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walw6pK4Alo
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Didn't it not even have the Japanese audio or something? Besides, ADV did release SDF Macross unedited a few years back, but those sets are worthless now with the semi-new Japanese BDs out. Those sets only have value because they were snapped up so quickly and so few produced, but there's no reason to own one beyond just that. So the new set of "grails" would be Macross on BD, DYRL on BD (add another "grail" for them to unrelease an unedited version in Japan as well not paired with some game), and then the rest of Macross (7, Frontier, Plus, II) on BD as well. Plus looks really dang good in HD, like everyone knew it would. Basically, the entirety of Macross requires entirely new releases in the US. Anything currently available is using shit video quality.
Sadly, the Japanese BD of My Conquest is definitely cropped from 4:3 to 16:9 or 1.85:1. I hate that the Japanese sides has been doing this with anime films. Why? It's not like you're marketing your LoGH movie BDs or Genma Taisen BDs to the general populace, of course it's just gonna be devotees or otaku buying them. It's mind-boggling and kind of infuriating. Thank god that the BD for Beautiful Dreamer was just an upscale, because it too was cropped. |
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phia_one
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This is great! I've always wanted to experience LoGH and now we get both the novels and the anime.
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Errinundra
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One of the clever aspects of LotGH is how it matches the music to its politics. It uses Viennese composers - mostly Mahler, Bruckner and Beethoven - for Reinhard and the empire and the Soviet era composer Shostakovich (particularly in the second half) for the rebels. Another anime series that comes to mind for its wonderful and appropriate use of classical music is Princess Tutu. Was "red flag" a deliberate play on words, given the use of Soviet era music? The series would be hurt if the music was emasculated for copyright reasons. Last edited by Errinundra on Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:25 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Yeah, reading the novels is one thing, but to watch the Battle of Amiltzer Starzone with Dvorak going on elevates all of your senses. Too bad the best moment for that stuff is in My Conquest is the Sea of Stars film with Ravel's Bolero. That 15 minute sequence is just the tops, with the way the action and music both crescendo together, and it's not part of this license.
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Covnam
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Wow, I never thought I'd see this series get licensed after all these years.
I hope it gets a BD release and I'm not just talking about the video quality. ~100 SD episodes on DVD (10-20 discs) is a lot less appealing then ~100 SD episode on BD (2-5 discs). Regardless, it will be interesting to see how this goes.
I'm guessing the new anime had something to do with it. Maybe it brought the value of the old series down, maybe it's a package with licensing the new series, maybe it's for increased exposure (marketing) for the news series or something else, but I doubt Sentai would pay what iirc was a very large amount compared to other series for something this old and lengthy. |
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taster of pork
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Now I'm worried that if they release it on blu-ray, they'll charge a couple hundred dollars for it, Like what happened with Garden of Sinners. Not that I wouldn't be willing to spend big money on a good quality release.
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Dessa
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Garden of Sinners was an Aniplex of America title. There's no reason to believe that Sentai will have outrageous pricing like that.
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WeskerGriff
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UN-FREAKING-REAL I'm literally throwing money at my computer. Just take it Sentai. |
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Zalis116
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kyokun47
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...I get the feeling I'm the only person here who enjoyed the English dub for Higurashi (moreso over the Japanese track, actually)
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jymmy
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It's one of the worst dubs I've seen. I first watched it and wanted to claw my ears out, and this was when I still liked more than a small handful of English dubs. Each to their own, though.
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H. Guderian
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LoGH. What do they want from me? $1,000? If they asked they'd get it.
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walw6pK4Alo
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And yet despite people like you and several others existing, you still get "hurr hurr what's gonna sell more, this or Oofuri" jokes from Zac and others. |
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sargonarhes
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Is Mu La Flagga behind this?
The impossible just became possible. Seen the series, and now I will be able to officially own it. |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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The one thing that worries me is people not buying it if it isn't exactly what they want like no dub or DVD only. I will be really upset if they don't release the whole thing because people don't buy it for silly reasons like that. It's an old long ago show so people shouldn't be picky in this case. Obviously I'd rather have the nicest set possible but I will buy it regardless. I've been waiting so long for this it would be silly not to. |
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