Video:

You'll be getting a mixed bag this with this. So I'll keep the overall, final rating at average. The first half of the series is great. You get full-blown widescreen with great quality for a bootleg. Then you hit disc four. For some reason, the first 2 or 3 episodes here are still widescreen, but on a lower resolution, making the screen square with black borders (you'd have to be watching this on a window on your computer to get what I'm saying...) Then you see why. The next episode is in fullscreen, and definitely TV-rip quality. Everything loses it's clarity and seems to worsen to the "end" (*cough*thisseriesrandomlystopswhereitcatchesuptothemanga*cough*) of the series, though that may be my imagination. But the second half of the series IS a big disappointment to what you get from the first in Video criteria. My only theories are A) Only the first half of the series was on DVD in Japan at the time this was released, hence the hasty TV rips for the rest, or B) The whole thing is a TV rip, and whoever was copying it had High Definition for only the time of the first 30 episodes or so but not the rest.

Audio:

Watched it with my PC headphones. It was clear for the most part.

Subtitle:

Another mixed bag, but the bad outweighs the good this time. Haru, Elie, and King retain their names, but for everybody else ... err ... For everyone else's name the subbers seemed to display their name as whatever they decided to call the character for the episode (Don't even get me started on Shyva's infinite aliases), or however they thought the character's name was being pronounced (Resha is "Lisa," Reina is "Rena" ..), and then there's just oddities. Overdrive is still called Overdrive for the first few episodes, and then it's subbed as something like "the mass destruction" for the rest of the show (even though you can CLEARLY tell the characters are still saying "Overdrive" -_-) Engrish comes and goes, but to me it wasn't so constant that you'd miss whole plot developments or anything. The way this show follows a "Story Arc" format makes it pretty easy to follow. The most confusing parts in from the subs are such as when one character says "RaVe" and the subtitles say "Dark Bring," (happens quite often in the later Arcs of the series for some reason) which are COMPLETELY OPPOSITE elements in the story, but, as most of the keywords in this show are in English, you can figure out what they're talking about pretty easily by ear.

Comment:

OPs/EDs/Previews are intact, and the only extra I remember is a promo for the RaVe fighting game GameCube on the first DVD.