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Steamboat_Bill said:
I thought they were just doing the one episode Tomino hates.
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For now. A Sunrise exec admitted that it's sort of a stealth test for a full remake of the series. He said that they wanted to do a remake already based on the Origin manga, but that people were leery about doing a remake while Tomino was still active and alive. So, they just did the OVAs we got already instead.
 
FatMebius said:
For now. A Sunrise exec admitted that it's sort of a stealth test for a full remake of the series. He said that they wanted to do a remake already based on the Origin manga, but that people were leery about doing a remake while Tomino was still active and alive. So, they just did the OVAs we got already instead.
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I really don't understand why Tomino doesn't like the Doan episode. I watched it while going through the original series, and nothing about it stands out as being noticeably worse than any of the other episodes, either in plot or in animation. It just sticks out as odd to me that he'd single out that episode in particular.
 
King Dead said:
I really don't understand why Tomino doesn't like the Doan episode. I watched it while going through the original series, and nothing about it stands out as being noticeably worse than any of the other episodes, either in plot or in animation. It just sticks out as odd to me that he'd single out that episode in particular.
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Apparently it was outsourced and he just didn't like the work.
 
King Dead said:
I really don't understand why Tomino doesn't like the Doan episode. I watched it while going through the original series, and nothing about it stands out as being noticeably worse than any of the other episodes, either in plot or in animation. It just sticks out as odd to me that he'd single out that episode in particular.
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The animation quality, mostly. It's the only one that wasn't quite up to snuff, according to him. Which is silly since the old show had lots of infamous QUALITY moments.
 
Meat Target said:
A friend of mine is trying to get me to read or watch Berserk. We've all been on a big Dark Souls kick this year, and that was Miyazaki's inspiration.

I'm normally not squeamish about violence or gore, but the naked tinkerbell girl makes it feel too much like CP for comfort.
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If the sight of that makes you uncomfortable you should just not watch or read Berserk.

Cause you will see much more fucked up stuff than that. Like rape, death of children and what happens to Guts as a child.

Berserk for me is one of the best things I have ever read. But it is not for everyone and I def get that.
 
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Meat Target said:
A friend of mine is trying to get me to read or watch Berserk. We've all been on a big Dark Souls kick this year, and that was Miyazaki's inspiration.

I'm normally not squeamish about violence or gore, but the naked tinkerbell girl makes it feel too much like CP for comfort.
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If you really interested in the series I'd suggest go with the old 98 series because said character your referring to doesn't appear in it, in fact aside from 3 exceptions I think they removed all sexual moments from that version of the anime.
 
Sonny Boy was supposed to redeem modern anime but no one listened or cared

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Hijikata in Golden Kamui was the most boring character. Beyond his political bullshit, which really wasn’t needed because Wilk and the other commie Ainu/ Russian already fulfilled that role.
He basically was the ‘badass’ who shows up to never lose despite the judo guy being much better at that role. It doesn’t help that the historical figure is someone who comes across as fighting for all the wrong reasons.

Didn’t really care for how Ogata exited the story. Honestly a lot of the one-off convicts were better than some of the main group convicts.
 
It appears that Love Live! SuperStar!! will be adding four new members to Liella!:

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Also, the original 5 members of Liella! will be second-year students, in Season 2.

This, in addition to Season 2 of SuperStar!! premiering in July, Season 2 of Nijigasaki currently being in-progress, and the Virtual School Idol group that will be debuting in Autumn, does really look like they're doing a Speedrun in trying to pump out way too much LL content at once, to the point that it feels like they're trying to run the franchise right into the ground, just to wipe their hands clean of it.

And the Chinese fans are absolutely pissed off by the announcement, some even were angry to the point that they're destroying Liella! merchandise:

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Let's also hope that it doesn't escalate to physical attacks on the staff, i.e. a pissed-off Chinese Battlefield 2042 and Liella! fan decides to ram an airplane into one of their concerts.
 
