[Merch] Checking to see if an End of Evangelion DVD is legit

[notrogersmith]

Rather belatedly, I started to look for a copy of End of Evangelion on eBay, and found what I think is a legit used DVD, but I'm still a bit paranoid. The case of the DVD looks fine:

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However, I'm a bit more uncertain about the pic of the DVD itself:

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There's no blatantly off artwork, but then ... there's no artwork, and it doesn't look like any pictures of the DVD that I found on Google. Is this okay, or should I look elsewhere?
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[hui43210]

Looks like the one I have, and it came with all the official stuff so I'd say that's legit.

[The Eva Monkey]

It's legit.

The Death & Rebirth DVD was a double sided release with a special interactive encyclopedia thing on the second side. To be consistent, EoE looks like a double sided disc even though it isn't.

[notrogersmith]

Thanks. I went ahead and bought it. It'll be ... interesting ... to see EoE again. Been a while since I watched it.

[The Eva Monkey]

PRO TIP:

If you're thinking about giving it a watch with audio commentary, ignore the commentary on the disc and watch it with this instead:

http://www.evamonkey.com/end-of-evangelion-audio-commentary-with-rocco-and-garrett-of-mega64/

[astrophys]

Well, seeing that the consensus is that yours is legit, you're luckier than I was.

That is to say, I myself got duped.

Got End of Eva from Ebay myself. I wasn't as savvy about DVDs as I was now, so at the time I sincerely thought that I was buying something legitimate. (Now that I'm more savvy, I realize in retrospect that there were actually warning signs that I should have picked up upon, but I didn't recognize those at the time).

Didn't realize my mistake until long later when I was looking at the Evageeks forums (as an unregistered/guest viewer) and came across another topic like this one. That's when I saw a version like the one that I had get discussed and pointed out as fake. Also, my discs now are behaving more temperamentally than they used to; they play perfectly fine in some disc drives but not others now.

Really, the only bright side for me out of this whole scenario is that I got it at a much cheaper price than End of Eva typically goes for, but as the saying goes, "You get what you pay for."

[notrogersmith]

Well, seeing that the consensus is that yours is legit, you're luckier than I was.

The main reason that I was lucky was that I had stumbled upon the Big-O Bootleg Guide when trying to find used Big-O DVDs way back when. I figured that Big-O was hardly the only anime with a bootleg problem. If anything, considering that Eva is more famous, I figured that it might be a bigger target for bootleggers.

[Chuckman]

PRO TIP:

If you're thinking about giving it a watch with audio commentary, ignore the commentary on the disc and watch it with this instead:

http://www.evamonkey.com/end-of-evangelion-audio-commentary-with-rocco-and-garrett-of-mega64/

Ignore this and watch it with the commentary. Let your rage be transformative.

[AR-99]

Have not watched any of the English commentary on any of my Eva disks and that feature isn't a selling point for me.

[BrikHaus]

Honestly, I wouldn't bother with the official release. It's out of print, and the quality was atrocious. It wasn't even anamorphic widescreen for fuck's sake.