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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Bare-bones? What extras do you think they were going to go do? I don't even recall the Japanese DVDs have any bonus features outside of a stupid non-canonical bonus episode on the final disc.

How can they put something that doesn't exist on there? Even if I'm wrong though, those bonus features still cost extra money and who knows if they were even allowed to license them.

What is wrong with the cover art though? It's using the artwork from the Region 2 DVD cases.

The price is just fine. $25 is pretty cheap for a 13/12 episode set of a more modern, niche market Toku series. Hell, that is cheaper than the Dragon Ball Super BDs that are $40 a piece for 13 episodes. Not to mention the Region 2 DVDs cost $45 and ranged from 2-4 episodes per volume with no subtitles on them.

On a personal level, if this is all we get, while that sucks, at least we got the best Garo series.

Simple things like textless opening and ending themes, or possibly a short video (even a text scrawl) explaining the history of Garo, would be easy enough to produce. Have you seen the special features on the Gamera DVDs? Movies about the giant turtle have HOURS of features, from music videos, interviews, commentary tracks, coverage on events, special effects explanations, even some silly antics by the dubbing crew. We don't need anything NEARLY as extravagant as that, but SOMETHING would have showed that the distributors had the tiniest care in the property. Instead we got nothing.
As for the half season thing, most Japanese releases in the US (provided you aren't ANIPLEX.....GODS I dislike Aniplex) tend to compile full seasons, or entire series, into one box. The YuYu Hakusho blu-rays, a series with a bigger fanbase in the US that they could easily charge more for, come with twice as many episodes per set, and at a cheaper price-point.
And the packaging? The plastic quality on mine was noticeably flimsier than on most of my other blu-rays, and the cover slip was sloppily inserted, off center and crooked. Now, that one may just have been an error on the one I got. Maybe it was better on others. Still didn't fill me with much confidence though.

And remember, this series (yes, the full one, including the second half coming later), even discounting the many movies, is only HALF of Kouga's story. And if this fails to sell well........which due to their near non-existent advertising feels quite likely, I'm worried we won't ever get the rest of it out here.

I'm not trying to come down as TOO negative here. Having Garo in my blu-ray collection is AMAZING, and something I never thought I'd see. No matter how this turns out, I'm happy for what I got. In the back of my mind, I just wish it could have been more, you know? I feel that another studio could have done a better job, and spread the word of this great series to more people. If this one series and movie is all we get, I'll be happy for it, but I'll still find myself feeling sad we couldn't get more.

All of that as it is, it's still quite possible we WILL get more! I'm just airing my worries out. Sometimes it helps to get these sorts of negative thoughts on paper (so to speak), rather than letting them stew. :P