The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 1
Yay, my copy finally came. Here’s some pictures. 
First are several shots of the box since the whole box is basically just various pictures next to my Infinite Justice model (Gundam SEED Destiny). I think the box looks really nice. The side with the label is probably the bottom, the label actually came off after I took the pictures, but I won’t bother taking another picture of it for now.
Here is the box opened up, I’m not sure if my box was just unlucky or something, but the flap on the right doesn’t stay open so I had to use a water bottle to keep it open.
Here are the ‘extras’, a pencil board, a Haruhism iron-on, and a Haruhi cosplay ribbon. Since I’m a guy, I guess I don’t really have a use for the ribbon. The second picture is the other side of the pencil board.
The DVD itself, it has a really nice front cover illustration by Noizi Ito, she draws stuff really nice. 
The back is decent, I don’t like it as much as the front cover.
The ending theme CD for the show that I’ve already heard many times, Hare Hare Yukai.
Last picture is a picture of the box opened up, I think it’s neat how they have the strip to help you get things out of it easier. I don’t know if other boxes had these, since this is only my second DVD box thing. My first one was Someday’s Dreamers.
I rarely buy anime DVDs, but I decided to pick this up since they have a ton of extras and a neat box that comes with it. Overall I’m pretty satisfied with my purchase, even though I haven’t even watched the DVD itself yet. :p Missing is a picture of the back of the CD case.
Here’s one last picture of everything together.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I really liked the DVD box as well! I thought it was very neat and clever how they had flaps and such. (I like opening the flaps since it’s like magnetic or something xD) The only thing I really didn’t like was the ribbon XD It was real crappy! LOL. I got so mad because I really wanted it to be done like it is in the show..
Ah, well….
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October 10th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Square Foot Gardening…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…