I agree it's an easy shortcut to hate on gaijins, and quite a few will fall for it. Japnese tend to forget the "No More" campaign which was targeted at them, they aren't angels either
buncha half-animal anime girls around a fire with their pet teacher: "S'more?"
"You take a gooey, melted marshmallow..."
"...and put it between some salty crackers with chocolate inside."
no??????
The more year passes, the more I am willing to pay an indecent price for a faithful and proper (!) Haibane Renmei upconversion.
Not their first, they have two more that explicitely advertise MGVC
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Gave this one the usual punched up typesetting wherever possible. Really pleased with the eyecatch logo especially.
Blu-ray.com not tracking at all which release contains MGVC is frankly annoying. And they're not even helped by japanese companies completely forgetting to mention it on their listing. E.g. this disc from 2025 has the MGVC layer www.tc-ent.co.jp/products/det...
New episode of The Anime Business!
John O'Donnell talks about The End of Central Park Media in his final installment on The Anime Business.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYIw...
Dynit will save
You probably have ใใช็ๅ็พค sir
mood
looking for a job in multimedia or broadcast (software) engineering in my country is like, pointless. Such a shame.
Only true for prestigious titles (NGE, Gundam). In general false. If the distributor cares to explain that the provided material will cause an outrage, the licensor slacks off.
Some distributors (AL notably) prefer to claim they only deal with inflexible licensors to never do the work
Uninterrupted since 2011, Sony Music has been religiously releasing the annual New Year Concert by the Wiener Philharmoniker on Blu-ray.
www.blu-ray.com/search/?quic...
Gotta appreciate the dedication.
The wait for a new Roujin Z BD is starting to be just too long.
"ramp up"
yeah, non-english languages already had plenty of MTL or proxy subs. It's just gonna be generalised.
All the Anime France poll on Blu-ray players is really insightful. Most have UHD player by now. Only one reported a PS3 (!) which is barely supporting 3D. anything else is at least fully fledged Profile 2.0.
Screencap of a section of the 25 August 2024 update for the AnimEigo Kickstarter of The Dagger of Kamui.
AnimEigo first KS update post claims it is from 2011.
Iirc there's a similar statement somewhere on the Animeigo KS
Comment on FB post revealing the Dagger of Kamui FRA BD visuals, April 2025.
Dybex hinted numerous times (social media + e-mail newsletter) that Kadokawa had essentially forgotten/was unaware they had remastered the movie. It was probably made alongside Harmagedon and Manie Manie prior to the 2010s and licensing department was never informed as they were never released there
what's up with all these youtubers falling for Temu sponsorship? I could get by the useless nordvpn stuff as that's fairly dumb and innocent but not the largest junkyard Earth has ever beared.
Japanalysis and Kaze Emmanuar are dead to me now
Missing frames in Perfect Blue 4K remaster (checked JPN and GBR/USA UHDs).
Notice the flashing bar in the UHD on the lower left.
Credit to BIO-FOREST on Blu-ray forum for pointing the missing frames out.
Small follow-up on this: After subtitle headers exposed Crunchyroll's use of AI service Ollang for dub closed captions, a lot of episodes were released with manually "scrubbed" subtitle headers like this. Most likely an order came from above about it, giving further credence to Ollang use being real
always here to provide tips.
Thanks, just hope it's not the version we discussed back in 2023 :^)
If PG spooks you, there's still PiP for complex soft overlays. It's just Scenarist + x264, nothing fancy. I wrote a VapourSynth PoC and tested it on some players a while back: forum.doom9.org/showthread.p..., likely easy to AVSify
Don't feel bad, BluPrint was not much better fwiw, and cost 10x ๐ซ
***Yet Sony's verifier at DADC validated them.
Compliance of PG/IG/textsubs or Java is really up to the authoring program. Scenarist, aware of the Verifiers' limits, runs thorough checks on PES/IES/TES/VES imports.
And they deserve props for that.
