especially if not every page is numbered, which happens with manga all the time, it makes it a pain to find specific numbers
I would hope the beginning of each chapter has a page number, but who knows.
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My English hard copy (by Tokyopop) has one page number every twenty pages. Like, literally, the numbered pages in volume 1 are 24, 43, 51, 75, 119 and 143. Itâs like, why even bother numbering just six of the pages?
The Japanese digital edition has a number on every page which doesnât have an enlarged panel in the way - in the first chapter, 60% of the pages have numbers.
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Picked one up from CD Japan, and apparently Iâm not the only one - itâs currently listed as the #1 bestselling manga on the site for today. I wonder whyâŠ
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And now itâs backordered on both Amazon JP and CD Japan. I hope everyone can get a copy.
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Ordered mine from Amazon Germany. Since it seemed like a pretty good deal, I just ordered the first three volumes for ~20âŹ.
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I ordered from CD Japan on the weekend because Iâm pretty certain that at the time the website said they had it in stock. Yesterday I received an email saying that unfortunately the item is in temporary shortage and is estimated to be available in 1-3 weeks.
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lucky weâve got until June to start reading!
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Iâve got mine. Am I first? Do I win? 
Actually, I was quite tempted to buy them all, until the math part of my brain pointed out that itâd cost me almost $200âŠ
To add more temptation, they also had Yotsubato volume 14âŠ
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Woah, that shelf looks pretty though 
Wait⊠how much did one volume cost you?! Even with shipping just about doubling the price mine didnât cost that much!
I ordered mine from CDJapan straight away and itâs already been shipped, but weâve got quite a while so hopefully everyone will be fine before the start date anyway. I love the idea that this little book club of foreign language learners is impacting their top sellers list 
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I got mine last week (but I also cheated because I bought it prematurely, like a week before the poll even closed 
) Itâs so pretty! I was really impressed with the quality.
There must not have been very many copies lying around, if our humble little book club was able to deplete the stock of both amazon.jp and CDJapan xD Good thing we started early!
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Itâs Australian dollars, but yeah, I do kinda think it ought to be a bit less. Iâve honestly got no idea how they set store prices, but they always seem to be a great deal higher than exchange rates account forâŠ
Huh. Just noticed the book has a blurb written in English on the dustcoverâs inner flaps. Pretty good English, too.
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Okay, that might account for it more, though Iâm still shocked given that you werenât paying shipping. Very dedicated of you!
Oh, this is awesome - I already own the 12-volume set of the original Aria in Japanese and have been meaning to start it soon - so if I just buy Aria the Masterpiece volume 1 I should be in good enough shape to read along, yeah?
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Yeah you can either buy Aria the Masterpiece volume 1 or Aqua volumes 1 and 2. Then youâll own the whole series. Though if you get Aria the Masterpiece youâll apparently miss one side story that weâre skipping for the book group anyway. So either one is good for reading along with the book group, it just depends on how you prefer to collect series.
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Okay. I do have the official English release of Aqua so maybe Iâll just grab the Aria the Masterpiece edition - canât hurt to have the beautiful new art anyway!
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Well, I did it! I placed the order on Amazon.co.jp and itâs on itâs way!
The pages that were posted seem a little advanced for me, but hey, you arenât learning if itâs easy!
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Reading the first page of anything is always the hardest part 'cause youâre starting from a blank contextual slate and thereâs some natural resistance.
This intro is also a special case, since it has to quickly establish that the character is headed to Mars (which is the full extent of sci-fi stuff in the story). After that, from skimming, it gets a lot easier.
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I compared with Amazon JPâs prices. If you got the whole series all at once it would cost about 120 USD or 160 Australian Dollars, including shipping.
@Radish8 Youâre still paying for shipping when you buy a book at a physical store. Itâs not like the store isnât passing those expenses (at least partially) onto the consumer. Obviously the store has the benefit of buying in bulk to reduce costs, but itâs not free.
Ok. With my Kinokuniya member discount, the whole set would cost me $190.35, or about the cost of adding a whole extra book to the series. Not obscene, but still not sure itâs worth the whole set, even at $160. That said, does that include the shipping costs to Australia, or is it just the cost of shipping to America converted into Australian dollars? Because you can pretty much triple shipping costs when youâre talking about Australia. Iâd check, but my Amazon account doesnât seem to work for the Japanese site.
Now, if weâd had this conversation while I was still in Japan (and, you know, Iâd been checking the forums while I was in Japan), I could have saved on shipping altogether.
Aye, see, thatâs why I was expecting it to be a bit cheaper. I mean, I guess Iâm paying for the shopâs costs as well, but surely the shop can also buy the books at a cheaper price than just ordering them off Amazon.