New ultra-expensive Evangelion boxset from ADV US

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To celebrate Neon Genesis Evangelion's 10th year since debuting in Japan, ADV Films (US) have announced a new boxset of the 26-episode series, priced at a massive $248.

This limited edition set is said to contain an Evangelion jacket, a volume of the Evangelion manga as well as a large amount (of what we assume is previously unreleased) video extras.
 
[Has it all. Everyone on this forum has all of EVA. Unless you're some die hard fan d00d, you'll buy it.]

Yeah... I'm buying it. >_>
 
I want this. I would pay most any price for it. It better come to England

If it doesn't then I may have to import. (0h n0es!)
 
ADV are fairly squeezing out the license of NGE. They'll keep 'adding' extras if people keep buying it. It might have as many versions as Street Fighter 2 (the game) eventually!

Neon Genesis Evangelion 200th year edition with the actual brain behind the series preserved in a pickled jar! $50000 :wink:
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Pah, yes I forgot about that. They could have tried to do a collaboration release so the set would include the movies.

I'll bet the extras are more of those crappy ADV extras like on the Platinum DVD's anyway.

I'd like to point out that the manga won't be the official manga but the Angelic Day's spin off manga based on the second Girlfriend Of Steel game. The Official Eva manga was released by Viz.
 
WTFDaveMustaine said:
I'd like to point out that the manga won't be the official manga but the Angelic Day's spin off manga based on the second Girlfriend Of Steel game. The Official Eva manga was released by Viz.
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I read that it's getting the 1st volume of Angelic Day's and the 1st volume of Viz's release of NGE.
 
Oh joy, shell out $248 then probably pay out something like a further $40 to have the movies as well.
 
Are they just copying the dragonboxes which they had with the dragonball z series, maybe the video extras there will be the komodo mix intro lol
 
What? No blu-ray edition yet?[/sarcasm] I think I'll pass this time.

You have to draw the line somewhere and this lies beyond it. Platinum looks better and sounds better than the old DVDs did; beyond that I'm not prepared to spend that sort of money with my 'to buy' list containing so many other series I haven't seen yet.

Maybe ADV think they can justify this by pointing out that they are just replicating the Japanese follow-up editions (e.g. Platinum's re-release is the Western equivalent of the Japanese Renewal reissue) but what they are really doing is following Gainax's lead of milking a lucrative cash cow for all it's worth. With any luck it will give them some cash for new licences, eh?
 
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