Kirby: Right Back at Ya (星のカービィ)

[Kid Ryan]

Originally Posted by snowmint

Hopefully Nintendo of America will put the dub eps up on YT like Capcom did with the MegaMan battle network anime.

That would be very lovely, though hopefully in due time the anime can be released on Blu-Ray in the US.

Maybe at the just announced Discotek Day stream on January 20th?

https://bsky.app/profile/discotekmed.../3lf3pmwd2ak2w

[snowmint]

I still wish the singer of the dub opening could be identified.

[Stein256]

I hope they release the F-Zero anime on Blu-ray as well.

[d34073505]

Originally Posted by sephirothkefka

Finally updating this thread because I got my Blu-ray in
As expected its 1080i averaging 19Mb/s with a max of 40
PCM is stereo 24 bit
The box itself is DVD sized and has a cardboard outer box.
It does look quite nice and it thankfully uses MBAFF interlacing however some of the cg can look a bit meddling especially on closeup shots and i did notice some banding on certain scenes. Still its so nice to have this on Blu-ray finally! I'll get screenshots soon.

The screenshots/preview they had released doesn't look too convincing. If what they had is presummably 480i, why don't just keep it SD? By that you can fit even more episodes in each 50GB disc. Isn't it strange to leave all interlaced when upscaled to HD?

[SpaceDandy]

While we can only guess the reason they chose HD over SD, keeping it interlaced is correct. Early digital productions often run at a native 50/60i field rate. A deinterlacer output would be either 25/30p or 50/60p: the first halves the temporal information, the framerate of the second is incompatible with the Blu-ray specifications at 1920x1080.

If we assume SD is unacceptable due to marketing reason then they are left with two approaches:
- 720p50/60: pre-processed deinterlace, the player or TV is responsible for 1080p upscaling.
- 1080i50/60: pre-processed upscale, the player or TV is responsible for 50/60p deinterlacing.

Blu-rays with 720p content are uncommon but are generally well received as 720p usage often combines the greatness of HFR and HD. FWIW, The Blair Witch Project is a recent disc with 720p60 content, authored by FiM.

[snowmint]

Hopefully they stream the series when the new game comes out. Tell Sakurai.

[sephirothkefka]

Originally Posted by d34073505

The screenshots/preview they had released doesn't look too convincing. If what they had is presummably 480i, why don't just keep it SD? By that you can fit even more episodes in each 50GB disc. Isn't it strange to leave all interlaced when upscaled to HD?

I finally found some time to share some screenshots. These are all from episode 1.

[d34073505]

Originally Posted by sephirothkefka

I finally found some time to share some screenshots. These are all from episode 1.

Thank you, nd they do look 480-ish to me. In a higher resolution the somehow low-res texture of 3D Kirby and others sticks out uncomfortably. (What are those artifacts on Dedede's clothes??)
I guess it was initially designed to save costs and not to be viewed on digital lcd tvs. Afterall, yeah it's still the best the show have looked so far.

[snowmint]

I'm still shocked if not on streaming anywhere

[sephirothkefka]

Originally Posted by d34073505

Thank you, nd they do look 480-ish to me. In a higher resolution the somehow low-res texture of 3D Kirby and others sticks out uncomfortably. (What are those artifacts on Dedede's clothes??)
I guess it was initially designed to save costs and not to be viewed on digital lcd tvs. Afterall, yeah it's still the best the show have looked so far.

This was during the era of early digital anime so it being upscaled makes logical sense. The booklet mentions in the thanks Q-TEC but I'm unsure if they scaled it themselves or if HAL was responsible (I'm betting Q-TEC encoded and authored it themselves though). It does look solid enough either way.

[Kid Ryan]

Originally Posted by snowmint

Hopefully they stream the series when the new game comes out. Tell Sakurai.

I'd be happy with a Tubi release at this point honestly, just wanna be able to re-watch the English Dub for nostalgia purposes.

[snowmint]

Again I hope Sakurai is notified to get the Kirby anime sub and dub on streaming anywhere.

[Gowho]

Originally Posted by snowmint

Again I hope Sakurai is notified to get the Kirby anime sub and dub on streaming anywhere.

He's not going to do anything unless it's to promote the Switch 2 some more.

[Kid Ryan]

Does Sakurai even have any say or control over the anime?

Last I checked he only had that power with the games.

[snowmint]

Originally Posted by Kid Ryan

Does Sakurai even have any say or control over the anime?

Last I checked he only had that power with the games.

I think he did help work on some it. Hoping for the best still. I hope someone can still tweet at him.