pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

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I went ahead and also ordered the UK Manga Entertainment release of Shin Godzilla - I already own the US Funimation disc, but really irritatingly they and a lot of other international discs remove the Japanese on-screen text and just have tiny subtitles stand-in. One of the best gags in the movie is how it continually labels the characters' names and government titles, and as more and more politicians die brutally, the main cast's titles keep getting longer and longer as they inherit more and more positions by default.

By a certain point in the movie you get the effective punchline to this gag, where one of the main guys is once more re-introduced by text that literally fills the entire screen, top to bottom, you can barely see his face behind all his titles. In the US release this is reduced to a small paragraph hiding at the bottom that's still kinda darkly funny but not nearly to the same degree or with the same style - Anno loves his on-screen Japanese text in sexy fonts, and it's an insult to remove them.

So yeah now I just need that Shin Kamen Rider disc pretty please


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Yes, the UK Manga Entertainment edition is the one to get. Best place to source it from imo is Rarewaves, their international shipping prices are pretty decent. They sell on their own website but also sell on Amazon and eBay at slightly higher prices. Though also note you'll only get a tracking number if you order direct from their website, otherwise you'll just be waiting for like a month with no idea when it'll be there haha

Oh, do also note if it's from the UK that means it could be Region B locked. When I actually get the disc I'll make sure to test this, since even discs that have region codes printed on the box sometimes don't actually have region locking coded in. But if it is region locked, you'll need a region free Blu-ray player or a PC that doesn't give a crap about restrictions haha

Same, though the only thing stopping me from buying a region free player is that I already have a Blu-ray drive, blank BD-R discs, and software for my PC that lets me rip a disc while stripping out DRM and region codes, so if I buy a locked disc I just rip it and burn a region free copy to use in my player haha.

But yes Region A has some great discs, like the Criterion Collection has some amazing releases.