Initial fraction

I was overseas and in a manga shop, and mentioned that I was eagerly awaiting v5 of Pluto.

Counter guy: Oh. That came in yesterday morning.
Me (turning to look at shelves expectantly): Ooh.
Counter guy: And sold out by the end of the day. It’s our most popular title.
Me (exhibiting a broad and deep vocabulary): Oh, man.
Counter guy (quite possibly just toying with me): Would you like to buy the volume I read once lightly on the train home last night?
Me (not actually lunging): Yes please.

And it was very good.

( Pluto, Naoki Urasawa, v3-5. )

( 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa, v3-4. )

( Ooku: the inner chamber, Fumi Yoshinaga, v1. )

My current main sources of manga are on-line ordering and attending international conferences (at the most recent one, my hotel was two blocks away from the manga shop, which was also having a 25% off sale). The latter is certainly effective but leads to moments of panic when I show up at the airport with 17 more books (volumes, whatever) than I left with, and have to put my suitcase on the scales. This time I was 400g under, thus demonstrating my remarkable restraint... and the fact that the manga shop was out of volumes 1-4 of Oishinbo.

(I did pick up v5. It was good.)