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My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:01 pm
by Shamisen
1030 CDT This morning the UPS guy Bangs on the front door and lo and behold,

Right Stuff has blessed me with this big box.

Containing One Catalog and One Special Haruhi Disc Set!!

Still to be opened.... :D

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:48 pm
by Nagato
キタァァァァ!!!! \(^o^)/


Mine is still unopened as well. Another post when I've passed judgment on the dub.

The box sure is pretty and sturdy, though :D

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:11 pm
by Dragon
Amazon emailed me saying that mine should arrive tomorrow!!! :D
I should have something to play with tomorrow night...

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:53 am
by Nagato
Oh dear...
The dub is actually pretty good.

Kyon is just hilarious. They really localized him well, since sarcasm in English and sarcasm in Japanese are conveyed very differently. Crispin Freeman did a wonderful job as well; I especially enjoyed things like 'Yay!'

Haruhi... is going to take some acclimating. She's not bad, just very different in delivery from Aya's Haruhi. SHE certainly immersed herself in the character, which is probably the most important thing if you want good acting. In fact, my biggest gripe was that "or slider" got cut for some incomprehensible reason. That'll be weird if/when they animate the rest of the novels.

Yuki I thought was all right at first, but once she got into her spiel in the third (second?) episode, I got a little worried. Yuki is supposed to be unemotional, but Michelle Ruff's delivery was just too flat; robotic, even - like she's trying way too hard to sound unemotional and she's going overboard. Refer to Rei's VA's performance for a teaching case on how to play the emotionless quiet one. I'm a bit worried about the upcoming episodes, actually.

Mikuru I loved at first, as well. In fact, it wasn't until the fourth (third?) episode that she really faltered: when she gets that serious look on her face and tells Kyon she needs to tell him something. Her voice should have become ever-so-slightly deeper when she said this and in her subsequent partial explanation on the bench. Yuko Goto played within just the right range and differentiated well between 'funny time' and 'serious time,' but Stephanie Sheh played for funny the whole way. However, I don't think anyone could have pulled off Mikuru better, so I suppose any complaints are moot.

Itsuki was wonderful. He nailed that 'guy's so fake I wanna break his nose with a semi truck' tone, and he really sounded like he loved listening to the sound of his own voice. I really don't have any complaints here.

Tsuruya... oh wow. I can already tell that the amount of screentime she gets won't be enough. Brilliant casting and acting right here.

Taniguchi and Kunikida were also superbly casted and acted. Again, no complaints.

Asakura had more lines than I thought I remembered. She gave a great performance with her 'needle in the chocolate' voice. Definitely looking forward to the next episode.

The cat was great, Kyon's sister was great... heck, everybody was great. I'm very critical of dubs, and despite that over-enunciated thing that plagues just about every dub ever made (I think it's due to the way they record here), I have few gripes to make. Everyone deserves a round of applause for their very bad acting in Mikuru Legend of Love Episode 00, as well.


I seriously can't get over how awesome this box is. They've stuck artwork and random stuff that appears to be that background text from Nagato's soliloquy in her apartment (in Japanese, no less) everywhere they could fit, so there's no negative space hanging around anywhere besides the space filler boxes. Which reminds me: it took me a bit to find my extras. They're stashed in the box under the DVD, not in the drawer (I has some trouble getting that drawer out the first time) - presumably to accommodate the pencil board and iron-on badge, which are too large for the drawer. The drawer appears large enough to hold about five CD's (OP, ED, Haruhi, Mikuru, and Yuki), which is good planning, but where am I supposed to store my ribbon :P? Ooh, and the coolest surprise: the doors are held closed by magnets embedded in the cardboard. How cool is that? Speaking of cardboard, this stuff is thick. I'm talking 1/8th of an inch, at least. The box itself, completely empty, weighs as much as four DVD's in their slipcases. I think this may be the highest quality R1 release an anime has ever gotten. It was well worth the money. That's not praise that I just throw around, either.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:56 am
by Kei
Good to hear, good to hear.

Still waiting for mine to arrive.... HURRY UP, MR. MAILMAN!!!

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:18 pm
by Dragon
Thank you Nagato for the excellent evaluation! I have assimilated digital optical reference data to coincide with your diagnosis. Warning... Warning... Warning... Digital optical reference data was originally collected in a format far too large for Project Haruhi storage facilities to handle without error or data corruption. Thus all following data files have been reduced in size accordingly.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:32 am
by Kei
Impressive. Most impressive.

