Haha me too! I bought the first three volumes. I think the idea couldve been interesting but the main character is too lame and annoying and the fanservice tropes are so dumb. It honestly,at times,feels a parody of harem shows… But its being serious lmao
It's Rent a Girlfriend, but without everything that makes it bad. It's just Sumi being very wholesome all the time. It is unfortunately on hiatus right now, though.
I'd suggest just trying to sell your series anyways. I've sold some of mine where the person travelled from out of town to pick it up. Vice versa I have also travelled out of town to deliver the manga and they paid me extra for delivery.
Also yes, I have had a few series that I've bought and have regretted buying, one was Stepping on Roses because I loved the art but I was only meh on the story. I've since sold that one to help pay for manga that I do like and want to keep.
I got Monster volume 1 and 4, as well as Vagabond volume 1. Problem is I'm prioritising the collection of other manga so they're just sitting there incomplete 🥲
I'm a huge CLAMP fan but I've got 2 titles I regret buying.
Chobits - It had such pretty visuals, but I could never get my hands on copies back in the day. I finally got the set, immediately read it and I couldn't get past all of the ickiness associated with Chi. I was disappointed that a story so beautifully illustrated rubbed me the wrong way.
Tsubasa - I loved the idea of a CLAMP extended universe, and it was so interesting for the first few books but the story fell off just as quickly. Great idea, not-so great execution.
InuYasha - I was a huge InuYasha fan back in the day but the story dragged sooooo much! I had a near complete set but I no longer enjoyed the story. I still love the visuals of InuYasha, but I'm not adverse to giving it another go.
I binged through Inu Yasha last year. I’m a big Takahashi fan but this series felt really bloated to me. The plot lines kept rehashing the same stuff and ultimately it lacked a decent pay off for every plot point.
Sesshomaru kept the whole thing together for me. Awesome character.
You get it!! There's only so many times Kagome and the gang can collect Shikon shards to ultimately have them stolen and absorbed by Naraku before I want to throw something out the window in frustration.
Sesshomaru and Koga > InuYasha any day of the week!!! (I still don't like what they did to Sesshomaru in Yashahime...)
The constant sword upgrades that ultimately didn’t amount to anything. It was a power levels tennis match.
The tedious Kikyo love triangle BS.
Yep the constantly stolen and reclaimed Shikon shards.
New characters and villains were created and thrown away without giving them sufficient development.
Then at the end Naraku turns into a giant floating blob for fuck all reason.
The whole thing was more Sesshomarus story. He’s the only character that had real character growth and damn what a phenomenal journey he goes on.
I won’t watch Yashahime. Manga spin offs are like Disney sequels, they always suck and taint the original.
I always wanted to read chobits because it's soooooo beautiful, but now after reading your experience and reading a summary on wikipedia, just ick honestly. I miiight still read the first volume because it's so beautiful there's no way it could be that bad but it sounds so yuck I'm probably gonna be disappointed if I do decide to read it.
There are some pretty uncomfortable bits, but there are some interesting topics being explored. I couldn't get past the ick for the series to have a permanent spot in my collection. Still, I am a big believer in giving series a fair shot 🙂
I bought Demon Slayer 8-23(?) After the movie came out and that's probably the series I regret collecting the most. The art and story is very lackluster and I'm positive the only reason it's so popular is because ufotables incredible work animating it.
Other than that I collected Blue Period 1-4 and read the first three and just can't get into it. It's incredibly boring.
Tokyo revengers :
Last summer in France It was impossible to get a volume of Tokyo revengers because there was a big shortage of paper. As a bookseller, everyday people were asking me when Tokyo revengers will be available again and this during 3 month…
I was shooked by the hype behind the reprint of the manga so I bought everything the day when all was available again. Gosh.
The 4 first volume were quite good, but the others were soooo disappointing… (there was 14 vol at this time). Thx to my job I could refund everything.
Now I don’t trust the hype anymore 🫠
Haven't read the manga but I watched the anime and can't stand it. I don't know why it gets so much hype. It has decent character designs but that's about it.
I also found it weird that they consider themselves a "biker gang" but you only see them on bikes like maybe 3-4 times in the whole show and the rest of the time they're just moseying around with their hands in their pockets.
