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Death Scythe
Chinese Vocaloid goodness and FMP
What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!
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bailey1985
Vampire Ninja
A Silent Voice has arrived, after a 5 week delay in shipment from Anime Limited's store. Nice release and booklet.
Lambadelta
Mad Scientist
Received this a couple of days ago
Slayers - Season 1 - BD from Selecta Vision (Spanish Release)
For my thoughts on the release open the spoiler below :3 (Tad lengthy, and quite a few pictures. Shows what the PQ of a few episodes is like)
Slayers - Season 1 - BD from Selecta Vision (Spanish Release)
For my thoughts on the release open the spoiler below :3 (Tad lengthy, and quite a few pictures. Shows what the PQ of a few episodes is like)
The release is an upscale based on the Japanese DVDs I believe. This was released in Spain this year, and apparently the encode matches the work of a Korean fan (something like that) in terms of where detail is lost, and how parts of the footage ghosts due to some aggressive upscale techniques used.
Pictures of the digipack artwork
The release itself isn't that bad as long as you can forgive the fact its an upscale, and not a rescan of the original film. The release is presented on three discs stored in a 4 panel digipack featuring art of the characters, and contains a booklet containing the history of the slayers world, character introductions and design work, and a map showing their journey across the continent as they travel through the season.
The book also contains artwork from the sets, Anime references that you may of missed, and a history of the shows broadcast in Spain.
Pictures from the booklet
In terms of Picture quality the anime as stated is a slightly aggressive upscaling of the original DVD masters of the show. This means the lines aren't that sharp, and the upscaling process has removed some detail in far background scenes such as the tiles on houses being harder to see, and so on. The colour has been somewhat improved. While you could make some of the better improvement yourself if you have the right technology knowledge to the DVDs for many its easier to just own a set with a somewhat decent upscale than trying to upscale a DVD themselves.
Here are some example scenes between MVM's DVD release of Slayers S1, and the Spanish BD
Episode 4
Episode 7
Episode 9
The episodes are provided roughly 3.61GBs per, and contain two audio tracks, and two subtitle tracks. The audio on the release is Japanese, and Spanish but unfortunately for Spanish listeners the dub was retrieved off old VHS masters meaning the quality of the Spanish track is quite low.
The set does lack any english options so while I find the set a good release for Slayers in a world lacking proper BD masters I'd say unless your willing to either provide your own subtitles, or mux in the English dub yourself then the release will not be for you.
The Mediainfo on Episode 1
Pictures of the digipack artwork
The release itself isn't that bad as long as you can forgive the fact its an upscale, and not a rescan of the original film. The release is presented on three discs stored in a 4 panel digipack featuring art of the characters, and contains a booklet containing the history of the slayers world, character introductions and design work, and a map showing their journey across the continent as they travel through the season.
The book also contains artwork from the sets, Anime references that you may of missed, and a history of the shows broadcast in Spain.
Pictures from the booklet
Lina Design Page
The Journey they traveled
Anime references you may of missed, and History behind the show in Spain
In terms of Picture quality the anime as stated is a slightly aggressive upscaling of the original DVD masters of the show. This means the lines aren't that sharp, and the upscaling process has removed some detail in far background scenes such as the tiles on houses being harder to see, and so on. The colour has been somewhat improved. While you could make some of the better improvement yourself if you have the right technology knowledge to the DVDs for many its easier to just own a set with a somewhat decent upscale than trying to upscale a DVD themselves.
Here are some example scenes between MVM's DVD release of Slayers S1, and the Spanish BD
Episode 4
MVM's
Selectia Vision
Selectia Vision
MVM's
Selectia Vision
Selectia Vision
MVM's
Selectia Vision
Selectia Vision
The episodes are provided roughly 3.61GBs per, and contain two audio tracks, and two subtitle tracks. The audio on the release is Japanese, and Spanish but unfortunately for Spanish listeners the dub was retrieved off old VHS masters meaning the quality of the Spanish track is quite low.
The set does lack any english options so while I find the set a good release for Slayers in a world lacking proper BD masters I'd say unless your willing to either provide your own subtitles, or mux in the English dub yourself then the release will not be for you.
The Mediainfo on Episode 1
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Buzzkillington
Cardcaptor
Finally ;_; such a nice looking set, I was pretty worried about the artwork bleeding onto the spine on this one but while it's there, it's very little so I'm happy with it.
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
I really love the image on the back of A Silent Voice, with the metallic finish...
IncendiaryLemon
Captain Karen
I also got this the other day but forgot to post the picture up:
BanzaiJedi
Pokémon Master
The last week's arrivals, all from Zavvi (and only because they had a discount code). The risk of buying from Zavvi is that they tend to use jiffy bags. Overlord and Anthem made it in perfect condition thankfully, though Hana has a badly crushed slipcover (which seems to have happened in the factory, as I don't see how being chucked about in the post could crumple the back of it like that without damaging everything under the slip as well). The others have dented corners, but nothing horrific. An acceptable trade-off for the lower price imo.
D1tchd1gger
Shrine Maiden
In This Corner of the World manga
Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
I just received my shipment from the Funimation Black Friday Week sales today - Yona of the Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Snow White with the Red Hair Part 1, and The Mystic Archives of Dantalion DVD. Oddly, Funi included a hardcover AoT book which I didn't order, and it wasn't on my Packing Slip either - no idea if this was some sort of freebie Bonus Item they were including, or if their shipping department just messed up yet again. Oh well, if I don't end up reading it, I'm sure my two daughters definitely will, since they're both heavily into AoT...
I find it bizarre how slipcovers are now disappearing for Funimation sets these days, I guess Funimation decided to go 'screw it' and make the slip-covers first print only or something.