CAN WE EVER STOP?

“Am I addicted to manga? Yes.” Most relatable statement ever 😂

I feel like it is ok, if you do not buy every manga that comes out. Like 5 months ago, I did not buy any manga because I need to get my bank account in order. Did it suck not being able to buy manga as it came out? Yes. Did I get my TBR pile down? Yes. Was I able to buy the manga that came out during that time, later? Yes. Buy what you can, when you want and when you are financially able to. Do not go into debt just because you want all of the manga in the world! Also good video!

Definitely needed this today! I was about to buy a new series even though I already have another series I started and haven't finished collecting/reading. I will choose patience. Great video!

I'm glad I got into manga when I was still a student, I still am. I've overcome A LOT OF urges to place orders. I have limited money so I'm extra careful on what I buy. I only bought 5 volumes this year. I hope when I get a job, my spendings don't go out of control. I'm the only person that reads manga in my family. So sometimes it feels not worth it.

Im glad to know this kind of stuff before I begin collecting. Thanks MangaSloth! This was really helpful.

Fantastic video! Our family watched it (my kiddos loved the opening!) and think you really hit the nail on the head with patience. I confess I am one of those readers fearful of missing out and have just come to terms that I can't get all the physical titles I want at one time. It would be SO nice, but realistically, I know I'm not going to dive into all those series at once. Granted, it doesn't stop me from sometimes putting them all in a cart and seriously debating about it, but still. LOL! So, in many ways, I found you sharing encouraging for me personally in that my manga struggles (whether the same or different) I am not alone. I really second 1000% that patience is HARD! Thanks so much for sharing!

Great vid, I think the tip about patience is incredibly important when collecting manga, I always make sure to look frequently for volumes I need and don't give in to scalper prices, if you keep looking or wait for a restock, there's no need to overpay, for example I picked up a JJK 0 yesterday for retail price after waiting 8 months. But it was worth the wait. Very helpful video!

AM I ADDITCTED TO MANGA? YESSSSS! DO I HAVE ANY SELF CONTROL? SOMETIMES....... 😆😆😆

I used to buy a lot of manga, I had the space and income to do so, but I recently realised I don't have the time to read at the rate I buy. Around my job and family, I only have time to read 1 - 3 volumes a week, so I told myself I'm only allowed 10 - 20 volumes a month now. It's definitely an addiction, this was the first step for me in slowing down my buying habits.

Helpful video! I wouldn't say I'm addicted to manga collecting perse but I just hope my collection doesn't become too huge too early down the road. I've only been collecting manga for only 2 years. Lol I'll just say I'm very passionate about manga. 😁📚

great vid! definitely felt the fomo bad in july when i bought over 160 volumes in the span of 3 weeks, however tho since then aside from my demon slayer box set ive probably bought max 10 vols a month from sept til now (august was a scary month haha) but ive also been hanging onto some series where im like"its not the best thing in the world but ill give it another shot" but after hearing what you had to say i definitely feel like l have no problems with getting rid of those volumes now. Thank you for the inspiration and courage!

I made a TBR list in a productivity app, which is really helpful to me - I see what I still have to read and when I finish a volume or series, I get some small virtual rewards. It helps me actually a lot more than just seeing the physical TBR pile next to my bed.

Great video Sloth! When I first got into fashion I spent a lot of money trying to find my personal style. Over the course of a couple years I spent more than $4000 on clothes...and they weren't even of high quality so I would have a plethora of poor quality clothes I no longer wear taking up wardrobe space. This infuriated me. I knew I had a shopping addiction. Its been over a year now and I no longer find myself constantly searching online for new pieces to add to my wardrobe. Now I am very selective with my purchasing and go for quality over quantity. This is the same approach I take with manga. Within my first two weeks of collecting, I spent over $1000 - this was due to lack of patience and FOMO. I realized if I continued this habit I would relapse back into my bad spending habits. Now I have about 15 volumes on my TBR and intend to finish them before I start purchasing again. However, with the upcoming holiday sales I do see a challenge coming as the low prices and deals will really test my patience. Great video once again. I found it very informative and relatable. Everything in moderation. Cheers!

