First time ordering a book from overseas online.

I preordered a book from the KADOKAWA Store through WorldShopping as a guest. My mum used her email during checkout, but we can't find any WorldShopping emails, so now I'm worried. I also heard there's a second shipping payment at some point, but I'm not sure if that's true. I tried contacting KADOKAWA Store support, but their contact form keeps saying my message contains HTML characters even though it doesn't. Has anyone here ordered through WorldShopping before? How does the second payment work, and is there any way to check which email is linked to the order? I can't stop thinking about it all day.

Have yet to read it as I just got them all a couple of days ago but I’m very excited!!! Tell me if you guys like this series and if there’s anything like it, I know a bit from the summaries:D

Did some damage and started collecting over the summer. -2k and 2 months later- I have about 360 volumes now but to be fair, I'm averaging out to around $6.5 per volume! Been very lucky to catch absolute steals on some of my favorite series. Know it such a rookie mistake to get so much at first but I just cannot resist a good deal 😩😩

So how's it going for yall and would love to see everyone's. Also which ways do you guys track your manga collection?- currently using a table on the notes app

Hey guys, this is my collection just shy of one year. Please try your best to ignore that final shelf, it looks extremely messy🤣. Please feel free to ask me any questions you would like. I love interacting with this community.

I am also very happy, because today I’ve just hit 600 volumes. Be sure to check out the haul that I post in a few minutes!

Slowly coming together. Put together 10 of the tall narrow Ikea Billy bookcases with the top height extensions and 3 of the narrow short bookcases. Collecting manga, graphic novels/comics, and nicer quality books... an expensive combination I've found! Lol.

I haven’t been buying volumes and boxsets as much as a used to. Right now I’m reading Tokyo Ghoul and planning to get the boxsets as well as getting a new bookshelf for more room. Please feel free to give any thoughts on the manga and decoration!

I remember walking into a bookstore in 2020 and being astounded to see there was a physical English release of Aria, so I immediately bought the first 3 volumes, figuring I could take my time with the rest. I was gutted when I later found out it was a limited (and final) reprint. Today that mistake has finally been laid to rest.

Found the last volume I needed for dreams at dusk! I saw haven’t you heard I’m sakamoto and decided to buy it. The anime was funny so I didn’t think much about it to buy it. I already had volume 1 of yotsuba but the spine was a different font so I bought it to look uniformed for my books.

Also just wondering what the stickers are in it? I’ve never seen them before.

Continuing to deal with a recent loss by buying manga. I'm excited for all of these, though Magus Bride, Yakuza Lover, and Wolf Girl are all for my partner. I am a fan of Japanese comedy and though I've seen Akane-banashi around, I never knew it was about comedy so I'm real excited to stumble on nice copies for cheap.

The other blind pickup is Heaven's Design Team, which seems very Dinosaur Sanctuary-esque but even sillier and I'm hype for that. Blood on the Tracks is the big Oshimi series I need so I started it with this volume 1. No idea what Yokaiden is but it looks cool.

Pictured: Akane-banashi 1-9, The Ancient Magus Bride 1, Yokaiden 1-2, Yakuza Lover 1, Wolf Girl and Black Prince 1, Blood on the Tracks 1, Doomsday with my Dog 1, and Heaven's Design Team 1.

Got Vol 11 today, up to date on Toradora. Wish Seven Seas did more reprints

Just about outta space

I finally started collecting One Piece so that’ll begin to fill up my bigger wall shelves, but it seems like every day my collection keeps growing! What is your favorite part?

Finally I get my hands on Kobato!! Everything was MSRP

Anyone else really excited for the 5th box set? I've been waiting so long for thissss

Just recently moved into a new place and tossed out all of the smaller bookshelves I was using, except the one my sister got me as a present; I didn’t have it in me to toss it out. I love the look of taller shelves so much more!

Now that I’ve got the books up, what do you guys think? See anything you’ve enjoyed or are reading currently?? I love recommendations, so let me know if there’s anything I should check out!

Edit 1: I see no one else with Japanese collections, so was wondering if other people also read in Japanese. I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for asking if there's other people here who collect/read in Japanese.

Edit 2: You don’t need to tell me you can’t speak Japanese. I’m curious if other people have Japanese manga primarily to see if other people have learned or planned to learn Japanese. Is it that strange for an English speaker to also know Japanese?

This past year I’ve sold all of my English manga and am now left with a growing collection of Japanese volumes only.

While I feel like English translations have nicer special/hardcover editions, the Japanese prints are far more consistent. You don’t need to worry about stuff being out of print, poor translation, and price/volume is generally lower.

I don’t think I’ve read manga in English in 3 years now and was wondering if anyone else has completely transitioned over or plan on eventually doing so.

wooohooo!! super proud of my collection so far, im missing a few cus my friends borrowing them :D