Dirk's Blog Thing

... and I'm currently addicted to The Dead Zone ...

One of my favourite anime series is Wolf's Rain. I bought the whole series on 8 DVDs last year, or possibly even the year before that, I don't quite remember. Interestingly, each DVD was released in 2 different versions, regular (transparent Amaray case) and (originally) slightly more expensive Digipack version. I bought the cheaper Amaray ones.
Now, each DVD came with a coupon. If you collected all of them and sent them in, you were promised a collector's edition box to put your DVDs in. It was basically a cardboard box to hold all 8 DVD cases.

Around October last year, I finally decided to send them in (I also had coupons for Noir cels, so I sent those along). I got the Noir cels a few days later, but no box. Around a month later, I sent them an e-Mail and asked about the delay, and was informed that all the coupons had been processed. So, no box for me then I thought.

( Well, wrong. Because today, I had this in the mail ... )

Looks cool and all, except that I think this box is supposed to be used for the Digipack DVDs, not the Amaray ones. Because I'd have to remove the DVDs from the cases and put them in there, instead of just putting the cases in a box. So now I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I have one set of DVDs, and 2 sets of cool cases to put them in. What to do, what to do?!

... Chrischi and me talked on the phone earlier.
It appears that he installed Diablo II at home today, then added the expansion set and started playing an assassin.
Which wouldn't be all that bad, except that I did the exact same thing today. Installed D2exp, started playing an assassin.

I'm pretty sure I chose a different name for my character though.

I also watched Snatch today. Tehehehehe!
I really need to show that to Chrischi at some point ...

Wisst Ihr was witzig ist?
die hier hab ich.
die hier auch.
und die hier.
und die.
und die.
und die.
und die hier auch.

Jede dieser DVDs hab ich für 20-25€ gekauft. Und jetzt schaut mal auf die aktuellen Preise dafür.
Schade dass ich damals nicht jeweils zwei Stück gekauft hab, aber dafür hatte ich einfach nicht das Geld.

Und da machen sich manche noch drüber lustig, wenn ich davon spreche, dass ich mein Geld in DVDs investiere ...

The Bebop Box (Vol. 4-6) was in the mail today.
The Cowboy Box (Vol. 1-3) should be here in a few days.

First of all, it turns out that it's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy those boxes from the UK than it was getting the single discs in Germany. I've paid 50.54€ for this box (3 DVDs), but the individual discs released in Germany were 25€ each. (They're out of print now btw, so you can get them used on ebay for like 55€ - not that I'd even consider selling mine). The other box is even cheaper, that'll be around 40'ish € for the remaining 3 DVDs.

Anyway, the DVD box is thick cardboard, with high quality images printed on it. The individual DVD covers are similar to the ones used for the german release, but differ in colour. And, most importantly, this release doesn't have the Most Annoying Jingle / Trailer Thingy Ever that each DVD of the german release has. That's a 90 second, non-skippable, non-fast-forwardable commercial for the companies that "brought you this DVD" ...

I took a look at one of my favourite episodes (Pierrot Le Fou) to see what it's like. The translation seems good enough. Jet's voice is a little too low for my taste, but it's not too bad since he looks like a guy with a deep voice, and the original as well as the german voice is kinda deep too.
Spike's voice sucks.
Sorry, but it's true. They really should've cast someone with a similar voice to the original (that's one of the things they did right for the german dub IMO). Instead they've gone for something completely different, and ended up with a voice that doesn't seem to fit the character. *shurgs*

That's my two cents for the day ...

... during the live recording of Schrei nach Liebe on this Ärzte DVD you can see a girl in the audience (long hair, Judas Priest t-shirt). That's one of Chrischi's coworkers who we went to see Furt with in Bremen ...