Note: this is an old article and probably needs some historical context. The jist is that at one point this series was extremely popular and a hot seller for DMP, driven off the popularity of the mangaka’s other work Ten Count, and they tried to either save a buck or speed up the printing process by using the “print on demand” method, which gave them questionable results that were much-lampooned online at the time. June later lost the license to this series and SuBLime republished it in omnibus format in a rare license rescue endeavor, making June’s edition not as valuable or sought after as it used to be.
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Thanks to Seven Days, I haven’t heard so much hullabaloo about the reprints of a yaoi series since Junjo Romantica. The yaoi forums and blogs I follow lit up with more fife about this than CNN did about the most recent North Korean nuke launch. And you can guess which one was a more important issue, I’m sure. But seriously, I wanted to know if the quality discrepancy was really as big as people were saying. If you’re a regular reader, you know that I buy/sell/trade a lot of yaoi and manga in general, and I just happened to have the reprints come down that stream last month. So I decided to compare them to the original printings in my collection and inform you on the findings. Are you in the market for this ridiculously expensive and sought after series thanks to Ten Count, and aren’t sure how many fecks to give about the issue? Hit the jump to find out!
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