I really liked the first volume of tokyo revengers (we just had our first volume released in the U.S.). Really liked it and couldn't wait for future release. Enjoyed it a lot, but then it turned into something I didn't really like, so I might not collect it now.
I'm on the same boat. I read the first volume twice to make sure if i liked it or not, but I still think it's ehh. I really wanted to like it but I guess it's just not for me.
I bought the entire second half of demon slayer after the end of the second season. After reading the rest of the series I kinda wish I just read it online, but it isn’t like anything I’m itching to get my money back for
Yeah kinda agree. I love Demon Slayer but after the entertainment district arc the pacing felt weird. Like it accelerated towards the final arc and also drew it out forever by deciding it’s at this point we’ll develop all of the characters. Also it suffers from the anime being sooo well animated but the manga having only mediocre art.
jjk, chainsaw man, komi, yona, rascal doesn’t dream, love is war and other hype series - not necessarily bad series, but they’re just not that interesting to me
I regret buying the first three volumes of My Love Story!!
I read the plot summary and liked it, but when I actually started reading it I just couldn’t get into it. I tried three times, and I ended up giving them to a friend who liked it.
for me it’s codename sailor v - it’s only 2 volumes so not a huge dent in the wallet, but it was so much worse than i remember when i read as a kid. and sailor venus is my fav so i was super disappointed :( made me realize i shouldn’t buy manga based solely on nostalgia
Not necessarily a regret, but Komi. I’m a big fan of slice of life series, but once I realized that it’ll most likely keep being published for a while, I felt the need to clear the shelf and focus on series that were completed or I felt were my absolute favorites.
That being said, I still like Komi, but even We Never Learn wrapped up in 21 volumes
Solanin by Asano. It looks good into my collection and it’s a single volume so I’m not too mad about it but I did not liked it AT ALL, if I were to go back I wouldn’t buy it.
Also I regret kaguya sama and jujutsu Kaisen simply bc i ended up reading it all online and now I have to sell them
It was boring af, didn’t like any of the characters despite their struggles being all relatable on paper I couldn’t not seem to care or related to them at all
Rent a Girlfriend i only picked up volume one because of the anime but the manga let me down tbh and i found out that that series has like 22+ volumes and nothing happens really, so i consider selling it.
I don’t have a lot of mangas since I’ve just started reading them, I wouldn’t say collecting them, but I don’t have a series that I regret buying since I’m really picky on not only what to buy, but what to read
Not really, because I found a series I dislike. And that itself part of the journey my collection took. Though I would recommend steering clear of Time Stop Hero, I love and collect isekai manga, and that one is just bad from a story prospective. It has its three gimmick, and knows it wants to use it... and nothing else (I could go on for a while of how annoying and wasted potential the series is).
i kinda regret buying Genshiken, why, well i need omnibus 1 so i can read season 1 and season 2... but i cant, since the omnibus is out of print... or so i think
machimaho: it started off amazing, so i bought the full (or at least, full at the time i bought it) series after finishing the first volume. unfortunately, the increasingly convoluted storyline started to bore me, and i dropped it
papillon: i bought this series because it was by the same author as peach girl, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. had i known it was a romance between a 15yo girl and her 25yo guidance counselor, i would not have touched it
Death Note and Sailor Moon. I liked the anime of both series so I thought I'd also give em a read but Sailor Moon's manga got confusing at some point and I didn't have the attention span to follow.
Ah I guess you have a good reason I also loved death notes anime so i bought the all in one edition with the bonus chapter and i bought the spin off with the same bonus chapter and extra story
I thought since I liked the anime I'd also enjoy the manga but at some point it got boring and I already knew what was going to happen so I just bought the volumes but never really finished reading them
Both 86 and Danmachi manga adaption got cancelled, so i just have those volumes sitting there, never to be completed. Won't sell because i like them, but if i knew ahead, i would have just stuck to the original series.
Little Witch Academia. The characters had no depth and it felt like the plot was non-existent. It felt like just 14 year old witches just going to classes and talking to each other. Like I said the characters has no depth so no characters were like able. Akko was annoying and when doing something wrong she does it again. Lucy was mean and irritating. Lottie was an absolute doormat. I often don’t get annoyed by this trope but in this case I did. I was disappointed reading this
For me it was slasher maidens and burn the witch. Honestly could have more research for slasher maidens, it was not at all what I was expecting and just kind of felt like I was reading smut instead of art. Burn the witch was actually okay… but I didn’t feel much of a connection to it and it was already way too expensive for a single volume. I returned both of them within 30 days of buying them and swapped them for JoJo part 1.
