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REVIEW: Gantz DVD 1

Yeah, but since when have you heard of a Gonzo show getting a Kare Kano treatment, or a Gundam Treatment? ADV haven't said anything at all, except "Two Chipboard boxes, 13 volumes", all of which were made available at AoD. If it's really the fault of the Japanese licensor, whoever he may be, ADV would have made a press release about it or said SOMEWHERE that it wasn't ADV's fault. I mean, whenever a company is on fire about this they usually try to re-direct the blame somehow.

No man. I'm saying that this is a REALLY advanced copy. I got mine in late December. Gantz isn't due out until March. They fast tracked an advanced copy to us to get the early word out on it.

No one EVER said it would definately be 2 eps per disc. That's just what we recieved on the advanced copy of an INCOMEPLETE package I might add. When I say we got nothing but the disc and the flyer, I mean we got NO cover art, or clamshell. Just a disc in a paper cd sleeve.

Rest assured, it'll be more than just 2 eps per disc. ADV may be called a lot of things, but they've never taken a page from VIZ's handbook.

Gantz: Game of Death streets on 02/08/05 with SRPs of $17.98 for the DVD only and $27.98 for DVD plus box. This disc contains two anamorphic episodes with English 5.1 and Japanese 2.0 with English subtitles. Extras include clean open and ending animation and an interview with director Ichiroh Itano.

Steventheeunuch wrote:

Ken-san wrote: Calm down people. This is an ADVANCED screener copy. None of the insiders (like myself and other priveledged people) got anything more than the disc itself and a promotional flyer. The dub most likely hasn't even been completed yet. They gave us these just to whet our appetite. And having never seen Gantz before this disc, i'm hooked on it already! We're not complaining about eventual lack of dub- there is going to be one, heck the cast has already been announced. What the main problem is that there are going to be 13 discs with two episodes each, and ADV haven't even address the problem, assuming they actually see it as a problem.

No man. I'm saying that this is a REALLY advanced copy. I got mine in late December. Gantz isn't due out until March. They fast tracked an advanced copy to us to get the early word out on it.

No one EVER said it would definately be 2 eps per disc. That's just what we recieved on the advanced copy of an INCOMEPLETE package I might add. When I say we got nothing but the disc and the flyer, I mean we got NO cover art, or clamshell. Just a disc in a paper cd sleeve.

Rest assured, it'll be more than just 2 eps per disc. ADV may be called a lot of things, but they've never taken a page from VIZ's handbook.

Ken-san wrote:

Steventheeunuch wrote: Ken-san wrote: Calm down people. This is an ADVANCED screener copy. None of the insiders (like myself and other priveledged people) got anything more than the disc itself and a promotional flyer. The dub most likely hasn't even been completed yet. They gave us these just to whet our appetite. And having never seen Gantz before this disc, i'm hooked on it already! We're not complaining about eventual lack of dub- there is going to be one, heck the cast has already been announced. What the main problem is that there are going to be 13 discs with two episodes each, and ADV haven't even address the problem, assuming they actually see it as a problem. No man. I'm saying that this is a REALLY advanced copy. I got mine in late December. Gantz isn't due out until March. They fast tracked an advanced copy to us to get the early word out on it. No one EVER said it would definately be 2 eps per disc. That's just what we recieved on the advanced copy of an INCOMEPLETE package I might add. When I say we got nothing but the disc and the flyer, I mean we got NO cover art, or clamshell. Just a disc in a paper cd sleeve. Rest assured, it'll be more than just 2 eps per disc. ADV may be called a lot of things, but they've never taken a page from VIZ's handbook.

Press releases and Volume solicitations, plus words from DLW himself on AOD forums say otherwise.

its two 13 ep series hey look on the briight side less compression = higher quailty and at 11 bucks a disk (deep discount dvd and I roundered up) thats bucks for all of it 143 dollers that around what standard 7 disk release would be at 20 a pop.

Don't use up their disc space??

How much stuff do you think is really produced for a TV show that can fit on a DVD for extras? They're not video games by god. I want more content too, but exactly what are they supposed to place in there?

Ken-san wrote:

Don't use up their disc space?? How much stuff do you think is really produced for a TV show that can fit on a DVD for extras? They're not video games by god. I want more content too, but exactly what are they supposed to place in there?

Allow for audio tracks to be more than 192 kbps, make sure that they can get the best video possible, etc. Japanese releases manage to fill up single/dual layered DVDs. atleast moreso than ADV, and they are kinda lax in the way of extras.

Steventheeunuch wrote:

Ken-san wrote: Don't use up their disc space?? How much stuff do you think is really produced for a TV show that can fit on a DVD for extras? They're not video games by god. I want more content too, but exactly what are they supposed to place in there? Allow for audio tracks to be more than 192 kbps, make sure that they can get the best video possible, etc. Japanese releases manage to fill up single/dual layered DVDs. atleast moreso than ADV, and they are kinda lax in the way of extras.

But in the end though, does that stuff truly matter? As long as it looks good and sounds good, shouldn't that be enough? I have already bought the show . . . and as long as I can enjoy watching it, I don't need to obsess about video quality and other somewhat meaningless junk. I mean look at all of us who download fansubs . . . we're happy just watching the show itself, even though the quality is way less than DVD compression.

Ken-san wrote:

Steventheeunuch wrote: Ken-san wrote: Don't use up their disc space?? How much stuff do you think is really produced for a TV show that can fit on a DVD for extras? They're not video games by god. I want more content too, but exactly what are they supposed to place in there? Allow for audio tracks to be more than 192 kbps, make sure that they can get the best video possible, etc. Japanese releases manage to fill up single/dual layered DVDs. atleast moreso than ADV, and they are kinda lax in the way of extras. But in the end though, does that stuff truly matter? As long as it looks good and sounds good, shouldn't that be enough? I have already bought the show . . . and as long as I can enjoy watching it, I don't need to obsess about video quality and other somewhat meaningless junk. I mean look at all of us who download fansubs . . . we're happy just watching the show itself, even though the quality is way less than DVD compression.

I'm sorry, but part of the reason I buy DVDs is so I can actually get a reasonably presented product. Hell, I'm paying premium prices on these discs, I expect a premium product that takes ADVANTAGE OF EVERYTHING IT HAS TO OFFER. If ADV expect us to buy these simply to "appreciate the story" as some back-hand excuse not to do their best (or better than their current best) on their DVDs, then I might as well download fansubs.

A well thought out response. Back to your other statement about extras . . . exactly how much content do you think is produced for all of these shows? Not that much, outside of the really popular things. A lot of the extras have to be produced by the domestic companies themselves, and some of them just don't see it as a viable expense to produce it.

Ken-san wrote:

A well thought out response. Back to your other statement about extras . . . exactly how much content do you think is produced for all of these shows? Not that much, outside of the really popular things. A lot of the extras have to be produced by the domestic companies themselves, and some of them just don't see it as a viable expense to produce it.

That doesn't really matter. He already said that it wasn't the extras that mattered, that there were other things one could fill a disc with, like higher quality video, higher quality sound, etc.

Yes, sure, you buy something for the show and not the extras, but when you're paying for a DVD, you're paying for quality. When we give the companies our money, we expect them to give us the best they can. Japanese discs cost a lot more than US discs, but with that comes qualtiy.

There wouldn't be anywhere else they could have gotten it.