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Some 00 DVD News
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | 
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OZC
Well, I'm not sure how, but RightStuf shipped me the first part of 00 Season 1 almost 3 weeks early, and I now have it in hand. Here's what I can tell you.
First up, I got the special edition with the first volumes of the 00 manga and 00F. A few glaring translation errors exist in 00F, such as Ian being called "Ivan" once, and Dr. Moreno from the Ptolemaios being referred to as a female. I know his name is Joyce, but he is indeed a guy. I haven't read through the 00 manga yet.
As for the DVD's, here is what I have found. First off, looks like Bandai is cutting costs as hard as possible and have shipped the first 2 discs in a single DVD case. Assuming they continue this trend, the entire series will be 12 discs in 6 cases. Compact, but I'm disappointed because it means we'll get 3 of seven covers for each half of the series, and anyone who has looked at the Japanese covers knows there is some nice artwork there.
Now, for the very disappointing news. They didn't translate the audio commentary. It isn't even on the disc. This, for me, is a huge letdown. Considering they are asking 40 bucks for the SE, to get one standard size DVD case, no insert booklet, no art box, no soundtrack, a severe lack of special features (woo! A set of trailers, "Tactical Forecasts" of upcoming episodes, and clean OP/EDs!), and just the two mangas is damn near a rip off. I can tell you this. If you don't care about the mangas, skip the SE. I still hope people will buy this because I think the severe lack of special features is proof that Bandai is hurting in this economy, and I'd really hate to see my Blu-ray rips hurt sales even further, but skip the SE unless you want the manga. My hope now is that when 00 Season 2 is finished, they'll release a box that will hold 6 discs like the Geass box.
This release doesn't give me a lot of faith in the Geass R2 release either. At least Geass Season 1 got the art box and big slate of special features, and all the mangas and audio dramas. But if they pull this same thing with R2 as they did with 00, there won't be a box or anything and that'll suck.
So, what does all this mean? Well, I'm still going to patch the existing episodes to use the DVD subs. Once that is done, I'll release a patch pack, and the batch torrent will have the updated ones, that way anyone who doesn't want to screw with patching can just download it. If there is anyone out there interested in translating the audio commentary tracks, let me know as I'd love to be able to offer them. The Geass ones have been very popular and I'm certain the 00 commentary would be as well.
The odd thing in this? Part 2 is listed as having audio commentary as a feature. So either it's an incorrect listing or they suddenly decided to do the commentary for part 2. If that's the case, I'm going to be doubly pissed.
So, that's that with the status of 00. Now lets hope RightStuf surprises me again and ships Part 2 early so we can get back to releasing 00. Until then, hold tight for FMP, which should be coming out tonight now that I solved the 5.1 problems.
OZC
First up, I got the special edition with the first volumes of the 00 manga and 00F. A few glaring translation errors exist in 00F, such as Ian being called "Ivan" once, and Dr. Moreno from the Ptolemaios being referred to as a female. I know his name is Joyce, but he is indeed a guy. I haven't read through the 00 manga yet.
As for the DVD's, here is what I have found. First off, looks like Bandai is cutting costs as hard as possible and have shipped the first 2 discs in a single DVD case. Assuming they continue this trend, the entire series will be 12 discs in 6 cases. Compact, but I'm disappointed because it means we'll get 3 of seven covers for each half of the series, and anyone who has looked at the Japanese covers knows there is some nice artwork there.
Now, for the very disappointing news. They didn't translate the audio commentary. It isn't even on the disc. This, for me, is a huge letdown. Considering they are asking 40 bucks for the SE, to get one standard size DVD case, no insert booklet, no art box, no soundtrack, a severe lack of special features (woo! A set of trailers, "Tactical Forecasts" of upcoming episodes, and clean OP/EDs!), and just the two mangas is damn near a rip off. I can tell you this. If you don't care about the mangas, skip the SE. I still hope people will buy this because I think the severe lack of special features is proof that Bandai is hurting in this economy, and I'd really hate to see my Blu-ray rips hurt sales even further, but skip the SE unless you want the manga. My hope now is that when 00 Season 2 is finished, they'll release a box that will hold 6 discs like the Geass box.
This release doesn't give me a lot of faith in the Geass R2 release either. At least Geass Season 1 got the art box and big slate of special features, and all the mangas and audio dramas. But if they pull this same thing with R2 as they did with 00, there won't be a box or anything and that'll suck.
So, what does all this mean? Well, I'm still going to patch the existing episodes to use the DVD subs. Once that is done, I'll release a patch pack, and the batch torrent will have the updated ones, that way anyone who doesn't want to screw with patching can just download it. If there is anyone out there interested in translating the audio commentary tracks, let me know as I'd love to be able to offer them. The Geass ones have been very popular and I'm certain the 00 commentary would be as well.
The odd thing in this? Part 2 is listed as having audio commentary as a feature. So either it's an incorrect listing or they suddenly decided to do the commentary for part 2. If that's the case, I'm going to be doubly pissed.
So, that's that with the status of 00. Now lets hope RightStuf surprises me again and ships Part 2 early so we can get back to releasing 00. Until then, hold tight for FMP, which should be coming out tonight now that I solved the 5.1 problems.
OZC
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