A Tour of My Manga Shelves

Hello! And thank you all so much for all the love on my first few videos. I'm excited to start making KZbin content and I can't believe how much my channel has already grown.
Since a lot of new people have been finding me, I figured I may as well do a manga shelf tour! So come along as this self proclaimed shoujo connoisseur gives you a look into their manga collection.
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SOCIAL MEDIA:
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[@yagirlrachel]

REBRAND TO THE SHOUJO CONNOISSEUR RN

[@my-spinning-wheel]

As a 30 year old man, Chihayafuru has made me cry multiple times and I am only on volume 3!! It's so good

[@reminiscentoss681]

As someone who hangs out a lot in the booktube community, I wanted to say that this was one of the most genuine shelf tours I've ever watched. It's very obvious you feel strongly about each volume on your shelf (perhaps excluding those belonging to your boyfriend) and that they're all precious to you in some way. Hearing about all the thought you put into them, the ways you've gone about collecting, and just your general opinion on each series was lovely to listen to. I was wondering, particularly as you mentioned From Far Away and Red River at the end of the video if you'd ever be interested in doing a video comparing the isekai of the 90s and 2000s with how the genre has changed and gone from being primarily about stories aimed at girls and woman, to one that's largely seen as being aimed towards a male audience? I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Thank you so much! That means a lot, I felt like I struggled giving good commentary in this video so I'm happy to know it came across better than I had thought while editing it. That's a really interesting idea though and I'll definitely give that some thought.

[@atmmachine11]

Wow, you are pumping out content so quickly haha I didn't expect the tour this soon. Super impressive and definitely not crying because I sold hundreds of volumes a few years back!

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I did the exact same thing :') I had Azumanga Daioh, Di Gi Charat, and OHSHC volumes I wish I never sold

[@frannava7175]

@@ColleensMangaRecs if feel u may like innocence and its sequel innocent rogue as well as Dracula midnight children all done by Shin-ichi Sakamoto and his art chief kiss

[@atmmachine11]

@@ColleensMangaRecs I’ll pour one out for the manga we lost 😭 I had a bunch of completed series I had finished reading and at the time decided “I don’t need these” now a bunch are out of print and I want to re-read them.

[@gabriella2186]

I needed more space and couldn’t sell my manga in the amount of time so I donated my volumes to the local library 🥲🥲

[@thehorsecharles]

THAT’S ACTUALLY CRAZY because I started reading manga in the late 2000s but I didn’t start REALLY getting back into it until the fruits basket remake was announced 😂 but the pandemic definitely helped.

[@dorkability]

I’m so glad I found your channel! I’ve been really craving the female perspective for both shoujo and non-shoujo anime/manga that isn’t just BL, which I find quite lacking in anitube. You should do manhwa recs as well!

[@AKookieForYou]

It's really cool to see people who have smaller collections sometimes, because you know that everything they own means something to them. Your collection is really nice, and I love that you took the time to show off some volumes you like, and talked about how you feel about different series 😊😊 Since you're such a big Chihayafuru fan, have you seen the live action movies? If so, were they good? I recently started watching the anime, and it's quite unique and fun

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I enjoy keeping my collection smaller too because they're all series I like and not just ones I've gotten just to have! Some are definitely nostalgia series but even those have meaning to me in some ways. I've actually never seen the live action movies but I've heard they're fun to watch still if you're a chihayafuru fan!

[@AKookieForYou]

@@ColleensMangaRecs I'm the same way with my book and manga collection, I only really want ones that I enjoy a lot or that mean a lot to me. I still have my first few volumes of Say "I Love You" because it was one of the first shoujo anime that I saw back in 2014, so it's nostalgic to me, but I don't care for the story anymore.

[@tsuruuu]

I liked the live actions very much, even though it's a little bit different from the original content :)

[@esztixo2980]

chiyahafuru is literally amazing!!! I wanna collect the japanese volumes so bad they look so pretty🥹 the anime was really good so when i finished i immediately started to read the manga from where it left off and omg i love everyone so so much🙇🏻‍♀️🤍 i love you videos girl, shojo4life✨

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Literallyyyyyy!!! Not a single bad moment in the series and it made me cry my eyes out like every chapter.

[@theartistwriter4812]

I recently finished the anime a few months ago from my cousin Recs and it was really good and entertaining 😊

[@avicado2002]

Really appreciate your content for expanding my view on anime and manga! I grew up watching/reading mostly Shounen and I knew some Shoujo like Lovely Complex and Fruits Basket, but as a kid I thought that boys shouldn’t read shoujo (embarrassing to think that I had that thought). Thankfully I grew out of that mindset as I became a teenager and I’m open to watch and read new anime/manga! Keep doing what you want and I’m excited for the future!!

