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I never understood why public raws were so bad. With anime, generally what you pirate is what is released (whether that's ripped from the bluray or just from some streaming site) but with public raws they're often shrunk and plastered with watermarks. Imagine if every anime encode you could find on nyaa had some sort of watermark on it (or all you could get was 480p). It's not just a case of people spending money on it and so they watermark it, because someone has to buy the bluray to rip from the bluray for an anime too. It seems like it's mostly the same few people running the manga sites with the shitty raws too.

Though there's a few series I'm reading that the Japanese site is kind of like MangaPlus where a few chapters are free and then put behind a paywall as more chapters are released. So in those cases you can get it straight from the source in good quality.