 Well, I have officially run out of space. But that will not deter me from bringing you my updated manga collection video. Let's do it. Hey everybody, welcome back. Today we're going to take a look at my 2023 update for the manga collection. And as I stated in the opening clip, I really don't have room for new books. I don't know how I've been able to do it, but for the past year and a half I've been playing Tetris with my two Kalex shelves here. I've been trying to fit everything as nice as I can. Obviously, realistically, when you look at it, you know that I'm not going to have room for all the new stuff that's coming out. Because 2024 is going to be pretty chaotic with new releases. But I'm trying my best. Half of these two Kalex shelves are already filled with graphic novels from DC, Marvel, Image, Boom Studios, etc. I don't want to get rid of them, so they're kind of stuck here and I guess I just ran out of room. So we're going to start here with the first cube. I like to organize my books alphabetically. So we're going to start with Akira Toriyama's manga theater. I have one volume of A Galaxy Next Door. I watched the anime, really enjoyed it. So I kind of want to go back and finish collecting this series. Alpi, the soul sender volume one. Ayashimon, Battle Angel Alita, all six volumes of the first series. Loved it, made a video on it if you want to check it out. Next to it we have Blade of the Moon Princess volume one and Bochi the Rock volume one. Behind that we have Battle Angel Alita last order. We got the five omnibus editions and I only have here last order volume 16, 18, and I did place an order for 19, but it didn't arrive by the time of me making this video. Volume 17 is really hard to find, so I don't have it unfortunately. And I have not begun collecting the third and final series for Battle Angel Alita. Behind all of that is Beastars, one of my all-time favorite series. I genuinely enjoyed this. Here we have all 22 volumes along with the three beast complex volumes. The cube next to it you got Bakemonogatari sharing some space here, some real estate with Call of the Night. Behind that we got all of the available volumes from Black Lagoon. Next to it one of my favorite Josebonga, Black Canvas, my so-called artist's journey, all five volumes of that. We have the single edition of Break of Dawn, everything in one nice thick omnibus edition. And on top we got a random volume of Black Clover. I thought I was going to get Shonen Jump series, but they're too long, they won't fit on any of the shelves, so I decided not to get any Shonen Jump material. And I'd rather read that on the official app instead. Next to it you got Box of Light and Burn the Witch. On the next cube I started recently getting Delicious in Dungeon. After so many people have raved about it, I wanted to get in on the action. So I got the first two volumes here, followed by one of my favorite series, Dinosaur Sanctuary. Love this so much. Next to it one of the best drama mystery titles. Fan favorite, don't call it mystery. Here we have the first two omnibus editions, followed by DRCL, Dracula, Midnight Children. Behind all that we got Die Wargilder. I butcher that, sorry. The first arc of Dragon Quest, Adventure of Die. I am so sad that I don't think we're gonna get anything else from this. I don't know if they sold well enough. If you are interested please do pick it up and let Viz Media know that we want more of Dragon Quest to be printed. Pretty please. From Seven Seas Entertainment here is Die Dark. The first five volumes, I did get volume six, but again has not arrived by the time that I filmed this. Behind all of that is my collection of Demon Slayer books, all 23 volumes. I got the first three volumes of Dragon Quest Monsters Plus. I just never bothered getting the last two. I should probably do that at some point. And similar with Black Clover. I started getting Dandan, love it. But I decided to read it on the Manga Plus website. Here we have Frieden, the first nine volumes of phenomenal series. I'm so happy that it just blew up with the anime adaptation. Next to it we got Hunter Hunter. I have volume one and then I jump all the way to volume 32, which is past where the anime left off. At some point I do want to get the missing volumes, but I'm in no rush. Behind all of that we got Dr. Stone, one of my favorite Shonen Jump series, all 26 volumes. And behind that Dorohedoro, all 23 volumes. And a loose volume of Hell's Paradise, similar to Black Clover. Eventually I would like to own it, but for now volume one will suffice. And from Udon we got the Dark Stalkers slash Red Earth Manga one-shot. So we have here all 12 Omnibus editions of Gaunt, and next to it Gigantomaxia from Kantarum Yuda, and Handyman Saito in Another World. Behind that I got the box set for Gon from Masashi Tanaka. And behind that is my lone... Actually this is a pretty old volume now that I think about it. Gundam Seed Astray R. I think the second volume or third one, I think they're expensive. I don't know, I forgot to check. But you can see here I have the first two Omnibus editions of I Am a Hero, and that's going to carry over to the next cube. But on top of this one I got the first four hard covers of Fist of the Nord Star. Again I stopped getting them, but I do plan on getting more in the near future. The next cube is pretty cool. Some of my favorites we got Kemonojihen, all of the volumes released so far. And behind that we got Half of Inspector. I've talked about it in the past. I haven't gotten the first six because I'm not a huge fan of the opening story arc, but I'll get it eventually. It's not too difficult to track aside from two of the volumes which are really out of print. Next to it is Insomniacs