The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[DatLOLBoi]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Yes, but it could look a bit better is what I'm saying. It looks good, but it could be better if there was less DNR applied and thus more grain was visible.

Also, hoping said localized Blu-ray is released under ADV Films to celebrate their 30th birthday this year.

Looks good to me (which is surprising considering it's from Q-tec). Also yeah, would love to see ADV release it on BD.

[The Collector FX]

These look much better than the previous screenshots provided.

[AreaFive]

Originally Posted by gloomranger

Devil Hunter Yohko Toho JP BD

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via russ869 from The Fandom Post

I'm not familiar with that series at all but I love that art. There's something so captivating about late 80's and early 90s character designs to me. I'll definitely have to look into it further.

[SteamfloggerBoss]

Originally Posted by The Collector FX

These look much better than the previous screenshots provided.

I'd love to abandon my old DVD set if we get it and it looks this good.

[thelonepig]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

I'm not familiar with that series at all but I love that art. There's something so captivating about late 80's and early 90s character designs to me. I'll definitely have to look into it further.

The story goes that (I think) Matt Greenfield said the show was good because the main character was nude more than once.

[xXx$uicide_Ma$terxXx]

Originally Posted by thelonepig

The story goes that (I think) Matt Greenfield said the show was good because the main character was nude more than once.

Man, Discotek needs to release this one

[peppapigstan]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Yeah, no. Now that's the kind of DNR I hate with a passion and find unwatchable, unless it's like their Dragon Ball Z Kai upscale which looks okay. Q-TEC upscales though are far more destructive to early digipaint shows than cel-animated ones.

Dragon Ball Z Kai was not an upscale, it was a legit scan of the 16mm materials, but they didn't properly calibrate their scanner for 16mm so it looks blurry and has vertical smearing cuz they scanned it too fast

[peppapigstan]

Originally Posted by DatLOLBoi

Looks good to me (which is surprising considering it's from Q-tec). Also yeah, would love to see ADV release it on BD.

yeah it's the Q-TEC FORS system which suprisingly didn't do much damage to this BD

[Total Procall]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

I'm not familiar with that series at all but I love that art. There's something so captivating about late 80's and early 90s character designs to me. I'll definitely have to look into it further.

Bold coloring and better designs. Everything today looks washed out etc in the pursuit of realism...an irony as art is escapism.

[DatLOLBoi]

Originally Posted by The Collector FX

These look much better than the previous screenshots provided.

really late response but it's taken from a BDremux on a private tracker, so this is basically how it's supposed to look.

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by Total Procall

Bold coloring and better designs. Everything today looks washed out etc in the pursuit of realism...an irony as art is escapism.

Also, the switch from hand-drawn/painted cel-animation to digital made a huge differance. (Not always necessarily for the better)

There's an artist who draws modern anime characters in a 80s/early 90s style, and it looks great.
https://www.deviantart.com/bluethebone/gallery/all <Link to the artist.



They also do other stuff, like video-game characters.

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[The Collector FX]

That's cool as hell.

[Dragon78]

I agree, that is cool as hell.

Also I really wish someone would give us all the Devil Hunter Yohko OVAs on blu ray.

[Bobo1313]

Would love to get Devil Hunter Yohko on bluray. Hopefully with the ADV dub, which turned Yohko into a valley girl.

[Mangaranga]

Has anyone purchased the Vinland Saga LE?
I'm interested whether they reauthored the discs with the Home Video master for the show, and not the Amazon broadcast one with dimming that was used for the initial release.

[Member-571539]

Originally Posted by Mangaranga

Has anyone purchased the Vinland Saga LE?

https://www.rightstufanime.com/Vinla...dition-Blu-ray

It's still listed as a preorder item. I doubt any copies have been sent out as of yet.

[Misioon_Odisea]

Has anyone compared side-to-side the previous Discotek release of Panda! Go, Panda! with the recent one by GKIDS? I haven't found footage of the Discotek disc so far, and I would like to see if there are any stark differences between the remasters utilized for the two discs. If there's not a big difference, are there other aspects to be found where the presentations differ, besides the English dub now being lossless on the new disc?

[Naiera]

Sooo, how did the UK release of Maquia turn out? I searched the thread, but the best hint I could find was that AL were doin' their own discs.

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Sooo, how did the UK release of Maquia turn out? I searched the thread, but the best hint I could find was that AL were doin' their own discs.

You'll probably be interested in this post and this post.
It's always been an easy skip from me.

[NLScavenger]

Better get the Rightstuf BD if you can. UK/FR BD looks quite rough especially in darker scenes.

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btw, does anyone know how the FR and US BDs of Mutafukaz (a.k.a. MFKZ in US) compare to each other?