Heads up for LotGH fans

[vanfanel]

Interested parties may need to act on this one quickly, but this month's issue of Gekkan Comic Ryuu (http://www.amazon.co.jp/COMIC-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A6-2007%E5%B9%B4-11%E6%9C%88%E5%8F%B7/dp/B000VOF1CW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/503-5023613-6103157?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190464976&sr=8-1) comes with a free DVD of the movie "Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars".

Oh, and nobody but me will care about this, but "Xenon: Heavy Metal Warrior" has started up again in this magazine after all these years (I read the Viz/Eclipse series in...what? 1992?)

[Njr Scrawl]

Interesting, its the prelude to main series movie - first meeting between Reinhard & Yang.

Is there going to be another release possibly?

[DocWatson]

Oh, and nobody but me will care about this, but "Xenon: Heavy Metal Warrior" has started up again in this magazine after all these years (I read the Viz/Eclipse series in...what? 1992?)
Oh, my. I hope that it is at least as good as the original run, and that a North American company picks it up. (I have the complete Viz/Eclipse run; Xenon at Mile High Comics (http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?title=99144370088).)

[vanfanel]

I watched the DVD the other night. No complaints video-wise, but that's not my forte. As expected, it's as bare-bones as you can get. Just the movie (the "menu screen", which only has one option, is an ad for the big DVD series box). There aren't even any chapter stops.

As for the movie itself, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's not really "enough" to stand on its own, but knowing that it's part of something much bigger made me not mind. Afterward, I searched the closing credits and was proven wrong, but man! Something seemed so "Mikimoto-ish" about the character designs in this one...

It looks like packed-in DVDs are a regular part of this magazine; the preview page says the next issue will apparently have a disk that includes some kind of making-of program about Mamoru Oshii's next "Tachigui" project. And a letter to the editor mentioned a previous issue as having come with a (dagnabbit!) Yutaka Izubuchi art disc of some sort.

The reason for the LotGH movie being included was pretty clear; the magazine is running a LotGH manga (and a quite pretty one, I might add, by the same artist who drew the book covers and illustrations for Tokuma's 20-volume paperback edition).