{"id":27778,"date":"2012-02-14T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=27778"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:13:59","slug":"looking-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/looking-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For 75 bucks, honestly, I\u2019m a little disappointed by the Madoka Magica volume one limited edition. It looks and feels small, and the slipcase appears to be pretty feeble. After all, for $50 each the NIS America limited editions come in big, durable, hard slipcases with hardcover illustration books and include complete 12\/13 episode series on DVD and BD discs. The NIS America limited editions just seem like much nicer, higher quality limited editions at a significantly lower price. I\u2019m also disappointed that the promised pre-order bonus is merely an advertising postcard. Apart from having a different front image, it\u2019s literally the exact same thing as the Christmas Madoka Magica postcard that I received for free, without needing to pre-order a $75 limited edition. And it\u2019s the exact same type of advertising postcards that FUNimation routinely gives out for free. After Nozomi gave away a signet ring as an Utena pre-order bonus, an advertising postcard feels like a pretty weak pre-order bonus gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For 75 bucks, honestly, I\u2019m a little disappointed by the Madoka Magica volume one limited edition. It looks and feels small, and the slipcase appears to be pretty feeble. After all, for $50 each the NIS America limited editions come in big, durable, hard slipcases with hardcover illustration books and include complete 12\/13 episode series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","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=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27780,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/27780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}