyss by a group of mysterious hooded figures, and ends up forming a contract with a girl named Alice to escape. He then aims to find out why he was cast into the abyss, as well as help Alice discover her past memories which she has lost. The art for this is also really pretty. It's a bit hard to find some of the normal volumes, but you can currently get the box set from Yen Press's website for a good price, It has 12 omnibus volumes in it which are super pretty. Honestly, the box set is probably the coolest box set I've ever seen, it's feels like a chest and is really well made. I definitely recommend it! 3) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. This one is actually a shonen (despite what the name may make you think lol) 4-koma comedy manga. I don't have as much to say about this one since the focus is really the comedy rather than any story or romance, but the characters are pretty likeable, and the antics Nozaki and his friends get up to will probably make you laugh. I think these are all still pretty easy to get. 4) Wotakoi! You've probably heard of this one before, it's a Josei romcom that takes place with adults in the workplace. In a world of high school romcoms I find it to be pretty refreshing--the characters are all pretty mature (with some room to grow still haha) too. Still easy to get these volumes too since it is fairly recent. After writing this out I scrolled down a bit and saw another person recommending both Wotakoi and Vanitas (same author as Pandora Hearts) so glad to see there are others like me out there haha. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful and (if you get any of these) you really enjoy them! Best of wishes on the manga collecting.
Hi Nano! I just saw Ryley's latest December 2022 haul video where he picked up Vanitas so I came back here to see my comment suggesting Vanitas. Then I came across your comment and you've convinced me to give Pandora Hearts and My Monster Secret a try! I'm also really happy to see you also recommend Wotakoi! Hopefully Ryley will give it a chance too!
@@smartymarty111 hey that's awesome to hear! I haven't had a chance to watch through the full haul video yet so I'll have to finish that at some point. Definitely hope you enjoy Pandora Hearts, just finished rereading it recently and can confirm it's a 10/10. If you remember let me know what you think about it! Same for My Monster Secret, let me know your favorite moments/gage. It's always fun getting to see what other people think about the series you love. :) Also best of luck with finding the MMS physical releases if that's the route you take!
@@nano6790 I read 16 chapters of My Monster Secret today and I'm really liking it! The first 5 chapters were quite silly but the more I read, the more I loved the goofiness and gags! Finding physical releases will be very difficult in my country but will keep an eye out next time in the US! I''m able to find physical copies of Pandora Hearts though so I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it soon!
I don't want a collection as big as yours , nor am I collecting, I just wanna get the manga that's interesting to me and I want to read, but collection tours like these help me get to know new titles in a fun way. Cool Collection you got homie
I recommend the Toaru series! Such as A Certain Magical Index (Yen Press), A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Scientific Accelerator, and A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy (Seven Seas)
Toaru is in my top 10 favorite series. I read Old Testament, New Testament, Genesis Testament and all of the side story novels consecutively and it blew my mind. That was one hell of a long read 😂
So glad to see Higurashi in there! Not many have it that aren't like dedicated to the franchise. That's my favorite manga/anime/VN series currently, and I'd love hearing your thoughts on it sometime. If you're wanting to expand some of your horror library a bit more, I'd recommend Happy Sugar Life, Madoka Magica, and Pet Shop of Horrors.
This is an inspiration. I only started getting into manga a couple years ago and I'm already at like 2.5 Billy bookshelves worth of stuff. I'm gonna need a bigger house soon lol
Wow, this is definitely a massive massive collection, that has practically every manga I can think of in it, actually a giant achievement and I applaud you. The only manga I can think of that isn't in your collection that I have a part of is Franken Fran, which is a strange but also charming Comedy Horror Manga, that tends to have more risque subject matter. It's also quite hard to find from what I can tell, but from what I've read it's a decent read that definitely has an interesting niche in the horror genre. You might enjoy it :)
So glad to see you back, healthy, and happy! Loved the video and can't wait to see more content from you, my friend. Would love to see some shots of the new library from further away. Thanks!
The library of dreams! 🔥🔥🔥 I've only got one series to recomend, and it's Wotakoi by Fujita. It's a super fun josei and slice of life story about otaku office workers. I highly recomend it! The complete box set with all six volumes comes out in January. I think you'll like it. Always looking forward to your videos!!!
Great collection as always! Love the shoujo and Josei expansions! ❤ Super jealous of Kaze Hikaru- I collected it as it released but lost it. Trying to recollect it now.
i'm pretty impressed at 5.5k volumes, i consider myself an collector and by my estimate over 19 years of collecting i only have 3k. i won't be able to take proper inventory until i move though.
