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Box set was full of defective books that had printing errors and sliced up covers.
I REALLY want to give this five stars (since the story itself is one of the greatest I've ever read). But I have to ding three stars because the box set itself was in awful shape. There were several things wrong with it when I got it:
1) Two of the books in the set had damaged covers. One cover was bent. And one book had a large cut in it's cover & it's first two pages (it looked like the book got sliced with a box cutter).
2) Book #2 in this set had a printing error. The wrong pages were placed near the end of the story. It went from the scene where Shoya and Yuzuru were looking for Shoko and then the next page suddenly had Shoya arguing with Naoka. I know this was an error because that exact scene with Naoka appears in a later volume. So I ended up missing out on at least one chapter in Book#2 because it wasn't printed correctly. I've thought about buying another copy of the second book to replace it. But I don't know if this defect is present on other physical copies sold on Amazon. So I'm afraid to try buying a new one to complete my set
It made me wonder if these box sets were just put together to get rid of defective copies of the manga. Which is a shame because an amazing series like this deserves better.
One good thing I will say is that the extras (Shoko's notebook and the poster) are great and they were some of the few items in this set that weren't marred by printing errors and box-cutter slices. Also, I enjoyed the series immensely despite the fact that two of my books were damaged and I missed out on the last half of Book#2 due to the printing error.
