Yep, already decided some days back. Absolute travesty of a transfer for 'Shinsengumi‘. Consider this - compensate for the postage I pay to get things to the U.K, and with the several or more really incredibly shoddy pieces of turd I've laid my cash on the line for, they owe me at least £30. $60 or so, real money. Small change for millionaires, maybe, but more importantly it should not be happening considering how vocal people have been in reviews and forums about their record in recent time. Not sending them back. They've gone. Bin. Rubbish. Because I don't want this trash in my sight. Should've learnt my lesson a long time ago, like so many others. And for want of a better description, it's like being thirsty and being offered a glass of urine : it may be possible to drink it, but do you really want to? No. Not me, anyway.
No pre-orders on this one then, but I can't deny I will keep an eye on the reviews and reluctantly at least give it a moments thought if it's okay, because English Subtitles might not appear elsewhere. Why? Because despite claims of ‘Digitally Remastered' on the back of 'Shinsengumi‘ and having seen it (sure, only in part - but why subject yourself to it when it takes meer minutes to see it's a crap disc) I still have an image in my mind of it being pushed through some odd 1950's valve-driven computer which actively seeks to remove all possible traces of any kind of quality that might have been there. It's not the first time you see, with the latest being shocking beyond belief with it's blurred double-vision and general softness, and unless AnimEigo take some kind of steps to prevent this happening again, the decline in faith will continue... and I will be one of a great many that are more than apprehensive about the possibilities for any upcoming licenses. 'Shinsengumi‘ is now waiting to be collected by my bin man tomorrow morning.
Oh. They've licensed Takashi Miike's recent 'Big Bang Love, Jeuvenile A‘. Woop-de-doo.
Released later this year, apparently. [Source : AnimEigo MySpace].
Takashi Miike's 'Big Bang Love, Jeuvenile A‘ Latest Post here at Twitch.
How was their Dora-Heita release?
Me thinks it may be just their releases of older stuff one may have to be wary about.
Not all of these films are going to warrant the sales for lone wolf esque clean-up.
Anyways, i'm preordering GoH regardless.
Don't really care for BBL.
I bought the Dora-Heita release and to me that was just as piss poor as their Shinsengumi or Trail of Blood. You know theres trouble when the Lady Snowblood or Babycart Series made thirty years ago look better than something from 2000.
I was talking to another film afficionado/small scale licensor about movies this week and one of his big complaints about AE was their extremely crude translations of colloquial dialog. Not sure if that's as relevant here as some of the older Japanese films that they've presented, but I thought it would fit in a bitch thread.
At least hardcore fans will be able to rip the subtitles from this DVD and use them with their Japanese R2 import.
Everyone has been giving Animeigo too much of a hard time, but more importantly: logboy really, really needs to learn how to write. From the ground up, sentence structure, forming a paragraph. The works. The guy's stuff reads like the mad ramblings of an illiterate.
There is a school of thought that thinks colloquial Japanese should never been translated with more than a hint of colloquialism in the English. There is nothing to be done with these people except pity their joyless existences.
I've never seen anything worth objecting to in Animeigo's translations. And since the only DVDs of theirs I have are Lone Wolf and Zatoichi, I'm equally happy with their transfers.
Wow. This place can become intense pretty quickly. My last post was my first post on this website and I just wanted to once again say that the transfer of Shinsengumi looked solid to me. Again, it was nowhere near as bad as Trail of Blood or Samurai Assassin. I think Animeigo is doing a great job and should keep up the good work.
Well DVDtalk's review of Shinsengumi agrees with logboy
I'd do well and stay the hell away from that turd spun into a disc
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=27901
Well, I'll add my last two cents to this. I brought the dvd to work today out of curiosity, where I played it from a Philips DVP 9000S dvd-player, upscaled it to 1080i with an Extron USP 405 scaler and blew it up to cinema size with a Sony SRX-R110 4k-projector. It still looked okay to me. Sure, it's soft, but it's nowhere near unwatchable. I still think the problems some people have with this disc are hardware-dependant. I'm not saying it's a flawless disc - it's clearly not - I'm just saying that your mileage may vary, and that it seems a tad rash to just completely write off AnimEigo over this.
sharkbait -
not writing them off. saying my faith has gone and i won't support what i dont have faith in unless it changes my mind. i'm also tempted by other labels bad practice, and do give slight nods towards these issues in a less specific manner all too regularly, but
considering many know or have dealt with lackluster work (or tried to), and considering animeigo plods on regardless (or seems to; seems contemptuos to me), i'm more inclined to snap over their work.
plus, i like miike more than most, so this ‘big bang love' release needs to be good. that's the selfish element, and i suppose you can't level that as a criticism because we're writing from personal perspective and hoping people get something from it rather than directly trying to give some supposed service which corrupts everyones personal taste, the control over it at least...
I've ordered the german release from Rapid Eye Movies, and I hope it's good quality. Anyway, I've decided to rip and translate the subtitles with some help of the fansubber community, so you might not have to wait for this particular release.
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