If it wasn't free...

UchihaBrat

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Hmmmm~
Good question!
No, I probably wouldn't as I usually do buy the volumes of series I really like, but then, how would I find what to like if I didn't have the wonderful opportunity to check them all out for free as I can now?

It'd be difficult and I would probably be forced to go to VIZ or an anime/manga news network and find them through there, I would NOT have read as many series/watched as many episodes as I have, well, if I didn't use some of the paysites where you can watch series for moneeeeeeeeh(albeit they usually don't have the same diversity as the free ones)!

Anyway, now that you ask, I'm sure it would be much more difficult to keep on doing it, which is kind of stupid in a way, since not as many series would get my support as they do now, neither would as many be enjoyed by me or others as they are now, which I think is the creators' intentions to begin with O^O

I mean, had they not discontinued the monthly JUMP we had here in my country, then that would have been a good way for me to find new series as I bought every copy and even wanted to buy the ones which I had missed, being late to notice they even existed(gotta mention that I didn't know about the free stuff here on the internet at the time(looooong time ago)).
Good lord I'm chatty today!!
 

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Well I read plenty of manga, but I would probably drop most of them except One Piece because I'd keep purchasing it as I do now.
 

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Well it had never been free I never would have started watching/reading it xd

But really if tomorrow all sources of free online manga and anime were taken off the internet, I would probably try to find someplace i wouldn't be embarrassed to go and buy the manga since the only two anime I care about are in the same issue. If I could, then yeah I would probably buy it as long as both kept putting out good content.
 
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Well it had never been free I never would have started watching/reading it xd

But really if tomorrow all sources of free online manga and anime were taken off the internet, I would probably try to find someplace i wouldn't be embarrassed to go and buy the manga since the only two anime I care about are in the same issue. If I could, then yeah I would probably buy it as long as both kept putting out good content.
Why would you be embarrassed to buy Manga in the first place? If you don't mind me asking.

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I always buy the mangas and anime as soon as they are out. The only mangas I read online are Naruto and Kuroshitsuji and that's only because I'm too impatient to wait until the manga gets released. But as soon as the new manga comes out, I buy it, regardless of the fact that I read the chapters already.
By buying them, I support the mangaka, which is a good thing in my opinion. Plus it's easier to bring a manga with me on the train, than a laptop.
 

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Give us a price, then we'll decide. If it's over 5 bucks, as one of the other members said, I'd probably drop it, or borrow volumes from the library, or from friends. Other than that, I might pay for the really exciting stuff in the manga.
 

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no...i wouldnt drop it...no way...i ve bought almost all naruto volumes anyways and the most from death note cause not much manga are imported in my country...anyway i buy them cause i love having them in print form so yeah nothing really changes for me...
 
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