There are some absolutely spectacular additions in your library! Congrats on picking up some of those harder to find series/volumes, I hope you enjoy a bunch of those new shojo series, and I was thinking you might like Spirit Circle based on your tastes, so I hope you can get your hands on the rest of the volumes easily! I've got my fingers crossed for reprints of Umineko as well, I'm really hoping the reprints of Higurashi was a sign that we might be getting those soon. Glad to see that Hamtaro volume and nendoroid as well, lmao hell yea 🐹👑
Hey Ryley love the tour!! And big congrats for how much your collection has grown! No rush since youve talked about this video being exhausting enough to make, but any chance we could get an overview of this new library? possibly just a quick look on tiktok similar to how you have now where you start at the stairs? This seems like an entirely new room/area, unless i'm completely wrong. Would love to get a zoomed out look/feel for how the library is put together as a whole!
Insane collection man! Truly epic. I’ve recommended before but just wanna get it out there some more but get backers is really awesome if you wanna check out a Tokyo pop series that isn’t too expensive. Air gear is amazing well but a lot of the volumes are hard to track down
I watched this with my boyfriend, and I hope that one day I'll have a big place like that to keep my mangas! Also, a few recomendations: Vampire Knight and Wotakoi! I hope you enjoy it
I didnt see it anywhere, so i will recommend Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. It's a comedy yonkoma about a rather stoic boy who is the mangaka of a shoujo manga. The female lead falls in love for him, and tries to confess her love, but due to her shyness and Nozaki's stoic nature, they end up working together on the manga. The manga has really fun moments, specially for people who like drawing, shoujo tropes, otomes, dating sims and such related media.
My first video of yours. I started my collection last week I have 10 total volumes so far, I know it’s nothing compared to 5.5k but hopefully my collection can be like yours someday !
I have been redding mangas since primary school, but I have only recently started with collecting properly. I hope my future collection would look like the library you have😂. Love your videos
Hi your video is inspiring for me to collect mire manga books. I started to collect manga in 2019 but i have just 600 manga books... but i wish to collect all manga books that i liked in my childhood and now. Someday in the near furure i wish to have a nice room like yours with all my books i love... Thanks for this nice video and gave a good day!
Oh, if you want shojo recommendations, the Ascendance of a Bookworm is a good one. The author is brilliant at world and character building. I especially recommend it if you like apothecary diaries. Also I love Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, your Shonen collection makes me think you might enjoy it.
Just discovered your channel from this video. I’m in awe. In many ways this is my goal. I really need a steady income because that’s currently preventing me expanding more. I don’t get how you did this but I need to get a job.
As someone who has been reading about as long as you parts of you tour are such a trip down memory lane. I got rid of my physical manga about 8 years ago and this makes me miss them so much.
Hope we can get an updated graphic novel and trade paperback collection video in the future also. It's been over a year from the last one! Your manga collection is great. Some of those case closed books are hard to get right now.
Kia ora. If you like Nichijou, you should check out City also by Keiichi Arawi. I think it is one of the most underrated series out right now, especially considering how popular Nichijou is.
Massive props and congrats on getting the collection where you wanted it to be to film a new video! Even the book count aside, I can see the strides you've made with your own personal collecting goals, whether its completing the Shonen Sunday line, expanding your horizons on some shojo series, etc... Curious if you've noticed any major downgrades with any older series you've bought reprints of (esp shonen or popular shojo series) that were printed in Italy vs NA? I don't have any examples in my collection to go off from, but the new prints seem so much thinner due to paper quality which is a shame. Seeing the new MHA box set is like night and day... Also made me happy to see the small handful of series I mentioned in your last video like PSME or The Girl From the Other Side now on your shelf (even if I was months late to that and definitely not the first person to recommend them by then haha). And the whole "loving recommendations" thing goes both ways! I know there are definitely a few series I sought out after watching these tours that I either hadn't heard of before or completely forgot existed (i.e. Summit of the Gods, Blue Giant, a bunch of classics I forgot were newly published, etc...) If I had any more to reiterate from the last video or add, while forcing myself to stick with less than five: - Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey - My first recommendation based on your collection. Princess Jellyfish mangaka's semi-autobiographical story, and one of my all-time favorites. - Any of Kaoru Mori's work - I personally enjoy A Bride's Story more than Emma, but both are gorgeously illustrated additions to the historical fiction genre. - In This Corner of the World - The movie is fantastic as well, the manga just has more side stories and introspection that wasn't possible to tackle with the anime. - The Case Study of Vanitas - Vampire manga usually doesn't work for me, but Vanitas' perfectly balanced genre-mix of action/drama/fantasy/mystery/horror/etc... reminds me so much of early-mid FMA just with more romance elements. I also think some of the issues I had with the author's earlier work Pandora Hearts seem more ironed out with this one. Also YES, while there are so many series I'd want to see reprinted, Umineko might be close to the top of that list. It's one of my all-time favorite visual novels (next to The House in Fata Morgana), but its hard to revisit the story in that format vs the manga haha
Incredible collection. I do highly recommend you get some LED light strips for the undersides of your shelves though, it'd make the spines much easier to read.
