Bookshelf Overload: September 2013
Recently, I’ve mostly been able to limit myself to preorders and review copies when it comes to the manga that makes its way into my domicile. However in September I took advantage of some nice sales...
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Thanks to gift certificates, review copies, and some choice preorders, October once again saw plenty of manga and other materials making their way onto my bookshelves at home. Thankfully, it wasn’t as...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: November 2013
I did it! I was finally able to complete my collection of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009 without having to sell a kidney! It took me a little over a year to do it, so I’m rather pleased with myself....
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: December 2013
I’m pretty pleased with my manga haul in December. I finally gave in and bought a complete set of Yumi Tamura’s series Basara on ebay. I ended up paying a little more than I really wanted (some of the...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: January 2014
Compared to past months, I actually consider January to be a fairly reasonable month for me when it comes to new acquisitions. Hopefully, this trend will continue for a bit–I know both my wallet and my...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: February 2014
February may be a short month, but that didn’t seem to have much of an impact on how many manga and other goodies made their way into my possession. It’s been a little while since there’s been an...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: March 2014
Compared to some past months, the number of my March acquisitions seems completely reasonable to me. I’ve looked ahead to what April has in store for me (and my wallet) and it’ll be a bit ridiculous,...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: April 2014
Well, I knew at the beginning of the month that April was going to be rough on my wallet, what with all of the preorders and such that I had in place. Fortunately, I also had a couple of gift cards to...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: May 2014
Not counting the big box of review copies that arrived at the very end of the month, May actually has the distinction of my comics acquisitions outnumbering my manga acquisitions for the month. This is...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: June 2014
Compared to the ridiculousness of the last few months, the number of my June acquisitions is actually quite reasonable. For the most part I stuck to preorders, though there were a few splurges, too. As...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: July 2014
Okay! So, I would consider July to be a fairly reasonable month for manga (and other) acquisitions. (I did pretty well in June, too, so hopefully this is a trend that continues.) I’ve gotten to the...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: August 2014
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. After several months of what I would consider to be fairly reasonable amounts of manga and such making it onto my shelves, August comes along and proves that...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: September 2014
The number of September acquisitions was definitely more reasonable than August’s, which is a good thing especially since it looks like October will be pretty rough on my wallet. What was unusual about...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: October 2014
I knew October was going to be rough on my wallet since there were a lot of manga that I was planning on picking up. Most of October’s acquisitions were the result of preorders, but there were a few...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: November 2014
Once again, November mostly brought preorders and a few review copies to my doorstep, but I also made a point of picking up some first volumes of older series that I’ve been meaning to try, like...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: December 2014
It may have been the last month of the year, but that certainly didn’t stop me at all from acquiring a slightly absurd amount of manga. Part of that is thanks to Right Stuf’s major holiday sales. I...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: January 2015
Well, 2015 is off to a rather impressive start when it comes to the somewhat ridiculous amount of manga making its way into my household. Thanks to some gift cards, major sales at my local comic book...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: February 2015
JooooooJoooooo! It’s finally here! By far the manga I was most excited to get my hands on in February was Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 1: Phantom Blood, Volume 1. I’m thankful for...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: March 2015
Compared to most other months, the number of manga that I had to find space for in March was relatively reasonable. I mostly stuck to preorders for manga, the major exception being the set of the now...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: April 2015
April saw a fair number of manga, comics, and other books making their way onto my shelves courtesy of some excellent sales and a handful of Kickstarter rewards. Once again, I mostly stuck to preorders...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: May 2015
So, over the last few years, I’ve come to expect that May will have a very large number of comics and manga that I want to buy and I try to plan accordingly. I generally fault attending the Toronto...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: June 2015
After the ridiculousness that was May, I was able to rein in my purchases somewhat for June. Somewhat. There were a few releases that I was particularly looking forward to, like Fragments of Horror, a...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: July 2015
Well, it didn’t take me very long at all to get back into the habit of bringing a ridiculous number of books into the house. On top of that, I think I’ve discovered a new addiction: artbooks. I picked...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: August 2015
Along with August comes 801 Day, and along with 801 Day comes boys’ love sales, so in addition to usual slew of preorders last month, I replenished my supply of BL manga and novels. I even managed to...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: September 2015
Makoto Yukimura’s Vinland Saga is back! The publication of the manga’s sixth omnibus was one of my most anticipated releases for September. I was also very excited for Requiem of the Rose King, Volume...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: October 2015
