Forum - View topicNEWS: Elfen Lied Cover Artwork
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xanbcoo
 Posts: 245 Location: Houston/Austin Tx |
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lol, that's kinda cool.
Has anyone else read 666 Satan? Don't bother. it sucks. I guess talent doesn't run in the Kishimoto family |
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Zeiram
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ha purists were in a storm over this thing, saying that 'its not officical, blashphemy! you used an in house studio!'
what a joke x_x i hate purists, purity makes you stupid |
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theoriginalbilis
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I never had any problems with the cover art anyway. But it's cool that these insane hardcore fandom people got proven wrong, HA!
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Advent_Nebula
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 Now I have another stab to take at the so called "Purists."
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hikaru004
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It was pretty obvious if you compare the ADV artwork version with the actual footage that they were the same.
Purist or not the Japanese release does look more accessible. It stressed the music symbolism. Whereas, the ADV version stressed the violence and psychological trauma, hence used vectors as their motiff. It was probably more in line with their marketing strategy for the title. See for yourselves... http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/search.html?type=GC&restrict=ALL&word=elfen+lied I actually had no problem with the artwork. I thought that it was more in line with the anime and the manga. Last edited by hikaru004 on Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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biliano
Posts: 956 Location: Cleveland, OH |
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I don't have a problem with the artwork, either; however, I did discover something about the packaging of Elfen Lied that was rather unusual: Vector 2 had a flip (reversible) cover, wheras Vector 1 did not. Any idea why this happened?
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Advent_Nebula
Posts: 932 Location: Colorado |
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I have wondered the same thing. |
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hikaru004
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Who knows???
Do you think it was to satisfy the Nana fans? I thought that the original vector 2 cover was just fine. |
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Nine Tails II
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Wow, I like the Japanese covers more than the ADV ones. The main thing I hated was that they used the image of Nyuu kneeling beside the gun at least three times. Surely they could of found another image.
Also, why is the first DVD case black, and the second clear? I kind of like how the clear one shows the reversible covers, but they don't match.
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hikaru004
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I think it's part of some sort of pattern. The back image of Vector 1 is the front of Vector 2. The back of Vector 2 is part of the front image of Vector 3. |
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Whearn9999
Posts: 211 Location: Texas City TX |
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I really like the japanese covers. I'm just glad they aren't releasing it on 7 volumes here.
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guyverfanboy
 Posts: 65 Location: Watchin anime |
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ADV art work is fine with me.
 I like the idea of original art for US dvds. Too bad it doesn't happen more often. 
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xanbcoo
Posts: 245 Location: Houston/Austin Tx |
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damn, the japanese covers look so happy.
I like both. |
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AntoJ
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I like the japanese covers better than the ADV ones, but I didn't think/care if the covers were "official". I just didn't like them as much. I honestly had no idea some people were getting angry because they thought ADV made the covers. O_o;
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Chrno2
 Posts: 6171 Location: USA |
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Looks pretty authentic to me. And no it has not been seen anywhere.
And it's not about being "purists". Really I hate that phrase.  There is nothing wrong with stating one's likes, or dislikes on something even if they are wrong. Do people really think that they don't get upset over stupid stuff? Not to mention those calling those "purists". But granted there are fans that do make too much noise over things. I've made enough noise myself over cover art, believe me. Especially for games. And "dubbed" only DVDs. Fans shouldn't be so divided. This is my solution. If you don't like it learn Japanese and spend your hard earned cash paying $50-$500 and buying the import versions. END of story.
But most of the cover art these days isn't that bad. The one issue I had so far was with vol. 1 and the artbox. While the same image was used on both the US and import versions. I didn't appreciate them adding to the piece by putting blood on her hand when there was none on the import version. To me it felt like I was being "hand-fed" the nature of the show without seeing it for myself and feeling the constrast between the beauty of the cover vs the darkness of the series. Which are both symbolic. Kinda like saying would we get more out of the 'Mona Lisa' if she smiled any harder? I'm exaggerating but you get my point. But again why bother stressing myself out about it? Besides most of the time (and I would not be surprised if this wasn't a case also) a company can't use the exact same images for various reasons. So you have to make it look as different as possible. Why else do DVD and game releases look so different from country to country? Not to mention constant changes trying to make one's look better. So it's all aestetics and nothing more. Sure we would like the import covers as is, but we get them and we get some newly produced material as well as in-house stuff. The important thing is that we have the material in hand and enjoying it in our homes. Who knows 10 years down the line, do you really think anyone is going to give a rat's *** about the cover?
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