Last Exile Complete Box: Range Murata Edition (thinpak) Review
Monday, September 25th, 2006Director: Kouchi Chigira
Production: GONZO
Publisher: Geneon
Region 1 NTSC
Packaging
The box set entails seven skinny DVD cases encased in a sturdy cardboard outer-case with everything plastered in beautiful new Range Murata artwork. Really, I think these thinpack releases represent the ideal in DVD packaging for me. They house entire series of shows without occupying half a shelf and look sleek and sophisticated while doing so. It certainly doesn’t hurt when you have fourteen new bits of painted artwork by anime’s hottest character designer, either.
In terms of outer-packaging there’s nothing I can really criticise. There was a spot of damage on the actual box, but I’ve dealt with worse when importing and it’s no bearing on the product itself. It’s quite robust and exceptionally pretty, which makes spending the extra bit of cash all that easier.
Internally there isn’t much cause for annoyance either. The DVD lithography is slightly bland and looks a lot like those CDRs you put your coffee cups on, but they’re uniform and suit the streamline ethos of the package. The artwork on the inside of the DVD sleeves deserves special kudos for providing detailed blueprints of all the aircraft in the show. I swear I wouldn’t have understood what the Exile ship actually was without those supplemental notes. It’s a lovely covert extra and it contributes more to an already winning product from Geneon. Top quality stuff.
