Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let's start with the good: The image quality is fantastic, and the 5.1 audio for both the English dub and the original Japanese are great. That's about all there is good to say. Now for the bad: There is a problem with the English audio track on Episode 1. At 6:35, the line of dialogue plays in Japanese despite having the English audio track selected. The Chief is supposed to say "Ok. You're on!" but instead it plays the Japanese line "Yosh. Ike!". The subtitles on this set are only closed captions for the hearing impaired. This means that sounds that play are given a subtitle like [feet shuffling], [door creaking], whenever they occur. Further, the subtitles are "dubtitles", being a transcription of the English dub rather than being a translation of the Japanese dialogue. They even display [Singing in Japanese] when the OP plays, which is a Russian & Latin language song. The disc is authored as a single chapter for every episode. This means that you can't skip past openings, previews, episode halves, or get to the Tachikomatic Days shorts easily. None of the extras (interviews, making of) that were present on the DVD releases are included on this disc. Due to all these factors, I can't help but be disappointed and consider this a sub-par release of one of the best anime series ever made. Ghost in the Shell deserved better.