The UK Anime scene in 2010 - Your Opinions
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Manga: Are the Funimation of the UK in my opinion, they release in a very similar way and seem to be dominating at the moment. My only gripe is the occassional lack of detail i.e inclusion of titles and signs sub track. This often leads me to be very wary and not buy a Manga title until I have some sort of confirmation of everything that is included in comparison to the R1 release.
Beez: Need to release more stuffage. Also, Beez have an interesting opportunity with some Bandai titles I think. Now I am not sure if this is at all possible, but for titles such as 'Hayate the combat butler' which Bandai are releasing sub-only, could Beez not outdo them by mabey getting the english dub track that Animax Asia has been using? Beez would be gods in my mind if they could do that. Stupid sub only...making me read rather than watch my anime...grrr...
Revelation: Should give up.
MVM: Generally confuse me. They seem to be rather random in their licensing and rarely seem to make much fuss about anything. To be honest, I can't remember seeing any MVM titles in either of my local HMVs in a while...
TV: I always think it is a bit awquard to keep up with shows on TV anyway, consequentely I think a full on channel is too much, I would be most happy with a programming block such as what Anime Network was.
Digital distribution: Currently no interest.
Beez: Need to release more stuffage. Also, Beez have an interesting opportunity with some Bandai titles I think. Now I am not sure if this is at all possible, but for titles such as 'Hayate the combat butler' which Bandai are releasing sub-only, could Beez not outdo them by mabey getting the english dub track that Animax Asia has been using? Beez would be gods in my mind if they could do that. Stupid sub only...making me read rather than watch my anime...grrr...
Revelation: Should give up.
MVM: Generally confuse me. They seem to be rather random in their licensing and rarely seem to make much fuss about anything. To be honest, I can't remember seeing any MVM titles in either of my local HMVs in a while...
TV: I always think it is a bit awquard to keep up with shows on TV anyway, consequentely I think a full on channel is too much, I would be most happy with a programming block such as what Anime Network was.
Digital distribution: Currently no interest.
ayase
State Alchemist
Blu-ray is pointless in the same way DVD was pointless when we had VHS, like the microprocessor was pointless when we had the abacus, like central heating was pointless when we had coal and twigs. Sure, it does the same thing, but it does it better. That's progress.memorium said:
DVDs are cheaper, but if you go back only a couple of years DVDs were selling for what BDs are now - they're only expensive / cheap relative to one another, becuase of the fairly massive across the board drop in the price of both formats, possibly due to recession. You can preorder a lot of BDs for around the £12-£13 mark now. I was buying single volume DVDs for that price less than a year ago.
On the matter of anime on Blu-ray I rented Origin and Afro Samurai: Ressurection over the summer and, granted, the colours looked nice and that, but I found a good bit of problem with some banding (and I know it isnt my TV as I had it serviced just the other week) and there wasn't really all that much else to shout about. At the moment there really is not any need for anime to be on Blu-ray at all I don't think, bar maybe whole series sets.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Blu-ray is good for feature films of course, and the current crop of anime being made in Japan for HD sets. Anything older than 3 or 4 years made for television is just not going to be worth the upgrade. I think that many of Funimation's current series boxset releases on BD are essential upscales, which offer a little, but not a revolutionary improvement in image quality. I guess you won't be going rushing out to by HD equipment for Burst Angel and Samurai 7.
If there is one thing that Blu-ray is good for in terms of the UK anime scene, it's getting rid of the stupid NTSC-PAL conversions once and for all. The shows that have been coming out the last couple of years in Japan, and are now only just getting to the West, ought to look awesome in hi-definition though.
If there is one thing that Blu-ray is good for in terms of the UK anime scene, it's getting rid of the stupid NTSC-PAL conversions once and for all. The shows that have been coming out the last couple of years in Japan, and are now only just getting to the West, ought to look awesome in hi-definition though.
I think that for anime, the best thing you can get at the moment would be a DVD player that upscales to high definition. Anime (or any DVD for that matter) looks noticably better on my PS3 than on my DVD player because of this. Anime that uses CG (eg some of Cowboy Beboy) should benefit from blu-ray more than purely flat animation (for instance Dragonball). Also newer anime, even the fully flat ones, are far sharper than fully flat anime from before 1997.
fabio de lunatico
Claymore
You have a point--it seems to me that older anime benefits more from HD--although it should be noted that one of those images is a 25kB JPG while the other is a 816kB PNG. Can you guess which is which?
fabio de lunatico
Claymore
It's not worth screencrapping from my DVD because MVM's version is an awful looking composite job. Animeigo's second release might look better but since I haven't seen an Animeigo DVD with video quality that I'd describe as "good", let alone anything more positive, that might not be a fair comparison either.
No doubt it looks much better in HD, of course, but you'd need a shot of a decent looking DVD to properly compare.
No doubt it looks much better in HD, of course, but you'd need a shot of a decent looking DVD to properly compare.
memorium said:
Blu-Ray is pointless for early 21st century series not animated in high definition. Modern HD anime (Gundam 00 for instance) designed for HD and compressed for DVD, and older series that have been digitally enhanced for HD do work. Anything else, you might as well just put your DVDs in the player and let it do the upscaling for you.
ayase
State Alchemist
'Anything else' being anime digitally produced in the small window between about 1999-2007..?
So basically what you're saying is, the only thing it would be fair to compare the HD shot with is one from a good quality SD source which doesn't exist? :?fabricatedlunatic said:
Well then, I'll be back to conclusively prove my point when more classic anime has been released in HD which also had a good quality DVD release, I guess...
fabio de lunatico
Claymore
That is not what I'm saying since I knew that remastered BGC DVDs had been released in Japan. Apparently I was a little harsh on Animeigo...
Project-2501
Straw Hat Pirate
Gunbuster on BD looked crap. Wish I'd got the DVD instead and saved some cash. Without a good master HD is pointless and the Gunbuster one wasn't good.
fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Hey, I'm agreeing with you. In my experience older anime looks considerably better in HD. But you need to make fairer comparison, man! I'll see if I can nab a screen from Castle of Cagliostro...ayase said: