Anyone interested in doing a Perfect Blue video...

[absolutedestiny]

Here's a comparison of the Manga Video R1 DVD release and the new anamorphic japanese release.

The manga video copy has been cropped and scaled to become anamorphic, so both images are stretched.

The japanese release is the top image:

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Comments

[spaglet.livejournal.com]

Looks like mostly reasonable denoising after telecine - but sans uncompressed TIFF I'm at a loss about the nastiness still remaining on fat bloke's cheek shadow in the third. (Unconvinced about the colour shifts, too - I'm wondering if they've balanced for 9300K too...)

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the colour doesn't look quite right in either of them, to be honest. The japanese print is cleaner but red and green could probably be reduced... not sure. I@m sure a good image could be made with some colour tinkering.

(yeah, I couldn't put uncompressed images up for space reasons)

[miraba.livejournal.com]

It looks like they overcompensated on the flesh tones. The dresses are supposed to be white, and are now a pale yellow, the gloves aren't really pink, etc.
http://www.japmax.com/images/perfect1.jpg is a good picture of the intended colors.

[trythil.livejournal.com]

Hey, that doesn`t look too bad at all. Saturation`s a little high, but oh well -- that`s a lot easier to adjust than doing stuff like denoising.

I`d buy it here if DVDs weren`t so obscenely expensive in Japan :P

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

It's a budget release <4000 yen, I think.

[trythil.livejournal.com]

We clearly have different definitions of "budget" :P

Actually, I'm not sure how much the rerelease of Perfect Blue goes for here. DVDs in general aren't what I would call cheap, but maybe Perfect Blue isn't so bad. Something to look into.

[dwchang.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! That's what it's supposed to look like?!?

[mckeed.livejournal.com]

ditto

[strawberrycocoa.livejournal.com]

ditto x3