Mattrivers95

yeah I’ve only a few so far, this, ghost in the shell, and millennium actress. Violet evergarden the movie got a 4k release in Japan so hopefully other territories get too.

I’d read many reviews and comments from people who watched it that it had undergone a fair bit of artificial sharpening or noise reduction (dnr), as is preferred by the Japanese market. This can make older anime that’s shot on film look closer to modern anime that’s shot digitally, but can cause a loss of detail. However, these people did point out it wasn’t a particularly bad example and seemed quite happy overall (apart from the disc replacement that was needed). when I watched it just now it looked very filmic to my eyes with lots of texture, so either the dnr hasn’t been applied too heavily, it’s a different encode, or I’m just not seeing the faults people were pointing out. It looked great to me.

It’s a shame lotgh never got a standard release but it’s showing on hi dive in the uk so I’m going to give it a watch there, im also going to try and locate battle of the planets on disc, the first anime I ever watched. I’ve just watched akira in 4k, the Korean release from ive and it looked terrific, much more of a healthy grain field than I’d been led to believe, perhaps it was less dnr’d than the funimation release. Next up - samurai champloo and the 3rd and forth evangelion rebuild movies.

Oh yeah it’s actually the Japanese one I’d seen. I don’t know, I could see a disc swap working here lol.

I’ve heard so much about this over the years, I really hope ATA pick it up for distribution over here, aren’t gkids doing this for North America? If so it’ll be shout factory doing the blu ray and they region lock everything, although I could just use my computer I suppose. Also, Italy are getting a lovely box set of this but I can’t find the link.

Hi thanks for responding. I’ve just finished watching it all all including rebirth. I can see why that ending was controversial, it’s very abstract isn’t it? I enjoyed rebirth quite a bit more but my dvd presents it in a windowed mode so I’m keen to watch it again on Blu ray. I’ve opted for the ce blu ray as this contains the adv dub/subs, I’m not too keen on the Netflix versions and I’ve grown quite attached already to the old voice actors. I’m now watching the rebuild series on Amazon and enjoying that too, once that’s finished I’ll watch both again with subtitles.

Got my hub delivery today, thanks @blu.steel33. It’s a shame about the writing on the back of the Akira slip but whatever, I missed out on the previous release so this is still the next best thing. Much better than the funimation release and no disc replacement needed.

I’d never seen NGE before either so I purchased a used set of dvds of eBay for about £80 and I’m loving it so far. Still debating whether I need the blu ray in standard or collectors edition, I have the adv dubs/subs and soundtrack on the dvd so I might plump for the standard edition with just the newer Netflix subs/dubs. Also, the set came with the films “death and rebirth “ as well as “end of evangelion“, am I right in assuming the first two are recaps and the other is the new ending? Also managed to snag the samurai champloo steelbook for £15 in the Zavvi sale but it’s sold out now, I went back to get the bunny girl senpai ce too but that had sold out too unfortunately so I might just get the standard edition, I watched the first episode on Netflix and like it so far.

My full slip arrived this morning, I wasn’t sure about ordering this after getting the uhd club edition but it turned out really nice like all manta full slips. Some of the photos I’d seen looked a little low res but they didn’t do it justice and the gold holofoil effect is a nice finish too.

I can’t make my mind up with this one, I got the full slip with itmfl but I’m leaning towards the lenticular here.

I got mine today as well. Luckily I cancelled my order from Amazon and went with wowhd instead, they had the good sense to send it in a box so it arrived undamaged. That being said the box that houses the steel books is still very cheaply designed, the dividers have come loose and it doesn’t quite match the avatar box. I’ve taken the steel books out of both boxes and put them on the shelf without them instead, although the spines of both sets don’t quite match either and the korra titles don’t align properly. Oh well I’m still looking forward to watching korra for the first time.

I missed out on the first release so I’m glad this is being released, gone with the A1 slip for now but I quite fancy the lenticular too. Do we know if the lenticular will be an o-ring or a normal full slip? I wasn’t sure if that’s something kimchi always do or just certain titles.

Seconded.

The artwork choices are good here, especially the one with the eye, but I wish they wouldn’t use o-rings for the inner contents instead of a slip cover, that one in the clip looks very loosely fitted. Also, I wonder why they didn’t use that classic poster design for the outer wooden box, or even the unicorn one, instead of that drab image that was used for the steelbook. Ok I’m done nitpicking now. *lifts wrist up to be slapped*

I reeeaaaally like the full slip, and the effect has grown on me too. Less keen on the SL, I think the booklet front would have made a nice slipcover, it looks like something plain archive would do. Steelbook back cover looks great too.

Yeah I prefer this out of all of them, it’s odd they’re not making this the lenticular though given the art repetition.

Do we get a shipping number for this like blu fans Spider-Man or do they just arrive unannounced?

Aaaand it’s arrived finally.

Yeah I thought that might be it, I had a look on wowhd and they have korra and avatar available along with the ip man box set, I’m assuming the German site does too.

That’s great thanks for the tag.

Yeah I’ve had my eye on that too, I might watch the first episode tonight.

Nice, I watched the first episode of avatar on Netflix but I’m saving the rest for the blu ray, I’m getting into anime again by watching a bit online then buying the set, I’ve missed so much over the years so I’ve got a pretty extensive watch list.

Yeah I know I meant Amazon are saying currently unavailable so I was worried this had come and gone. Apparently the print run for avatar was 20,000 so this should be roughly the same, I checked wow hd and they have both avatar still in stock and and korra available for pre order, I haven’t watched either of these so it’s a double blind buy for me.

Has this not gone live yet? It’s saying currently unavailable so I’m hoping it’s not sold out already.

I think it looks great, especially that inner picture of Scarlett johanssen. Hopefully the back art has something good too. I missed out on the Zavvi steel but I really like German mediabooks, I have several now and they’re slowly replacing steels as my preferred format.