Discotek's recently released BD for Project A-ko. The BD included both the 4:3 and the 16:9 ratios for the movie. I didn't include all the Extras that came on the disc (namely liner notes, key art galleries, mischief gallery etc), but I included majority of the video ones. Have fun!
Doesn't this come with LPCM audio? I preordered mine and have yet to get it. When I first saw it up for preorder I was disappointed there was no 4k BD since it's a 35mm master and the demo video uploaded to YouTube was 4k but I'm sure they'll sell it to us at a later date since that's what they've done with other releases.
Just downloaded the majority of the files in the extra folder and yeah seems it's a bd remux. Uploader mistakenly mislabeled his/her share.
The extra's are in AC-3 audio unfortunately.
According to the few preview images from Discotek the final version was indeed storyboarded in widescreen, for some reason. Seems like this was fairly common with anime OVAs/films in the '80s. Roujin Z seems to have done this because the tops of people's heads are always getting cut off.
Discotek storyboards:
https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1424136624145768453
https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1424136760582311943
Although interestingly the initial storyboards for the hentai versions were done in 4:3 (NSFW):
https://twitter.com/kaelanramos/status/1354792092598497285
Would still recommend the 4:3 version, especially since it's the only version in the series to do this as far as I know.
>Irrelevant.
Retard. The 16:9 is how the director intended it. The extra space is there because they knew a lot of people would be watching it on 4:3 TVs and felt it would be worth it to include that rather than just put black bars and letterbox it. But it's basically just peripheral vision, it's not important and was only included in the original negative with the intention of being cropped for the theater. It's called open matte, and a lot of movies in the 80's did this, like The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Back to the Future, Princess Bride, etc. Back then it made sense because we were all watching on 4:3 TVs.
However, you'll notice that if you buy any of these movies on Blu-Ray today, they're all cropped to 16:9. Why? Well, if you watch the old 4:3 DVDs on a new 16:9 TV, first of all you'll get the black bars on the sides due to pillarboxing. But then you might notice that the frame looks like it's a bit zoomed out. For example, in the DVD release of Full Metal Jacket, during the famous boot camp scene, 4:3 shows way more of the ceiling. Too much, in fact, and it looks really awkward; there's too much dead space above the actor's heads. Sometimes the cropping hides mistakes too, such as the helicopter shadow being shown in the 4:3 intro of The Shining, or a boom mic being shown in a scene of The Princess Bride.
And what do you get for seeing all this useless, awkward peripheral vision and revealed movie mistakes? Why, you also ruin the cinematic experience too! Instead of getting that director-intended cinematic widescreen that fills your new TV, it's all awkwardly zoomed out into a 4:3 frame, completely against the director and cinematographer's wishes. Absolutely genius.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think the inclusion of the 4:3 version here is a bad thing. I'm quite glad that Discotek have included both for posterity, and even with what I said earlier there's still a lot of worth watching it open matte, even on your 16:9 TV. Hell, I know some people have figured out ways to plug their Blu-Ray player into a CRT to get that true classic 4:3 experience. But I'm also glad they've included the 16:9 crop too. Not only does it include more of the resolution and detail from the original 4K scan they did, but it also matches the theatrical experience and the original wishes of the director.
The fact that you so flippantly dismiss the 16:9 version proves that you know nothing about filmmaking, neither on a creative or technical level. I bet you're the kind of person to get annoyed when they keep in the film grain on discs and prefer some horribly encoded DNR version where all the detail is all muddled and fucked up. Needless to say it makes sense that you're on this site to be a little freeloading faggot, given that you don't care about all the effort that goes into making and preserving your little Japanese cartoons.
10 months too late, but let me respond:
1. It doesn't matter the reasoning, the fact is that the 4:3 has more then the 16:9.
2. I'm the guy who never removes grain. I hate it when people remove the grain.
3. Freeloading faggot? I'm not a freeloader. Check my uploads.
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