Duke Togo

Is it just me, or does the 4K look blurry compared to the 2016 release in a bunch of those shots?

I was kinda hoping they'd do what is fairly common in the US: new 4K disc, along with the existing HD disc. Except with subtitles.

Does anyone know (or can now check) if the included HD blu is the remaster or the 2016 release?

Amazon Japan charged my card, but it has not yet shipped. Estimated delivery is Feb 3rd through the 12th.

They lost the original elements. They've been re-releasing the video captured from the laserdisc for decades. There is no better video of it.

You have confirmed what we were all worried about. That's a shame. Do I keep my order before it ships from Amazon...?

I don't know that a script "signed" by a fictional character is that much of a draw for me, lol.

The fading to black finally got to me in episode 12 of Frontier, so I hopped on the old interwebs to dig up a copy of the episode. The good news is after comparing the two, we aren't missing any content with those fades to black as I had wrongly suspected.

The scene served no purpose and I don't understand why they included it to begin with. But, this is probably the wrong thread for this discussion.

AnimEigo has a new BGC disc release coming in February. Two-disc set, which is an upgrade for anyone with the non-Kickstarter release. Minor upgrade for those who got the Kickstarter release. https://www.mediaocd.com/bubblegum-crisis

The scene is not missed. At all. Quite the opposite.

You need Hulu to watch it, bundled or not.

What strikes me as weird with the whole CC thing is that there is other foreign language content on Hulu--including anime--that uses proper subtitles.

I think the use of AI in these processes has been pretty well documented in the work James Cameron had done on his films, so I'm not going to argue this.

They're using AI for the de-graining and the sharpening of certain shots. Not sure if they use it for the colors, too.