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Doesn't look good for the UK release of Haruhi S2; looks like it has the same sort of issue as the US release ....

Now it looks like the UK release of Haruhi S2 has mono Japanese audio as well.

You'd think with all that warning, all that fan ruckus in America, that Manga would pay attention to this when it came to releasing it in the UK.

Of course they didn't.

I've had a look at the one of the check discs (got them this weekend) and and we have glorious DD 2.0 mono Japanese, as well as DD 2.0 stereo English.

Now I reiterate, I only checked disc 1. My heart wasn't up to checking the other two discs and the Haruhi-chan disc just yet. But listening to a couple of episodes in Japanese, the audio stayed dead centre throughout.

Not trusting my ears, I ripped the audio for the opening sequence of episode 3 and had a look at it on a time amplitude graph for both channels.

The English had different graphs for both channels indicating stereo. The Japanese audio had identical graphs for both Left and Right.


Which means that as they sourced the transfers from Australia, no one there noticed. Certainly no one on the Madboards complained about the audio when I was checking a few months back when the Bandai kerfuffle erupted.

This also means that Manga is screwed. The UK discs are native PAL as is the case for most Australian anime releases. The discs have 4% PAL speed-up (and pitch corrected audio most probably.) They can't just go to R1 and Bandai and ask for the correct Japanese stereo track, as that just won't fit. They need the correctly timed track from Australia, and if no one has noticed there, it may not exist.

If anyone else has the Haruhi check discs, could you double check for me, and make sure I'm not making an ass of myself? Please?


EDIT: First thing I did was e-mail Jerome at Manga about it and I just got a reply, confirming that they are using Madman's DLTs and that there is very little chance of fixing it before the release date.

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I think Bandai were replacing the R1 disks for ones with proper stereo audio if you raised a call with them but it sounds like Manga will have problems doing that.

(Hugs his JP BD Haruhi Boxset)
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Did a rewatch of Ladies x Butlers yesterday :D.More Oppai than was good for me ;)Had not seen the specials before
Found the specials a bit OTT tbh though,soft PrOn by any definition!
 
And manga have now confirmed that the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya had been put back to November due to the English dub not getting to them until July.
 
Don't forget that apparently the second season of Haruhi apparently has the same problem that the US release had, and fixed.
dual mono Japanese track :/
How the hell Manga managed to miss that given the fuss about the R1 problems is beyond me, I'd have at least hoped that someone at Manga checked a couple of the major fan sites.
 
Yep, looks like it's all of the disks too not just the first one (although Haruhi-chan is apparently ok).

Maybe they'll forget to put any audio on the Disappearance of Haruhi BD ... :p
 
Just catching up with some bits whilst I´m away on holiday so popped in.
Sad news on the voice actress. I don´t recognise a lot of her characters but I do remember Rosette Christopher in CC and Aika from Skies of Arcadia :(
Sad news.

On other news, whilst I´ve been away I´ve had a chance to sit down and read Spice and Wolf vol3 properly rather than disjointed...which is especially important with the 4th book just around the corner.

I´d forgotten just how much I like the series and characters, although the Amati arc makes me a bit tense at points some bits in it really did make me smile. Probably looked like a right gimp laughing/smiling away on a deck chair by the pool in the middle of the Tenerife morning...people probably thought I´d had a little too much to drink :D

Can´t wait til book 4 now. How I wish we´d get more anime;or some OVAs (one movie length OVA for each book would probably work quite well, as the series tended to cover a book per 6 episodes)


Also can´t believe manga ····ed up to that level on the Haruhi discs. Again, sometimes they wonder why people import or bother with fansubs >.< :(
 
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Couple of re-watches over the last few days ...

A__a The Origination ... it's my favourite of the A__a series. At first it feels like it is just going to continue the laid back style of the previous series but after a while you start picking up a slight almost melancholy feel foreshadowing what will come.

I really like episode 4, Those who aim for tomorrow, where Akari learns to help pilot the Traghetto ferry. This brings in other characters who we have not come across before who are more trainee undines at the other companies. You really start to get a feel that Akari is good at what she is learning when she is working on something new with people who are not the usual, top-of-their-game, cast.

Episode 9 onwards ... well after all this time the plot actually starts to move forward and it's a rocky, emotional, road until the end of the series ... where half the time you want things to happen but at the same time don't want them too due to their effects.

Excellent series over all.

Maria-sama Ga Miteru Season 4 ... another of my favourites. It doesn't have an abundance of plot but what it does have it does well. By now we know all the characters so we can just enjoy Yumi being Yumi.

Episode 11 though does have the best case of a character suddenly realising all their assumptions have been wrong and all they have done is hurt themselves and those they care about though their actions. It's good to watch even when you've seen it before as by then you have been sucked in to their world.

Probably going to be a bit anime free until next week as I have visitors from tomorrow ... (well I'll probably slide a few things in :))
 
You're making me want to rewatch A***, which is bad*...I'm barely managing an episode a day of anything at the moment, let alone a sub only anime that deserves my full attention :)

I'm going to try and watch the Eden of the East movie tonight/tomorrow, as that's been sat on the side for over a week now.


