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ANNCast - It's A Little Bit Funi, This Feeling Inside

I always forget about this when time for twitter questions come around, but is Ben-to anywhere on Funi's radar? It kind of seems to me to be in their wheelhouse, what with the fanservice and pretty girls beating the crap out of people (and each other) on some ridiculous premise *coughSekireicough*. Except the characters have personality beyond their initially presented stereotype (well, the major characters, anyway).

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote:

I always forget about this when time for twitter questions come around, but is Ben-to anywhere on Funi's radar? It kind of seems to me to be in their wheelhouse, what with the fanservice and pretty girls beating the crap out of people (and each other) on some ridiculous premise *coughSekireicough*. Except the characters have personality beyond their initially presented stereotype (well, the major characters, anyway).

Ya seriously BEN-TO is hilarious and is actually a good fan service parody why hasn't anyone picked it up especially funi.

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote: I always forget about this when time for twitter questions come around, but is Ben-to anywhere on Funi's radar? It kind of seems to me to be in their wheelhouse, what with the fanservice and pretty girls beating the crap out of people (and each other) on some ridiculous premise *coughSekireicough*. Except the characters have personality beyond their initially presented stereotype (well, the major characters, anyway). Ya seriously BEN-TO is hilarious and is actually a good fan service parody why hasn't anyone picked it up especially funi.

The show was a giant advertisement for the Sega Saturn pretty much. I wonder if getting clearance from SEGA in the US is a hurdle or not.

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote: I always forget about this when time for twitter questions come around, but is Ben-to anywhere on Funi's radar? It kind of seems to me to be in their wheelhouse, what with the fanservice and pretty girls beating the crap out of people (and each other) on some ridiculous premise *coughSekireicough*. Except the characters have personality beyond their initially presented stereotype (well, the major characters, anyway). Ya seriously BEN-TO is hilarious and is actually a good fan service parody why hasn't anyone picked it up especially funi.

The show was a giant advertisement for the Sega Saturn pretty much. I wonder if getting clearance from SEGA in the US is a hurdle or not.

Just looked at some screenshot comparisons at a videophile blog I read, and wow, FUNi's Lain looks terrible. Fansub encoders latched onto Hi10p specifically to reduce awful effects like that in massively compressed video while keeping the same filesize or possibly less as 8bit h.264. Something like that should not be a problem with the room 50GB BDs afford you, right?

I'm not saying the Japanese release is immaculate or reference quality (not at all), but this looks someone didn't even care to double check their work. What went wrong?

Just looked at some screenshot comparisons at a videophile blog I read

I've watched(and own) both the Japanese and FUNi Blu-ray of Lain and it amazes me how many people want to complain as to how inferior the latter product is in comparison without doing the same. Is it the EXACT same? No. But the difference, IMO, especially for the price, is not nearly justification for this bizarre level of outrage.

(and no "I saw some screengrabs on a videophile blog" is not firsthand experience).

Complain when you've actually seen the source.

dizzon wrote:

I've watched(and own) both the Japanese and FUNi Blu-ray of Lain and it amazes me how many people want to complain as to how inferior the latter product is in comparison without doing the same. Is it the EXACT same? No. But the difference, IMO, especially for the price, is not nearly justification for this bizarre level of outrage.

Once upon a time I had a classmate in Chinese; he'd lived in Taiwan a year, and the topic of hygiene in restaurants came up. To paraphrase, he said "If I find a hair in my soup, I won't return it. I won't be outraged. It's just a hair." to which I was incredulous, irrespective of the logic that yes indeed, the soup is no less edible with an extra hint of keratin.

It is an easily avoidable mistake, after all. Not to mention embarrassing. Besides, when you're charging a premium and going for the gusto, presentation matters. I suppose somewhere along the line FUNi thought they could save a buck with BD25; ambitious, but ultimately at odds with the idea of something being premium. At least, so might myself and other highfalutin anime and soup fans feel. And you bought the import AND domestic releases, so don't go slinging around words like bizarre!

They could rename and obscure stuff if they had to but I don't see a problem getting it since they are all old (not really popular) games and series.

An advertisement for a game system that's been dead for a decade? Sega doesn't even make consoles anymore, period. Without direct tie-ins, I don't really see why Shaga's club referencing obsolete video game systems would be such hindrance. Granted, I've got no experience with such things, but still, that seems unreasonable.

I've watched(and own) both the Japanese and FUNi Blu-ray of Lain and it amazes me how many people want to complain as to how inferior the latter product is in comparison without doing the same. Is it the EXACT same? No. But the difference, IMO, especially for the price, is not nearly justification for this bizarre level of outrage.

dizzon wrote:

I've watched(and own) both the Japanese and FUNi Blu-ray of Lain and it amazes me how many people want to complain as to how inferior the latter product is in comparison without doing the same. Is it the EXACT same? No. But the difference, IMO, especially for the price, is not nearly justification for this bizarre level of outrage.

I don't own either, I don't have any particular dog in this fight, but the comparison is pretty undeniable.

Now you may not care, but that doesn't mean the people saying Funi's video is inferior are wrong, because quite clearly they aren't.