!!! I was happy to see deadman wonderland there at the end! :) also the higurashi! i have my fingers crossed for Umineko getting reprinted...I have one volume... Thanks for making this video! :) i was going to watch it while re-shelving my manga but instead i found myself sitting here with a pen and paper writing down series that i want to check out haha.
Some interesting and relatively wholesome queer manga would be Gender X and Go For It, Nakamura. Gender X is about a nonbinary manga artist and their day to day life while being super confused about the young, up and coming queer community in Japan. Go For It, Nakamura and it's sequel (Go For It Again, Nakamura) is a very sweet and funny slice of life story about a middle school boy who's gay and has a gigantic crush on one of his classmates. It's very silly, but also has some relatively important messages! A cool psychological supernatural type manga (that's sadly really hard to get a hold of) is March Story. I can't really summarize it without giving away the meat and potatoes but DAMN is it a cool story. It's also only five volumes so it's relatively short. My manga knowledge isn't NEARLY as wide as yours, but considering you mentioned collection original prints in 2003 (the year I was born lol) I don't feel too bad. Awesome library! Hopefully my manga collection will be close to that size one day!!!
I also would recommend a manga which gets published/released in 1-2 days! (Name: Tokyo Alien). I have read it in german and it's still ongoing. The first volume in english is getting released in 1-2 days. It's more like a fighting manga and the artstyle is beautiful.
im still at the intro mark but if you havent read blacktorch yet i highly recommend it! its only 5 volumes as it got discontinued which is really sad but its worth the read! 😄 edit: watched the rest of the video and you have it bahah
I have 411 volumes of manga and it's interesting just to see what other people have and compare collections. One series that I own that wasn't in this video that I highly recommend The Masterful Cat is Depressed again, Today which is a really good slice of life comedy (that's getting an anime sometime next year BTW). Shout out to Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger, Shangri-La Frontier, Ragna Crimson, and Monotone Blue getting shown off in the video.
When it comes out, you should get Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun. I also think you should collect more Clamp manga like Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Rayearth, and Chobits.
I recommend Homunculus. A Seinen series, real fkd up but I love it. The atmosphere the author hideo yamamoto creates here is phenomenal i think. I felt like falling into the books and experiencing everything in virtual reality. Maybe it’s just me; but his art style here is fantastic. If you like weird stuff that is.
Ooh i would love to hear you talk more about Blame if you haven't already, i read the first one of those volumes recently and was blown away, haven't felt that immersed in a fictional world in a while.
Loved watching the video! Your collection is amazing. I'm glad to see you've added Bokurano to your collection since your last manga tour. It's one of my favourite series, though very hard to find now. Took me months to hunt down a copy of volume 3.
LFG an update manga collection vid and it's pretty cool seeing you complete whole lines of manga like all the viz and now sunday manga I don't know if you got a limit on how much you're gonna collect but 10K vid will be epic I'm sure
This morning my SFDX installation decided to screw up. It won't even do a force:org:list !! Thankfully, I had Ryley guiding us through his new library to keep me sane while I fixed it 😆 Shout out to anyone else who has Salesforce randomly screw you over 😉
A manga, which I can suggest to you is called "Arte" by Kei Ohkubo, that goes about a Girl in a noble family called Arte and she has a talent in art. But because she lives in the early 16th-century in Florence, Italy, her mother tries to force her to quit art, after her father has died, to get her to marry a young noble men. She refuses to give up her dream to become a master painter herself, despite the beliefs of the time that a girl cannot become a painter. The genres, where I would put this manga in is Drama, Historical and Romance. Sadly the manga has only gotten the first 3 Volumes out of the 16 Volumes (at least if I'm seeing the data correctly) released in English. Have a nice day, goodbye! :)
If you don’t have it already I highly recommend reading Rust Eater Bisco,a anime of came out earlier this year and they’ve been releasing the light novel and it’s definitely worth a read,there are 3 volumes out so far.
Stoked to hear that Cat-Eyed Boy is getting a reprint. I've had vol. 2 for years (my ex had vol.1), but assumed I would just never get my own copy of that first volume.
I forgot to mention this but I DO have plenty of room to grow. The shelves I have now are almost completely full but there’s space beyond the current shelves for about ten additional bookcases. Here’s to the future!
@@namharper542 yes, that is the series I refer to at 36:23
@@omnibuscollector Ah. Well I didn't get that. I hope you can get it.
One series that I didn’t see in there that I thought you might like:
Mysterious Girlfriend X.
Though it has that controversial beginning, the rest of the series is actually quite wholesome and really doesn’t focus on that aspect much at all. Appealing art alongside a cute rom-com. It does have some ecchi elements, but the heart of the series is more of a wholesome one than that of a “pervert” like most series with fanservice. The series’ great omnibuses were just re-printed not too long ago, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find. I hope you enjoy!😊
Have read homonculus?
