[Hetalia Manga Info] The unbelievable TP chaos starts (Update)

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

Just posted this on my blog on animexx and thought I should share (please note: this is NOT a fake. It's a screenshot from the german amazon site I made.).



Hope everyone is able to read the price... XD"
Damn, I feel happy about having my own two mangas right here in my room.

UPDATE:
For the comparision:

Amazon France



Amazon UK



Amazon IT
Not available at all

Comments

[vampirenaomi.livejournal.com]

Okay, wow. That's absolutely insane. And here I thought the price I paid for the German Rose of Versailles manga was over the top. XD

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

I somehow feel now, like my mailbox will explode when I'm back from school tomorrow, lol.

Let's see what TP got on mind for volume 3 & 4 (anyone agrees with me, that it's time for us to just buy the japanese originals, since even the special editions are cheaper than this? OTL)

[siiy.livejournal.com]

I've heard that some people ask €200 for the first volume of Viewfinder, I already found that shocking [who'd even pay that??] but .. €700.. ? o_o

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

... Ilu ur icon. Just said.
Because it fits the situation so much.

But let's look like that on the topic: Hetalia is REALLY popular, huh?

[cappuholic.livejournal.com]

*scrolls*
eh, but 35 euro for a DVD isn't that shocking
*scrolls a bit further down*
oh.... Ooooh! O_O

who would ever pay thatmuch?
I still want a German edition ;3; damn you TP

[siiy.livejournal.com]

tbh I find €35 a lot for a DVD e_e

IMAGINE HOW MANY DOUJINSHIS YOU CAN BUY WITH THAT 8D

[pink-cass.livejournal.com]

The mangas on ebay.com have gotten more expensive as well, though not THAT much more expensive yet. I'm soooo glad I bought my volume 1 and 2 from my birthday money and didn't wait until Christmas (as originally planned)!
This is just insane.

[dilemina.livejournal.com]

$960 USD....

What in ever loving fuck.

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

And that's the moment when I can imagine Gil to browse around amazon for fun and looking like this (while Astria goes "awawawawaw[...]")
Sorry for the pointless reply, but it was so tempting to write this xD"

[juandalyn.livejournal.com]

Stop keeping me from LJ, tumblr.

Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-was.
...I would understand if it was ebay because duh, this site is full of fail but AMAZON.

[miezen.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this doesn't surprise me in a way. When manga and anime go out of print, someone almost always tries to jack the price up on sites like Amazon for ridiculous prices like that. It's slightly surprising here since Hetalia only recently went OOP, but seeing people try to pull this on used sales on Amazon is nothing new.

[icelilly]

This actually doesn't surprise me. After Sailor Moon went OOP back in 2005, those kinds of prices were common for the DVDs, manga and the CDs on Amazon.ca (the US branch had cheaper prices but still expensive). The Memorial Music Box Collection went for over 1000 CDN dollars! Even worse, it may have been a bootleg copy. Legit copies were difficult to come by while it was in print (so I've heard).

Unless Hetalia gets re-licensed and re-published, expect to see these kinds of prices. You may get lucky elsewhere though!

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

May I ask how comes, that people compare Hetalia to Sailor Moon?
Don't get me wrong, I'm more a Hetaliafan, than a Sailor Moon one, but I don't think, that you can put these two series in one discussion.

That's like comparing Beyblade and Black Jack somehow, like Sailor Moon is just classic and the fandom is way... Yes, I would dare to say that it even is still bigger than Hetalia fandom. o___o

[tokyohottie11.livejournal.com]

WOW. O_O Isn't it possible to buy a used copy for a more reasonable price?

[mitsunemarufuji.livejournal.com]

Seems like it's way cheaper on the american site.
Maybe I'll look up prices for other european countries, keep in mind, that this is just the price if you order it from Germany.
(The used copy of Vol.1 would be around 300€)

[fantisci.livejournal.com]

Some twit's trying the same trick on Amazon UK - it's not quite as drastic, but £151.16 ($239.66) is an insane amount to pay for a manga that was freely available until recently.

Someone please tell me that these are greedy entrepreneurs and not actual manga fans.

[shuriken7.livejournal.com]

They are trying it on the American site too. The highest listed one is $1000 USD. However the lowest for vol. 1 is $25 and vol. 2 is $35. That's insane.

[idraax.livejournal.com]

WTF? That is insane! I can find out of print books for cheaper than that!

[k3llyb3an.livejournal.com]

brb I'm going to fund my retirement on my Hetalia volume.

[artemis10002000]

Most awesome reply ever XD

[wafflesama.livejournal.com]

Fuck you tokyopop. You suck ass.

[wafflesama.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL SORRY IF I WAS RUDE OR ANYTHING ;;; IT'S JUST PISSES ME OFF ;o;

[inunobaka.livejournal.com]

And nobody thought it might just actually be an error, as in the manga would be about 7,03 €?
I know some online money converter sometime mess the results up a bit, so it could be just that?
(It's a normal price in France for a manga so it sounds more likely. Especially since those are English and most likely sold in dollars or pounds at first.)

[juandalyn.livejournal.com]

Yes, normally a Tokyopop Manga would be about 6,50€.

[juandalyn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm glad that I just bought the Japanese version.

[kenzi-chi.livejournal.com]

D: I didn't expect all this to happen. Volume 2 was actually hard for me to find (not that I looked around much, just Borders) so I'm glad I finally found a copy before all this..

[randamonian.livejournal.com]

No, that's not surprising at all. Heaps of people try to jack up the price of something the second they percieve it may be 'valuable'. Nobody is ever going to buy that unless they're idoitic or extremely desperate.

Besides, once they have the copy, they'll just feel ripped off when they see the pixellated pages. That is one thing that really bothered me about the release. Prussia's beautiful face was never meant to be blurred like that.

Personally, it's easy for me to get new copies at comic book stores in Sydney. No problem. I don't know how things run up in Deutschy land, but you just need to hunt around for them at any and all comic book stores. It'll be somewhere.

[bosscookie.livejournal.com]

What what whaaat? You could buy like...a house of cakes with all that money! Silly Tokyopop.

[hausdracheyuka.livejournal.com]

I actually have it on my wishlist... ^^° But it's been a while since I last looked at it and well, it seems I don't have to do so the next time, right XD
Aww, it's to bad ^^ I'll just keep reading them online and if I ever maybe perhaps I don't know get one, I'll keep it for hard times :D:D:D

[munchkin2k9.livejournal.com]

Ehhh?! Thats Crazy!
Thank God Play.com is still selling it For £5.99 :L

[yamikisara.livejournal.com]

Wow, I think I'm going to make a fortune XD

[cloddiehoppers.livejournal.com]

Glad I still have my own copies of vol. 1 and 2. I bought mine from Sakuramedia anime store back when they were released and I had to wait a month because of shipping delay back then. When they finally got them in, it was only 10 copies. I was probably lucky to snag one of the remaining copies. I was really waiting to use my store credit on vol. 3 though...

[leahcinnamon.livejournal.com]

animexx? OHHHH, you're german, right? I'm on animexx too :D My username is the same like this one.