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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Kurenai TV Anime

As for the pixelation and "why can't DVD subs have the same quality as CrunchyRoll?"... maybe because DVDs are 1997 technology, and subtitled streaming videos are a much more recent development? "They" aren't upscaling the subs, it's people's playback devices and TVs that are doing the upscaling -- unfortunately, the resolution of DVD picture subs was designed for late-90s displays. If you watch on an old CRT, particularly with component video inputs, the subs will look fine.

I have a rule that if I have watched more than three episodes of a series by using fansubs I have to buy it if and when it arrives in brick & mortar stores here in New Zealand. This means that if using fansubs I can watch three episodes of anything without obligation, but as soon as I've watched the fourth then I'm committed to buying the whole series. It is my way of morally justifying my use of fansubs.

I consider their high prices for subbed only half sets and reluctance to do full sets to be old fashioned and almost as bad if not worse then singles. the concept of dubbing some stuff and only doing subs on others is also really old fashioned. their editing of everything possible (for example moe) is also old fashioned in my opinion, also their approach of licensing cheap titles (particularly OVAS) like mad is old fashioned.

I think you may have meant composite video input. Component [YPbPr] video input (not available on many 4:3 CRT TVs) would provide the sharpest possible picture.

Kurenai sold a bit better than that, but at just under 2,000 copies it wasn't a big earner either.

Conan-san wrote:

The show was good, but can the set not have the last episode? It shits the bed so hard it breaks it in two.

I found the ending fantastic personally. Pretty much the only way I can think someone could hate it is if spoiler[they're so deluded that they thought that Murasaki could have actually changed the Kuhouin family. I personally saw it as a brilliant juxtaposition of Murasaki's (and Shinkuro's) naivety and the harshness of reality, while masking it as a happy ending.] I loved it.

Personally, I like that the author (he also did Denpa Teki) doesn't always follow the norm. The ending to Kurenai is definitely far from the norm as far as anime goes.

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Kurenai sold a bit better than that, but at just under 2,000 copies it wasn't a big earner either.

Given Kurenai's low sales figures, I have to wonder why BB went through the expense of upscaling it for Blu-Ray. According to Clarine Harp of Funimation (Naka-Kon 2011 panel), Blu-Ray authoring is even more expensive in Japan than it is here, just like everything else.

In such a case, I would probably immediately turn around and resell at a small loss, rather than be out the entire amount for a series I didn't like and probably would never open.

In closing, let me say I applaud your convictions. Too many people would rationalize, "Well, I didn't like the series, so I wouldn't have purchased it".

Not buying something you don't like seems reasonable to me.

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

I consider their high prices for subbed only half sets and reluctance to do full sets to be old fashioned and almost as bad if not worse then singles. the concept of dubbing some stuff and only doing subs on others is also really old fashioned. their editing of everything possible (for example moe) is also old fashioned in my opinion, also their approach of licensing cheap titles (particularly OVAS) like mad is old fashioned.

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Wouldn't dubbing everthing be old fashioned as that's what use to be the norm? Would you rather them go back to the older practices of dubbing everything or almost everything and skipping over niche shows that couldn't support one?

I haven't paid more than $40 for a Sentai set, even on Bluray in well, forever, so I fail to see how they are over priced. It wasn't too many years ago that even with my employee discount at the time, I was still paying $15+ for a single disc with two four episodes.

Not to mention they did try complete season releases and people didn't but it in enough numbers to support the method. You can hardly fault them for not continuing a release method that causes them to loose money and is likely part of the reason we never got season two.

I guess by your thinking it would be better if they just licensed a few shows, dubbed them, released them in ridiculously cheap season sets, then went out of business when they couldn't make money. Obviously that way is very forward thinking. Where did you get your business degree from?

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Tattoo-Trilogy-Extended-Blu-ray/dp/B005JTLTF2/ref=zg_bs_2959131011_5

80 bucks for a BR collection, damned old fashioned Swedes.