I Read My ENTIRE Manga Collection... Now What?

[@ThePromG]

Wanted to clarify a bit about the manga arc reviews: The plan is to drop one per month, starting with Berserk

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Can’t wait for that.

[@NTNG13]

Everyone does berserk and there's a ton already, might wanna consider another starting point.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@@NTNG13 Can’t have too many reviews of Berserk, and I really want to see his video on it.

[@MargReadsManga]

I’m currently sitting at 64% of my collection read. I’m a mood reader so I like options but I am trying to get to 80-90% read this year. I love the fact that you don’t jump on the hype train too soon with the newest series coming out! I’m learning to wait awhile and see what other people say first!! I think waiting to see if a series is worth your time and money is such a great idea. Especially now with the prices of manga going up.

[@NastyTete]

Recommendations: Blue Lock, The Elusive Samurai, Spy Family, Kaiju No. 8, Witch Hat Atelier

[@aaaaaaaaaa63810]

I took ur inspiration for reading all the mangas from my collection,started doing it last month,so far doing great.Ty❤

[@wolfgangkrauser9735]

Comic book guy here. I have much the same plan, got 70 titles to read digital (we in comics need the digital not only as an alternative but also as filter because of the shopping). I will try to finish the list this year and then re-read my collection. Re-reading allows you to understand better or catch some details that you didnt see or overlooked in the first reading.

[@HitagiQ]

Honestly there are some series I reread and rated them lower/got rid of. My taste have changed over time.

[@ThePromG]

This is something I can foresee and I totally welcome it! Just means more money in my wallet and space on my shelf for new things :)

[@shirokumaotaku]

I've had stuff that I started reading back in 2014 like Nisekoi & Blue Exorcist & still haven't finished reading yet 😭 Still missing Vol. 20 of SGT FROG

[@Bukssy_]

My manga collection consists of 4 One Piece boxes, so I have read 100%. Now I read digitally on a 11 inch iPad Pro, and I think I prefer reading this way. I will buy future One Piece boxes when they are released for collection sake - it is my favorite piece of fiction. Other series that I plan to eventually read - digital only.

[@ThePromG]

Fair enough, even owning just One Piece is a big space and money investment!

[@hwex_9461]

If you want any recs on what online manga to start reading, i highly highly HIGHLY reccomend The Climber. It started as a basic shonen but around the 3rd volume the writer left the manga to the artist which made him work on the art and the writing so it drastically changed the manga from a basic sports shonen to a mature seinen. 10/10 one of my favs

[@ThePromG]

That’s one that’s been on my list for years, just haven’t gotten to it 😅 Hopefully this year!!

[@sebastiantravis9406]

PromG besides The Climber. You need to Companion Bingeread it with: THE FABLE! About a contract killer with.....decent morals. Basically Seinens that surprise baby. They almost feel like Foreign Cinema in manga form.

[@ThePromG]

This one is on my list as well!

[@heyshikawhatup2]

Excited for you to get into more digital series there’s so much gas out there

[@ThePromG]

If you’ve got any recommendations I’d be glad to add em to my list

[@heyshikawhatup2]

@@ThePromG we close to the physical release now but I always reccomended steel ball run in color

[@civoreb]

@@heyshikawhatup2on volume 17 of that in color. 🔥

[@cordellfrank1798]

I've done the same thing couple years back. I take my time for new releases or older now.

[@alijahtaylor778]

the best manga tuber ever your vids are addicting

[@ThePromG]

Thank you! 👏

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

I have 1,471 volumes & I’ve read 841, so 57% of what I own, and I’ll probably only increase that % slowly, as I’m constantly buying new manga. I’ll never get to 100%.

[@chlo3914]

read sakamoto days if you haven't already , 9 physical volumes in at the moment :)

[@ThePromG]

I’m hesitant because some people say it’s good but I’ve heard others say it’s pretty lame. Maybe I’ll give it a go

[@jmswrght]

Very excited to see the review videos.

[@ThePromG]

Glad to hear, Black Swordsman arc review should be uploaded later this month!

[@charlieedwards4331]

I’ve read more than half of my manga collection and I hope to finish reading all of it by the end of the year!

[@ThePromG]

Good luck you can do it!

[@michaeledoigiawerie4594]

I’ve read 100 percent. But I only buy manga that I can reread.

[@graham5961]

i stopped collecting manga last year.. no below mrsp options in canada and used market is too small. cant pay ridiculous shipping from us/eu..and not to mention manga prices going up for en releases. i still read manga all the time, but i just read online. i wanna sell my collection but its such a pain to sell from canada ngl

[@Wings0fFreedom]

Before you go out of your way to spent money on a manga you might not enjoy you can always read like 1 or 2 chapters online and if you like what you see you then you decide if you wanna buy it or not. But holy smokes, very impressive that you actually read everything on your shelves. I am nowhere near finishing them all 😂 Especially since I also started buying and reading "normal books" lol

[@Rorschachqp]

If you own manga, it's good to re-read as many of the greatest works will reveal a lot of new stuff upon re-read. People re-read Watchmen 50 times and find new things each time.

