FLCL Ultimate Edition, R1 USA DVD November 21st 2006.

I've been waiting for this to come out for a few years now and now that it is coming out, I'm a little disapointed with what this so-called "ultimate edition" has to offer.
There aren't that many interesting extras, the included book seems quite useless and what's with the t-shirt that you get after mailing some card? No value for those importing this set (not that I would ever consider wearing a tacky anime t-shirt..).
Nope.. don't think I'll be double dipping on this one, the old R4 set is adequate enough for me. I wish they had thrown out those stickers, postcards and t-shirt thingies and included a storyboard / art of-book as well as the sountracks and it would have been a much better set overall - the new Patlabor CE sets are a great example of what kind of extras give some value for your money - at least a lot more than a handful of stickers and postcards! As it stands, the most interesting extra in the FLCL set seems to be the test type dvd which was included with the recent Japanese re-release, can't remember what's on it though.

Oh, and don't mistake my rant for criticism on the show; on the contrary, this OVA series is more or less brilliant and very worth checking out - no doubt this set is the best bet for those in the US.

The original releases came out on three seperate DVD's with only two half hour episodes per DVD. To buy the whole series, you would have to spend around $95.00. I love the show, but not that much. I'm really hoping the price is right this time around.

rrp is $70, it wont be anywhere near that much online.

I don't like a lot of the anime coming out nowadays, but I loved this. It and Cowboy Bebop are my favorites.

I never got around to buying it, so I'll definitely be getting this.