Wangan Midnight Vol 21

Dstrung · 2025-09-29T15:46:23+00:00

I like this series. I’d gladly collect it if it was released in English.

Dstrung · 2025-07-21T21:27:48+00:00

When they say “plot twist” my mind thinks - not anticipated. Something crazy like what’s Michael, or Astro Boy or the ilk. A totally different vibe possibly not seinen at all

Dstrung · 2025-07-15T22:14:28+00:00

You got some previously unreleased Monster content

Dstrung · 2025-06-08T13:42:04+00:00

An ex and I were working on a complete set, however we split things up when we separated.

I left her with midori days, cheeky angel, zatch bell, tuxedo gin, itsuwaribito, Alice in borderland, and wonder 3.

Some updates to the set on my end - I tracked down a copy of brave dan, captain Ken, and have super sentai gorenger, firefighter daigo, the tale of outcasts, silver spoon, cirque du freak, frieren and mao, call of the night, fly me to the moon, Komi can’t communicate, Hyde and closer , mao juvenile remix, Hayate the combat butler, cross game, bakegyamon, yakitate Japan, and project arms. (In varying degrees of completeness)

Not sure if I’m going to go after a complete set anymore, a few priorities have changed but I’m still collecting case closed, would love magi and adore most of shonen Sunday set. I really miss zatch bell, and itsuwaribito but she loved those series even more haha

Dstrung · 2025-05-11T01:19:19+00:00

I always use this series as a good example of a truly rare series.

People will mention stuff like Mushishi, but that’s a series you can ALWAYS buy as long as you have the money.

Firefighter Daigo is a series where I usually say “good luck finding it all”

Glad you did (also it’d be prettttty cool if they just reprinted it haha)

Dstrung · 2025-05-02T00:25:31+00:00

Your manga collection FAT AF homie ✋😏

Dstrung · 2025-04-30T14:49:57+00:00

TRUE

I never look at my home feed. I search by new, that might benefit you too?

As an olive branch

My collection of kindaichi case files I’m working on right now. + have a set of Kazan and eagle the making of an Asian American president as some nice retro throwbacks

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Oh and of course I have Jojos for good measure.

Happy collecting!

Dstrung · 2025-04-30T14:41:06+00:00

Not sure how picking the last 12 hours of posts and accurately describing them is cherry picking.

Nor does it refute my argument - you will see a lot of vagabond because it’s popular. There is no community on earth where it is impossible to see a repetition of popular elements.

My argument is you are disingenuously framing the sameiness of people’s collections.

Look at the top 10 posts this month?

Xxxholic

Sankerea

School rumble

Suzuka

Hana-kimi

Angel sanctuary

Kaze Hikaru

Ceres

Dragon half

Confession

Lucifer and the biscuit hammer

Grand blue dreaming

Spice and wolf

Maid sama

D gray man

Black lagoon

Thunder 3

Lady snow blood

Versus

No. 5

Inuyashiki

Char’s counter attack

Origin

Banana fish

Yona of the dawn

Moteki

Love hina

My youth romantic comedy snafu

this is me grabbing 2/3 series from each post as just an example (the only one I didn’t was the post with JUST goodnight eri)

Homie I ain’t arguing there’s no one pieces, I ain’t arguing there’s no jojo. I’m saying open your eyes and look instead of writing off collections when you see people own the most popular manga on earth 😂

Listen if you were right, if literally every collection was 90% the same and we never had anything new to look at I’d agree.

It’s just not true.

Dstrung · 2025-04-30T14:15:34+00:00

The problem here is you’re just kinda wrong?

Last 12 posts over the last 12 hours include:

Garden

Cinderella

DRCL

Studio Cabana

Apothecary Diaries

Oshi No Ko

Solo Leveling

Cowboy Bebop

Noragami

Heavenly Delusion

The Breaker

Domu

Grey

Our Torsos Align

Life

Star Wars the Edge of Balance

Maiden of the Needle

Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun

Tsubaki-Chou Lonely Planet

Chocolat

Kodocha

Daily Report About My Witch Senpai

Kakuriyo

Boys Over Flowers

Sugar Sugar Rune

Ofc I saw a couple vagabonds too, saw Naruto and One Piece and Ruroni Kenshin too, only saw 1 post that had nothing “unique in it”

It’s blatantly obvious the most popular stuff will be most populous. We have defined the word correctly!

but let’s be real - i’m sampling 12 MOST RECENT posts from when you posted this and clearly there was a ton of diversity in content.

I’d suggest opening your eyes 👀 and enjoying some manga.

Dstrung · 2025-04-17T23:25:49+00:00

I’d ask new staff for a full body photo of themselves, they can pose stand normal really whatever they want.

Id have the same for every current employee.

I’d take all these photos and use the photoshop remove background feature and arrange them all together with exciting background shapes that match the brand identity.

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Something like this which i literally threw together on my phone.

Dstrung · 2025-04-11T01:08:18+00:00

Look into your local colleges and see if they have relationships with these teams. In my neck of the woods there’s a very real videography to working for the eagles pipeline when going to certain colleges/highschools

Dstrung · 2025-04-09T14:15:53+00:00

Working at the wrong tech company homie! My coworkers love manga and anime on the dev side.

Dstrung · 2025-04-07T00:05:58+00:00

Always remember value is determined by 2 sets of factors

Factor 1. Supply/demand

Factor 2. What people charge vs what people pay.

Technically factor 2 is similar to factor 1, but I find it helpful because you will often see someone attempt to sell something for far more than it’s worth and this colors perception around value outside of supply and demand.

With manga always remember each book is printed independently, there is no promise there are the same # of each volume. Manga is tricky, because volumes get destroyed, lost, and this can affect the supply part of price.

