The other main story arc involves Kyoko's parents, who are (perhaps rightly from their perspective), disturbed over her living conditions. They try every trick in the book, and a few new ones, to get her to move back home. This all makes for lots of fun, and sometimes drunken excitement, at our favorite run-down rooming house.
I can't say enough about the quality of product, and it's a decent value available here with 12 episodes on the DVD set. It's too bad the producers chose not to do any more work, and get the second DVD in the series dubbed. I've read the comments of new anime fans that were worried, and then surprised that the dub wasn't so bad. I'm sure they will be disappointed, that it's not available at all on the second in the series.
I have two complaints: one is that episode 24, the last episode in this DVD, is supposed to have Gilbert O'sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" and "Get Down (You're a Bad Dog, Baby)" as the opening and closing themes. They have decided to skip this, returning it to the opening and closing sequences that come before and after (i.e. the original opening and the closing "Cinema"). This is likely because Viz didn't want to pay the licensing fees (or perhaps they were used without Gilbert's permission to begin with). In any case, I've seen them before, so I'm not too disappointed, and it was only for one episode anyway. Maybe they'll include it as an extra in a later set.
Secondly, the extras are 1) an unnecessary back story (I don't know anybody who would buy this one without buying the first one, so what's the point?) and 2) a brief preview of the next boxset. Both show scenes from the show, but only in english (no option for japanese or subtitles).
When it comes down to it, though, I only care about getting the series, which is one of my favorites. Buy this and the new manga editions in the tradional right to left Japanese style.
