http://www2.jrt.co.jp/cgi-bin3/ikuniweb … cgi?no=336

A'ight, here's what I translated from the beginning of this post. I mostly used Babelfish, so, erm, forgive me? If it doesn't link correctly, it's the one with the picture of bare-chested Akio.

Today is 'Revolutionary Girl Utena's 10th anniversary of its broadcast ending. (Maybe)

You had written about this "certain work" for awhile and stayed informed with the Topics section. Right now, it's in reruns. In regards to the details, it's possible for me to keep you notified through the blog. (There maybe some things that can't be said clearly.)

Anyway,
A few days ago, I went to 'Kouenji's Special Person' video studio. They did Utena's video.

Episode 25: Their Eternal Apocalypse
Episode 27: Nanami's Egg

(I have no idea what he says about episode 24 and 26. Moving on...and what is Kouenji's Special Person?)

Episode 25: There are a lot of cels for the scene of the car at night, and the film is soiled fiercely. The episodes after use this as bank footage so cleaning this is pretty serious.

Episode 26: I just remembered. The middle of "Aphrodite Scat" has bad singing and skips, but what happened to my voice? (I took some liberties with this and kind of didn't know what he was saying.)

In the last cut, the last shot of Anthy has such a sad expression. This is Chu Chu's taste in money. (Once again, I have no idea. <.<)

Episode 25: Suddenly, the power-up with Saionji re-appears. Why does Saionji power-up? Of course, because the supervising director took a ride in the car. (Okay, I'm certain it says that. Ikuni, WTF? XD)

Why would the supervising director take a ride in the car for Saionji to power-up? At this time, the story is now with the staff.


I'm giving up on the rest for somebody who speaks much better Japanese than me. XD Don't take any of this as fact. I'm pretty rubbish even when I tried cleaning it up.

And that's all I got.

Giovanna wrote:

spiralstairs wrote:

Why would the supervising director take a ride in the car for Saionji to power-up? At this time, the story is now with the staff.

Because Saionji is a piece of ass. Duh. Silly Ikuhara.

Is it odd that I can take so uh...unseriously, someone who had such a hand in something that's changed my life? Seriously Ikuhara's like...insane.

I think a better translation will help this a lot. Right now I have no idea if they're just doing color touch-ups or actually re-animating some parts. XD

Giovanna wrote:

I will personally carry Ikuhara's children if they're actually reanimating some of it, but it doesn't sound like it.

As Arsenic said above, even if it is "just" cleaning up every last cel of animation, a remastered SKU will look simply amazing.

DO WANT.

This is seriously good news. I prefer to wait until the super-ultra-remastered-etc collectors edition of my favorite shows and movies come out before I invest in DVD sets anyway. They're welcome to my cash if they really release this, even if it's a minor cosmetic upgrade.

ArsenicForBreakfast wrote:

Well, you know, maybe we'll get lucky, and the cells will be damaged so badly they'll HAVE to reanimate them!  ^___^  But I doubt that they'd take the time and money to do any serious re-animating.  At this point, I'm just hoping we maybe get some interviews, or concept sketches, or any kind of new bonus content really.

Omg. Concept sketches. UNRELEASED concept sketches. Interviews! INFORMATION! I think I just came a little in my pants. *waddles away for a change of undies* [/such a behind-the-scenes dork it's getting embarassing]

I want.

I don't want to have to buy the series again, but if I can get the series without the subtitles burned onto very frames of the animation during duels, that would be great. You know, for AMV purposes. I think that alone would be worth it. Those song subtitles take up SO much of the screen.

Wow...

If there is any show that deserves an HD remaster it is this one.

The artwork on this show is incredible...it was never meant to look washed out.

Soo happy....

mk2000

BalamiyaVardihi wrote:

I wonder when the whole thing will come out. Maybe 2008-09 at all?

I'm almost wondering if they'll start releasing stuff in April as a kind of anniversary release? If they're still cleaning stuff up, it might take longer as they'd still need to work with the sound, design new covers, and jump through all the legal hoops. I don't see why it wouldn't be an '08 release though. HOORAY!

Giovanna wrote:

I'd be shocked to see this released in the US any time soon. The Evangelion remasters did make it stateside, didn't they? But SKU isn't Evangelion, it took years just to see episodes after the BRS get released. SKU has at best been a sleeper hit here, I'm really wondering if they think they have the market. Then again it seems like anymore anything that's animated or drawn in Japan comes here. The market just seems oversaturated with crap anymore.

That said, what are the options for viewing the Japanese imports? How lovely that would have been at the con, on those plasma TVs at the Hilton.

It probably does depend on the moneys and the Japanese company. There's so much profit to be had in the new Sailormoon manga editions, and those subtitled seasons came out right before the license ended, but last I heard, Toei doesn't want to renew it. I am mind-boggled as to why not when they could be raking in a small fortune.

Maybe Funimation will be good to us and buy the rest of the rights. Ook! Maybe they'll give it a new dub! *salivates* I was stuck in traffic today and actually trying to think of a new cast with better voice actors. XD Lauren Tom as Kozue, and that's as far as I got. I kept trying to think of where you could have Tress Macneille and I couldn't think of her in a role outside of Mom, Mrs. Skinner, or the women of Planet Amazonia. Heeheeheee.

Ashnod wrote:

Giovanna wrote:

That said, what are the options for viewing the Japanese imports? How lovely that would have been at the con, on those plasma TVs at the Hilton.

Surely, someone has hacked the firmware or flashed the memory on their laptop's optical drive, making it region free.

VLC player negates the need to hack the firmware.  I know Lightice questioned this before, but if you Google VLC region free, you'll see many pages describing how hacking firmware is not necessary when using VLC player.  The only thing you really have to do is disable your default DVD player from auto-playing.  There are some exceptions where this won't work I think, but for most it does.  That's what I did on my old Dell, and it's what I'm going to do on my new one as well.  I haven't popped a R2 yet on this one, but I'll do a double check in the next few days.  I did nothing more than install VLC--no extras at all.

Fake Edit: Just put in my NANA R2. It played without any issues at all.

Ashnod wrote:

So, you're coming to NYC for Rose Con, right?

Yup, but I don't have a laptop. ;p