In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 english printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 english printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 english printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 english printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 english printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 english printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
And of course Tokyopop is out of business so their whole catalog is in play.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 english printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 english printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
And of course Tokyopop is out of business so their whole catalog is in play.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
And of course Tokyopop is out of business so their whole catalog is in play.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete.
And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
The last volume (10) of the 2009 printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories from is probably the most difficult manga set to complete.
And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.