Does Sup Forums ever buy anime/manga boxsets? Whats your favorite one?

Does Sup Forums ever buy anime/manga boxsets? Whats your favorite one?

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>Those guys on the right
Is this what Sup Forums looks like IRL?

what's the deal with the gaijin geezers on the right?

>buying anime

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Boxsets are too expansive

Buying stuff you can pirate is the very definition of throwing your money away.

If your actually using the stuff you buy than no, no it isnt. I read sailor moon when im bored.

Don't cry when Netflix buys Anime to turn it into PC crap for normalfags.

No
who do you think sells official anime merch? and do you think this crowd would browse Sup Forums?

Too late.

That just means there's more time to clear the old backlog. Not a problem for me.

We're not even close to the beginning of that, but okay.

Oh fuck is that a cell from Mellowlink?

I'm a librarian at a elementary school (kindergarten to grade 8). I purchase box sets for my students all the fucking time. They are better value. They also often come with little extras which are nice like stickers and posters.

Sailor Moon is still VERY popular with girls.
Everybody seems to like Yotsuba&.
One Punch Man (for grade 7 and 8 only) can only be borrowed for a week because it is so popular and other students want to read it.
Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z remain popular.

The kids keep asking for Attack of Titan but I'm conflicted due to the violence/gore level and it is my ass if any parents take offence.

It won't just be Netfux but western companies taking an interest and exerting creative control over anime is going to be the death of it. Good shows will be lost in a sea of ironic weeaboos watching the most entry level westernized garbage.

Im sorry user but This makes me physically cringe. Kids dont take care of shit and if my school library was anything to go by those box sets are probably in awful condition now. Like what the fuck.

Yep, still waiting on this shit to be released.

That is a cool attitude.

That is why we bind them with special tapes, covers and book jackets when they arrive. The library industry is very experienced at reinforcing books to extend shelf life.

Then why do you waste money on food when you can just steal it?

I'd rather they cater to normalfags than otaku at this point. We need more Ergo Proxy and Cowboy Bebop and less Lucky Star and Sumomomomo.

I bought pic related. I like the presentation and It comes with a nice poster.
I also have the Gurren Lagann boxset.

Oh! I have been wanting to get this one it looks so pretty. I havent read the manga yet hope its good. Been looking at but the rayearth set.

>stealing
>piracy

I have this one in my cart just waiting for the right time to pull the trigger and purchase it

Tell them to grow a taste and stop asking for AoT.

Seeing a theme there, somebody likes mecha
Also
>NGE hidden behind/under the models kek

I used to autistically buy anime box sets and DVD's to collect but rarely watched them. I want to get rid of them but wanna maximize my profits because I need money despite the discs not really being worth anything. Tough world.
My real problem though is I want to get rid of my incomplete singles, like my old Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragon Ball stuff.

theres no point buying blurays since a proper encode usually improve the quality, hence id PAY for a product that you DOWNLOAD in better quality. theres no point. i do however buy artbooks since some of them never were scanned.

Heavily filtered/"improved" encodes don't come around that often these days. Encoding, like fansubbing, is dead.

simply cleaning the rip can make a huge difference. at the end of the day i also prefer to have the files on my PC.

I was very tempted to buy Sailor Moon blu rays the other day because I couldn't find a torrent of them with seeders, and the DVDs I had tried so far would VLC the fuck out constantly

I would reccomend them. The quality is ok to me but purists might say otherwise. The new dub is alright too.

Luckily I found a DVD rip that was pretty high quality, way better than what I was expecting

Thats good. Hope you enjoy it.

Looks like rightstuffanime's warehouse.

I bought this one because sometimes we spaniards get nice things

I bought Ghost in the Shell bluray because it was $10

is that jordan peterson

>Make an encode that objectively lowers the quality of a video
>Retards eat it up
I'm glad fansubbing is dead.

Must be nice to live a carefree life in a third-world shithole.

There is absolutely no point in buying physical media in this age. Tomes were meant to contain knowledge in the past alone, and now a library can be stored in the palm of your hand.

>STILL inverted panelling
>It has been FIVE years
Although the box looks nice, that shit sure as hell isn't!

Remuxes exist you know

What the fuck does that have to do with my post you retard? Not only is a remux, by definition, not an encode, but it sure as hell doesn't do anything to "improve the quality".

