The two books and two discs in the Limited Edition offer a model for this kind of package. The "extras" disc contains an interview with Masami Yuuki, who created the original manga, and various making-of features, including the rerecording of the film with the original cast nine years after its premiere--to take advantage of Dolby Digital technology. Oshii's storyboards have been reprinted and translated, including the dialogue and director's notes on the animation, character expressions, and camera movements. A second book presents interviews with Oshii and other artists, as well as character sketches. Of particular interest are the reference photographs of older sections of Tokyo (already slated for destruction in the late 1980s) that the artists used to make the city a presence in the film. (Rated 10 and older: occasional profanity and robot vs. robot violence.) --Charles Solomon