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Thank you so much!! We all had that phase as a kid/teen thinking "girly" things were bad. I went through it too (although not with manga surprisingly lol)

[@yueyume9619]

I just finished my Tsubasa collection this year. For so long, I was only missing volumes 19 and 21. My husband managed to find them and got them for me for Christmas. I probably only own 4 complete series, but I was really proud to finally finish it. I’m hoping to finish my Yona collection too! I’ve currently got through Vol. 21. I loved watching this though! Lots of familiar series but also some that I’d love to check out! Thanks for sharing!

[@giovannajooj]

In my country tgere are 56 volumes TT Im never going to finish it

[@mickycat1234]

I really appreciate your content as a mega shoujo fan myself . It’s hard to find people talking about these topics and recommending/ promoting some of these really great lesser known series !

[@BarBQTaco]

I was looking through my Amazon Order History recently and was astounded to see that back in 2014 I bought the Fantagraphics release of Heart of Thomas for $28 CAD and now used copies go anywhere from $200-500 price range! I try to be really selective about my physical collection now, as I am worried about the logistics of moving and having to carry so much around all the time (especially since I can't really imagine owning a house or having somewhere to live permanently). I still have a bunch of my old Shojo Beat I held onto since I was a kid and this video brought back a lot of warm, fuzzy feelings. Seeing your copies of Please Save My Earth and the other titles Viz released in the mid 2000s made me nostalgic for that era of publishing. If companies were open to putting out reprints of PSME, Angel Sanctuary, Kare Kano, Kamisama Kiss, etc. I'd buy them in a heartbeat (despite the space issue). When companies like Yen Press put out the new releases of series like Fruits Basket, I do miss the old author sidebars and commentary, despite understanding it's probably due to the author's embarrassment/distancing themselves from the past or the privacy of the editors/assistants involved in the stories. But I loved them, despite them being the bane of many a mangaka's existence to have a writing mandate. It's not really a staple in shounen manga, aside from a brief comment at the end of a volume, so it did make you feel closer to the author, despite that probably being a strategy by the publishers and editors in some part. Like Arina Tanemura's Penchi de Shakin (or something similar). And Furuba's mangaka talking about JRPGS... So there's just the nostalgia for the fonts used in old Shojo Beat and Tokyopop, that can't inherently be replicated by the same releases today. I think a video about the sidebar commentary could be interesting. I'm getting a bit off-topic, but your videos are well-edited and stirring up passions for my old collection as well. :) Thanks for the video. I need to invest in some better shelves!

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

When I'm reading any series from Kyousuke Motomi, I always check her little sidebars because she is one of the funniest mangaka. She'll talk about how she plays Pokemon Go or how she thinks all mangaka should be muscular and I'm laughing every time lol

[@Weeabruh]

I definitely feel you on the old white / red text look of shoujo beat. People argue that that’s how it was in Japanese original and that it helps you identifying the publisher but to me it’s so hard to look at on shelves 😭

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I just wish the text wasn't red maybe? I don't know, like I don't even hate it but man it doesn't make for an *aesthetic* shelf lol

[@Kjmannobility]

Man I had no idea how *gorgeous* the Chihayafuru spines were. As I've started to increase my own manga collection, this video really is making me want to get a couple of nice shelves to put everything on.

[@Monichanz]

I got into Queens Quality recently because of your mention it's so good

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Literally such a good series!!! I will never stop talking about it lol

[@moominkomet]

Just wanted to say I really love your channel! Your bookshelf is awesome! Looooong time manga reader myself! I started in the early 90’s. Some of my first manga were Please Save My Earth, and Banana Fish in addition to Akira ( of course)

[@GummyDinosaursify]

I love the idea of tissue boxes to prop up the back books, I would have never thought of that! I really need to work on a manga shelf myself (my manga are all randomly in my bookshelves), so thanks for the idea! :D I bought Season 1 and 2 of Chihayafuru for like $5 bucks new in a clearance sale and it's been staring at me for a while. Maybe i''ll sit down and watch it.

[@woahpips]

what a nice collection! i’m not a huge book collector but your videos are getting me back into manga, especially shoujo and josei. thanks for another video!