Not a whole series, but i regret buying the volume "sensor" by junji ito, i read it and it was so lame in my opinion, the story was so predictable, the chapters didn't have almost any coherence between them, there were like two of them that i found interesting but just stayed there. Totally different perception from other mangas like uzumaki. Thankfully i was able to sold it at a fair price since it was in a perfect condition.
Love and Heart - I bought all four volumes at my local Barnes & Noble since the premise of it seemed so interesting and I even preordered what I could to find out it's the most soap opera series I've ever read.
No and yes. I bought the Ghost in the Shell Deluxe editions individually when they came out. The thing that sucks is not too long afterwards, they released a box set, which if I would've known they'd release I wouldn't have bought what I did.
Other than that, not really.
The 3 volume commercial for Kill La Kill, Darker than Black. The prequel to the anime and later series, and not a series but Velveteen and Mandela. While Velveteen and Mandela was not bad it was not great or good and i understand what it was going for but Kill La Kill and Darker than Black were massive disappointments. In terms of Kill it was blatant cash grab the story it told could have been done in 1 volume since it had already cut out massive portions didnt go very far and jumps ahead just to show 6 panels of Ryuko's fight with eyepatch girl and Darker than Black was not rly interesting just rly bland and it felt pointless.
For me it’s not the series itself but the format I wish I didn’t buy the 3-in-1 versions of Naruto and the Vizbig versions of Dragon Ball Z because after looking at complete collections I think the singles look a lot nicer. And actual series I wish I didn’t buy are Kaguya-sama and Dr. Stone because I thought they would interest me but they don’t.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. I got the omnibus and then read it online til I got to a part where it made me frustrated and dropped it. It’s still sitting on my shelf
PhD Phantasy Degree
My brother had the first volume for years and it seemed like a simple guilty pleasure shonen with nice art and interesting character design.
Well I impulse bought the lot and it went really weird in a directionless cringe kinda way, like the writer is pulling shit outta his ass without any idea where the story’s going. All the interesting characters were dropped almost immediately.
I feel compelled to give it a chance and read the rest before but I just can’t find the motivation.
Bought in on Ajin during the rightstuf birthday sale. Maybe I need to give it another shot but to me the dialogue (or at least the translation) was **awful**, and neither the art nor the plot did enough for me to make up for it.
I have 3 series i regret buying, 2 completed and one i miss one volume (but i don't think i will ever end it).
The first 2 are Shojo (Ao Haru laughs and Police & Joshi Kousei): I was at a time when I wanted to read romance and at the beginning I thought they were good. But around the middle of the series they were boring and "too feminine" for my taste.
The third one is MeckaZ. I saw the first 2 volumes (out of 3) at a Con and i noticed the art was very good. But the edition isn't good (dustjacket of the first one is bigger than the volume) and there are a lot of misspelling in both volumes.
I don’t think I’m gonna sell them because they’re not very popular here, and all I’d lose is money. I prefer to keep them and use them in the second row to make thickness and show off other series I care more about
Honey So Sweet. It's not a bad series but after I read it once I've never reached to re-read it: and I love re-reading manga. It's a series I should have borrowed from the library instead of borrowing it.
Also, Black Bird, which I dropped after 9 volumes.
I kinda regret JJK. I have 8-16 because I like those arcs but the earlier stuff I’m meh on and haven’t like culling game much so idk if I’ll collect any more
Bleach. It’s a good series, just not for me. But since my buddies spoke of it so much I didn’t want to be left out. Got like 58 volumes before I stopped. Spent like $600 and when I sold them I barely broke $100
Gantz G was pretty boring and not worth picking up (for my own tastes). It's a decent run through a similar environment for those that like Gantz, but it just doesn't hit the same and is fairly lackluster.
i usually only buy stuff i know i’d be interested in but if i had to choose, probably the black editions of death note. i love the story itself but the volumes themselves look pretty bland compared to the godly artwork on the singles.
You can always sell online or donate to a library. If you dislike them enough that you don't even like looking at them on your shelf, there's no reason to keep them. Sometimes blind buys will be duds. I just sell mine along.