May I ask how you found Hikaru no Go vol. 23?
I cannot find it!
bro has more manga in his collection than my local Barnes and Noble has inventory
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Having read 80% is very impressive! Makes me happy that you’re enjoying the books not just from a collecting standpoint :)
I just saw this message and I'm pretty sure at this rate he hasn't read 80% of what he collects. There's not enough time for it. Taking also into account he collects comics too.
With each passing day the reality of how little of Urasawa's work has been translated is insane. Most of his longer series still not available for English, big opportunity VIZ is missing out on!
I know. Fans would be all over them
billy bat nd yawara. not much tbh
@@jayeshjaiswal5631 Happy and Master Keaton Remaster. All in total, including the ones you said, is over 750 Chapters
@@lebyandsmartiel318 Ah happy nd yawara r def some long series. Idk if we will be getting em soon enough 🚶
I wish his work would get the deluxe hardcover treatment similar to Berserk or Blade of the Immortal. None of his works seem to be in hardcover format in English. Italy and Germany usually get some of the nicer hardcover for manga that are not out in English. Not sure why.
So awesome to see how your collection has grown since the last tour, loving all the new shojo additions!
Shoujo*
Shojo is a female virgin, by the way.
I'm a passery-by. What a cool video that was to see such a large physical manga collection! I myself am more of a digital collector mainly due to my lifestlye and preferences, and so a lot of my pictures, videos, movies, games, music, etc are kept in large storage external hard drives. I guess I like to have everything in one place. Thanks for sharing your collection and making this video. Have a great day!
That's a crazy collection. Congrats of filling in the Sunday line.
My guess is you'll 100% Shojo Beat by Christmas 2025!
I’ll be interested if he goes for Shojobeat to complete that, but feel like he’d go for Viz Signature first (unless he already did that??)
@@madisonfrancis6705 he’s got like 29 left for the viz sigs I think to collect so isn’t too much.
Hi Ryley! This is my first comment in 15 years of being on youtube (since 2007) and I just want to say how much inspiration you give me for collecting manga myself. You took your time to create a long detailed video so I want to show my appreciate with a long comment.
I wish there was a way I could see your entire reading/read list (similar to myanimelist). Would be great just to follow along and see more detail, even if you don't want to share your score!
I watched the entire video and didn't see Wotakoi and Vanitas in your collection (albeit on 1.5 speed so I might have missed it).
Firstly, I would highly recommend Wotakoi (Kodansha). I'm similar to you as my preferred genre is for shonen, however Wotakoi hit me like a breath of fresh air as a fun (Josei) slice of life comedy about every day working adults and their shame/pride of enjoying otaku culture. I guess why it struck me more than others applying the same trope was because I experienced a similar thing growing up with friends and family thinking that manga/anime was "weird", and I'm only starting to feel more comfortable now as I get older as a working class adult. The series has finished and only has 5 volumes so it's an easy read. Would love to hear your thoughts about it (no offense if you don't like it!)
Secondly, I would also highly recommend Vanitas (Square Enix). I must admit that I was first introduced through the anime which I thought was gorgeous. Then when I read the manga, the art was even more beautiful than I expected. The story is set in Paris 19th century and centers around a supposed 'Doctor' who can cure Vampires, but the story is so much more complex than that. The author takes you on a fantasy journey with the main character saving lives whilst rejecting any attempt from others to save himself. The story is still a shonen manga at heart, but also deals with comedy, friendship, selfworth, and despair. The story is ongoing and there are currently 8 english volumes out now.
Thanks for reading my comment and thanks for sharing your awesome collection!
Your UA-cam account is almost older than me haha
The Case Study of Vanitas is Yen Press, but I do highly recommend it as well! It’s so good! Pandora Hearts is also really great and was also created by Jun Mochizuki. It also has a beautiful box set, great for collecting.
Case Studies of Vanitas is a gem 💎
absolutely insane collection. how much do you think your collection's worth? on another note, I'm so happy that you're collecting/reading shoujo! a lot of creators seem to push shoujo aside unless they're mainly collecting series in that demographic so I'm glad you're giving them a chance ☺️
80-100k
I think he said in the other video, his first collection is shoujo.
That collection is incredible. 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, all the current volumes of Jujutsu Kaisen, some of 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.
You should do a video on insuring large collections.
Now we just need those monthly haul videos to come back…
Your previous tour got me into manga....in the past five months I have picked up 75 books....you have added another 1700....CRAZY! Awesome collection!
i would definitely recommend adding bungo stray dogs into the yenpress section! and i was so glad to see witch hat atelier representation
Nice collection! I hope to one day have a manga room half as grand as this haha. I have a couple suggestions for some really good manga that you may want to check out!
