Forum - View topicREVIEW: Welcome to the NHK DVD 2
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Togashi_D
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It's obvious what ADV is doing with the covers. SEX sells!!
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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The covers are pretty atrocious.
I have to completely agree that Chris Patton is amazing in this role. And I've only seen about five minutes of the dub. I really need to pick up this series. |
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Nebs
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What's wrong with the covers?
 Well, besides the fact that they're basically false advertising. The covers make NHK seem like a fan-service series or something, when it ain't.
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W-General
Posts: 280 Location: Ithaca, NY, USA / Taichung, Taiwan |
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Fanservice is always welcomed, but that's not what NHK about. Quite misleading indeed.
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Second_Ignition_Yui
 Posts: 33 Location: Nasty Sensou |
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I have hugpillows. Seven. What's so wrong : (
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bleuster
 Posts: 455 Location: Orange County |
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The covers are a nice allusion to otaku/fandom. Or like an inside joke. I mean, just look at some the Tranformers series DVD covers in Japan.
Well, I like 'em. |
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BleuVII
 Posts: 672 Location: Tokorozawa, Japan |
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Yeah, of course. He openly admitted this in his afterward to the original book. A LOT of this story is autobiographical. I mean, the original author's name is Tatsuhiko Takimoto, which is not a far cry from the main character's name. |
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domino
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ADV might as well write "don't buy me!" in big letters across the front of the box with cover art like that. As a female anime fan, fanservice right on the box is an instant "don't buy". Like the first volume's cover, it's really misleading as to what this show is actually about.
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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I think I read on the AoD forums that ADV's using the original Japanese cover art, so they aren't "doing" anything with the covers. It might have been a better idea to change them, since they scream "don't buy" to female fans like domino, and male fans who buy the discs expecting fanservice will be disappointed after a few volumes.
In watching the first episode and random other snippets of the dub, I liked what I heard...for the most part. The main problem I had was Stephanie Wittels' Misaki; she sounds a bit too much like a thirtysomething woman. I guess that'll take some getting used to. I also liked that ADV was leaving a lot of Japanese terms in the dub and subtitles, including "hikokomori" and more notably, "Senpai." ADV traditionally renders Senpai as "Senior," which imho reads badly in subtitles and sounds even worse spoken in English. I'd almost rather they left it out completely. But with Welcome to the NHK, they must've realized, "Hey, this is a show for the hardcore fans, so we'd better do things the hardcore way." I was thrilled that ADV had moved away from the awkward Senpai -> Senior usage, but that thrill ended when I saw the first disc of Magikano, which was back to tradition 
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HitokiriShadow
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Actually, they are screwing with them. The covers for the first two volumes of the R1s were part of the same image of an R2 cover. I'm trying to find a link to the original in the cover art forum, but AoD's forum search engine is made of fail. Edit: I found it after searching through the forum manually. Here is the thread, and for people who don't want to read the actual thread, here is the relevant post and link: *note: this is about the first R1 cover, but its still applicable.
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d.yaro
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Don't ask why I did this. Anyways, here are pics of the R2 DVD covers. The covers that don't look like magazine covers are for the limited edition versions of volumes 7-12. Those DVDs came in a sleeve that kept the DVD and extra CD/DVD together (at least one was a box that housed the DVD and a jigsaw puzzle). The artwork for them used the same image on the DVD cover but carried on with the magazine cover spoofs. For example, volume 10 was a spoof of Playboy.
R2 volume 1 R2 volume 2 R2 volume 3 R2 volume 4 R2 volume 5 R2 volume 6 R2 volume 7 R2 volume 8 R2 volume 9 R2 volume 10 R2 volume 11 R2 volume 12 R2 Box 1 (a) R2 Box 1 (b) R2 Box 2 (a) R2 Box 2 (b) |
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lhernan02
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With covers like these, I think I'll wait for the thinkpack. I have enough to explain with my current anime collection, I don't need to add these covers to the fray.
I will also add that they do a disservice to the series, while there is an acceptable amount of fanservice, the images on the covers are not from the anime and give a warped view of the relationships the cover girls have in the anime. Sex sells, but in a medium most people think is all porn anyway, sex inside sells better than sex on the cover (they just lost out on the extra money they would have gotten out of me for the regular releases vs. the thinkpack (where I would only have to reverse/hide one cover)). |
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Katsu Koneko
 Posts: 134 Location: California |
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Wow dude, the R2 box looks way better than the one ADV released and dang they're using the R2 covers as the picture on the DVD disc. o-o
I was close to not getting this volume since my dad was like, "Look it's bad." By just looking at the cover. >< |
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