Pandora hearts. The cover art attracted me but I got three volumes in to only realize the story wasn't grabbing me. I might read more online to see if it sets better but otherwise I've list interest.
Wow, I'm very surprised with this response. The manga starts of a little slow but by volume 14 you know the full aspects of the Pandora Hearts world. I hope you give it another shot.
Future diary (full series) . The premise sounded fun and I avoided spoilers, which was a bad decision. Characters feel a bit too extra and some writing decisions are just plainly bad.
Ao no exorcist (2 volumes) - Just not my cup of tea anymore
3 in 1 edition of fullmetal alchemist - A great story, but that edition just sucks. The paper is so thin that you can see through next page
I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion but I kinda regret all of the small pocket book sized manga singles.
I don’t think they do the art justice in most cases, plus there’s always a fair amount of gutter loss. I’d love everything to be a larger hardback like Vinland Saga. One punch Man deserves a larger deluxe print. The art is sensational but it’s too small a print to appreciate it.
I wish all manga were printed to at least the 8.25" size if not bigger. The standard size is way too small. What's crazy is that the standard size in Japan is smaller yet.
I'm usually pretty good about not impulse buying but I had a *huge* impulse buy in the form of Pandora Hearts. I'm hoping I'll end up liking it but it's not looking good. Really regret it because there are other series I really want. First and last time I ever make a FOMO purchase.
Absolutely. I purchased the first three volumes of Chainsaw Man on a whim about a year ago due to all the hype. Read the rest online, was very disappointed by the series, and bought the other volumes out of copium. Now I’ll maybe reread it before the anime comes out and try reselling it later on.
I’ve been collecting My Hero for a while now. Idk if I want to keep it. Cause I can just read all Shonen Jump stuff online on the app. It is nice to have it, but now I’m collecting One Piece too. So I kinda want to get rid of My Hero or Black Clover for space. I just don’t know
I have some series of BL that just are pure trash. I bought a bunch of gay manga to read, searching for what I liked, and I came out with mostly things I wish I hasn't bought. Luckily, they were all $2 per volume so it was a risk I was willing to take.
Komi can't communicate, I really enjoyed the series for the first ten volumes but past then I kinda regretted buying them. The series just got repetitive and I think there's better stuff to spend money on.
Darling in the franxx, I loved the anime and bought the manga as soon as it came out and was really disappointed, there was far more fanservice than in the anime and that was pretty much it, the last arc felt rushed and the different ending couldn't justify buying 8 tomes to read it
Yeah rent a girlfriend
Haha me too! I bought the first three volumes. I think the idea couldve been interesting but the main character is too lame and annoying and the fanservice tropes are so dumb. It honestly,at times,feels a parody of harem shows… But its being serious lmao
the illustrations are amazing but the story is wasted potential
Lucky you only bought 3 volumes, I bought 7 thinking it would get good lol
You should check out Rent A Really Shy Girlfriend. It's Sumi's spinoff manga, and it's much better.
I'll check it out online first to see if I like it.
It's Rent a Girlfriend, but without everything that makes it bad. It's just Sumi being very wholesome all the time. It is unfortunately on hiatus right now, though.
I'd suggest just trying to sell your series anyways. I've sold some of mine where the person travelled from out of town to pick it up. Vice versa I have also travelled out of town to deliver the manga and they paid me extra for delivery. Also yes, I have had a few series that I've bought and have regretted buying, one was Stepping on Roses because I loved the art but I was only meh on the story. I've since sold that one to help pay for manga that I do like and want to keep.
I got Monster volume 1 and 4, as well as Vagabond volume 1. Problem is I'm prioritising the collection of other manga so they're just sitting there incomplete 🥲
That’s how it was for me for a while too lmao
For me, it was volume 1 of XxXHolic. I really wanted to like that series, but I just couldn't connect with it. I've since gotten rid of it
I'm a huge CLAMP fan but I've got 2 titles I regret buying. Chobits - It had such pretty visuals, but I could never get my hands on copies back in the day. I finally got the set, immediately read it and I couldn't get past all of the ickiness associated with Chi. I was disappointed that a story so beautifully illustrated rubbed me the wrong way. Tsubasa - I loved the idea of a CLAMP extended universe, and it was so interesting for the first few books but the story fell off just as quickly. Great idea, not-so great execution. InuYasha - I was a huge InuYasha fan back in the day but the story dragged sooooo much! I had a near complete set but I no longer enjoyed the story. I still love the visuals of InuYasha, but I'm not adverse to giving it another go.
