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This is the most standard edition for mass sales, it's good value for the price and consumers have proven so time and time again. American publishers do not use better paper (or not much better anyway) for the same version even at 2x-3x the price, it's plain robbery.
For comparison based on what I own, this volume is B6 ￥770 for 256 pages with the second worst quality (worst being A6 books).
An Aokishi issue is around ~550 pages at ￥660 ~ 700 with the best quality for magazines I've ever seen, you can feel about twice the extra thickness, there's no bleed through even under a camera flash, and I've turned on the lights as well as picked a darker page underneath. Paper texture also looks better to me than a B6, with less visible grains and a bit more clear (whiter so to say). Yona Yona Yona from the same magazine is B5 at ￥1320 for 200 pages with similar paper quality. (This did not sell well and there were comments about the pricing being a factor)
Kill Me Baby 15 is A5 at ￥900 for 120 pages. Probably the best quality you can get from commercial manga. Almost feels like touching cardstock, and the paper is very white with very little grains visible (you have to really look closely).
Why shouldn't people complain at this staggering difference in value offering when the only thing they add on is the translation while losing other features such as obi, dustcover, bonuses.
I have the French version of a B6 series also at around double the price, but at least I can stomach it since they keep the dustcovers, they add an obi of their own, and the paper quality is about the Aokishi level (much improved over the original publication). They even add more art to the dustcovers because the barcode area is much smaller
Note that my camera might just be shit so all of them look dimmer when all pages are much more white under human eyes.
