[Umihito]

Originally Posted by RobinMask

I'm actually in the middle of nowhere, but I studied in a medium-sized commuter town between Birmingham and Coventry. So that actually may explain it, we had people in our college from not only within the town, but from neighbouring towns and cities, and with everyone in the cities everyday (in the case of workers) or every weekend (in the case of students) I suppose it's easy to pick up different things from various cultures in the cities. I do envy the life in London! It must be a amazing to be surrounded by so many people, cultures, languages. . . and I can fully empathaise with your comments on Wales. Lol, I love the country so much, but certain parts seem rather dead. My friend is in a university in a city there, and despite being a city he lacks even the most basic amenities he has back home here, so I can imagine how hard and annoying it must be not to have the Japanese cuture so close to hand.

I don't know why but I just had to look on Google Maps and I'm gonna take a wild guess that the town is... Solihull? XD
Yeah that seems like a pretty good explanation for it, I'd say Birmingham would be pretty mixed-culture (only ever drove through it on the M5/M6 unfortunately )
Yeah definately, you could really get lost in all the different districts with so many different shops! There were Korean, Indian, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants all on one street!
Me living in South Wales helps because it's where all the action is, lol Surprisingly I've never even strayed as far as Mid Wales...

Originally Posted by RobinMask

Damn you, I didn't think of it that way until you mentioned it, lol Yeah, I suppose that's one way to look at it. I can't say the HMV here sounds that much bigger, it's certainly nothing like the one in the cities, but there is a decent selection (albeit, just the mainstream popular stuff), to be fair they might have quite a lot more than I remember, but the prices keep me well away! I only shop for anime online now - it's literally half the price!

Woops sorry about that! XD
Definately agree on the price thing. And people wonder why the High Street shops are struggling! ¬_¬
I bought 2 DVDs of a series that is 4 DVDs long in store. When I went online to price up how much the next 2 would cost, I found that online there was a box set containing all 4 DVDs. And the cost worked out that it would actually be CHEAPER for me to get the 4 DVD box set and have doubles of the first 2 rather than just get the next 2 on their own from the shop! I just use those 2 doublers I have now to lend to people.

Originally Posted by RobinMask

What drives me mad is say - take Yu-Gi-Oh for example - you collect a whole series and get to volume 19, and you're all excited as you want to see what happens to Marik in his past and his motives, and you get there and it's "sorry, we only stock up to volume three. . ." It drives me mad! It's like 'what's the point in stocking at all if you're not willing to stock the entire series?' I feel so bad for people who can't shop online, they must never get to see how anything ends XD

That reminds me of something really similar. It's not with manga, but with an anime series I was collecting at the time. It's got quite a few DVDs I think... like 6 or 7. I had bought the first 2 DVDs seems as I had some spending money and they were there right in front of me. When I watched them, I went online to find the rest of the DVDs, but there is no trace of the rest of the series in the UK ANYWHERE! I had read online that after the 2nd DVD, the story started to get REALLY good too!
But the funniest thing was... on one website I went on, it had given an estimated release date for the 3rd DVD (bearing in mind it was 2009 when I checked)... and it was something like July 2013! Like heck I was gonna wait 4 years for a DVD!

Originally Posted by RobinMask

XD I think I've ranted enough, but thanks for replying, it's fascinating to compare the Welsh culture with the English, we're probably within driving distance and yet it's both so foriegn and so familiar! I just wish the UK as a whole would get more manga/anime avaliable to it.

No problem, I've enjoyed it
Tell me about it! I find it fascinating enough that people who live so close together can have such different accents (people have told me they think I have quite a thick Welsh accent) XD
Let alone everything else that different lol

Agreed