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RightStufAnime.com is the #1 dedicated manga and anime online retailer in the US. In my opinion, they are the best in terms of balancing price, quality of packaging, and speed of processing orders. I rarely buy from amazon anymore, because Rightstuf beats them hands down in terms of sales, and their careful packaging is so much better than amazon these days.

That being said I would note a few things about Rightstuf:

• Prices: Rightstufanime.com has everyday sale prices of 25% off. You can also get a 10% off coupon just for signing up for their mailing list. Then they have recurring publisher sales (ex. all Viz published items on sale) of 33% off on a cycle around the year with a different publisher every week. 
• Their biggest sales every year are in the summer, the Birthday Sale and their Winter/Holiday Sale starting around Black Friday every year. During their biggest sales, the prices can get as good as 47% off on bundle deals!
• Free Shipping: Rightstuf has free shipping in the US on orders over $75. It's great for when you want to buy a whole series or such at the same time. It's not so great for buying individual books one at a time. Also, they offer free shipping to Canada at over $250, but I've heard that unless you can get together and put together a group order with friends or something then other Canadian based retailers like Indigo.ca or sites like BookDepository (they have free international shipping) are cheaper.
• They also offer international shipping at around the actual cost. I wouldn't recommend buying internationally from them unless you are buying Rightstuf exclusives. Odds are that manga retailers in your own country or closer will be cheaper.
• Covid Shipping Times, Preorders and Out of Stock
• The pandemic has wrecked havoc on the supply chain worldwide, and manga is no exception. This is making package transit times increase, and it's also been delaying and pushing back preorder dates. Plus many popular manga have been cycling in and out of stock as the printers struggle to keep up with the high demand. 
• Rightstuf does preorders and out of stock orders in a queue system. So the sooner you place your order, the higher up in the queue you will be when it is restocked.
• If you order with a credit card, your preorders and out of stock orders don't get charged until they ship. Paypal orders get charged right away. Also note if your order is a mix of in-stock and out-of-stock or preorders to reach the free shipping threshold, the whole order might be held until the out of stock items or preorders are available.
• Manga Quality Control by the Publishers/Printers has slipped a bit in recent years.  This isn't Rightstuf's fault, but now it's now fairly common to get very minor manufacturing defects on many new manga, such as small nicks, dents and bumps. If you are very particular about your new manga being flawless, you're better off buying it from sellers who can provide pictures of the books before you buy it. More information on quality control here.

• Rightstuf also has cheap shipping insurance available through Route. For a few bucks you can replace anything that has been lost, stolen off the porch or damaged during shipping. It's really worth it imo.

Manga Deal: Pandora Hearts Boxset Available in US/Canada for a limited time

https://yenpress.com/9781975339951/pandorabox/

If you want to collect the Pandora Hearts Manga Boxset, there is a limited reprint of the Omnibus collection rare boxset only being sold directly through the Yen Press website. It will likely not be available at other retailers, and once it's sold out, that will probably be it. Shipping to USA and Canada only. Last time they printed this, it went out of stock fairly quickly so if you want it, grab it soon.

Blog Revamp and Updates Coming

I know it's been a long time since my last update. Even though I was getting a good amount of traffic for a new blog on the days that I updated back then, I felt like my reviews fell short of what I wanted them to be. They weren't quite as consistent and as helpful as I wanted, but it took me a long time to figure out where I felt I was falling short. But I'm finally back and I am planning to implement a number of changes to this blog soon:

• The Tier List will be reordered with Letter Grades instead of Numbers. I think this popularity ranking system will be easier to understand for new readers to the blog. (Ex. SS, S, A, B, C, D, E)
• Review Format Revamp: I took a long break to try and figure out how to improve my review format. Some reviews were too long, others were too short. I also felt like in my desire to avoid being like those highly opinionated manga reviews out that I might have gone too far sometimes and written my reviews too impersonally. I'll still note what the popular consensus says, but I will be adding my own opinions as well.
• New Reviews: I never stopped reading manga this whole time, and there are a ton of new reviews coming. They will be added in between fixing up the old reviews to the new format.
• Star Ratings: I will also be adding breakdown star ratings as a quick summary.
• Interior Art Examples: I wanted to add these before, and now I finally have a scanner and can add these.
• Art Reviews: I will add short reviews for how popular the art style is among the majority of readers and note major highlights or drawbacks of the art.
• More Collector's Notes: I will be adding more notes for things Manga Collectors care about in the notes. Stuff like Spine Logos, Editions, Box Sets, Color Pages, Differences in translation and etc.
• Manga Sales and Deals. Also planning on adding a list of recommended online stores and revamp the Digital section.