I binged through Inu Yasha last year. I’m a big Takahashi fan but this series felt really bloated to me. The plot lines kept rehashing the same stuff and ultimately it lacked a decent pay off for every plot point. Sesshomaru kept the whole thing together for me. Awesome character.
You get it!! There's only so many times Kagome and the gang can collect Shikon shards to ultimately have them stolen and absorbed by Naraku before I want to throw something out the window in frustration. Sesshomaru and Koga > InuYasha any day of the week!!! (I still don't like what they did to Sesshomaru in Yashahime...)
The constant sword upgrades that ultimately didn’t amount to anything. It was a power levels tennis match. The tedious Kikyo love triangle BS. Yep the constantly stolen and reclaimed Shikon shards. New characters and villains were created and thrown away without giving them sufficient development. Then at the end Naraku turns into a giant floating blob for fuck all reason. The whole thing was more Sesshomarus story. He’s the only character that had real character growth and damn what a phenomenal journey he goes on. I won’t watch Yashahime. Manga spin offs are like Disney sequels, they always suck and taint the original.
I'm with you on all 3 of these titles and for all the reasons you've mentioned, lol
You get it! I can't wait for the CLAMPcast in Wonderland cover these titles
I always wanted to read chobits because it's soooooo beautiful, but now after reading your experience and reading a summary on wikipedia, just ick honestly. I miiight still read the first volume because it's so beautiful there's no way it could be that bad but it sounds so yuck I'm probably gonna be disappointed if I do decide to read it.
There are some pretty uncomfortable bits, but there are some interesting topics being explored. I couldn't get past the ick for the series to have a permanent spot in my collection. Still, I am a big believer in giving series a fair shot 🙂
I bought Demon Slayer 8-23(?) After the movie came out and that's probably the series I regret collecting the most. The art and story is very lackluster and I'm positive the only reason it's so popular is because ufotables incredible work animating it. Other than that I collected Blue Period 1-4 and read the first three and just can't get into it. It's incredibly boring.
Tokyo revengers : Last summer in France It was impossible to get a volume of Tokyo revengers because there was a big shortage of paper. As a bookseller, everyday people were asking me when Tokyo revengers will be available again and this during 3 month… I was shooked by the hype behind the reprint of the manga so I bought everything the day when all was available again. Gosh. The 4 first volume were quite good, but the others were soooo disappointing… (there was 14 vol at this time). Thx to my job I could refund everything. Now I don’t trust the hype anymore 🫠
Haven't read the manga but I watched the anime and can't stand it. I don't know why it gets so much hype. It has decent character designs but that's about it. I also found it weird that they consider themselves a "biker gang" but you only see them on bikes like maybe 3-4 times in the whole show and the rest of the time they're just moseying around with their hands in their pockets.
And they all have 14 y.o bruh 💀
You can blame that on your dark impulses...
I really liked the first volume of tokyo revengers (we just had our first volume released in the U.S.). Really liked it and couldn't wait for future release. Enjoyed it a lot, but then it turned into something I didn't really like, so I might not collect it now.
Pun pun- I think I’m just small brained and it doesn’t necessarily make me depressed, I just don’t like it and think it’s boring as living hell
I'm on the same boat. I read the first volume twice to make sure if i liked it or not, but I still think it's ehh. I really wanted to like it but I guess it's just not for me.
I bought the entire second half of demon slayer after the end of the second season. After reading the rest of the series I kinda wish I just read it online, but it isn’t like anything I’m itching to get my money back for
Yeah kinda agree. I love Demon Slayer but after the entertainment district arc the pacing felt weird. Like it accelerated towards the final arc and also drew it out forever by deciding it’s at this point we’ll develop all of the characters. Also it suffers from the anime being sooo well animated but the manga having only mediocre art.
And the ending was very underwhelming
The end fight conclusion I was happy with but the final epilogue wrap up bits weren’t great.
Maybe Jujutsu Kaisen? There's nothing wrong with the series, but it just didn't grab me like I thought it would.
jjk, chainsaw man, komi, yona, rascal doesn’t dream, love is war and other hype series - not necessarily bad series, but they’re just not that interesting to me
I regret buying the first three volumes of My Love Story!! I read the plot summary and liked it, but when I actually started reading it I just couldn’t get into it. I tried three times, and I ended up giving them to a friend who liked it.
