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| This came in today |
The joys of holidays are when all my mail comes in one lump
of mail goodness and I take great joy in ripping them apart for more manga
goodness. All but two mangas are from Book Depository, which I frequent due to
cheaper prices and the free shipping. Sometimes I get dirtied mangas from there
but that is easily fixed and the least of my problems. The other two were
second-hand books from Abe Books which is a medium where stores can sell their books
for, sometimes, a cheaper price. I get actual novels from both places and are
generally worth it.
In this bundle, I have finished two sets, got one up to date
and added more to the pile and eventually get the other five to get that series
up to date as well. Sadly, I cannot pick up the rest I planned to get, so they
will be put here at a later time with a review about buying from Facebook
markets, which should be like buying from Gumtree or eBay. Uncertain until the
products have arrived into my care.
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| Finally finished |
Anyway, let’s begin with the main set, The Gentlemen’s
Alliance Cross is 11 volumes long and written by Arina Tanemura, whose other
works include Sakura-Hime and Full Moon. The story follows Haine, a young lady
who goes to a private school where she struggles to find her place there and
discovers the many secrets that’s within the school’s council. I read this
series a few years back and decided to get it as it was something I’ve always
wanted to own, like many other older series but, compared to some, this was one
of the easier series to find. I am glad to have completed this and I bought
them all close to Christmas time, as I was gifted with money rather than gifts.
The next two are part of the Magical Girl Site series and
that has 11 volumes out currently, ongoing and done by Kentaro Sato, who also
did Magical Girl Apocalypse, which is the series that goes before this one, in
my opinion. The only good thing is, you can read them out of order compared to
most series and they don’t directly impact each other that I have seen so far.
You may think “Where is five?”, that’s simple, I bought five in a bundle I got
last year to help elevate the price to over 50aud to get the free shipping. I
dread to read the three I recently got because I hate being up to date with
ongoing series but it’s too good not to read.
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| The rest of the gang |
Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit. I have
spoken about it previously and my opinion hasn’t changed but the condition for
a “good” second-hand, it’s rather amazing, just like how I got GAC 4
second-hand and the only flaw is some of the pages seem to be misaligned but
otherwise its in a pretty great condition. Then again, I tend to avoid
ex-library editions and sometimes mangas from the US since it takes a very long
time to get here and not always honest about the conditions. These two, are
better than what it said it was.
Onto the last manga is the one that gets my RWBY anthology
set up to date and I cannot wait to get Yang’s version since her and Blake are
my two favourite characters out of Team RWBY. It came a little marked, but a
little olive oil can make that an issue no more. It’s my secret to cleaning all
my mangas, to be completely honest.
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| Pretty Pins and my crafts |
Now, this is a bonus thing to add to my manga mail is the
pin mail I got today, both pins are seconds from Sakura Pins and both are from
series I love, Fruits Basket being my first manga I read/bought and Spirited
Away being the first anime movie that I always enjoyed. I am super glad to have
them in my set, I plan to get more of their Fruits Basket pins, since they are
both gorgeous and the only ones I can find easily. I recommend buying from
them, it’s always beautiful pins, wrapped nicely and a cute little company
sticker that I enjoy putting with the rest of my stickers.
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