The Japanese Dragon Boxes may be superior in terms of sheer content alone, but that's pretty much all bonus items and extras. Whereas the American sets just contain the show (and possibly textless openings and endings), but the prices are actually affordable, the footage is nearly identical, and there are English subs, making it possible for me to watch the show with this footage. Also, as minute as it may be, I think the menus are superior as well, as even though the aren't animated, I think that makes them less distracting, and they are way more varied to the Japanese menus, of which there were only a measly 2.
As I've said before, there's no reason for me to get the Japanese sets when FUNimation is releasing near identical sets (minus all the cool, but what I feel to be unnecessary bonuses, except the TV specials and OVA, which would probably be better separate releases), for
affordable prices, and with English subtitles.
At this point, the Japanese sets (which on their own I suppose are superior in terms of content alone) would be a novelty to me at most... a
very expensive novelty...
AnimeMaakuo wrote:Well, one thing that annoys me (I'm sure everyone else) is that North American Dragon Box stacks their DVD.
It doesn't bother me. It's the result of shrinking the sets, which I feel to be necessary. I'd take some overlapped disks over a huge set which definitely wouldn't fit on my shelf.
AnimeMaakuo wrote:*EDIT * I never noticed a difference in more footage in (R1) than (R2). Where did you get that from?
From what I know, it isn't actually more footage, it's just that the American sets are framed slightly differently, so you see some footage on the... right side I believe, and the bottom I think, that you couldn't see in the Japanese releases, but it doesn't really mean anything as overall I'm pretty sure that they both have the same amount of footage.
