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Help regarding Heat Guy J

I have yet to find the package with volumes 4 to 7 online, though.

Ahem.

I have yet to find the 4-pack for a reasonable price. ^^;

I won the first DVD and the box for the first three discs (plus the extras disc), along with WXIII Special Edition, for like $15 bucks a few months ago. I finally got a chance to watch Heat Guy J, and I am really, really interested in completing the series, however I have a doubt...

I saw that the first three volumes of the series are being bundled together in some stores. However, their low price is really confusing me... individual volumes have an MSRP of 29 bucks (some stores can sell them as low as 24 bucks). But I've seen the Volume 1-3 pack for $40 bucks.

I was wondering, are these discs -exactly the same- as the individual releases, or are they stripped somehow? Smaller, perhaps? I want the real volumes, not some thinpak release or something like that.

$40 for 4 discs is not reasonable?

David Silva wrote:

I won the first DVD and the box for the first three discs (plus the extras disc), along with WXIII Special Edition, for like $15 bucks a few months ago. I finally got a chance to watch Heat Guy J, and I am really, really interested in completing the series, however I have a doubt... I saw that the first three volumes of the series are being bundled together in some stores. However, their low price is really confusing me... individual volumes have an MSRP of 29 bucks (some stores can sell them as low as 24 bucks). But I've seen the Volume 1-3 pack for $40 bucks. I was wondering, are these discs -exactly the same- as the individual releases, or are they stripped somehow? Smaller, perhaps? I want the real volumes, not some thinpak release or something like that.

I believe they're called "Bailey Boxes" and are an original concept that Geneon came up with (at least, to my knowledge).

They take a popular anime series, put 3-4 volumes of them in a bundle package, and use these Bailey Boxes to market them as sort of a half or partial box set.

The only ones I've seen to this point are: Chobits, 2 boxes (1-3 and 4-6), Last EXILE, 2 boxes (1-3 and 1-4, for some weird reason), and now Heat Guy J, 2 boxes (1-3 and 4-7).

I've never bought one of these Baily Boxes myself, but I don't see any reason they'd change any of the outside or inside content of the DVDs themselves. You get the DVDs you want, a small box to hold them in, and for a much lower price than it would cost to buy them individually.

What you could do is just buy the volumes that come with artboxes, then buy the Baily Boxes, take those DVDs out and put them into the artboxes, then give away or sell your leftover DVDs and either trash, keep, or discard the Baily Boxes in whatever way you choose.

I know they did the Bailey Boxes with X too. And the Signature Series box of Lain.