AKIRA for Blu-ray?

[Todd]

Has anyone heard anything regarding this anime classic?

[u_nick]

I think something was announced a short while back.... I know Japan is definitely getting it... not sure if they put a date o the US release yet...

[evo_dadi]

well hopefully they think of us soon here ill be buying one for sure when it does come out.

[WickyWoo]

I will be coming out here in Nov/Dec from Bandai Visual.

It will be expensive, at least $50

[AnimeOnBlu]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

I will be coming out here in Nov/Dec from Bandai Visual.

It will be expensive, at least $50

That is good news. I remembering reading that it was being delayed due to "quality issues". Here's hoping the 4-5 month delay yields a very good transfer.

[supersix4]

what is this ?

[AnimeOnBlu]

Originally Posted by supersix14

what is this ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film))

*Warning* Contains Spoilers

[evo_dadi]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

I will be coming out here in Nov/Dec from Bandai Visual.

It will be expensive, at least $50

$50!!!

[evo_dadi]

Originally Posted by supersix14

what is this ?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...ime.php?id=375

[WickyWoo]

All Bandai Visual titles are in premium packaging and carry Japanese prices

[The Guardian]

A friend of mine paid like $90 for the DVD version when it came out... Canadian Dollar sucked back then hehe. $50 would not surprise me at all.

[Todd]

Thank you all for posting your info and links here, I would gladly pay 70 dollars for this but hopefully the price won't be anything like 70 dollars, oh and how about 7.1 surround sound please preferably something hirez.

[SixAxiS]

I'm kind of worried about buying anime on blu-ray cause I'm not sure how much better the pq is compared to an anime on dvd. You can only remaster something so much ya know. How much better can it get? But I guess that depends on if we're watching classic anime or 'new' anime on dvd.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

I will be coming out here in Nov/Dec from Bandai Visual.

It will be expensive, at least $50

Here in the US it will be from Geneon since Geneon was the one who made the english dub

[HDJK]

It was up for pre-order here but it has been pulled. No release date so far.

[MOONPHASE]

patlabor? and GITS? are also there as well with the english dub?

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

I will be coming out here in Nov/Dec from Bandai Visual.

It will be expensive, at least $50

but if it comes with anything with it then it wont be considered as expensive just not cheap

[Todd]

Originally Posted by SixAxiS

I'm kind of worried about buying anime on blu-ray cause I'm not sure how much better the pq is compared to an anime on dvd. You can only remaster something so much ya know. How much better can it get? But I guess that depends on if we're watching classic anime or 'new' anime on dvd.

This anime was produced in 1987 if I recall correctly, I believe it was done on film I don't know what size film stock was used but if it was done on 35mm. that would give it higher resolution than all consumer display technology, That being said the quality of picture you see on a properly calibrated 1920X1080p display may well look perceptibly better than what you might see on the big screen, this is possible because film traveling though the projector suffers from film gate, as each frame moves in front of the light source to be projected each frame moves a little bit out of alignment from other frames before, this causes blurring of the picture. This doesn't happen with well mastered dvd's or blu-ray's because each frame of film is scanned one at a time, any problems in the film stock can be cleaned up inside the computer files. Hope this helps you out on giving it a look they still can do a bad job but it's not likely a film issue Think THE FIFTH ELEMENT before they did the gorgeous remaster the film didn't change the encode did.