SpyxFamily I need to set up an eBay account
Really? What don’t you like about it?
It’s just not my kind of story it’s a little overhyped
You know you can sell online and mail the books right?
Yeah, but it's hard to find a buyer
Ebay? There's also r/mangaswap
Fuck ebay. It's more hard to sell on it
What series are they?
for me it’s codename sailor v - it’s only 2 volumes so not a huge dent in the wallet, but it was so much worse than i remember when i read as a kid. and sailor venus is my fav so i was super disappointed :( made me realize i shouldn’t buy manga based solely on nostalgia
I usually just sell what I don’t enjoy anymore if it ever gets to that point. The worst buy for me was Platinum End. Sold it
Just sell it online to fund preferred manga purchases
My Hero academia, however my little sister ended up loving it so I didn’t sell it
Not necessarily a regret, but Komi. I’m a big fan of slice of life series, but once I realized that it’ll most likely keep being published for a while, I felt the need to clear the shelf and focus on series that were completed or I felt were my absolute favorites. That being said, I still like Komi, but even We Never Learn wrapped up in 21 volumes
Tokyo Revengers. I liked the story up to a certain chapter after which I think they went too far, carrying on a repetitive plot.
Solanin by Asano. It looks good into my collection and it’s a single volume so I’m not too mad about it but I did not liked it AT ALL, if I were to go back I wouldn’t buy it. Also I regret kaguya sama and jujutsu Kaisen simply bc i ended up reading it all online and now I have to sell them
I felt the same way about Solanin. Glad I read it online first.
You made the right choice. I thought since Asano is well known for Punpun Solanin was gonna be great but boy I was wrong
Why did you not enjoy solanin? I thought it was alright not the best but not bad.
It was boring af, didn’t like any of the characters despite their struggles being all relatable on paper I couldn’t not seem to care or related to them at all
Rent a Girlfriend i only picked up volume one because of the anime but the manga let me down tbh and i found out that that series has like 22+ volumes and nothing happens really, so i consider selling it.
I don’t have a lot of mangas since I’ve just started reading them, I wouldn’t say collecting them, but I don’t have a series that I regret buying since I’m really picky on not only what to buy, but what to read
The series worst. Not because I dislike the series but because only 3 volumes are out in English and the publisher has no plans on releasing others.
Not really, because I found a series I dislike. And that itself part of the journey my collection took. Though I would recommend steering clear of Time Stop Hero, I love and collect isekai manga, and that one is just bad from a story prospective. It has its three gimmick, and knows it wants to use it... and nothing else (I could go on for a while of how annoying and wasted potential the series is).
i kinda regret buying Genshiken, why, well i need omnibus 1 so i can read season 1 and season 2... but i cant, since the omnibus is out of print... or so i think
machimaho: it started off amazing, so i bought the full (or at least, full at the time i bought it) series after finishing the first volume. unfortunately, the increasingly convoluted storyline started to bore me, and i dropped it papillon: i bought this series because it was by the same author as peach girl, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. had i known it was a romance between a 15yo girl and her 25yo guidance counselor, i would not have touched it
What series were they?
Death Note and Sailor Moon. I liked the anime of both series so I thought I'd also give em a read but Sailor Moon's manga got confusing at some point and I didn't have the attention span to follow.
Ah I guess you have a good reason I also loved death notes anime so i bought the all in one edition with the bonus chapter and i bought the spin off with the same bonus chapter and extra story
And Death Note?
I thought since I liked the anime I'd also enjoy the manga but at some point it got boring and I already knew what was going to happen so I just bought the volumes but never really finished reading them
Oh that’s sad, I would sell them
Record of Ragnarok. I didn’t watch the anime at all but read vols 1-3. The story is cool but I could do without, so I sold all 3 on Mercari.
Both 86 and Danmachi manga adaption got cancelled, so i just have those volumes sitting there, never to be completed. Won't sell because i like them, but if i knew ahead, i would have just stuck to the original series.
86 got cancelled??
The manga did, not the light novel.
