Yokai Monsters Collection from Arrow

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Xephix

My guess is that Kadokawa is like Toho in where they want their new transfers released by them first to prevent reverse importing or something. If Spook Warfare only had an SD transfer previously then Arrow probably did some pursuading so they could get all three films in true HD.

It would be a strange move considering they let Arrow do the world premier Blu-ray releases for Invisible Man Appears/Human Fly and Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch. But Kadokawa is releasing the new 4K transfers of Daimajin and Yokai Monsters themselves this Fall so I suppose that could be their reasoning for not wanting Arrow to have their hands on it first. If so then it's pretty annoying that we missed out just because of timing.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by starsteam

It would be a strange move considering they let Arrow do the world premier Blu-ray releases for Invisible Man Appears/Human Fly and Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch. But Kadokawa is releasing the new 4K transfers of Daimajin and Yokai Monsters themselves this Fall so I suppose that could be their reasoning for not wanting Arrow to have their hands on it first. If so then it's pretty annoying that we missed out just because of timing.

I would rather have waited 6 months, a year, heck, probably even two, if that was the compromise that had to be made. These are likely to be the final English-friendly home video releases of these films and it is indeed a shame that most of the transfers will be out of date at time of release.

[RillIris]

Originally Posted by Yami

I would rather have waited 6 months, a year, heck, probably even two, if that was the compromise that had to be made. These are likely to be the final English-friendly home video releases of these films and it is indeed a shame that most of the transfers will be out of date at time of release.

Arrow of all companies does some rather limited releases though, and honestly getting true 4K releases of these would be great and it is a format they release on. Considering that limited edition sets for both Gamera and Daimajin are selling out, I could see them doing new limited edition sets for both series on 4K in the future. With when Daimajin and Yokai are debuting in Japan my suspicion is we’d be looking at Q4 2024 before we’d possibly see such a release though, at least with anime anyways I know 3 years is pretty standard between a new transfer in Japan seeing release elsewhere.

[Zillamon51]

Spook Warfare is easily my favorite. I'm glad it's the one getting a 4K transfer. But wouldn't it make more sense if that one got it's own disc? I know they're presented in release order (like it matters), but it seems like that one should be given room to breathe on its own disc for maximum awesomeness.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Zillamon51

Spook Warfare is easily my favorite. I'm glad it's the one getting a 4K transfer. But wouldn't it make more sense if that one got it's own disc? I know they're presented in release order (like it matters), but it seems like that one should be given room to breathe on its own disc for maximum awesomeness.

Disc 1 is 100 Monsters and a brand new documentary, plus some trailers. Disc 2 is Spook Warfare and Along with Ghosts, plus some trailers. I guess it would be wasteful to give two barebones movies their own disc each.

It looks like all of the extras from Tokyo Shock's 2-disc release of Great Yokai War are included. Only thing new seems to be the commentary.