I've wanted to watch this series for a long time. That's literally many years. Everytime I went to Japan, I looked for used DVDs of this series, but only found one or two volumes, so I just passed on them. Just recently, I found the Proware release including the entire series, so I jumped on it. Needless to say, it was cheap.
There's not much to say about packaging, as it's just 6 DVDs in sleeves inside a single case. Case itself looks decent enough, but the sleeve binder inside broke on mine. It's no big deal because I moved the discs to my own jewel cases.
Discs themselves physically appear to be of extremely high quality. There are six single-layer discs, each containing just 2 episodes (+ short bonus video) at maximum video bitrate (9800kbps for DVD) + linear PCM audio. I see their releases keep up pretty well with Japanese releases, too. For people who just want to own anime DVDs to watch, I don't see any reason to spend more than an order of magnitude more money on R2 DVDs. Note Proware is 100% legit. I do see, "Licensed only for use in Taiwan" printed on the case, but whom do they think they're kidding? Oh, and there's no English subtitles, but what do people who buy R2s care about that anyway?
Most discs contain some bonus contents like creditless opening/ending, advertisement collections, and videos from the public recording session of the AsaRaji (Internet Radio). I unfortunately did not listen to this radio when it was being broadcasted. Too many radio shows....
Content wise, I love it! I can almost imagine nonsensical advertisement blurbs like, "older brother and younger sister, not from the same bloodline" and "(magical girl) who grows up to be an adult lady" being used for this series. Technically, those are not lies, but they don't apply to this series the way they usually apply to other anime. In a way, that's what makes this series so great. It's more of real life drama, with a little twist. In fact, I can see this being a live action drama.
I couldn't find a usable catalogue number, so I made it up. I also couldn't find when this was released. I looked through Proware site and only found release dates for the individual releases, so I picked the last volume (6) release date for this.
Very nice quality discs. The volume number right above the DVD VIDEO logo is partially transparent.
