Well, if we're in the posting pics phase of this thread, I'll participate. Mine was sitting out in the rain all day today, apparently it was 45 minutes away from being delivered on Friday if UPS tracking is accurate haha. Still pretty happy to have this considering the ordeals everyone went through.
No hesitation tearing everything open for me. Apologies for the horrific lighting and phone shots, I just don't have anything approximating a real camera set up. Wanted to compare with my Japanese DS import.
I don't know if you can tell, but the books are a little different! They translated the runes differently, there's no curved spine, the gold is a little more "burnt" looking and the Japanese one feels a little thicker for some reason (it's twelve pages longer).
So yeah, American packaging can't live up to the transcendent DS original (which you can probably still get for crazy cheap, mine was $58 shipped last year), but it's still pretty freaking amazing and the translated book alone feels like it's worth at least half of the $120 I spent. I hope this doesn't come across as gloating.