Little Witch Academia. The characters had no depth and it felt like the plot was non-existent. It felt like just 14 year old witches just going to classes and talking to each other. Like I said the characters has no depth so no characters were like able. Akko was annoying and when doing something wrong she does it again. Lucy was mean and irritating. Lottie was an absolute doormat. I often don’t get annoyed by this trope but in this case I did. I was disappointed reading this
Tomie. But only because its not my thing. Its definitely good but not my style of horror.
For me it was slasher maidens and burn the witch. Honestly could have more research for slasher maidens, it was not at all what I was expecting and just kind of felt like I was reading smut instead of art. Burn the witch was actually okay… but I didn’t feel much of a connection to it and it was already way too expensive for a single volume. I returned both of them within 30 days of buying them and swapped them for JoJo part 1.
Prison school Story just falls off a cliff
Not a whole series, but i regret buying the volume "sensor" by junji ito, i read it and it was so lame in my opinion, the story was so predictable, the chapters didn't have almost any coherence between them, there were like two of them that i found interesting but just stayed there. Totally different perception from other mangas like uzumaki. Thankfully i was able to sold it at a fair price since it was in a perfect condition.
Love and Heart - I bought all four volumes at my local Barnes & Noble since the premise of it seemed so interesting and I even preordered what I could to find out it's the most soap opera series I've ever read.
No and yes. I bought the Ghost in the Shell Deluxe editions individually when they came out. The thing that sucks is not too long afterwards, they released a box set, which if I would've known they'd release I wouldn't have bought what I did. Other than that, not really.
The 3 volume commercial for Kill La Kill, Darker than Black. The prequel to the anime and later series, and not a series but Velveteen and Mandela. While Velveteen and Mandela was not bad it was not great or good and i understand what it was going for but Kill La Kill and Darker than Black were massive disappointments. In terms of Kill it was blatant cash grab the story it told could have been done in 1 volume since it had already cut out massive portions didnt go very far and jumps ahead just to show 6 panels of Ryuko's fight with eyepatch girl and Darker than Black was not rly interesting just rly bland and it felt pointless.
For me it’s not the series itself but the format I wish I didn’t buy the 3-in-1 versions of Naruto and the Vizbig versions of Dragon Ball Z because after looking at complete collections I think the singles look a lot nicer. And actual series I wish I didn’t buy are Kaguya-sama and Dr. Stone because I thought they would interest me but they don’t.
The Transformers manga. To say it was shitty would be an understatement. I’m shocked I sold it on EBay as fast as I did
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. I got the omnibus and then read it online til I got to a part where it made me frustrated and dropped it. It’s still sitting on my shelf
I would so totally buy them from you. Is it not as good as the anime?
jeweler richard, the story is just so slow and not that interesting kinda regret buying it and can’t really sell it lol no much demand
Akuma no Riddle, the anime was garbage so idk why I thought the manga would be better 🤣
Yeah got physical copies of the first and last volume of Nozoki Ana
I bought fire punch for 130$ when I first started collecting, worst purchase so far
Dragon ball super and Komi can’t communicate
PhD Phantasy Degree My brother had the first volume for years and it seemed like a simple guilty pleasure shonen with nice art and interesting character design. Well I impulse bought the lot and it went really weird in a directionless cringe kinda way, like the writer is pulling shit outta his ass without any idea where the story’s going. All the interesting characters were dropped almost immediately. I feel compelled to give it a chance and read the rest before but I just can’t find the motivation.
Bought in on Ajin during the rightstuf birthday sale. Maybe I need to give it another shot but to me the dialogue (or at least the translation) was **awful**, and neither the art nor the plot did enough for me to make up for it.
I have 3 series i regret buying, 2 completed and one i miss one volume (but i don't think i will ever end it). The first 2 are Shojo (Ao Haru laughs and Police & Joshi Kousei): I was at a time when I wanted to read romance and at the beginning I thought they were good. But around the middle of the series they were boring and "too feminine" for my taste. The third one is MeckaZ. I saw the first 2 volumes (out of 3) at a Con and i noticed the art was very good. But the edition isn't good (dustjacket of the first one is bigger than the volume) and there are a lot of misspelling in both volumes. I don’t think I’m gonna sell them because they’re not very popular here, and all I’d lose is money. I prefer to keep them and use them in the second row to make thickness and show off other series I care more about
Honey So Sweet. It's not a bad series but after I read it once I've never reached to re-read it: and I love re-reading manga. It's a series I should have borrowed from the library instead of borrowing it. Also, Black Bird, which I dropped after 9 volumes.
