Comments on: The original Sailor Moon anime is coming to Blu-Ray in Japan starting this summer

By: Corza

Corza — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:47:18 +0000

High Definition doesn’t mean widescreen. The original TV series was drawn at a 4:3 ratio, so even if it was a new HD master, it would still be 4:3. High Definition just means 1080p in height, it doesn’t always 1920p wide. It would be blasphemy to crop the TV show to widescreen when they animated it for Standard TV size. You’d lose so much beautiful animation! To get the best quality for any HD release, you need to keep it in its original aspect ratio. Cardcaptor Sakura looks amazing in HD & it’s only 4:3 (Standard) not 16:9 (Widescreen). I really just wish they could rescan it at a higher rate. I’ve seen the quality which aired on Japanese TV recently. It’s not bad… just nowhere as good as how the R movie looked that Toei re-scanned from the original film negatives.

By: Corza

Corza — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:42:08 +0000

It was the Japanese version, but Viz did a poor job at upscaling the Standard Definition materials to High Definition. Toei just has better software. Viz obviously didn’t want to wait and got the non-upscaled version for a bargain.

By: Garet R.

Garet R. — Mon, 15 May 2017 05:25:15 +0000

Well I doubt it is Toei fault. Many countries releases Sailor Moon, the recenet one being Australia and none of them has such a terrible quality. Viz just don’t know how to use what they have been given.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:53:04 +0000

Ditto. Crystal is my number one concern right now, Sailor Moon-wise.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:25:35 +0000

Me too. I’m checking every day!!

By: Madd

Madd — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:00:26 +0000

This is both good and bad news. The good is that they finally have a Blu-ray in japan for sailor moon. Bad news is that it is just an upscale it’s not even a High definition remaster of the film to make it wide screen or something. I am just waiting on news for Crystal. There is no real news about it yet aside from the fact that they would continue.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:59:36 +0000

I’m thinking this is exactly what Canada’s going to need in order to really slam Viz Media for its contempt of Canada.

By: Sailor Nova

Sailor Nova — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:32:11 +0000

I’m under the impression that The Viz release was the Original Jap version of Sailor Moon?

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:52:40 +0000

Since it’s bascally Toei’s fault Viz gets garbage quality, no way I’m paying them for a half-butt release like this for that much money. If I ever watch it, I will just watch it subbed online and support it in America by buying the Viz releases.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:50:37 +0000

I feel like they do this just to make people buy things twice. Other parts of Asia often have English subs at least.