OFFICIAL Anime on Blu-ray (USA releases)

[BigOnAnime]

To think I used to complain about how FUNi was releasing too little and couldn't handle it. Now it's "FLOOD ALL THE RETAILERS!". Whelp.

Anyway just need Ergo Proxy, Snow White with the Red Hair, Rurouni Kenshin, Omamori Himari (how I've waited so long, though now the release will look worse than it would have years ago from FUNi Why'd it take so long to get when the manga sold like hotcakes for Yen Press for years?), Sword of the Stranger, and Summer Wars.

Surprised they're able to release Castle Town Dandelion less than a year after the Japanese release finished, and got the clean OP/EDs when they're not Sentai, and TBS doesn't like companies that aren't Sentai. And I wonder if the Heaven's Lost Property movie will be BD-sized or DVD-sized. It'll probably be BD-sized, forever screwing over a single instance of shelf-consistency for that series thanks to their screw-up with the S1 Anime Classics release (BD-slipcover over the OOP DVD-sized RE for S1, later received a DVD-sized slipcover) that affected the S2 AC release. Also a bit surprised Okami-san hit S.A.V.E. even though I know the S.A.V.E. and AC lines don't make much sense. The LE for that was one of the rare ones to go fast.
http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...ll=1#post69867
http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post164329

Oh and fun bit of trivia for those that don't know this, FUNi's cover was slightly edited from the JP one. Note the amount of leg being shown.
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Originally Posted by Raye

I wonder how significant the upgrade in quality will be for Rayearth. I have the remastered DVDs after giving the original complete set to my sister and am hesitant about upgrading for a second time. Same with Fatal Fury. I just bought the OVA and movies maybe a few months ago. Can anyone vouch for how good the quality of Discotek BD releases are? I don't even recall Fatal Fury getting a JP BD release.

From Fandom Post:

Originally Posted by Zhou

The TV series Blu-ray release that just came out in Japan looks really good, except for a yellow tint that's very apparent when you look at things that are supposed to be white like the Magic Knights' armor and Mokona. Oddly, the OVAs were included in the set as a DVD, which might mean they lost the film masters for it.

http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post278032

Originally Posted by Zhou

It's not that bad, really. The tint is not quite visible in the first three screenshots, which were taken from the opening, but the remaining ones are from the second episode, and you can see some yellow around the black outlines. In the fourth one, it kind of looks like Zagato hasn't been brushing his teeth.

http://postimg.org/image/7pv81zgb7/
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http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post278332

And there's also this to consider. (Put in spoiler tag so my post isn't a massive wall every time you see it)

[Show spoiler]
https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691695858031550464

Remade the logo animation part of the Rayearth intro in English for the Blu-Ray menu loop. Came out pretty seamless! https://twitter.com/i/videos/691695858031550464

https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691698540024713218

Did the same thing for the second season too! It's not as impressive looking, tho it was just as hard to do, haha. https://twitter.com/i/videos/691698540024713218

https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691702759469371392

Some people asked- The Japanese Blu-Ray for Rayearth used the wrong version of the first intro without the final animation; did we fix it?

https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691703101527580672

I'm happy to say... even though it required recreating the Japanese titles and recompositing them, yes. Yes we did.

https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691705667984322560

Rayearth was a nightmare to finish but I'm happy to say I've finally passed the entire nightmare onto @worldofcrap to author.

And for fun...

Here, now YOU TOO have the power to make ANYTHING YOU WANT created by Clamp. http://i.imgur.com/jN5BDBF.png

https://twitter.com/ashuraou/status/691713200044253184

One I made using that template.
https://twitter.com/BigOnAnime/statu...88900789379072

Also Discotek's Blu-ray releases are all authored by Justin Sevakis who is the best out of those who author anime in R1 (Aniplex USA has their stuff authored in Japan so...). His stuff turns out great.

Originally Posted by KillaCam

When the hell are they going to put Desert Punk on blu-ray?

Never as it probably doesn't sell much for them anymore (they first released the show in singles starting in early 2006, that's how long they've had it), and they've mostly stopped doing Blu-rays for series that lack them in Japan. Who knows if there ever will be a Blu-ray release for the series in Japan.

