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Samurai X was just the name of the Kenshin OVAs for the English markets so they could appeal to a more XTREME anime audience. The 1st OVA tells the backstory of Kenshin The 2nd OVA is a re-imagining of a manga arc that never got animated when it was on TV.
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Samurai X, it should be mentioned, despite falling into that darker and edgier trend was actually really quite good.
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Apr 29, 2011 17:43
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Oh yeah, the first Kenshin OVA is brilliant. You can watch it by itself even because as a stand-alone story it's beautiful. Not so much for the second OVA, though, as that was a half-assed attempt to animate the final arc of the manga as well as provide an epilogue to the whole story. A lot of fans hate the second OVA and don't consider it canon (even the manga author remarked that he didn't agree with its ending).
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Apr 29, 2011 17:50
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And hey, what do you know, they're doing another TV series soon that should probably cover Jinchuu and render any need to ever watch that leprosy filled piece of dreck entirely irrelevant! I'm curious whether they'll do the flashback arc in the more TV style though, as it does theoretically happen inside this arc (as a means of explaining why someone's after Ken this hard in the first place).
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Apr 29, 2011 18:16
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Oh god it's true. If they animate the entire Enishi arc I will be over the moon!
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Apr 29, 2011 18:22
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So are they just releasing the Kenshin OAV's or the Tv series as well? I'll buy the gently caress out of whatever they release, but it looks like only the OAV's from that page  6000yen for Tsuioku-hen OAV is actually pretty nice in comparison to Japanese bluray prices in general ( ).edit: Seems like price should be 8400yen, but amazon jp lists it at 6100. Anyone willing to translate what's going on? Buffis fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 29, 2011 |
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Apr 29, 2011 19:50
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Hopefully I'll be getting Sword of the Stranger in the mail today or tomorrow. Also read up on some ghibli news, and The Borrower Arrietty is released on br/dvd June 17th, I think it was. People interested in the movie should seriously consider the japanese release as it turns out the stateside release of the movie isn't happening until Feb. 2012. And that might just be a theatrical release, so add a few months for disc.
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Apr 29, 2011 20:04
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Buffis posted:edit: Seems like price should be 8400yen, but amazon jp lists it at 6100. Anyone willing to translate what's going on? Well Buffis, you see, Amazon tends to have these things called discounts.
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Apr 29, 2011 20:10
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Nate RFB posted:Rurouni Kenshin...Filler arcs designed to keep the ball rolling while the manga got further along, but back fired by being so massively terribly it got the series canceled. Wait a second...how bad can those episodes have been to say it got the series cancelled considering the regular filler quality of Naruto/Bleach? This reminds me I need to watch read Kenshin someday. It's one of those seminal shounen things I never got around to. Along with Hunter X Hunter, Saint Seiya, Dragonball and Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventures. Nor have I ever finished Fist of the North Star. I'm a bad manga fan Guess I can start Kenshin with the blurays though. Any excuse is a good one really.
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Apr 29, 2011 22:32
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tsob posted:Wait a second...how bad can those episodes have been to say it got the series cancelled considering the regular filler quality of Naruto/Bleach? I'd imagine that filler for Naruto and Bleach still had decent ratings. Plus all those movies and video games. Ice Blue fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 29, 2011 |
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Apr 29, 2011 22:35
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tsob posted:Wait a second...how bad can those episodes have been to say it got the series cancelled considering the regular filler quality of Naruto/Bleach? Kenshin is somewhat more grounded in reality than those series, there are silly special moves but they kind of try to explain it with things like "he ignites the sword with friction and the grease on the blade" to avoid it being too out there for a series set in history. So the first filler arc has Kenshin get magic blindness from getting hit by a special attack and he's cured of the magic blindness by beating the guy who blinded him. It gets worse from there and he literally fights mystic asian wizards in the last arc.
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Apr 29, 2011 23:26
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Eden of the East: King of Eden movie on sale for $13.99
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Apr 30, 2011 06:41
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How was the new Slayers season? I saw Amazon has the blu-rays and I loved the first three seasons.
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Apr 30, 2011 23:49
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I liked it a lot. Really captured the old Slayers feeling and any Slayers fan should check it out. Lina's spells in HD are pretty.
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May 1, 2011 06:18
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So I'm seeing two different versions of a complete samurai Champloo. One is out, and the other is coming out in a month, what's the difference between the two?
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May 1, 2011 07:41
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Apparently it's just a rerelease with a different price. Possibly just to get it moving to stores/get buzz again. As far as I know Champloo was never remastered, it's just Funimation upscaling it badly. I've heard so many things about the first box being junk, so I'd stay away.
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May 1, 2011 07:51
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Really? I thought it got a decent review on BR.com but it's been a while so I'll have to re-check that.
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May 1, 2011 17:04
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It was mentioned in the Haruhi thread, but apparently Disappearance was confirmed for a US BD release.
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May 2, 2011 15:15
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Redline finally got a release date; August 10 in Japan and September for UK
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May 2, 2011 18:02
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I guess Laputa got a BR/DVD combo release in the UK? It's impossible to find info (I guess there isnt any) on disney bringing it stateside but I did come across reviews from this month for it in the UK.
