{"id":13073,"date":"2008-07-10T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2008-07-10T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:14:26","slug":"ask-john-what-is-the-viridian-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-what-is-the-viridian-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: What Is The Viridian Collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is Viridian Collection? Define what it is and how it different from a normal collection boxset.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>This question arises frequntly enough to justify addressing it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation formally defines its Viridian Collection line of anime DVDs as &#8220;Containing the essential titles for any well-rounded DVD collection exploring the pop-culture phenomenon known as Japanese animation.&#8221;  This is obviously a bit of an exaggerated marketing ploy since many of the titles in the Viridian Collection are not &#8220;essential titles for any well-rounded&#8221; anime DVD collection, and contrary to its implication, the Viridian Collection does not comprehensively represent &#8220;the essential titles for any well-rounded&#8221; anime DVD collection because the Viridian Collection excludes all titles not distributed by FUNimation. In effect, the Viridian Collection line of anime DVDs are a selection of FUNimation&#8217;s discount priced re-releases. Referring to the Viridian Collection as a &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; line isn&#8217;t exactly accurate because certain reduced priced re-releases that certainly qualify as &#8220;greatest hits,&#8221; such as Fruits Basket and Dragon Ball Z, are not part of the Viridian Collection.<\/p>\n<p>Since viridian is a shade of the color green, the Viridian line of anime DVDs are intended to save consumers &#8220;green&#8221; (money). Furthermore, many of the Viridian Collection DVDs make use of relatively environmentally friendly packaging, or are made from partially recycled material.<\/p>\n<p>The contents of Viridian Collection DVD sets sometimes differs slightly from earlier releases.  For example, FUNimation&#8217;s initial Samurai 7 DVD boxed set includes seven supplemental booklets while the Viridian Collection re-release set does not include the booklets.  On the other hand, FUNimation&#8217;s original Burst Angel DVD boxed set contains the 24 episode television series while the Viridian Collection re-release includes the TV series and the OVA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is Viridian Collection? Define what it is and how it different from a normal collection boxset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}