[MOONPHASE]

Funimation used to advertise that Desert Punk was coming to Blu-ray, but that was also the same time they were saying Blue Gender, Nabari no Ou, and a few others were too which still have not happened.

[KillaCam]

I have that box set. Would rather have it on blu-ray but at least I do own it at all I guess. The series I really want on blu-ray the most is the original Berserk. France and Japan have nice sets but they don't have English subs. Guess I'll have to live with my DVD box set of that for now as well.

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Funimation used to advertise that Desert Punk was coming to Blu-ray, but that was also the same time they were saying Blue Gender, Nabari no Ou, and a few others were too which still have not happened.

Probably back from when they regularly did those then, which was like 2008-2011, then they stopped doing their own upscales around then.

Originally Posted by KillaCam

I have that box set. Would rather have it on blu-ray but at least I do own it at all I guess. The series I really want on blu-ray the most is the original Berserk. France and Japan have nice sets but they don't have English subs. Guess I'll have to live with my DVD box set of that for now as well.

It's really unfortunate we don't have that.

Originally Posted by hissatsu

VAP BD releases of cel-based anime are wildly variable. Some are decent upscales (Tylor) - though they shouldn't be upscales in the first place. Others are crimes against humanity (Master Keaton), and others like GPX Cyber Formula and this, Berserk, get HD telecines that are actually rather good.

Big upgrade from the DVD here, the only arguable "flaw" I see is some grain reduction, but it's nothing objectionable, and I don't see any loss of detail. The DVD is the Media Blasters R1 remaster release, which was claimed to be a new telecine, but wasn't. It was at least made from component masters and progressive - it's pretty decent overall. One improvement not noticeable in the screen shots is that you don't see the shmutz at the edge of the film frame every time there's a cut from one scene to another. This was pretty apparent in the DVDs, and a lot of old telecines are like that.

Oh, and I noticed that the episode titles appear originally have been done digitally - they look like not so good upscales to me. Weird that just such a minor thing would be done digitally in an otherwise entirely cel-based production. I'm kind of surprised they didn't redo them for the BD like the OP and ED titles. But I can live with 5 seconds or so of mediocre upscale per episode.

BD screenshots cropped to 4:3 (1440x1080), DVD screenshots bicubic resized to 1440x1080

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P.S. Anyone know if Berserk was done on 16mm or 35mm film? It looks too detailed/clean to be 16mm to me, though I could be wrong.

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...518#post162518

Australia is getting it though, so an English-friendly option has finally popped up.
https://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/...imited-edition

[KillaCam]

wtf I didn't know that. Who even owns the rights for the series in the US? I am wondering if it will be getting a US release though with the new series being somewhat popular and the announcement of blu-rays for that coming. Tough decision on whether to order that or wait and see.

[Naiera]

Berserk is coming to the UK in November, I believe.

[neoz]

Originally Posted by Girls With Guns

What?! No Senran Kagura for you, neoz?!? Oh wait - I bet you already own the Super Otaku Collector's Edition of that one...

It's getting too high brother. After Ergo I'm dipping out of the game.
I just can't afford the prices on the LE's anymore.

From this:

Space Dandy Season 1 BD Limited Edition - $37.79 (Mar. 03, 2015)
Unbreakable Machine Doll BD Limited Edition - $37.79 (Mar. 03, 2015)
Tokyo Ravens Season 1 Part 1 BD Limited Edition - $37.79 (Apr. 07, 2015)
Freezing Season 2: Vibration BD Limited Edition - $37.79 (Apr. 21, 2025)
D-Frag! Complete Series BD Limited Edition - $37.79 (Apr. 28, 2015)


Getting higher:

Wanna Be the Strongest in the World! BD Limited Edition - $45.99 (Jun 02, 2015)
Hyperdimension Neptunia BD Limited Edition - $45.99 (Jun 09, 2015)
Noragami Season 1 BD Limited Edition - $45.99 (Jul 07, 2015)


To this:

Overlord BD Limited Edition - $59.49 (Nov 08, 2016)
Prison School BD Limited Edition - $59.49 (Nov. 22, 2016)
Death Parade BD Limited Edition -$59.49 (Nov. 29, 2016)
SHIMONETA BD Limited Edition - $59.49 (Nov. 29, 2016)

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by KillaCam

wtf I didn't know that. Who even owns the rights for the series in the US? I am wondering if it will be getting a US release though with the new series being somewhat popular and the announcement of blu-rays for that coming. Tough decision on whether to order that or wait and see.

