Anime Virtual hat ja gerade den nächsten durchschnittlichen (ANN-Bewertung: 7.468) Fanservice-Anime Sekirei lizenziert, um mal etwas Budget für „bessere“ Serien zu sammeln (die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt). Ich dagegen werfe den Japanern mal wieder direkt das Geld in den Rachen. Die monatliche Lieferung Bakemonogatari trudelte nämlich bei mir ein. Aus irgendwelchen Gründen liefert Amazon.co.jp nun mit DHL und nicht mehr mit Fedex, was das pünktliche Erhalten der frischen Scheibe etwas erschwert. Fedex stand immer zw. 9 Uhr und 9:45 bei mir vor der Tür, DHL erscheint wohl lieber um 12:00. Bis 9:45 kann ich gerade noch zuhause rumhängen, um nicht zu spät zur Arbeit zu kommen, aber 12:00 ist doch etwas spät. Naja, immerhin kann man sein Päckchen dann abends von der Verteilstation abholen (15 Minuten mit dem Auto) und die Zollgebühren sind etwas niedriger (aus welchen Gründen auch immer).
The 2nd Bakemonogatari Blu-ray arrived on Thursday, so it’s now time for a small post about it.
Similar to the 1st Blu-ray there are now subtitles but the episode count was increased to 3, so that the complete Mayoi Snail Arc could be put on the disc. Following the theme of this arc, Hitagi was replaced for Mayoi to fill in the roll as cover girl.
A transparent slipcase is used to house the „DVD box“ and the text and logo was put on it so that the artwork was kept clear.
The Blu-ray is accompanied by a CD with the complete opening „Kaerimichi“ of the arc, the karaoke version and a 40 minute long conversation between Mayoi’s Seiyū Emiri Katou and Koyomi’s Seiyū Hiroshi Kamiya.
There’s also some promotion stuff, 3 high quality artworks and a nice booklet in the box:
The booklet is complete in color and includes amonf other things the lyrics of the OP:
When taking a deeper look at the Video folder of the Blu-ray I found a ~1GB, ~10 minutes long video file that only delivers a slightly moving background and an instrumental version of the OP. It is is only used for the menu…at least they seem to try to fill the Blu-ray…
The background looks nice so that I created a still of it:
When writing the post about the 1st Blu-ray, I didn’t see the background, so here’s the one from the 1st volume:
This time the clear opening of the arc and the clear ED of the 5. episode is available as bonus material.
Furthermore, the previews of the TV broadcast are available and the in-character-commentaries also returned over the full running time of the episodes, this time Mayoi and Tsubasa are talking (if I recognize her correctly).
The episodes were enhanced in a lot of scenes. This Japanese website did a comparison. The picure quality is great and only see some small problems in gradients, but this can be related to my used codec. The sound is again PCM 2.0, typical for anime.
Naturally here are some Full HD screenshots (might contain spoilers):
I must confess it’s strange that Senjougahara appears on so many stills, even if she isn’t the main character of this story…but she simply stood out more than Mayoi in my view^^.