Title of DVD

AAA 3^rd Anniversary Live 080922-080923 NIPPON BUDOUKAN

BIGBANG 2008 GLOBAL WARNING TOUR

Price (in SGD, after shipping)

$88

$87

Not much difference, so we’ll call this a tie.

Length of main DVD

134 minutes

94 minutes

AAA wins this one hands down. Big Bang’s concert was oddly short.

Total length

211 minutes

285 minutes

Big Bang wins. Close to 5 hours of footage? :O That is INSANE.

Packaging

Boring 3-fold digipak that has been used, I don’t know, 129873198 times?

Cloth-wrapped, photo-album-ish, big-ass case with felt-covered slipcase. DVD case can be opened to become a huge board.

Big Bang wins. AAA’s packaging sucks.

Booklet

8 pages.

40 pages, with pages twice as big as AAA’s one.

Big Bang wins. AAA’s booklet sucks.

Actual Concert (Main one)

Usual AAA awesomeness.

Awkward in parts, noisy as hell in others.

AAA wins. They are after all one of the best live performers in Japan. Big Bang just looked messy next to AAA’s.

Bonus footage

Usual bonus stuff from AAA.

Usual bonus stuff from Big Bang.

Tie. Mostly because I can’t be bothered with both DVDs when it comes to this.

Extra DVD?

Other than the main 2, none.

Other than the main 2, 1 extra TAEYANG HOT CONCERT. Full concert at that.

Big Bang wins. One extra hot as hell concert? (If you don’t know who Taeyang is, look at the previous SQS). Hell yes.

Subtitles?

None.

Subtitled in excellent ENGLISH.

Big Bang wins. I like that I can understand what they’re saying! :D

Freebies

None.

2 goddamn huge and pretty posters!

Big Bang wins. AAA never EVER gives out posters. Stingy asses.

Editing

Smooth and professional.

Choppy, amateurish.

AAA wins. The whole concert was so much better to watch because of how well edited it is. The Big Bang concert had lots of silence between songs.

Total wins

3

6

Big Bang wins! Admittedly, the AAA concert was still better, but it is not as value-for-money as the Big Bang one is. I suspect I think the AAA concert is better because I'm much more familiar with them, so don't trust my judgment on this.... yet. Kpop is such an easy fandom to be in, everything is so GODDAMN CHEAP COMPARED TO JPOP! ZOMGAH, GLEE.

Hopefully this sheds some light on all you Jpop fans out there as to how much MORE you're spending. BUT WE MUST PERSEVERE! ROAR!