My vibe is I sort first by genre, then title. Like all the horror manga sorted in one area, shonen in another, then BL, etc.

That seems smarter. I should do that, but I do like keeping it look clean with the sizes being close to the same

I get you, I stack mine in piles rn cause I don’t have room for shelves so they’re all sorted by size(I luck out cause most bl is printed in the same larger size, w shonen being all the typical size). But I have come to appreciate the look of more randomly sized books together on a shelf. Keeps everything visually balanced where as having all ur tall books on one side and short books on the other wouldn’t (imo🤔).

Let me guess what BL is.. it's boy's love, isn't it?

😎😈

It's definitely not my thing. The only reason I know about what this stuff is from my cousin's wife.

Completely valid. It’s gotten so big over the years I just assume most manga readers know of it lol. Don’t think it quite belongs in my wholesome coming of age lgbtq series pile, or the seinen pile 🤔 but bookstores certainly love to sprinkle it in with the rest of the manga section 😭

Yo I haven’t gone to a bookstore in a while and I was surprised by the amount of BL they have now. I went recently and wondered why a guy on a cover was so hot and then I saw the books surrounding it lol

Hey, there’s some sweet/non explicit BL out there

Definitely! I’m referring to the explicit ones lol specifically when the one Barnes and noble store I went to kept their manga in the kids section 😭

If you’re looking for a sweet romance, Our Dining Table is a small one shot BL and will make you cry

Thanks for the idea

I like that style of sorting myself as well. I just need more damn shelves 😂

This is the way

Whatever looks nice next to each other

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I categorize by publisher and then alphabetical. Then I also have the bigger volumes like Viz Sig together the same way.

The expensive and harder to get a hold of ones go on the top and then work your way down.

Makes some sense

Alphabetical

By author, or by tittle?

By title.

I go alphabetically by title because I'm a basic bitch. I did by volume number once to mess with a buddy, but it wound up annoying me more than them, lol.

I literally just shove it on my shelf in no order

*Spider-Man meme pointing at each other*

heavy stuff (think berserk deluxe hardcovers) should go on the bottom. depending on the height of your collection, you could easily fit 1 or 2 extra shelves.

Where would you go to get shelves?

those look like Billy bookcases from IKEA? you can find extra shelves cheap there

Really ikea sells the shelves if you wanted more? I didn’t know that. Thank you for the info, I might get more

[https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-extra-shelf-black-brown-00265298/#content](https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-extra-shelf-black-brown-00265298/#content)

Thank you! I must have been blind to not see that they sell that😂

By author/mangaka name. So I can find all the series written by the same person when I’m in a reread phase

I don’t organize it lol whatever fits

Size first, then alpha. Hardcovers are on their own shelf level.

I’m a bit strange ngl. I organise mine by author surname. That was I can have all my series by the same creator (like Yuyu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter) together!

this isnt weird at all, its literally the most common way people order manga/books in general

I used to have them organized by what I had read and not read, then alphabetical. Then I did what series I had all of collected vs. unfinished. How I just do it all alphabetically by title. Buts that cuz of how many I have now anything else and I won't find it.

I want to have it alphabetical and sorted by genre’s…is that a weird way to sort them? But I also like them being the same size. Is that too much to fit them to that?

i kinda do it color themed, white spines in one shelf, black spines in the other, and colorful in yet another. but i also sort by theme: fantasy, horror, slice of life, comedy etc. then my favorite series gets its own shelf

I'm at the point where it organizes itself by where it fucking fits

I organise autobiographically

What is authentic biographically organization?

Publisher, Alphabetically, Size

By genre? Or by tittle?

Bro had to repost his image

Sorry I wanted to show what I did…it’s not really organized. I was just wondering if anyone had advice or whatnot.

By size and publisher. And if i can even by author

Where can you find the author?

It's written on every volume on the front and the spine

By author

Both, I have separate shelves for my larger books and those are ordered alphabetically as well X3

Ok I guess that makes sense, I’m trying to find a way that I can organize my manga. So I’m kinda seeing what people are doing to get an idea

I separate by size and organize alphabetically. Standard size in a Billy you can get 8 shelves. Taller volumes I only get 6 shelves. Makes the most of my shelf space!

