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Jeikobu
August 21st, 2006, 07:44 PM
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=172778

Sounds like Manga Entertainment really screwed this one up. I'm so glad I bought the original release. Anyway, I thought I'd give everyone a fair warning.
SonRyu
August 22nd, 2006, 05:29 AM
I was going to pick it up, but maybe I won't now... good thing my store still has the original one in stock.
Sharp-kun
August 22nd, 2006, 06:25 AM
I'll be sticking with my original copy then...
Daishikaze
August 22nd, 2006, 06:58 AM
Glad I already have the original DVD release.
Suiko Eiji
August 22nd, 2006, 07:30 AM
I echo the above sentitments.
MonkeyBoy0314
August 22nd, 2006, 08:11 AM
Does Manga take pride in pulling **** like this?
The Million Dollar Prons
August 22nd, 2006, 08:46 AM
I refuse to buy the Special Edition!
Soluzar
August 22nd, 2006, 08:59 AM
Manga Entertainment continue to boldly plumb new depths, and scrape corners of the bottom of the barrel which have never been scraped before, to bring you the half-witted team that author their DVD releases.

There are truly few companies with such poor quality releases. An embarrassment to the American anime industry. Perhaps not so bad as the likes of 4kids and Nelvana, but their releases are the only ones which Manga Entertainment can outdo.
Area88
August 22nd, 2006, 09:15 AM
I don't buy any titles by Manga Entertainment anymore.

I've been let down too many times, they deserve their nickname of Mangle.
Suiko Eiji
August 22nd, 2006, 09:42 AM
Manga Entertainment continue to boldly plumb new depths, and scrape corners of the bottom of the barrel which have never been scraped before, to bring you the half-witted team that author their DVD releases.

There are truly few companies with such poor quality releases. An embarrassment to the American anime industry. Perhaps not so bad as the likes of 4kids and Nelvana, but their releases are the only ones which Manga Entertainment can outdo.

I guess this is like the scenario of camping with your friends on the saranghetti - you don't have to necessarily have to outrun the lion, just your friends. Manga Ent. can pull this sort of stuff, just so long as their releases are better than 4Kids, Nelvana, and the likes of them. After all, if Manga were truly in their league, we'd have to go back to "Lupin The Wolf".
Soluzar
August 22nd, 2006, 09:50 AM
I guess this is like the scenario of camping with your friends on the saranghetti - you don't have to necessarily have to outrun the lion, just your friends. Manga Ent. can pull this sort of stuff, just so long as their releases are better than 4Kids, Nelvana, and the likes of them. After all, if Manga were truly in their league, we'd have to go back to "Lupin The Wolf".
It's true. They are the worst of the best, so to speak. It's not really an especially poor release, it's just not what you'd expect in 2006 from a reputable company. According to the linked thread, Manga have stated that they didn't make the alterations themselves, but were provided with the master, already altered in that way. Personally, I don't believe a word of that.
Tama83
August 22nd, 2006, 10:01 AM
Neither do I. I mean, is that really all they can say? Did they even try bargaining with the licensors?
Jeikobu
August 22nd, 2006, 02:05 PM
Manga has to be my least favorite anime company that comes to mind that doesn't butcher things like 4Kids or Nelvana. The quality of their releases are usually not even that good. Cagliostro's first release for example is certainly passable (and I won't land on them as much because it's an older film, though you'd think they still should've been able to do a noteably better job), and while I'll take it any day over the new release, I wish someone else had gotten it.

But then there are things I've seen from them like the X movie. It was made in 1999, yet to quote my brother, it looks like a VHS-rip. When Manga said in the later part of their statement in that thread that they're a smaller company and not the machine that their competitors are, all I could think was "no kidding".

And finally, they seem to have a real thing against getting opening/ending visuals. As I said in that thread, for Ghost in the Shell: SAC 1st Gig, they completely re-did the ending visuals. For the Guyver OVAs, the re-did the opening visuals. I don't know if this is their fault or the Japanese companies', but seeing as you can see the correct Guyver opening visuals when watching the last ep uncut in the extras features of the last disc, I have to doubt it's the fault of the Japanese companies, at least in that case.