[@danniecrispin1]

OMG I love Chihayafuru as well! It's suuuper good! I am so sad they haven't continued the anime :c btw you're the first person I've seen talk about Ceres! I can't believe you know it! Ps. I adore Tsubasa! (Clamp basically

[@LLOROMANNICLOVR]

all the tokyopop takes me back to how much i wanted the tokyopop volumes as a kid id look on ebay for maid sama volumes and i was so mad the company went down at the time without finishing it lol. recently ive been collecting lovely complex, its not too difficult to find just a little bit of a pain. I believe its OOP but the other day i found a volume 14 in B&N and i was so excited.

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Love Com is like kinnndddaaa OOP but also kinda not. I think it's just some volumes are.

[@King_sNap]

I just started collecting recently, so it's awesome to see such a nice collection! Love the content, and getting to hear about series I've never seen before! Keep up the awesome work!

[@shirousagi8618]

You are sooooo cool and such a shojo queen. Love your content and great collection

[@ellythehuman9304]

This video was very relaxing to watch! Hearing your thoughts and history with certain titles was really interesting!

[@lorrig33]

Love the shelf tour! It's always fun to see how other people style/organize their collections!

[@starrshort6403]

I was so excited to see this video I love shojo manga and all your videos! And omg you have please save my earth!

[@navyasharma1842]

This was such a detailed video about manga collection, reallly loved it!! I have also started collecting mangas but so far its just random volumes of series i love but one day imma have those big ass shelves filled with mangas lmao

[@wonsikbrah]

I saw D.N Angel in your collection and immediately trusted your opinions, that's one of the best manga series of all time!

[@rawdasalmataman7908]

I watched the anime a long time ago I don't remember my opinion on it at that time How is the manga?

[@wonsikbrah]

@@rawdasalmataman7908 Manga is pretty good! I'd say it has its own charm separate from the anime and the arcs it doesn't adapt are really solid. The ending is pretty meh but i don't really mind it in the grand scheme of the whole story. Since it isn't officially translated you're gonna have to read it in a sketchy way lol so good luck if you ever get around to it.

[@oneflower6166]

shoujo queen over here! I'm sooooo glad I found your channel, my friends aren't really into manga so its so hard for me to find new series. The sakura drawings from 2007 are also the most wholesome decorations ever

[@rrramen]

I first discovered you on tiktok and what a surprise to see you also have a youtube channel! I love your videos! I remember I used to read a lot of shojo when I was younger but then got more into shonen and seinen the older I grew. After watching your videos, I’m more motivated to return to reading more shojo titles! Thank you for your awesome content and I can’t wait to see more of what’s to come!!

[@kristiannaabril6770]

Thank you for showing us your manga haven! GAHHH I’m so jealous but happy you have all these goodies. Keep up these great vids with your cheerful and beautiful self 🥰🙏🏻

[@michellebabeh3471]

Aaah this is so amazing, makes me want to start getting more physical copies! Most of mine were when I was in elementary through middle school too. You have amazing content and I love your passion for Shojo, so glad I came across you

[@BreannaCummings]

I love your shelves!!! I just started reading and watching shojo in 2019 and have been feeling the lack in anime and I'm so glad I found your channel! I want to collect physicals of manga more actively now too!

[@heyyyitsfaith]

omggg yessss the video i've been waiting for so so long!!! thank you :) ahhh absolutely LOVE your manga collection

[@user-he7hg2yy3n]

Love the Chihayafuru collection! It also holds a very special place in my heart. Been keeping up with the manga chapters for a couple years and I'm totally not prepared for it to end. Would greatly appreciate if you made a video dedicated to this criminally overlooked series. Just recently joined the channel and I'm loving the content. Keep up the good work!

[@user-kb7gi4ld1q]

i am super new to anime and i feel like i have finally found a good anime channel to watch pls keep uploading idk why but i trust u greatly

[@nataliaalonzo580]

Ughhh this video makes me feel so good. It’s perfect timing too as I recently returned home after finishing school for the year. And so I can look at my own manga collection with renewed appreciation and interest. It’s good to be back!

[@yabuki2923]

I really love your channel! Thanks for all the recs. God, it makes me wanna grow my own collection, but Requiem for the Rose King is so popular these days. Oh gosh the Chihayafuru set is stunning as well. I didn't know anything going into the anime, but it lit my heart up. I think I'll read the manga soon. The flower vine on the bookshelf is cute touch so I'll steal that idea for myself☆

[@Maximus21x]

My first step into the world of Shoujo was Fruits Basket. I binged all three seasons of the anime last year and loved the series enough to grab the entire Tokyopop and Collectors editions. In addition to the stories being quite enamoring, the art style of Shoujo anime/manga are gorgeous. I have to say you have a wonderous collection, thanks for sharing. I can clearly see you have such passion for Shoujo and the various series you own. My own collection varies from stuff like Berserk and Claymore to Fruits Basket, and Ao Haru Ride. I got a few more series to add to my list based on your recommendations.

