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Alright, I totally need a little help here.<\/p>\nAlright, I totally need a little help here.<\/p>\n
I’m pretty up on the manga, I do my best to research the market, talk to fans, all that stuff. I’m spectacular<\/em> at doing this within my field (comics retailers) but still at least pretty decent when compared to the legions of die-hard manga fans that populate the interwebs. But I totally need a hand with this, because the upcoming Anime North convention in Toronto<\/strong><\/a> at the end of the month? It manages at least one big surprise every time.<\/p>\n We do a massive set-up for this show, 18 tables in an island, something like 180 feet of frontage the way we set it all up. We try and bring every manga you can think of, because a lot of fans save up for months to come to AN and pick up the manga they love, that they’ve only read about on the internet (or in scaaaaaaaaaaaans<\/strong><\/em>) and they want to own it and love it and squee all over it. And we want to have it for them.<\/p>\n Every year we get blindsided by one major title, and it always pisses me RIGHT OFF.<\/p>\n 2005: <\/strong>“Do you have Chrono Crusade<\/em>?” Sure, we had like maybe 3-5 copies of each volume. That lasted about half way through the first day, and then the next 22 hours of convention were “I heard you guys have Chrono Crusade!? PLEASE! I NEEEEEED IT!<\/em>” and I’m all “oh noes.”<\/p>\n 2007: <\/strong>“Vampire Knight Vampire Knight Vampire Knight Vampire Knight”<\/em> and I didn’t even know what that was. Seriously. Either like 1, or maaaaaaaaaybe<\/em> 2 volumes had come out, and I figured it was some ultra-rare Infinity Studios title or something. No, Shoujo Beat again, we were barely selling it at the store, and it was the book we got the most requests for (of course, we ended up selling like a case of each volume of Death Note and Naruto at that show, we didn’t do too badly…)<\/p>\n So the 2008 Anime North show is coming up May 23-25, and I think I’ve done my homework this time and I’m trying to stock up on fan-fav series, but I’m sure that we’re forgetting something.<\/p>\n Soooo, if you’re going to Anime North, or if you just want to promote your favourite manga series (and it looks like I’m a little weaker at predicting the Shoujo\/Crossover-appeal series than the Shonen) then I’d love to hear from you in the comments. I’m totally aware that this is asking you to do my work as a retailer for me, and I apologize for that, but I’m asking because I want to satisfy as many customers at the show as possible. Hopefully that counts for something!<\/p>\n Thanks in advance,<\/p>\n – Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alright, I totally need a little help here. I’m pretty up on the manga, I do my best to research the market, talk to fans, all that stuff. I’m spectacular at doing this within my field (comics retailers) but still at least pretty decent when compared to the legions of die-hard manga fans that populate … <\/p>\n![\"ouran-1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ouran-1.jpg\" "\\"ouran-1.jpg\\"")
2006: <\/strong>“I NEED OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB<\/em>! O! M! G!” and I’m like are you kidding? We sell like 2 copies of that at the store. But yeah, getting asked 20 or 25 times a day for that book for 3 days? I can guarantee you we totally stock deep on that one now. It did us no good<\/em> at the show, however.<\/p>\n