The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[Naiera]

I got the JP release of the Steins;Gate movie ages ago. No idea why more people didn't do the same, since it has English subs and isn't that expensive.

[vincentric]

IIRC, I think you were the who gave the shout out to that Amz JP sale... just checked my order history and holy crap, 3500 yen for that JP LE Steins movie release was a steal.

[Naiera]

I got the regular version long before that

EDIT: Post number 9000

[vincentric]

Haha, classic stuff right there. I've fallen way behind on Amz JP imports. Any recent, ENG friendly ones worth picking up?

[Naiera]

I can't afford too many of those myself

I got K: Missing Kings recently, which happened to be at the exact same time that it came out in the US

[vincentric]

Yeah, don't want get off topic too much but have been spending a lot of my anime funds on 4K and 3D movies recently (I blame the LG OLED for these added addictions) and have little to no room for JP imports.

And sorry to keep asking this (well, I only asked once before) but do you or anyone else know if there are any PQ differences between the FUNimation and MVM UK release of Ergo Proxy on Blu-ray? If they both look equally good and or crappy, I can order the UK release for a bit less.

[Sylontack]

Originally Posted by vincentric

And sorry to keep asking this (well, I only asked once before) but do you or anyone else know if there are any PQ differences between the FUNimation and MVM UK release of Ergo Proxy on Blu-ray? If they both look equally good and or crappy, I can order the UK release for a bit less.

I cannot confirm but I believe that the UK release is just a port of the US release, so the bigger question is how both chalk up to the JP release

[vincentric]

Good to know regardless thanks.

As for the JP PQ, there are some archived screencaps of it that I saw at fandom - http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post122674

I may order the UK set (not sure when though) and will try matching the JP screencaps with it for some comparisons.

[NLScavenger]

Nipponart Germany will be releasing Ergo Proxy on Blu-ray with Japanese/German/English audio. It's unknown if it will also have English subs.

[omarchafa]

Originally Posted by Naiera

I got the JP release of the Steins;Gate movie ages ago. No idea why more people didn't do the same, since it has English subs and isn't that expensive.

It was on low priority for me, and now I'm paying the consequences. I spent $70 on the LE which I could have gotten for way cheaper at Amazon JP when they had it in stock not long ago.

Okay, so there is one more BD I want to get right now, Tamako Market. The JP BD Box is out, but I was wondering if the Sentai release has excellent video quality? I would get the JP Box set, but that's about 4 times more money.

[Girls With Guns]

Originally Posted by Naiera

I got the JP release of the Steins;Gate movie ages ago. No idea why more people didn't do the same, since it has English subs and isn't that expensive.

yep, I got both the SE and LE versions of the JP release, because, why not? Like you I got the SE when it first released 3 years ago, and then picked up the LE cheap, I think in that same sale... and since I don't do dubs anyway, there's no need whatsoever to buy some sub-par FAILimation release.

[pikagreg]

The JP Steins;Gate movie was the first thing that introduced me to Amazon.jp. Might pick up the US release for the dub down the line but no real rush.

[Sylontack]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

Nipponart Germany will be releasing Ergo Proxy on Blu-ray with Japanese/German/English audio. It's unknown if it will also have English subs.

I was not aware it had English audio, that's a pleasant surprise.

[FeelsBDMan]

Not sure I understand the Funimation hate sometimes, Railgun S looks pretty fantastic to me apart from the banding in the darker scenes which was also present in the JP Blurays so I believe they did a reasonable job considering they had to work with pretty bad masters. Data seems pretty good at almost 6GB an episode too which is pretty close to what Aniplex does iirc (7-8GB??).

Also I can't exactly complain about 24 episodes for $30.

[Naiera]

At BEST, Railgun S has 5GB per episode. 9 * 6 = 54.

54 minus nine is 45, which is the most anyone will usually put on a Blu-ray Disc due to reliability issues.

I haven't checked the discs, as far as I remember, but I'll be they're the usual 4 to 4.5GB. FUNi is lazy and incompetent, so they use the same encoding settings for all their titles.

[Girls With Guns]

They probably fired the authoring guy after he made all the initial settings on the equipment 8 years ago, and now they just have the janitor press a couple buttons to complete the mastering, as he passes by the equipment while mopping the floors after-hours once a week...

[omarchafa]

The Haruhi series look fantastic from Funimation. Not all Funimation releases are that bad. Some are really good.

[Z-95]

Originally Posted by Naiera

At BEST, Railgun S has 5GB per episode. 9 * 6 = 54.

54 minus nine is 45, which is the most anyone will usually put on a Blu-ray Disc due to reliability issues.

I haven't checked the discs, as far as I remember, but I'll be they're the usual 4 to 4.5GB. FUNi is lazy and incompetent, so they use the same encoding settings for all their titles.

The largest episode of my remuxed rips for Railgun S is episode 15 at 5.13 GB.

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[llj]

I don't understand why Japanese licensors need to gimp US releases with locked subtitles when US video encoders are already gimping titles for them...

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by omarchafa

The Haruhi series look fantastic from Funimation. Not all Funimation releases are that bad. Some are really good.

Nope.