[@shiek4587]

Really been enjoying your content a lot! Seeing A Sign of Affection on your shelf was nice to see, I don't see people talk about it as much but I am a fan of the series. It won me over the second I saw the book cover when I picked up from the store lol Can relate to owning and keeping manga/books because of the memories and how long you owned them, I have Scott Pilgrim paperback volumes that are bent and pretty beaten up but those were my first books I owned. Also know the struggle of just having uncompleted series. For the longest time, I haven't been able to find certain volumes of Wake Up, Sleeping but after what felt like an entire year, I was finally able to get them lol. Then there's OoP stuff like We Were There and Lovely Complex which will stay incomplete cause no way can I dish out or justify $200 for just 2-3 books lol Will need to add Chiyahafuru next on my list!

[@ThatMangaGirl]

I like "Houjos" Reminds me of talking with the gal pals, lol. Thanks for showing off the collection! It makes me really miss how much Shoujo manga I used to consume when I was younger. Thanks as always for igniting that passion!

[@daiseef7094]

I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel, I love all of your videos! 💕 Btw, I suggest you also read Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP, I consider X/1999 to be kind of its sequel (it technically isn't, but it's where Tokyo Babylon finds its epilogue), plus you get the background story for Subaru, Seishirou and Hokuto, which makes their arc in X/1999 much more tragic! Your manga collection is soooo good, literally peak taste 🥰

[@marti9734]

I swear back in the day I was so let down with the end of Tokyo Babylon because I didn't get a resolution to the whole story and thought that was the end😅 then I randomly came across X1999, and I remember being so happy and satisfied with how they wrapped up and delved deeper in their story

[@daiseef7094]

@@marti9734 X/1999 is so tragic but it is a perfect ending to Tokyo Babylon 💔 P.s., is there any chance you might be Italian? I'm always glad to find people from my own country who like CLAMP

[@shamra1245]

I started reading manga around the same time you did (my first series was Fruits Basket) and it's almost like looking in a mirror at another reality. I loved seeing which series you've enjoyed and I need to look into some of these I haven't read before!! I'm a big CLAMP fan too and Tsubasa is my favorite manga :3 I was super surprised about Red River tho - I thrifted a volume at a local goodwill a few months ago and haven't read it yet, I need to look into that series more! Looking forward to more videos :3

[@sehrglanzvoll]

I totally subscribed here for the Tsubasa volumes on your shelf lol. 😂 I’m taking down your recommendations for future reads!

[@rebeccaanderson6560]

I really love watching your videos. They are inspiring me to get back into reading manga. Funny thing is, I was starting to believe the thing about "all Shoujo manga being the same", but watching your videos helped me to really question that. A lot of the Shoujo you bring up are ones I have either read and loved, or at least heard of. I also looked at my own collection of manga and realized that a majority of the manga I have is Shoujo. On a side note, I was surprised to hear you mention kinokuniya. I love that store and go whenever I can. They just have so much good stuff there.

[@thesilentprince1647]

Thank you for taking the time to go through your collection! I enjoy seeing what other people are into and learning about new series. I've never heard of Chiyahafuru before, but since there's an anime I'll add it to my "To-watch" list! Honestly Kodansha is the worst when it comes to printing series they release, it's annoying. They have at least a couple series I'd buy if they were out in print. I hate watching an amazing anime, finding out there's a Manga and it's published in English, then seeing that it's digital only! I personally have a hard time focusing on reading Manga on a screen so it's always frustrating when that decision gets made. Digital-only series also aren't often advertised which makes it that much harder for it to gain an audience. Oh man, I know what you mean when it comes to Natsume's Book of Friends! I just got into it last year and the volumes are slowly vanishing D'= Trying to collect it is a nightmare. Viz is also terrible at reprinting what they deem "less popular" series. Keeping that in mind, plus the printing issues already going on, I can see it being.... a while before they get restocked, unfortunately. I also wasn't that into Yona of the Dawn when I first tried watching the anime back in the day. I watched maybe two episodes and then stopped to watch something else. I keep hearing amazing things about it, though, so I might have to give it another chance.

[@angietrif]

fire collection. shoujo is my fav genre and i want to collect older and more iconic series just don't know where to start lollll but this inspired me :)

[@chyandinii]

It might be a hard to find these days, but have you read/collected _Kitchen Princess?_ It's unheard of these days, but it's such an amazing shoujo that I wonder why it hasn't been adapted at all!

