Nijigahara Holograph is a title I've looked forward to reading for some time. It ran out of print in hardcover, and used copies of the book were selling for $80 or $100. When I finally got around to getting a copy, it still cost $27 in hardcover, quite a lot for manga. But this is a little more than the usual manga; it's art. Plus, whenever a rare book like this gets reprinted, I usually pick up a copy. Jodorowsky, Moebius, and Oesterheld books have fetched hundreds of dollars.
But Nijigahara Holograph is something I would've read if it hadn't been rare; that's the difference. I've read tons of Inio Asano, the creator, and this might be his best work. He works with slice of life sort of stories, and he's very heavily based in music and the arts. In Nijigahara Holograph, he takes on bullying with two separate timelines. It isn't the easiest manga to follow, but it's very rewarding.
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