For me personally if it doesn’t have to be HD the laserdisc. For Phantom Menace.
If I have to watch it in 35mm that exists also.
For II its either the SVCD or 35mm.
III maybe the 35mm but one wipe transition difference isn’t a deal breaker I could always watch the 4K.
Which 35mm scans are you specifically referring to?
Have not checked this forum in a while. Was wanting to do an entire rewatch of the saga, I see that 4K80 came out a while ago. So that is the OT covered. But what is the best version of the prequel trilogy to watch in their original cuts at the moment? I recall some attempts at scanning 35mm prints but none of them seem to have yet gotten released to my knowledge. So I wanna ask what the current state of affairs is with those movies and what the current best way is to watch them.
Due in part to this and likewise sites, I’ve grown incredibly fond of comparing old releases of movies for all their slight inconsistencies. And I was honestly curious if there are trackers specifically for preserving older releases of films (note: I have owned all the movies I am looking for on VHS at some point already, but most of them are lost and trying to digitize them with my current setup is a nightmare).
A idea for V2 I may suggest is to replace the Japanese audio with dubbed over voices, though I can understand the complications of getting volunteers that can sound convincing but that could be fixed with AI.
Steins;Gate is amazing! I’ve been trying to find more of that type VN/Anime to give me the same feel but alas. Recommendations welcome though!
A late response, but if you have not played it, I recommend the spinoff VN Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram. It talks about different possible realities and ways the story could have played out, with every chapter being from the perspective of a different character. Every chapter has a different writer, so there is a slight inconsistency in the quality of writing (most are great though, and even the ones by new writers can be great supplementary stories to the original, with the only chapter I ended up really disliking being the Lukako chapter), but the chapters for Okabe, Daru, and the final chapter are written by the original writers of the first game and are all fantastic. My biggest complaint is that you cannot buy the English version on its own and need to buy Steins Gate Elite to get it, which in my opinion is BS.
There are also the drama CDs, which vary in quality; some have no writer credited and are terrible enough to make me question how they got published in the first place but others can be very good. For example, I do like the Character Series CDs as they are written by Hayashi Naotaka, who was the main scenario writer for the first game. The stories themselves are quite short and inconsequential, but they still have the charming writing of the original game and their short lenghts are remedied by each ending featuring absolutely kickass songs for every character in the cast, which are all worth listening to. The composer for these songs was not one of the composers from the game to my knowledge (Takeshi Abo is listed but for the background music present in the stories, and Chiyomaru, who usually did the openings, is not credited here as a composer), but he knocks it out of the park, and the songs are extremely varied and fun to listen to, with Okabe’s song being a favorite of mine. The translations are quite easy to find on Youtube, and I recommend giving them a listen. There is also the alpha-beta-gamma trilogy of drama CDs that Hayashi wrote, the beta CD actually having a really cool translation with VN-style animations:
Sadly, the guy who made these stopped uploading; I’d have loved to see him do the full trilogy. Also, sadly, I can’t recommend most of the other CDs he animated, as most were done by uncredited writers and, in my opinion, aren’t that great.
And Steins;Gate 0 VN if you haven’t played it, of course. (I wouldn’t recommend the anime as it mashes together two timelines that are meant to play out separately on two replays in the game and is a bit of a train wreck.)
StarkillerAG said:
It has resulted in anime moving further and further away from the interests of normal people, and more and more towards pandering to basement-dwelling masturbation addicts. There are a few shows that are still being made for a well-adjusted audience, but the vast majority is repulsive on a physical level.
Its even worse when something actually fantastic is adapted and then has a bunch of pandering to degenerates forced into it, degrading the product as a whole. I’m still mad at what whitefox did to Steins;Gate with the anime, taking a story that literally made fun of this type of audience and then pandering to them with suggestive gags and dialogue, blatant ass and boob shots and taking an entire character and reducing him to “XD FUNNY TRAP” (When the character canonically got groomed might I add).
There are still some good animes being made, but for quality stuff you’d be better off reading Manga, Light Novels and Visual Novels these days.
Very curious to see this, its a very fun idea
What the title says, personally I’ve been using my trusty IBM Model M for a long while now. For both reliance and how it feels to type it is ideal for me. No modern mechanical keyboard quite matches it for me. Might not be the best for gaming but I can manage it.
Thought it’d be interesting to see some opinions on contemporary Japanese “Otaku” media (anime, manga, visual novels, light novels, tokusatsu movies, etc) from a site where I don’t see it often talked about
Personally my favorites would be:
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel)
Cowboy Bebop (Anime)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)
Youjo Senki (Anime)
Spice And Wolf (Anime)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Manga, though I like the anime adaptation of Part 2 and 4 better than the manga, the manga is better as a whole)
I will also say, if you don’t recognize the top three, you’re lucky enough to experience them with 0 spoilers. And considering they’re some of my favorite media period even while being lightly spoiled, you’re in for a treat if you ever do watch them.
PM link, please.
I’ve been thinking of making a fan edit of a show, and I was curious how I would go about using actual ripped video and audio from a Blu-ray. I used to make some pretty poor quality fan edits of movies I like when I was like 15 using YIFY rips in Sony Vegas. What I’m thinking of doing now is a lot more serious of a attempt to really fix a pretty poor adaptation and there’s a bunch of visual edits I need to make for that. So I need some advice on what programs I should use for ripping the Blu-Rays and actually making the edit. I own Sony Vegas, but I’m not sure how good it is for this purpose. I’m all ears for any advice you guys have.
I am not sure if i am posting this in the correct place, but I havent seen anything on this here and I thought it was worth making a thread about.
Quick rundown: In 2007 there released a movie adaptation of the first arc of the manga Jojo no Kimyou no Bouken (known as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in the west) this movie was done by the same people who did the OVAs released in 1993 and 2000. It only ever released in theaters in Japan and was never released on home video.
I was curious, considering it did in fact air in theaters, if its possible for there still to be prints of it floating around tucked away somewhere? Considering tracking down prints of films seems to be this site’s specialty, I was wondering how many are interested in this search over here.
Here is some material relating to the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7P3OFsuMWY (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5KOWKVTIeA (test pilot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVpwZxBJjJU (reconstruction containing all current footage)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6490990/ (IMDb page)
Am also curious about it, would love to see it!
Is there a DL of this?
Is there a download of this? I’d love to see the restoration!