Endangered Animals (Box Set)

Advantages: Good value, good quality all around
Disadvantages: May be a little hard to understand for a first time anime viewer

...This DVD Box set of Samurai X (Original Japanese Title : Rurouni Kenshin, Rurouni, meaning Master-less Samurai or wondering Samurai and Kenshin being the name of the main character.) This box set contains 4 DVD's; Trust Betrayal The Motion Picture Reflections All in all they run for about 5 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The DVD's in this set tell the story of Hitokiri Battousai, a man famed (of so the story goes) for being the most powerful and deadly manslayer of the Meji Restoration in Japan, effectively an assasin. Samurai X is also linked to three series of Anime which are also available (the cost is about $100, it doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet). Trust and Betrayal are set before the series, The Motion Picture is set at a point during the series and Reflections... Read review

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Advantages: every episode ever produced of this classic series collected in one boxed set
Disadvantages: Few special features

...effects taken for granted in todays world of animation,. However it is by no means crude and would have(and probably has) easily won half a dozen awards for animation excellence. However no good story is complete without a cast of well fleshed out characters which really make it shine. Eacc character has his/her own personality, from Hank's unshakeable sense of moral justice to Eric's cowardly and arrogant personality. Not to mention the genuinely evil and imposing vlillains, above all Venger who sits alongside the plethora of villains who make film and TV great. The boxed set itself comes in a sturdy card box adorned with Dungeons and Dragons artwork, enclosing 4 volumes. The discs themselves have few special features, the usual audio and episode selections are there. However that shouldn't put anyone off as it's all quite well... Read review

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Advantages: Ooooh, too many to put here!
Disadvantages: Erm....stitch from laughing too much!

...Hello everybody, I'm writing a review on this Box Set by Lee Evans! My Grandfather bought it for me because it was going cheap in a shop in the High Street. I'd previously bought Lee Evans 2005 XL Tour Live for my flat mate for Christmas. I watched it on Xmas day with him and was hooked! I let my Grandfather borrow it, he was hooked, then let my Parent's borrow it, they were hooked and thus starting a Lee Evans revolution within my family! It was a stroke of luck that my Grandfather was in the high street and saw this DVD Box Set in passing whilst searching for something else. He bought it, it was 19.99 GBP instead of the 39.99 GBP recommended retail price. (The new box set was coming out with the new XL DVD in it!) He bought it, and I've been watching them non-stop ever since. He did theorectically buy it for himself but since... Read review

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