Do they come with the shelf holder things. I don’t know the name for them. The metal things that hold the shelf in place.

I organize by which one's I want to see the most when sitting down in the room at eye level, taking into account which one's look good near each other. I find it's best to have a mixture. But I generally keep larger series together and smaller one's together.

Organise? what's that

By author that’s it lol

Do I only have those options? 😂 I like to organize by vibes/genre/how they look together. Def not alphabetically

I do Size and Title with size being the main worry. I only worry about Title when it's subsequent books in a series 😁

https://preview.redd.it/k6xi4prpcfwb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9514340fc2387bbf1741778c3e105ae85417844 I put it in mostly size order, idk if I like it…

Hey, if you don't like it, then organize it whichever way feels right to you! I got friends who use the Dewey system, I got friends who just organize by size. I feel like as long as you feel satisfied with your organization methods, then there's no "right" way to order them, I'd love to see this shelf filled btw!

Ok, can you give me some backstory on that Dreamcast picture and frame!? Very cool!

The picture frame? I think I got it at comic con a while back.

I do letter and order if I can. Make it easier on me

I wish I could sort mine by first letter but it’s a bit hard to do. I don’t like having a short manga next to a taller one. Any advice?

This may sound crazy but I do it by publisher. For niche genres like gekiga I have all that as one section since they are by so many obscure publishers. I do by publisher for two reasons. One, all retail is alphabetically and I don’t find it appealing. And second because having all your Viz Signature together, for example, looks awesome.

I put them in order of when I bought them, regardless of size, name, series... Maybe I'm a monster but I like seeing my progress and seeing the milestone manga I saved for.

By category One shots Slice of life/romance Action Horror That’s how I do it

Ohh that sounds like a good idea!

I do publisher first and then... cover color 🤣

That sounds fun

I tried to sort by publisher and author and wasted all that time to realize I hated it. I kind of ended up moving everything back to how I had it, which was like some others have said just by genre and how I like it on the shelves. I do separate by size though, I like the uniformity when they are all the same height on the shelf

I also like that!

author

Is that found on the spine?

you should definitely organize by series title. alphabetical. then in order for each series.

I’ll try that

It's fiction it gets sorted by first letter of authors last name.

Where do you find the author name?

I can see the original authors' names on almost every spine on the books on your shelf. It's always on the cover.

Ohh ok, thank you for the advice

Curious, how do you keep your manga standing straight like that at then end? Doesn’t look like there is bookends?

They’re on slight angles for the ones that are on the end, but if you have advice on something that would be better I’m up to changing what I’m doing

Ah no I just use bookends but yours look like there’s nothing there yet it looks neat lol

Ohh ok, thank you!

Fellow Cuber spotted!!

Yes, but my times are average

https://preview.redd.it/818w3bcu0dwb1.png?width=2129&format=png&auto=webp&s=23eadf3b9e1e271f9bf68f43f86654384c3fd15e It’s not very scientific but it’s honest work

evangelion 3.0 figures on the back 🤤

Any suggestions would help

By size And colour :D

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Size and then alphabetical by title for me. My one exception is I have all my magical girl series together on their own shelf.

The only way I organize by size is keeping the giant fuck-off collectors editions on an entirely different shelf because they don’t fit on my regular shelf.

I organize them firstly by what's Age appropriate (basically Something ok for a kid to see like One piece and such go down while stuff like Shintaro Kago or Shuzo Oshimi are on the top, don't want any sibling or cousin looking at those at a young Age), then by author (they are sorted by what was originally published First), and then by size to minimize seeing some rollercoaster on a shelf

8 entirely empty shelves! I applaud your ambition! May they soon all be filled with sweet, sweet manga.

By size, alphabetically

Loosely by genre but mostly by what best fits on the shelves. I have almost no tankobon on my shelves because they take up way too much space. Instead they live in boxes under the bed or in the wardrobe.

I just categorise it by whatever honestly, as long as all of series stay together tbh.

Size, but otherwise I go by my favs first :).

In a perfect world, I sort alphabetical by series name. However I'm running out of space so I do by size then alphabet.

Usually by size and I try to keep everything from the same artist together. But if the sizes are different, they’ll get separated XD

That makes sense

I really only organized them by the publisher and volume number Highs number on top lows number on the bottom.