1) My main suggestion would be My Monster Secret by Eiji Masuda. It's a shonen romcom which ended back in 2017 and it is genuinely my favorite in the genre. The gags are incredibly funny and I love how the author uses repetition and callbacks of specific gags (in a good way), but modifies the situation or context slightly to change how the joke applies and keeps things fresh. It also does a fantastic job with a romance that has actual emotional payoffs and a progression throughout the series. The characters are all extremely loveable, and when you get the the end you might shed a tear or two saying goodbye to all of them haha. It is an absolutely amazing series and probably one of my favorite (if not my absolute favorite) manga.
The main issue is some early volumes are out of print (and probably will not be reprinted), so you'll have to go used for those. Volumes 4 and 7 (I think?) are the hardest to get. I got my copies through a manga trading group on facebook for a very reasonable price, so just be prepared for that. Absolutely worth it though.
2) Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki (this author also wrote The Case Study of Vanitas). I feel like you would have this one but I didn't see it in the video, apologies if I missed it. It's a action/mystery? series about a boy who is cast into a place called the abyss by a group of mysterious hooded figures, and ends up forming a contract with a girl named Alice to escape. He then aims to find out why he was cast into the abyss, as well as help Alice discover her past memories which she has lost. The art for this is also really pretty. It's a bit hard to find some of the normal volumes, but you can currently get the box set from Yen Press's website for a good price, It has 12 omnibus volumes in it which are super pretty. Honestly, the box set is probably the coolest box set I've ever seen, it's feels like a chest and is really well made. I definitely recommend it!
3) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. This one is actually a shonen (despite what the name may make you think lol) 4-koma comedy manga. I don't have as much to say about this one since the focus is really the comedy rather than any story or romance, but the characters are pretty likeable, and the antics Nozaki and his friends get up to will probably make you laugh. I think these are all still pretty easy to get.
4) Wotakoi! You've probably heard of this one before, it's a Josei romcom that takes place with adults in the workplace. In a world of high school romcoms I find it to be pretty refreshing--the characters are all pretty mature (with some room to grow still haha) too. Still easy to get these volumes too since it is fairly recent.
After writing this out I scrolled down a bit and saw another person recommending both Wotakoi and Vanitas (same author as Pandora Hearts) so glad to see there are others like me out there haha. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful and (if you get any of these) you really enjoy them! Best of wishes on the manga collecting.
Hi Nano! I just saw Ryley's latest December 2022 haul video where he picked up Vanitas so I came back here to see my comment suggesting Vanitas. Then I came across your comment and you've convinced me to give Pandora Hearts and My Monster Secret a try!
I'm also really happy to see you also recommend Wotakoi! Hopefully Ryley will give it a chance too!
@@smartymarty111 hey that's awesome to hear! I haven't had a chance to watch through the full haul video yet so I'll have to finish that at some point.
Definitely hope you enjoy Pandora Hearts, just finished rereading it recently and can confirm it's a 10/10. If you remember let me know what you think about it! Same for My Monster Secret, let me know your favorite moments/gage. It's always fun getting to see what other people think about the series you love. :) Also best of luck with finding the MMS physical releases if that's the route you take!
@@nano6790 I read 16 chapters of My Monster Secret today and I'm really liking it! The first 5 chapters were quite silly but the more I read, the more I loved the goofiness and gags! Finding physical releases will be very difficult in my country but will keep an eye out next time in the US!
I''m able to find physical copies of Pandora Hearts though so I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it soon!
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO LIVE MY DREAM!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU ARE LUCKY YOU HAVE A MANGA LIBARY 👁💧👄💧👁
honestly i never get bored of your manga tour videos, keep collecting man, ur awesome!
I haven’t watched through the vid yet, but I’ve been following the ever expanding library for a while now and dude you’re like the coolest person
I don't want a collection as big as yours , nor am I collecting, I just wanna get the manga that's interesting to me and I want to read, but collection tours like these help me get to know new titles in a fun way. Cool Collection you got homie
Here from Twitter 🙋🏻♀️ Been waiting for this!! SUPER LOVED IT!! Your efforts are appreciated 🔥
My favourite manga are Girls' Last Tour, Shimeji Simulation (by the same author). I think you would really like them.
These videos always go beyond expectations, thank you for sharing your amazing collection
I recommend the Toaru series! Such as A Certain Magical Index (Yen Press), A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Scientific Accelerator, and A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy (Seven Seas)
Toaru is in my top 10 favorite series. I read Old Testament, New Testament, Genesis Testament and all of the side story novels consecutively and it blew my mind. That was one hell of a long read 😂
So glad to see Higurashi in there! Not many have it that aren't like dedicated to the franchise. That's my favorite manga/anime/VN series currently, and I'd love hearing your thoughts on it sometime. If you're wanting to expand some of your horror library a bit more, I'd recommend Happy Sugar Life, Madoka Magica, and Pet Shop of Horrors.
