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Well, now that Japanese sites are working for me, newspost! There's very little on the official site that you wouldn't know already, the OP/ED promotion and the vote being obvious and mentioned sometime ago...but there's something new in the staff column.

Apparently, DVD#2 will also have audio commentary, specifically for Episode 4. People doing the commentary are seiyuus for Lelouch, Kallen and Jeremiah. It'll also come with a Picture Drama again (this is sounding like Mai-Hime's DVD extras but hopefully better), though this time the scenario isn't by Oukouchi but by Associate Series Composition Guy Yoshino Hiroyuki. The theme this time is...'Bathroom'. Sunrise also apologizes in advance for its female fanbase and as for the male fans, they promise ecchi. Quite fitting for a DVD which holds Episode 3.

DVD#2 is slated for February 2007.

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[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Not in Japan, but I go there and buy a lot of stuff from there and I do read some Japanese (with the help of Mr Dictionary for the kanji! ^-^b). The benchmark DVDs for me have been Gonzo's GarasuNoKantai DVDs - they came with SO much extra stuff including an awful lot of production art and new paintings; Garakan was designed by Okama and his drawings are amazing. I would pay for more of Clamp's drawings, a la that insert character design book that came free with...I think was Newtype?

DVD no1. seems OK...well, it had a set of 10 postcards in it from Clamp, but they're of those paintings which accompany the end titles. It's nice to have them without text, but they're not *really* special as they are images we've seen. I am not sure it has drama snippets on it; I think it might have one for the DVD, but it has the collected net radio stuff on it.

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Gonzo can be very generous with its DVDs, I find. Worst, though, has to be Bones. They milk so much out of FMA and there's nearly no extra at all. >:[ CG is pretty much the first 'modern' era Sunrise DVDs I own, though, so I guess I am clueless about their methods. Sure envying those extras you mention, however. (I am starting to watch GaraKan, btw. But since this server deserves a kick, only one episode a day.)

The DVD does come with CLAMP designs booklet, though. It's newly mentioned in the official site under DVD, but I didn't put it in the entry because I vaguely remember it being mentioned elsewhere, though I may be wrong. Plus the Diary of Rebellion thing (which I have such limited interest in) and those postcards. And I think it has the drama snippets, specifically, detailing Lelouch and Suzaku's first meeting? Of course I already preordered, so I'm not sure what's for first print and what's not anymore.

DVD#4, IIRC, has CLAMP 4coma...but I'd actually like a short 2-pager or something rather than a 4coma. SD isn't that enough to justify extras, really.