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This got scanned, restored, and uploaded
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This is our 4K Restoration of the 1986 animated film "Super Mario Bros. - The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!", which for us has been months in the making, but for other fans who'd known about it much earlier, years in the making. We are honored to be the ones to restore this film to get it looking the best it ever has, and likely the best it ever will.
This comes from a 16mm reduction print likely used for small, local screenings back in the day when it was released; it's likely one of the, if not THE only surviving print in the world, and fellow fan Carnivol was able to get his hands on it back in 2016. He promptly got it scanned and set out to restore it, but ended up hitting a roadblock.

That is where we came in. In 2021, years after he had begun toiling away at the project himself, Carnivol and FemboyFilms came to an agreement to restore the film based on the currently existing scan. While we would have preferred to scan the reels ourselves, the existing scan was more than workable, despite a few extra headaches here or there. It seemed that whoever owned the print before Carnivol had certainly put it to use, as it was very dirty and had some pretty terrible splices around the reel changes. However, we were able to clean it up super nicely (although some scratches were unable to be completely removed). nemu and Quazza spent months doing dust, dirt, and scratch removal. Thousands of individual pieces of debris were manually removed for this restoration.

Quazza color corrected the entire film using various references like the movie manga & promo materials, which contained cel-quality photos of frames of the film. That and other reference materials were graciously contributed by Forest of Illusion, and we used them to decide what the colors should look like (as the print had some pretty bad color fade by the time it was scanned). They were used as a general idea of how things are supposed to look, and we tried to keep everything looking "natural" above all else, trying to find a happy medium between contrasty and cel-like colors. Quazza says he did not put an emphasis on consistency between shots because the film itself is inconsistent between shots; it's just how it was made. Sure enough, the colors on one shot would be completely different from the next, so overall consistency was not the top priority. The primary focus was to make sure red and blue hues stayed within certain ranges, because those are the prominent stand out colors for most of the movie, especially when it comes to the Mario Brothers themselves. As a result of all this, some compromises had to be made to reach this happy medium, but we feel it is a pleasant, vibrant looking result and hope you feel the same.

Tanks and nappasan collaborated on a brand new audio capture for this release, using the original VHS as a source. What resulted was the best audio quality this film has ever seen. The VHS was originally released with 2-channel Dolby Surround, which is preserved in the audio capture here. This reflects most accurately how the film would have sounded in cinemas, as it was released with 4-channel Dolby Stereo there. That means that both listeners of regular stereo setups, and those who are able to take advantage of surround sound, will be able to enjoy it in the best way possible.

A brand new subtitle track was also created for this release, vastly improving upon m.3.3.w's original translation and creating possibly the best subtitles for the film ever made. The subs were always pretty poor and weren't really updated much since 2010, so this is another huge improvement you'll see on our restoration, truly the definitive subtitles. The subs were primarily cleaned up by nemu, with some title styling help from SakoeraTyan, and splendid translation fixing by bluesun and nappasan. The songs were newly translated by nemu as well, using the official lyrics in the film's vinyl record booklet, courtesy of a scan by MartyMcflies.

This full release includes:
1. The full movie restored in 4K UHD and 1080p, for your preference.
2. An Extras folder containing a brand new VHS capture used for the audio for this remaster by nappasan, a brand new scan of the movie's art book by Tanks, and MartyMcflie's rip of the soundtrack's vinyl record.
The raw scan files will be uploaded by Carnivol separately.

Credits:
Restored Version by: FemboyFilms
Project Managers: nemu, Tanks
Original 16mm Scan Courtesty of: Carnivol
Color Correction: Quazza
Film Restoration: nemu, Quazza
Video Encoding: nemu
Audio Capture/Sync: Japanese Hoarder, Tanks
Original Translation: m.3.3.w Fansubs
Subtitle Editing: nemu
Translation Check: bluesun, Japanese Hoarder, nemu
Title Typesets: SakoeraTyan
Quality Check: Azelf89, SakoeraTyan, Venny, ZeroCool
Special Thanks: Forest of Illusion, MartyMcflies, Our Supporters

Enjoy! For more info on film scans and remasters, please visit our Twitter: https://twitter.com/FemboyFilms
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