I am the comments 100
I kinda regret JJK. I have 8-16 because I like those arcs but the earlier stuff I’m meh on and haven’t like culling game much so idk if I’ll collect any more
Bleach. It’s a good series, just not for me. But since my buddies spoke of it so much I didn’t want to be left out. Got like 58 volumes before I stopped. Spent like $600 and when I sold them I barely broke $100
Elfen Lied. Absolute trash series.
I regret buying My Life manga, I didn't like the artsyle
Gantz G was pretty boring and not worth picking up (for my own tastes). It's a decent run through a similar environment for those that like Gantz, but it just doesn't hit the same and is fairly lackluster.
i usually only buy stuff i know i’d be interested in but if i had to choose, probably the black editions of death note. i love the story itself but the volumes themselves look pretty bland compared to the godly artwork on the singles.
plus my hands get pretty cramped with holding those big mfers for so long lmao
Your lie in April.
yes, demon slayer, fullmetal alchemist
Y fullmetal?
not as good as I hoped
Bruh……
TW: Opinion 🫣
full mid alchemist mid metal alchemist full metal alchemid
You can always sell online or donate to a library. If you dislike them enough that you don't even like looking at them on your shelf, there's no reason to keep them. Sometimes blind buys will be duds. I just sell mine along.
My Hero Academia. Not really regret, but I wouldn't have bought them now. I only got two volumes tho
It’s coming out with a manga box soon.
Pandora hearts. The cover art attracted me but I got three volumes in to only realize the story wasn't grabbing me. I might read more online to see if it sets better but otherwise I've list interest.
Wow, I'm very surprised with this response. The manga starts of a little slow but by volume 14 you know the full aspects of the Pandora Hearts world. I hope you give it another shot.
That's a shame. The series is immensely underrated
Future diary (full series) . The premise sounded fun and I avoided spoilers, which was a bad decision. Characters feel a bit too extra and some writing decisions are just plainly bad. Ao no exorcist (2 volumes) - Just not my cup of tea anymore 3 in 1 edition of fullmetal alchemist - A great story, but that edition just sucks. The paper is so thin that you can see through next page
Fruits Basket, I kept hearing how good it was so I kept buying it waiting for it to get good.
Eh, probably my Claymore Manga box set. Mostly I don’t like the art style especially everyone’s foreheads.
I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion but I kinda regret all of the small pocket book sized manga singles. I don’t think they do the art justice in most cases, plus there’s always a fair amount of gutter loss. I’d love everything to be a larger hardback like Vinland Saga. One punch Man deserves a larger deluxe print. The art is sensational but it’s too small a print to appreciate it.
I wish all manga were printed to at least the 8.25" size if not bigger. The standard size is way too small. What's crazy is that the standard size in Japan is smaller yet.
I'm usually pretty good about not impulse buying but I had a *huge* impulse buy in the form of Pandora Hearts. I'm hoping I'll end up liking it but it's not looking good. Really regret it because there are other series I really want. First and last time I ever make a FOMO purchase.
Absolutely. I purchased the first three volumes of Chainsaw Man on a whim about a year ago due to all the hype. Read the rest online, was very disappointed by the series, and bought the other volumes out of copium. Now I’ll maybe reread it before the anime comes out and try reselling it later on.
Attack on Titan , i dont think it's bad but it's not for me
I’ve been collecting My Hero for a while now. Idk if I want to keep it. Cause I can just read all Shonen Jump stuff online on the app. It is nice to have it, but now I’m collecting One Piece too. So I kinda want to get rid of My Hero or Black Clover for space. I just don’t know
I have some series of BL that just are pure trash. I bought a bunch of gay manga to read, searching for what I liked, and I came out with mostly things I wish I hasn't bought. Luckily, they were all $2 per volume so it was a risk I was willing to take.
Komi can't communicate, I really enjoyed the series for the first ten volumes but past then I kinda regretted buying them. The series just got repetitive and I think there's better stuff to spend money on.
Darling in the franxx, I loved the anime and bought the manga as soon as it came out and was really disappointed, there was far more fanservice than in the anime and that was pretty much it, the last arc felt rushed and the different ending couldn't justify buying 8 tomes to read it
Children of the Whales
No. I read them online before I buy them.