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NEWS: Crunchyroll Streams Cardcaptor Sakura Anime

katscradle wrote:

That, and I assume it's an upgrade to what I already have on DVD. Can't say my opinion of the set yet though.

Some people don't have to assume, screenshots of the BDs are out there if you're not one to download an episode and check it out for yourself. Aside from some degraining, which may be more due to the compressed fansub, they look great.

I bought it and it looks really nice on BD. I haven't checked out the dub yet as I've been watching it subbed. It fortunately aged pretty well.

Highly doubt that considering that the series came out over a decade ago. I'll be surprised if this show is in 720p still it will be an upscale and not in a native resolution.

Guess we'll have to see then, I can't imagine anyone watching this now, I don't recall an "HD Remastered" being requested but I'm sure the sales won't be any good.

I don't think you know how well loved and cherished Sakura's been, even with that hacked up Cardcaptors floating around.

I hear it's actually an old dub, but one that wasn't produced or previously distributed in America; it was made by Animax, a company in Southeast Asia. In other words, it's not the Americanized "Cardcaptors" and is more accurate to the original script, but... it's not really that good, either. Though I'll admit it's one of the better dubs made by Animax, unlike the one they did for Fairy Tail... *shudder*

JustinGallimore wrote:

walw6pK4Alo wrote: Hope they're streaming it in 1080p. Highly doubt that considering that the series came out over a decade ago. I'll be surprised if this show is in 720p still it will be an upscale and not in a native resolution.

I am pretty sure NISA has a new HD remaster. It would be moronic for Crunchyroll to not stream the new remaster HD version.

It's still constrained in a 4:3 ratio but I don't know if they could have matted it to 16:9 without making it look wonky.

I got my set today and checked it out and by the looks of it, it seems about the same quality as the original Geneon DVDs which by all accounts was a good quality but it doesn't seem any higher resolution than that.

angelmcazares wrote:

JustinGallimore wrote: walw6pK4Alo wrote: Hope they're streaming it in 1080p. Highly doubt that considering that the series came out over a decade ago. I'll be surprised if this show is in 720p still it will be an upscale and not in a native resolution. I am pretty sure NISA has a new HD remaster. It would be moronic for Crunchyroll to not stream the new remaster HD version.

I got my set today and checked it out and by the looks of it, it seems about the same quality as the original Geneon DVDs which by all accounts was a good quality but it doesn't seem any higher resolution than that. It's still constrained in a 4:3 ratio but I don't know if they could have matted it to 16:9 without making it look wonky.

And here's the obvious question: which dub is it? From what I've been told the dub included on the blu ray is the Animax dub, and I hope to God that CR wouldn't waste any money on that. So the only thing left is Cardcaptors.

smokeyjoey8 wrote:

If the sales won't be good, it will be due to the way NISA is pricing this, and not at all with the level of interest.

https://twitter.com/worldofcrap/status/485963749451255809

Justin Sevakis wrote:

Learned this weekend that the Cardcaptor Sakura box is selling like hotcakes. It's limited edition, so better act quick if you want it! #yay

If there's anything to worry about sales-wise, it's the DVDs because for those three sets, they used STACKpak packaging for them.

And without irony or squickily deliberate otaku pandering, like Madoka Magica's false front.

As for this news it's great. Only thing, for older series like this does Crunchyroll put up all the episodes at once or do they put them up weekly/monthly/etc. And will they also be available from the beginning to non premium members?