Do NOT Do This To Your Manga 

Organizing my manga backwards never once even crossed my mind. Its crazy to me to hear that people do that.

I don't mind a little yellow on my manga coz it proves that I have had it a long time amd it says that I loved this manga to still hold onto it 😊

Scalpers can rot in hell, honestly, our community doesn't need that on top of shortages and covid related stuff on top of out of print and stretched out reprints, it drives me crazy that I have to be on my game for every release where 4 or 5 years ago I felt no worry what so ever, like it was more like there were too many printings back then.

Personally, I like to wrap in plastic my manga, but not with that cheap ass plastic bags you showed. Those can actually cause damage to the manga, because they have at least a little bit of acid. I use especial manga bags for different sizes, acid free and with uv protection, so the pages dont turn yellow, and the dust doesnt affect the volume. Also, these plastic bags are almost to perfect fit, so theres no much room for moisture to be inside. Great video tho ❤️

Hey Raian! I actually am not sure if you have checked out a manga called After the Rain. One of my favorites. It's a romance.

sadly i am one of the people who wrap their mangas in plastic, but the manga in Mexico although it is cheap also brings many quality problems most of the time causing it to turn yellow too quickly, so the best way to maintain a manga in good condition is leaving them in that plastic that in fact they sell it to you from the store, but I totally agree that it is a kick in the butt that when you want to read one of your manga you have to go through removing the plastic first xD

I bag my manga just so the covers don't get bent and it keeps it's shape. It doesn't bother me to unwrap it and wrap it back up.

Hey Raian I was collecting chainsaw man and usually the volumes go for a good $20 and I patiently waited around 4 months and final I have the whole set for each volume costing me around $8-$10. Patience pays off and saves you money.

Organising manga in a colour gradient over all series is one I've seen that just looks wrong

to people who read digital manga. don't talk all about all the latest chapters as if the rest of the world has already read them. you'll only give spoilers to people who read physical manga and the anime only watchers.

I’m guilty in putting plastic sleeves on my manga but my place has roaches. And I’m tired of finding bug poop on my books 📚 thank goodness I’m moving out this year 😂

I live in Japan and they sell plastic covers that just sit snug around the covers of the volumes, started wrapping all my volumes in them and it actually looks really nice

I agree with you about the yellowing of the pages. To me as long as I can read it it's fine. I guess something that bothers me is when someone bends the pages or the cover to hold their place instead of using a bookmark or a piece of paper ( or anything)

Raian, i’ma just say your videos are SO SO good, your the first manga/anime youtube i’ve watched and i love them, keep making these bangers, much love

Great video Raian! I am guilty of using plastic sleeves on my manga LOL BUT it's only after I finish reading them. I bought the sleeves because I come from America comics and it's normal to bag + board your comic books. Obviously with manga, it is far less common but I decided to buy the sleeves and see how I liked it. TBH, I wasn't a fan at first because it doesn't fully protect the manga (VIZ/Shonen titles in particular). I did continue to sleeve them up because the pack came with 100 and it grew on me. I sleeve them up as the "final step" after completing a volume. I hope I made a good case for sleeving up manga 😅

I also agree with the yellowing. Don't really see the big deal, it all looks the same inside and really gives it character!

I really hate those scalpers.. I've been trying to collect My Dress-Up Darling but everytime there's a stock that just came out.. They're gone and people already are selling the copies they got for like 25% more than the original price. it freaking sucks haha

To protect it from dust, place a sheet of newspaper on top, to protect from yellowing, store in place of the room, where the sun never shines. You could also keep it in their boxset, or make a boxset.

Hey Raian I would love to see another vlog style video like the one you did when you went to find the Remina volume. Anyway keep up the great work!!

Really like this video !!! Drives me crazy when people just throw the manga anywhere, like when they had no careful at all and the manga just get all banged up. I mean, Manga is aesthetic and not to mention how expensive it is.

YOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! NEW VIDEO!!! Also thanks for making this, I have anxiety and this should help with me worrying about messing up my collection.

wrapping manga in bags has always been kinda strange to me. And organizing manga backwards has always driving me crazy lol

Yellowing pages? Bro, my harry potter books have BROWNED😂

So, I agree with everything you say! Here in Mexico every single volume is plastic wrapped, and the manga stores even sell you plastic bags if you want to rewrap your manga. I personally don't like it, since, as you say, it's annoying to have to take it out every single time i want to check out any volumes (plus, imo, it makes you want to interact less and less with your collection, since everything is wrapped, you won't want to ruin the bag). People here do it mostly about the yellowing, but also for the "new" smell to stay and because it's less probably that it'll get messed up by moisture. Over here is easier to have it wrapped than it not since when you buy it it's already like that, but i do understand why it's weird over there since you'll have to go out of your way to always wrap it up.

when you said dont organize your manga backwards i thought you meant the pages showing instead of the spines

As some comments have already said, in Mexico is pretty common to keep your mangas wrapped in plastic lol and most content creators inside the community encourages people to do the same. Every single manga in mexico is sold wrapped in a bag, and its reusable. I think its more common to do that here because the quality of the volumes is lower than the english volumes (they are not bad, is just that the covers tend to be thinner). Some covers can get scratched easily, or get stained

I wrap my books. But I make my wrap skin tight it doesn’t look that bad.

The books right to left kill me inside every time I see it.

Great Video btw, I'm guilty for your second point, I have been wrapping my manga with booker-kuns as well as putting them in these translucent white bags that often holds clothes. But I do have my reasons, 1 The place where I store my manga right now is in a box basket, the ones that store fruits, very sturdy and it doesn't damage my manga. 2. I'm waiting to have more space in my room to buy a shelf, after I graduate I'll finally be able to do that. But I take care of it, and taking it out every time isn't a big deal to me. Those bags are ziplocked so I really try my hardest to not put moisture into it. But hopefully, one day, I could see the whole beauty of it all.

i just got into manga two months ago and goodnight punpun has only been available for scalper prices this entire time. do i just wait?

I agree with Raian here, basically everything included in this video is SO bad for your manga and makes it worse so listen to us manga collectors, *_dont do it_*

I still have my Sailor moon and Ranma 1/2 manga from the late 90s and the yellowing is minimal if any, I also don't think people have to get so worried about it that they wrap each volume

When I was beginning to collect/read manga I fell into that phase of wrapping my manga in those plastic sleeves. I had the sudden realization of how much money I spent on a series, and so I obviously wanted to protect it. It only lasted for a few months, and then I got rid of all of the plastic sleeves lol. It's just stupid honestly, it entirely defeats the purpose of a collection to begin with. Half the point of buying/collecting is being able to freely pick up and glance through them. When they are in those annoying sleeves, they end up just sitting on your shelf, and you never actually look at them. It's almost like you don't even own the books, and they are more for display.

In my country we read from right to left, I just found out that I subconsciously organised my manga like that. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll go change it right now!

Thx for uploading.

Hey, doesn't yellowing pages mean you are getting an in-built night mode page?

Honestly, I wrap my mangas with clear opp plastics "professionallly" and they look brand new asf. the plastics are not even visible on the spines because I made them look like "booker-kun". I personally do this to protect them. you can add silica gels though if they get wiggly.

Yes! I used to collect oop Del Rey and Tokyopop manga. And those scalpers wanted so much! I did spend $80 for one of the Ravemaster manga. I gave up trying to collect Battle Royale, Welcome to the NHK and Mushishi

One thing that I find very annoying is when people mix volumes from different series just to organize them by color.

I agree with yellowing! I think it’s kinda nice…as long as I can read the manga then I’m good lol

I actually dont mind the pages turning yellow, but my house has too much dusts so....I still keep them in plastic wraps

Captain raiain a couple of months ago you posted a video about getting the orignal dragon ball book set did you get them from amazon can you please tell me

I hate when the corners of manga get bent idk why I just hate it.

i put my mangas in plastic bags bcuz i do not own a bookshelf and i dont want it to collect dust on the table...

I actually recently wrapped my Manga in plastic but in a way that I can still open it and look inside of it without any problem, it doesn't have any annoying plastic bags but it can stick easily to the other ones. I prob won't be wrapping them any more since it's so time consuming.

