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That’s the most overpriced, and confusing Anime Collector’s Edition ever. What a joke. No re-encoded discs...

I understood. (And yeah, as long as it has good compression, it doesn't matter who does it. I just mention those two often because they've shown off that they can produce good results.)

Justin said he isn't doing Maquia, so that's that. (And I avoided mentioning Luca Franciosi at all, just to avoid the memes.)

Good news. AL is contracting a new disc for Maquia. Yay. Let’s hope it’s the guy who did Amanchu and Geass Movie 1- as he did a good job (and maybe he’ll have fixed the brightness issues by now).

The Shout Factory BD of Maquia is f**king shite. Film has 2 video files, each About 20 mbps, one being the plain visuals, and the other with hardcoded subs. Yes, if you watch with Japanese audio you get hardcoded subtitles. I hope this is why the AL version was delayed. If they end up using the...

But Akiyuki Shinbo managed to get away with it...

I'm down for quite a few if they meet my standards*. *Those being: well encoded western version being cloned or being a clone of the JP BD, or use Justin S, David M or mp3dom- I said his name again, yeah, bring on the memes- have good packaging and/or design, good price, not AL website...

Speaking of Kon, ANNOUNCE PERFECT BLUE's ULTIMATE EDITION ALREADY! Justin finished a version of the transfer as of 12 November- ready for QC. Please, just get to it already! If it's true that Shout is using the exact same encode, then the transfer done originally for your release will come out...

True. I was a little disappointed. Oh well, not a big deal...

The Eureka one will be better encoded- because you know... David M was the compressionist. I have yet to get the Eureka releases (though will once the Pound Sterling drops thanks to that Brexit vote), but may double-dip on the Criterion simply for the extras.

Most likely not. Also, I can say this- at least from when I heard, AL and Shout Factory have different extras, or at least SF has more. If the wait was to license them, then that's cool by me, but if AL doesn't get them, there's a reason to get both AL and SF's releases.

All that is confirmed is that Shout/Gkids is using AL's digital remaster- I have zero evidence to say whether or not it will use the exact encode bit-for-bit what Justin Sevakis did. If it uses a different encode but the same master, all should be fine. BUT, if it's Bit-for-bit identical... then...

Nani the **** AL? Sorry if this is offensive to anyone who worked on it, or likes it, but that may be the worst Collector's/Ultimate Edition I've ever seen.

So let me get this straight... Overlord II will only be released in the UK via a Limited Edition that’s exclusive to a single retailer (Zavvi) with no plans for a standard edition in the future? If so, wow. That sucks. (It’s sorta like when Sentai released LOTGH only through their own store...

Castlevania? Nah- it came out on 4 December.

In other news, Viz Media's Castlevania Netflix BD is almost as bad as Re:Zero. Like, hot damn. It's so fookin' ugly, I'd say it's on-par with FUNi Steins;Gate and Psycho Pass. My write-up

I be here watching. Fun times...

I'm sure as you all know now, but Madman in Australia is releasing Re:Zero Part I in April, and on their forums, they said they were using a new master. I PM'd them on Twitter and they said the following: So yes, it's a different encode. I'd take an average encode with some minor (emphasis on...

Sorry about that. I guess I went a little out of hand. So I’m guessing that it depends on the staff. JP Re:Zero has none, and you say Goblin Slayer doesn’t (haven’t seen it, so I can’t say), so I guess it’s just either a directorial thing, or something. But the S;G movie JP BD has none at all...

Animation studio. I know, I’m no pleb. Hell, I even said, “White Fox in particular give not-so-great masters” because of that- in that Japan also had S;G with banding, though nowhere near the trainwreck that is FAILimation’s BD (to which Manga used as a 1:1 clone). Re:Zero has none of those...