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DangerMouse
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Glad to finally start being able to collect this show and see it again after all these years since I believe I only got to see large sections of it and never got to buy the tapes.
Really nice blu-ray.
Same here. After getting used to the change Venus totally delivered for me, but I quite enjoyed her in those first couple of eps of the series as Ranma too back then. Despite the rough spots, I think she was a lot of fun setting up the character and those early jokes making me like her in those early eps. The two of them did well, female Ranma's probably my favorite character in the show. It's gonna be kinda fun hearing earlier stuff from those couple of Inuyasha VAs again. Last edited by DangerMouse on Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:32 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Spastic Minnow
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And saying "each episode [is] given it's own page" is also a bit misleading as to the content of the summaries. The page for each summary is given a single screen capture, a two to three sentence description and a lot of picture border. It is VERY general. The only Ranma release I've ever had before is the first season on dubbed VHS (bought from a B&M rental store going out of business). The descriptions they put on the back of the boxes are twice as long as the "summaries" in the booklet. The highlight of the booklet is the manga's first chapter, which has a nifty look on the glossy paper. But if you get the manga, It's not really necessary. I think a better feature would be a gallery of color splash pages from the original manga, since those are always rendered in B&W in U.S. releases. Maybe in future volumes? |
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Covnam
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Really glad to see so many positive reviews of this set. I'm definitely going to pick this up during the next Viz sale.
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PurpleWarrior13
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Yeah, but still, each episode has an entire page dedicated to them. 
I do like your idea about the color splash. It could kinda double as an artbook. We know Viz is capable of doing such a thing well. |
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enurtsol
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Nah, 6 eps is too few for people to complain. Plus, it's one of the earliest dubs widely available (and one of the better ones to boot) and hardly anybody had seen the Japanese version at that point --and this is before the proliferation of the internet, so no instant communcation/feedback (and remember, they had to dub the eps months in advance before the VHS release date)-- so really it was not quick going those days. (But if ya really wanna know the big dub voice controversy back then, it was the voice of boy-Ranma Sarah Strange. Oh boy! Fans were very divided whether a girl, or that girl specifically, should be voicing boy-Ranma. Ya should've seen the flame wars!  )
Anyways, Ranma Wiki says:
On the contrary, people then didn't even know why she was replaced, if they even noticed (it wasn't customary to list dub VAs with their anime roles).
Yes, Ranma 1/2 was one of the rare cases that the main dub casts are not only about the same ages as their characters but some were also younger! IIRC for example, Angela Costain was only 14 years old when she started voicing 17-year-old Nabiki. Other female VAs were only in their late teens or early 20s, so they were kinda greenhorns not only with the industry but also the concept of anime dubbing. But that scheme avoided back then the common complaint of the female dub VA sounding a bit too old for this then-new thing called anime dubbing where the common anime girl is a teenager but sometimes act even younger. |
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Funkgun
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So if I were to play this next to a DVD copy would it be worth it I wonder?
That said, I love Ranma, and got a lot of people watching anime with it in the mid to late 90's |
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Key
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Hmmm, sounds like there's some incorrect information circulating out there about the issue with Brigitta. Apparently I bit on what I'm guessing was only a rumor.
Still didn't like her rendition of female Ranma, though admittedly I didn't appreciate how bad I thought it was until I heard Venus's much better version. I am also a little surprised to hear that this was generally regarded as a good dub at the time. But learning stuff like this is a big part of why I bother to read these response threads. Funkgun, see this page and watch the video clip for a look at the color upgrades you get. The picture is also uncropped (apparently some earlier releases of the series were?) and the episodes are in originally-intended order. |
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Spastic Minnow
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I think the emphasis on the video being uncropped is just meant to be in contrast to some of the "remastered" Dragonball releases being made "widescreen" by cutting off the top and bottom of the screen. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Sometimes BD remasters reveal more of the original image around the frame edges (less cropped) than previous releases did. I don't know the specifics of why that occurs, but I see it quite often. Interestingly, the first episode of the Lodoss BD appears to crop more of the image in places. Maybe the edges of the film were just too degraded?
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EnigmaticSky
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Given the kind of legacy that this show has, I should probably pick it up and give it a watch. I've never seen it and thus have no nostalgia, but not having something this prolific in my collection would be just a shame.
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