I currently want to rewatch Emma, Raxephon, Please Teacher and a bunch of others as well.
 
Streeteh said:
Finally got around to starting Death Note, up to episode 5 and loving it so far. Does it continue at this high standard?
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No straight after episode 6 it quickly degenerates...

:D

It stays highly frantic for a while, till a horrible turning point (I think it should have ended there or a better twist), then it becomes a bit how do we end this and patters out.

Still compared to other anime, Death Note is easily in the top 10 of all anime excluding one shots, ova's and movies.
 
Werewolf said:
You're making me want to rewatch A***, which is bad*...I'm barely managing an episode a day of anything at the moment, let alone a sub only anime that deserves my full attention :)

I'm going to try and watch the Eden of the East movie tonight/tomorrow, as that's been sat on the side for over a week now.

I currently want to rewatch Emma, Raxephon, Please Teacher and a bunch of others as well.
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Re-watching A__a can never be bad! :D;):p

I ended up having to make a list of things I wanted to re-watch as every time I went to watch something my mind would go completely blank and I wouldn't know what to pick ... it also meant that I would remember to consider things which were possibly stored out of sight.

I did re-watch Please Teacher not so long ago as it's a nice little series, although I'm not so keen on Please Twins ...

Gzero said:
Still compared to other anime, Death Note is easily in the top 10 of all anime excluding one shots, ova's and movies.
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For you maybe .... wouldn't even make my top 200+ as, for me, there are many, many other series which are much better ...
 
memyselfandi said:
Re-watching A__a can never be bad! :D;):p

I ended up having to make a list of things I wanted to re-watch as every time I went to watch something my mind would go completely blank and I wouldn't know what to pick ... it also meant that I would remember to consider things which were possibly stored out of sight.

I did re-watch Please Teacher not so long ago as it's a nice little series, although I'm not so keen on Please Twins ...



For you maybe .... wouldn't even make my top 200+ as, for me, there are many, many other series which are much better ...
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I should have put *my* in there. Yes Hitman Reborn is also in there. :p
 
Saying I wasn't going to be able to watch anything till next week wasn't quite right ... Managed to fit in a re-watch of the first series of Gunslinger Girls yesterday morning. It's an ok series with little girl cyborgs taking out baddies with their partners but it just feels weak, as if they had a good premise they could do a lot more with but just, well, didn't.
 
Well, I'm back bearing a bit of a tan :D
At work in 12 hours, but not quite sure what to sink my teeth into next (aside from Spice and Wolf Vol4, as that never made anime form...)

Perhaps FMA:B...really not sure :)
 
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Nope, don;t have the time, or cash, although I would like to go. I remember you talking about going last time though ... what character us your daughter cosplaying as this time?
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Sorry, Im not sure, I know she's doing an Assassins Creed thing with a group of kids but Im not sure who else she is doing, all I know is ive been buying wigs left right and centre for the past two months for various costumes :P

We set off on Tuesday, the Anime Con starts two weeks today.

www.anime-expo.org

Quite looking forward to walking round the show floor, its a place the size of a football field with just loads of anime/manga gear for sale.
 
Sounds fun; I'd always feel a little guiltily out of place and embarassed to go to one though. Whether I want to be I'm a little too subconsciously self-conscious; same reason I've never got on with and felt uncomfortable with fancy dress either I reckon.
 
Well i just finished watched the Asobi ni Ikuyo OVA, there's no subs....i don't think they were needed :P

Pure Fan service, i really hope they actually make a second series. And please wrap up the story at the end as I've very very rarely seen an amine get a second series
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Sounds fun; I'd always feel a little guiltily out of place and embarassed to go to one though. Whether I want to be I'm a little too subconsciously self-conscious; same reason I've never got on with and felt uncomfortable with fancy dress either I reckon.
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You could try going to MCM, http://www.londonexpo.com/

I've not actually been myself though. They have thousands go to the one in London, so nobody would bat an eyelid at you. Try something that looks...normal ish? I think most people do it because it's the 'thing' to do.

You know for the most part, it's no different to seeing a bunch of people dress up for a night out on the town or stag/hen night. At least that was my impression. Just a bunch of people having a good time, but you do get a few that forget that they're adults, and descend to being children, which can get a bit annoying and irritating. Fangirls/Fanboys etc.

It's different in Japan though, this sort of stuff is commonplace (especially in Akiba I bet) so nobody really cares.

EDIT: For those of you who don't own these fantastic films, The Blu Ray set of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars is going for £6.85 at an online retailer starting with Z and ending with I.

Bargain! At that price you'd be stupid not to buy them.

It seems the store in question is doing a 20th Anniversary sale for Manga UK.

I just bought Eden of the East for £7.45

There are some really good bargains in there

Soul Eater complete series for £16.85, tempting.
 
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