This is an inspiration. I only started getting into manga a couple years ago and I'm already at like 2.5 Billy bookshelves worth of stuff. I'm gonna need a bigger house soon lol
Wow, this is definitely a massive massive collection, that has practically every manga I can think of in it, actually a giant achievement and I applaud you. The only manga I can think of that isn't in your collection that I have a part of is Franken Fran, which is a strange but also charming Comedy Horror Manga, that tends to have more risque subject matter. It's also quite hard to find from what I can tell, but from what I've read it's a decent read that definitely has an interesting niche in the horror genre. You might enjoy it :)
This is my first video here and I just wanted to point out how calming your voice is! Thank you for letting us see your collection, it's incredible!
It was nice seeing Whistle on here :) The series definitely deserves more love!
You'd better guard that Trigun and Black Cat complete sets!!! 🤺🤺🤺
So glad to see you back, healthy, and happy! Loved the video and can't wait to see more content from you, my friend. Would love to see some shots of the new library from further away. Thanks!
I want MAR SOOOOOOOO bad been trying to find it for a decent price man such a childhood throw back. An absolutely amazing collection!!!
Man your collection is insane 🔥
The library of dreams! 🔥🔥🔥
I've only got one series to recomend, and it's Wotakoi by Fujita. It's a super fun josei and slice of life story about otaku office workers. I highly recomend it! The complete box set with all six volumes comes out in January. I think you'll like it.
Always looking forward to your videos!!!
Great collection as always! Love the shoujo and Josei expansions! ❤ Super jealous of Kaze Hikaru- I collected it as it released but lost it. Trying to recollect it now.
Yay! Finally the library tour!
Enjoyed this so much.
i'm pretty impressed at 5.5k volumes, i consider myself an collector and by my estimate over 19 years of collecting i only have 3k. i won't be able to take proper inventory until i move though.
There are some absolutely spectacular additions in your library! Congrats on picking up some of those harder to find series/volumes, I hope you enjoy a bunch of those new shojo series, and I was thinking you might like Spirit Circle based on your tastes, so I hope you can get your hands on the rest of the volumes easily! I've got my fingers crossed for reprints of Umineko as well, I'm really hoping the reprints of Higurashi was a sign that we might be getting those soon. Glad to see that Hamtaro volume and nendoroid as well, lmao hell yea 🐹👑
You and the Omnibros helped get me into the ominbus. It is mind-blowing to see you also have this huge Manga collection!
Your collection is so diverse and awesome! I've been collecting for 13 years now, and it's a hobby I don't see slowing down anytime soon.
Hey Ryley love the tour!! And big congrats for how much your collection has grown!
No rush since youve talked about this video being exhausting enough to make, but any chance we could get an overview of this new library? possibly just a quick look on tiktok similar to how you have now where you start at the stairs? This seems like an entirely new room/area, unless i'm completely wrong. Would love to get a zoomed out look/feel for how the library is put together as a whole!
Always feels like christmas when one of these videos drop 😂
Insane collection man! Truly epic. I’ve recommended before but just wanna get it out there some more but get backers is really awesome if you wanna check out a Tokyo pop series that isn’t too expensive. Air gear is amazing well but a lot of the volumes are hard to track down
I watched this with my boyfriend, and I hope that one day I'll have a big place like that to keep my mangas! Also, a few recomendations: Vampire Knight and Wotakoi! I hope you enjoy it
You have a lot more camera confidence in this video love to see it 🎉
I didnt see it anywhere, so i will recommend Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. It's a comedy yonkoma about a rather stoic boy who is the mangaka of a shoujo manga. The female lead falls in love for him, and tries to confess her love, but due to her shyness and Nozaki's stoic nature, they end up working together on the manga. The manga has really fun moments, specially for people who like drawing, shoujo tropes, otomes, dating sims and such related media.
Also i didnt see Yawara from Naoki Urasawa, and i would swear i watched a previous video in which you had it
Knew I could trust you when you singled out My Love Story as a great manga. Now I have to start Mashle because you said that one was so great too!
My first video of yours. I started my collection last week I have 10 total volumes so far, I know it’s nothing compared to 5.5k but hopefully my collection can be like yours someday !
I have been redding mangas since primary school, but I have only recently started with collecting properly. I hope my future collection would look like the library you have😂. Love your videos
Bruh if only I knew you needed Blue Spring, I picked it up for £3.50 in a used bookstore last year and sold it on 😅
Hi your video is inspiring for me to collect mire manga books. I started to collect manga in 2019 but i have just 600 manga books... but i wish to collect all manga books that i liked in my childhood and now. Someday in the near furure i wish to have a nice room like yours with all my books i love... Thanks for this nice video and gave a good day!
