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Dick Smith earns its reputation on electronics: laptops, headphones, TVs and mainstream gaming hardware, backed by fast NZ shipping and a name Kiwis have trusted for decades. That range runs out fast once you're after anime figures, Pop! Vinyls, manga or TCG singles — pop culture merch sits on Dick Smith's shelves as an afterthought, not a category. The best Dick Smith alternative for...

Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond is the samurai epic other manga get compared to, not the other way round: the art is unmatched, the pacing is meditative rather than rushed, and the story digs deep into Miyamoto Musashi's mind instead of just his swordwork. Its ceiling is real too — the series has sat on hiatus since 2015, leaving readers with a masterpiece that stops mid-story....

Kmart NZ stocks Funko Pops and blind boxes on its shelves, and for a casual pickup between the school uniforms and the homewares aisle, that convenience is real. The ceiling shows up fast: Kmart's pop culture range is whatever fits an endcap that season, restocks are unpredictable, and there's no depth in trading card games, manga, or specialist blind box lines like Smiski or...