Upcoming UK Anime DVD Artwork!

[bakum4tsu]

That Perfect Blue set is day one definitely.

 

[ConanThe3rd]

Nice to know that they actually used the Japanese covers for vols 2 - 4, although they should have gone with the Japanese vol 7 cover for part 4 instead. Now all Manga needs to do it re-do the cover for Volume 1 so that it uses the JP volume 1 artwork AND GET RID OF THOSE FEKKING BANNERS :evil:

I concor on those banners, hell even reversing the cover so it's no there would work for me. Just anything to not have "HEY, YOU MORON, THIS **** BE DOUBLE PLAY, YO" stamped on the case's forehead.

 

[NormanicGrav]

 

[fabio de lunatico]

I don't like to be down on Anime Limited because they mean well, but it has be said: that cover design is just dreadful. Whatever they're riffing off of, it's not working for me. There's so much great Bebop artwork out there and we get that? Bleh.

And I'd much rather have the art cards that are exclusive to the DVD set than another booklet of black and white line art.

I think I'm going to wait and see what Funimation come up with.

 

[Mangaranga]

I don't like to be down on Anime Limited because they mean well, but it has be said: that cover design is just dreadful. Whatever they're riffing off of, it's not working for me. There's so much great Bebop artwork out there and we get that? Bleh.

And I'd much rather have the art cards that are exclusive to the DVD set than another booklet of black and white line art.

I think I'm going to wait and see what Funimation come up with.

I never really took any notice of the cover until one of my friends mentioned that it doesn't look nice at all, and I have to agree with them. It does absolutely nothing for me, and it just looks bad compared to the first cover. I'd also rather have the art cards personally since I'm not that interested in Vehicle art. Heck, I haven't even looked at the booklet included with part one yet.

Obviously I'm still going to buy this though. I'll take AL's encodes over Funi's. Recently they've become pretty meh in that regard, although not as bad as Sentai yet. It still bugs me that Funi put in English OP/ED credits and increase the brightness of their releases, as it just makes things like banding even more obvious.

 

[Ath]

I'm glad they're keeping the VHS theme going from Part 1. I'd take a booklet of production artwork over a couple of art cards any day.


Upcoming Ghibli blu-ray steelbooks on Zavvi.

 

[fabio de lunatico]

I was going to get rid of my Bandai DVDs after buying the Blu-rays, but I decided to keep them for the cover art which is about 36498 times better. To be fair, though, they're probably the best DVD covers ever, so whatever Anime Limited came up with would likely have been inferior. (This is how you do an Ed/Ein cover.)

Obviously I'm still going to buy this though. I'll take AL's encodes over Funi's. Recently they've become pretty meh in that regard, although not as bad as Sentai yet. It still bugs me that Funi put in English OP/ED credits and increase the brightness of their releases, as it just makes things like banding even more obvious.

Are Sentai's encodes that bad? I have a very modest set-up so it's likely I wouldn't notice the worst of it, though the banding in K-ON!! was most unsightly. As for Funimation, I prefer the way they do the credits but I can't understand why they mess with the video brightness. It certainly did Lain no favours.

I'm glad they're keeping the VHS theme going from Part 1. I'd take a booklet of production artwork over a couple of art cards any day.

But those art cards are sexy. And while the VHS theme is clever, the novelty quickly wore off and left me longing for some of the show's fantastic character art instead. Those four cards offer more of what I want than the two Blu-ray sets combined.

 

[Ath]

Heh, artcards and especially postcards are the extras I care the least about (though I'm sure I'm in the minority there). Those ones do look nice though. I like behind-the-scenes info and design documents, so the booklet at least gives me a few of those with the vehicle designs, though I would have liked some interviews or production notes. It'd be cool if the disc itself has commentaries again.

I do agree the choice of art itself could have been better though, but I do still like the "Quality High Resolution Video" bit.

 

[SnowWolf]

It still bugs me that Funi put in English OP/ED credits and increase the brightness of their releases, as it just makes things like banding even more obvious.

I applaud them for that. It bugs me that Aniplex and Sentai don't do that. Kanji/Katakana doesn't mean anything to me. I prefer to have credits I can read.

I agree that the Bebop part 2 cover isn't the best, but from this Anime Limited will learn what we want to see in a cover.

I like behind-the-scenes info and design documents, so the booklet at least gives me a few of those with the vehicle designs, though I would have liked some interviews or production notes.

I asked on facebook if we could get more production info and they asked if anyone else felt that way and no one responded.

I think I'm going to wait and see what Funimation come up with.

Or Madman, their's will be coming out next.

 

[jonno394]

I'm probably in the minority but as The spine is all I'll see in my collection I can't say Im too bothered about the cover. its not like i plan on pulling the set out and pouring over the cover art regularly.

I also prefer any booklet to art cards

 

[AntAce]

I'm probably in the minority but as The spine is all I'll see in my collection I can't say Im too bothered about the cover. its not like i plan on pulling the set out and pouring over the cover art regularly.

