Shonen Jump

[Andromeda18_]

It seems that the French already has a leg-up on anime, being many volumes ahead of the English version; for example, the French version of "One Piece" was already up to 20 volumes when I visited Quebec this past March (shame the first 14 volumes were printed western style). I also sampled the "Super Gals" manga (up to 4 volumes in French as of March 2004; English version starts 2/2005), and thought it was pretty good.

I guess if you can't get the gist out of Japanese, French would probably be the best second choice.

For me it is because I pay an average of $8 per volume while a volume imported from the US costs me about $16.5. As far as variety of titles goes the US are rapidly catching up with France. I usually order from the US titles that either don't exist in French or that will be published in the US first (like XXXHolic, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and Berserk).