Hey...don't attack my hobby 😂 Thanks for the shout out my guy! You're da man!!!

Used to have a lot of manga, with less time to read and less space to store. So I just slowed down the purchases, then eventually stopped completely. Everything I've bought over the years I liked- so I sold everything that wasn't a fave. Then I sold faves that I wouldn't reread. Now all I have are my all-time faves that I'll continue to revisit without doubt. This was a good video though and will benefit many. Great stuff.

Very thought-provoking video today, Sloth! As someone who used to watch mostly BookTube videos and then slowly transitioned to mostly manga videos, this idea of a huge TBR list being frowned upon is something I had to get used to. On BookTube it’s generally seen as pretty normal to have 50 or 100 unread books on your shelves and I never felt judged for that, but now that I focus more on manga I feel way more pressure to pay attention to how many unread volumes I have on my shelves (which is honestly a huge chunk of my collection). I definitely agree that I don’t need to buy as much manga as I do, but I don’t think it’s a problem to have a good selection of unread manga to choose from at all times. With that said, I do still need to get my TBR down because it’s not at a manageable level at all right now lol. I’m not sure if I actually said anything with this comment but this video definitely made me think!

I just love your style! Thanks for making me smile and make my day and is can relate to the tbr lol

I definitely have this problem right now. I've been collecting for over 10 years and over the past 4 years I was in university I haven't been buying as much maybe 20 volumes a year but after a graduated and covid I've started to collect a lot and I've definitely become addicted. I think it's seeing the series I used to collect/ haven't finished go out of print and so many series going out of stock so fast kinda made me panic buy a bit? Now every week I usually get at least 1 or 2 volumes. My tbr pile has just gotten way too big

This year ive made it a goal to collect/read more manga and try to complete some of incomplete mangas ive had in my collections for the most part its been successful but there are some series i might not ever be able to complete anytime soon since they are out of print. My biggest regrets were waiting too long or forgetting to keep up with certain mangas. Its stressful sometimes but im happy for the most part when it comes to manga collecting/reading. Patience does pay off but i think it applies to the more popular mangas when theres mangas that arent as popular the niche things thats when I think it would be wise to not wait too long especially with how competitive things have been nowadays.

I really need to go through my collection & sell off some of them. I have been collecting since I was a kid (bought my first volume in 2005 I think) & as much as I hate to admit it, I have out grown some series. I just need to get more comfortable selling online in general.

Post this the day after I spend ungodly amounts on REAL vols 2 & 3😭😭

I recently got back into buying manga earlier this year and treated myself to some manga every month (about 2-4 volumes a month) the only exception was November with the release of the Demon Slayer Box Set. That said I was able to add 51 books to my collection. Like you said man, patience. Manga collecting is a marathon not a race.

Great video bro!

"You with the crazy looking face" that was harsh man...

Me who has 3 orders of manga on the way.. gonna arrive one by one, in December, January and February. My self control depends on how much money I have to spare for manga, and I'm a college student with no job. But I do read all I own. The packages that are about to come, I won't put them on the shelf yet just so I can focus on what I bought previously.

Don't feel bad / hesitant about selling a series you don't absolutely love or won't read/reread! Freeing up space and money while simultaneously building a more curated collection is a great feeling!

Thanks for the video I have maybe around 60+ manga/light novels small collection I know I usually try to keep a manga budget of $100-200 a month if there's anything I might like but I usually do have self control when buying a series I usually don't buy a series that I think I might enjoy or because it might be popular like demon slayer, jojo, Tokyo ghoul etc... no disrespect to anyone who enjoys those series only manga I went in blind without knowing really anything was kingdom of z and crueler than dead cause I needed something similar to Highschool of the dead or just a zombie manga in general only manga I'm really for waiting for to come back in stock is the claymore box set the price of it on eBay is absurd sorry for the long post good vid 👍

