Spring in the head and heart: Let's stop being afraid and take action! 🦁 🐗
🦁 How I fought for my Danmei collection (and why "regional bans" are a myth).
We all know that feeling – you wait for months for your favorite novel, order the Special Edition, dreaming about those posters and cards, but then receive the message, "Sorry, your country's (Baltic region) are prohibited from this edition." I believed it for a year. I settled for the regular versions of MDZS, TGCF, and SVSSS because I was told that "the publisher doesn't allow it." But then I got tired of being prey in the forest of bureaucracy. What I learned: There are no restrictions. I contacted Seven Seas Ent., Penguin Random House UK, Barnes&Noble, Waterstones shop, even my big fan group on the other platform, it's admin, who lives in Singapore. They were shocked - there are no bans for the Baltics. It's just the local stores' reluctance to organize logistics. Prices "from the ceiling." If you're asked 52 EUR for a regular softcover volume, that's not inflation. It's an attempt to profit from our hobby. There are alternatives. You don't have to endure "eyelash fluttering" in supermarkets. There are specialty stores and reliable foreign websites, where we are considered as people, not just a source of profit. Currently, my struggle continues. I have sent official complaints to London and to the local store management. I no longer ask for permission to read and collect, what I love. I demand justice. Collectors, don't give up! If you're told "no," check the facts. Our world is bigger, than the inventory of a single store.
Book cover images and story all credit to artists and writers.
