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Rocket Girls rework for DVD

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

According to a post @AoD forums, Rocket Girls will receive a significant rework for the DVD (unfortunately, I was unable to find a more direct source).



The contrast looks pretty drastic. I heard about reworks before, but never saw anything of this magnitude.

There is no word on the horrors of the ep.1. I suspect they won’t make the helicopter to fly normally, because tilted helicopters are the norm in anime (e.g. the original Ghost in The Shell features a pretty screwed-up example too. On the other hand, if they reworked the taxi…

Bandai solicits Rocket Girls

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Good people at #animedvd passed a tip that Bandai “solicited” Rocket Girls: Complete Collection to be sold for $49.98, with the street date of 2008/10/7.

The anonymous benefactor bayoab also reminds that the price is ususally quite a bit less than the MSRP. I’m so in.

UPDATE 2008/08/20: Robert added a section. The price is $36.98.

Bandai Banzai

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

According to an accidential testimony by DS, they actually promoted Rocket Girls at NYAF. Check out this towering Yukari, looking sceptically at the convention-goers:

Now, may I have a wall scroll of it please?