[@dollycose]

your collection is amazing! I wish I had started collecting earlier since so many of the series I enjoy are so hard to obtain physical copies of here! My top favourites are Sugar Sugar Rune, Mermaid Melody and Yumeiro Patissiere, fingers crossed they'll show up reasonably priced second hand somewhere one day T_T

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Ugh the worst part of being a new shoujo manga collector is hardly being able to find old series anymore!

[@ilvanime01]

Sugar sugar rune is still possible to get, I managed to piece it together though volume 8 was a pain and a bit pricey. I've seen mermaid melody on eBay and some other second hand places so that's still possible although from someone who owns the mermaid melody manga, the anime is definitely better.

[@mono8476]

another yumeiro patissiere fan! i salute u :)

[@mangakat]

I love library wars it’s one of my absolute favourite manga along with dengeki daisy, and fruits basket. Your collection is so cool ❤️❤️😃

[@meganlinart948]

Finally got to watch! Decided to pick up after school nightmare after that awesome description! Love your collection. really inspires me to keep growing my shoujo even if its harder for us to get volumes due to the printing being super slooooow

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Omggg hope you like it!! It really is a crazy series and I feel like it might be a hit or miss for some people.

[@mandykstro]

💜 Loving your Manga Shelf! Grettings from Costa Rica 🤗

[@bumblebee74814]

I love your channel! I'm so glad I came across your channel by chance while looking for manga content✨ Your manga shelf is my dream 🥺 If only i had money ;_;

[@echoesvtuber]

Amazing collection! I honestly feel the same in regards to collecting all of Tsubasa Chronicle someday... As its a series dear to my heart. You truly have excellent taste from what I can see. Aha

[@60508]

curled up with the sniffles and watching this was a walk down memory lane, also a bit of a guilty memory for a number of the volumes that I got rid of between house moves. Thanks for the tour.

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I also sold off so much manga when I left for college thinking I wasn't into it anymore 😭 So many now OOP series that I just had lying around

[@tenorgurll4429]

When you get a chance I highly recommend reading Boys over Flowers, it is my all time favorite anime, and the manga is great as well. I’m loving your content!

[@purplexzombie3371]

so many good series !!! After School Nightmare was such a trip! I haven't met anyone else who knew the series!!!

[@spacemetro2417]

I'm very lucky to be bilingual, since Chihayafuru has been licensed and is in print in French. Last time I went to a manga shop, they had a whole shelf full of the series, and a huge stack of the volume that had just come out at the time, volume 35. Also, fun fact, 7 SEEDS was licensed in French for the first ten volumes, after which it stopped printing due to licensing issues. I really want to track down the first 10, as 10 is better than nothing, but they're really hard to find since they have gone out of print! Also, just want to say for those of you who don't know, Ceres is considered a problematic series because the main girl's brother in the series is always lusting after her (it's incest). I would strongly advise anyone who is uncomfortable about that, myself included, to avoid the series. It does have a very interesting plot, but the incest is very strong.

[@bns481]

oh lord, Ceres X'D my friends and I have ongoing jokes about that manga, some trauma from our childhood. Yu Watase is one of my absolute favorite shojo artists but that series...I await your video on it once you read to the ending...

[@strawberryjuici8775]

incredible collection!! I hope you make a video talking about manhwas too (I was excited when you talked about cheese in the trap) and if you have any recommendations, one of my favorite manhwas is "somethig about us".

[@josefd1997]

It was one of your Tiktok videos that put me into Sand Chronicles iirc. So thanks, I really loved it and actually bought the physical copies (tho I’m still missing the last epilogue volume 😭)

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

There are a few volumes that are just soooo hard to find

[@dawnk.8927]

When you were telling the story about reading a ton of manga at/from your library, it brought me back to when I used to do that too haha. Reading whatever volumes they had, even out of order! Awesome collection tour, I really have to get to reading Chihayafuru! For Clamp works, I actually recommend reading Tokyo Babylon before X/1999 if you can find it! Not 100% necessary by any means though, just gives you more impact for a couple characters

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Yeah, I didn't realize Tokyo Babylon was the prequel until someone let me know on Twitter when I said that X was good but confusing haha And omg highly recommend Chihayafuru. Maybe watch the anime first so you can understand the game more easily and then read the manga

[@dawnk.8927]

@@ColleensMangaRecs Ah, gotcha! I think also watching/reading more of X will let you understand more of what’s going, they tend to reveal things fairly far into the story that will make re-reads/watches pretty interesting in my opinion. And thanks! I think I will try the anime first then for Chihayafuru 😊

