I’m starting to think that I need to follow the suit of some of the other blogs out there and post about random aspects of the things I’ve been watching, which is why I’m making this post about Tokyo Majin (Gakuen Kenpucho), a show which I don’t have much to say about, at least in regards to things that are sensible.

Maybe it’s coming out of watching several episodes of Air yesterday, or perhaps the fact that Yue has long been my favourite character in Negima (little to do with the hat on her Pactio card, I assure you), but I can’t help but find my attention drawn to juice boxes in anime shows these days. Maybe I should start a Juice Watch feature, given that the old Mikan Watch tag hasn’t seen much use recently (I’ve spotted a few in some of the manga I’ve been reading, but not having been watching much anime recently I’ve not picked up on any there). In any case, I noticed that, in the course of the five DVD episodes, Hiyu drank from not one, but two different Strawberry flavoured juice boxes. What, precisely, this tells us about the character is anyones guess. Heck, I’m not even sure if that character is actually Hiyu – I found character names unusually difficult to grok in that show for some reason, not to mention the shows habit of jumping along it’s own timeline without prior warning making it’s continuity not exactly easy to follow either.

One other thing that registered with me about Tokyo Majin isn’t really anything to do with the show, but rather it’s release – I hadn’t actually noticed that ADV had stopped putting inserts in with all their DVDs. On further inspection, it appears to be the same with Air, Kanon and NHK as well, at least. Not that this particularly bothers me – it’s not like I really need a list of chapter breaks in a particular show (which is what these things tended to amount to), and Bandai Ent. stopped doing these a while back either – but I was kind of surprised I hadn’t noticed earlier.

At least I was until I realised that I haven’t been buying all that many ADV releases as of late, and of those which I have been buying have been of the low priority, bottom-of-the-backlog variety. Scanning through some of the ADV releases from the last year I have picked up, and it looks like they’ve only been ditching them when they don’t have anything that would constitute as an extra – Kurau looks to have some booklets with staff interviews, as does Chevalier.

This, coincidently, is in sharp contrast to a lot of R2 DVDs, where even something like Clover, which was an astonishing seven minutes long, comes with a little black and white paper slip detailing the menu structure and DVD details (in the case of Clover, in addition to a colour leaflet with the lyrics for the feature). The amount of paper shrapnel R2s tend to ship with is pretty crazy…