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NEWS: Funimation Lists BDs for Guyver, Rin, Black Cat, More

At least it's a step up from their bootleg quality dvds though.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

At least it's a step up from their bootleg quality dvds though.

That hasn't been true with their DVDs for a couple years now.

luffypirate85 wrote:

Simply put: the reason why people get upset about FUNI leaving out an angle for the original credits is that the Japanese cast gets no recognition. Editing title cards should have gone the way of hard subs, which many consider censorship, but hey...

1- You are ignoring that except for in very rare cases, that Japanese cast members are listed in the translated credits.

2- That isn't what censorship means, and even if it did, it still wouldn't apply here, because once again, the information is almost always there.

I'm not saying all their DVDs are terrible, but a lot of them are quite bad.

It seems like BD publishers should be required to say clearly on the box if a BD is an upscale or taken from an HD master. Seems like a pretty important spec to me.

It wasn't true for the last few series they did in singles, but it certainly holds true for a lot of their boxset releases. I'm not saying all their DVDs are terrible, but a lot of them are quite bad.

As a whole, their video quality is much worse than the releases from Sentai/ADV, Bandai, Nozomi and Viz. The others may have occasional hiccups, but I've never got a DVD from any of them where there is constant digital artifacting, color banding and blurring.

Ghost Hunt, Aquarion and Ouran are some of the worst DVD's I've ever seen, and look nearly as bad as the Taiwanese bootleg of Shana I was sent two years ago from Amazon. But I can't complain much about Aquarion, as I only paid $18 for the entire show.

Translated credits just don't do justice for some if us. Applying subtitles directly to the film is indeed censorship. It wasnt originally in English. I like my anime pretty much as untouched as possible.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

I'm not saying all their DVDs are terrible, but a lot of them are quite bad.

Bad? How so?

Everyone complaining about this subject wrote:

It seems like BD publishers should be required to say clearly on the box if a BD is an upscale or taken from an HD master. Seems like a pretty important spec to me.

So am I the only person who listened to the Funi People ANNcast and caught the part where Adam said they need permission from the Japanese licensors to put that on the box? Check for yourself (pardon the scratchy sound, poor mic).

Takeyo wrote:

I was annoyed to find that my Baccano! discs appeared to omit the Japanese cast from the ED, listing only the English dub cast. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be standard procedure.

It is pretty common, in my experience. The most recent One Piece DVDs list the English cast and not the Japanese, for example.

Cast and crew are often mistranslated or left off entirely; there are plenty of us who do know Japanese that would like to read it.

Also, (at least in the early days), sometimes the Japanese version would have a beautiful, elaborate title sequence that would be covered up by a still blue screen with something written in Times New Roman.

mrsatan wrote:

Takeyo wrote: I was annoyed to find that my Baccano! discs appeared to omit the Japanese cast from the ED, listing only the English dub cast. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be standard procedure. It is pretty common, in my experience. The most recent One Piece DVDs list the English cast and not the Japanese, for example. Cast and crew are often mistranslated or left off entirely; there are plenty of us who do know Japanese that would like to read it. Also, (at least in the early days), sometimes the Japanese version would have a beautiful, elaborate title sequence that would be covered up by a still blue screen with something written in Times New Roman.

Well put Takeyo and MrSatan.

While I prefer the Sub version, the thing that's plagued most Funi DVDs I've bought so far is their disregard for listing the Original Japanese Cast.

They translate and list the English Dub Voice Actors only and I don't have a single Funi DVD that they've bothered to translate and list the Original Japanese Cast, whereas every single other U.S. Anime Company had no problems doing this, even smaller companies like CPM / USMC and Media Blasters, Urban Vision, etc.

But now that Funi is so big they don't care. Pretty sad.

@Blood-: Unless they're the Angel Cop subtitles.

The King of Harts wrote:

Everyone complaining about this subject wrote: It seems like BD publishers should be required to say clearly on the box if a BD is an upscale or taken from an HD master. Seems like a pretty important spec to me. So am I the only person who listened to the Funi People ANNcast and caught the part where Adam said they need permission from the Japanese licensors to put that on the box? Check for yourself (pardon the scratchy sound, poor mic).

Thanks for bringing that up. It's bizarre but I'm still surprised that can fly with the FCC. Do you know if they've even tried asking permission? His response seemed...evasive.

If the credits matter to you that much why don't you use this site and look it up here? Really, from Dubs vs Subs to Moe/Loli fans vs Moe/Loli haters and now this. The 1:30sec credit ending is the next great anime divide? Boy I can't wait to see what cause every one picks up the pitchforks for in five years.