What is the point of buying manga when you can read it online for free?

What is the point of buying manga when you can read it online for free?

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Physical books feel nice

Books are better than staring at a screen especially your phone. Absolute cringe.

You buy it in order to vote for its continued serialization and to prevent the author from killing themselves

I want to show my appreciation to the author.

I like having nice things and I don't want to live in an empty featureless apartment like some sort of autistic animal.

>I don't want to look autistic so I fill my apartment with manga

Support author + hardcopies are nice to read. Also you wouldn't steal a car.

There are some officially translated manga that don't have free scans available anywhere. Getting raws for free is even more hit or miss. And I like having physical copies of some manga I really like.

You can buy it to support westerners who localize it and influence Japanese media as a result with their western values that are destroying Japan.

>website that torrents manga gets shut down meaning if you didn't download it earlier, you're shit out of luck
>a different translator group picks up your favorite manga only to butcher the translations and go way off from the source material
>you really like the series and want to support the creator
There are many reasons why someone would buy a physical copy, but these are the reason I can think of at the top of my head.

I support artists that I like because I save away six figures stealing from the United States department of defense by doing the bare minimum of my job.

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It's for collectors baka

If you actually cared about manga you'd realize there's tons of manga you can't read for free.

A lot of online manga just leaves up the shitty weekly scanlations and no one bothers to rip the official translations once they come out.

Because I'm not smelly and poor
To not be autistically fixated on a screen or online 24/7
To actually own something
To make use of the space I've bought with this house

Why do poor fags always feel like they have to justify themselves like this?

Because nothing beats actually having shit in your hands.

wash your hands

True, nobody fucks with someone who's got shit on their hands.

Buy a physical copy the translation is garbage I rather buy Jap ver instead