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Had a £7 Amazon promo code from uploading a pic of my friends cat to Amazon photo storage, and couldn't think of anything better to get, so got the SSSS Gridman CE set for a shade under £40.

The box that came with the main one was a bit battered (the one that contains the art cards and things) but only the bluray and the artbook fit inside the main case, and that seemed fine to me.

Tad annoying they didn't make the box fit everything inside it, for safe shipping and storage if nothing else. What do the rest of you lot do with the Gridman set do with the extra box?

Bit of a blind buy as I haven't seen it yet, but I usually get on alright with the Trigger releases.

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Lordhippos said:
The box that came with the main one was a bit battered (the one that contains the art cards and things) but only the bluray and the artbook fit inside the main case, and that seemed fine to me.

Tad annoying they didn't make the box fit everything inside it, for safe shipping and storage if nothing else. What do the rest of you lot do with the Gridman set do with the extra box?
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This has become standard practice for the funimation/manga sets and it's so annoying! I hate it so much. Mine are just tucked away on a low shelf out of the way most of the time. I have 8 of them! And most have received some amount of wear and tear.
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WMD said:
This has become standard practice for the funimation/manga sets and it's so annoying! I hate it so much. Mine are just tucked away on a low shelf out of the way most of the time. I have 8 of them! And most have received some amount of wear and tear.
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Yes your Gridman one looks a bit like mine, squashed! I'm wondering whether to start the practice of keeping them or not. I guess most people buy them for the box and the artbooks and stuff more than stickers/cards or keychains.
 
Lordhippos said:
Yes your Gridman one looks a bit like mine, squashed! I'm wondering whether to start the practice of keeping them or not. I guess most people buy them for the box and the artbooks and stuff more than stickers/cards or keychains.
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Yeah. I like to put the keychains, pins and stuff like that on display but the art cards and stickers stay in the boxes. Ultimately I keep them as I know I'll move one day and they'll be useful for packing and sorting stuff out.
 
WMD said:
Yeah. I like to put the keychains, pins and stuff like that on display but the art cards and stickers stay in the boxes. Ultimately I keep them as I know I'll move one day and they'll be useful for packing and sorting stuff out.
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I just use a spare CE art box to house all my spare bit, although mainly art cards and art books (Current box is only Blu ray size so any DVD sized one also doens't work), which doesn't really help for the random sized things like key chain, ect
 
I can somewhat see the logic of packing the usable items separately. If they are genuinely removed and used, I can imagine the gaping holes in the CEs being annoying, and there being no need for the superfluous packaging after. No good of it doesn't protect the items in transit though. Also, the real gem in the package, being the anime, can remain nicely packaged and presentable.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
I can somewhat see the logic of packing the usable items separately. If they are genuinely removed and used, I can imagine the gaping holes in the CEs being annoying, and there being no need for the superfluous packaging after. No good of it doesn't protect the items in transit though. Also, the real gem in the package, being the anime, can remain nicely packaged and presentable.
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Yeah but I don't see why the CE box cant be big enough to fit the extras box inside it. Then everything would fit even if you took stuff out of the extras box and it could all go back in and the extras box would be protected.
 
WMD said:
Yeah but I don't see why the CE box cant be big enough to fit the extras box inside it. Then everything would fit even if you took stuff out of the extras box and it could all go back in and the extras box would be protected.
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Yeah that's a good point. Difficult one, if I didn't have shelf storage limits I would completely agree and expect that, but as I do have real estate issues I often avoid the much nicer CEs, except for absolute favourites (or irresistible deals!), in favour of the slimmer standard editions.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
Yeah that's a good point. Difficult one, if I didn't have shelf storage limits I would completely agree and expect that, but as I do have real estate issues I often avoid the much nicer CEs, except for absolute favourites (or irresistible deals!), in favour of the slimmer standard editions.
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I guess if you look at some of the oldschool DVD CE's take up a lot of room, and it boils down to whether people consider some of the extras as consumables or part of the CE set.

I personally value Box/Bluray then things like artboxes. Artcards and keyrings don't mean much to me, but they may for the next recipient of my box.

I agree with @WMD though, if any doubt it would be nice if they made the box big enough to hold it all.
 
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Yukikaze soundtrack. The music is a weird mix of synth and...acid jazz? I'm not great at identifying music subgenres.

Thanks to the overpriced racket known as the eBay Global Shipping Program, I ended up paying $34 in shipping and customs fees on top of the cost of the CD. On the other hand, the jewel case arrived miraculously intact, despite only being packaged in a jiffy bag.

The biggest disappointment was discovering that this isn't the complete soundtrack. There's a second volume, but that one only has 8 tracks, so I probably won't bother trying to hunt that down. Neither includes the catchy end song, RTB (Return to Base), but fortunately that's on iTunes.
 
Jon O Fun said:
Really didn't like it and isn't a Ghibli film so I don't feel too bad about it (technically neither is Nausicaa but that's good!) 😂
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I have to agree there, what parts of Red Turtle did Ghibli do as I thought that even the animation wasn't done by them but then I'm probably wrong... Nausicaa at least has Miyazaki & co behind it so I would also count that in that Ghibli catalogue heh.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
I have to agree there, what parts of Red Turtle did Ghibli do as I thought that even the animation wasn't done by them but then I'm probably wrong... Nausicaa at least has Miyazaki & co behind it so I would also count that in that Ghibli catalogue heh.
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I don't know how much of Red Turtle they actually did or if it was a 'slap your name on this it'll sell more' situations.
With Nausicaa, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but Miyazaki directed it for Topcraft then later bought Topcraft and renamed it Ghibli so "technically" it is a Ghibli film.
Kind of like how as Disney bought Fox they can now say Aliens is a Disney film... "technically" it's correct 🤷‍♂️
 
Jon O Fun said:
I don't know how much of Red Turtle they actually did or if it was a 'slap your name on this it'll sell more' situations.
With Nausicaa, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but Miyazaki directed it for Topcraft then later bought Topcraft and renamed it Ghibli so "technically" it is a Ghibli film.
Kind of like how as Disney bought Fox they can now say Aliens is a Disney film... "technically" it's correct 🤷‍♂️
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Heheh you make a fair point with that Disney analogy. And for Red turtle I was also under the impression it was a case of 'slap your name on this it'll sell more'.
 
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