Another month has passed and my collection of books and manga continues to grow. (I am, however, in the process of pulling together a rather large library donation, so at least there will at least...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: November 2015
November’s Bookshelf Overload will very likely be the last of its size for quite some time. A few things happened to make the number of manga that I received last month particularly absurd. Right Stuf...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: December 2015
Well, here it is! The last Bookshelf Overload for 2015. For anyone who regularly follows this particular feature, it’s probably immediately obvious that the number of books that made their way onto my...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: January 2016
Another month has passed and my manga collection continues to grow and evolve. The nice thing about December and January is that I usually end up with at least a few gift cards (and gifts), so I can...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: February 2016
February was a rather reasonable month for me when it came to additions to my collection, though I did end up with a little bit of everything. After a small delay, Persona 4, Volume 1 by Shuji Sogabe...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: March 2016
Well, while still not as large as some previous months, March did end my streak of smaller monthly hauls, but I swear I have some legitimate excuses! First of all, Kodansha Comics apparently remembered...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: April 2016
April was a fairly reasonable month when it came to the number of manga and other books that I acquired, but by far my biggest acquisition was a house! It took nearly six months and a lot of stress to...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: May 2016
I will be the first to admit that the amount of manga, comics, and other delights I acquired in May was kind of ridiculous, especially when compared to recent months in which I’ve deliberately tried...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: June 2016
After the ridiculousness that was May’s Bookshelf Overload (thanks, TCAF!), the number of manga and other books that I acquired in June seems entirely reasonable. Last month I took advantage of a few...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: July 2016
I was weak in July and succumbed to temptation. Barnes & Noble had its big 3-for-2 manga sale which, when combined with already discounted prices and additional coupons, meant I was able to get a...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: August 2016
I’m slowly slipping back into my old buying habits; I should probably be a bit more stringent before things get ridiculously out of hand again. Granted, I stayed within my budget in August more than it...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: September 2016
Normally manga far outweigh the other types of comics that I acquire in any given month, but in September there wasn’t much of a difference between the two. I also picked up more anime than I usually...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: October 2016
October brought quite a few interesting things to my shelves. The University of Hawaii Press, which publishes some excellent Japan-related materials, had a major sale celebrating its 69th anniversary....
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: November 2016
In an interesting trend, I seem to be picking up more and more non-manga comics lately. And in some months–take November as an example–the number of non-manga comics that I purchase even manage to...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: December 2016
Well, December happened, as I knew it would. I took advantage of a large number of holiday and end of year sales and made good use of coupons and gift cards, so my wallet is happier than it would have...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: January 2017
Looking at the much more reasonable Bookshelf Overload for January after the absurdity that was December’s is kind of strange. I feel like I must have missed something, but no, the list below is all of...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: February 2017
So, things got a little out of hand in February, mostly due to the fact that I came across a fair number of out-of-print and somewhat hard-to-find manga that I wasn’t able to pass up. Other than that I...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: March 2017
Well then, I managed to acquire a rather large number of books in March. Unexpectedly, most of them weren’t even manga. In part this was due to a bunch of comics that I had previously backed on...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: April 2017
I started at my new job in April, which has gone pretty well so far, but it has still been a bit of a stressful transition moving from one library to another. As a result, considering my tendency to...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: May 2017
Ah yes, May. The month that I know I will end up adding a tremendous amount of material of various types to my collection if for no other reason than this little event called the Toronto Comic Arts...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: June 2017
After the ridiculousness of May’s Bookshelf Overload, the number of manga, comics, and other books that I picked up in June seems completely reasonable. But even though it was a small month, it was...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: July 2017
I ended up picking up a few more things than I had initially planned to in July (including more anime series than usual). Partly to blame was the huge month-long anniversary sale at RightStuf. Granted,...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: August 2017
Over the last few months my manga buying habits have been slowly changing. In general I’m preordering less (which is rather unfortunate as that’s one of the best ways to support the manga industry),...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: October 2017
Another month, another mountain of media that somehow made its way into my possession! (Actually, I know exactly how.) Thanks to some fantastic sales, I finally got around to filling in the gaps in my...
View ArticleBookshelf Overload: November 2017
Since in a few weeks I will be retiring Experiments in Manga, this will be the final Bookshelf Overload posted here. However, I am thinking of ways that I might be able to feature some of the...
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