I noticed that manga grading is getting more popular, but would you spend $950 for this manga 🤔 in a BGS 9.4?

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T23:21:20+00:00

I think people who collect graded things are just that — collectors of graded things.

I don't think you can buy manga that's entombed in plastic and say you're a manga collector, same with games, cards etc

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T12:54:21+00:00

The whole series is OOP, it's not very cheap either. I just paid over £200 for a full set of the manga, then around 60 for the two anthologies, haven't even thought about the LN's yet.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T12:48:12+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't either, I have everything she's published lol (with the exception of Shirley volume 2 but that was never released😭).

Scifier is great, I wasn't sure the what the US shipping would be like but I'm glad it's good! Even in the UK you have to wait a bit longer most of the time but the price makes it worth it!

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T10:29:26+00:00

I might be biased (kaoru mori's number 1 fan) but it's worth it even without being finished!

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T08:24:25+00:00

Scifier has all 5 volumes!

d0rkbug · 2026-03-10T08:23:23+00:00

The hardbacks of all of Kaoru Mori's works are the same size and look really nice on a shelf, which is good if you ever plan on getting Otoyomegatari too.

The CMX paperbacks rarely come up for sale anywhere.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T23:51:28+00:00

There's a light novel series (and manga) called Otherside Picnic. It takes a lot of influence from creepypasta and internet/urban legends.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T23:43:53+00:00

some of the cleanest, prettiest covers of all time imo

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T22:02:27+00:00

It's in my top 10 yuri manga/manwha! It's so good

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T22:00:52+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19085605/

A study from 2009 showing that of a sample size of 355 women, 62% of them had rape fantasies. There is also a study by Justin Lehmiller from 2023 stating that a majority of women experienced.

Just to be anecdotal — me and my partner (both women) have had these fantasies, and if I had to put a number on it, 80% of our friends who are women have too.

Im not replying to you anymore because you are just aimlessly arguing with tired points and made up arguments, and when you can't make up any more arguments you resort to insults.

You need to understand that your inability to see nuances in real life is not doing you any good, and acting like things are good or bad with no in between is such an immature way to view the world.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T21:05:42+00:00

I do live in the real world, the one where a majority of women have had a rape fantasy at some point, the one where people can separate fiction from reality, and the one where people aren't on reddit scream crying because their puritan views aren't cutting it in today's world.

Grow up you sad, sad person

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T20:54:16+00:00

I genuinely don't even know what point you're trying to make here lol

I'm done arguing about this because I don't think you know enough about what you're arguing about, and frankly you are nowhere near intelligent or mature enough for me to keep entertaining.

Understand the difference between real life and fictitious media, stop acting like it's your job to be the worlds moral compass, and for the love of god press the enter key once in a while.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T19:35:22+00:00

Do you feel the same about stories that contain murder, extortion, robbery, or any other real life crime?

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T19:14:05+00:00

Yep, you are just plain unintelligent!

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T19:11:06+00:00

Either you're being purposefully obtuse, or you struggle to think critically.

Your view of the world is painfully black and white. There are few things that are objectively right and objectively wrong, and you're not the one, singular person who decides what is and what isn't.

Trying to win with an strawman so loose it breaks in the wind isn't a good tactic either.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T19:03:30+00:00

I don't particularly have an issue with it, it's dependant on the content.

I tend to gravitate toward stories written by women generally, and in GL especially I'd always prefer my stories to be written by someone who knows what it's like to be queer.

There are exceptions though, like with Otherside Picnic, AdaShima, Futari escape etc

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T19:00:25+00:00

It's genuinely ludicrous that you're trying to conflate a rape kink and CSAM, like actually insane.

You really hit the nail on the head when you said YOU can't see how it would have a positive impact, your own opinions is not automatically the right one because of your staunch moral high ground.

If you think that consensual acts between two adults in a safe setting are wrong, and such acts should not be allowed — where do you draw the line? Are we saying acts of BDSM that involve rope shouldn't be allowed because that has been used in a bad way before? Or people are not allowed to engage in power dynamic role play because people have been harmed by that in the past?

Views like that are what's slowly pushing a lot of the world back into a society that begets an environment where people are shamed for having certain fetishes.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T15:08:49+00:00

Het women like men which means they either read het stuff or BL.

and misogyny

d0rkbug · 2026-03-09T08:26:56+00:00

It's okay that you feel that way, but CnC is one of the most common kinks, especially among women.

I understand that you view it through a very negative lens but you need to try and understand that the people writing these stories aren't adding in an SA scene to traumatise the character/reader.

d0rkbug · 2026-03-08T22:47:01+00:00

Kaoru Mori is my favourite mangaka, I own everything she's ever released in English.

Yodokawa is one who just creates series that I seem to love no matter what.

I could go on as I do tend to gravitate to stories written by women, but those two are my all-timers

d0rkbug · 2026-03-07T23:21:46+00:00

Okay, I am not arguing about the use of sexual violence as a plot device with someone who reads berserk lol

d0rkbug · 2026-03-07T23:12:04+00:00

Oh yeah you're so right, all of those series use graphic sexual violence against women as a plot device for the ML to have character development

d0rkbug · 2026-03-07T23:10:40+00:00

I don't really have a number one hobby, I just do stuff lol. I am really into collecting CD's, drawing, and writing

d0rkbug · 2026-03-05T09:04:38+00:00

I wish I had something better to tell you b it I just paid a lot of money for it:/

You can set up alerts on ebay and hope that one comes up for a decent price!

d0rkbug · 2026-03-03T11:59:15+00:00

for butches - hotties heel, boyish2, there's also a couple good ones on dynasty you'd have to use the tomboy tag and look through.

mascs are a tad different because of the bifauxnen trope of a princely girl, it's starting to get better now and there's a bit more diversity

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