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Winter 2012 Anime Thread 2.22: You Can (Not) Outpost Cajunator
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cosmicblizzard
Banned
I doubt they can cover 8 (or 9) volumes in 11 episodes unless they do some serious cutting.
Actually, won't it be their third by the time it comes out? Negima has already come and gone and been released on DVD, and Kizumonogatari should be up next.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Kid Icarus: Uprising: Medusa's Revenge Part 1 (this is the Studio 4C one): Much, much better than the P.I.G. attempt. It's a lot more serious without any humour, the animation is crisp, the art colourful, and it was surprisingly violent (omg dead peoplez). Also it had Medusa. Medusa is fucking hot (dat sex snake hair and sideboob omg).
Pit's design looks a little weird though. The whole thing still feels very pointless, but at least it didn't offend me like P.I.G.'s cartoon.
Pit's design looks a little weird though. The whole thing still feels very pointless, but at least it didn't offend me like P.I.G.'s cartoon.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
ok now i'm mad
Same here, same here...
Hey! Don't take a part of my post out of context like that... I meant to say "ultra smooth 'digital' pannings over static images", as in "zoom & pannings", both handled in the same way.
You people are going to make me despise this English language of yours! I can't express myself for shit.
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is one of the funniest shows I've seen in anime. The characters are perfect for it.
Its a fun show. It's kind of different with the design of the cycle robots and the whole show is kind of "out there".
This looks interesting. Like there is some really dark twisted stuff hidden in the veneer of early 2000's era animation.
Troll characters are the best. More anime needs troll characters. Lemon is kind of one. Unless by troll something else was meant. what is Medaka Box about?
This looks pretty cool. Will check it out.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I keep forgetting to watch this. I need to fix that, are these on both JPN and USA 3DSs or just Japan?
That voice really, really is not how I imagined Urabe sounding.
Dark and twisted are really not two terms I'd personally use to describe MGX. Well, maybe a little twisted. And yeah, it really does have an early 2000s look to it...
Dedication Through Light
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Great production values and visuals, possibly second best spring anime for me.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
While it developed along different lines than I initially anticipated, I can't say I'm disliking it (outside episode 7). Right now it has that feeling of everything crumbling around the main characters which I always find compelling as the finale of a narrative.
What do you dislike about the show?
It's out on all 3DSes, thankfully.
Hotarubi no Mori e
It was a cute short movie. I wish I had more to say about it, but it didn't really suck me in all that much.
The visuals were very well done and at times I thought they were really gorgeous to look at. The art feels like it needed more of a magical feel and it just didn't have it. This isn't really a bad thing, more of a nitpick on my behalf.
I think the music was the real standout for me. It's filled with beautiful piano arrangements and the music swells just at the right moments. I would recommend people listen to the soundtrack even if you have no interest in the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBulViyjZZQ <--My favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ypocLdJvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdxnoRX4Y8
Strip club rules also apply to the spirit forest.
It was a cute short movie. I wish I had more to say about it, but it didn't really suck me in all that much.
The ending was still pretty affecting even thought it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.
The visuals were very well done and at times I thought they were really gorgeous to look at. The art feels like it needed more of a magical feel and it just didn't have it. This isn't really a bad thing, more of a nitpick on my behalf.
I think the music was the real standout for me. It's filled with beautiful piano arrangements and the music swells just at the right moments. I would recommend people listen to the soundtrack even if you have no interest in the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBulViyjZZQ <--My favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ypocLdJvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdxnoRX4Y8
NISA Fuckup #675948453284534 - House of Five Leaves DVDs are mono
Oops! I wonder when they realize that some basic QC is probably cheaper than having to offer a replacement program for every other release.
Oops! I wonder when they realize that some basic QC is probably cheaper than having to offer a replacement program for every other release.
This looks pretty intriguing. will check it out. Especially with those visuals and music.
The offered me a replacement cover for Our Homes fox Deity and it was a nice gesture, but how many other releases have mistakes?
KO Traveling Hobo
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You may find that the show starts to drag a bit, but keep watching.
The initial releases of Toradora (just the first set) and Persona -Trinity Soul- had replacement programs because there was a screw-up with the video which led to some interlaced frames being blended in a rather odd fashion.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Chihayafuru 23: SON OF A BITCH
Both.
I didnt notice this in my Toradora set. Maybe I got lucky.
I ordered it pretty much when it came out though.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I thought it was pretty nice build-up for a massive climactic battle with lasers and shit.
Then they told me it was only one part.
Yes.
Right now, yes.
(Wait, does the rule-that-shall-not-be-talked-about apply to the KI shorts?)
It effected the whole initial pressing. It's the kind of thing that some people are impervious to noticing, but it immediately jumped out at me. The replacement disks look way, way better.
Is this still going on? Or has the replacement program expired?
I wasnt aware of this.
Where on the e-shop is it? I hope this isn't specfic region bs, because Nintendo hates Europe. :|
It's not on e-Shop, it's on Nintendo Video.
I hate Nintendo. @_@
Kind of surprised. I even wrote a bit about it on my blog, and I hardly ever write anything interesting or factual!
I've no idea if the replacement program is still ongoing - the form is still on the NISA website, so maybe just try filling it in and see if anything happens?
Thing is, I did'nt really notice anything wrong when I watched it. Probably because my eyes are terrible. But what exactly was the perceived issues? Is there a side by side comparison of the quality?
Edit: now that I look more closely, it does look kind of off.
I guess I'll fill out the form, although its like 2 years late lol.
Probably going to tell me all the discs are gone.
Edit: now that I look more closely, it does look kind of off.
I guess I'll fill out the form, although its like 2 years late lol.
Probably going to tell me all the discs are gone.
I couldn't find any side-by-side comparisons, but this is supposedly a picture of the ghosting in Toradora:
Uhh...My copy does NOT look that bad.
I guess I will just keep it.
the only thing is the show looks a bit dark/pale.
I don't remember if it's supposed to look that way.
My copy DOES ghost at that particular part of the opening, but I'm not sure if its just the way the frames were put together.
Also, vol 2 does look much brighter and sharper.
hafl the brothas and sistas that made all the good shit back in the 90's working for the americans. that money pot is needed. Should be NO SHAME making a anime from a game that sold 850,000 copies in 24 hours. Since when that became a problem?
Sounds like you're being Kirino for Nintendo.
DAT NINTENDO INCEST
The video on most anime DVDs is interlaced. If you take the raw, unfiltered video and look at it frame-by-frame, once every few frames you'll tend to see an image that has lines from two different pictures on alternating fields - that is, every even numbered line is from one image, every odd numbered line is from a different image - like this...
Whatever you use to play DVDs will normally do something clever (or not so clever) to process this fields in a fashion that you'll not notice.
The problem with the Toradora DVDs is that, for the interlaced frames, the two images that should be on alternate lines have been blended together - both images appear on each line, but merged together, resulting in a peculiar ghosting effect. Bear in mind that, in this happening, each line has effectively been doubled as well. Looks like this -
It gives the video an excessively aliased look - a lot of the fine line work has a slightly blocky look, and somewhat shimmers. It also means that fast motion in particular ghosts a lot, like watching something on an LCD display with a poor response time.
The thing is, some PC-based DVD players will deal with interlaced frames in the same fashion as is hardcoded on the Toradora disks, so a lot of people who use PC based players won't actually notice the difference.
Oh, and they also corrected the colour levels - whoever mastered the original disks turned the contrast up too high. The replacement disks look more muted, but that's how the show is supposed to look.
The video on most anime DVDs is interlaced. If you take the raw, unfiltered video and look at it frame-by-frame, once every few frames you'll tend to see an image that has lines from two different pictures on alternating fields - that is, every even numbered line is from one image, every odd numbered line is from a different image - like this...
Whatever you use to play DVDs will normally do something clever (or not so clever) to process this fields in a fashion that you'll not notice.
The problem with the Toradora DVDs is that, for the interlaced frames, the two images that should be on alternate lines have been blended together - both images appear on each line, but merged together, resulting in a peculiar ghosting effect. Bear in mind that, in this happening, each line has effectively been doubled as well. Looks like this -
It gives the video an excessively aliased look - a lot of the fine line work has a slightly blocky look, and somewhat shimmers. It also means that fast motion in particular ghosts a lot, like watching something on an LCD display with a poor response time.
The thing is, some PC-based DVD players will deal with interlaced frames in the same fashion as is hardcoded on the Toradora disks, so a lot of people who use PC based players won't actually notice the difference.
Oh, and they also corrected the colour levels - whoever mastered the original disks turned the contrast up too high. The replacement disks look more muted, but that's how the show is supposed to look.
This doesn't look like my discs. I don't remember exactly when I bought the toradora set but I'm pretty sure I had preordered it. I do have that ghosting effect when I pause it in certain places, but it obviously hasn't bothered me enough to question it until now. I guess I'll just hold onto the discs as they are at this point.
I just hope my Fate Zero box has very high quality for the cheddar I just spent on it!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Did you know - the guy who played the Yokai also played Ichika (no echiiii) in Infinite Stratos!
Well, those were screenshots taken by me from the replacement and original release NISA Toradora disks respectively, using a video editing tool rather than a player in order to not have any undesired filters or deinterlacing effects on the images. The ghosting doesn't apply to every frame, and isn't something that's going to be particularly visible as ghosting unless there is fast motion resulting in a large difference between successive images. The aliasing effect that resulted tended to bother people more.
The 90 seconds of it I spot-checked yesterday looked fabulous~~~
I'm rechecking episode one of Toradora now, specifically the shots you posted above and it does NOT have the ghosting effect right there. Maybe I do not have an affected disc. somehow. I order a lot of stuff though so maybe Rightstuf had some sort of fixed second batch when they offered it. It's perfectly watchable. no "shimmerinG" and action scenes are crisp.
Yeah, didn't want to confuse things. I'm pretty sure most anime is telecined, if you want to get technical about matters, but I'm no expert on the subject.
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