Kare Kano Blu Ray boxset coming out in March 2019 in Japan

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Postby Joseki » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:15 am

http://neweva.blog103.fc2.com/blog-entry-5694.html




Great news! ^_^

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Postby Gendo'sPapa » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:26 am

Now THIS Funimation should be able to afford the rights for.

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Postby Joseki » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:33 am

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07 ... RJN5&psc=1

The preorder page is up on Amazon. 14000 yen, March 27th.

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:08 pm

View Original PostGendo'sPapa wrote:Now THIS Funimation should be able to afford the rights for.

That's cute, but Funimation can't have it anyway. NOZOMI ENTERTAINMENT ALREADY HAS THE LICENSE FOR THE DVDS (and I consider them the better anime disc distributor anyway), so I think it's gonna be more like Nozomi's other release of Utena. They might discontinue the DVDs (which are still currently in print), but only if they’ve renegotiated the licenses for the HD maters for a Blu-ray release.

Feast phallus, Funi.

EDIT: Also, I hit up Nozomi Entertainment over Twitter, and they said that they had nothing to share regarding a Blu-ray upgrade. Guess we wait.

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Postby Joseki » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:30 pm

Bad news:


It's an upscale, not an HD remaster.

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Sun Dec 23, 2018 2:28 pm

Wait, what? Do you have a source for that?

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Postby Joseki » Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:00 pm

View Original PostFreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:Wait, what? Do you have a source for that?


http://king-cr.jp/special/karekano_bdbox/

FORS(フォルス)技術で美麗にHD化された映像となります!

It will be a beautifully rendered HD video with FORS (false) technology!


Also here a technical explaination. They upscale from the SD feed to HD, they don't go back to the film/cells.

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... picture%2F

They also have some example of the median quality upgrade of the technology.

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Resolution will be HD, but the video quality will still be substandard sadly.

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Sun Dec 23, 2018 11:00 pm

Hm....

I mean, if the upscale is really good, a manually upscaled video for Blu-ray is still better than an automatic upscale of DVD content. And for standard definition shows that were fully digitally produced, I actually prefer the upscale to the original DVD when playing them on a flat panel television. (The upscale of Samurai Champloo is pretty great, for example.)

BUT Kare Kano wasn't fully produced in a digital workflow, so they could theoretically go back to the original film stock if it isn't lost.

BUT so much of Kare Kano's animated titles were rendered digitally in an interlaced SD format that much of those elements would have to be reconstructed from the ground for an authentic HD release. (And there were a lot of them.) And I do remember that, along with the animated on-screen titles, much of the episode recaps were "fast-forwarded" in a way that fully utilized 60 fields-per-second interlaced video, which wouldn't be a part of the 24 frames-per-second workflow for a conventional HD release. So ultimately so much of Kare Kano's editing workflow seemed to fully utilize interlaced digital formats that rescanning into a proper 24 fps format would be difficult.

BUT wouldn't an upscale simply do the same thing anyway? Modern flat-panel televisions were never in interlaced formats, only the CRT television were. Adjusting any of that stuff for a progressive-based format (such as a flat panel HD screen) in an upscale would simply a lazy way of negating the uniqueness of the interlaced video in Kare Kano as rescanning the film would.

Hm.... I don't like this too much. Like, it's better than nothing, but it's not the best that they could feasible and reasonably do. It's not like they need to re-animate or re-photograph the cels for an authentic HD experience, they just gotta scan the original film in HD. (Unless they lost it, which is entirely likely given how Gainax also lost the film reels for Episode 16 of NGE.)

Whatever. Actually, I have a home theater system that uses both an LED flat panel and a CRT television. I pick whichever screen is best suited to whatever format I'm watching. (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, etc., in fact, just today I watched Jurassic Park on both VHS and Blu-ray simultaneously.) Technically, I can still watch Kare Kano in all its interlaced glory on my old CRT. I'm just confused as to why they aren't providing an authentic HD release with their Blu-rays. I mean, if the animation was originally photographed on film, then why not?

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Postby Joseki » Mon Dec 24, 2018 12:58 pm

I guess it's less expensive to simply upscale the DVD feed, or as you said they lost the film.

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Postby robersora » Tue Dec 25, 2018 9:00 am

It also could be that they don't expect to sell enough copies to warrant an expensive remaster, especially when it is difficult like FreakyFilmFan4ever suggested.
I hope I don't forget about it, I'd be sad if I miss out to own these because I miss the preorder period.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:30 pm

So, Khara's MAIN TWITTER has been tweeting a lot about the upcoming Khara Kano BD boxset. Des that mean that they own it now instead of Gainax? Or are they just promoting the work of Anno over the various studios for which he's worked?

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Postby kuribo-04 » Mon Mar 18, 2019 4:58 am

Trailer for the bluray edited by Anno:
https://youtu.be/Eyr9S9M6SgY
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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Postby robersora » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:41 pm

^
It's so glorious to see anything edited by Anno. He such tasty rhythm and style...
Picture Quality seems greatly improved - at least to my eyes. I'm happy I've preordered the box, really looking forward to receiving it!
Also, I really hope for some interviews to surface - maybe Anno talks a little bit more about what was going on behind the scenes.
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Postby kuribo-04 » Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:46 pm

The trailer made me emotional.
He also connects different things really well to tell sort of a story. Man, I wanna rewatch Kare Kano now.
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:59 pm

I'll buy the Blu-rays if it gets an American release. There are benefits to an upscale (usually you at least get a wider color space than the DVD), but they're not something for which I would pay Japanese prices, especially if there were possibly existing film prints that could have been scanned in HD instead.

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Postby robersora » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:20 am

More info on the BluRay set

The voice actress of Yukino wrote:The booklet will have behind-the-scenes stories from the production staff. It's a must-read! 20 years later, I now understand why everyone looked so unwell at the time. (laughs)


YASSSSS
Finally, the hot juicy news I crave for - now, someone have mercy and translate. #pray
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Postby Gendo'sPapa » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:59 pm

Might buy the Japanese boxset simply because it looks like the first batch produced will contain a strip of film used in production circa 1998/99 like what the first two Rebuilds had.

https://twitter.com/kac_officialhp/status/1107856793982517249

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Postby robersora » Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:34 pm

I didn't even know. I hope my CDJAPAN order will come with that as well.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:13 pm

*angrily throws money at Khara*

Goddammit, Anno!

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Postby kuribo-04 » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:01 pm

First episode officially up as promo (not fullscreen).
https://youtu.be/0ZfQhah5jlw
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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