Metal Slug AES manual, specs?

My Metal Slug AES (JPN) has small white "specs" throughout a lot of the manual cover:

http://i.imgur.com/QtV45WO.jpg

Are these normal?

I'm pretty sure they are, as the specs on my manual match the ones on the slug posted here

I'm pretty confident this Slug is not a boot, but was curious about these specs. Seems SNK just chose "scratchy" artwork for the insert and manual.

I thought you meant "specifications" at first instead of "specks".
Anyway, I think you're right that it was just a sort of gritty feel SNK gave to the artwork.

Duh, specks. Heh, sorry