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Amazon UK delivered my first ever Anime Blu-ray this week. Well two, it's a double pack with Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I've seen Girl because my GF has it on DVD. Summer Wars I've not seen but heard good things, looking forward to checking them out soon.
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Jun 10, 2011 00:40
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I really enjoyed Summer Wars, especially on blu ray. The story and art really lend itself to a high definition picture.
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useless player posted:Can anyone recommend a good Blu-Ray player software? I bought the FLCL Blu-Ray disc intending to watch it on my new laptop only to find that I don't have the software to play it I want to bring this back up, because I too would like to know if there's any good BR software out yet. I bought a BR player for my computer only to find none of the popular players work for it, and the piece of poo poo that comes with it is super picky about what it'll play over. Like, it wont play to my projector over a DVI but it will over VGA (???)
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DamnGlitch posted:I want to bring this back up, because I too would like to know if there's any good BR software out yet. I bought a BR player for my computer only to find none of the popular players work for it, and the piece of poo poo that comes with it is super picky about what it'll play over. Like, it wont play to my projector over a DVI but it will over VGA (???) No, and all BR software costs like hundreds of dollars. Basically companies are out to gently caress you over.
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DamnGlitch posted:and the piece of poo poo that comes with it is super picky about what it'll play over. Like, it wont play to my projector over a DVI but it will over VGA (???) This is normal and has nothing to do with your player itself. Media companies are dead set on making piracy more attractive than legit sales in ways other than cost.
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Moeru posted:I've noticed Amazon selling quite a few series like Baka Test, Angel Beats, Spice and Wolf on Blu Ray. Are any of these worth it or is it just the 720p copies? Baka Test and Angel Beats should be 1080p. Spice and Wolf doesn't have it's rear cover art yet which would say so. But since it's Funimation, if it's not an upscale, it should be 1080p. They're pretty decent about that.
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Bakatest's broadcast was super bitrate starved but all the text/pattern overlays looked like they could have been from a 1080p source so the BDs should look p good.DamnGlitch posted:I want to bring this back up, because I too would like to know if there's any good BR software out yet. I bought a BR player for my computer only to find none of the popular players work for it, and the piece of poo poo that comes with it is super picky about what it'll play over. Like, it wont play to my projector over a DVI but it will over VGA (???)
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Plorkyeran posted:
ooh I'll have to check that out. thanks!
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Jun 22, 2011 18:46
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How much cheaper is that than something like TotalMediaTheatre (what I use)? Even then don't you have to employ a variety of hacks to get something like Media Player Classic to work with Blu-rays? And even that's only after you've decrypted it which means you can't just pop in the Blu-ray and play it on the fly. I think, at least.
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The Borrower Arrietty is finally out on BD. And sweet hopping Jesus is it ever beautiful. Probably the most lush backgrounds Ghibli's ever made.
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Well this is disappointing... "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" is on Blu-Ray today in the US, on a totally bare-bones disc that only has stereo audio tracks even though the movie was mixed and presented previously on DVD in 5.1 (the Japanese Blu-Ray had a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track). From the screenshots, the video quality looks about as good as you could hope for but still... http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cowboy-Bebop-The-Movie-Blu-ray/21270/#Review
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Jun 30, 2011 02:48
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I'll end up getting it because I don't have the dvd version and it's so cheap anyway. However it's still really disappointing to hear.
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Kingtheninja posted:I'll end up getting it because I don't have the dvd version and it's so cheap anyway. However it's still really disappointing to hear. This is exactly why I bought it. I was a little  when I opened the case and only the disc was inside. I always feel that way for bare bones releases like this, even though the price makes it pretty obvious that it would be the case.
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After being disappointed that the Baccano blu ray was an upscale, I'm being more picky with my choices. This leads me to a question..Where do you find what the original show was broadcast as? For example, Soul Eater doesn't have its back cover posted on Amazon so I'm unsure if this is an upscale or native 720 or 1080.
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Jul 6, 2011 22:09
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Soul Eater is real HD. The broadcast resolution is completely meaningless; there's very few Japanese stations left that broadcast anything other than 1080i regardless of the source resolution (and they broadcast 480i regardless of the source resolution).
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Jul 7, 2011 00:58
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Plorkyeran posted:Soul Eater is real HD. I think I may have not phrased my question correctly. Basically, what I'm looking for is a way to find out if a show is upscaled or not when its released on Blu Ray. Is this still the same answer?
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Jul 7, 2011 16:00
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Just a heads up, but the first 4 volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood are $20 each on amazon until the 23rd. In typical fashion, I ordered volume 4 a week before this started so I missed out on $10
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Jul 18, 2011 15:51
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 ESCAFLOWNE on Blu-ray in Japan, Feb. 2012! Oh god this is my favorite series ever. I hope it's not upscaled rubbish, I will import it in a second.
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Well, it's listed as being remastered from the 35mm source, so that takes care of the "not being an upscale" thing. Looking forward to it.
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