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Answerman - Going Corporate

configspace wrote:

WRT publishers screwing up. I do appreciate how much work overall it takes to run a business, however I still don't think that excuses certain mistakes. It seems the most common are encoding or authoring screwups. This would certainly be forgivable IF they are recalled, but the problem is, the vast majority of the time they are not! See for example, Basilisk where the Japanese BD is messed up: Japanese BD US (Funi) BD Others include Sentai's Bodacious Space Pirates release being interlaced, where the Japanese version was progressive, chromatic aberrations on character edges (rainbow fringing) for Rinne Lagrange and Da Capo III JP BDs which I think are actually a problem with the studio in rendering or compositing the final BD footage; both the US and JP BDs of Madoka suffering from some banding, where as the Italian BDs are clean, etc, etc

I don't agree with you on Basilisk. It's only one comparison shot but the Japanese BD of it looks better there IMO. That show has a weird grain pattern which I'm assuming you're referring to as it being messed up. That grain is supposed to be there. The show was produced in standard definition so it's going to look kinda blurry too.

Funi's crappy BD of it has been heavily DNR'd so a lot of that grain and detail has been smeared away and then they sharpened the crap out of it too. It looks terrible IMO. Basilisk was part of the string of junk upscales Funi did when they first started doing BDs.

I do agree with you though about publishers not readily doing recalls when they screw up the authoring. That pisses me off too. I'm still waiting for Sentai to fix their Colorful BD and those f'ing Penguindrum BDs. Same goes for Media Blasters and their Moribito BDs.

enurtsol wrote:

Ironic that the early days of N. American anime home video companies sustained themselves off hentai and near-hentai releases to pay the bills till their "normal anime" releases paid off.

See Fred Patten's "The Anime 'Porn' Market" (link 1/link 2; Animation World Magazine, Issue 3.4, July 1998) for more information on this.

Levitz9 wrote:

Besides NTR, I think that a lot of the rougher stuff that turns a lot of people away is also becoming more common .

See Shawne Kleckner's post on the "really nasty stuff".

I for one like the shorter series. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that I much prefer PLANNED stories that are written with a definitive start and end as opposed to what we usually get here in the US, the "let's just keep pulling stuff out of our asses until the ratings go down, then pray we have enough of an advance warning to wrap it up in a half decent way" model. I think what they are doing now is perfect, when they plan one cour (or two) at a time, and end it in such a way that it is satisfying and at the same time leaves the door open to a sequel should there be one.

There are exceptions, for example I really love One Piece and think it just keeps getting better as time goes on, but as a whole I much prefer stories that are obviously planned and written for their expected runtime...