Forum - View topicINTEREST: His and Her Circumstances Blu-ray Release Gets New Artwork
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kicksville
 Posts: 1266 |
|
|||
|
Well that's timely for the article here. I guess it's not an upscale after all?
|
||||
|
||||
|
Blazingluke
Posts: 13 |
|
|||
|
That’s a pretty reasonable price as far as Japanese BD sets go. I wonder if it’ll have English subtitles.
|
||||
|
||||
Spoofer
 Posts: 356 Location: NY |
|
|||
|
:}
Does Gainax still own this (and not Khara)? Hopefully someone over here can pick it up (RightStuf again?). Be nice to finally get the much more interesting home-release recap episodes as well. |
||||
|
||||
Sam Murai
 Posts: 1051 |
|
|||
|
I have mixed feelings about the show, but it is definitely one of those efforts, at least animation-wise, that is worthy of a (proper) BD treatment. However, I'm very surprised that its getting everything, since GAINAX likes to pretend it never existed (I suppose the production really was that acrimonious) and that it disappeared from fandom's consciousness despite being the darling of its time.
The latter is something that has baffled me the most, as I would have thought that a series that highly-praised would have staying power in the years after, but instead became one of those forgotten classics/masterpieces/top-rated titles (not too dissimilar to Witch Hunter Robin, Metropolis, Le Portrait de Petite Cosette, and X). |
||||
|
||||
|
johnnysasaki
Posts: 950 |
|
|||
it's kinda hard to have staying power when the story is incomplete.It didn't cover even half of the manga's story and the final episodes were building up for a school festival and a play that you never get to see unless you read the rest of the story in the manga |
||||
|
||||
|
Spoofer
Posts: 356 Location: NY |
|
|||
|
Idk that it's (completely) disappeared. It was always a cult show to begin with, and it's hard to maintain buzz without future entries or high-profile domestic rereleases. It still has incredibly high ratings here, and anecdotally a few years back when I was finishing up a degree at the local geek college, they showed the first 4 eps off during their weekly anime club night, and everyone seemed to love it which made me :} (despite the hiccups with Right Stuf's freezing subs).
It's still a great show, despite being incomplete. That totally-Anno popsicle stick episode only adds to its charm. 
|
||||
|
||||
|
chronoclast
Posts: 97 |
|
|||
Nah it's going to be an upscale. It's being done by FORS unfortunately which is Qtec so it's not going to look good either. Kare Kano looks rough enough as it is. |
||||
|
||||
|
Kicksville
Posts: 1266 |
|
|||
|
I guess that explains the suspiciously reasonable (for Japan) price. :'(
|
||||
|
||||
|
Spoofer
Posts: 356 Location: NY |
|
|||
Bleh, even though it was (mostly?) cel-animated? Aside from those endings and NEPs, at least. |
||||
|
||||
|
GeorgeC
Posts: 795 |
|
|||
|
They don't always keep physical film for shows and movies.
That stuff gets lost when titles to properties change or somebody is stupid and throws them away. There are plenty of films and TV shows that will NEVER have a hi-def release until someone figures out how to do digital upscale that looks better than the mediocre quality we get now Project A-Ko was exhibited theatrically but there don't seem to be any master prints available to make a Blu ray edition; all they have for home video is an old master tape used for the laserdisc releases! The first two seasons of Sailor Moon (the original series) HAD 16mm film prints but those two seasons are gone on film and they had to upscale what was left to lots and lots of complaints from people. I've stepped away from getting definite upscales (Classic Doctor Who for instance) when I know the original show was preserved only on videotape... There's no film for Classic Doctor Who except for the opening storyarc for the 1970 season when it started broadcasting in color. I've been playing DVDs on computer and on HDTV and I know it's a 50/50 proposition on whether the upscale of DVD will work or fail. Fortunately for anime, animation titles generally look decent upscaled. There's a bigger problem upscaling live-action but some titles (the old 2004 Star Wars SE DVDs) actually look pretty good upscaled. |
||||
|
||||
NJ_
 Posts: 3143 Location: Wallington, NJ |
|
|||
No, Toei HAS the film, they are just being cheap and selective on what gets properly remastered for the format. Their Blu-ray release of Mazinger Z proves that much since they went back to the film negatives for that series and it looks better than Spain's upscale from a few years ago (and before you bring up Mazinger being 35mm, so was 70s Devilman and yet that show's Japanese release was upscaled as well). There are rumors that the same will be happening with Dragon Ball....and considering what happened with movies 11 & 12 recently, I expect it to be terrible but for different reasons. |
||||
|
||||
|
configspace
Posts: 3717 |
|
|||
|
A bluray and new artwork won't salvage it. It needs to be completed redone from ground up and re-adapted to the manga's material. Even if it's a unfaithful more comedic adaptation, the fact that disagreement between Anno and Tsuda made the show's production completely tank in the second half is what really ruined it.
|
||||
|
||||
|
all-tsun-and-no-dere
ANN Reviewer
Posts: 671 |
|
|||
I’d rather have a series that’s 3/4 daring and innovative than a series that’s 50% slightly better than average and 50% abuse-romanticizing garbage, which is what a full faithful adaptation would be |
||||
|
||||
|
Zalis116
Moderator
 Posts: 6903 Location: Kazune City |
|
|||
|
Hopefully Nozomi can put a BD version out in the US, assuming this release isn't a "worse than DVD" upscale. If that happens, maybe we'd finally get the actual home video version of the series, instead of the TV version. Afaik, they never got the home video version for their later DVD re-releases, even after the issues became known.
|
||||
|
||||
|
NJ_
Posts: 3143 Location: Wallington, NJ |
|
|||
About that, were there any major differences between the two? Like, major enough that it would cause issues with the English dub (like with Escaflowne & Gundam SEED HD)? |
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group