After School. Got the first three volumes released and Kowloon got the first five released from that series. Behind all that we got the rest of I Am a Hero that I mentioned on the previous cube followed by Lady's Snowblood. I got to give a shout out to my friend Josh. This was an amazing gift. I love the series. And on top I think this is my one degenerate book out of everything so calm down. Inner Species Reviewers. The first eight volumes and the two anthology books. We got Level One Demon Lord and One Room Hero. I have all the volumes released so far. And next to it I got to give a shout out to my good friend Travis. This was an amazing gift. He was able to find Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and gift this to me. I am eternally grateful. And I do have a video pending on this series. So look forward to that soon-ish. I have one volume here of Miss Kobayashi's Dragonmaid and it is the colored chromatic editions. I prefer the anime over the manga but I kind of wanted to own this because it's large trim size, full color and since I like the characters I thought it would be a cool gimmicky thing to own. So here's volume one. I did get volume two but it wasn't here when I took these pictures. Behind that row is Magical Girl Apocalypse. I got the first 16 volumes here or the first series. There are sequels but I haven't gotten those and I have a single volume of Nersitomi's Monster Infirmary. Behind that we got some Grimiko Takahashi with Maison Ikoku all 10 volumes of that and Mermaid Saga which I did a review on here on the channel if you want to check it out. On top we got another mermaid book. Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand. I got the first three volumes of Maggi unfortunately like with the other Shonen stuff. I don't have room for it. I don't know when I'm going to be able to collect this but Maggi's pretty cool. The next cube we got My Dress of Darling the first 10 volumes of that. Next to it is Marmalade Boy. We are two more books away from completing that Collectors Edition. That's really cool. Next to it Tucked Away. You can barely see it. I took a lame photograph sorry. Is Nana the first volume and next to it is Natsume's Book of Friends. I only have the first two. I don't know why we don't have that reprinted but I guess one and two will have to do. And here is a pretty cool experiment. I have the first 30 volumes of My Hair Academia. At that point that's when I decided to just stop getting it for the time being. And some of My Hair Academia Vigilantes. Now what's cool here is that I found a neat trick and that is to place egg cartons on your shelf on these collacks and they will act as risers essentially. So that's what I'm doing here. So I decided to test it out on this cube and I really like how it looks. So down below we got one piece and this is how I collect the series. That's the one shonen jump title that I do collect. I just haven't gotten any of the omnibus editions as of late but I do have 25 of them. I think these cover up to volume 75. Next to it is Oshinoko. Got the first three volumes of that. And on top we got the 20th anniversary edition of Paradise Kiss. Olympus and one of my very first manga. I'm not ashamed of this. When I started collecting manga it was Pluto by Urusawa, Samurai Deeper Kyo and Onegai Teacher. All three which I started getting at borders. Rest in peace borders. So Onegai Teacher is one of my all-time favorite romantic comedies. I know the anime came first but I did not know that and I read the manga first and to me this was the original and it's a lot of fun. And as you can see it's pretty cramped in there with the whole one piece situation. Yay. We got the Spanish editions hard covers of Old Boy. I did get volume three which is the last one but it hasn't arrived yet for this video so I do apologize. Just imagine a third hard cover there with a canary yellow spine. That's how it's going to look. Next to it we got Record of Ragnarok. Eight volumes of that. And Rooster Fighter. Behind that is Prison School from Akira Hiramoto and on top I got some Naruto books. I love Naruto but it's a long series so I'm not gonna get it at this point but I do have a data book and I got that seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring book thinking we were not going to get anything else. This was before Boruto was announced. So I thought okay I'd get this because this is like non-anime stuff and it's the end like an epilogue and surprise surprise we have a million Boruto things or whatever. Also I gotta give a shout out to my friend Alex. Went to Japan and got me this awesome gift a Japanese copy of the first volume of Naruto so that's really cool. In the next cube we got Renta Girlfriend so far 21 volumes of this. Next to it we got Sandland from Akira Toriyama and Sengoku Yoko the first three volumes. Behind that we got the final part of Prison School and on top we got Ran and the Gray World from Aki Idie. Next shelf is a little chaotic but we got the first deluxe edition of Spriggan. I haven't gotten the other three because I haven't read Volume 1 so I want to read Volume 1 and find out if I really like it to get the other three. But next to it is Soata and the House of Monsters one of my favorite reads of 2023. Followed by Spirit Circle one of my favorite sci-fi stories of all time. We got Succubus and Hitman 1 through 5 Sword of the Demon Hunter the first three volumes of that and behind it is Samurai Deeper Kyo. Now what's funny is that mid collecting this border is closed so I was left to try and complete the series via third party sellers on Amazon and what I ended up doing was buying from libraries across America and that's why we have the random heart covers here. On