[@prinxcipe]

this is so cool to see esp since you've only been collecting for 2 years! i've been collecting since i was 10 years old so i have a lot of these just because i got them when they came out. i had no idea some of these older series can sell for so much. i purged my collection before going to college too and set aside maybe 1/3 of it and i was going to donate them but i might reconsider and sell some of them just in case LOL

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Yeah definitely look on mercari or ebay and see how much some of those series go for because you might be able to make a decent amount

[@daniellefreiwah]

I ended up giving up tik tok so it’s nice to be able to see you on KZbin instead! Also I’m looking forward to the Chihayafuru video! Some really beautiful enamel pins from Innkbean of Tomoe and Nanami from Kamisama Kiss went up for pre order today so you might want to check them out if you’re interested in that sort of stuff :)

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I saw those pins on a friend's insta story and they were sooooo pretty! Not much of a collector of trinkets like that but for those.... I might start lol

[@emilykawaii123]

It's so great to see someone else with Kodocha. It was my first manga love but nobody ever talks about it

[@SparklyPinkElixir]

I feel like I should hide lol.. I own a lot of these series you are trying to collect (Ceres, Kamisama, Library Wars.. etc..). As for Red River I own all of it but volume 16... I would love to own Land of the Blindfolded.. I loved the volumes I read at my high school library but they never had it completed so I never got to finish it.. that was back in 2006-2010. I was collecting Library Wars as it was coming out, I have a degree in Library Science, so a lot of what is in that series is what I learned in college about censor ship and a lot more. It was fun to read it while going thru college. Love your collection just subscribed!

[@NMan40]

Gosh! I remember my friend’s wife talking about Sand Chronicles in the mid 2000s! I think she read…scans…but I remember her liking it. Geez, you reading it as a child makes me feel old!

[@itsbasicboi]

Wahhh, your collection is ✨immaculate ✨

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Thank you so much!!

[@fataleflare]

Aw man if you can get your hands on Magic Knight Rayearth you should! I have the original Tokyopop versions and the second set was a box set that came with a little artbook.

[@annegiii3446]

Love your collection!!!

[@sanjithechef]

It’s nice to see how you bought so much chihayafuru in a language you don’t fluently read just to support the series/creator/your inner fan.

[@maudebelanger8405]

I just finished watching and reading Chihayafuru and I literally don't remember the last time i felt so captivated by a series. It's just so phenomenal. I'm thinking of collecting the series in French now since I can actually read it but most volumes are out of stock 😭

[@julesdrey7415]

Started collecting recently. My ebook collection has 200+ volumes of manga and light novels, but I'm slowly starting to buy physical copies of the series I really love since I finally have the space for it. I just wish more Korean series had print volumes available in English since I've been really into manhwa recently.

[@julesdrey7415]

Adding to this because I got curious and I checked out some series I like to see if they have physical releases. I can't believe Taamo series are digital only. I love that author and I wish I could get some of their series as physical books. At least living in Canada I can find physical books in French. Thank goodness I know the language.

[@julesdrey7415]

@@semekiizuio North America seems to really dislike Korean series despite how popular they are.

[@studioespxr]

This is sooo sick! If you have a list feel free to send it over and I'll try to keep an eye out whenever I go manga shopping!

[@Sayu277]

Yup X is so good!! Have you read Tokyo Babylon and RG Veda? A hard yes to Red River and Please save my earth. Plus dn Angel!

[@MariNate1016]

You’ve motivated me to get on with making anime vids. Cheers

[@basalith]

OH GOSH OK, my eyes get drawn to your Ceres volumes in every video you've made. I'm wondering if you've had a chance to read it since this video got posted! I've never finished but it was one of my biggest obsessions when I was a kid, I'm always curious how other people like it.

[@pokemongirl5674]

The video showcased such a nice collection. I have read volumes of Afterschool Nightmare years ago but have a desire to collect it as despite its problematic content, I quite enjoyed it. My collection includes: The entirety of the Earl Cain series (which includes Godchild, the sequel series), that is my all time favorite manga and the only manga that has made me feel so so many things (such as sadness, a bit of laughter at bits and whatnot), a single volume of Angel Sanctuary, another Kaori Yuki completed work and 3 volumes of another work of hers, many Black Butler volumes (like around half of what is available in English), Are You Alice?, 2 volumes of Moriarty the Patriot (why is volume 3 sooo hard to find :(), 2 volumes of Horimiya, a few bl manga, a couple of random CLAMP volumes. Also 2 volumes of Case Study of Vanitas (need to buy more than just read them in a Barnes and Noble lol), 2 volumes of Kiss of the Rose Princess (that kind of broke me for different reasons) and a single volume of Witch Hat Atelier. (There is other stuff but my comment would be super long if I mention it all) What I want to bring in my collection: more than a single volume from a Arina Tanemura work (her art is SOOO pretty), the X manga and Gakuen Alice (got into both of those in my senior year of high school, good times).