[@lightningwaffle9528]

You could also check out manga from the library

[@neek616]

Happy New Year! Happy rereading. Maybe pack away for reselling series you don’t love?

[@ThePromG]

In the future (maybe even this year) I plan to reread some of my 7/10s to see if I REALLY need to keep them around or if I can live with selling them

[@Digisoulwings]

I have 300+ books and have read maybe .05% lmao, but that's only because I'm still collecting a lot of series, and also read online too.

[@SamsMangaReviews]

Might have to join you for those Berserk and Vagabond re-reads! Excited for the 2024 arc of the PromG channel 😎

[@ThePromG]

That would be awesome! And yeah it’s definitely something new for the channel but I’m excited

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

You don’t seem to read much Shonen, have you read Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter Hunter? Don’t remember you ever talking about them, most channels have read them. Have you read Made in Abyss? I finished it a while ago & absolutely loved it. I got that Tomahawk Angel you recommended, hopefully have it soon. I’ve just been buying a lot of Seven Seas manga with lots of fan service lately haha, I’ve got so much of it now, so much harem stuff. Just got the 11 volumes of Peter Grill and the Philosophers Time, nice monster girl action. Haha 😂

[@ThePromG]

I haven’t read Yu Yu but I have read HxH. Sold my set off last year because while I really liked it I think I’ll just stick with the anime

[@TheBlahh888]

WOW....MY GOAT! 🙌

[@175chaunceytovan]

Please do a vinyl record collection video

[@ThePromG]

Feel like I don’t have enough to warrant its own video but I really want to show them. Maybe once I get my own place, set up my turntable again and have a larger collection by then

[@Rorschachqp]

I've read 99% of my books and I've been at that or 100% the last couple of decades, not counting books I wound up with but never intend to read (for example, I have all 9 volumes of the Star Wars manga...I own them because I collect Adam Warren and he did all of the covers). Right now I have 12-15 ft stack of manga that's unread but I'm making quick progress.

[@scobe1295]

Currently about 60 to 70% of my collection is read. Trying to pick up less and get to 80-100% read this year.

[@TheMangaSloth]

Burn it all and start over ezlife Also read GUNDAM THUNDERBOLT. Its the best

[@ThePromG]

Fax I keep forgetting I need to start Thunderbolt

[@pogchamp4503]

65% of my collection I have read, actually lower but I didn't count the stray volume 1's!

[@Serjohn]

Sumire 16 sai is my fav non physical manga. It's my happy place it's a comedy but it's a little more than that. The author is very tricky with deepness and his message.

[@ThePromG]

Added it to my list when you recommended it on my last vid, might get to it this year!

[@civoreb]

I use a 10” tablet for digital reading. Almost the same size as actual manga that way and easier to read than on the phone. Not a fan of reading on laptop and I dont have a PC.

[@ThePromG]

I might look into getting a tablet like this, thanks for the recommendation

[@Rorschachqp]

Also I noticed you have Lone Wolf And Cub. Did you read Path Of The Assassin and Samurai Executioner also by Koeki and Kojima?

[@ThePromG]

I haven’t read either but if I can find a set of either I’d love to check them out

[@Rorschachqp]

@@ThePromG Yeah, this gets me thinking all of the time. Although all the ambitious manga people can meet online and on KZbin, unfortunately all of our collections are homebound and can't easily be shared with others. There's a story in LWAC where the Yagyu are starting to dwindle in top swordsmen they can send after Itto despite having the full authority of the Shogunate. You'll remember one swordsman who leaves the capital at the Yagyu's request and they dual using stone statues...cut off three statue heads and then engage, except the Yagyu put a metal collar on one of the statues so one of the duelists' swords will break, guaranteeing death. Itto wins but it's 50/50 luck because the other guy wound up breaking his sword. Samurai Executioner is about that guy and the story abruptly doesn't finish because he dies in that duel.

[@dannysangree6304]

I have also read my entire manga collection, 102 volumes, and i read most of them the same day i get it, if not, the day after.

[@gamebreakerxd2479]

I know your a big fan of Gantz and I’m about 100 chapters or so into the series, it started out really good with the onion alien mission but I feel it got kind of repetitive after a while, the Buddha mission was really good and I’m wondering if it’s worth reading the series until the end.