I'd like to buy shit more often, but one season of a random anime tends to cost like 80 bucks where I live.

>buying anime
>buying manga
>buying anything anime related at all
heh

>transcode
>improving quality
What the fuck are you smoking?

Fansubs can exist as srts on remuxes, I meant. I don't know of any encode that makes the quality better, so the other user was saying shit too.

Sorry to upset you.

I have the complete collection of Db manga, dvds of Ruroni Kenshin from back when the dvd was a thing also all the DB movies and Scaflowne in vhs. Scaflowne vhs its my favourite.

Ah, ok that's a fair point. The other user was clearly talking about throwing a bunch of shitty filters on an encode, so I assumed you were also talking just about video quality.

I buy blu-rays of shows I really liked so I can have a physical copy, but only if it's got an official western release that's not shit.

Yeah, that kind of practise is pretty terrible, specially since it misses the point of conservation in internet files. I've never seen that stuff around, although I've seen people rerip stuff to the point shit's unwatchable (the famous 70MB MP4 files)

>those days when every ripping group would insert their tag in the video

>fully animated karaoke transcriptions adaptated to english pronuntiation

It's actually fairly common in anime communities to filter rather aggressively.

damn, the cover artwork for a rayearth set doesn't look so fucking proportionately retarded for once

>muh source quality is pristine
>muh remux
Fuck off with that garbage. There's plenty of restoration efforts done on old films with shit masters that look way better than what came out. Unless you really think "what Lucas intended" actually looks better.

thestarwarstrilogy.com/page/Project-4K77

There hasn't be anything that large with anime but there are restoration efforts all the time with shit sources, like fixing white balance on Eva BDs, fixing lens flares in Monogatari, or fixing cancerous sources like R2J Kare Kano DVDs with dot crawl, misaligned cels, field blending, and interlaced credits. Most sources these days are nowhere as bad so there's less reason to do so now but give credit to actual restoration work.

These people are doing a restoration from actual film prints, not doing a re-encode of a bluray. There is a major difference there.

Alright, so where are the film prints of shit like Kare Kano? Gainax burned almost all of the cels after episode 19 and has never had a great track record with preserving their original sources.

Here's your pristine original source:
m1el.github.io/karekano/

There are a bunch of custom HK DVDs on ADC that undeniably look better than the source that even the original editor was stunned. Fuck off with this pristine source argument.

Without seeing an actual final product attempt of this specific example, I can say that the vast majority of the time I'd still rather just a well handled encode of the shitty source to someone's attempt at "fixing" it. I will say that deinterlacing an interlaced signal is one of the only things that I don't particularly mind an encoder doing, since if they're competent it will typically provide better results than deinterlacing an encode at runtime. Even then though, if the encode is of reasonable quality the difference will be minimal enough that I'd still probably rather just having a reasonably transparent version of the source. I might be in the minority here, but there are very, very few cases where I would want something that's not just a good copy of the source.

To be fair though, for something like this example, I can at least see the reason someone might want an attempted fix. However this is a particularly egregious example, and by far an outlier, even for an older show. My main concern, as I thought was reasonably clear from my earlier posts, is that release groups love putting a bunch of shitty unnecessary filtering on their releases that people eat up despite them being garbage.

I don't disagree with you. However, most of the time the same people inhabit both roles. Making a good transparent encode takes time as well as trial and error, and most people who spend such amounts of time tend to be on the spectrum. It's not surprising that some light filtering tends to happen, and if it's done well you probably won't even notice a difference if the source is of higher quality.

The most common form of bad filtering is edge enhancement resulting in needless sharpening and bloated lines. This isn't exclusive to encodes; even sources have these problems when they go to Qtec or equivalent to handle their digital upscales. A form of filtering that is fairly divisive among fans is DNR, and how much is appropriate. Sources tend to err on the conservative side compared to encodes but significant DNR is fairly common in official sources as well.

My opinion is that someone can filter as much as they want but as long as they're pro and it goes into an official source it's typically more excused. Sometimes future remasters look quite similar to filtered encodes of previous sources and people suddenly are okay with it. A good example of that is the CCS 4K remaster that fixed the white balance and the minor chroma bleeds of the original Blu-ray remaster. Source to source the 4K remaster looks stunning, but encodes of the original source have long since adjusted the white balance and carefully filtered the chroma bleeds so it's less impressive.