Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Region 1 version of this disc is similar, but it seems I misunderstood which episodes they had on the previous disc. Their fourth disc starts with the beach episode that was the last one on our previous disc — apparently they only had four episodes on the previous disc, unlike the five we received. So their equivalent of this disc, which sports the same gorgeous cover shot, has four episodes, too, but starts one episode earlier than ours. Putting it more clearly: they get episodes 13 to 16, while we get 14 to 17. Ours makes more sense, because episode 13 is the last one with the previous closing theme, and marks some kind of boundary in the series, so it makes sense to have it on the previous disc. Their transfer sounds about as good as ours (which is very good indeed). Interestingly, our gallery has 15 images, while theirs has only 6, and they don't get the Madman Propaganda.

    Looks to me like it's a tie, but you'll want to buy from the same region as you bought volume 3 — otherwise you'll end up with either two copies of episode 13, or none. I'm buying the R4.