Hey, it's another episode of bored Mature ogling at boxes of anime in the superior format known as
LaserDisc.
I don't have any vested interest in
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, but I might suddenly if I came across these:
I especially like how the first volumes sleeve can be flipped vertically continuing the image. Pretty cute and the green typeface and art meshes well with her. The top-right sleeve almost looks like a play on or homage of some sort of
Sega Master System box art. It's almost a bit refreshing to see a sporadic design between the individual releases, what with series like
Evangelion having very themed and calculated designs. As well as Sailor Moon.
I think I've seen three different LDs of AKIRA, but the boldness of this Criteron Collection release is my favorite. It's very light on wordage and it simply features Kaneda standing in-front of the brazen, iconic logo.
It also has a pretty a-typical back-of-the-box in the terms of any media release...
It's like a novel... It's not any different than other criterion collection releases, though it is nice to see one praising Otomo like a foreword to a novel. They must have printed a lot of them since they still go for around $12.00 on Ebay. Can't really justify picking one up myself since I'm literally days from getting the 25th Anniversary BD.
And speaking of Otomo...
Jeez.
It comes with a veritable Sees candy box of
Memories goodies. The outer box is black felt with silver embossing, and each featurette has it's individual disc sleeve with artwork as well as three full-color booklets with design and concept artwork. All six playing sides apparently have CAV formats; this would allow for perfect still frames and random access to any given frame via controller input. However, this shrinks the playtime to any given side to a total of 30 minutes. And I believe with
Magnetic Rose being the longest run time at 44 minutes, you'll be flipping the disc despite the small movie being given it's own LD. To top it off, this was a Japanese release that included English subtitles. Mint conditions for the set (obi strip and all)
do not run cheap.
Last, and probably
least, this AnimeEigo published
AD Police Files LD tickles me in the most 80's way possible. Something about that vanilla colored typeface segmented on the most primary red and blue you've ever seen is amusing to me.