Tokyo Revelations II
Jan. 19th, 2008 09:01 am1. No packaging. What. The. Hell.
No, I'm serious.
The first Tokyo Revelations disc came in a nice, standard-sized DVD case with a CLAMP-illustrated wraparound cover. The second disc? No case. No cover illustration. Just a sheet of cardboard with a slight indendation for the disc to sit in.
I'm serious.
No, even worse: The box in which the combined DVD/manga package is sold has a little window so that you can see the DVD disc. The exposed DVD disc. There is no clear plastic window on the box, no protection, no nothing. Just a hole in the box that completely exposes the DVD disc. And these boxes are being sold without shrink wrap or anything - just stacked in bookstores, as they are, with all of those exposed DVDs rubbing against each other.
What the hell, guys. Just what the hell.
ETA: Okay, I'm an idiot. It turns out that the DVD case that came with the first Tokyo Revelations box actually has space for THREE DISCS inside of it. You have to actually lift up the liner materials to see the extra disc slots, which of course, for some reason, I never did. Oh well. I still think it's a bit odd to be fitting three DVD discs into one DVD case, but... I guess it will save me shelf space in the long run?
Anyway, continuing with my original post...
2. Still no animation in the opening credits sequence. Oh come on, Production I.G. I had hoped that the first "opening sequence" was a fake-out and that we would get to see a *real* opening sequence as the OAV progressed. No such luck.
So, um, did they blow their budget on twenty-five minutes of animation? Is that why we get no opening sequence, just a song being played over a black background? Is that why we got no DVD case?!
The episode itself was pretty good, though. It's a faithful adaptation ofthe last a really good part of the manga. Plus a few extra little touches were added - Syaoran's moment of hesitation at the end, Kurogane's (ahem) body language when he was holding Fay, a few extra lines of exposition for Yuuko that hint at Fay's to-be-revealed-later backstory. The addition of the squish glorp sound effects during That One Scene, however, I could have lived without. Also, the final shot of Kurogane, which I think was supposed to be dramatic, except that the animators drew him kind of cross-eyed.
No, I'm serious.
The first Tokyo Revelations disc came in a nice, standard-sized DVD case with a CLAMP-illustrated wraparound cover. The second disc? No case. No cover illustration. Just a sheet of cardboard with a slight indendation for the disc to sit in.
I'm serious.
No, even worse: The box in which the combined DVD/manga package is sold has a little window so that you can see the DVD disc. The exposed DVD disc. There is no clear plastic window on the box, no protection, no nothing. Just a hole in the box that completely exposes the DVD disc. And these boxes are being sold without shrink wrap or anything - just stacked in bookstores, as they are, with all of those exposed DVDs rubbing against each other.
What the hell, guys. Just what the hell.
ETA: Okay, I'm an idiot. It turns out that the DVD case that came with the first Tokyo Revelations box actually has space for THREE DISCS inside of it. You have to actually lift up the liner materials to see the extra disc slots, which of course, for some reason, I never did. Oh well. I still think it's a bit odd to be fitting three DVD discs into one DVD case, but... I guess it will save me shelf space in the long run?
Anyway, continuing with my original post...
2. Still no animation in the opening credits sequence. Oh come on, Production I.G. I had hoped that the first "opening sequence" was a fake-out and that we would get to see a *real* opening sequence as the OAV progressed. No such luck.
So, um, did they blow their budget on twenty-five minutes of animation? Is that why we get no opening sequence, just a song being played over a black background? Is that why we got no DVD case?!
The episode itself was pretty good, though. It's a faithful adaptation of
