Thank You DVD: Inside

Thank You DVD: Front

Thank You DVD: Back

I'm not going to list a tracklisting for this DVD simply because it's a confusing piece of work. The most significant thing about it is that it contains two special things. These two things are the live performance of Ore-tachi no Sotsugyou (the "farewell" performance in which Midorikawa-san has the most frightening hair imagineable) and the TV interviews from 1997 on Animex. For those things alone the disk is worth having *lol* since the VHS with the live performance on is htf and the interviews are not produced on any other EMU media.

If you haven't got the Equal Live or First Live on VHS, this DVD also gives a taster of those since it features ten other live tracks taken from one or other of these concerts. None of the solos are among them - they're generally the old favourites plus Dear Friend and Party. But it's nice to have them on DVD anyhow.

The rest of the DVD features other E.M.U songs with montages of the boys as the backdrop. A lot of this footage seems to be from the other VHS such as the making of the live tour and the 'Another Side' VHS. Oretachi no Sotgsugyou is from the "History of" VHS release (although Midorin's breakdown in tears is not included)

All in all it's a nice farewell package, however. And worth tracking down if just to watch them banter on TV about who's really the leader. These interview segments go on for about 16 or 17 minutes and the boys are really on form - lots of fun, laughing, cheeky grins (What is it with Midorikawa and his cheeky grins??). 

 The highlight for this Fushigi Yuugi geek from that interview (aside from the fun banter about leaders) was right at the end when the boys each gave a message to the camera. This was being filmed in 1997, when work on Fushigi Yuugi was still in progress (I think sometime around the end of the original series or start of the OVA series) and Midorikawa was still cast in the Tamahome (Taka) role. Cheeky as ever, he looked right at the camera and said "Wo Ai Ni" - much to the amusement of his companions and confusion of the interview staff. Even more fun was the fact that - in response - Hayashi-san adopted his "Tasuki" Kansai-ben voice! (So cool).

Of course, then Midorikawa-san had to explain to the interviewers what Wo Ai Ni meant, and Okiayu-san had to point out it was from one of his anime roles (silly interviewers).

 It made this Yuugi fan very happy *lol* because I've been able to track down next to no actual Yuugi-related video material with any of the Seiyuu about those roles :)

(For anyone who doesn't know/hasn't watched Fushigi Yuugi, it's set in Ancient China. Wo Ai Ni is a cliche way of saying "I Love You" in Chinese and it's used by the character Tamahome/Sukunami Taka when he tells Suzaku no Miko that he loves her on several occasions.)