Myuutsu owns all, hehe
As is typical *sigh* the Japanese stuff is way better than it's American replacements. The music on the cd is great, and seems to work better to me. The booklet thing is really cool, as it has lots of neat art in it, and the drama is excellent (being a huge Mew/Mewtwo fan, I'm a little biased), and it was awesome how it expanded even more on Mewtwo's backstory.

Overall, a must-have for any Mewtwo, Pokemon, or general anime fan.

Myuutsuu no Tanjo... what I think...
This CD is so worth anything you go through to get it (cash, waiting time, etc) What should be known is there are a few surprises in store for the buyer. Not bad surprises though, they're really good.
1. Music: It's actually rather similar to the dubbed music. When I say this, I mean that you can tell where it's meant to go in the movie. The techniques employed when orchestrating link very closely to the American composers. (such as the eternal xylophone sounds used practiacally EVERYWHERE...)Also in many ways it doesn't sound like 'wacko japanese music' I must say I kinda expected...
2. Add-on's: They give you little spoken excerpts from the original movie. I don't know who's saying them, apart from when Pikachu sobs: "Pikapi... pikapi...", yet the voices do help to set the scene for the music. Plus it's really nice to hear Mewtwo's Japanese voice for a change.
3. Instrumentation: I had heard that Mewtwo's theme was played by a pipe organ but didn't really believe it, however, this is very true and very awesome. The Japanese theme for Mewtwo sounds excellent blasted out on the organ and it does really suit those diminished chords like anything.
4. Tracks: My favourites are 20-25. Seriously, the quality of composition is really high in the higher numbers. If you're strongly affected by music, you may shed a tear or two, especially if you know what's happening. Pikachu gets in here, as well as a kawaii little Japanese singer with a gorgeous voice. Probably the most weirdest is number 17. (I think it's where they're all fleeing the Mewtwo Pokeballs, but that's just me...) And one really funny bit in the first couple of tracks where suddenly the music launches into a really well-known Pokemon Theme. (i'd sing it, but it's hard to descibe.) And then, of course, it moves into the waffling tenor sax track for Team Rocket. (deedum, deedum, deedummmm...)

I advise it GREATLY!!! The quality of everything is maybe even more better than what the dub people released. (is this possible?!)

Myustuu no tanjo- Its worth the wait!
It took me about 2 years or so before i actually could get the real thing but once I did close to a year ago now I was so happy! The Japanese version of the world of Pocket Monsters is very different than what you would expect to see in america and this cd shows it. The Birth of mewtwo (Myustuu No Tanjo) contains one book and 2 cds in one case. The first cd contains 5 chapters to it. It starts from before Mewtwo was even discovered and a bit of a preview of how he came to be. It starts off with Sakaki (Giovanni) narrarating about the discovery of pokemon and eventually it gets to telling the story about the team rocket founder Madam Boss ( Sakaki/Giovanni's mother) talking to her top Team Rocket agent Miyamoto (Jessie/Musashi's mother)who tells madam boss aobut her new discovery, the legendary phantom pokemon mew! Madam boss learns what Miya tells her about mew and Miyamoto is sent to the Andes mountians in South America to chase after mew. Once Miya finds mew she tells it about how she left her daughter to capture it and asks if she can but mew flies away and leaves Miyamoto to be crushed by an avalanche.
In the next chapter people get this confused and think that Miyamoto died from the avalanche but in the second chapter right after where she had gotten hit she comes back and starts talking about trying to find mew. Right after she does the scene switches to a bunch of workers the giovanni had hired to search for artifacts of mew. They eventaully find what they think is a fossil of it and give it to Dr.Fugi to research. Dr. Fugi eventually makes baby mewtwo in the end of the second chapter but also talks about his own daughter who he had cloned. His origional daughter's name was Ai but she had died in a car accedent and Dr. Fugi could not bare to understand the death of his daughter so he decides to make a clone of her named Aitwo. Mewtwo is cloned from mew so this is where his name is born. After the creation of mewtwo in the next two chapters its about him growing up and learning more. Mewtwo begins to understand life and that he is not the same. Ai teaches him about himself, pokemon and the way of life. Mewtwo and Ai become best friends but eventually Ai dies and Mewtwo finds himself alone in life just as an experiment and nothing more. He ends up distroying Dr. Fugi's laboratory and comes to Giovanni/Sakaki's side. After working for a while (chapter 5) with Giovanni and becoming more stronger with his powers he defeats several different pokemon and trainers but also finds that Giovanni wants him for no reason but the fact that he is the most rare and valuable pokemon in the world. Mewtwo distroy's Giovanni's gym and sets out to find his own meaning in life, and if he belongs. This is where Pokemon the first movie comes in. The cd drama may cost a lot of money and may take a while to get to your home but believe me its well worth it even if you can't understand Japanese. Its a lot of fun to listen to. I definately recomend this to any diehard pokemon or anime fan!