[@shinehahmaria3641]

I really love watching your channel

[@LyraFay12]

Rayearth is one of my favs. I've got the anniversary boxsets which comes with artbooks.

[@nenafloral9324]

I love your manga collection so many amazing shoujo series. My favourites are definitely Gakuen Alice, Shugo Chara and Kitchen Princess.

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Love Shugo Chara and I'm reading Kitchen Princess right now actually!

[@chyandinii]

omg, someone else who's heard of _Shugo Chara_ and _Kitchen Princess..._ yes!!!

[@clampdown1134]

Thank you for the tour! Your shelves have tantalised me this last month since discovering your channel. As a hint, if you want to get old stickers off the covers, you can use a drop or two of lighter fluid. It's a great trick I learned long ago when I worked at a comicbook shop.

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

Thank you!! I don't usually mind library stickers on my books but I also have been too scared to remove them lol I'll try that out

[@clampdown1134]

@@ColleensMangaRecsIf you do try it, start with just a few drops. Don't pour it on. You'll know its working as the sticker goes translucent as the glue starts to weaken. After pealing it off, you may need a couple more drops on a tissue to wipe away any residue. Those Tsubasa spines will look all shiny & almost new x

[@chyandinii]

I don't have any lighter fluid, so what I do instead is using an old eraser to take out the adhesive while doing my best to get the sticker off. I sometimes get out my old hair dryer to make the stickers come out of the book a bit easier. Very time-consuming and I have messed up a few times, but I hope this is a helpful tip regardless.

[@clampdown1134]

@@chyandinii I never thought about using a hairdryer to dry out the glue. I know the Manga Sloth recommended something called Goof Off. We can't get that in the UK. It seems to work similar to lighter fluid, but has a yellow colour.

[@natashamiranda7866]

omg, I agree with the "From Far Away" I really want to collect them all but the price online is outrageous. I was lucky enough to find the first two volumes at my local indie book store that sells used books and I freaked out so much!! but I lost hope for getting the rest of the volumes

[@sunnyearly8962]

I have chills because I read the same stories 🥹ah the nostalgia flood gates and I loved them all so much that I can’t believe it’s been so long since I revisited it. Sand chronicles was one of my faves as a child Also Kodocha, and kimi wa petto, skip beat was great

[@MaxLucasPiano]

Lmfao did the delivery driver honk when they got there 😂

[@ChristyLou]

We have very similar Manga reading Journeys! I too stopped reading in college The new Betsucomi manga is called Eight! It's based on a old (like 1800s old) Japanese novel. Basically the characters from that novel travel in time to present day.

[@xhadow8815]

Yes volume 4 of Ceres is very hard to find I had to buy a manga lot to get it. But it was worth it cause I ended up with most of the series (volumes 1 -10). The panni also got me back into reading manga. I was actually reading through Ceres at my college library but then we switched to online learning so I had to buy the series in order to finish it. Still reading it as I'm someone who takes breaks while reading series. Now I'm fully back on my manga BS!!!

[@lrae9519]

Sitting here with Goodreads open ready to flood a list ❤️

[@buggydes]

Chihayafuru is my favourite too and i'm gutted we'll never get an english release. Never say never but after decades, all hope is lost. lol

[@Lamore100]

PSME is what inspired sailormoon, I love that series I started collecting it 2009 and completed my collection in 2018. Alot of the volumes are out of print. The sames goes for ceres its out of print completely.

[@tsuruuu]

Omg, lots of recommendations to read ❤️

[@kartik3719]

I'd love to hear your recommendations for queer/LGBT manga!

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I don't have too many recs but I really love My Love Mixup and Kakeochi Girl which is getting an English physical soon!

[@phiredrops]

I was hoping you'd mention From Far Away or Red River but holy jeez what the hell?! They're seriously that expensive/rare? I ran the my local Waldenbooks manga section for a few years in the mid 2000's and both are some of my most favorite stories. I always kept all of From Far Away, Red River and Basara stocked... nobody ever bought them either. I'm going to need to mentally sit down and get a paper bag to breathe into. Annoyingly, Waldens didn't pay enough to really collect much at the time. Oh man, that's depressing.