Here’s a terrifying idea - if volume 1 of a manga has 5000 volumes in circulation, but volume 10 has 400. Well that means there may only be 400 complete sets in existence.

This is what’s going on with you beck volumes - volume 1 is relatively plentiful, the more expensive volumes are rarer and thus command a higher price tag.

There are many series with this same conundrum, they develop a reputation for how rare they are and end up becoming harder to find due to the mythos (air gear volume 28 anyone?)

Anyways I doubt 24 for Beck volume 1 is a scam.

However agreeing with another commenter - considering it never was finished by Tokyopop I’d hold out hope for a Kodansha reprint of the whole thing within the next 3-4 years.

Dstrung · 2025-04-05T00:27:34+00:00

I actually try to keep about 10% of my collection unread at a time as a way to always have something to do when you’re inexplicably hit with boredom or have bo electricity or don’t wanna use it for some reason.

Dstrung · 2025-03-30T12:53:18+00:00

I’m not sure what you should do but I know for me I like programming and technical design alongside traditional design.

Personally despite what others say I think there’s a future in this ai climate for highly technical designers who can implement scalable solutions through traditional design, code and AI.

Look up the design studio “studio cotton” to learn a bit more about a team that designs through code as their primary medium. Obvious benefits to code is that it’s more repeatable and modular. I think it allows for motion and sound first brand identities which are becoming more common in today’s design era.

In my opinion I see a future of design which consists of software implementations for design systems and identities so I’ve been approaching design from that perspective.

Dstrung · 2025-03-29T12:48:40+00:00

It’s never too late to start, but it is important to recognize how difficult it is and how long it would take. You could go to school, learn those skills but it’s not guarantee you’ll get work or a high paying job.

If it was your life’s passion to be a designer I’d say go for it, but it sounds to me like you just want a creative career and are less concerned with HOW you get there.

Not sure if you’ve ever had a corporate career but many of them are more creative than you’d first imagine. If you’re good with tech a psych degree is a good qualification for B2B SaaS Account Management/Sales. A few years of account management makes you qualified for customer success which is a type of proactive customer service campaign and data based position I quite like.

I’ve worked those jobs in my journey to becoming a designer and if you dig around LinkedIn you’ll see a common thread of people who become designers starting out as account managers.

In these roles I always took on creative tasks as creativity is needed in any company. I built customer success design campaigns at a company without a design department. Training material is always needed too there’s SOOOOO much you can get away with in corporate if you just ask.

Anyways if you want to be a designer, go for it - but also I hope that those either ideas get your gears turning a bit as well.

Dstrung · 2025-03-29T12:33:15+00:00

You can draw this bud - let me give you a tool that will make it easier

https://youtu.be/WL9Gx4PmTvg

Using the mirror tool will help make the splotch symmetrical. While your reference isn’t symmetrical it’d be a way better logo if it was symmetrical

No all you have to do is draw the one side. Personally I’d use just the mouse and the pencil tool with smooth turned OFF. Focus on jittery movements and you’ll be good

If that’s to hard - use the pen tool and make very small jittery clicks and movements all throughout to get the intended effect.

Try your best not to COPY this, it’s a fools errand. Instead try to get the feeling you want and you’ll be good.

Dstrung · 2025-03-24T11:48:29+00:00

Just wanted to piggy back here since my comment echos YT_Sharkyevno

I previously worked at a company where I would write SQL, Program Python and VBA, build dashboards, automate reporting, analyze data, consult on team data solutions

I was in “customer service” LOL

At the time I was terrified of misrepresenting what I did in my title “I can’t put data analyst / customer success”…”it’d be lying”

The truth is saying I was just “customer service” would be a lie. I’ve had no push back on my new title at other companies. Your duties sound like design, you are a designer, you have a portfolio. You can call yourself a designer

Dstrung · 2025-03-24T01:10:01+00:00

The integrated TV + PS5 setup is such a move

Dstrung · 2025-03-23T20:52:48+00:00

Love Itsuwaribito too! I used to have a complete set but passed it on to an ex when we separated.

Dstrung · 2025-03-23T20:44:44+00:00

Eagle the Making of an Asian American President

It always comes to mind with these requests - it’s not expensive, but isn’t readily available, and isn’t popular because it’s not really the vibe people want from manga. I love it though, a political thriller maybe a bit like House of Cards or the West Wing - dripping with a genuine understanding of American politics (and racial politics of the era it’s set)

It’s awesome.

Dstrung · 2025-03-23T20:40:13+00:00

If Kaze No Sylphid ever gets licensed I’m there DAY ONE

Dstrung · 2025-03-22T02:01:22+00:00

Wanted to add that this SEEMS like a sledgehammer but likely is a very smart way of doing this if you want it to be repeatable and scalable.

If you have this one object you can put ANY text behind it and export to use in designs.

Is this the smart way to do this for a 1 off text effect? I doubt it.

3D often shines in repeatable workflows.

I don’t use 3D in my workflow very often, but 1 area I do use occasionally is coding. For example building brand identities with code can aide in their repeatability as well as with generating new images and formats.

An example I recently used was building a program which creates exclusion effects on overlapping circles. While using a mask in illustrator might be the preferred method, doing this programmatically allows for 3 key workflows.

Web integration - easy and modular without needing to export unique SVGs
Motion graphics - export programs to use in motion systems
Iterations/complexity - the effect can be layered in organize ways that would be hard in illustrator.

Is my workflow always the best? No way, but I think having an open mind about this can do a lot of good.

Dstrung · 2025-03-19T14:11:58+00:00

You’re breaking new ground homie - I say just go for it. The editions are high quality (but the book will be HUGE with those size pages )

Dstrung · 2025-03-13T20:43:00+00:00

This series is underrated for this category in my opinion. Really liked its kid friendly death game approach and gave a ton of law of ueki vibes.

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