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Hey all, I'm having a bit of a clear out anime wise as a way of trying to both reclaim some precious cupboard space, as well as parting ways with some titles which I'm no longer interested in. More titles than not are either completely unwatched or have been watched for a short period, and a...

The only obvious issue with it (if you want to call it that) is that it uses GKIDS master for the movie. Whilst that itself isn't necessarily an issue (subtitle font aside), GKIDS for some reason used the theatrical version of the movie rather than the home video version for their release. I...

I caught it before when checking the discs. Bear in mind that this is a two frame glitch out of 153282 frames and that the video quality is better than the Funimation disc anyway. Your choice then is to either start over again, spending time and money to re-encode the entire movie and go through...

Surprised this is being bought up now as I posted those yonks ago (back when the USBD came out), but it doesn't mean that broadcast masters were used. More than likely they were given HDCAM masters for the show which are stored at 1440x1080. Sentai's release of K-On! Season 1 was the same. I...

Goodbye Grain, hello incorrect gamma... Hi.

You may regret saying that as there's technically still episodes which have a mono dub track... :cool:

It's not captured from a badly configured player. The colours are slightly off, assumedly due to the banding. I've only had a very quick look at the disc, but as for the video - there is quite a bit of banding and noise inherent to Kyoani sources in general, but I think it's fair to say that...

I noticed the brightness issue a few days ago when the French caps appeared online. The Funimation BD has the correct gamma/brightness.

Unlike every release from every other distributor, the episode cuts don't match up to the Japanese BD. For example the fade outs where the sponsor logos would've been displayed last way longer on the Viz BD. It was also released back in that period where Viz used the Broadcast materials for...

Yes, it looks awful. Yes, it's Kaze so it'll be crap regardless, but as a rule of thumb 4 discs doesn't necessarily mean better. Viz's BD for example has incorrect colours compared to the JP BD as they're over saturated, and whilst Jojo is by far the most watchable of their non Justin releases...

As noted by Grav in the news section, Your Name is now streaming both subtitled and dubbed with Japanese songs for Amazon Prime members. The good news is that the Amazon stream isn't based on Madman's BD, and it doesn't appear to have the audio, video or subtitle issues affecting said release...

On the opposite end of the spectrum, a certain other big movie release which was actually handled by Anime Limited came out yesterday, and it's basically identical to the Japanese BD. Taking that into account, as well as most of the extras from the Japanese release being present (and of course...

Have also spotted a two subtitling errors that got through Madman's QC... Both BD & DVD. I do wonder to what extent this was actually tested... Subtitle line in the Signs/Songs scripts and this song subtitling error. (The bottom line is the next line in the song... despite there being no further...

The return of the MangaUK seal of quality... Thus continues their trend of questionable decisions and QC...

Don't get me wrong, there's no way I'm defending Kaze, but provided you have a good encoder there isn't a problem using 3xBD50 discs. I'll use Viz as an example here. Viz use 2 BD50s for 12/13 episodes regardless, but their output has, and continues to suffer from every problem under the sun...

Whilst it doesn't explicitly state what DVDs are used in that comparison, I'm going to assume they're the R2J discs and aren't representative of the US/UK releases. I say that because the DVD screens look way better than the BD. For the latter the line art is smeared to hell, and whilst the show...

The SAC BDs in Japan/Korea are 1080i30, reason being that the CGi was done at 30fps and BDs do not support 1080p30. From what you're saying it sounds like the publisher encoded it at 1080p24, thereby dropping six frames each second which would explain why it looks so choppy. SAC should also have...

Obligatory bump. Some prices have recently been quietly adjusted and items added.

Incorrect, you're actually paying for SD upscales with dubtitles. You can see in the comparison above which I created with help from @Jaysgba that the actual HD version shows a lot more detail which simply isn't there on the UK BD. To make things even better, that comparison picture from the TV...