Forum - View topicLimited Editions for Black Lagoon and Haruhi.
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Randall Miyashiro
Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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Does anyone know if either Black Lagoon or Haruhi will have alternate releases for every volume. I tend to be a sucker for special releases for series like Samurai 7, GITS SAC, .hack, Hellsing, and the Funimation/Gonzo digipaks and I noticed that both. I tend not to buy the LE if it is only for one volume that will include an artbox since I throw away my DVD clamshells and have no need for boxes. I do however love the nice looking tins (why only one volume for Mars Daybreak) that sit on my shelf next to the very large Samurai 7 boxes and fancy Funi digipak boxes and the other extras included. I noticed that Bandai has been doing a periodic alternate release for Gundam Destiny, and Eureka 7, but the extras seem mediocre at best. Although I've preordered both Black Lagoon and Haruhi, it isn't to late to cancel (not shipped yet) and order the special editions of volume one. I would definitely order both series in their LE versions if every volume included a bonus disc.
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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According to Con reports (Boston 07) the Black Lagoon LE is suppose to a Tin like Appleseed. Also Rightstuf currently list two different versions for volume 2 of Black Lagoon and I thought I remember hearing somewhere that Bandai is going to offer different SE with each new volume.
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Tony K.
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Moderator Posts: 11300 Location: Frisco, TX |
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That's great to hear about BL, I thought it was just going to be a starter set with Vol.1 having the steelcase packaging, but maybe the additional LEs are to accommodate those DTS tracks.
As for Haruhi, yes, they will be releasing both a Regular and Limited Edition for each volume. Here's how it will go: Reg. Vol.1-4 = the series in chronological order LE Vol.1-4 = the same thing, but with an additional bonus disc for each (after Vol.1) with the series in broadcast order (sub only), plus the artbox and whatever other fancy things they're putting in. I suggest you cancel your orders and get the LEs knowing how you like surround sound (for BL), and I'm sure the Haruhi stuff will also be cool. Better make it fast for Haruhi, though, as the pre-orders will fill up pretty quick, and if you're too late, you might be out of luck. I remember when the LE Vol.1 of Samurai Champloo came out, and boy did those thing disappear fast, same thing for FMP! TSR. |
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Champloo had a few factors going for it, one it's Samurai, two Cowboy Bebop director worked on it, and lastly it aired on [AS] where your you'll reach a large target demographic. I was somewhat shocked by FMP:TSR artbox selling out everywhere. I knew people were excited about FMP but even my local anime store sold out...... I had to go to the land of Ebay and pay MSRP.....
I would hope so I definitely can't wait to see what additional volumes will have for extras...more then anything I want Geneon to announce Second Barrage. |
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frouella
Posts: 199 Location: 大阪 |
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I saw the vol. 1 and 2 Black Lagoon LEs on the Rightstuf website, but it looks like only vol. 1 comes in the tin; volume 2 says it comes with dogtags (doesn't mention a tin at all). Which kinda disappoints the O/C part of my personality, because then all the cases won't match. Unless I'm reading the description wrong, which is altogether possible... Also, at the risk of sounding stupid, what are DTS tracks? |
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Yeah seeing as how the tin is going hold all four dvds for Black Lagoon I don't think that there will be another Tin release for BL, until the sequel that is. |
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Tony K.
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Moderator Posts: 11300 Location: Frisco, TX |
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The way I interpreted the release, the LE Vol.1 will come with a case to hold all the DVDs. I don't know what the packaging for the additional LE releases will be like, but I think the case is a kind of "book" with a few pages of holders to put the discs on, a la Hellsing Ultimate, meaning you'll have extra cases with nothing in them.
A fancy type of surround sound. Most anime don't have them because it costs more money. But the fact they're creating one for the English track means they're putting a lot of work into the release. Since they're making additional LE volumes, I'm guessing it's going to be like Hellsing Ultimate's where they'll have 5.1 Dolby Digital Japanese/English and an extra "North American-only" feature with a newly created DTS 5.1 English language track just for us . Bascially, it'll make the anime louder . And with all that gunfire, action, exploding vehicles, etc., it's gonna' kick butt! I'm just hoping the dub will be good so we won't want to change languages (pretty good acting in Japanese, by the way, and I'm a big fan of Ocean-Vancouver so I really want it to sound great). I don't think they'd specially create this track if they didn't feel the dub was going to suck, though. |
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Asako
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Some players that are only equipped to handle stereo won't handle DTS though It'll look like a silent movie...
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Tony K.
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Moderator Posts: 11300 Location: Frisco, TX |
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Yeah, it took me a while to figure that out. My PS2 said it was DTS capable, but then I played something with DTS and no sound came out. Then I realized I needed an optical cable for the sound system to detect the signal, and it sounds wonderful now. For those of you who are curious about playing DTS encoded DVDs, make sure both your player and sound reciever are capable of detecting it, and in most cases, don't forget that optical cable. |
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selenta
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Posts: 1774 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Yup, I saw the tin at Sakura-con and it does look just like that except the DVDs will go on both sides, of course, since there'll be 4 discs; there should be a matching tin for season two. I'll be honest, they look and feel really nice (unlike the other POS they were intending to use with the rerelease of some of the their older series... had some sort of really low quality dvd-holding pages you could turn like a book. Felt cheap as heck). Considering the biggest and only downside I see to them is that they don't look as large or imposing on the shelf as an artbox or 40 individual cases, that's not too bad. |
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frouella
Posts: 199 Location: 大阪 |
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Oh, I see what you mean now. It looks cool and all, but I guess I don't see the reason for making a special case when the dvds already come in a case (in other words, I don't know if I'll be shelling out the extra cash for this). Nothing against the LE, it's just that I'm buying this for the series that's on the discs, not what the discs are in. Now an artbox that all of the cases would fit in, on the other hand... Oh well -- maybe if I have an unexpected windfall before May 22nd, I'll splurge. As for the DTS issue:
Thanks for clearing that up! I thought it was probably "digital" something or other, but it would've taken me forever to figure out the rest of it. And thanks to Asako for pointing out that it doesn't work in some systems, because yeah, that would be me, the one with the lame non-DTS capable system... |
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Kruszer
Posts: 7983 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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We're getting 4 episodes a DVD actually according to this thread so it'll be 3 discs since each season is 12 episodes unless they changed it since then. The 4th slot is supposed to hold a bunus disc of extra goodies. . |
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selenta
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Posts: 1774 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Ah, you're right of course, I guess the way I said it does sound misleading. |
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DuelLadyS
Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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Honestly, I'm a bit annoyed with the Haruhi LEs right now... I love LEs, but I can't say I'm looking forward to paying $60 a pop for the show. I'd rather lose some of the extras (I'll never use that armband!) and get a lower price... $40-$45 each would be lovely.
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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You have to recoup the cost of the show somehow, and it looks like Bandai guess correctly that lots of people were going to want that extremely expensive LE first volume and probably upcoming volumes as well. |
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