Media Blasters had the rights, but they've since expired.
http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post145259

VIZ Media has the movies, and Crunchyroll has the new TV series that everyone hates.

Oh and funny thing with Media Blasters and Berserk...

Originally Posted by DirectorDK

On a side note, the reason I fought so hard for MB to re-release and re-master the Berserk DVD set was because of 2 main things... (1) the wretched Japanese mono track that MB screwed up on prior to my employment there, and (2) the poor subtitles. I was coming from a viewpoint of trying to make the best DVD release of Berserk as possible. Back in 2008, blu-ray wasn't really kickin' for older anime series, so I didn't see Berserk on blu-ray as a plausible medium at the time. Also, MB was in the shit hole, and way backlogged on payments for the licensing rights to Berserk, so my attempt and plea to the execs there was simply to put out one more release of Berserk on DVD that fans could be happy with. No way MB was going to fork out the dough for a BD release, and MB didn't even want to re-release Berserk in the first place because it didn't seem profitable. Well, as it turned out, the remastered Berserk set was one of the top sellers for MB in 2009, and probably still.

http://www.d2forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=216303#p216303

[SeaFox]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Desert Punk with another DVD release.

I know! I keep wondering if I should check it out. Seems to have some sort of cult fandom.

Originally Posted by neoz

Just Ergo Proxy for me.

I'm waiting to find out how the video is. I'm not buying another brightness-boosted mess of a dark anime.

[Nothing371]

wow those Berserk BS screenshots make me

I didn't even realize the series had any BD versions. When can we have this??

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by SeaFox

I know! I keep wondering if I should check it out. Seems to have some sort of cult fandom.



I'm waiting to find out how the video is. I'm not buying another brightness-boosted mess of a dark anime.

Desert Punk is pretty hilarious except for the ending which I didn't care for. But if ecchi comedy is your thing, then it deserves at least a watch. The series lacks any intelligence, but a series like this does not need any. I think Eric Vale was easily casted as Sanji in One Piece because of how similar his character in here is to Sanji.

[mikezilla2]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Berserk is coming to the UK in November, I believe.

October down under IRC

[neoz]

Be nice to have a decent transfer of Desert Punk. I always enjoyed it and wouldn't mind owning it on BD.

[Norbie]

Originally Posted by Naiera

None of your links work

Well, phuck me silly.

Sorry. I did try,

[Naiera]

Suck me sideways!

[MJW]

When was the last time the Cowboy Bebop Amazon exclusive was in stock?

I'm assuming it's long out of print now, but I remember someone posting that there were additional copies available for a limited time maybe within the last year? I'd gotten my original copy on release day but of course it was destroyed when my basement flooded.

[CommanderShiro]

Originally Posted by Asuras

RightStuf Listings for FUNimation Releases for November:
Sword of the Stranger (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - 11/8/16 (Hyb)

Oh this makes me happy.

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

VIZ Media has the movies, and Crunchyroll has the new TV series that everyone hates.

I must be one of the few people out there that enjoys the 2016 Berserk anime.

[Girls With Guns]

Originally Posted by CommanderShiro

Oh this makes me happy.
I must be one of the few people out there that enjoys the 2016 Berserk anime.

I'm totally enjoying it... I have no aversion to CG at all, and I like having unique animation styles in anime, makes it stand out because it is different from the same-ol' same-ol'... at least it ain't all cutesy-moe-looking, lol....

[rickah88]

I've never seen Overlord, but it looks pretty cool. Might have to make that a blind buy.

[joeriggsbee]

it says on rightstuf that den-oh coil collection 2 is in stock.