When people alerted me about the two
Beyond the Boundary anime feature films, telling me they were pretty good, I got interested, and wanted to check out the anime series first. Well, lo and behold: Sentai Filmworks recently released one of their super-pimped Limited editions for the series! being the magpie I am, and spotting the box for a hefty discount, I ordered it, and it has arrived.
After the unbelievably lavish releases for
Knights of Sidonia and especially
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, I kinda knew what to expect, or (rather) hope for. And thankfully Sentai Filmworks did not disappoint me: their
Beyond the Boundary set fits right in with the others. The series itself is enjoyable if not exactly groundbreaking, and you might wonder if it warrants this kind of release, but man oh man... someone at Sentai sure had fun making this.
Therefore, once again here is a gallery of shots. Click on the edge of the pictures to scroll through them, or at the center of each to see a bigger version.
And here it is: a big, colorful box. Like, candy-colorful. I can almost feel my teeth ache.
Inside the box: two multi-disc amarays, a book, and a smaller box which holds the material extras.
All inner packages displayed. There is the series on Blu-ray, the series on DVD, a 96-page book (yay!) and the inner box.
Like previous Sentai Limited Edition releases, there's loads of stuff and trinkets in the inner box. there's a poster, cards, rulers, stickers, Kuriyama's red-rimmed glasses, pins, a key-chain figurine... the works!
All contents opened and displayed.
A closer look at the key-chain figurine, the glasses and the pins.
Here's the book, which looks like a classy but unassuming pamphlet... until you open it.
Its 96 pages are filled with character drawings, storyboards, backgrounds, designs... the lot! This is a great addition to the set, worth poring over.
Finally, the (back)end, as colorful as the front.
I wonder which series will get this kind of royal treatment next?