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Studio DEEN why u do dis?
I just watched some 1080p BD rips of the Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku Hen (aka Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal) OAV. I'd not seen it since years ago when all I had was a crappy 320x240 MPEG-1 encode that was probably ripped from a VHS or something. So besides being every bit as great an anime as I remembered, it also looked absolutely gorgeous — or at least the parts that were cel animated did.
See, the problem with this OAV is that, while most of it was animated with cels and mastered on film — which usually results in sharp and detailed video when scanned to create a digital master for a BD release since film has a much higher resolution than 1080p — parts of it were animated digitally. And because it was made in 1999, that digital animation was done in SD since consumer HD formats didn't exist back then. Thus, you get beautiful HD scenes one moment, then ugly upscaled scenes the next.
I'm sure most people probably won't care, but being a bit of a videophile, the sudden switching back and forth between pretty HD and ugly upscale was jarring for me. Honestly, I think it's the worst thing about the OAV as I can't find fault in it anywhere else. (No, seriously, it's a classic that any anime fan should see. If you've been living under a rock and somehow haven't watched it yet, you should.) More annoying still was the fact that more and more scenes are digitally animated as the OAV goes on. There are only a few short scenes in the first of the four episodes that are digitally animated, but by the last one, large portions are.
This makes me want to get the BD and do my own encode so I could apply filtering to make the upscaled sections less ugly. While it's impossible to make them as pretty as real HD, it would hopefully make the switch between them less jarring. But I've already got plenty of other things to occupy my spare time, so who knows if I'll ever get around to it.
Ara Ara Ufufu~
My Aria the Origination DVD box set arrived today. I feel like dropping everything and just having an Aria marathon through the night.
Also, I finally got around to watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei. I went through all five episodes in a row last night, and wow, I'd forgotten just how great Higurashi is when you see it for the first time. Rewatching the first series with my friends has been entertaining, but it does lose something when you already know what's going to happen.
The Maria-sama ga Miteru parody in ep5 made me pause the video and laugh until my eyes were watering, by the way. That may just be the best comedic episode in the entire show.
Fun with Batch Scripts
Say you've started watching a new anime with a great OP or ED song that you'd like to listen to regularly, but the single for it isn't going to be released until weeks, maybe even months later. (Yes, this is related to the previous post.) What do ...On the Road to Diabetes
I picked up Heartcatch Precure! on a whim after I saw Doremi put up ep1 on Tokyo Toshokan. I'd never seen any Pretty Cure/Precure before, partly because there's OVER 9000 year-long series in the franchise and that's always a bit intimidating. (Same reason I haven't watched any Ojamajo Doremi yet.) But hey, most of them aren't directly related to one another and here was a new one just starting.
Holy crap, this show is full of sweet and sugary sparkles. And the ED looks like an iDOLM@STER video overloaded with even more cuteness.
I need MOAR.
