The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Volume 1 (Limited Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Volume 1 (Limited Edition)
Movie Review: An Excellent Anime
Summary: 5 Stars
Arguably one of the greatest animes of all time. I'm buying this item simply for the sake of having it after watching the series several times before.
Movie Review: "Life is an adventure..." (but...)
Summary: 5 Stars
So I bought this set, and it's awesome. It's just plain awesome to actually have these episodes on DVD. The box is awesome too. As far as the review of the DVD goes, buy it. If you're an anime fan, or even if you're a non-anime fan living in a sea of fans of something else (video games, etc.) you'll enjoy this and find a real character connection with the narrator, Kyon.
But the packaging is where this set's all at. Great box with high-quality art on every side, even the inside, the doors to the front are magnetic, and there's places for the other DVDs and CDs from the other limited edition volumes. Getting the CD drawer out was a bit of a hassle. When I finally got it out, I put a loose piece of tape on the bottom of it to use as a pully to get it out easier next time. There's also a box holding the extra goodies that is holding space next to the dvd, where the others should go if you collect 'em all. This is where I get a little confused. It seems like they want you to buy the other dvds, and put them in this box. That presents a few problems. The first, being if you copped out and got the dvd only editions, is that now you have to take that box of goodies out and throw it somewhere. I guess if you actually used them for stuff then they'd already be gone, but collectors try to keep it all together and can't in this situation. The other issue involves the CDs. There's a drawer, for all the disks that come with the other limited edition dvds. Let's say you're a good fan, and you buy all 4 volumes, put the CDs and DVDS in this case, and think everything's complete... until you realize that you have 3 other fancy-shmancy boxes with extra goodies and nowhere to put them! You can't exactly keep them with your dvd collection as it defeats the purpose of having the volume one set.
Maybe they just don't want us to box it all in their specially designed volume one package.
Movie Review: Good series, but product description's wrong.
Summary: 5 Stars
It says you get ; "Limited Edition includes Haruhi iron-on, SOS pillow case, pencil board, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya CD Haruhi No Tsumewawase, Vol. 1, and Limited Edition Box. Also includes a bonus DVD that contains episodes 11-14 in original TV broadcast order!"
But I've been informed this is the stuff you get with volume 4 of Haruhi. Someone should change this to avoid confusion.
That is all. Awesome series otherwise lol.
Movie Review: Extras don't make it worth it, the box does
Summary: 4 Stars
Its a good product but I wouldn't pay retail for it. I already had the CD downloaded on my computer, I don't know what one of the extras is (drawing board it says?), and obviously I have no use for the hair ribbon (would have at least preferred the arm band from volume 2). I mostly got this for the box. The individual DVD box art is better than the regular volumes, and the box it comes in can fit all the DVD volumes to make for a nice set. Movie Review: off to a great start
Summary: 5 Stars
Although throurghly hyped by the japanese pop-culture, the Melancholy of Harui Suzuyima still manages to deliver the goods home. Nice good ol' high school comedy with a bunch of twist to keep the creativity going. The extra stuff is nice, it includes a haruhi T-shirt iron-on, the box, a music cd (unluckily missing the incredible opening), Haruhi's hair-piece and the actual dvd. My only complain about the series would be the sometimes rather unsavory fan-service and the insane idea of actually puttig the episodes in chronological order which completly throws off some of the magic in the Melancholy of Harhi Suzuyima. Luckilly for us, people complained so much that the next edition of the special edition actually include the episodes in the original broadcast order which is what i wanted in the first place in adition to the ones in chronological order for the few who actually liked that version better. This bundle actually gets 4 and a half stars for the "lacking" extras (namely the cd and dvd's since they only contain 5 episodes one of which may throw off a bunch of people, and the cd lacks the opening which is just a sin) Overrall great series, can't wait for the next edition, nice start for the series and I expect some serious delivering from the next season.