Oh, if you want shojo recommendations, the Ascendance of a Bookworm is a good one. The author is brilliant at world and character building. I especially recommend it if you like apothecary diaries. Also I love Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, your Shonen collection makes me think you might enjoy it.
Awesome video! It's feels like you own every manga volume ever published :D
Was machst du denn hier hahaha! 😆
@@JojoAndChill Manga's appreciaten :D
Just discovered your channel from this video. I’m in awe. In many ways this is my goal. I really need a steady income because that’s currently preventing me expanding more. I don’t get how you did this but I need to get a job.
was holding my breath to see if you have d.gray-man 😂 it’s my favorite series but it’s criminally underrated
I hope to have an up to date collection of Case Closed one day. I'll stare at yours in awe for now.
That was insanely impressive! I’ve mentioned this before but a dedicated video on your graphic novel collection would be really awesome too
You have been able to consistently give me bliss. If you didnt exist there would be a bleak world
Absolutely amazing collection, lmao I thought I was getting wild with 700, once I move out I’m stepping up my library! c:
Finally!! I've been waiting for a brand new tour...I came here to this channel after watching ur last tour...
Nice to see someone else having today's menu for the Emiya family. I just need vol 5 myself to be up to date as of now.
As someone who has been reading about as long as you parts of you tour are such a trip down memory lane. I got rid of my physical manga about 8 years ago and this makes me miss them so much.
You can always recollect you're top 10 favorites. something you would re-read over and over again.
@@amilli1214 once my kids are a little older I'm probably going to do that.
amazing collection, only the finest titles, cheers from Brasil bro.
these Berserk deluxe editions...its my dream.
Hope we can get an updated graphic novel and trade paperback collection video in the future also. It's been over a year from the last one! Your manga collection is great. Some of those case closed books are hard to get right now.
I've always looked forward to these videos. Loved seeing this growth for the past couple years.
Kia ora. If you like Nichijou, you should check out City also by Keiichi Arawi. I think it is one of the most underrated series out right now, especially considering how popular Nichijou is.
Legit surprised I did t see Black Butler in there. It’s an okay series amazing artwork.
You should read Blue Period and Land of the Lustrous if you haven’t read them already. Absolutely incredible stories
Congrats on another updated collection tour!! - Jerry
Massive props and congrats on getting the collection where you wanted it to be to film a new video! Even the book count aside, I can see the strides you've made with your own personal collecting goals, whether its completing the Shonen Sunday line, expanding your horizons on some shojo series, etc... Curious if you've noticed any major downgrades with any older series you've bought reprints of (esp shonen or popular shojo series) that were printed in Italy vs NA? I don't have any examples in my collection to go off from, but the new prints seem so much thinner due to paper quality which is a shame. Seeing the new MHA box set is like night and day...
Also made me happy to see the small handful of series I mentioned in your last video like PSME or The Girl From the Other Side now on your shelf (even if I was months late to that and definitely not the first person to recommend them by then haha). And the whole "loving recommendations" thing goes both ways! I know there are definitely a few series I sought out after watching these tours that I either hadn't heard of before or completely forgot existed (i.e. Summit of the Gods, Blue Giant, a bunch of classics I forgot were newly published, etc...)
If I had any more to reiterate from the last video or add, while forcing myself to stick with less than five:
- Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey - My first recommendation based on your collection. Princess Jellyfish mangaka's semi-autobiographical story, and one of my all-time favorites.
- Any of Kaoru Mori's work - I personally enjoy A Bride's Story more than Emma, but both are gorgeously illustrated additions to the historical fiction genre.
- In This Corner of the World - The movie is fantastic as well, the manga just has more side stories and introspection that wasn't possible to tackle with the anime.
- The Case Study of Vanitas - Vampire manga usually doesn't work for me, but Vanitas' perfectly balanced genre-mix of action/drama/fantasy/mystery/horror/etc... reminds me so much of early-mid FMA just with more romance elements. I also think some of the issues I had with the author's earlier work Pandora Hearts seem more ironed out with this one.
Also YES, while there are so many series I'd want to see reprinted, Umineko might be close to the top of that list. It's one of my all-time favorite visual novels (next to The House in Fata Morgana), but its hard to revisit the story in that format vs the manga haha
Incredible collection. I do highly recommend you get some LED light strips for the undersides of your shelves though, it'd make the spines much easier to read.
LEDs hurt my eyes
Cool to see that you have bought some more light novels and art books
!!! I was happy to see deadman wonderland there at the end! :) also the higurashi! i have my fingers crossed for Umineko getting reprinted...I have one volume...
Thanks for making this video! :) i was going to watch it while re-shelving my manga but instead i found myself sitting here with a pen and paper writing down series that i want to check out haha.
Thanks for sharing your amazing collection! I’m a huge Golden Kamuy fan and would love to hear some more less talked about mangas you enjoy.
