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Outlaw Star is getting a blu-ray release.


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Finally happening.

 

[a href="https://www.funimation.com/shop/home-video/the-complete-series-bddvd-combo-collectors-edition-bld-00513/" target="_blank"]link here.[/a]

 

Also I apparently can't figure out why html doesn't work here so bah.

 

Anyway I am probably going to pick this up. Big Outlaw Star fan. I have the old set but not a blu-ray of course.

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Finally happening.

 

[a href="https://www.funimation.com/shop/home-video/the-complete-series-bddvd-combo-collectors-edition-bld-00513/" target="_blank"]link here.[/a]

 

Also I apparently can't figure out why html doesn't work here so bah.

 

Anyway I am probably going to pick this up. Big Outlaw Star fan. I have the old set but not a blu-ray of course.

 

Oooooh... I'm not usually one to get what I already have (I have the Bandai release), but this just might be worth it.

 

And yeah I'm a big Outlaw Star fan, too, if the username didn't clue anyone in.

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Finally happening.

 

link here.

 

Also I apparently can't figure out why html doesn't work here so bah.

 

Anyway I am probably going to pick this up. Big Outlaw Star fan. I have the old set but not a blu-ray of course.

Lost my copy in like 2013, and have been waiting since then for a re-release.
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Good to hear it's more readily available now. Even though I feel that Bluray doesn't do much for anime made before 2010, it could help with a show where its last remaster was ages ago.

Blu-ray can do a massive deal for pre-digital shows like Outlaw Star that were shot on physical film. In fact, that's where a proper restoration shines the most. It's the series from about 2000-2007 that Blu-ray doesn't help a huge amount, since they were all digitally painted in standard-def and thus can only be upscaled. Early digipaint shows from the early 2000s suffer the most here, since animation companies were still figuring out the digital process, and so most of those shows didn't look too spectacular to begin with. In any case, I've heard the HD masters used for the UK Blu-rays were utterly gorgeous.

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That makes sense. Restorations to pre-2000's anime would do alot more to breathe life into older physical cels than the digital cels from the Aughts where Bluray's limitations are more clear without the recent business model of fixing art errors/uncensoring Bluray editions.

 

My only main concern with older restorations is if it does anything too drastic to them like how the Sailor Moon Bluray was more of a halfjob with oversaturation and noise, but I guess that's just when Bluray restoration goes wrong. My flaw was seeing Bluray as only a chance to make a show look good on TV when it does serve as a vessel to remaster older shows in better quality most of the time.

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My only main concern with older restorations is if it does anything too drastic to them like how the Sailor Moon Bluray was more of a halfjob with oversaturation and noise, but I guess that's just when Bluray restoration goes wrong.

 

There are instances where the original company threw out the film prints years ago and are stuck with a SD master (like Sailor Moon), or the original film IS available but hasn't been remastered in Japan yet and the American licensor sacrifices quality for profit (Dragon Ball Z).

 

In the case of Sunrise shows, they always end up looking fucking gorgeous:

 

 

 

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There are instances where the original company threw out the film prints years ago and are stuck with a SD master (like Sailor Moon), or the original film IS available but hasn't been remastered in Japan yet and the American licensor sacrifices quality for profit (Dragon Ball Z).

 

In the case of Sunrise shows, they always end up looking fucking gorgeous:

 

 

 

These are great.
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These are great.

oh my god i'm going to post something on topic in an anime thread. someone mark this down in a history book

 

i think the BR rip looks waaaaaay too bright. the DVD one has more fuzz and doesn't look nearly as sharp, but it also doesn't look like someone shone a flashlight on the cell

 

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oh my god i'm going to post something on topic in an anime thread. someone mark this down in a history book

 

i think the BR rip looks waaaaaay too bright. the DVD one has more fuzz and doesn't look nearly as sharp, but it also doesn't look like someone shone a flashlight on the cell

The BD looks brighter, but it doesn't look like any details have been washed out. If anything is, that might be a fair trade-off from the old DVD masters.
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oh my god i'm going to post something on topic in an anime thread. someone mark this down in a history book

 

i think the BR rip looks waaaaaay too bright. the DVD one has more fuzz and doesn't look nearly as sharp, but it also doesn't look like someone shone a flashlight on the cell

 

 

Is it just me, or do all re-released anime have a habit of sucking the reverb out of their opening songs?

 

Probably not an anime only thing: The older versions of Empire Strike Back have both Vader and Luke sounding like they're in an echo chamber during "that" scene, while all the releases 2004-onward have their voices bone dry with zero reverb.

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Is it just me, or do all re-released anime have a habit of sucking the reverb out of their opening songs?

 

Probably not an anime only thing: The older versions of Empire Strike Back have both Vader and Luke sounding like they're in an echo chamber during "that" scene, while all the releases 2004-onward have their voices bone dry with zero reverb.

likely what you're hearing is the digital remaster. remember, the Toonami version, the VHS copy and possibly the DVD were all analog masters. The BD is more than likely a digital remaster of that same soundtrack. so likely when they did they remaster, some effects were lost

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