What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

WMD said:
I saw it.

Incidentally the info sheet wrap around is cardboard and stuck down with glue dots (4 in my case) so be careful removing it.

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Aww you rock dude, I'm stupid I forgot the arm thing, I'm sorry.

Thank you! 🙏

I was wondering about the case, but it's amaray, of course I shouldn't have expected any different from Manga, lol. Looks good, overall! Excited to get mine
 
João Gomes said:
Aww you rock dude, I'm stupid I forgot the arm thing, I'm sorry.

Thank you! 🙏

I was wondering about the case, but it's amaray, of course I shouldn't have expected any different from Manga, lol. Looks good, overall! Excited to get mine
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No worries. I was going to work my way into anyway. I'm getting quite capable with just my left hand now.

Incidentally the cannon busters set has a paper wrap around sheet that goes over the top and bottom and also has a bunch of glue dots including the middle back of the set. So another one to be careful with. 1619174518162311069013867922604.jpg
 
Shadow Cat said:
Do we know if Clannad uses the same Sentai disks?
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It's a mix between Madman authoring and the old 2011 & 2012 Sentai encodes. The big spot is due to the font size which in the older Sentai sets were known for being quite large (and you can also notice this in the Funimation streams last year). The 2017 & 2020 Sentai encodes reduced the size and other things.
 
Clannad CE

Man those glue dots were fairly insidious, 4 of them as @WMD mentioned, 2 on the front of the card wrap and 2 on the back near the top. I'm going to carefully use a slightly damp cloth to clean the last bits of glue off. The glue seemed stronger that it needed to be, most of them peel off fairly easily.

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AOL finally shipped my Planetes CE, I just hope it doesn't get swallowed up in the Royal Mail hole that my Violet Evergarden CE is stitting in right now. I'm really tempted to buy another pair of them directly from AtA and pay the dang £25 shipping just in case something gets lost and the sets are sold out before I can get a replacement.
 
No surprises as about everyone has received these, but I also got Planetes (Collector's Edition) and Violet Evergarden (Collector's Edition) (or is it Violent Evergarden ;)) in the last two days, inclusive VAT and hostage costs from the local postal services.

Oh BTW only one stamp pack in Violet Evergarden, but luckily enough the discs are VER2 so the correct ones .... oef.

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Lordhippos said:
Clannad CE

Man those glue dots were fairly insidious
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Got mine today as well, happy days, and yes that glue is punishing and made me feel bad for ruining the wraparound in the process. I would've much preferred the art covers swapped front to back (less scary eyes and prettier fantasy background) similar to my Sentai SE:
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On comparison, it was as @NormanicGrav stated in another thread,
NormanicGrav said:
Going by the Funimation streams (which evidently came true for CLANNAD), the K-On! discs Manga currently have (atm) are the old Bandai Entertainment masters for Season 1 (which were released in four parts, hence 4 Blu-ray discs) and the old Sentai Filmworks collection disc masters for Season 2 (which received two parts, hence 4 Blu-ray discs also) as well as the old Sentai release for K-On! the Movie (the same one Manga released on Blu-ray years ago).

Sentai are known in recent years for basically improving their releases for every re-release. The Ultimate Collection release, which is 7 discs in total, improves on most of the issues (I believe there's an audio issue in Season 2 that wasn't fixed in the re-author but everything else was improved for the better). Also remember those K-On! shorts that were initially exclusive to the Japanese Blu-ray box? That's included in the Ultimate Collection release.
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that this Manga version of Clannad is less polished with larger subtitle text and also does not have the extra mini arcs and episodes that are included in the Sentai discs, for the completionists out there. Maybe I'll swap the Sentai case into the Manga packaging heh.
 
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