49:20 The WHOLE Higurashi series? Man I'm jelaous, I'm searching for these since basically ever
Some interesting and relatively wholesome queer manga would be Gender X and Go For It, Nakamura. Gender X is about a nonbinary manga artist and their day to day life while being super confused about the young, up and coming queer community in Japan. Go For It, Nakamura and it's sequel (Go For It Again, Nakamura) is a very sweet and funny slice of life story about a middle school boy who's gay and has a gigantic crush on one of his classmates. It's very silly, but also has some relatively important messages!
A cool psychological supernatural type manga (that's sadly really hard to get a hold of) is March Story. I can't really summarize it without giving away the meat and potatoes but DAMN is it a cool story. It's also only five volumes so it's relatively short.
My manga knowledge isn't NEARLY as wide as yours, but considering you mentioned collection original prints in 2003 (the year I was born lol) I don't feel too bad. Awesome library! Hopefully my manga collection will be close to that size one day!!!
I recommend an old manga that i am reading now called " The Fable" , it has the right amount of action and comedy.
beautiful collection
I also would recommend a manga which gets published/released in 1-2 days! (Name: Tokyo Alien). I have read it in german and it's still ongoing. The first volume in english is getting released in 1-2 days. It's more like a fighting manga and the artstyle is beautiful.
im still at the intro mark but if you havent read blacktorch yet i highly recommend it! its only 5 volumes as it got discontinued which is really sad but its worth the read! 😄
edit: watched the rest of the video and you have it bahah
I have 411 volumes of manga and it's interesting just to see what other people have and compare collections. One series that I own that wasn't in this video that I highly recommend The Masterful Cat is Depressed again, Today which is a really good slice of life comedy (that's getting an anime sometime next year BTW).
Shout out to Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger, Shangri-La Frontier, Ragna Crimson, and Monotone Blue getting shown off in the video.
You need Basilisk in there. It’s the mature readers ninja story you need for your library.
When it comes out, you should get Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun.
I also think you should collect more Clamp manga like Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Rayearth, and Chobits.
I recommend Homunculus. A Seinen series, real fkd up but I love it. The atmosphere the author hideo yamamoto creates here is phenomenal i think. I felt like falling into the books and experiencing everything in virtual reality. Maybe it’s just me; but his art style here is fantastic. If you like weird stuff that is.
I responded to your previous comment on my other video that it was only just released in English last month.
Ooh i would love to hear you talk more about Blame if you haven't already, i read the first one of those volumes recently and was blown away, haven't felt that immersed in a fictional world in a while.
Best manga UA-camr 100%
watching your videos make me feel like a kid excitedly watching my friend show me his cool shit at his house
What a great tour! It’s awesome to see everything
I didn't see Pandora Hearts on your shelf, I highly recommend it if you've never read it.
DAYUM, thats a lot of volumes! now i respect you!
Gantz!!! One of my favorites, awesome video man
Fantastic collection! Let me know when I can get my library card
Loved watching the video! Your collection is amazing. I'm glad to see you've added Bokurano to your collection since your last manga tour. It's one of my favourite series, though very hard to find now. Took me months to hunt down a copy of volume 3.
LFG an update manga collection vid and it's pretty cool seeing you complete whole lines of manga like all the viz and now sunday manga I don't know if you got a limit on how much you're gonna collect but 10K vid will be epic I'm sure
This morning my SFDX installation decided to screw up. It won't even do a force:org:list !! Thankfully, I had Ryley guiding us through his new library to keep me sane while I fixed it 😆
Shout out to anyone else who has Salesforce randomly screw you over 😉
A manga, which I can suggest to you is called "Arte" by Kei Ohkubo, that goes about a Girl in a noble family called Arte and she has a talent in art. But because she lives in the early 16th-century in Florence, Italy, her mother tries to force her to quit art, after her father has died, to get her to marry a young noble men. She refuses to give up her dream to become a master painter herself, despite the beliefs of the time that a girl cannot become a painter. The genres, where I would put this manga in is Drama, Historical and Romance. Sadly the manga has only gotten the first 3 Volumes out of the 16 Volumes (at least if I'm seeing the data correctly) released in English.
Have a nice day, goodbye! :)
OMGGG FINALLY YOU HAVE EDENS ZERO!! HOPEFULLY YOU LIKE IT!
If you don’t have it already I highly recommend reading Rust Eater Bisco,a anime of came out earlier this year and they’ve been releasing the light novel and it’s definitely worth a read,there are 3 volumes out so far.
Stoked to hear that Cat-Eyed Boy is getting a reprint. I've had vol. 2 for years (my ex had vol.1), but assumed I would just never get my own copy of that first volume.
Wow you even have Golgo 13 in your collections🔥
This is a great collection! You might enjoy The Saga of Tanya the Evil!
Ottima collezione!😍✌👍 tante belle serie!