Gift Hunting

Gift Hunting for the most interesting secondhand items is an international pastime. Not just that, it is one of the most integral parts of both geek and broad internet pop culture too. 

Old Shōnen Books: Apart from secondhand Japanese Transformers and elderly Licca Dolls in spades, old Shōnen Books are amongst some of the most easily sold secondhand items in Japan, so are the secondhand museum-centric ‘Mooks’ which acknowledge them as a vital but, in international terms, relatively obscure literary format. Unlike the first two however, unless they’re mangas, old Shōnen Books are usually harder to find outside of Japan. 

Shōnen Pulp Novel: The Shōnen Pulp Novel comes in two sub demographic forms, the Junior Shōnen Pulp Novel and the Senior Shōnen Pulp Novel, which gave way to the modern Senior Shōnen light novel format. 

Shōnen Emonogatari: Of the demographic Emonogatari forms, the most commonly remembered one is for the Shōnen demographic. After all, the Shōnen Emonogatari was basically the rather strange distant cousin of the venerable Kamishibai and the lesser known Shōnen Pulp Novel, which gave way to the modern Junior Shōnen manga and more significantly so, the modern Junior Shōnen light novel.