wow...yeah, i can spell -.-
*laserdisc

lol! i so know that feeling. that was me n the gang up in jville gathered around otoosan's tv as we watched his vhs fansubs for Kodocha



RBHS was scary, but i really really enjoyed Najica. still do, actually. panty shots aside, i love its old james bondish noir style and atmosphere

I've been considering buying Noir lately. I've bought the OST for it. I like sampling the music before I do a buy sometimes. Kinda gives me a feel of the atomosphere, or sumthin like that. Oh, Otakuden, could you explain why ADV is putting out another Noir thinpak set...It's been on my mind latley?

Oh yeah, to add to my previous post. Besides buying the OSTs for anime, I try and find previews of them (on the anime dvds I already have) or check image boards. I look for Story more than the character designs and art. Is it the story that makes an anime memorable or is it the animation itself?

the music for Noir is outstanding, and very integral to the overall atmosphere and feeling for the anime Noir. yuki kajiura is the composer for Noir, and has also done other series since. she is an amazing composer and artist

as for why adv is rereleasing boxsets/packs/collections of anime which have already been boxed, i don't know. if they do so for a lesser price point, then i def won't compain, but some of the rereleases i have seen of anime series have been for either the same or a higher price point. that isn't to say it is true for everybody, but i know when i bought Godanner last year in its slimpak set i paid less then what the new boxset is going for.

sometimes what anime companies do baffles me O_o

that is a very hard question, and partly it depends on the individual. for myself, it is a blend of both, sometimes leaning more one way then the other. ultimately though, story is key to whether i will fully enjoy an anime. animation stylings, techniques, and quality from the 60s, 70s, 80s and on up are all enjoyable to me for they each have their own charm and timelessness. but a bad story will ruin a well animated show, whereas truly bad animation will ruin a good story.

a minor quip/pet peeve of mine is when (new) otaku scoff or snub their nose at anime from the 70s or 80s because it is old, or doesn't look flashy or new, and truly miss out on the whole reasons why they are still good, still classics, and in many cases, works of art. shoot, anime wouldn't be where it is today without them, good and bad.

just my two cents

I'm not so sure what was so scary about RBHS. If you want scary, I've counted the panty shots. 160 in episode 1, at an average rate of 6.25 PSPM (Panty Shots per Minute), and a MTBPS (Maximum Time Between Panty Shots) of 2 minutes 18.375 seconds. 25 of those panty shots are from the opening sequence in episode 1, subsequent episodes have a slightly shorter opening sequence (about 18 frames) which shorts us (pun intended) three panty shots for a total of 22. Episode 2 adds 90 more panty shots for 3.81 PSPM, and 4 minutes 40.542 seconds MTBPS. Did I mention that I loved the Big Band style sound track?

On a side note, I noticed I've placed 42 orders from TRSI. The Douglas Adams fan in me says stop; the anime fan in me says keep going. Looking back the the rest of the post, perhaps it is better that I follow the former rather than the latter.

then panty shots dun faze me. i dun know if i can put it in words, but maybe scares was the wrong word choice. to me, RBHS just failed in too many differing genre venues. it was like they tried to do too much and thus accomplished very little.

if that makes any sense :P

Rereleasing sets (two, three, five times) is a good way to squeeze a little more life out of an old product for minimal cost. It costs a lot less, and is much less risky, to put out a third or fourth release of Noir than to go license something new and release that.

Of course, it's precisely because ADV has not licensed anything lately that the sort of have to keep rereleasing old stuff. In about six months, I believe they'll be done EVERYTHING they currently own and haven't finished yet, save Kiba, which is a partnership with some non-anime company anyway. Until they finally license something new, I mean. Technically they still have Keroro, but it seems highly doubtful that will ever actually see a release. They've indicated that releasing it is contingent upon getting a TV deal, and er, good luck with that. So really, there's nothing left in their catalog but to rerelease older shows.

And lastly, sometimes a company will resolicit a series in a release 99% identical to a former release, simply because it gets things back on B&M store shelves. Best Buy will only stock a SKU for so long before returning it. Rerelease the show in slightly different packaging with a new SKU, and you can get it back on shelves and thus out on the market again.

So it's a combination of things, some relatively unique to ADV and some just standard practice in the market, that are probably resulting in the flood of ADV re-re-re-release boxsets you're seeing.

ADV has Sgt. Frog but I don't know that it's been released yet either.



Yes, I guess I had never heard it described that way.