53 Dollars?! ... Sheesh.
I have 50 bucks to my name right now and I'm considering buying this ... however, I have the Mp3s downloaded already for free. Why should I buy this? I'm not going to listen to the dialogue since I don't speak japanese.

But I'm buying it because I want the full audio quality that only a CD can bring and with full quality music from the drama ( also used in the TV show, but less orchestrated )its a nice catch. Plus, I can probably rip a few sound effects as long as their not so badly dubbed over that you can't make it out.

I'd recommend that you save your money and search for the download since you can't learn a thing of japanese in the week it'll get there. But, if you know japanese and would love this item its a great buy.

What the Americans would not show
I got this cd set as a gift for Christmas last year, almost nine months ago.
Anyway, when I found it on here, I was estatic. I saw it before on a Japanese website, but unfortuantely it's no longer available now.

Being a very big Mewtwo fan, and fascinated with the Japanese version of Pokemon, I had to have it.

The set comes with two cds. One of them is the radio drama, which I absolutely love. Granted, it is in Japanese. So if you don't know the language, or at least have a translation handy, you'll most likely be in the dark.

The drama goes much deeper into the most misunderstood Pokemon ever, Myuutsu, or Mewtwo. This story reveals a lot that most Pokemon fans in the U.S. doesn't know about him.
He is not the heartless killing machine the Americanized version of Mewtwo Strikes Back portrays him to be.
He is, in fact, very philosohpical on a variety of different subjects. He is also very lost, and very hurt.
How would you like to wake up to a world only to find out that you were created, not born of nature, and that did not want you for other than to be an experiment, some kind of child's plaything?

As a baby, though, he's clueless to all this.
Prepare to be cutified, because he is so adorable, and his voice sounds much like a two-year-olds.
It is within this time frame, he meets his one, and only friend. The daughter of the scientist Dr. Fuji, Ai.
Ai taught him a great many things about the world she knew. The moon, the stars, the sun, and what they were for. She also taught him numbers. Which is extremely cute listening to Mewtwo count.
Ai, or Amber as she is called in the U.S., told him that she was a clone, and he was too.

Sadly, a little later, Ai dies, and this scene makes me cry everytime I hear it. It's just so heartbreaking.

The drama has wonderful background music. If you know the anime very well, you might recognize some of it from there. It also throws a bit of, if not much, light on two characters unknown outside of Japan. Madame Boss, who is the founder of Rocketto Dan, or Team Rocket, and Sakaki's, or Giovanni, mother. And Miyamoto, Musashi's, or Jessie, mother. She was sent on basically a suicide mission to the Andes Mountains to find Mew.

The second cd has the soundtrack of the original Japanese Mewtwo Strikes Back. Let me tell you, it is some of the best music I've ever heard. It's all so haunting, so enchanting. I can't belive the sugary mess they replaced it with. It literally makes my teeth hurt.
My favorite tracks are #s 5, 12, 13, 21, 22, and 25.

A small, but wonderfully illustrated, 64 page book completes the set. Inside there are very beautiful pictures, and the story of the drama.

If you are a Mewtwo fan, a Team Rocket fan, or just a Pokemon fan in general, I wholeheartedly recommend buying this wonderful cd set, The Birth of Mewtwo.