I was shoppin' as usual at the bookstore (well, uh, we have only one o_O; ). Then I suddenly noticed huge amount of english manga. I was like "Wooot, what in the world is this?" since only english manga books I had ever seen in Finland, were in Helsinki (and I live like over 600 kilometers north from Helsinki).
So, I found out there was a contract with Suomalainen (that bookstore, there's few hundred of them in the country) and Del Rey, that was why they got Del Rey manga. I only wish there were a contract like that with Tokyopop and Viz, sigh.
But yeah, there were first volumes of Del Reys every series they started with. I first did not get interested with all those series they had, but I tried almost every of them. Tsubasa vol 1was a third one to try out. And yes, I happened to like it. And yeah, few days before buying TRC, I had already bought xxxholic vol 1.
I still use to buy my Delreys from our bookstore, since I can check their condition before buying - and they are less expensive than in archonia (which is where I buy 90% of my manga). It's so lucky that our store gots newest volumes right away when they are published (or sometimes even before, but that's probably when date is changed).