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

OH MY GOD WALDEN'S!!!!!! I used to go there all the time until the one by my house closed down and that's when they opened a Borders instead. Funny enough I never saw Red River or From Far Away at any bookstores or my library growing up so I didn't even know about the series until getting back into shoujo. It sucks because it would've been so much easier to have read them in 08 😭

[@phiredrops]

​ @Colleen's Manga Recs Yeah I worked in a Waldens for two years and then moved to a fullsize Borders for another five. The ordering software Waldens used was sooo archaic that it was DOS based and basically just full catalog of everything and anything in the warehouses. If it was out of print and in the warehouse? No problem, I could get it. Kotobukiya figure? Sure! I was even able to snag some Urusei Yatsura stuff just because I knew the Romanji. Borders was entirely different though. When Notable Cantabile got an anime, I wanted to order in some of the manga to go with it. Nope, couldn't order it into the Borders cause it wasn't on the approved list. Meanwhile we had huge backlogs of older series that were long past the point of every otaku in the area already owning a copy. I tried to get them to reduce the stuff that wasn't moving so there was room for more variety but that was denied too. Also our manga buyer at the time was a bit of a douche. Dude was known for being unhelpful when a female employee would request displays or stock. So when I needed something for a local comicon in Pittsburgh, I had my male manager call in and he surprisingly came up with a book display for us to use. Unfortunately, instead of sending us something cool to display the buyer sent us a display for Sokora Refugees and other OEL manga. This was especially crappy because the buyer was Kurt Hassler and his pen-name was Segamu, one of the authors of Sokora Refugees. Which was totally *not* a conflict of interest or anything. smh

[@annafirnen4815]

I absolutely love your collection. I myself started collecting Yona of the Dawn (only 16 volumes so far but I gotta catch'em all as one does lol) and Snow White with the Red Hair (only 3 volumes for now because I just recently realised they are publishing it in my country XD). And now looking at your shelf I have realised that the volumes published here look completely different to yours. I always thought they just would copy the og covers but seems like similar to books, each country can have different edition? My Yona copies have spines in the color of her hair in the anime (maybe a bit deeper) and a little minature of the front covers, meanwhile my Shirayuki covers have white spines with a bit of fancy italic font but the covers itself are all deep red and there's framing of the characters on the front cover.

[@ianesgrecia8568]

I'm so jealous! The only manga collection I bothered to have physical when young was Saint Seiya and Ragnarok because they were popular in my country and easy to find. Shojo does NOT have a large market on Brasil

[@MewWolf5]

Ceres is one of my favourite manga I read when I was in high school. My library got rid of most of the volumes, which makes me sad. I saw brand new copies of the full series at Anime North this year, and part of me wishes I'd bought it even though it would have meant carrying the books around the rest of the day and I don't have shelf space for them. Mixed feelings there. I wouldn't mind rereading it one day.

[@bizarreindividual4026]

After School Nightmare is one of my favorite all time mangas!!!!

[@alyssa8167]

Yes, YES. Chihayafuru is so amazing!

[@Eden_42069]

I'm definitely noting down some of these suggestions... I'm a little surprised there's no Banana Fish or BL though...

[@ColleensMangaRecs]

I've never read/watched Banana Fish actually! Plan on it eventually. And I really don't read much other than shojosei so I'm not well versed in BL or GL unless it was published in a shojosei magazine like My Love Mixup is.

[@vivianshartzer8212]

Magical Pokemon Journey was also my first manga!!!! OMG, I swear I thought I was the only one that knew it exists

[@ViktorErikFade]

Community name suggestion: ((Although this is older video I'll throw this out anyway )) Maybe name the community on your channel after a group of flowers ? Like 🌹"* Shojo Division* " A division being the highest class of plants Or a 🌹" *Bouquet/bouquets* " Seeing that a bouquet of flowers is different types coming together . 🌹 *FLORETS* may also be a good option, it's a small group of smaller flowers together 🌹Bookworms 🌹 Sojo Bookworms 🌹Petals -like individuals who make up the flower 🌹Seedlings - for newer subscribers as their love for reading blossoms Etc etc I'm choosing flower-e names as shojo mainly follows the romance categories Idk it sounded like a cute idea in my head feel free to ignore all the suggestions or consider them , it was fun brainstorming either way.

[@ViktorErikFade]

Shojo sprites also maybe idk

[@myl0ve421]

Nice collection! Just one suggestion though, it would have been nice if you only flipped through the earlier volumes in series to avoid any spoilers.