>manga is now seen as something to collect and invest inIs this good or bad for the industry?
>>287979175It's jew and gay, literally the only thing American mind can do is turning everything into investments
Speculator pigs ruined american comics.
if the jew is doing it then it's bad
>>287979175Are pokemon cards not bringing in the money anymore?These parasites should all be culled for the good of the species.
>>287979175Terrible, just look at what happened to American comics.
>>287979175Why'd they surround this guy with a bunch of random ancient books like any of those mean anything for shonen jump?
>>287979175fuck off jake paul or whichever fucking one you arespeculators looking for a new grift can fuck offgrading the quality of an extremely common manga made of the cheapest possible paper pulp, it would make more sense to grade a tankobon, dont forget to PSA grade all 100 pages inside too you shit brained scamlord fuck wits
>>287979175Speculation literally destroyed the comics industry in the 90's
Collecting something cheap like Shounen Jump is worthless. Literal garbage tier, you should wait for the proper tankobon which may include rare illustrations.
>>287980950The only manga valuable are those printed on paper onky because author won't do digital releases at all, in other words a few counted authors and that's it but those won't be the kind you show off.>nishi iori : toddlercon artist only paper printed releases.>satsuki itsuka : lolicon artist only paper printed releases.>katsuhiro otomo akira : only paper printed releases.Just some examples of the valuable ones but as said is because are paper printed, shoune jump, shounen magazine are getting digital releases of almost every manga published on them.>why pay 3 thousand dollars for an old paper printed version that is ruined.>when you can get a new paper reprint for 500 yens or a digital version for 300 yens.
>>287979175These sort of "people" and scalpers deserve to die horribly.
Old Jump is literally worthless for reading so it only has collector value
As a buyfag, from what I can tell, it didn't really dent the market in any significant way, besides driving up the prices of a few old Jump issues nobody wanted anyway.
>>287979175good thing these tourists haven't discovered old ovas and animation cels
So we're just permanently stuck with this faggot hustle culture shit now, huh?
>>287982389Yep :(
>>287982389Until everything collapses, yes.
>>287979175>>287979888I can understand why Pokemon cards would make for good scalping materials, since the fact that it's a TCG means that the cards will always have an inherent value since they're a physical requirement to play the game with no real alternative. It's for that same reason why scalp faggotry doesn't work on the Pokemon games despite them being the same IP: If push comes to shove, people can always buy digital or emulate since there is no such physical requirement to play the game.Manga is the same way, Logan Paul can buy every original issue of WSJ on Earth and people could still read the manga online (through official sources or otherwise); there is no longer a physical requirement to enjoy something like One Piece. He's participating in a fruitless endeavor to create a market that has no demand.
>>287979175Manga ain't trading cards nor figurines. Popular manga is being reprinted all the time. It literally doesn't even matter.
>>287982389I want these hustler fags to start doing this to gunpla just for the lulz
>>287979175I don't care. I pirate everything.
>>287980950Unironically that would make it more valuable as the things that have value over time tend to be the things that are easily destroyed. That's why comic books and baseball cards initially had value - moms everywhere would throw that shit out until only a handful were left in the world.That said, there needs to be a buyer for this sort of shit first. Speculators can't sustain interest no matter how hard they try.
>>287982723Learn and lurk more, you can get digital versions of any tankoubon or jump for 300 yens and is official stuff.>jump volume 1 digital first edition 300 yens.>naruto volume 1 digital first edition 300 yens.>naruto volume 1 digital second edition 250 yens.And is not just jump, shounen magazine, shounen sunday are doing the digital releases with similar prices.>karakai jouzu takagi san vol 1 digital first edition 450 yens.>karakai jouzu takagi san vol 1 digital second edition 300 yens.>difference between both is first edition has the sexy yariman style takagi san while the second has the moe blob.Most go for the cheaper version which makes harder to get first edition to see the differences between both.But is clear collector tards just want to get money from a few hyping the shit out of a damaged stuff (sanded corners) instead of saying "hey you can buy it for cheap on digital format officially" which is the truth.>get all dragon ball digital tankoubon for cheap, carry it on smartphone to read in any place.
