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Summary: An effort to salvage this reviewspace...
Review: For those not informed in the ways of anime, a thirteen-episode show, like Abenobashi or Serial Experiments: Lain is distributed on four discs. This is just the way it is, and you pay more for a better picture (for comparison, check out the Fox DVDs. Picture quality is still good, but artifacting tends to show up more often due to the lower bitrates.)As for this particular disc, the second episode, featuring a 20s-era crime world, and the third episode, detailing the past of the older generations are the gems. I would actually rate this about 4.25, but I fear that this disc would be damaged by the review below. Again, I do love this series. Truly a delicious viewing experience.
Rating:
Summary: An effort to salvage this reviewspace...
Review: For those not informed in the ways of anime, a thirteen-episode show, like Abenobashi or Serial Experiments: Lain is distributed on four discs. This is just the way it is, and you pay more for a better picture (for comparison, check out the Fox DVDs. Picture quality is still good, but artifacting tends to show up more often due to the lower bitrates.) As for this particular disc, the second episode, featuring a 20s-era crime world, and the third episode, detailing the past of the older generations are the gems. I would actually rate this about 4.25, but I fear that this disc would be damaged by the review below. Again, I do love this series. Truly a delicious viewing experience.
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Summary: Great Anime
Review: Unlike the previous review, I think that hte anime is priced quite well if you considar Japanese prices which are usually roughly 58.00 and have about 2 episodes. So you need to get you're ignorant ass and shut it up cause you SUCK
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Summary: Great Anime
Review: Unlike the previous review, I think that hte anime is priced quite well if you considar Japanese prices which are usually roughly 58.00 and have about 2 episodes. So you need to get you're ignorant ass and shut it up cause you SUCK
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Summary: Great anime, bad marketing practices
Review: When rating the second DVD volume of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi I have to consider it from two different perspectives. If I were just rating it based on artwork, comedy, drama and action then I could easily have given it 5 stars. But the fact is that I feel like I have been ripped off by the American studio, now let me tell you why. Animes are already overpriced, with an average of only four episodes on them, when they could just as easily put an entire short series on a single DVD, like Shamanic Princess; 9 episodes would be the standard in an ethical industry. But this DVD fails to meet even that standard, it only has 3 episodes on it but the price is the same as the previous one with 4. Now lets look at it on the basis of regular anime factors. The artwork is great in this series, of course its hard to find an anime without great (or at least good) art. The episodes on this DVD add much to the Abenobashi storyline, the viewer gets background on the adults which show up in the, "game worlds." The comedy is also very good, and seems to spoof real video games, such as people deflating when being shot, that reminded me of Mario. I really wish I could give this DVD five stars, but I cannot get over how A.D. Vision has ripped off anime fans around the country.
Rating:
Summary: Great anime, bad marketing practices
Review: When rating the second DVD volume of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi I have to consider it from two different perspectives. If I were just rating it based on artwork, comedy, drama and action then I could easily have given it 5 stars. But the fact is that I feel like I have been ripped off by the American studio, now let me tell you why. Animes are already overpriced, with an average of only four episodes on them, when they could just as easily put an entire short series on a single DVD, like Shamanic Princess; 9 episodes would be the standard in an ethical industry. But this DVD fails to meet even that standard, it only has 3 episodes on it but the price is the same as the previous one with 4. Now lets look at it on the basis of regular anime factors. The artwork is great in this series, of course its hard to find an anime without great (or at least good) art. The episodes on this DVD add much to the Abenobashi storyline, the viewer gets background on the adults which show up in the, "game worlds." The comedy is also very good, and seems to spoof real video games, such as people deflating when being shot, that reminded me of Mario. I really wish I could give this DVD five stars, but I cannot get over how A.D. Vision has ripped off anime fans around the country.
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