Daniel 'MaTachi' Jonsson

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Photos of Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set

I had totally forgot that I promised to upload some photos of Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set half a year ago. However, yesterday I got a comment from a guy wondering what happened with the pictures, so here they are (better late than never :) ):

Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set - Photo 1

Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set - Photo 2

Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set - Photo 3

Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set - Photo 4

As you can see, the case isn’t of the highest quality. I wonder if it even is possible to produce a box more cheaply than this. Everything is made of plastic, no individual boxes, and they didn’t include any type of extra content beyond the discs.

For comparison; here is a photo of the Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Complete 1st GIG box that I also own, which is made of remarkable higher quality:

Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex box

A couple of links:

Anime, Manga & Merchandise Online Stores

AnimeOkay, I’m not going to buy anything. But I was interested in what kind of anime merchandise there was online, so I searched a bit and found some websites that I want to share here.

Maybe you will find something interesting on those sites. :) If you know any other good websites from the top of your head that fits the description, you are very welcome to leave the addresses in a comment below.

Ordered Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set from Play.com

Ergo ProxyFor about an hour ago I ordered and paid for my first movie/series in my life. More specific I ordered Ergo Proxy – The Complete Collection Box Set (6 Discs) from Play.com.

It costed me something about 40 €, with shipping included. But I think it’s totally worth it. I haven’t seen the whole series yet, only the first 7 episodes, and those were awesome.

On the other hand, I could have bought Ergo Proxy in Sweden for only ~15 €, however that box was only in Japanese, with Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish subtexts. And I wanted to have the box in both Japanese with English subs and with English speech, which the box that I bought includes. I did also read a comment about the Swedish version saying that the Swedish subs were pretty awful. And I prefer to follow my own guideline when buying stuff – better to pay some extra and be happy with your purchase, than be greedy and be unhappy with your purchase.

I could have kept on watching Ergo Proxy streamed online, but I felt that this is an anime series that I really want to own and have in my shelf.
Another alternative was to buy the Swedish version, and then download English subs and/or extract the English sound from downloaded episodes. However, this would be pretty messy if I would want to watch the series on a TV connected to a regular DVD-player. And like I said before, I prefer to pay a bit more and avoid this kind of problems.

I hope that Play.com and the mail in Sweden manages to deliver my package to me, since I wasn’t able to write å, ä and ö in my address field. And I have two ö, three å and one ä in my address. That’s actually pretty much even for a Swede.

I’m planning on uploading some photos here on my blog of the box when I have got it in 1-2 weeks. I wanted myself to see how the box and the discs looked like in reality, but all I could find were images of the cover (like the one I have in this post). I wanted to see the actually box, now I have no clue how large it is and if the discs got individual cases or not. However, I’m really looking forward to the delivery.

Perhaps this is my first series of a future collection? :)

UPDATE: Click here if you want to see some photos of the box.

Anime Calendar – Keep Up With All Airing Animes

Anime Calendar is a pretty neat website to check out which anime series that are airing right now in Japan. The calendar does also tell you on which time on the day that the episodes are being aired and on which channels, but that information is kinda useless if you don’t have access to those Japanese channels and know how to speak Japanese. On the other hand can you use the site to predict on which days that you can expect new subbed episodes to be released on. The site’s layout is also really good.

Thoughts about Higurashi When They Cry

HigurashiI started to watch Higurashi for about one week ago, and I began to enjoy it at episode 3-4. It started out as a very cute anime but over the time it became more and more creepy until it ended with some hack n’ slash at episode 4.

But then at episode 5 had the series been reset, and it started from the beginning with the main characters resurrected, without any memories of what had happened in the past 4 episodes. That came as a shock for me and I hadn’t expected that, just like with Amagami SS. Hrm… I think I’m going to drop this series, because I really don’t like a horror anime with this structure. But I might give the series another chance sometime in the future.