1960's Astro Boy Season 1 DVD Box Set (Discussion)
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:13 pm
my 1960's Astro Boy DVD box set arrived today (the R1 one from RightStuf, that I ordered from DeepDiscountDVD.com for $70 ;D)
The set comes in 6 slim (but not quite as slim as the Manga 80s set) clamshell cases inside a thick cardbord box/cover with nifty art. Each clamshell case has reversable box art covers in them. The outer box cover has the cover artwork you've seen on websites, and the inner box shows the inside parts of Astro's chest. We've got 11 discs including and extras disc that features Part 1 of an interview with series producer Fred Ladd, original character art gallery, merchandise gallery, and original japanese episodes #1 and #20 with japanese subtitles. Like the 80s Astroboy sets, this set also includes a 32-page booklet. This booklet is NOT the same one that comes with the 1980s Astroboy sets. Although there is some material (like Tezuka's bio) from the 80s booklet in it there is also some different stuff like a history of the 1960's Astro Boy series.
the "lost" episode #34 (Monster from 20,000 leagues) is included. Also of interest is that on the back of each clamshell case there is an image from each episode on the contained discs. The image for episode #32 (the Moon Monsters) is in colour. I haven't watched any of these DVDs yet but I'll add more to this thread when I do. All in all a very nice DVD set from first glance.
Was the episode order shuffled for the english version like what was done for the 80s and 2003 series? The booklet only contains one episode list but it has descriptions of all the episodes.
So does anyone else have this set yet?
The set comes in 6 slim (but not quite as slim as the Manga 80s set) clamshell cases inside a thick cardbord box/cover with nifty art. Each clamshell case has reversable box art covers in them. The outer box cover has the cover artwork you've seen on websites, and the inner box shows the inside parts of Astro's chest. We've got 11 discs including and extras disc that features Part 1 of an interview with series producer Fred Ladd, original character art gallery, merchandise gallery, and original japanese episodes #1 and #20 with japanese subtitles. Like the 80s Astroboy sets, this set also includes a 32-page booklet. This booklet is NOT the same one that comes with the 1980s Astroboy sets. Although there is some material (like Tezuka's bio) from the 80s booklet in it there is also some different stuff like a history of the 1960's Astro Boy series.
the "lost" episode #34 (Monster from 20,000 leagues) is included. Also of interest is that on the back of each clamshell case there is an image from each episode on the contained discs. The image for episode #32 (the Moon Monsters) is in colour. I haven't watched any of these DVDs yet but I'll add more to this thread when I do. All in all a very nice DVD set from first glance.
Was the episode order shuffled for the english version like what was done for the 80s and 2003 series? The booklet only contains one episode list but it has descriptions of all the episodes.
So does anyone else have this set yet?