Wonderful Days (Sky Blue) - Korean H&C Limited Original Edition

[Brent L.]

This was just released last month and I made a major impulse purchase at YesAsia and it just showed up today in the mail. Here is the link to the listing...

http://www.yesasia.com/us/1033199633-0-0-0-en/info.html

I am a huge fan of this film, more for the animation than the story but that is just fine as well. I first saw this years ago on a website that streamed this sort of thing, but I have never bought an official release until now.

I am by no means an expert on the audio/video quality of releases so I do not claim to be at all. I will say as I sit here watching it on my 50'' Panasonic 3D HDTV as I type this that the image is very crisp, detailed, and just looks amazing to me. To say that it looks better than I have ever seen it goes without saying. This type of animation is so beautiful to me and I wish there was more just like this out there.

I have a very basic 5.1 surround sound system that I bought a month or two back and the mix, to me, is also incredible. It really pulls me in and sounds like things are truly blowing up and flying by all around me with a very clear center channel. All in all, it's one of my favorite discs in this respect so far, but that could just be because I am so happy with the release.

I feel like I have never truly watched this before considering how great it looks and sounds. Again, I'm no expert on the technical terms and all of that. I just know that I'm enjoying it a great deal here.

This release features the extended cut 94 minute version and not the standard 86 minute version that most seem to have watched with the original Korean language track with Korean or English subtitles. There are a number of extras featured, such as a commentary track, almost hour long making of, and various other things as well. Unfortunately, like most if not all Korean releases, none of the extras have English subtitles.

If you are a fan of this one, I highly recommend this release. I couldn't be happier with the purchase.

Oh, and I also love the badass black BD case it comes in, sorta like the one for the Night of the Living Dead that we all loved so much. Well, NotLD was lighter, almost gray, this one is flat out black.