Yeah, the banding was also in the Japanese release. While the full screencaps are gone (Imageshack sucks now, though if you try URL uploading to Tinypic they
might work again) you can see the original Japanese singles also suffered from it despite being on more discs (The BD box has 14 episodes and a bunch of extras on 4 discs).
http://konfan.blogspot.com/2011/11/k...eview-and.html
Goes to further show Japanese releases while almost always better aren't always perfect.