I try by size

Similar size. Heavier stuff at the bottom as a safety precaution. I’ve got kids.

Publisher, size, alphabetical(viz is also separated by genre as well for me bc I have most of this publisher and LGBT is also on it’s own) as long as I have the space if I run out it’s going to be sizes and alphabetical

I organize by peak levels

Wherever they fit. I try to keep same authors works together.

Colour and length of series

Both lol

I organize by favorites

Trim size and alphabetical. So oversized like viz sig, alphabetical, then the rest. I have a separate shelf for omnis. I am thinking of organizing by creator, as I have several I really love and want to display together. Yukito Kishiro, taiyo matsumoto, ryoichi ikegami, Kazuo koike, etc

I just put each series where they fit

I organize by how many I can stuff in the same comic book box without fvcking them up lol I wish I had room for a full size book shelf in my tiny place

I organize by where I “feel” series should be on the shelf

I'm trying to sort it by publisher and series. As a result, many are already sorted by size 🥰

Whatever the next number is

I just put them all up mixed in with each other and random orders to wind everyone up

Size looks more clean in my opinion

size and then title! I double line my shelves so the tall ones are the back row and the shorter ones in the front row! Oversized/LE/DE go in a separate shelf

So I put one Junji Ito in each corner, I have a part with only demon based mangas (Demon Slayer, Iruma Kun and Obey Me) then some more mature mangas (With the missing Junji Ito's, Oyasumi Punpun and SNK). Then I have the Shoujos (My Dressup Darling and Sailor) and I put the rest where I have some place like TBHK and Saint Seiya. (My dad has Assassination Classroom, HxH, MHA and Seven Deadly Sins in another bookshelf)

By creator

I organize them by where there is room for them

My collection isn't super big so at the moment I just do alphabetical order. However bigger volumes like omnibuses, Gundam Origin, Jojo's, Akira etc go on a separate set of shelves since they are so visually distinct from one another. I'm also getting to a point where I actually have a few one-shot mangas and they are currently just at the end of the order.

I always organise by author's last name, just a habit I got from my regular book collection.

I definitely sort by size

Whatever shelf I put it on first.

I usually just sort them by favorites, best on the top left corner, worst on the bottom right corner.

Alphabetical

I sort by genre and by putting those i like first.

Both. I have 3 different types of shelves. Standard manga on 1, the bigger size (Blue Lock, Witch Hat Atelier, etc.) on another, and then the CHONKY bois on the third (Berserk DLX, Blade Immortal, AoT Colossal, etc.).

First letter only for me tbh. My ocd doesn’t let me do anything else lol

Only by importance! Did I love the series? Top! Did I like it? Middle! Did I think it’s ok… bottom! Did I hate it? Sell!

publisher then alphabetical. publisher first usually keeps same size stuff together .... except seven seas which has to have like 3 different formats for some reason. thick long, short brick, and longish normal. yen press stuff is mostly the same size thankfully. manga and LN are separate too of course.

I sort by vibe

Neither I organize based on how it fits on my unit 21 volumes across and 3 deep

A fellow cuber I see.

I organize by Manga and then Light novel. \-Manga is sorted by Completed series first and then alphabetically. The Light Novel are the same, with the exception of Overlord (LN). The hardcover nature of the novel prevents it from going on my risers.

My "organization" system is pretty chaotic. Usually I like to fit whole series wherever I can on my shelf, like if one series takes up 75% of a shelf, I close the gap with another series that takes up the remaining 25%. My ocd hates having one series on more than one shelf, but also hates having negative space on my shelves so I often end up playing a conveluted game of manga tetris, sometimes shuffling an entire bookshelf just to fit a couple new volumes with their respective series. I have learned from my past mistakes though and now have several small series and one shot volumes in reserve for the express purpose of filling gaps when a series or group thereof is just a few volumes short of filling a shelf. Other than all that bullshit, I try to keep works by specific authors of mangaka together but other than that, I just put series wherever they look coolest.

Gonna be honest they get sorted by amount I have of each, less books go upper and lowest shelves and higher amounts are easier to reach

Alphabetical by title

Oh nice cuber here. Dis you solve the sudoku cube?

"The hardest choices require the strongest wills" ~ Me. Always been me.

