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REVIEW: Baccano! Blu-ray

Frankly, at this point, I really don't think its worth an extra $300 or so for chipboard and a booklet.

If you couldn't already tell, Sano is EXTREMELY passionate about this title. This is a quite a rare situation that he's in, but I can completely understand where he's coming from. I'd compare it to importing the R.O.D BD box for the audio commentaries, but it wouldn't be the same because it lacks any sort of English. Sano just want's the best.

And no, you're definitely not getting any poster now.

hissatsu01 wrote:

And no, you're definitely not getting any poster now.

Huh? What makes you say that? Was it some sort of limited addition to the JP BD box? :o

John Casey wrote:

Dude.....WHY!? It's the exact same set. Even the outer box hasn't a lick of difference on it. The only difference is, the JP version is $400.

Zac wrote:

The copy Aniplex sent me literally just has a new UPC pasted over the Japanese one. It's the exact same set.

Eh, not quite.

This unboxing topic over at livejournal, and a couple of peepz I've talked to over at Mania(who imported the JP version) have brought up a number of differences. The chipboard, the digipak, the CP poster, and--most importantly for me--the booklet.

Thanks for tryin' to keep me from throwing $$$ at an exact copy of something I'm already getting, though.

When I heard it was an upscale and that they did not have the Funi 5.1 mix for the dub, (I'm a big fan of 5.1 mixes vs. 2.0),

Perhaps some retailers might still have the poster, but Amazon (The price is currently ¥19,248 after a 27% discount [a better one than when I placed my order], and there's still tax to remove! It should ship in 4-7 days. ; ) didn't. I ordered the set on 15 March, and it shipped on 22 March. I got the nice, solid box with the digipak and booklet, and that was it...

Dude, you know me. You know that I like you, and that I got a lot of bro love for you...

...but there's a big difference between passion and stupidity.

Don't be a retard. What Aniplex USA is offering is perfectly awesome as it is.

If you're so adamant about blasting away couple hundred dollars out like that for no real reason, then at least you can do it for a good, noble cause and buy a poor college student such as myself this thing here:
http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisplay.php?product=52057

I always wanted one of these. :3

I can deal with it being an upscaling, but it lacks the immersive dub? That really puts me off from considering it a premium set. Anyone who's received it already that can opine on whether being lossless makes up for having fewer channels?

bglassbrook wrote:

I can deal with it being an upscaling, but it lacks the immersive dub? That really puts me off from considering it a premium set. Anyone who's received it already that can opine on whether being lossless makes up for having fewer channels?

Do what? Oh, nah--I think you misunderstood a bit, bud. It does have FUNi's dub intact, it's just that the audio mix is 2.0, as opposed to the superior 5.1 mix that FUNi's DVDs had.

Wo-ho-ho, slow your roll there: you may be a college student, but I'm not even graduating from high school until next month. Even if it I didn't plan on throwing cash at the JP Baccano! BD, I still wouldn't be wasting my cash on your cheap ass.

Nice try, though, bro. Better luck next time.

>:< I'm gonna assassinate you.

CaptainAvatar wrote:

When I heard it was an upscale and that they did not have the Funi 5.1 mix for the dub, (I'm a big fan of 5.1 mixes vs. 2.0),

I can deal with it being an upscaling, but it lacks the immersive dub? That really puts me off from considering it a premium set. Anyone who's received it already that can opine on whether being lossless makes up for having fewer channels?

bglassbrook wrote:

I can deal with it being an upscaling, but it lacks the immersive dub? That really puts me off from considering it a premium set. Anyone who's received it already that can opine on whether being lossless makes up for having fewer channels?

Do what? Oh, nah--I think you misunderstood a bit, bud. It does have FUNi's dub intact, it's just that the audio mix is 2.0, as opposed to the superior 5.1 mix that FUNi's DVDs had.

All the 5.1 is is an upmix. If you have a stereo fill option on your receiver, you won't be able to tell a difference.

All the 5.1 is is an upmix. If you have a stereo fill option on your receiver, you won't be able to tell a difference.

luffypirate85 wrote:

All the 5.1 is is an upmix. If you have a stereo fill option on your receiver, you won't be able to tell a difference.

I don't know about that. If it were the Japanese which were 5.1, then that's likely true. But since it's Funimation doing it, they could actually have made it true 5.1. I don't know if they did, but it was my understanding that Funimation's 5.1 audio tracks are actually 5.1. Regardless, I only have 2.0 channels on my speakers, so the 5.1 does me no good, and the volume on 5.1 is actually worse on my computer than 2.0, so I generally listen to 2.0 and not 5.1. Still, it's too bad that Aniplex didn't include the 5.1 track.

It's too bad that the show is so uber-violent, since there are definitely folks that I know would love watching Isaac and Miria but wouldn't want to put up with the violence.