Defective or Disappointing UK Anime Discs

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Thanks, I put them both under DVD but if it's the BD for Loups=Garous please let me know.

R
 
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question

lets say you brought a anime and it has all sorts of problems what would you do.........

email the company? or something
 
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Rui said:
Thanks, I put them both under DVD but if it's the BD for Loups=Garous please let me know.

R
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The Loups=Garous one is for the BD (it's probably the same for the DVD, but I'd have to run it to be 100% sure).
 
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Rosencrantz said:
I'd suspect it's a flaw in the disc, I have one like that in my Aus Higurashi Set. I did once see it on a disc that needed cleaning.

In my experience DvD drives in PCs and Laptops are of a better quality and less prone to minor disc flaws, some discs that gave my DvD player real trouble play flawlessly on my PC. A disc I had a while back with a visable impact mark refused to play 3 chapters on my DvD but only 1 chapter on my PC.
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It happens on all three discs of Canaan and all four discs of NHK and the discs still look new. The fact that no one else seems to have encountered similar problems suggests it's a problem with the player. I've had trouble with this dvd player before with older MVM releases like Desert Punk where the dvd would freeze during playback, acting like it had encountered a scratch on the disc even though the disc was immaculate and I had to finish watching it on my PS3 where it works perfectly. I think it might just be my dvd player not liking MVM discs, which combined with all the other issues I've had with it confirms I'll never be buying anything from Samsung ever again :x
 
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Shucks. Mine arrived this morning so I won't be able to watch it till after work.

The English scrolls haven't been tucked away in the extras or something, or in one lump after the last episode?

It'll be a Madman master since they released it in PAL (with a nigh identical cover even). Checking their forums... can't see any complaints. Can't even find any reviews on a quick Google search.
 
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My last post was regarding Mayo Chiki - apparently I missed a page.
I've got into the second episode and been hit with a translation note that evidently replaced the line it was supposed to be explaining.
 
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Shiroi Hane said:
My last post was regarding Mayo Chiki - apparently I missed a page.
I've got into the second episode and been hit with a translation note that evidently replaced the line it was supposed to be explaining.
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That's the shoddy workmen ship I'd expect from fansubbers. It's the case of having to go back a few frames and pause it right before the note appears so I can read it.

How is Mayo Chiki? I find it best in a baguette with lettuce
 
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I was thinking of buying Mayo Chiki (would never have pre-ordered for reasons that should by now be obvious) but mistimed subtitles would annoy me to no end. The UK Anime review doesn't mention anything about it though. JPT, when you on the case? EDIT: He already is, and mentioned no subtitle problems outside of a few typos. I so confuse
 
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Shiroi Hane said:
The English scrolls haven't been tucked away in the extras or something, or in one lump after the last episode?
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I'm afraid not as I've gotten to the end of the first disc with no credit roll to be found (as I said sentai puts an English language credit roll at the end of every episode).

The subtitle timing issues are intermittent so some might not catch them unless your really paying attention (the UKA review does mention subtitle issues, but doesn't mention if it's timing or translation although the latter would be the responsibility of sentai if they mucked up).
 
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I got onto the second disc this morning and checked myself (although not finished watching it yet), unless they're on the disc but accidentally not linked in anywhere, they've been left off entirely. It does have the regular disc credits that confirm Madman.

Otaku-san said:
That's the shoddy workmen ship I'd expect from fansubbers. It's the case of having to go back a few frames and pause it right before the note appears so I can read it.
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The actual line is not there at all, just a note explaining the shituji/hitsuji joke that Kanade is evidently making.

I've not seen any glaring timing problems other than a bit right in the first episode where multiple people were talking, but a fair number of translation issues, mostly to do with context (picking the wrong subject/object/pronoun/name etc) - stuff that would be hard to pick out of a script but should be obvious with reference to the video (e.g. they at the pool and split up into pairs of Jiro/Kanade and Subaru/Kureha. Subaru asks Jiro to protect Kanade, but the subs say "me", which makes no sense in context).
 