Bcw manga bags dont really have a glare and look perfectly fine on a shelf. Bags prevent yellowing by limiting the oxidation process and prevent shelfwear

It's just too cumbersome to put a manga volume in a plastic bag to prevent from deterioration. I normally use inexpensive cellophane sheet as book cover for new manga volume and it protects the cover while I read the manga. When I get tired of it, I still can sell it as used in good condition and book cover helps.

if you want to read it later, put them all on the shelf and then take out the ones your going to read, then you'll still have space for it when your ready to put it back organizing it backwards is worse than color coding your entire collection

I have a few manga that are factory sealed and idk if I should open them I don’t want them to get damaged and because one of them is out of print and I don’t want to ruin the seal 😭😭

I was looking into wrapping mine to avoid booklice. Idk if I’m just too paranoid.

Having poly bagged comic books for years, I can tell you that it does work and it prevents micro molds which is why books start to yellow.

Thought I was alone on this!! Thank you for explaining it all in this video!! Now I can just share this with all the people that do this lol ;)

Can I put my manga in a plastic boxed sleeve? I wanna get the black butler books, and To be honest, I can't read roman numbers. maybe if I put them in a sleeve and put the regular numbers on the sleeve, they won't get ruined if I pass them down to my future kids (or changed my mind and wanna turn around and resell them)

My fave anime and manga is black butler I started reading the manga maybe 2 years ago I've waited and waited but it's always sold out and it haven't arrived in my local bookstore I need volume 2 and 3 and every volume is sold out in the bookstore in my country except volume 30😭😭 PLEASE SOMEONE DO YOU KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY BLACK BUTLER BOOK 2 OR 3 🙏🙏

I wrap my manga but I specifically have covers that allow me to still read them, I try to keep the covers and spines from shelf wear or any scuffing 😂

Have you read Kaiju No. 8??? Volume 1 gave me some My Hero vibes, and I enjoyed it alot!!

I put my manga backwards because my shelf’s a part of my bed and when I sit up I want the lowest ones close to me.

I organise them randomly ,for example on one self they could be right to left and on another left to right

I need a shelve I’m starting my manga collection where did you get that black shelve from

Yeah well as a collector I thought it was just right to try to have your books as clean and protected as you can, I know that it's not like every manga is an Amazing Fantasy #15, but still want them to live as long as they can

Finally, someone who doesn't wrap their manga in plastic bags. Thank you

Plastic wrapping will help inhibit oxidation and that is about it. You are right though, and it will trap moisture and lead to a mold trap. It will have degassed plastic odor make the volume smell. It will not stop fading from UV light damage. Yellow pages are inherent with the cheap newspaper-like Acid containing paper used in most manga. If it wasn't meant to turn yellow, it would use Acid-free paper like any hardcover novel, or glossy acid-free paper like those Berserk Deluxe behind you. The best way to store manga would be in an oxygen free room with dust-free circulation from HVAC, 50% humidity, 70deg F, no light whatsoever, volumes stored upright position and tight but not too tight to each other with space behind and in front for circulation. For those of us in the real world, just stick a Contact paper on it, store it on a nice shelf away from the light in a comfortable room.

Idk how the hell i did. this. But like how the hell do you bend back your manga books

I was surprised about the yellowing thing. I spilt ketchup all over a manga once, still have it to this day.

I wrap some of my manga , my two Japanese series Black Jack and Kinnikuman nisei but there old and not the best condition . Along with some of my others but that’s mainly because I have cats and no real book shelf . I probably won’t do it once I have actual shelves that I can better clean

I'm an artist and seeing the art on manga media is a big part of how I experience it. So, in case the edges start to get yellow or a bug start eating and making holes on it, that would really distract from the piece. Therefore, I try to read it and after that put a baggy on it to protect them from that kind of things until I want to read it again.

I made the mistake two times in the past when I bought a random manga from the book store, they seemed fine on the covers, but they still had plastic wrapping so I couldn't look in it. I will never make that mistake again.

Well I organize my manga backwards because it’s just how my shelf is layed out if I put the manga in the front than they would fall over so I just do it backwards

I was kinda confused as to why goblin slayer and berserk were the only volumes that came in plastic wrap. Now that you mentioned that about bookstores, that makes a fuckton of sense

Some people organise their manga backwards because they have a volume missing or they have a duplicate

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I had my whole collection in plastic for a while (acide-free BCW bags), because I've moved several times and have seen my books get damaged in the process. However, I don't really like the look, so I'm taking most out of the plastic now. I have some rare horror titles from the 90s and early 00s that will probably never get reprinted, though, and I'm going to keep those wrapped. They'll be too expensive to replace if they get ruined.

