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Tylor, Irresponsible Captain TV Limited Edition Ultra DVD Box Set (Hyb)
Eric M. DiDomenico - Jul 6 2005 XNAILSTORMX@aol.com Rating: Wonderful! A Few Small Problems, But a Must-Have, Whether or Not You're a Tylor Fan!!! This is the first review of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor I've ever done. I've owned the original DVDs and loved every second of the series so, naturally, I decided to grab this one. Was it good? Was it bad? Actually, better. There was a problem or two, but I'm still very happy with my purchase. Okay, facts before opinion. The packaging is a very neat box that pulls out with a corner missing. Basically, what you see in the pictures showing the cover is exactly how it comes in. In it includes two small books. One is a small book dealing that takes place after the events of the OVA series called "Men Have It Tough - Tylor and The Iron Curtain, Vol 1," the second book["A Memorial File of Random Works, Vol 1"] contains many artwork and interviews (I wished it had early character art sketches and such but definitely shows a lot that had happened, still). It was adapted from the manga and novels of Hitoshi Yoshiyoka. If you did not know this, then you'll find this out when you read all of the books and watch the features. Captain Tylor is a man who's either a certified genius or a complete fool, but no one can really tell. That's mentioned in Tylor's character biography and so aptly applies in the series, then slowly the answer is revealed and things make pretty good sense in the end. I won't spoil it for you, just watch it. It's pretty comical from time to time, but there are times when it's very serious, so there's a pretty good flow of emotion for the characters. Some, if not most, of the characters in this series will play a pivotal role to some point. A VERY good example is a man named Admiral Robert J. Hanner. At first, I thought that Tylor considered him a friend, but when I read the liner notes on one of the later episodes concerning Hanner, I went back and watched the ones involving Hanner and then I realized that I missed so much. I was cursing myself for hours for not grasping it all at that time! When you read those notes that I'm talking about, you'll understand. Now, onto the review. The series was released in 1995, so if you got the original DVDs, then you'd notice the visual quality or a bit lack, thereof; just like Urotsukidoji (hentai), it shows its age. Why did they not clean it up and remaster it? The same thing with the sound, you've got your English, Japanese, and Spanish tracks, but why not make the audio more clear and include Dolby Digital, Digital Theater Sound(DTS), or any other superior audio quality? If you put it on English voices, you'd hear the crappy singing. Why didn't they remove the English singing and leave the Japanese voice in there with the subtitles displaying the song lyrics as the standard? I'm sure the DVDs had the space, especially if you make them dual-layer. If you already own the standard DVDs you'll see that the contents of these DVDs were left untouched. They have a new cover for each DVD and just like the normal DVDs that had the silk screen covers, they put a character for each of them but this time, the silk screens are out. Disc 1 holds an image of Kojiro Sakai. Disc 2 has Yuriko Star gracing its cover. Harumi is portrayed on Disc 3 but I have NEVER seen this image of her until now and left me wondering if the image of her I saw was her during an early sketch drawing; at times I wondered if it really was Harumi. Ru Baraba Dom stares to his right on Disc 4. Underneath the discs holds simple drawings of some of the characters. They also include two DVDs holding extras that last up to 3 hours. Some of it's pretty amusing, but it all pertains to the series, especially a few quickie interviews with some of the cast. The final disc included is a bonus, but still serves its purpose. They have included The Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV Series Original Soundtrack 1: Sentehisshou (Certain Victory in the First Move). I enjoyed some of the music in the series and enjoyed listening to it. Track 12 called Alone, really stands out and you'll understand why it does. But I'm not here to review the soundtrack, I'm here to review the whole box. I have a few other gripes, but they concern the books that were included. WHY didn't Right Stuf add the rest of the stories (Men Have it Tough) and include more volumes for the story and the interviews and such? Well, here's hoping that if they do do the Ultra Limted Edition OVA series that they add the rest of the stuff and do a lot of the stuff that they did for this! All in all, they've done a lot right and it rightfully deserves the title of Ultra Limited Edition TV Series. Below are my scores. 0 is the worst, 5 is the best. And of course, if you've seen the series then you'll never forget what Tylor has said and should so apply in real life - "You only live once, so do what you want, the way you want to, and life will work itself out." Packaging - 4.5 The box itself is small and not the size of normal DVD cases. It's not every day that you see this style, plus I like the cover designs for the books, the DVD covers, DVDs, and such. My only gripe with the box cover is that if you're not careful, you could lodge a knife or anything in between the paper covering the box and the box and rip up the art paper, and then what? Extras - 5.0 A lot of stuff not shown before is now made public and even old stuff that was seemingly gone has resurface and now resides in this box. The extras alone WAS the reason why I bought this. I was hoping for a ton of extra features and it didn't disappoint. One gripe that I have that's not enough to lower the score, but would've been nice (something I really wanted, though) - why wasn't a biography of Hitoshi Yoshiyoka (creator of the Tylor books and such) included? THANK YOU RIGHT STUF!!! Audio/Video - 3.0 This pertains to the series and not the features. It's still pretty much the same. Though you can still hear and see stuff clearly, I wish they'd done more to it, though. The quality of the features themselves get a 4 Content - 4.0 The emotion flows pretty nice and there's defintely some tension portrayed in the characters at the right moments. Even the story was solid. At times, though, I felt the series could've continued with a few more episodes, but if you have any questions concerning some of the characters, names of episodes and such, you'll find most of your answers in the liner notes that accomodate every episode. The first disc has UPSF character bios, though I wish I could've gotten some more information from some of the marines, namely Jason. The second disc has Raalgon biographies, though some lack some details like Shia Has'. Disc 3 and 4 have UPSF and Raalgon vehicles and ships respectively. Overall - 4.5 |
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