Daria: The Complete Animated Series

I was a moderate fan of Daria when the show aired in the late 90's/early 2000's. It wasn't that I didn't like the show (I actually liked it quite a bit), just remember it being a show I'd see from time to time and remember it being decent. Funny, good writing, just simply entertaining. When I heard it was coming out on DVD I didn't have to think twice. The memories of watching the show were good ones, so I ordered it the day it came out (and ended up only having to pay 28 bucks-NEW-and this included shipping). Well I can say after having watched the first few episodes of the Daria Series Collection that the show seems to have held up well.I guess if I could knock anything it might be the video quality. Grainy lines and bland reproduction are apparent in the episodes I've viewed, but this in no way takes away from the enjoyment of watching the episodes. Maybe I'm just spoiled in today's age of Blu-Ray. I'm not going to downgrade the DVD for not having the original music. Number one, everyone knows this that would be interested in this DVD. I wouldn't be telling you anything you didn't know. Additionally, inside the case there's a small note explaining why it isn't there (costly licensing). So nobody is trying to hide anything here. Number two-It's not that big of a deal. I'm frankly shocked everyone is so concerned about the original music being present. It's not like this is Beavis and Butthead where the music played a much more regularly present central role to the plot/action of the episodes. Personally, not being a person that remembered many of the episodes, the lack of original music so far has not taken away anything from my viewing experience. Guess I'm not sure what everyone's big problem with this is? If you like the music that much, go hop on ITunes??? Maybe buy some used CDs on Amazon???In the end, if you remember liking/watching Daria, there's no reason not to pick this up. It's affordable. All the episodes (including the movies) are there. The show has held up well.On a side note, I'm uncertain how people could have been reviewing this specific DVD collection in February of this year. It was released on May 12th (I believe) 2010. Maybe that's the most upsetting thing about this product-The Amazon Reviews. The point of a review is to review the product once you've used it, not to hype it or knock it, when the damn thing hasn't even been released. I don't care if you've seen all the episodes or not, until you use the actual product in question-DON'T REVIEW IT ON AMAZON!!!!!!!!!! It completely defeats the purpose of reviewing items.

There's isn't much to say about this DVD collection when it comes to someone who already knows about it or even has the collection themselves, so I'll just explain it to someone who has never even heard about this show, which will be most of the people on here.First off, this show was first aired back on TV in 1997 on MTV, ran for five seasons and two movies (one ending season four and the last ending season five) and went off-air in 2002, just about the same time MTV decided to close down their animation department. This show is basically a spin-off series of another MTV show called "Beavis and Butt-Head", where our star character, Daria was a supporting role in. After a few seasons of B&B aired, the creator Mike Judge asked one of the writers who basically invented Daria's character (who's name is Glenn Eichler), to created another show staring everyone's favorite cynic.This collection has all of the episodes in fantastic DVD quality with letterbox screen ratio. Only thing it lacks is the nostalgia factor of this show, which is the music during some scene cuts and transitions. This show, back when it was still on TV, had its moments where it'll play songs that were popular back in the mid to late 90s, from 311 and The Offspring to Korn and Rammstein. There is a little note where the creator, Glenn talked about why the music is not in the DVD release of this show and I (and hopefully everyone else) understand why they had to cut out the music bits and why it's been replaced with generic music cues. Costs for licensing would of been a fortune, making this DVD release impossible to achieve. The only exception is the original theme song, played by the all-female rock group, Splendora, that plays during the beginning of each episode.When this show was still on TV, I was only about 6 years old and only saw bits a pieces of it when my eldest brother watched it. It didn't really click with me since I was too young to understand its message, so I skipped out on it. Boy, did I really miss out. This is basically a show about a very intelligent and cynical girl that's just trying to make it through High School without any social interaction, but life's never fair for anyone, including Daria. It seems in almost every episode, she's usually forced to do something she's not proud to do, makes her seem hypocritical, or just stick out, which is something she doesn't like to do. For the message it displays, all this show is tell us is no matter what era you're from, High School will always be the same for everyone; nothing will be different. You have all of your typical groups: the jocks, the nerds, the geeks, then you have Daria (along with her only true friend Jane).This is a great show and I would highly suggest it to anyone who would like to watch something mellow, but still have a laugh. One thing I should warn is that the humor placed in this facade of a cartoon is quite dry. It's that type of comedy that's only funny when you think about what the punchline was about.

When I 1st purchase Daria DVD, in early 2000's. Some of the dvd discs, was scratch. Now there Awesome & playing Excellently so far & the Price is Right. "I Love watching Daria". My Kids(now in there 30's) starting me watching Daria, when it came on MTV. "Laughter is like Medicine", I take it almost Every Day.