The Seattle Times features global manga paradise Kinokuniya.



I visited Kinokuniya Singapore -- and ended up spending most of an afternoon there. The stories are true, people: aisles and aisles and aisles and aisles of the latest manga.





This is definitely worth bringing to the growing Philippine J-fan community.

This topic serves as an online petition to bring Kinokuniya to the Philippines.

If you want aisles and aisles and aisles and aisles of the latest manga brought to the Philippines, let your voice be heard. Post here. B)

SANA MAGKAROON ni2!!! hehehe para lahat ng cosplayers, may idea sa costume na gagayahin nila ^_^

i remembered my sister borrowed a manga (TRC) from her friend, and the price tag sez kinokuniya.

la lng, i juz wanted 2 share that, hehehe...

Hopefully it reaches the PHILIPPINES!!!!

nde lang un! mas masaya kung meron nyan sa pinas! heheh

youre right about that!!!


YAY MANGA!!!

hmmm... the thing is, who has the money and who would be the angel and franchise it???

Powerbooks already has a manga shelf.

With the explosion of Philippine J-fandom in the last ten years, and the growing sophistication of young Philippine readers, a Kinokuniya franchise is clearly the next logical step for any large Philippine bookstore chain.

yuFF, i buy mangas there, they only need to expand it though~

yay madadagdagan na ang manga collection ko kung saka-sakali
kasi puro Del Rey and CMX lng ang meron ako//

haha
<< wishes Kinokuniya exists here

amp hati n ang budget ko sa manga & cosplay kung nagkataon

I want more titles in my shelf!! XD XD
(i.e works of Tsukuba Sakura, Satomi Ikezawa, CLAMP etc.)

damn, with that kind of bookstore every otaku will be in the state of joygasm :lol:


although one thing i would like to see if there ever will be a kinokuniya here in the philippines is that hopefully there would be an area where you could read manga freely (just like in powerbooks). hopefully... :ph43r:

actually dapat diba sa mga bookstores meron nyan para malaki kita nila
hindi lng nila alam na dudumugin sila!!!!!!
d2 sa states kasi lahat ng bookstores may manga section
kaya lng wala masyadong mahilig sa ganun eh kaya
nabubulok dapat sa pinas na lng

promise kung magkakaroon nyan d2, madaming bibili ng mga manga ^_^ 1000% sure ako :lol:

onga e~

Delrey~

TRC koh delrey e~

KINOKUNIYA~!!!!


GO VISIT THE PHILIPPINES~!!!!

kung alam lang i2 ng ibang cosplayers, madaming gusto magkaroon ni2!!! ei mga PINOY COSPLAYERS, petition nman kau d2!!! B)

i think placing a shelf or two for manga is revolutionary here, so i think it's a good idea.

i only wish that filipino comics had one as well, the problem is that the target segment of most fil comics is generally the working age. only a few comics, like Funny Comics, were targetted to kids.

most filipinos are getting less and less nationalistic in terms of comics i guess.

Labs ko yung Kinokuniya~!! ang saya dun~!! nawawala ako sa store yung pumunta kami ng Singapore. sayang di ako nakabili ng marami nun... sayang talaga!!

Yay , I hope Kinokuniya will reach Philippines! Almost all of the Filipinos here are bound by manga & anime ^_^

if kinokuniya exists in here, it'd be like heaven on earth -

Count me in!!! Sana meron ding artbooks aside from manga :)

waah sana naman magkaroon nun dito...
tsaka... isang store na nagbebenta ng mga JMusic cds... :D
kung magkaroon nun...
bye bye allowance.. ^_^

mdaming nag-post d2! heheh kailangan maraming mag-petition d2 para magkaroon na d2 ok? ^_~

yup...sana may gani2 2yo d2 satin....sa US ganyan ang pwesto ng mga manga sa library at sa bookstore nila.....(oops...ang library at bookstore dun ay iisa exept yung national library :lol: )

i remembered i visited a kinokuniya bookstore in seattle, washington (US).
they had TONS of books there, and i ended up buying only one book, because i ran out of money. also, i saw that they had a lot of the latest j-pop/j-rock and anime soundtracks. man, i would love to have a kinokuniya bookstore in my area lols xD.

It'll kill Animedea(definitely,since it will grab it's market),comic quest and comic alley if that happens pero mas ok naman mas mababa presyo sa kinokuniya juz like in amazon.co.jp n yes-asia ang presyo.
i normally buy manga sa amazon japan n yes-asia kasi bagsak presyo sila eh.

Animedea? I haven't heard of that...
I just hate it... Kala ko dati original stuffs ang binebenta ng Comic Alley... pero I was really disappointed... puro bootleg sila! ewan ko ba kung bakit ineendorse pa ng ABS yun! hmp!
sana may Kinokuniya dito...
konti lang kasi ng mga titles na available sa National, Fully Booked and *i forgot the name*