Anyway, a moment ago I was searching for a review that confirmed how god-awful the sequel to ToHeart was but instead bumped upon a review about ToHeart itself. And it was written just a few days ago! Normally I love to talk about shows that are 10-20 years old but most people won’t even have an idea of what I would be talking about.
Previously I’ve read other reviews about ToHeart but none of them actually gave it the credit it deserves. Fortunately your review does an outstanding job on it and I concur with most of what you said. I watched ToHeart originally back some 3 years ago when I had my renaissance into the world of anime. I fell in love with the show but later thought that it might just have been the excitement of being reintroduced to anime. Luckily, after watching it again, I can say with an ease in my heart that this series is just plain good. The only thing that might be off-putting is the broadness of the show itself. There is the original visual novel, then you have the anime, then you have the sequel to the anime, the manga and dojin/comic/manga anthologies, the spin-off game, the spin-off anime, the OVAs, and now some 10 years later yet another OVA is in the making….@_@.

Moving on! I remember when Rightstuff was actually starting to bring the single DVDs on the market and they bragged in a PDF-magazine about their restoration job and how it was better than the R2 version etc. Stupidly I didn’t save the PDF but it could have been this text I’m sure you’ve already read: http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/animeResources/individual/?ForumThreadName=FT0000001525.
I’m still somehow hesitant about buying this thinpack cause there is also the R2 boxset which goes for around 200 US dollars. Could the image of the Japanese version be better or is it just Japan being Japan with their relatively high prices?
Three years later and I’m still not sure.