Plastic wrapping is weird, I wonder are they comic book people? Like how you bag & board all the floppies.

I wanna wrap all the manga ive read in plastic like how the berserk volumes are wrapped, protect the book but barely noticeable

Can you read danganronpa manga? It’s by 4 different people because there’s 4 different series of it

I think I can deal with reading backwards but organizing them even if we were supposed to, would just drive me crazy until I put them to my liking lol.

So when he brought up the whole right to left thing on book shelfs I felt kinda dumb cause I've only been doing it cause idk I guess it became a natural habit and thought that it was an ok way to put em

I will keep this in mind I want to start a manga collection!!!

I just clean my shelf’s about twice a month and keep the sun out of my room. Curtains must stay closed. Some sun like gets in but I try to make sure it never touches my books. 👍

Im so Curious where did he get his shelf from??????

I personally haven't seen organised spines across volumes, I'll have to check what I have again but yea I never though right to left organised, don't know much about japan but one thing I do know is that japan doesn't do right to left organising numbers the yellowing though... someone saying it adds character. I'm about to pass out from a panic attack here! just keep them out of direct sunlight. someone get me some oxygen..

My manga is just randomly put onto a shelf, not in any order. Also if you are going to wrap a manga in plastic, just put a white cloth over it like they do for in certain museums or with famous art. Or at that point just put the manga in a box somewhere, only put the manga you want to read or display on the shelf

Okay I am going to be honest I read books but book for school or something I am interested in I watch anime but I never read manga I am planning to go to the book store and get something what would you recommend?

You should read / get Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, it's my favourite!

Bro the scalpers for fruit baskets is insane and maid sama

I've tried many ways of displaying my books and manga. Trying to make them look better on the shelf. After 30 minutes I just go back to displaying them in alphabetical order like I always do.

I shrink wrap them once I finish reading. Is that bad? 🤣

Initial D is one of the few series my brother wants to get, but because of the combination of scalpers and their not being that many copies of the English release, it's likely gonna take him forever to get the series

I was the guy that thought that plastic bags were ridiculous, but guess what? The only place where I can store my mangas is in a room where bats tend to poop and... the top of my recently bought Berk vols has stains of POOP because of that, so I will put bags in all of them.

A thing that bothers me is how far out English releases are when compared to the Japanese.

how about plastic storage box?

I feel like the bag thing is a comic thing to preserve a comic you want to bag and board it

I really enjoyed the video.

I read all of love hina in ofc the norwegian preinted version and they were on my dads attic it's like 15 years old or somethig and all is yellow as FFF yeah and i do not care about yellow pages they just are the same imo

Bro one time i gave my friend one time a manga that have one pages when they some b###s and when I got it back he say mmmm I spell som water on it sorry and when I look on it it’s where hard to upen and then I see he have jerk of when he saw that manga page I just say what wrong whit you and he say he will give me a new one but no I say give me the money I going to buy it and it cost like 110kr in Norwegian money who it’s 12$-14$

Bwahahaha you'd hate to see my bookshelves! My manga is in the correct order but my novels go in both directions. There's no rhyme or reason for which is used. I think it started with being based on which direction the font was going? Totally agree with the rage feelings for the other 2 things tho. 😂

Its true that yellowing of my manga scares me but I think that is okay and natural... :)) also, old books smells great than the new ones. idk. hehehehe :))

Yea scalpers are really annoying, I currently want to buy all the volumes of One Piece, but getting from 3-70 is very difficult for me. I have to buy all my manga online as there’s no stores that stock Manga in my country. I’ve bought from 1-3 & 70-98, but getting all the earlier volumes is hard, the first 3 box sets have been sold out for months, I can get them on eBay but they’re at the very least double the price, some 5x the price.

I have some series arranged backwards lol, but that’s not because they are manga, if you look in my normal bookshelf with all the other books, there’s also some series which are sorted backwards and some which are sorted forwards…Don’t ask me why, it just happened to be so. Maybe I should take some time to organise it a bit more xD And yea, who would use such plastic bags? I mean maybe in some countries where they aren’t that high quality but still it looks just awful.

Huh, I've personally never seen the backwards organizing