I had to sell all of my manga during the pandemic. Now that my circumstances have changed I am rebuying my favorite series and unfortunately I’m doing a lot of impulse buying. Anytime I see berserk deluxe, gantz, and vagabond it’s an automatic no thought buy because of all of the insane shortages and scalping. I’m honestly in disbelief that I bought all of chainsaw man at one store. But yeah, this pandemic is really contributing to a lot of FOMO and people not thinking about their financial situation first

Ever since I bought my first manga I just couldn't stop, to the point where I start dreaming of going to a bookstore/comic store buying a bunch of manga

The worst is I put half my collection of Akame ga Kill in a box with a bunch of regular novels (I’ve collected novels since I was a child only recently started collecting manga). I didn’t realize that some of the novels got bent in the box, so half of my collection got bent so badly it’s unreadable. $100 worth of manga down the drain. Plus like half of the manga I bought in October weren’t worth keeping, so…I found some great gems this month though.

I just bought my first manga and it was the first box for one piece! I’m beyond exited

I’ve been gradually collecting for almost 15 years now. It’s been a slow grind due to space, money and time. My biggest limiting factor is that I’m a complesionist, meaning I need to have the entire set of a series or it will 100% bother me which leave me two options, buy the entire series or don’t buy at all. Seems a bit extreme but for me, it works.

The thing that’s bothering me the most is shelf space. Lol I’m all out!

*reads title after buying the first 3 volumes of Parasyte*……no

Blind buying is fun trying beforehand sours my experience

YOU CAN'T STOP ME!! I just brought 47 volumes from rightstuf!! 😁😊😊💕

I mostly just buy manga of anime that I loved as appreciation and because i want to physically own it. Just recently though I've been going on instinct and buying bulks of manga and light novels. Now I'm trying to rein myself in and control my finger from buying more. And committing myself to reading what I have at the moment.

I never bothered buying a manga unless it becomes a favourite series because I dont see the value in buying random series that are highly likely to not be good

Shelf and box set envy, perhaps?

What's the limit to how many series you can collect at once cuz I am collecting 3 series (FOTNS, JoJo and Guengsi) and I want to start a new one. ( Dai Dark)

Its a good idea not to buy big series like something with more then 12 volumes. I alo reccomend just buying the volumes after watching the anime so you don't spend as much

I have a TBR trolley, its three layers high

oh, it's easy to chill out when youre a sloth, there is so many good mangers out there that me want...now 😬

But but but.... I need manga 😫 well I guess I have to listen to the manga sloth.

9:37 starts getting closer to comfort but is anxiety inducing instead 😭🤌🏾

Im 13 and i start asking my mom for manga but i usually just call them books because she probably doesnt know what it is, and then i show her what books i want and sometimes askes me "why do you want all these books anyways, cant you just get them from school". But of course i don't want to ask to much so i limit myself to about 5 manga per month. But when i get a job im spending all my money on mostly series i think are 10/10 like jjk or chainsaw man

I wonder how he has human hands but a sloth face

When you have to build another bookcase, then you might start asking yourself questions. For a grade school or highschooler, the father might rein in the $$ and say, I am not building another book case.

Addiction can be good

I allow myself to spend $20 a week on my hobbies In order to make sure I still have money to drive for work and eat. 2 volumes a week

I made a list of a limited number of manga series that I can collect. Any other manga I am not allowed to buy.

Trying to convince to buy manga is like trying to stop a train

How Much do you think you spent on manga in a whole

Why are you telling me to stop when my journeys just begun?

I would say, Mr. Gonzales that you have a worrying amount of manga

I also want to collect Mangas that i like to read, not just for the sake of collecting

ive spent like $720 on manga in almost 2 months i really have to slow down lol

So what is a western 40 year couple to do to get harem/romance but don't want censored manga.

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Kimetsu no Sloth-ba

If you have a to be read pile, you are buying to much.

I legit just bought 45 volumes of manga😂

you really need lint roller

Mangasloth: stop buying manga Everybody: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

But rightstuf is so cheap!! ☹️😭

Does your wife have a yt channel?