{"id":364,"date":"2001-10-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/10\/15\/ask-john-is-tv-anime-widescreen\/"},"modified":"2001-10-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-15T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-is-tv-anime-widescreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-is-tv-anime-widescreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Is TV Anime Widescreen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI read somewhere that Vandread was broadcast in a 16:9 format in Japan.  I heard that it was picked up for distribution here in the U.S., and I was wondering if was going to be reformatted to 4:3 or left in a 16:9 format.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nPartially because &#8220;widescreen&#8221; televisions are more common in Japan and Europe than they are in the US, Japan has recently begun producing select anime television series in &#8220;widescreen.&#8221; Vandread, from last year, was the first series I&#8217;m aware of to be created and broadcast in 16:9 ratio. Several series from 2001 have been created in theatrical style widescreen including Earth Girl Arjuna, Soul Taker, Noir and Mahoromatic.<\/p>\n<p>There are no available pan &amp; scan &#8220;full screen&#8221; versions of any of these series available on home video in Japan, meaning that Pioneer would have to specifically create a pan &amp; scan version for the American market if they wanted to release a full screen version in America.  No details regarding the American release plans for Vandread have been revealed yet. But I assume that given Pioneer and much of the American anime industry&#8217;s efforts to be more responsive to anime fans and more considerate of the original artistic integrity of anime, Pioneer will likely release Vandread in its original Japanese 16:9 aspect ratio rather than remove some of the animation footage in order to stretch the image to a 4:3 ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I read somewhere that Vandread was broadcast in a 16:9 format in Japan. I heard that it was picked up for distribution here in the U.S., and I was wondering if was going to be reformatted to 4:3 or left in a 16:9 format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}