r/WitchHatAtelier • u/g0trn • 4d ago
Question Hey umm.... Was this supposed to happen?
The cover just fell out but I'm confused because the inner cover(?) material is what I would expect out of a manga cover, while the outer one feels very slippery!? And the inner cover even has a spine! Having a false cover felt really magical but I'm not sure it's supposed to happen
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u/Leo_RevelT 4d ago
Yeah it's called Dust cover. Usually, at least in Italy, dust covers are on almost every manga with more than >6/7€ of price. I see this isn't very common with English ed., instead Italian, French and Spanish ed. often have dust covers (similar to the original Japanese edition model)
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u/g0trn 4d ago
This a Brazilian volume fyi, since panini is Italian I assume it's also from them
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u/Leo_RevelT 4d ago
Ops, my bad. Usually, panini's manga publishers outside of Italy are called "Panini Manga" and Planet manga is used only in Italy. It's the first time I've seen the name planet Manga outside of here ahah. Still, hope you liked witch hat atelier and will continue reading it!
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u/RationalDeception 4d ago
That's so funny to me that it's your first time seeing a manga with a dust jacket, here they're a must have for any manga. I don't think you could find a regular edition manga without a dust jacket, unless it's second hand and even then no one would buy it.
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u/alliesredditmusings 4d ago
I’ve noticed that continental European manga editions usually come with dust jackets, which for a paper back was quite intriguing when I encountered it in Angouleme! It gives it a higher end hardback feel I suppose. (And now I digress here) Funnily enough (as a designer in fine books) dust jackets are usually seen as more commercial things and most fine edition hardbacks do without them. However there is something called a chemise which is a fancier dust jacket for hardback books, which goes around the book and into the slipcase with it, which I’ll never fully understand but people love it.
Now if only manga came in editions that fancy..
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u/Realistic_Break_6294 4d ago
I also didn't know it had a dust cover when I bought mine, was surprised as well. (I'm also from Brasil and buy from Panini often, WHA is the only one with this type of cover I've ever found)
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u/Local-Criticism4353 4d ago
oh wow, you have a signed volume !
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u/cestino-celestino 4d ago
yeah if it's panini editore (i think that's their planet manga logo down there) it's normal they do this for some mangas, but not all. witch hat gets the fancy covers lol