Video:

Video quality is top notch.

Audio:

Not too bad over all. There is a lot of action and explosions, so it's not terribly noticable

Subtitle:

Some parts just didn't translate just right. Overall though, I was average subtitling

Comment:

I really enjoyed this series. If gives you action, but at the same time allows you to watch the main charater develop and change. Ending was a little funky. It's not at all what you expect.

Video:

Very good. Nice and clear. There were a few out-of-sync glitches in the whole series, but overall nothing to worry about.

Audio:

No problems that I could detect.

Subtitle:

Very good. Rare problems of spelling, timing, and grammar. Subtitles go off the screen on 2 or 3 occasions. One episode's subtitles had the last letter of each sentence missing for the most part. Another episode's subtitles went by really fast. Also, episodes 22, 23, 24, and to a lesser degree, 25 and 26 were plaqued by subtitles mistiming and turbosubs throughout. Keep the remote control handy, folks. I believe the subtitles were taken from more than 1 source, although quality remains consistent. There were different spellings for names throughout the series, and even the opening and ending subs were different sometimes. Examples of different spellings: Jark/Sarg, Simmons/Symonds, Inez/Innes, Hartland/Heartland, TOD/Touto. All openings and closings subtitled. Episode 26 has a few lines of dialogue unsubbed on 2 occasions.

Comment:

- MI watermark appears once in a while, sometimes on the top left, sometimes on the top right - If you thought that e-mail addresses appearing in the subtitles were annoying, wait until you see this set! Website URL and 2 e-mail addresses are hardcoded! These appear once every 2 or 3 episodes. Subtitles toggling does not remove them. - E-mail address is everywhere on the inner gatefold artwork. These are very faint, can be mistaken for part of the artwork, and not noticeable unless you look closely. - All openings, closings and previews intact. - There were 9, 9, and 8 episodes on discs 1, 2 and 3 respectively, adding up to a total of 25 episodes plus 1 extra episode. - Menu is static with closing song playing in the background. Menu options are standard: Argento Soma, Subtitle, Chapter. - Chapter breaks at opening song, start of episode, closing song. - Great packaging! Clear plastic sleeve and gatefold with artwork. Discs art is not continuation of inner gatefold art, but still very nice! Content: Well... the story isn't that interesting at first and I don't like it all that much, although towards the end it gets a lot better. Ryu Soma, the show's protagonist, is so hell-bent on revenge that it gets annoying. Also, the animation is kind of average. It's been compared to Evangelion, and personally I like Evangelion more because of its emotional depth. But hey, that's just me.

Video:

The Video is great, obviously DVD Ripped. The only thing that annoys me is that sometimes appears those famous ... "M" logo and Email Adress Hardcoded ...so it won't get a 5 :)

Audio:

No problems

Subtitle:

Well, they are very good, very few spelling mistakes, good gramar, barely went off screen ... The timing is good also, except perhaps in episodes 22-24, when there are a couple of sequences when it's a little bit off, but it only lasts for a few moments and then gets right again.

Comment:

The Menus are in English. Includes also an Extra Episode ("Phase Extra"),a couple trailers of the serie, and textless Opening/Ending.All in all a Great Set. Note : I have the "AV" version of this set, it's just a rip of the MI set,even the MI logo and email adress appears . The only thing that is slighty different is the Gatefold (but it's almost equal) . When / If the AV version is added to this site i'll transfer this review to there, but it's just the MI version , they just ripped it :)

Video:

Really great video - absolutely DVD Quality - Great !!!

Audio:

Also no problems with the audio - sounds very good to me !!!

Subtitle:

Really good subs - grammatically perfect and the names of the charcters are correct. Sometimes there appear turbosubs and at the end of the show I noticed some misstimings. But overall the subs are very good.

Comment:

Argento Soma is really a great show, but a sad one, too. I really enjoyed watching the show. It's one of the series that gives you something to think about and I really love this kind of shows. So buy it !!!

Comment:

Studio: Manga International Episodes: 1-25 Video: 5/5 Clean and crisp, DVD rip. Slight blurring, but nothing major. Audio: 5/5 Clear and crisp. Subtitles: 4.5/5 Fansub sourced, some typos here and there and slight mistiming but overall no problems at all. Chaptering: Prologue, OP, Part A, Part B, ED, Preview. Bonuses: None. Menus: Stills, in English: Play All, Subtitle, Chapters. BGM playing. Content: All of the show's there, as far as I can tell. I found the actual anime to be very boring and pretentious and gave up on it after episode 5. ^^; Impression: Excellent release for a bad show.

Comment:

Argento Soma is a very interesting release. Decent music, okay character designs and a story that seems to be a retelling of Eva. But after the first 2 episodes you just have to love it! It's very intriguing. Video - 5/5 Perfect. Spotless. Audio - 4.5/5 Good, good. But it takes blowing my subwoofer out to get a 5 :o Subs - 5/5 Fansub script used very well. The last few eps have some tiny timing problems, but who cares. You're head won't explode for the 1 second delay in some places. Get this now. Do it for Mister X.

Comment:

Video R2 DVD rip, 100%. It looks very good, with a little bit of grain in the heavy scenes. Audio Uhhh... sounds perfect to me. Subtitles Rip from Elite Fansubs version I guess. The're spot on, with a tiny bit of timing problems, but you'll barely notice it. There even are some extra's on the last DVD: - A few trailers - Clean OP/ED - (Special?) ED for Phase:Ex The set has very nice packaging, though they should've gotten rid of the email adresses on the back of the disc holders, it looks... weird. ;) RECOMMENDED SET! Great series too!

Comment:

Video: Colors and details look great. My only prob is that sometimes I can see these translucent horizontal green bars across the screen...it's the same problem that's in the Kenshin Seisouhen DVD by MI. It's not too noticeable, and otherwise its perfect. 4.5/5 Audio: Sounds great. Show has interesting taste in music, by the way. 4.5/5 Subs: Looks like fansubs from different sources (names can be spelled differently). Only a minor problem timing with episodes 22-24 where turbo subs appear sometimes, and occasionally the subs are ahead or there's lag by a line or two for a scene. All songs are subbed. 4.5/5 Chapters: You get two per episode, plus one for the opening and one for the closing credits for each episode. The Phase: Extra episode (aka the Sue characterization episode) is also included after Phase 25. Read the subs and watch the End Credits of Phase:Extra for fun... Overall a great set for an interesting show.

Comment:

This is the best quality DVD set I own, and the second best quality one I've ever seen (the best being El-Hazard). Video - The DVDs actually look DVD quality(*gasp!*). There are very few watermarks... one about every 2 or 3 eps. There are those occasional email addresses in the form of green text... not too bad as far as watermarks go. Subtitles - Fansubs... probably from Europe, seeing as though they spell color, "colour." VERY FEW spelling errors. Only one mistake, namewise (where takt is spelled the way it's spelled using japanese characters: Takuto) Audio - Great, no mistakes that i can see... but then again, I'm no audio buff. Most of the music is great, even though the ending song isn't too great... Content - My favorite show of the year! ^_^ Also to note: Each episode has its (Amazing! *_*) Intro, and (blah x.x) ending still intact, none of these "one intro, one ending per disc" deals here. Overall - While some might say that it's really similar to Evangelion(and it kind of is) this isn't a bad thing. The intro is one of the best i've ever seen. A very well made show, and a great HK DVD release. edited by TojiSuzuhara on 22 Jul 2002 3:07 am