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SAO II - ep 19

Felt like the best episode since the end of the GGO arc. So glad they finally gave Asuna some proper screen-time and fleshed out her backstory a bit, the first half of the episode felt like a much needed change of pace and dealt with the topic maturely. Also, from the second half...

*STARE*

So good.
 
Finally started The Twelve Kingdoms after owning the BDs for about two years. It looks fantastic and is off to an intriguing start. Seriously though Nakajima, if you're offered a free pass to another universe you take it, without hesitation. Especially if it has working magic. Sugimoto gets it.

And is "Keiki" actually a name in Japanese, because I swear that was what they called cake (the dessert) in other shows and I'm struggling to take the guy seriously when I'm hearing things like "Cake isn't human" and "It might take a while to find cake". I couldn't take the dub though.
 
Sailor Moon (Viz English Dub) - Episodes 01-03

I like the Viz Media dub, though I had never seen the show prior.

Now for the Blu-ray quality. It's bad. Not even close to being perfect. I'll get Part 2 regardless (I don't want an incomplete set alright?) but I hope Viz improve on this with the later seasons and most importantly the movies. I know the DVD pillar-boxing is getting fixed for Part 2 onwards but seriously Viz why didn't you just keep it DVD only and wait for Toei to create their own Blu-ray master?

As a result I won't pre-order Sailor Moon R until I hear about how the VQ is like on that. If you haven't listened to the ANN podcast, Viz basically ignored the actual situation with no plans to recall the discs and declared the DVD sets with pillar-boxing issues to be a 'Collector's Edition' as a joke.

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Akame ga Kill! (Japanese Dub) - Episode 20

OH SNAP
 
VoxPhantom said:
Akame ga Kill episode 20. What a nosedive in quality from the previous nineteen episodes, this felt all over the place with the breakneck pacing.
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Not to mention they skipped 10+ chapters/an entire arc. The show's got a bit of a ****-storm all over the net.
 
NormanicGrav said:
VoxPhantom said:
Akame ga Kill episode 20. What a nosedive in quality from the previous nineteen episodes, this felt all over the place with the breakneck pacing.
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Not to mention they skipped 10+ chapters/an entire arc. The show's got a bit of a ****-storm all over the net.
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Ah, I felt like something must have been skipped, with the setting suddenly switching back to the Capital - it was jarring to say the least.
 
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Fairy Tail - Episodes 47 - 60 (Dub)
Nanatsu no Taizai - Episode 06
Psycho-Pass 2 - Episode 06
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso - Episode 06
Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 07

NormanicGrav said:
Now for the Blu-ray quality. It's bad. Not even close to being perfect. I'll get Part 2 regardless (I don't want an incomplete set alright?) but I hope Viz improve on this with the later seasons and most importantly the movies. I know the DVD pillar-boxing is getting fixed for Part 2 onwards but seriously Viz why didn't you just keep it DVD only and wait for Toei to create their own Blu-ray master?

As a result I won't pre-order Sailor Moon R until I hear about how the VQ is like on that. If you haven't listened to the ANN podcast, Viz basically ignored the actual situation with no plans to recall the discs and declared the DVD sets with pillar-boxing issues to be a 'Collector's Edition' as a joke.
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I just watched a bit of episode 1 out of curiosity and the video is abyssmal. The ghosting sticks out a lot, the colours are screwed and then there's the heavy post processing applied. There are frames where only a characters mouth is moving, yet parts of the image will blur/Smudge/lose detail in certain frames. I'm glad I didn't buy it. I'd personally say this is as bad, if not worse than Funi's Spice & Wolf season 1 upscale. Only difference there is that HD Masters for S&W 1 exist whereas they don't for Sailor Moon.
 
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