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Originally Posted by NLScavenger
I noticed the Japanese credits in screenshot #2. That's unusual for a Funimation release. Did they keep the Japanese credits for all episodes?
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Well the answer is no, no they did not. The decision seems to be that if the credits are built into the show and not the standard opening/ending, FUNi has left it alone. One exception is I believe it was eps 5 or 6. The ending animation
in the broadcast was replaced with the opening animation... so FUNi laid the English ENDING paged credits on top of that ending... opening... thing. If that makes sense.
The regular opening animation has proper English translations. The ending credits, as is normal for FUNimation, ensures the English language production credits appear before everything else and they are all
in English with English translations of the staff.
Title cards
in the opening of episodes are Japanese, not the transforming craziness ADV went with originally on their releases. Though it helps it is called Full Metal Panic with a katakana under card I guess, and Invisible Victory is the proper Japanese name as well.
Episode titles for the first 3 episodes are Japanese. I didn't check the last 3 on the disc but I assume they follow the trend.
Also
in Japanese, unless it was originally
in English (WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE as an example), are the upcoming episode previews. I mean, these are all just black with text on them anyway so... yay? I am definitely glad they left the presentation alone, it is just that the presentation is... ho hum at best.
Interesting fact for those still reading. The .5 episodes, the episodes I assume they made because production was slow (I make an assumption this is why we got so many .5s for such a short series)... they are
in HD. They are ALSO on the related disc, so 4.5 is on disc 1, etc.
HD is NOT the way they are presented on the original Japanese releases. The Japanese releases are bonus DVDs so they are
in SD on the Japanese release. US BD wins here, hands down. AND the op/ed are
in JAPANESE on these .5 ep, so the original op/ed are intact. At least on 4.5 episode. I will check the others later today.
Also
in HD, though I don't know it really means much, are the location scouting and other related videos. On the Japanese releases, they were also on the DVDs as extra, so SD. I say it doesn't mean much because they aren't the highest DV quality to begin with. But still nice to use a better codec, higher bit rates and "HD."
One thing I find... interesting. Not sure how many people are aware but there is an English language version of the opening song and also an English version of the closing. Both the JP and EN versions are performed by Yamada Tamaru.
Some or all probably knew that.
What I was finding interesting is that FUNi had the ability to, I assume, replace the Japanese op/ed song
in the English dub with JUST this version of the track. They have,
in fact, NOT replaced the properly set versions of the song and only used English where I believe it was also used
in the original JP versions of the show. This also follows the Crunchyroll soundtrack/JP language version. No idea what FUNi did with the streaming dub and I don't care enough to try to find out.
FMP is one of those series I want
in pristine quality and as hard as it is to type it up, FUNi actually hit the target with this release.
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