Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

There are plenty of reviews for the AoT anime anywhere you wanna look, so my review is based on the value of the Limited Edition package being sold for upwards of $53-$80 versus any other home release. It's nowhere near worth it. To set the tone, I only purchased this set because I had pre-ordered it back when the set was first announced at $53, and by the time it was ready for release it had increased to $80. I figured there must be some reason it was that expensive, so I kept my pre-order. I actually looked online at FunImation's website, and I thought there was going to be a bunch of other extras like necklaces and pins and metal stuff. But no, there's nothing included that gives any reason to ever pay more than $30 for this set, if even that much. With this Limited Edition package you get two dvd's and two bluray discs (each format only holding the first 13 episodes); a lenticular slip that's just the same image as the cover to the set (and not all that lenticular-y as far as the effect goes); a 12-page "art book" that's glued into the middle of the set that contains some character descriptions, some odd chibi-style manga panels, and a very select few cover art/splashes from the covers of the Japanese disc releases (the pages are numbered to 26, but that's counting front and back images for each page). The set itself holds the discs in a single plastic tray for each format (a dvd tray and a second bluray tray). Each disc is stacked one over the other, so in order to get to the second disc of each format you have to remove the first disc on top. The biggest flaw with this design is that the center tab holder for the top disc has nothing bracing it from behind when the second disc is taken out, and it's really hard to put the first disc back into its holder. The disc authoring is pretty poor as well. You get the nice "Marathon" feature which will play all episodes back-to-back without having to see the intro or ending for each episode. But what really pisses me off is that the commercial break interlude images are not translated! There's so much information about the AoT world and how things work, yet nowhere are there subtitles or translations for these images; not even in the dam artbook! You would actually have to go to the extras section just to view them, under the "Eyecatch Gallery," completely taking you out of the specific episode you're watching just to understand what's being show on screen *sigh* None of the artwork used for the cover/interiors/rear cover are particularly special; the set is a hardbook cardboard that opens like a book; and it feels kinda flimsy when you hold it in your hand. There's no holder for the lenticular slip, so you're just gonna have to slide it into the middle of the set somewhere if you wanna keep everything all together. Amazon will even ship this to you in a padded envelope if you buy it alone, so be aware that the hardbook cardboard could be bent up and damaged by the time you get it in the mail. Spending $50+ for a set of 13 episodes for an anime that you easily could have seen streaming online during it's first broadcast run is atrocious.Even recommending the special edition set for $50-$80 if the entire 26 episode series was offered is a big stretch. Stick to what's cheapest, get the regular edition, or wait for an all encompassing series set to be released later on because this first Limited Edition package is nowhere near worth the money it's demanding from you.