Lol, that's true. ^^;; What about sites like BK1 or Neowings =O? Their shipping doesn't seem too bad. =3 For me, each manga volume is about $12NZD, which would be about $9USD. xD That's not too bad, yeah? Of course if you go to Japan, each volume only costs like $3-4!! >_>

Ah right! And since you've got the English versions, it'll be really helpful as reading practice. =) I love reading manga in Japanese now~ It seems so natural, and you pick up a lot of the everyday vocab as well as plenty of grammar structures. ^^v The only manga in Japanese I shy away from is Josei (except 7 Seeds, but then I always have dictionaries to help with all the scientific jargon XP) and historical ones because the language level is pretty high, particularly the vocab! The historical ones are almost impossible because a lot of dictionaries don't list archaic language/weird olden day dialects. >< It's like Shakespeare...but in Japanese *cries*. xD