TBS’ official K-ON! website announced today the
upcoming release of a complete first season Blu-Ray box set for the fifth
anniversary of the TV anime. Per ultimatemegax’ translation, it’s sounding like
quite the interesting release indeed:
Announced today,
the first season of K-On! will be released in a BD-Box on 2014/03/05 for 27,300
yen (w/tax)/ 26,000 yen (w/o tax) covering the first season.
Included in this
BD-Box are all 14 episodes on four BDs along with textless openings, textless
ending, all 7 Ura-On! episodes, a Toyosaki Aki interview from the AniChannel
K-On! feature, and commercial collection. Audio features include a bonus newly
made Raji-On! special audio CD, old cast/staff commentaries, and new audio
commentaries (Naoko's Room on episodes 8-12 with guests Toyosaki Aki, Yoko
Hikasa, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki, and Ayana Taketatsu.
The sets includes a
booklet (featuring episode summaries, character designs, production designs,
cast/staff messages, etc), 9 postcards (2 key visuals and 7 cover arts), and a
special calendar. The 5 discs will have new disc art and fit in a newly drawn
5-side digipak inside a newly drawn 3-sided box.
The set includes
BOTH Japanese and ENGLISH subtitles for the main story, Ura-On! episodes, and
the Toyosaki Aki interview.
Well – I’m excited. Not only does it appear this
release will include all the (on-disc) extras from the single volumes, there’s
also going to be some new stuff. And
English subtitles. And for a damn good price, too (as far as Japanese anime
releases go). Just when I thought I owned enough copies of season 1, sigh…
In other news, guess who hasn’t K-ON! blogged in over eight months? Me, that’s who!! I won’t bother
with excuses, nor can I say for sure that I’ll be posting with any great
frequency from now on (what can I say? My attention is focused elsewhere these
days), but I’ll try to check in a bit more often.
Your episode reviews were not only really good, but a great help to me trying to note all the places the OST tracks play throughout the show. The lists you made saved me a lot of potential frustration with those five or so unreleased tracks, and they helped me make sure I didn't miss anything :)
ReplyDeleteAny chance you'll be doing any more of those?
Thanks for reading. There's a chance I'll do more, yeah. I certainly want to. Indexing the use of OST tracks was one of my main reasons for doing them, as far as I know it hasn't been done by anyone else.
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Delete"No grief here. I'm not at all bothered by your movie-review-turned-generic-K-on!-rant"
ReplyDeleteGiven the fact you have a blog dedicated to K-On!, it was clear that you were very much a fan of K-On!. I understand you were pressured into opening your response to Reckoner this way in order to avoid getting neg-repped at AnimeSuki. It's been a decade since K-On! The Movie released, and in that time, Reckoner was banned from AnimeSuki/the reputation system was removed from AnimeSuki. As well, the blogs that Reckoner wrote for, Nihon Review and Behind the Nihon Review, were taken down after they ran out of funds to continue hosting it.
Since Reckoner is no longer a major player, you no longer need to worry about Reckoner imposing his supposed authority on your opinion on K-On! The Movie. That is to say, you don't need to suck up to Reckoner. Reckoner's gripes about this movie are unfounded and subjective, a consequence of his own lack of worldliness and experience with travelling abroad, as well as his inherent belief that writing for Nihon Review and Behind the Nihon Review somehow made his opinions more valid and more authoritative than those of others. While you are to be commended for standing up to and calling out Reckoner, by beginning with a response to indicate Reckoner may have had a point, you also created a situation where forum member was neg-repped. This individual is a somewhat well-known blogger and was unfairly affected by Reckoner's influential position at AnimeSuki, leading them to leave AnimeSuki. Unfortunately, because you gave the impression of agreeing with Reckoner, this may have led Reckoner and another forum member to thinking it was acceptable to neg-rep someone simply because they presented a differing opinion that contradicted Reckoner's.
Since you're no longer active at AnimeSuki, and since a few people would like to hear your thoughts on K-On! The Movie without Reckoner's influence, you can do so at this blog. The author, again, ended up leaving AnimeSuki, and your agreement with Reckoner was one of the contributing factors, but luckily, this does not appear to have dissuaded them from maintaining an active blog, one that is better than Behind the Nihon Review. Please comment here, indicating 1) your thoughts on the K-On! movie and 2) that you rescind and redact any agreement you have with Reckoner in any way.