Valles has already listed the various series, so I'll concentrate on the formats.
Right Stuf uses the term "hybrid" to refer to a DVD with both subtitle and dub tracks. (It's a holdover from the laserdisc era, when you usually had to choose between sub or dub - nobody's bothered to update the system.) These are the box sets of the three series - FMP, FMP:Second Raid, and FMP:Fumoffu.
The "Mini-DVD" was an experiment of ADV's - put one or two episodes on a small-form-factor disc, and include a coupon for the list price of the mini-DVD, good only for buying the fill-sized DVD. This format never caught on, and they've since junked it in favour of the NewTypeUSA insert DVD.
Graphic novels are translated manga tankobons, and we all know what a novel is...
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Right Stuf uses the term "hybrid" to refer to a DVD with both subtitle and dub tracks. (It's a holdover from the laserdisc era, when you usually had to choose between sub or dub - nobody's bothered to update the system.) These are the box sets of the three series - FMP, FMP:Second Raid, and FMP:Fumoffu.
The "Mini-DVD" was an experiment of ADV's - put one or two episodes on a small-form-factor disc, and include a coupon for the list price of the mini-DVD, good only for buying the fill-sized DVD. This format never caught on, and they've since junked it in favour of the NewTypeUSA insert DVD.
Graphic novels are translated manga tankobons, and we all know what a novel is...
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012