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If they're going to just keep it a single SKU they should add Miria's angle somewhere, either the inside or the bottom of the box. That's be awesome.

Those are also Hasagawa kits. It's the same as what you're already doing but with a few extra parts and different decals.

Thanks for the info antibiotictab!

I was thinking more in terms of anime stuff, not general plamo. I'm curious at what rate Kotobukiya will be filling up their Eva lineup. They could really milk those molds.

Thanks for the info! Is C3 the other big show? Other than wonderfest. I require more announcements...

The boxart was at the show. Crappy screencap from a video but it shows you enough http://i.imgur.com/XZyRqWG.jpg

Do they always skip Shizuoka? O_o

Hobby Search has the images http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10271012 http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10271013

But does it come with the baby missle?

Wut? Color look fine even with amazon's obscenely bad media player.

Needs more complete staff list. A much as I enjoy occasionally flipping through the ALPHA artbook, Sadamoto and Yamaga alone aren't enough to get excited about. This have changed so much since this first came around.

This is the absolute greatest face-censoring ever: http://www.macrossworld.com/macrosswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/F-12.jpg

Bandai did as proper a job as anyone could: http://i.imgur.com/LTlhj.jpg "less aggressive" cropping isn't always for the best: http://i.imgur.com/dRvBJ.jpg When I first saw the storyboards for SDF TV I almost fell out of my chair because of how much space they left for overscan. There's probably a lot on there even in Bandai's glorious remaster that was never meant for human eyes.

Are you saying your avatar lies?!

Actual scans instead of photos http://www.mediafire.com/?clf7yt8xnxf6168

From within the internets

I just had a mildly horrible yet interesting and improbable idea. If this gets too off-topic-y I apologize. Now, I'm quite happy with this DYRL release as it is. It's the best the movie has ever looked and the "creator alterations" don't bother me. I'm happy to have parted with thousands and thousands of yen for this. But, if we were to hypothesize as to how to improve it then the only way to do that at this point is to get it licensed by Funimation. Personally I do not like Funi. I have, in general, given up on the R1 anime industry over 5 years ago. I've been constantly disappointed with their releases but there are reasons for my proposal. The only product of theirs I consider buying is the recent DBZ BD release because unlike the filtered DBKai in Japan the Funi release of DBZ is amazingly enough an unmolested film scan at the correct aspect ratio. This all came from keeping thinking through of why all those scenes are blurry and based on the assumption that the Zentradi subtitles are what ruined them. If Funi licenses it for release outside Japan they do not need those japanese hardsubs. They can lobby Kawamori and friends for the original animation film elements, before the subtitle compostion. This sadly all hinges on those intermediate step films still existing. But hey, if GAINAX still had internegatives for Eva then why not? Film is far more valuable than cels and easier to store so no need to get rid of it. With that new DBZ release Funi has shown that they've finally learned how to treat traditional anime and can themselves rescan that pre-sub film removing the obstacle of Japan's lack of will/technology/money to do that. That's the technical reason to consider Funi: They do anime and they seem to be up to it at this point. I don't see any other company of this scale being interesting in DYRL and willing to put in the effort. The obstacle here however is licensing and finances. I don't know the exact situation with HG but I don't think the above scenario is likely with them having Macross. However given how much potential the Macross license has for Funi I think it's doable to wrestle HG for it if Japan is willing. If you put together a nice big deal for obligatory SDF TV BDs, coupled with low risk Plus and Zero packages and shiny new Frontier on top, then the DYRL seems very worthwhile. 7 is sadly not everyone's cup of tea, but at this point why not a blanket Macross license? So, just crazy talk?

Found on the internets

I don't think they went as far back as they could have. This looks like just a fresh scan of the final master film so not really a restoration. I do still suspect the zentradi subtitle scenes were shot like they would shoot credits: shoot the animation to film -> reshoot animation film plus text layer creating the final master film but losing quality due to the extra step. If that is indeed the case they could potentially rescan the raw animation film which should be significantly better and then add the subtitles digitally. That would be a proper restoration, going back to the earliest and best elements possible.

They remastered it the best they could. Those flaws are in the original film. To fix that you need a restoration instead of a remaster.

Quite a lot of screencaps and comparisons are in the thread. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36122&st=175&p=975336entry975336 http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36122&st=210&p=975676entry975676 http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36122&st=175&p=975415entry975415 To me it's worth every penny. It's my first time buying SDF TV and will probably be the final one as far as archiving the show goes. The extras are also fantastic.

It's pretty much as good as it will ever get as far as video/audio. Only thing missing for western fans is the subs and who knows when and if that'll happen.

Hopefully fixed now http://www.mediafire.com/?x02uy3wa34gkz6a

Ugh, I think it might have automatically killed it because of DVD in the filename or something... Gonna have to reupload I guess, might take a while. EDIT: wtf mediafire apperently nuked all my files. :\

45 comparisons. http://www.mediafire.com/?1seoyn6vfbffjil