Mine arrived too. :)

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:41 pm
by bluemercury
mine finally arived. it took forever. but well worth the wait.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:03 pm
by Soruk
Mine finally arrived on Saturday just over a week ago. No complaints - though it did indirectly tell me my earlier attempt to region-free my portable DVD player had failed. (It works now.)

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:15 am
by Kei
Second DVD is apparently out... but I'll have to wait until Friday to order mine. :(

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:00 pm
by Nagato
キタァァ!!! \(^o^)/

Although I haven't actually gotten around to opening the package yet :P

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:12 pm
by Nagato
Dubelposten :o

Currently on the lookout for an opportunity to wear that armband in public :D
Double-sided pencil board features double-sided Mikuru raep. I guess this goes behind the first pencil board...
DVD art does not indicate which is the bonus disc (though I assume it's the one on the left), which may cause heads to be scratched.
Bouken Desho Desho? CD - meh, this single was my least favorite. Apparently a bunch of the peripheral character's CD's are coming over (Imouto, Kyon, etc.), which makes me wonder why my awesome drawer will only fit six CD's when twelve will be available :?
It all came in a pretty box, but since everything except the armband fits into the series' box, what am I supposed to do with it?

Tonight will be made of much DVD watching :D

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:20 pm
by Shamisen
GRRR!

I get to Best Buy tonight and what do I find ??

Both Volumes Limited Edition and Regular Versions

Priced very competitive
$49.99 Vol 1
$44.99 Vol 2
$19.95 for each regular edition... :shock:

My Volume 2 Limited Edition is en route from Amazon..... Due soon... :!:

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:11 am
by Nagato
The heck? RightStuf is charging $49 for the LE's.
Of course, the closest Best Buy is 40 minutes one way, so by the time I expend the fuel getting there... :x

Still haven't actually watched my DVD :P

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:01 pm
by Dragon
Best buy here didn't have any of those yet.. yet...
Amazon says my LE of Haruhi disc 2 has been delivered, but since I'm not home at the moment I have to wait... :(

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:09 pm
by Soruk
My LE DVD2 *finally* arrived last week. And, for a second time running I didn't get charged the customs fee.

And I think I've figured out why. 8)

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:30 am
by Dragon
Wow.. both lucky and unlucky...

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:37 pm
by Kilocmdr Lin
Soruk wrote:My LE DVD2 *finally* arrived last week. And, for a second time running I didn't get charged the customs fee.

And I think I've figured out why. 8)
I know why, thick knee pads.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:37 am
by lazysunside
I have no money ..... :(

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:54 am
by Soruk
I now have all 4 LE discs, the last one arrived earlier this month. Again no customs charge, and the last one was less than $30 including shipping to the UK :wink:

(Occasionally, Amazon screwing up the pricing on an unreleased item can be dead handy.)

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:42 pm
by Taiga
Link to best supplier, anyone? I have money... and this is something I've been meaning to get... but haven't. x3

I doubt I'll bother with the dub, myself. I've watched the sub version... dub'll never satisfy now. If i have dub... i watch it BEFORE sub, so as not to compare.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:22 pm
by Soruk
In the UK, United Publications (http://www.up1.co.uk) have them. They also have a sale running at the moment. (I'd link to the page with the items but this BB software seems to have taken a dislike to their search page URLs.)

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:28 pm
by Suzonri
I barely only have one. I'll probably blow off all my money on the remaining three evantually. :D

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:36 am
by Nagato
Hmm...
The Shameless Repackaging of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:56 am
by Kei
Nagato wrote:Hmm...
The Shameless Repackaging of Haruhi Suzumiya?
Congratulations, Nagato, you are now...


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:P

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:30 am
by Nagato
You are trying way too hard to pin a nickname on me :P

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:22 am
by Taiga
I dropped myself right in mine =/

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:21 am
by Kei
Nagato wrote:You are trying way too hard to pin a nickname on me :P
Nah, I just really wanted to use that image somewhere.

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:51 pm
by Suzonri
I've got all four. Unfortunely only three of them were LE editions. ¬¬

Re: My DVD Set Has Arrived.. Has Yours ??

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:49 pm
by Taiga
Damn you people. I'd buy them and force them on friends... but since they're NTSC and I can only watch them on a PC... it kinda destroys the point when I have good quality fansubs on my pc O.o