Gungrave Japanese dvd 7& 8 release as well as a pic of the 1st dvd

[beck]

Sorry for slacking on updating the pics to the Japanese covers. I also realized while looking back in the past entries that I didn't even make a post regarding the 1st one so I'm just adding it in here and for good reason too.

The 1st dvd cover:



Did anyone else notice that we were jipped on the cover for the US release? Why did they take off the pic of Brandon and Harry? Yet the pic with Grave is the same. *scratches head*


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With all these really nice covers for the dvds, I don't think that the US releases will be able to use all of them since the Japanese dvds have between 2-3 eps each on theirs, their set will be much bigger and longer than what the US will be. As stated before, there will be a total of 7 dvds for the US, where as already Japan is up to 8 and that covers eps. 15 and 16.

Comments

[baikautsugi.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the box. Maybe Geneon will give away a foldable/collapsable version of this 2nd box (vs. the solid box that came with the first volume) with the last volume of the domestic release. They could call it an "alternate box" ^_~ It'd be much more flimsy than the first box but you'd get the choice of storing the dvds in either boxes (Yes, I'm being silly...)

That's right! I forgot about the "Wolf's Rain" dvd covers.

Now that I think of it, Bandai is doing a rather good job of keeping original dvd art. This goes back to your talk about our "lesser DVDs", but for their release of "Argento Soma" they compensated for this by having double-sided cover art sheets. So, our volume 3 comes with the cover art for probably what was the cover art for the Japanese volume 6 & 7.

Yeah, the GW DVD box art is gorgeous. (Again, more Art Deco/Art Nouveau style material.) Apparently when they first came out, the covers caught the attention of some design magazines in Japan which until then had absolutely nothing to do with animé.

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

Pfft! It would be nice if they would offer us the 2nd box but hell, if they can't offer us reversible covers, I doubt that they'd use their heads on the 2nd box.

I think that for the most part, now a days, these companies are using their heads to use the original Japanese art covers. I know they kept that for the FMP! covers (shocking)

Just wish that Bandai would offer a new change of covers for the GW dvds, but then again if they re-issued those dvds just for that, I'd be pissed or they should allow those who have the dvds to do a trade in. *lol*

[baikautsugi.livejournal.com]

Actually, Bandai has been reissuing a lot of their older titles as "Complete Collection"s this past year... Not like you wanted to hear that, right? ^_^;