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Offline Borderlands Games

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Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« on: November 09, 2007, 04:00:29 am »
We at Borderlands Games in Salem, Or. have started carrying anime and manga as well as related accessories, toys and Japanese snacks. We are looking to round out our selection and can use your help. What are the top anime and manga beyond the obvious ones that we should make sure we have in stock? We have the key stuff you'd expect, I like to know the lesser known gems we may have missed.

thanks in advance everyone :)

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2007, 10:06:59 am »
Well, put out a list on this forum of what you have, that way we can know what you missed and tell you what we think you should have.
Sometimes you just gotta pull out the stops give it your all and know that you will come out the other end alive, well, and ready for the next challenge. 
I'm still waiting for the next one.

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2007, 12:27:30 pm »
Manga we are carrying (plus a couple odds and ends, but these we have full series of).

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Akira
Berserk
Black Cat
Bleach
Buso Renkin
Chibi Vampire
Chobits
Claymore
D Gray Man
Death Note
Disgaea
DNAngel
Eureka Seven
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Full Moon
FullMetal Alchemist
Fushigi Yugi
Gentlemen Alliance
Godchild
Hellsing
Hot Gimmick
I Luv Halloween
Inu Yasha
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Kingdom Hearts
Love Hina
MAR
Megatokyo
MeruPuri
Midnight Opera
Monster Collection
Mushishi
Nana
Naruto
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Negima
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
Phoenix
Read or Die
Rozen Maiden
Samurai Champloo
Shaman King
Shamam Warrior
Trinity Blood
Tsubasa
Vampire Doll
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Knight
Warcraft
Witchblade
xxxHOLiC
Yotsuba&!
Zombie Powder

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2007, 12:40:06 pm »
Anime we are carrying, again plus some odds and ends are missing but this is the whole series and movies we are carrying right now:

.Hack//ROOTS
009-1
3x3 eyes
Afro Samurai
Ah! My goddess Flights of Fancy
Air TV
Akira
Basilisk
Berserk
Black Lagoon
Bleach
Blue Submarine
Card Captor Sakura
Castle in the Sky
Chrono Crusade
Cowboy Bebop
Devil Hunter Yohko
Disgaea
Elfen Lied
Ergo Proxy
Eureka Seven
Fate/Stay Night
FLCL
Fruits Basket
FUll Metal Panic
FullMetal Alchemist
Gantz
Ghost in the Shell
Chost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Gilgamesh
Grave of the Firefiles
Gun X Sword
Gundam SEED Destiny
Gunslinger Girl
Guyver
Haibane-Renmei
Hellsing
Howl's Moving Castle
Innocent Venus
Inu Yasha
Karas
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
My-Hime
Naruto
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Negima
Neo Ranga
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Ninja Scroll
Noein
Noir
Princess Mononoke
RahXephon
Read or Die
Record of Lodoss Wars
Rozen Maiden
Rurouni Kenshin
Samurai 7
Samurai Champloo
School Rumble
Serial Experiment Lain
Shana
Shonen Onmyoji
Spirited Away
Steamboy
Tenjho Tenge
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Third
Tokko
Trigun
Trinity Blood
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Vision of Escaflowne
Wicked City
Witch Hunter Robin
Witchblade
Wolf's Rain
Xenosaga


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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2007, 02:00:24 pm »
Mars is an extremely good Manga, that is rarely found in bookstores. I think Uwajimaiya is the only store I've seen that caries it. Whenever I want to buy Manga, I always look for Mars, but no one ever carries it!
Absolute Boyfriend is also another popular one, but there aren't very many volumes out yet.
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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2007, 03:43:18 am »
You probally should carry Ah my goddess the manga too, I bet that would sell even if it is a bit old now.
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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2007, 02:30:07 pm »
Initial D, is one you should really consider, especially now that drifting is becoming more popular. Plus its hard to find a good supplier of those animes/mangas cause they are usually sold out at the major book stores.

GTO is another good one, but I would highly recommend the manga over the anime. Its a great comedy.
Sometimes you just gotta pull out the stops give it your all and know that you will come out the other end alive, well, and ready for the next challenge. 
I'm still waiting for the next one.

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2007, 02:53:35 pm »
These are all really good suggestions. Please keep them coming, we like to get everything stocked up in time for the holidays. :)

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2007, 12:29:01 pm »
This is for the manga section.

I can think of 2 new series and a general suggestion.
"Lovely complex" is a relatively new manga from Shoujo Beat.  It's a comedy romance where the main guy, Otani, is about a head shorter than the main girl, Risa.  They usually make insults toward each other such as "Amazon," "Shorty," and so on which cracks up everyone else in the school.  As the story progresses Risa begins to have feelings for Otani but she still sees themselves as the comedy duo of the school.

"King of Thrones" is also new.  There is a deadly virus spreading around the world called the Medusa virus which pretty causes your body to solidify and crumble.  A lottery was done and the chosen people who are infected were sent to an island that was transformed into a research lab to find a cure.  Everyone is put into a cryogenic state until they can find a cure.  The capsules suddenly reopen and everyone sees the whole lab has been covered in thrones and vines with monsters roaming around.  Those that are left must find out what is going on, how long they've been cryogenically frozen, and if there is a cure.  At the same time, they have the Medusa virus to worry about.  A horror/survivor story for mature audiences.

My other general suggestion is recently I noticed some places carrying.... I'm not sure what to call them but they are large books of series that contain 3 volumes of storys.  I've seen some for Negima, Tsubasa, and the one for RayEarth contains the entire series.  And they're cheap too.  I would recommend the RayEarth one just because that's such a old manga and the original individual manga is out of print.

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2007, 02:55:32 pm »
- Battle Royale
Available in original novel, manga adaptation and film.

- Cromartie High School

- Ouran High School Host Club

- Azumanga Daioh

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2007, 08:16:58 pm »
Lone Wolf and Cub

Samurai Executioner

Translucent

Kamui

Old Boy

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Reiko the Zombie Shop

Ode to Kirihito

Andromeda Stories

MW

Mail

Eden

To Terra

Apollo's Song

Tekkon Kinkreet

Blade of the Immortal

Scary Book

Museum of Terror





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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2007, 10:59:19 am »
Seconded, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

This is a realy good, more mature manga.  I've been getting this one from Amazon, as it's surprisingly hard to find in stores. 

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2007, 01:24:03 am »
Many of these are very good suggestions. We are putting together plans to bring these in over the next few weeks, along with some other stuff. Please keep up the great advice.

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Re: Help us please pick out anime and manga to carry :)
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2007, 11:38:43 pm »
Eden just got Wizard Magazines Anime Series of the Year award, too.