Logan Paul and the collectification of Manga

[diet_orange]

So for those who might not be aware, recently Logan Paul got two Shonen Jump issues slabbed and graded; One the first appearence of Goku and Bulma and the other Luffy
(the following video goes fairly in-depth into it)

Honestly, I'm kind of worried that we're gonna see the same shit that's currently happening with Pokemon TCG that we are with Tankobons

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

Oh can this fucker just fuck off already? Seriously why does everything we use, HAVE to be a collector piece? These aren't even worth putting into these shitty plastic cases. Most of these tankobon/magazines aren't even in great condition to begin with so why even put them through this song and dance like TCG? Who is going to buy shonen jump magazines?? When 99% of the planet can't even read japanese?

 

[Dr.Kisaragi Dr.Kisaragi]

Yeah this the reason why I don't collection because people will buy any collection for views and they will ruin the economy of hobbies.

 

[Clippy]

Somewhere out there there's an alternate timeline in which the suicide forest event got him bullied off the Internet and the world became a better place. I wish to live in that timeline.

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

Somewhere out there there's an alternate timeline in which the suicide forest event got him bullied off the Internet and the world became a better place. I wish to live in that timeline.

I only wish the internet was harsher and more brutal like it was in the early 00s so this waste of vermin could leave forever

 

[diet_orange]

Who is going to buy shonen jump magazines?? When 99% of the planet can't even read japanese?

Like I said in the OP, I think people might just start enmasse buying up volume 1s of Tankobons

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Somewhere out there there's an alternate timeline in which the suicide forest event got him bullied off the Internet and the world became a better place. I wish to live in that timeline.

Oh, I'm sick of seeing his ass on WWE. I pray every night he chokes on his Prime water

 

[SoThankful]

World is going insane. People are collecting books they can't read and shoes they can't wear. What is next, grading a sealed liquor bottle collection you can't even taste?

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

World is going insane. People are collecting books they can't read and shoes they can't wear. What is next, grading a sealed liquor bottle collection you can't even taste?

Don't people do that already? If people start collecting pockets of air then we really are in trouble

 

[gastd]

I wouldn't have thought this guy would do something like that. He always seems to be good for a surprise.

 

[blahbleh]

I bet he never read any of em, larper ahh mf

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

Yeah this the reason why I don't collection because people will buy any collection for views and they will ruin the economy of hobbies.

Problem isn't exactly collecting, but the supposedly "economy of influencers" reshaping the way we collect and consume even trivial stuff. That's why I don't use social media, at least not passively.

 

[HoyeBoye]

So glad I recently picked up all my Here Is Greenwood manga before this jackass drives up the out-of-print manga market.

 

[PrismRed]

Well stop paying attention to him then, problem solved.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

We truly cannot go on a whole year without a Logan Paul L.

 

[kbcinharoxa kbcinharoxa]

So for those who might not be aware, recently Logan Paul got two Shonen Jump issues slabbed and graded; One the first appearence of Goku and Bulma and the other Luffy
(the following video goes fairly in-depth into it)

Honestly, I'm kind of worried that we're gonna see the same shit that's currently happening with Pokemon TCG that we are with Tankobons

he know how to read?

 

[contrail_]

If you want to have a pristine-looking physical copy of some out of print comic book, why not just download a digital copy off archive dot org and print one for yourself? You can go to a good printer's, pick the type of paper, the dimensions, etc, and it will be better than any of the +50 year old yellowed rags that collectors keep incestuously selling to each other.
I mean, the printed copy might look a bit different, but then, no one can convince me that an original first edition Action Comics #1 can look the exact same way it did when it was first printed almost a century ago. Just some viral artificial scarcity grift...

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I used to collect the first tankoubon Manga volume of Anime I really liked. I would read them, but usually didn't intend on buying or reading more volumes.

I count myself as a collector, but I don't get anything graded. I take my stuff out of the box or the plastic and display it for a bit, if it's a toy or figurine, or play/watch it if it's a game/dvd. I don't preserve anything in the hopes of making a profit down the line, I want to enjoy it now and while I can.

 

[Xenocloudarius Xenocloudarius]

he know how to read?

Possibly not

 

[kbcinharoxa kbcinharoxa]

Possibly not
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Well, maybe Logan knows how to “READ” the pictures XD

 

[JellyjamLu]

If you want to have a pristine-looking physical copy of some out of print comic book, why not just download a digital copy off archive dot org and print one for yourself? You can go to a good printer's, pick the type of paper, the dimensions, etc, and it will be better than any of the +50 year old yellowed rags that collectors keep incestuously selling to each other.
I mean, the printed copy might look a bit different, but then, no one can convince me that an original first edition Action Comics #1 can look the exact same way it did when it was first printed almost a century ago. Just some viral artificial scarcity grift...

Whilst that sounds like a good idea, the problem with this is, regardless of being in print or not, it's not an authentic piece at the end of the day, and with any real collector within the hobby will tell you, the feeling is lost completely when you hold a fake in your hands and simply will never truly satisfy you unless it's the real deal.

 

[madmadworld2]

It's no different from what comics did in the 90s with the abundant of variant covers and reprints trying to make comics a share hold, it eventual crashed the market in 94. I don't think that's going to happen here but it just shows people treating everything from video games to manga like an investment.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Somewhere out there there's an alternate timeline in which the suicide forest event got him bullied off the Internet and the world became a better place. I wish to live in that timeline.

If THAT fiasco didn't do it, nothing ever will.

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

I only wish the internet was harsher and more brutal like it was in the early 00s so this waste of vermin could leave forever

The internet is still brutal. It's just too busy arguing over politics and falling for ragebait rather than keeping people like Logan Paul out of subcultures.

Yeah this the reason why I don't collection because people will buy any collection for views and they will ruin the economy of hobbies.

Nowadays anything that looks like a potential grift will become one. Every hobby must be monetized and every belonging treated as an asset to flip later instead of something to enjoy and use. We've always had monied interests co-opting cool stuff, but it's gotten out of hand and a lot of these bubbles and gold rushes as bound to collapse on themselves.

 

[Morgan Katarn]

Man is that shitty moron still relevant today. Man why do we keep making monster in to such big influencers.

 

[Tortuga]

Tourists who have zero respect for the medium and only there because it's popular or to make money are cancer to any fandom
Logan Paul of course is double cancer