top I got Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess all 11 volumes of that the Brave Tuber the girl from the other side Volume 1 and the two one shot compilations from Tatsuki Fujimoto. In the next cube we got the dangers in my heart the night blooms behind castle walls and the tunnel of summers the exit of Goodbyes Ultramarine the ancient Magus Bride and the Valiant Must Fall. That time I got reincarnated as a slime all the way in the back all 22 volumes released so far. Some Kodansha books we got the Seven Deadly Sins Omnibus got the first five next to it is Sugumi Project the first three volumes of that we also have Togo Oni Volume 1 and in the back a single Omnibus edition of Tokyo Revengers I've mostly been enjoying it through the anime and not getting the books and also collecting To Your Eternity one of my favorite ongoing manga The next cube is almost all Makoto Yukimura as you can see we got Vinland Saga and Planets but all the way in the back is Vagabond unfortunately I am missing some volumes that are out of print I know that the series slowly came back into print multiple times but when I started finally buying them volumes 2, 4, 8, and 9 just slipped through the fingers and I haven't been able to track those down yet The final Calyx cube here has Yakuza Reincarnation four volumes of Yona the Dawn again I'm not committed to owning 40 volumes of Yona I like the series what I've read so far but we'll see what happens with that because I do want to own it but it's a huge commitment next to it we got Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko the deluxe editions the first three out of five one volume of Witch of Thistle Castle from Titan Manga and at the back we got Wave Listen to Me Wolf's Mund and finally World and Sultae if we zoom back all the way at the top of the shelf we got my Berserk Deluxe Heart Covers the Sailor Moon Eternal Editions and Blade of the Immortal here's a closer look at all three next to my Hellboy figures from Esco now I don't know if I want to collect more of the Dark Horse Deluxe Heart Cover manga because it is tempting I mean I would only have to get in Helsing and now Trigun is upcoming so I don't know do I want a complete set of that even though I don't have any room we'll see I could always just stack books on top of each other right so in one of my closets that I used to store all the extra stuff like books, movies, figures, etc I separated a small section for all my Pokemon related stuff I call that the Pokemon Cube Shove as you can see here it mostly has the Pokemon Adventures manga I love Pokemon it's my favorite video game franchise of all time and I love the manga as well so in this collection we have the first two box sets for the series and then I switched on over to the Collectors Editions the large trim size style next to it you can barely see it but it's there is the Diamond and Pearl box set and in the front row we got the Mystery Dungeon spin-off volume we got Heart Gold and Soul Silver Black and White Black and White 2 and X and Y I am excited for Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby next year and I'm pretty sure we're gonna get the announcement for Sun and Moon as well as Sword and Shield the final shelf that we're gonna take a look at is the one where I keep all my media stuff like my Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 it has extra cubes that I am using for books and I decided to use the four cubes here to store a creator-centric books the first cube obviously being the Junji Ito section started all the way back when I got Uzumaki fell in love with Ito's writing and art style so I've been getting all the Ito releases from Viz Media we got Uzumaki, Gio, Tomie and then it continues on to the newest release which was Mimi's Tales of Terror and I do have the other non-Viz releases for Cat Diary and Dissolving Classroom in the back out of focus you can barely see it is a trade paperback of Ghost in a Shell the first story next to it is Hotel Harbor View and at the top we got a terrified teacher at Ghoul School the next cube has a bunch of books from other favorite creators of Vine we got Inio Asano with Dead Dead Demons Dead Dead Dead Destruction I don't have all of it yet I have the first nine and behind it is Good Night Poon Poon A Girl on the Shore and at the back Nijigahara Holograph the oversized heart cover other creators that you can spot in this cube Shuzo Shimi I got Happiness and the Flowers of Evil Complete Editions over at the front Satoshi Koon Books I got Tropic of the Sea and Opus a missing Seraphim and the Dream Fossil Collection and next to Dead Dead Demons a bunch of Tezuka books like Blackjack, Bomba, and Princess Night that third black shelf cube belongs to Naoki Urusawa with Monster, Asadora, and Pluto I have the all-in-one death note box set and behind it you can see Tekkon Kinkirit Black and White the final cube here is dedicated to Taiyo Matsumoto you can see Sunny number five I got some Miyazaki with Shuna's Journey and Nozaka of the Valley of the Wind and at the front dedicated to my love of Yokai we got Cat-Eyed Boy by Kazuo Mez the first heart cover next to it from my favorite Mangaka Shigeru Mizuki we got Tono Monogatari Nonomba and the Gegege no Kitaro Books So there it is folks the 2023 collection update for my manga I hope that by next year it'll be a different scenario we'll see what ends up happening either I sell some things or a new shelf happens miraculously I don't know stay tuned I am gonna keep getting some new releases I'm gonna be super selective in the future with that but yeah stay tuned for more content thank you everybody for tuning in God bless stay safe out there I'll catch all of you on our next video you