# I won manga! You can too! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819 "2009-10-06T15:07:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/1 "2009-10-06T15:07:55Z")
Jason Thompson, author of the massively useful [Manga: The Complete Guide](http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Complete-Guide-Jason-Thompson/dp/0345485904), is [raffling off all of the manga he collected](http://www.suvudu.com/2009/09/my-365-days-of-manga-or-manga-the-complete-guide-returns.html) in writing said book, a new drawing for five books every day. Go to [www.suvudu.com](http://www.suvudu.com) and fill in the form box on the left sidebar, and you too could WIN FREE MANGA! (Entries don’t turn over, so enter daily for best results.) Also, if free manga can’t get you to visit a site daily, there’s a new manga review by JT and his cohorts every day. 😃 I am the proud soon-to-be recipient of five volumes of [yaoi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi). Since my personal collection of yaoi is vast and extensive, the odds are good that I already own them, but still. _Jason Thompson’s personal manga!_ I wonder if I can get it signed… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/2 "2009-10-06T15:10:21Z")
Boo, only yanks. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/3 "2009-10-06T15:13:04Z")
Thanks – I own a copy of the book, so I feel that I’m entitled to an entry in his drawing. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/4 "2009-10-06T15:19:00Z")
Manga? Is it harmful? Do you need to get penicillin to get rid of the infection? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/5 "2009-10-06T15:31:10Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Manga? Is it harmful? Do you need to get penicillin to get rid of the infection? It’s just the Japanese name for mange. Drink lots of green tea, and eat lots of seaweed and wasabi, and you’ll never even notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/6 "2009-10-06T16:14:15Z")
> [@JR\_Brown](#): > > Jason Thompson, author of the massively useful [Manga: The Complete Guide](http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Complete-Guide-Jason-Thompson/dp/0345485904), is [raffling off all of the manga he collected](http://www.suvudu.com/2009/09/my-365-days-of-manga-or-manga-the-complete-guide-returns.html) in writing said book, a new drawing for five books every day. Go to [www.suvudu.com](http://www.suvudu.com) and fill in the form box on the left sidebar, and you too could WIN FREE MANGA! (Entries don’t turn over, so enter daily for best results.) Also, if free manga can’t get you to visit a site daily, there’s a new manga review by JT and his cohorts every day. 😃 > > I am the proud soon-to-be recipient of five volumes of [yaoi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi). Since my personal collection of yaoi is vast and extensive, the odds are good that I already own them, but still. _Jason Thompson’s personal manga!_ I wonder if I can get it signed… Any idea what to do with a bunch of yaoi imported at great expense when there was nothing you could buy domestically, only now you don’t really care anymore but you spent so much freaking money on it? ETA - it’s in Japanese, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/7 "2009-10-06T17:56:08Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Any idea what to do with a bunch of yaoi imported at great expense when there was nothing you could buy domestically, only now you don’t really care anymore but you spent so much freaking money on it? > > ETA - it’s in Japanese, obviously. Ooo… tough. I suppose you could eBay it; there’s a reasonable market for Japanese-language yaoi if it’s by well-known or fan-favorite authors, or particularly smutty, or has some other special attraction. Otherwise, I dunno; maybe see if your local university has a gender-studies department that might want it? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/8 "2009-10-06T18:37:54Z")
I tried a few trial posts on Ebay, and no takers. ☹ Maybe I’ll just box it all up and store it for a few years until it becomes a cultural artifact. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-manga-you-can-too/512819/9 "2009-10-30T19:51:11Z")
Wohoo! It’s here! The first three volumes of Youka Nitta’s _Embracing Love_, which I did not have, plus also Yuko Kuwabara’s _Blue Sky_ and V1 of Makoto Tateno’s _Blue Sheep Reverie_, both of which I remember vaguely liking, and a postcard for JT’s new graphic novel, King of RPGs. The system works!