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ltgmarsThe upside to buying DVDs long after they were first released is that you can usually find them for pretty cheap, either because of price cuts or because there are resellers who take decent care of their goods.
The downside -- the nastiest, filthiest, most evil downside of anything I can think of -- is that the cardboard sleeves aren't guaranteed.
One of my crowning achievements back in high school was completing the Evangelion platinum edition DVD set, slipped lovingly into all seven cardboard sleeves and cushioned delicately in its twinkling box in a corner of my anime shelves. It was then that I realized it: cardboard sleeves are the shit.
Not only are they slick and shiny, but they also make the DVDs look even more uniform than they normally do. It's a simple color on the side, and they all match, and to an anal-consistent-completist like me, that's the most beautiful thing in the world.
I continued on my rerelease cardboard sleeve spree with Cowboy Bebop Remix, and the first two I bought when they first came out, in person, with the cardboard sleeves in tact. Unfortunately, something called "college" was looming in the not-so-distant future, so I had to get my act together and stop spending retail on DVDs. I decided to put my collecting on hold and to buy them at a later date, when I'd have disposable income. That date has come. (Though the part about "having disposable income" is a lie.)
I searched high and low for Bebop DVDs that I could guarantee had the sleeves included. I found some on eBay for DVDs 3 and 6 (with pictures), score. (It came with 1 and 2, also in sleeves, but since I already had those, I gave them to Harrison.) I also found some individual DVD sales for 4 and 5, and since they were a big seller and they didn't have "stock image" under what looked like a true-to-life scan of the sleeves of 4 and 5, I bought those hoping that they'd have the sleeves. And of course, they didn't.
Well, fine, I'll deal. Somehow.
After some fine nighttime hours spent weeping on my bed because of the lack of sleeves, I decided to go for Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid DVDs. They were being sold individually, but from the same seller, so I figured they'd either all have the sleeves or they all wouldn't.
Big mistake. DVDs 1, 3, and 4 have sleeves. DVD 2 is woefully on its own.
Like, seriously, what does a girl have to do to get sleeves around here? (Buy them when they're freshly released and go to a store in person to make sure they have the sleeves, yes, but I'm trying hard to be stingy. Except for the one part where I'm hemorrhaging money for anime DVDs again.)
Part of me wants to throw the Bebop and FMP sleeves away so that at the very least, all of the DVDs in those series look the same -- sleeveless. (And don't get me started on how I'm bothered that FMP!TSR had sleeves while FMP! and FMP?F didn't. Come on, guys... it's the same freaking franchise.) Part of me, though, doesn't want to throw away the sleeves. They're really wonderful, beautiful creatures, and it'd be a shame to let them go.
The downside -- the nastiest, filthiest, most evil downside of anything I can think of -- is that the cardboard sleeves aren't guaranteed.
One of my crowning achievements back in high school was completing the Evangelion platinum edition DVD set, slipped lovingly into all seven cardboard sleeves and cushioned delicately in its twinkling box in a corner of my anime shelves. It was then that I realized it: cardboard sleeves are the shit.
Not only are they slick and shiny, but they also make the DVDs look even more uniform than they normally do. It's a simple color on the side, and they all match, and to an anal-consistent-completist like me, that's the most beautiful thing in the world.
I continued on my rerelease cardboard sleeve spree with Cowboy Bebop Remix, and the first two I bought when they first came out, in person, with the cardboard sleeves in tact. Unfortunately, something called "college" was looming in the not-so-distant future, so I had to get my act together and stop spending retail on DVDs. I decided to put my collecting on hold and to buy them at a later date, when I'd have disposable income. That date has come. (Though the part about "having disposable income" is a lie.)
I searched high and low for Bebop DVDs that I could guarantee had the sleeves included. I found some on eBay for DVDs 3 and 6 (with pictures), score. (It came with 1 and 2, also in sleeves, but since I already had those, I gave them to Harrison.) I also found some individual DVD sales for 4 and 5, and since they were a big seller and they didn't have "stock image" under what looked like a true-to-life scan of the sleeves of 4 and 5, I bought those hoping that they'd have the sleeves. And of course, they didn't.
Well, fine, I'll deal. Somehow.
After some fine nighttime hours spent weeping on my bed because of the lack of sleeves, I decided to go for Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid DVDs. They were being sold individually, but from the same seller, so I figured they'd either all have the sleeves or they all wouldn't.
Big mistake. DVDs 1, 3, and 4 have sleeves. DVD 2 is woefully on its own.
Like, seriously, what does a girl have to do to get sleeves around here? (Buy them when they're freshly released and go to a store in person to make sure they have the sleeves, yes, but I'm trying hard to be stingy. Except for the one part where I'm hemorrhaging money for anime DVDs again.)
Part of me wants to throw the Bebop and FMP sleeves away so that at the very least, all of the DVDs in those series look the same -- sleeveless. (And don't get me started on how I'm bothered that FMP!TSR had sleeves while FMP! and FMP?F didn't. Come on, guys... it's the same freaking franchise.) Part of me, though, doesn't want to throw away the sleeves. They're really wonderful, beautiful creatures, and it'd be a shame to let them go.