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Shiroi Hane said:
I got onto the second disc this morning and checked myself (although not finished watching it yet), unless they're on the disc but accidentally not linked in anywhere, they've been left off entirely. It does have the regular disc credits that confirm Madman.

Otaku-san said:
That's the shoddy workmen ship I'd expect from fansubbers. It's the case of having to go back a few frames and pause it right before the note appears so I can read it.
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The actual line is not there at all, just a note explaining the shituji/hitsuji joke that Kanade is evidently making.

I've not seen any glaring timing problems other than a bit right in the first episode where multiple people were talking, but a fair number of translation issues, mostly to do with context (picking the wrong subject/object/pronoun/name etc) - stuff that would be hard to pick out of a script but should be obvious with reference to the video (e.g. they at the pool and split up into pairs of Jiro/Kanade and Subaru/Kureha. Subaru asks Jiro to protect Kanade, but the subs say "me", which makes no sense in context).
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Is this all transferring through off the Sentai original or are these errors introduced by Manman? One would assume the script is unchanged so those errors are Sentai's and the missing line could be either a problem with re-timing to PAL or Sentai again?
 
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We'll have to find someone who admits to having bought the US version of Mayo Chiki to be sure. Demonix, would it be possible to confirm the timestamp/line the next time you spot a timing problem so it can be confirmed as a general issue and not player specific?

R
 
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Whoever said something about mistimed subtitles, I mentioned this once somewhere ages ago but Canaan suffers from that. The timing is all over the place.
Between the PAL speedup and the shoddily timed subtitles I gave up after the first episode.
 
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Rui said:
We'll have to find someone who admits to having bought the US version of Mayo Chiki to be sure. Demonix, would it be possible to confirm the timestamp/line the next time you spot a timing problem so it can be confirmed as a general issue and not player specific?

R
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I'd have to go through the early episodes to get some timestamps and lines for the affected sections.

I've also found another subtitle mistake right near the end of episode 8 (around 19:27) where glass should have been glasses.
 
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demonix said:
Rui said:
We'll have to find someone who admits to having bought the US version of Mayo Chiki to be sure. Demonix, would it be possible to confirm the timestamp/line the next time you spot a timing problem so it can be confirmed as a general issue and not player specific?

R
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I'd have to go through the early episodes to get some timestamps and lines for the affected sections.

I've also found another subtitle mistake right near the end of episode 8 (around 19:27) where glass should have been glasses.
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If you can find a few I have the US release, In only asked the question because I don't have access till the weekend to look anything up on them.
 
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I know this is for discs but I have bleach boxset 10 and it says on the back what it says on boxset 9 which is a total F*** up
 
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Rui said:
We'll have to find someone who admits to having bought the US version of Mayo Chiki to be sure. Demonix, would it be possible to confirm the timestamp/line the next time you spot a timing problem so it can be confirmed as a general issue and not player specific?

R
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Ok, had a chance to review my US discs

The glass instead of glasses is part of the US release, as is the error at the pool you with you instead of me. In fact that's a double error because it reads 'if you get into trouble Jiro will protect you', which reads correctly and would makes sense if Jiro was paired with Subaru but given the context it should of been 'if I get into trouble Jiro will protect me. (as in protecting Kanade in Subaru's place)

With regard to the translation note replacing the subtitle I couldn't see any problems with episode 2, I went through it twice looking at each time a note appeared and there didn't seem to be any problems. No issues with multiple subtitles appearing at the same time at all.

I'm still curious as to why Sentai used 3 discs and Madman 2, I don't think Sentai would willingly use 3 discs for something unless they needed the space.
 
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Rosencrantz said:
I'm still curious as to why Sentai used 3 discs and Madman 2, I don't think Sentai would willingly use 3 discs for something unless they needed the space.
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Sentai changed to three disc sets last year, but the reason for doing it is beyond me (unless they wanted to go back to the older four or five episodes per disc standard).
 
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demonix said:
Sentai changed to three disc sets last year, but the reason for doing it is beyond me (unless they wanted to go back to the older four or five episodes per disc standard).
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The fewer episodes per disc, the higher the video bitrate. In theory anyway. I can't think of any other reason for making the change.
 
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