I’ve got the JP Perspex box version, and the disc holder part in that is pretty similar to the card version pictured; a blue ‘book’ of disc trays.
As far as I remember, this is the first time I've seen the Zavvi set, I inferred how the plain blue fit the themes of the show but looking at this I can now see why the new art is dissapointing by comparison; this captures both the emptiness of the blue box on it's upper left side while also setting the tone for the angel battles with it's emergency hexagons all while making a new viewer question "what is the emergency?".
The MVM one has a further annoyance (for me) in that at least a couple of the titles have been in recent DOTW or sale listings (or both) - I would have hoped / expected that a ‘blind’ bundle not include any recent promotional items…
On the note of the ADV dub; I read that it was not included in the standard edition, if this is true then it creates an issue where it limits the amount of chances people have to experience the original dub, having it included in the standard edition would fix this; I get that it's down to licences and everything but the content on the discs really should be universal as it would give people a stable chance to experience the dub in it's original form.
To my knowledge the reason its not included in standard is because Khara the current rights holder to NGE hates the ADV/Manga versions and probably made AL/Gkids not included in the wider standard edition release, its why in the US you can only get the Netflix dub digitally regardless of the storefront. Its probably why the dubs are split onto two disc sets, it gives them a reason not to have the ADV/Manga dub in the standard edition. Unless there is some other reason that they can't have multiple audio tracks on one disc. since there is a bunch of Anime that have multiple dubs on one disc. (Escaflowne & Castle of Cagliostro)
Nadia will be overpriced. It will use the awful new masters. We'll all preorder the early bird for the pretty box and book. It will be 6 months late minimum. AL will announce a better looking, better value, CE before the UE ships. No-one will bother cancelling the UE and picking up the CE instead because we've already pre-paid for the UE and that would be effort. Rinse and repeat for next christmas's big early bird UE.
It’s weird Ive seen screencaps and it doesn’t look bad, it got some dnr but other than that it’s mostly fine.
Josee might be in the mystery box, according to the first page, if any of them arrive tomorrow then all should be revealed then.
There was a collector's edition that had some items from Rightstuf's Ultra Edition release which were super limited. I have some photos of that.
Thanks for letting me know. It felt like I had seen something previously in the back of my mind. I'm going at this series completely blind, not really knowing much about it. But I heard great things and wanted to give it a shot.
