Shin Mazinger - The Blu-ray in detail (I)

With a certain delay, I'll introduce you today the first volume of the new series Blu-ray.
The volume is presented in a sober but elegant box, showing an image of Mazinger on the front and one of Koji on the back, both of them over a scarlet background. What you see on the lower part of the box is the obi, usually attached to Japanese editions, that gives us information on the contents of the product. The box is about the same width of a DVD but a little bit lower (like the individual boxes for Blu-ray) and contains the three discs with the same slevees that will be featured on the DVD edition. It also contains a 32-page booklet, a coupon to gain points at EMOTION FAMILY CLUB (we can later exchange them for other Blu-ray or DVD) and another coupon that we will use to get our hands on the desired Zeus figure, a limited gift with the first edition of this Blu-ray.

If you fully open the full-colored booklet, the cover and backcover show an image of Mazinger's face as you can see in the picture below.


Once inside the booklet, the first two pages show us an interesting comparision between images from the original manga and from the new TV series.

The similitudes are certainly striking, and these homages are without doubt a gift to the older fans, since they hadn't been forced into the series.

In the next entry I will show you more about the booklet and other aspects of this edition.