New Anime Releases for Monday:
 
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
 
(Blu-Ray and DVD Double Play) (Manga Entertainment)
 
(RRP: £24.99)
 


Fairy Tail: Part 2 (Manga Entertainment)
 
(RRP: £29.99)
 

Got my copy of Fairy Tail ordered.

Haven't seen any of Ghost in the Shell, so won't be buying this release.

That mofo'ing double play bar on SSS. Why?

::breaks down in tears::

Innit. As if the smaller dimensions of Blu-ray cases and that stupid strip of blue pastic didn't crop or obscure the cover art enough already. Oh well. Into my shiny DVD steelbook the disc will go, when I get around to buying this.

Why the obnoxious "double play" announcement can't be made with a sticker on the outside of the shrinkwrap, I just don't know.

I am in 100% agreement with those thoughts. I think stickers must be seen as too much of an expense these days. Cheaper to permanently brand the cover art so that it looks like a cheap budget release (Funi's SAVE line springs to mind... and even those have reversible covers) even when it isn't. Certainly makes me less likely to pay good money for a BD.

I've owned Solid State Society on DVD for years, so I'm going to need some convincing before I upgrade to BD.

I had a review of it earlier this week, if you can excuse me blowing me own trumpet.

I don't think it was a native 1080 animation, so it didn't appear to be a mega sharp BD upgrade visually. The compression artefacts are gone, the colour definition is better, no jaggies, and no colour banding, while the image does pop off the screen more. A couple of visual issues on the DVD are present on the BD, leading me to think it's a source material problem, not a transfer thing. It's about as good as the Eden of the East movies.

The biggest grin-inducer is the audio, which in TrueHD is awesome. That's where the big upgrade is. The best thing about the BD is that it fixes the subtitle errors that were on the DVD, which for a sub fan like me makes it a must upgrade. For dub fans, you also get a little extra, in that the BD has a signs only track, to go with the English dub.

The extras are all the same as that on the 2-disc DVD, and this time they are all soft subbed. Half of them, including the Uchikomatic Days short are in HD, the rest are upscaled. The subtitle storyboard track has been dropped for the BD. (It was crap on the DVD).

Nothing for me this week at all. Full agreement on the ugliness of the double play banner...

R

You are most irascible when it comes to such labels. The situation could be far worse.

I've already got SSC on DVD and as I don't have a Blu-Ray player it seems somewhat pointless getting the double play.

I've been reviewing Fairy Tail 2 for AUKN so I've already got it.

I might have considered getting GitS, but still have around 50 odd episodes and a couple of movies to watch again!

Probably wait on details of the Complete Season 1 collection for Fairy Tail before leaping.

So nothing for me this week!

Bump!!!

The Solid state society BD comes with the movie in dvd too or the dvd is for extras?? I need to know cause i just bought it and now im not sure i did well cause i dont have DB player.

Please help me so i can try to cancel the order asap if needed.

The dvd contains the movie aswell.

Thanks a lot. All websites i saw werent very clear so i was not sure.