I also prefer any booklet to art cards

This is something that I'm often confounded by - just how anal some people are about cover artwork. While I understand people wishing for a nice, clean, attractive cover (I'm one of them), I do sometimes think that some of the time, people just like being difficult. For example, the blue banners denoting combo packs; what Manga have done with them is much better than the previous massive arches like we saw on releases such as GiTS: Solid State Society, but yet people still whinge.

Why is this? Whenever I look at the people's collections thread, it's just wall-to-wall spines. Do people gawp at their DVD/BD cases - personally, I own artbooks for that.

 

[Rosencrantz]

I'm probably in the minority but as The spine is all I'll see in my collection I can't say Im too bothered about the cover. its not like i plan on pulling the set out and pouring over the cover art regularly.

I also prefer any booklet to art cards

This is something that I'm often confounded by - just how anal some people are about cover artwork. While I understand people wishing for a nice, clean, attractive cover (I'm one of them), I do sometimes think that some of the time, people just like being difficult. For example, the blue banners denoting combo packs; what Manga have done with them is much better than the previous massive arches like we saw on releases such as GiTS: Solid State Society, but yet people still whinge.

Why is this? Whenever I look at the people's collections thread, it's just wall-to-wall spines. Do people gawp at their DVD/BD cases - personally, I own artbooks for that.

My view is it's the discs that are important, I've bought the show to watch the show, a nice cover is a bonus

 

[fabio de lunatico]

When I look at the Cowboy Bebop Blu-ray on my shelf, my attention is immediately drawn to a big white "A" inside a big blue circle ;_;

For the record, I look at DVD/BD cases whenever I take discs out or put them back. It's kind of hard not to in those circumstances.

For those who don't care about cover art, would you be happy to buy releases packaged in a paper envelope? Why do you think video distributors design covers in the first place and make a big deal out of premium packaging like steelbooks and digipacks?

The frustrating thing is that good cover art is harder to get wrong than it is to get right.

 

[AntAce]

When I look at the Cowboy Bebop Blu-ray on my shelf, my attention is immediately drawn to a big white "A" inside a big blue circle ;_;

For the record, I look at DVD/BD cases whenever I take discs out or put them back. It's kind of hard not to in those circumstances.

For those who don't care about cover art, would you be happy to buy releases packaged in a paper envelope? Why do you think video distributors design covers in the first place and make a big deal out of premium packaging like steelbooks and digipacks?

The frustrating thing is that good cover art is harder to get wrong than it is to get right.

I don't think it's necessarily that a segment of the 'community' don't care about cover artwork - I for one love it. But as time goes on, it appears the measure of what makes cover artwork 'bad' has taken a stroll off a cliff. Of course, a lot of what people feel makes cover artwork good or bad is purely subjective - not to say there aren't objective points that could be made - for instance, the combo banners don't really bother me, while some people hate them with a passion.

As a person who buys a lot of BD/DVDs, I find that the cover art is never going to sway my opinion on buying something either way purely based on the fact I don't blind buy anything.

 

[Ario]

 

[Rosencrantz]

When I look at the Cowboy Bebop Blu-ray on my shelf, my attention is immediately drawn to a big white "A" inside a big blue circle ;_;

For the record, I look at DVD/BD cases whenever I take discs out or put them back. It's kind of hard not to in those circumstances.

For those who don't care about cover art, would you be happy to buy releases packaged in a paper envelope? Why do you think video distributors design covers in the first place and make a big deal out of premium packaging like steelbooks and digipacks?

The frustrating thing is that good cover art is harder to get wrong than it is to get right.

Getting a little silly now

A solid cover is important to attract the eye of those that are not already going to buy. However as already mentioned art is subjective, covers I like others have said are busy, while some I think are rather bland get thumbs up.

Of course you look at the cover when you take the box off your shelf, but you didn't buy the item for the cover, you want to watch the show. If you want the art there are other avenues to get a larger and better quality version of it.

Saying it's easy to get the cover right just doesn't ring true; going off on a tangent a good example would be when I'm at work and read a letter a colleague has written, sometimes I find myself wondering why they phrased things that way when I'd of said it differently. The same applies here, you may prefer things to be done one way while the UK companies have other standards, and we should never forget that covers have to be approved by the licensor back in Japan, and we know they've stopped covers they don't like in the past.

 

[Peachy]

 

[NormanicGrav]

DVD version of Patlabor Mobile Police OVA: Early Days:

 

[Rosencrantz]

Strange the way the Patlabor BD and DvD have the icons at the bottom in different configuartions. Also did I imagine we were getting another on BD or do we not have a cover yet?

 

[Agent-347]

Also did I imagine we were getting another on BD or do we not have a cover yet?

You didn't imagine it, but it got canned because Hanabee used Sentai's discs which are region A+B for their release meaning MVM would have had to author alone which is something they don't seem to be willing to do. I got the US release myself shortly afterwards.