Hey. I just bought an Animeigo Laserdisc release of Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter (sealed) for $35.95 on Ebay. Was it a good buy, or not? Thanks.

Also, Happy Easter!

Not really, but its a fun movie so I think you'll live.

Okay, thanks. I've seen it before on YouTube, and I liked it. At least I payed 4 dollars less than retail. I just hope it isn't rotted.

P.S: Originally it was $45.95, but I gave the seller an offer, and he accepted it.

IMO being "sealed" ads nothing to value if you plan on watching it anyway. The jacket can still be folded and the disc can be all rotted to heck and back. Last month I bought a sealed copy of Babe: Pig in the City (1998) [LD 83607-WS] and when I opened it I discovered it was smashed. I have no idea if it was damaged on its way to me or in a warehouse 12 years ago.

About two months ago I bought the US versions of UY movies 2 and 5 for $15 on eBay, FWIW. Jackets weren't perfect, but discs were.

Well, I'm praying to Buddha and God that the disc isn't all smashed.

My general rule is $15 maximum per disc, but I've broken that several times when my favorites became available. Since you're a big UY fan, it's probably worth it for you.

Another general rule I use: if I get that worried feeling in the pit of my stomach (buyer's remorse) after clicking the purchase button, I probably just paid too much. BEAL-921

but that film and box are amazing, i have one
if you bought it sealed you may have paid a little too much, but i don't care about it being sealed.
so don't be too upset, you will get the original Japanese soundtrack that is not on the DVD and the original colors that the enhanced DVD version has.

If a person is going to drop a lot of cash on an anime LD, Ghost in the Shell: Premium Box (1995) [BEAL-921] would be a good contender. Its not valuable on the market or anything, but its extremely kick-ass so you aren't going to feel like you wasted your money. Its incredibly nice. If you wait around you can probably get it for $20, but its a steal at $200.

Yeah, but it was more of a "rebound" purchase. I had set aside money for Green Legend Ran Box Set (1992) [PILA-1130A] which I had been wanting for a long time. I ordered it from Da Don's, but he didn't actually have a copy in stock and suggested Ghost in the Shell since it was on my wishlist. I agreed, but felt disappointed thereafter.

But I agree: film and box ARE amazing!

I have the Ran box, its OK, but in the end its really a budget OVA heavily inspired by previous works. The GitS movie is a masterwork.

You probably got hosed on it since it was from Da Don, but as long as it wasn't more than $100 I think you did OK.

This is the auction, just in case if any of you wanted it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/360626251135?ss ... 1497.l2649

Yeah, Ran's animation was much lower quality than GitS, but I enjoy the alternate-world/search for water films (Now&Then Here&There, Avenger).

GitS is the only disc I've bought from Da Don's because the prices are pretty high. As pricey as he is, the service is phenomenal.

I love "Now and Then, Here and There" and I was super happy when I found the LD's of that show (must have been 10 years ago or so I think).

I don't want to annoy people, but I think that GitS is highly overrated.
I've watched it maybe 10 times or so, and the more often I saw it, each time I thought
"wow this is pretty boring compared to other stuff", especially compared to the GitS TV series,
the Blu-Ray and the 2.0 re-release are not making up for it either.
I got so annoyed with it that I sold my Premium LD-Box at some point.

I watched the first episode or maybe two of Now and Then, Here and There and I don't remember much except for a little kid getting the living s**t kick out of him the entire time which I found disturbing. It was like Green Legend Ran with way more child abuse.

GitS is many things to many people. When it became a hit in the 90s the majority of people that fell in love with it only liked it because of the extreme violence, sorta-nudity, and high budget animation. Fans of these aspects of the movie are bound to be bored by, or oblivious to, the cerebral concepts. IMO Stand Alone Complex season one is better than the first GitS movie, but the movie is still great. It managed to be heady high concept scifi anime like the stuff from the 70s and 80s where scifi concepts and trippy visuals and ideas leave you thinking about the movies years later...and it did this in 1996...as a roadshow release, with no model kits or action figures to satisfy the sponsors. I'm not sure this has happened once since then.

It definitely felt worth it to me.

The LD came today, it's in very decent physical condition, but the disc has a small amount of Laser Rot.

I made a video of it here:

http://youtu.be/gPLXH6T55OM

I start playing the disc at 4:50.

I don't see any rot, but it might be because of all the puke on my monitor that came from all the motion sickness. Also, the video isn't that high quality on the YouTube iPhone app.

Sorry, my HD camera has dead batteries. That eats batteries in like 10 minutes.

Also:
http://youtu.be/Tnp6ftVTxi0

Notice the multi-colored lines? It happens every minute or so.

I'm not sure if that's actual rot exactly, but it looks worse than the normal drop outs you get from contaminated stampers.

I remember my copy of this movie having some minor issue but I don't recall what exactly. Tell me the exact time on the LD where this was and I'll check tonight to see if mine has the exact glitch. If it does, it's not rot.