[@ThePromG]

Read through Osaka at least there’s still some craziness to come 🙏

[@Offendedhawk123]

I personally don’t think it’s repetitive since it shows how much kei develops! Especially after the Buddha mission, things change when new characters and plot points that change the game are introduced. I appreciate promg recommendation because I never thought I would find a interesting character like him in this series

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@@Offendedhawk123Yea I don’t understand what he means by repetitive, because I’d never say that about Gantz.

[@gamebreakerxd2479]

@@InfamyOrDeath-__- what I mean by repetitive is that every mission starts off with our main characters who know that this is real, everyone else is in denial and thinks it’s a prank, when they get into the game someone tries to walk home and they get eliminated because they leave the given boundary, then everyone realizes that this is real and they are still alive and then they fight aliens, turns out there’s more, they fight a bunch more a ton of people die and then the cycle repeats

[@zetsubou-chan]

42% I had a six month spree of buying OBNOXIOUS amounts of manga and it outpaced my reading speed tenfold. Don't ask me anything I have a problem

[@AmartharDrakestone]

I've read 80% of my collection. Granted it's a small one at about 160 volumes.

[@Pythagorastheoremmale]

I have read 100% of my collection (i only own 2 omnibuses that I've collected for 4 years)

[@rbella5343]

I had to stop the video to MATH😅 but I'm at 81.7% read, and my collection is just under 500. I do reread also, sometimes I just can't get enough of a particular story or artstyle! AND I don't count the random ones I read digitally because they're usually smutty one shots 😂

[@Cass_Collects]

prom out here carrying mangatube

[@ThePromG]

New year, nothings changed 😎

[@cosmindinescu]

Ive read 100% of my manga collection

[@cutdigital]

have you had a chance to check out JJK? manga or anime I saw it in the thumbnail

[@garnto]

Have you ever thought about getting into gekiga or more alternative manga?

[@ThePromG]

There are certain gegika titles I want to try, but I don’t foresee a true deep dive anytime soon

[@Rorschachqp]

Also, it's a good idea to read all of the key US works as it will give you a great reference point for measuring comic quality.

[@khayrinqistina1901]

😁👍🏻

[@Adam-jr4lx]

Berserk is overrated.

[@ThePromG]

I think later parts of it are

[@Adam-jr4lx]

​@@ThePromG All of it, but Golden age is slightly better than the rest of the story. Muira didn't plan out the story and didn't set it up properly. I'll list 1 example. Eclipse and Incarnation. After I finished eclipse and got into conviction, I thought, "this is really bad. A good ending needs the villain to be interacting with the hero and Grif is gone." So when incarnation occurred, I was not surprise because Muira needed Grif to return but now the plot is a mess. ideally Grif would have gotten the castle first and then realized he didn't care about a kingdom and wanted more power and did eclipse. So the story is in the wrong order and things are wishy-washy and their is a lack of progress. Berserk is unfinished because Muira did a poor job writing it. Berserk are in massive denial regarding the writing problems.

[@loooooooooooooolwow]

@@Adam-jr4lx I agree with you and think this is heavily overlooked not just by the Berserk fandom, but the fandom of manga as a whole. It became pretty evident overtime that Miura just did not know how to end the series, let alone progress it. It explains why the series just keeps on needlessly worldbuilding to distract from that fact.

[@Adam-jr4lx]

Yep. Berserk at its core is a revenge and given what we know about Berserk, we can predict the ending. Grif will do another eclipse and Guts will stop it and defeat Grif. That's it. The middle portion of the story should setup the final battle and have some theme and/or character development. Storytelling is an art but it's not rocket science.@@loooooooooooooolwow

[@loooooooooooooolwow]

I think he wrote himself in a corner given how strong the Godhand is, let alone Femto. I think it's even stressed that Femto was like stronger than all of them. And what could Guts do to combat that? Berserker armor at best just gives him the ability to hold his own against stronger apostles. He can't even full on kill them (the stronger apostles). So he knew there was going to be an asspull needed for Guts to overcome Griffith, just like 80% of all manga do. And it was probably ego that stopped him from progressing the plot in any relevant way/ending the story, whether that was consciously or something happening unconsciously. I mean after 20 years past the Eclipse it probably became conscious. He knew he couldn't end it without an asspull and bring the quality of the series down by the fandom. His ego likely wouldn't allow that and that's why the hiatuses just got longer and longer and the plot stopped developing and we get shit like the boat arc taking years upon years to finish and have no real relevance at all to the plot. He dragged it out and knew he would die not finishing berserk BECAUSE THAT WAS HIS PLAN. He wanted to go down as this tragic martyr who couldn't finish his life work. Mind you, probably not at 55 which is young, but I digress. He wanted the legacy of being someone who wrote something legendary for 30+ years, his life's work, and had the tragedy of not being able to finish it vs being someone who wrote something great for 30 years and it had a shit, asspull ending that soured the taste of it in everyone's mouth. @@Adam-jr4lx