Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-25034020-20171216114835/@comment-26868869-20171231162158

The early volumes were usually directly released instead of publishing the Nakayoshi chapters. For example, the movie tankobons were directly released in 2006ish, but the Max Heart and Splash Star Nakayoshi chapters were only released in 2015. This is because Nakayoshi wanted you to buy their magazines and all other Precure manga were "extra". The early format was smaller and the page amount differed strongly. Extras and special editions didn't exist. From Fresh on, the series were published in large magazine books, not tankobons. This changed from HCPC on. In 2014+, tankobons of earlier series started to be rolled out. Adaptions that closely followed the series only received one tankobon, 13 chapters were squeezed in one volume, so the page amount is higher of course.