Gunsmith Cats - Explosive Premium Edition [Kickstarter Exclusive] (Blu-ray)

Release date: 2019-09-23
Suggested retail price: $70

SKU: AV019-201
UPC: 737187016905 737187016905
ISBN-10: 1565676386 1565676386
ISBN-13: 9781565676381 9781565676381

Description:
The Gunsmith Cats OVAs were based on the manga of the same name, created by famous manga artist Kenichi Sonoda. Gunsmith Cats is a semi-reboot of Mr. Sonoda's Riding Bean manga, which was also made into an anime. Both Riding Bean and another Sonoda-related anime, Otaku no Video, have been released as limited-edition Blu-ray sets.

The Premium Set includes the all 3 OVAs in both English and Japanese on a max-bitrate BD50 all-region high-definition disc.

The disc itself has multiple subtitle variants -- colored (color-blind friendly), colored SDH, captioned SDH (similar to "Netflix-style") and captioned English SDH. There are 3 commentary tracks - two in Japanese featuring Kenichi Sonoda, Arai Masahiro, Kazaana Takanori, Mori Takeshi and Satō Hiroki, and one in English featuring Matt Greenfield and Tiffany Grant (OVA 1), Bennett the Sage and Marc Swint (OVA 2) and Amanda Winn Lee and Kimberly Yates (OVA3).

On-disc extras also include the original production documentary, an updated production documentary, a how-to-draw tutorial by Mr. Sonoda, an artwork slideshow, a clean version of the opening credits, a list of all the project backers (as of the time we went into production), and more.

The premium set comes in an amaray case with a reversible cover slip and a 9-panel insert which contains a new original poster and a list of all the backers, plus a 176-page Amaray-sized full-color Artbook that fits together with the amaray in a colorful chipboard case, and a very special dojinshi "thinbook". The artbook contains existing and new artwork, plus an extensive collection of original production settei (design drawings) and the results of the fan art contest we ran as part of the Kickstarter campaign.

The thinbook contains a new 4-page color manga short by Mr. Sonoda, as well as new Gunsmith Cats illustrations by Mr. Sonoda, KOTOBUKI Tukasa (Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN), UEDA Hajime (FLCL), and TADANO Kazuko (Sailor Moon). The set also includes sticker sheet suitable for adorning your laptop or vehicle. And just to be nice, we threw in a second copy of the sticker sheet and two postcards!

(added on 2022-06-06, modified on 2022-06-06)

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