>>287979175Behead tourists
We've had store exclusive bonuses for ages now.Foreigners buying 30 year old Jump issues won't make a difference at all.
>>287979175>Is this good or bad for the industry?Maybe if it's a short manga that gets recolored for an anniversary edition or an art book, but otherwise it's bad, most paperback manga isn't worth getting bank savings for why the hell would anyone?
Doesn't seem to matter at all. Nobody would ever read an old Jump rather than a tankobon and nobody that likes manga wouldn't read it digitally. I'm glad if some old neet collectors cash in.
This thread is EXTREMELY anti-semeticShut it down
i only buy manga to read. they tried this shit with yugioh and it flopped because people buy the cards to play them not look at them. when a product has a purpose it cant be collectable. it only works with pokemon because nobody plays that game.
>>287983896>it only works with pokemon because nobody plays that game.
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>>287983896No, it failed with yugioh because Konami destroys the value of its card with reprints. Something that is now biting them in the ass, because tcg need the scarcity to survive.
>>287986451I was gonna post this so thanks.Sealed YGO sets simply do not retain much value long term like other tcgs do
>>287983896pokemon has more players than YGO
>>287983117>But is clear collector tards just want to get money from a few hyping the shit out of a damaged stuff (sanded corners)What do you mean by "sanded corners"? Collector tards try to polish damaged things to make them look more valuable then they really are?
The American century of casino
>>287979175>>287979333>>287980412The speculators didn't destroy the american comics industry, the publishers did.The publishers foolishly believed the speculator boom would continue growing forever and so they overextended themselves. They spent so much money producing products marketed exclusively to speculators and completely neglected the actual readers.By the time the speculators ditched comics (which is all how speculator booms end, the speculators get cold feet and it fizzles away instantly) there were barely any actual reading customers left, and certainly none to buy the tacky shiny holographic blindbag whatever bullshit marketed to the now non-existant speculators. The industry collapsed. They couldn't sell what they produced and something like 60% of comic shops went bust and even Marvel declared bankruptcy a few years later.But this was a failing of the publsher. Only an absolute retard would assume a speculator bubble would go on forever. They had no financial safeguards, no backup plan, they put all their eggs into a market that has a 100% track record of collapsing very quickly. Not only that, but they shat on the speculators. DC produced the Death of Superman '92. Marketed it to the speculators as the definitive end of Superman, something that will be valuable for that sole reason. And then about two weeks later they retconned it and produced more Superman comics.This is like if the Pokemon speculator boom produced "the rarest card", some one-in-a-million card hidden in any and all packs, a truly wonka golden ticket type card. The speculators would spend millions to get it. And then the company two weeks later sells it as a $5 set produced by the millions so everyone can get it. It would totally shit on the speculator market and likely cause the speculators to ditch pokemon cards entirely.
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>>287979175>Is this good or bad for the industry?What an engaging question.
>>287987971contTo imagine how this would look in the manga industry,Imagine if Shueisha and other big companies stop hiring new talent with new ideas, and instead they just employ the same famous artists to produce limited edition chapters of already famous manga such as Naruto and One-Piece.The story is unimportant, speculators take pride in not actually reading them.Every week, a new chapter of One-Piece comes out, but it is sealed in a plastic box, and all you can see is the cover. The cover will always be something like "Luffy DIES?!" or some other shocking thing that normally would be an historical moment.The printing of the chapter will not be in the big 300 page WSJ anthology but rather will be a specially produced high quality standalone product with shiny glittery pages, and an increased price to match it.The story inside is bent and twisted to match whatever bullshit is on the cover that week. The actual readers quickly lose interest.Speculators buy it up, they buy 100 copies each of every chapter. In a few years time, surely the death of Luffy rare limited edition holographic manga will be worth a fortune.But then the company goes too far and they expose themselves for running a sham,what they're producing isn't rare or valuable at all, and so the speculators ditch it.But because they've completely neglected the actual readers, there are none left.With no readers, and no speculators, there is nobody to buy the product,the product which the company massively expanded on with its expensive novelty items,the company goes bankrupt.
