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Jun. 30th, 2004 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockYesterday and today I splurged to buy 3 manga volumes to read over Fourth fo July vacation. Fruits Basket #3, Trigun #1, and Saiyuki #1. I got them at 10% off since I'm a "subscriber" which means the store sets specific titles for me aside each month free of charge, and as a reward I get any magazine or comic or manga at an automatic discount.
I was walking out of the store and just picked my new Saiyuki manga when I flipped it open and realized something... the first pages weren't in color! They were in black and white!
::fullstop::
::gape::
::turn around and go back 15 feet to the store::
I asked the manager if they had any of the versions with the color art at the front that I had scene in Borders the other day and they said no, it must have been special limited edition or something.
I stood there a moment and pondered. Do I
A) keep the version I just bought at $9.47 with the discount
B) return it and go back to Borders and buy it there for $10.81 no discount, but with pretty color pictures
Of course, I chose option B.
It's only a dollar and if I'm going to fork over 10 bucks for an untried, untested manga full or semi-pornographic bishounen, then I damn well deserve to get them in color!
So today I went to Borders and bought Saiyuki #1.
I'm reading FB#3 right now. Oh my God!! The scene from Valentines day with Kyo and Tohru! Why oh why wasn't this in the anime?!?! It's so shippy. Just sooooo beyond shippy.
And Shigure! Oh my gosh. I mean, I knew in the anime that he was kind of duplicitous, but it's much more evident here, and vaguely threatening.
I was walking out of the store and just picked my new Saiyuki manga when I flipped it open and realized something... the first pages weren't in color! They were in black and white!
::fullstop::
::gape::
::turn around and go back 15 feet to the store::
I asked the manager if they had any of the versions with the color art at the front that I had scene in Borders the other day and they said no, it must have been special limited edition or something.
I stood there a moment and pondered. Do I
A) keep the version I just bought at $9.47 with the discount
B) return it and go back to Borders and buy it there for $10.81 no discount, but with pretty color pictures
Of course, I chose option B.
It's only a dollar and if I'm going to fork over 10 bucks for an untried, untested manga full or semi-pornographic bishounen, then I damn well deserve to get them in color!
So today I went to Borders and bought Saiyuki #1.
I'm reading FB#3 right now. Oh my God!! The scene from Valentines day with Kyo and Tohru! Why oh why wasn't this in the anime?!?! It's so shippy. Just sooooo beyond shippy.
And Shigure! Oh my gosh. I mean, I knew in the anime that he was kind of duplicitous, but it's much more evident here, and vaguely threatening.
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Date: 2004-07-01 06:00 pm (UTC)Note to self: Before you buy any Saiyuki manga, make sure to check the first few pages.
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Date: 2004-07-01 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 06:05 pm (UTC)That isn't very nice. Making you pay the same price, but not adding the pretty colors.