I bought this stuff!? No way! Well, it happened, sort of. I wasn't going to care because I'm not really into meaningless gag anime, but the radio show was so darn entertaining, so I was tempted to buy the DVDs. (Un)fortunately, I could not find the first pressing for all the released volumes. So, I wasn't going to bother.
Then, a few fateful events occurred. I was going to move, buy a new projector, give away my InFocux X1, and also give away one of my cars. That last one has nothing to do with Dokuro-chan, but I thought I'd just throw it in.
Just when I told my friend that he can have my X1, he was about to go to Japan for business, and so he asked me if I wanted anything. Well, I didn't really want anything, but what the heck. I told him if he can find the first pressings of the Dokuro-chan DVDs, get them for me. At the time, first three volumes were released. Even at that, it's a good deal for a pristine X1 with less than 1000 hours on the original bulb. After all, three DVDs are only around $150. It turned out, he could only find the first two, but Amazon.co.jp still had the third volume, so again, I said what the heck and ordered the third volume myself. He got the X1 for less than $100 (DVDs were 10% off) and I ended up with Dokuro-chan DVDs, two of which I didn't buy, not exactly anyway.
I just don't feel like fighting with the fate, so it looks like I'm going to buy all of the Dokuro-chan DVDs. Is it any good? Not really. The bonus video of Okayu-sensei getting tricked was kind of interesting, though. Bonus CD that comes with volume 2 is hilarious, though, but I'll talk about that later.
First pressing comes with the box and Gothello board. DVD insert appears to be explaining how to play it, but I didn't read it.
It's like they drew a few geometric figures and then copy-and-pasted it again and again. If I just think of it as watching an animated engineering plans, it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.
Dokuro-chan is really cute, and unlike any cute anime character I've known, too.
