Manga Mumbles: musings of a collector

I been collecting mangas on and off for years. In a way, I use to collect when I was trying to fit in with certain people. Then when they left, I was stuck with things that reminded me of them.

So for a few years, I would look or read them from time to time but never bought more cause I felt alone in this hobby and so I ended up focusing on collecting video games.

In the last three years, I went to buying mangas again, once every few months and I rediscovered the joy in it. I may have regreted the hiatus in collecting and missing out on a few series or being able to replace the stolen volumes but that gave me the incentive to buy the omnibus volumes of the mangas. Mainly Neon Genesis Evangelion and Death Note.
I also plan on rebuying series I gave away during my down times, like Ouran High Host Club, Kingdom Hearts and Millennium Snow.
There are also a lot of incomplete series but they are now put in an order of most desired/shortest to first and so forth.

Heck, the most exciting part is finding out about new mangas and deciding which ones to buy.
While at the same time, I made an Instagram account based purely on manga to try and talk to more like minded people, see what they like and recommend and possibly one day buying them too. It's kinda exciting.

I feel kinda glad to rekindle my love for manga and taught myself that I am able to buy a bunch once a month and I can start new series once I finish one. So, next may be Food Wars but that's after I finish Evangelion and one other series lol. It's only cause Food wars is a current manga and a long series.
Guess one thing hasn't changed since I started, I don't like buying long series. I prefer them under 15 volumes but if they go over, hopefully not more than 30 *coughGantzcough*

Anywhom, the attached images are my current set-up and shelves of my mangas. One day I'd like to have them spread out on one shelf instead of two rowed like it currently is but that's for future Mizu can fulfil one day. If she does, she better come back to this post and show off the success lol xD