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Macron One
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Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 is a mostly cel-animated production, i believe. I don't doubt that there's some digital shots used in it, of course, but the number of production cels i've seen (being a collector of cel/sketch art) from that series appears to be roughly equal to that of many other anime from the late 90's period (Nadesico, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun etc..).
The entire One Piece TV series is digipaint. The only parts of the One Piece franchise to have been produced with cel animation are the 1998 pilot OVA and the first movie. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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I know. I'm talking about the first 200 episodes not being released to Blu-ray (they were animated in standard definition). I am curious why the first movie was cel-animated if it premiered three months after the TV series, which has always been digital. I will say that the early One Piece episodes look great for their age. |
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Shaterri
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who keeps looking at the Australian releases with envy. I took the plunge on Dennou Coil and Kaiba a while back because I don't see any way that those are ever going to get US releases now, and now it looks like Nichijou is going to fall into the same hole. I actually bought a region-free DVD player long long ago, but I have to concur with other comments: the easiest way to do it by far is just to use a PC DVD-ROM drive and find software to handle the region-freeness for you. (The one caveat here is that there may be legal murkiness to such software - moreso than with a physically modified drive, thanks to DMCA concerns).
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Joe Carpenter
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I know I got burned when I bought that BD boxset of the Read or Die OVA and R.O.D The TV which I think I payed like 150 dollars for and it looked like crap
still, as a hardcore fan of the franchise there was no way in hell I was NOT going to buy it, if only to send some money it's way if you know what I mean, it's just too bad it doesn't look good |
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ShinnFlowen
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I personally want to know if the answer on the BD of Eureka Seven was clear for anyone? I was wondering if there was enough of a difference to justify the upgrade, but Justin makes it seem like there is a 'chance' of it being good.
Please someone answer? |
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Buster D
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Correct. BGC 2040 was cel-animated except for the OP/ED and some effects shots, like other AIC shows of the period. I'd like to see it get a decent Blu-ray release someday despite its animation not being all that great, but who knows if it will ever happen. Justin also implied that Captain Tyler's Blu-ray upscale was really bad, but from what I remember, the screenshots looked pretty good for an upscale. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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Mostly. The OP/ED were VERY jaggy, garish early digipaint, and it's one of those shows that uses different frame rates. It would be impossible to nicely present in HD.
Really? The screenshots I've seen make it look easily as bad as Nuku Nuku.
Street date isn't till 4/22. Maybe someone got theirs early, but until then...
Pretty sure you're kidding, but if you're not, you're wrong. Not the same people involved. BVUSA was mostly the brainchild of a couple of execs, and most of the rest of BV even in Japan thought their efforts ridiculous.
Yes, this is great when possible. Lain looks amazing. What other shows have gotten this treatment?
Disagreed in that last bit, but anyway... The feature on BD players that does such conversion is listed as "NTSC/PAL conversion" so that's what I put in the article. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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^ I actually never knew that. I was wondering why I was able to play a British (region free) Blu-ray disc in my US player on my US TV without any issues, even if it is for a US film. I was worried about it being PAL.
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Echo_City
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Why would that be? Man has been watching video progressively on electronic devices for decades. |
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Cptn_Taylor
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Hi-definition video can be 24 fps (23.976 thanks to the old tv system) or 25 fps. The BBC for instance when it does documentaries it records them in 1080p@25fps. So if you want to see it on an american tv, the tv will need to support 1080p@25fps natively, and the player also (or be able to do a frame rate conversion to 24 fps). Now most films published in Europe in blu-ray are done at 24 fps (23.976) hence you can watch them without any problems (barring region coding nonsense) on an american tv/player. |
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Top Gun
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The question about the Blu-ray upscales is one that's been on my mind too. There are several shows I own on DVD (mostly Geneon's) that FUNi has license-rescued and put out on BD, but I never really put much thought into double-dipping for them, because it seemed like content that wasn't either shot on film or native-HD digital wouldn't really look much better than it would with a decent Blu-ray player upscaling the original DVDs. Maybe I'll have to re-think that now, especially with that E7 rescue coming out soon. I have heard that Lain's Blu-ray restoration was gorgeous; I should really try to track down that limited-edition version if there are any sanely-priced copies left out there.
And man, those Australian Kaiba and Dennou Coil releases are severely tempting to me too. I have the HD fansubs squirreled away somewhere, but that seems like the only way I'll ever be able to actually support both those shows, which is still a damn shame. |
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GATSU
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jsevakis:
They're still entrenched high-level execs with more clout than the people who ran Bandai Entertainment. |
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neoboy3000
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Funimation licensed the bluray disc release from Japan. Considering what was said in the column and forum about upscaling for TV versus doing it for home release I think we're in better shape. Also have to consider how incredibly acclaimed and popular the series was during its run, and how it is Bones' crown jewel as of date, so I bet they did a nice job with it. I've already pre-ordered the sets because it's my hands-down all time favorite show, so I can post how they look after I get them. Hoping they'll be pretty 
PS - Here is a link to the first Japanese box set on Amazon. You can see how nice the set looks, so hopefully it's well done http://www.amazon.com/Psalms-Planets-Eureka-Blu-ray-Import/dp/B001KO4IWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397292440&sr=8-1&keywords=eureka+seven+bluray+box |
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Blanchimont
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Eureka Seven was already released on BluRay in Japan some years ago. If it's the same masters, then we already know how the Japanese release handled the upscaling. It'd be a bit too fast if the new boxes turned out to be 'remasters' , in my opinion.
What instead will be interesting is finding out how Funi's authoring will compare to those once the street date hits... |
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yuna49
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On the subject of Neon Alley, I have wondered what happened to Moribito. Viz announced with the usual fanfare that it had picked up the license after Media Blasters dropped it and began showing Moribito on Neon Alley. Now after the switchover to Hulu it has vanished from sight. When the MB release was still on Crunchyroll, I could point people to a legal stream when I recommended the show. No longer.
Considering that Moribito's author, Uehashi Nahoko, just won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen award, putting the show back into the vault seems to be missing a valuable marketing opportunity. The Viz announcement linked above includes this: “Working with Viz Media is truly a pleasure, and as the group continues to expand Neon Alley, we are pleased to look into our library and make more quality titles available,” comments Mr. Yuma Sakata, President and CEO, Dentsu Entertainment USA. I wonder if Sakata-san still feels the same way about Viz? |
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