Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" is set to be released on DVD, UMD, and Blu-ray Disc simultaneously this May 23rd in Japan. The DVD will be available in a standard edition and a special 2-disc box set packed with extra goodies including a 760 page storyboard book. The UMD and Blu-ray disc formats will carry only the standard edition. This worries me just a little. Will the US release follow Japan's footsteps? Packaging and all things omake are all just as equally important (or at least very significant) as the movie itself. The fact that most releases come with a regular and limited edition is great in that it satisfies everyone. For me personally, I tend to lean to limited, exclusive, and special collector's editions. Here's where the dilmena rises. Do I sacrifice state-of-the-art optimal visual and sound quality for the special box set? Or do I sacrifice a beautifully packed, goodies stuffed and stunning artwork galore box set for the best technology has to offer? DVD or Blu-ray?? I couldn't choose...I'm hoping this trend is only temporary. But I fear that I'm not so confident that it is.
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"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire." ~Rei Ayanami
"To be or not to be. It makes no difference to me. My death is the only absolute liberty." ~Kaworu Nagisa
"Human beings create dolls in their own image. If God exists, it's possible that we're all just dolls to Him." ~Evangelion
"I'd rather live in a world with people in it, no matter how stained it is with sin." ~Kouzou Fuyutsuki
"Forget all that formal crap 'bout comin' at me one at a time. I'll take all you bitches on!" ~Mugen
"Survivability takes priority." ~Misato Katsuragi
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing..." ~Optimus Prime
"I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels." ~Homer Simpson
"There is nothing left to believe in." ~Vicious
"Give me the gift of nothingness, give me death." ~Legato
"A sinner once passed away will never return, but sins will never vanish and the love will never die." ~Les Soldats
"Even without clocks, the sun will still rise." ~Captain (King of Bandits Jing)
"All of us are either users, or tools...or both." ~Zabuza
"God did not create humans. Humans created God." ~Londes
"If you aren't remembered, then you never existed." ~Lain
"As long as there is trust, there is betrayal." ~Battle Royal
"I'm just watching a dream I never awakened from." ~Spike Spegiel
"The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth." ~Keel Lorentz
"No matter where you are, everyone is always connected." ~Lain
"A bell that does not ring serves no purpose." ~Keel Lorentz
"What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?" ~Shinji Ikari
"Only in the human's version, do the hunters slay the wolves." ~Jin-Roh
"Journey and see with eyes unclouded." ~Mononoke Hime
"The hedgehog's dilemma...the nearer we get, the deeper we hurt each other..." ~Misato Katsuragi
"Science is the power of man." ~Gendo Ikari
"Beyond jealousy and betrayal; beyond hate and desire; beyond pain and death; lies the ultimate revelation; the final choice; the end ~End of Evangelion
"...pain is something man must endure in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe life is pain." ~Kaworu Nagisa
"Death gives birth to nothing." ~Gendo Ikari
"The beginning and the end are one and the same" ~Seele
"The less one forgets, the less one can remember." ~Batou
"The mirror is not an instrument of enlightenment, but of illusion." ~Togusa
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." ~Oh Dae-Su
"How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion." ~Sephiroth
"I'm no hero. Never was. Never will be." ~Snake
"It does not exist, but it has always existed...." ~Paarthurnax
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