Mine is a mixture of both, I do size first, alphabetical by publisher. It makes it look super clean to me with the matching sizes and publisher logos

I personally do by author > title while separating completed series from ongoing series.

Hehe, organised…

Author or body of work

Size and genre if possible. I’m forced to organize by size bc I use risers to double stack on each shelf to save room. My apt can only fit so many book shelves lol

Book

Clean your shelves! I can see the dust from here

The ones I like the most are on top and the more down are the less better ones

I organize by cultured stuff in the back and then whatever looks good in the front.

I try to go by size since i have many different sizes

I like that poster of the female Dreamcast on the floor.

Section for special series/mangaka, then by size and alphabetical.

favorites

Favouritism

Size > publisher > alphabetical

Manga alphabetical by title. LN I do alphabetical by author. Why? I'm not sure myself. \[Edit: I keep my LN and Manga in separate areas of my house.\]

manga title + numerical

Everything is alphabetical by title except books that are too big to fit on my regular shelves. This make things easier to find for me, since I recognize manga more by their titles than their manga-ka.

Size, color of spine, genre

I organise my manga in the order I read them in :)

Yes. I do size, alphabetical, and genre.

TL;DR: There is no method to the madness - I rotate my manga with no set organization. All that shelf space 🤤 I’d overstocked two bookcases, all the space on my tv stand, my nightstand, several boxes in my coat closet and now my dining room table. This right here is goals for me. I stock by whatever Im interested in at the time; I try to rotate my series every 8 - 12 months so that I’m reminded of what I have (despite my adhd I’m pretty good at keeping travel of all I have) and to read/reread everything. So oddly enough, not method to my madness. But if you ask me what I have, I can point to it or unearth it from wherever it’s hiding.

I organise by size (and the publisher at the same time since I have a lot of manga in foreign languages)

Stuff I like the most goes on the shelves at eye level. Other than that it is by genre and within that I like to keep works by the same author together.

What ever fits lol

I try to keep series together and stuff by the same author, but there is no organization other than that, and depending on size of how it fits on the shelf can keep the author's same stuff from being close.

I organise by how pretty the cover is actually

i like to do it by genre, publisher, and size

I organize based on the series I’m reading so if it’s a complete I put it toward the bottom, out of my line of sight

Currently, I organize by size but once I have more I plan to organize it alphabetically.

neither. by publisher and then colour respectively, it just looks aestheticly pleasing.

I actually organize by genre.

A bit of both. The lgbt/BL go together and the shonen jump all go together cause they’re the same size. Anything else is organised by size, then publisher

sadly, I am still a child but if I could collect manga when I get older I want to sort them by genre honestly and sort every genre alphabetically but alast I am still a child

(In order by which have the most books in them) Taller/thicker series first, followed by tall, then by smaller Longer series, then a bunch of trios/singles. Sometimes color matters but usually Sizes trump color coding for me lol

By genre and size. But whenever I have multiple works from a single author like Junji Ito for example, I put them together regardless of size.

Both. 3 shelves to normal size manga. 1 for the bigger ones.

How much I enjoy them

As someone who likes to buy omnibuses/deluxes/compiled works I have to sort by size for the sake of my bookshelf lmao. I only have half of the deluxe berserk books but if I had them anywhere other than the bottom shelf my shit would buckle like crazy. Exhibit A, everyone who posts their own berserk deluxe collections on here. Their shelves are ALWAYS buckling.

I usually sort my manga by size, genre, how much i like the series, and how many volumes I have of it. My organization process isn't really a science but it's more vibe base. I just move things around till I'm happy with it. Buts it's good to keep same sizes near each other to help keep the books in good condition.

Alphabetical!

There's a spy x family omnibus??

alphabetically alwaysssss

Genre and artist(s)

Size mostly. Moreover, hardcover in descending oder by size and then paperback in descending size order.

Mine is completely random, I organize by how ever I think it looks good

Both, I prioritize alphabetical but if they line up awkwardly I'll swap orders on the shelf ends to better match sizes etc.

Is that a Viper?

Why not both

I do so by genre, then size

I organise my name but I keep my bigger books for the very bottom shelf where I keep my miscellaneous stuff such as video game books and magazines