Konata, I know how you feel, I’ve been there too. at Daijoubu

I was feeling a bit more clueless than usual about some of the stuff in Lucky Star ep. 8, but when Konata was in the bookstore I understood it perfectly. It may not be exactly the same, but a lot of times I’ve got stuff at Borders just ’cause of those coupons they send me. It’s the same principle as those points systems in Japanese bookstores, to get people like me to come in and buy when you wouldn’t be doing it otherwise. Heck, as “Ask John” has pointed out, the fact that places like Borders even have a big manga section at all when manga is not the biggest of sellers is just a way to get more people into their stores to buy more of other kinds of books. Actually, a lot of what you find in the big bookstore chains consists of stuff that might not be big sellers, but just having a wide range of books is a draw in itself and encourages sales in general. But I digress…

As for getting a manga I already bought and forgot I had it, well that’s happened to me a few times too. Usually I find out when I get home and I can return it, but once I was looking at some manga on my shelf and realized I had two of one volume and hadn’t even noticed for, like, months. Huge backlogs can seem troublesome when things like that happen, but I have to express some gratitude to “Ask John” for a great defense he wrote a while back for having a big manga collection that won’t get read right away. I particularly loved this line, that if you enjoy just having it, “There’s nothing wrong with keeping manga as mere decorations instead of keeping them as reading material.” Um, I don’t know if I want to go that far; I mean, I do hold out hope I’ll read most of it someday…

As for the rest of the ep, wasn’t the bit with Tsukasa and her recorder one of the most super-cute-moe scenes of all time? And wasn’t that the best-funniest-lol Lucky Channel segment yet? Now to get that issue of Newtype…

4 Responses to “Konata, I know how you feel, I’ve been there too.”

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1 xXMikotoNakadaiXx Jun 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Owning two of the same manga isn’t really a bad thing at all if you think about it… at least when you have to sell it and you don’t want to let it go, you can sell it anyway because you’ll still have it. lol
2 Matt Jun 4th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

I feel Konata’s pain. The same thing happens to me way too often, mostly when I forget about preorders. Another awesome ep. of Lucky Star, in any case. Tsukasa attempting “Joy to the World” (another reference I’m missing??) was cute… Konata’s creepy father for the win!
3 bakavic Jun 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Knowing Konata, if she adheres to her “buy one to keep, another to read, and a last one as a backup” idology, you can imagine the pain times 3…
4 DS Jun 4th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

@ xXMikotoNakadaiXx: Good point. I guess there’s always Ebay. Either that, or its a bought-way-in-advance birthday or Xmas present for someone. lol

@ Matt: It was the best ep. yet! And Matt, do you have a birthday coming up and have you, perhaps, happened to have read the Kare Kano manga up through vol 16, but not got to vol. 17 yet? Just wondering….

@ bakavic: If she hadn’t bought her backup yet, then she’d be alright; otherwise I wonder if an obsessive collector like her would have to go and buy the rest of the volumes again so she could have another full backup set… Wait, I’m thinking about this too much lol. I wonder if Japanese return policies are as generous as American ones.

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