Video:
Strangely inconsistent. On the first disc you have nice, crisp DVD rip with 16:9 widescreen. Only thing is, that the infamous translucent green bars show up. The second disc also starts with 16:9 DVD rip, but it's noticeably more unsharp than on disc one. From episode 13 or 14 it switches to 4:3 TV rip. The TV rip itself is ok, slightly unsharp, some distorted lines now and then, some color bleeding, but no serious problems. On the last disc we're back to excellent sharp and crisp DVD rip. Didn't notice the green bars here.
Audio:
Good audio. Maybe a little background noise for the TV ripped part.
Subtitle:
Good audio. Maybe a little background noise for the TV ripped part.
Comment:
ATTENTION: This set is missing the episode "Chii disappears" (#20 in the official episode count). This missing episode is NOT one of the recap episodes. Those are both here, although the episode "Shinbo and Sumomo talk" is presented as #25 instead of #9, where it should be. You still have 26 episodes, because there is a final episode "Hibiya and Kotoko talk", not mentioned in the episode guides I found on the net. This episode is just a 3rd recap episode with some (very few) hints at what happens afterwards.
This is a rip of a MI set, but there seem to be different MI sets out there. One person told me, that his MI set also was missing the "Chii disappears" episode, another one told me that it was included in his set as the first episode on disc 3. So watch out which MI set you'll get.
The series itself is very nice, very good artwork. I liked it better than the manga. If you like the "romantic android" genre, you will like this one too. I didn't have a real problem to follow the story, but I really can't recommend a set with a whole episode missing.
Level: 10
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