Forum - View topicSamurai 7 Limited Edition Vol.1
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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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The story bords are nice but kind of hard to understand since they are left untranslated. Good quality paper, too. The DVD insert felt kind of flimsy but has tons of info.The box itself is beautiful and worth the $40.00 on it's own. I haven't watched it so I don't know about content. What do you guys think of it?
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scorpioEDC
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Disappointed. I thought that it was a collector box but it came out to be a big box holding the books of story boards.
I have already finished watching it. So far there is nothing special. To me, the idea of spoiler[ a mecha samurai ] is stupid. I was fooled by the cover arts. The cover arts on the box looks much cooler than the anime itself. |
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totalgeek
Posts: 307 Location: Raleigh, NC |
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. I saw the preview trailer for Samurai 7 on the Gunslinger Girl DVDs and the animation style didn't really appeal to me. The mixing of 3D animation with 2D animation just wasn't as smooth as it is in some other titles (GITS: SAC, for example). |
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IchigoK90
 Posts: 1634 Location: Scarborough, Ontario |
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Thats not much of a spoiler for the series and aren't gundam designs based on samurai armour? So wouldn't you call gundams stupid? |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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I believe that the series will be released in both limited and standard forms. DVD 2 and 3 already have rather expensive limited editions planned, so the limited versions will eventually take up some shelf space. I did like what Bandai did with the special editions of .hack and GITS (disposable outer box and really nice artboxes) but will wait and see if Funimation does something impressive (like a really big box at the end) before saying that I'm dissapointed by the packaging.
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Mugen1style
Posts: 281 Location: North of the wall |
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I agree the box is cool and to the nay sayers its the first vol. how can you judge so quickly. I watched it and thought its at least decent enough to bye the second vol.
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fargazer
 Posts: 29 Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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I purchased the limited edition; while I really enjoy what I've seen so far (looking to rent Seven Samurai now, to see the original story this is based upon), I won't be purchasing the other limited editions, unless there's something beyond the storyboard books for extras.
The biggest beef I have with the packaging is the preview for the Lupin the Third movie at the start. There's no way with a regular DVD player to fast forward or skip it; you have to watch it Each And Every Time. It irritates me enough that, for the first time, I've started searching for DVD player mods to allow me to skip such "forced" previews. |
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, like many of his films, is a masterpiece. I prefer the original work to the animated adaptation, but contrary to the trend in this thread, I really enjoy Samurai 7 as well. I guess, being a huge Kurosawa fan (and not being much of a big studio Gonzo fan), I watched this title at Wizard World with lowered expectations, which were quickly met and exceeded. It's no Akira Kurosawa film, but it's a good title. I wouldn't be surprised to see it make Shelf Worthy in the next Shelf Life column. And I really have to commend the animation team that put so much effort into small details in the animation spoiler[like the first episode when they were picking the rice up off the ground]; it really added a quality that I think has been missing in a lot of other titles I've been watching recently. I plan on buying the entire series. |
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Mugen1style
Posts: 281 Location: North of the wall |
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Funimation has been doing that for awile now. I have several shows from them that do that trailer trick in the begining. It dose suck but it was smart on there part . Now you can't not see what they want . 
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darkcancer
Posts: 33 Location: Texas |
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I enjoyed it alot, problably because i am a big Kurosawa fan. I have seen the original and can see where tehy got some of there ideas from. Quick question, any other animes based on a Kurosawa film (beside Kaze no Yojimbo, which i also really liked)? I could see some of his otheers being made into animes such as Rashomon, The Bad sleep Well, and High and Low.
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Randall Miyashiro
Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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The horizontal insert in the DVD is also really nice. It reminds me of ADV's Zaions inserts which I really like. I assume these are included on the non limited edition version of Samurai 7. I also thought the preview DVD for Funimations was a nice touch. Although I already have a small stack of them since they are including it with what appears to be most of their titles.
Last edited by Randall Miyashiro on Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:56 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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CrackaJax
 Posts: 250 Location: Mount Olympus, Syracuse University |
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The artbooks are marginally worth it, but I enjoy that sort of thing, so I would keep buying them. I thought the anime was a nice adaptation of the original film.
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snowrobot
Posts: 4 Location: Hawaii |
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I guess it was alright..I could care less for it though. It was hard for me to stay awake through the entire 100 minutes. Even though the battle scenes were quite reasonable. I did like the opening theme song
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Randall Miyashiro
Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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Another nice feature that Funimation tends to do is to include the original Japanese credits under an alternate angle. The font used for the Japanese credits is done in a really cool brush stroke style. Be sure to hit the angle button on your DVD player during the OP and ED credits to see it. I've also never had a problem with the Funimation pre-DVD preview. I manage to skip the previews through the art of randomly hitting the Top Menu, Menu and >> buttons. I also like the Mr. Stained animation which is included on Galaxy Railways and Samurai 7.
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Tony K.
 SubscriberModerator  Posts: 11419 Location: Frisco, TX |
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I've had the LE Vol. 1 for a while now, but I've yet to actually open it. I want to see the original movie, but am trying to find the best version on DVD. The Toho, Japanese R2 version seems to be the best (which you can compare to the Criterion, U.S R1 version here). And next to that, is the CineKorea, Korean R0 version, which can be seen here.
I just don't want my viewing of the anime to create some sort of first impression bias before I get a chance to see how the original work is suppose to be. |
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