shigurui (blu-ray)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

In the sixth year of the Kan’ei era (1629), at the beginning of the Edo period, a samurai was hired to settle a grievance in the castle of Suruga. Appearing in a tournament which contraventioned all of the existing dueling laws to allow the use of real swords, the one-armed samurai starts a battle with a blind lame swordsman which brings together for the last time two mighty swordsmen whose bloody intertwined past is as beautiful and as gruesome as the scarred wounds that adorn their bodies and souls.

info:

source: blu-ray
resolution: 1904×1072 (anamorphic 1908×1072)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 2.0 ac3, 5.1 flac
audio languages: japanese, english
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

comment:

while the blu-ray source by funimation doesn’t warrant 1080p, it does help a lot to avoid a lot of artifacts that’d appear in 720p due to the heavy grain nature, this series has.
the reason itself is rather weak, and in addition, those encodes are a little overcompressed, but they should do a lot better than the rips present so far, as those were just overfiltered.

princess arete

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

Confined in the castle tower by her father, princess Arete spends her days watching the world outside her window. Sometimes she seeks out to watch the common people at work. The knights of the kingdom compete for the right to marry her and rule the land by competing to see who can find powerful magic objects made by a long dead race of sorcerers. Arete wants none of this. She longs to meet the common people and travel to exotic lands she has only seen in the books she keeps hidden under her bed. One day the sorcerer Boax arrives in a fantastic flying machine and offers to take Arete as his wife and transform her into a proper princess.

info:

source: r2 dvd
resolution: 704×448 (anamorphic 841×456)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 2.0 vorbis
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

note:

princess arete release is suffering from a corruption at 1:13:20:813.
it might cause an audio error, or visual stuttering for few seconds, and keeps on playing afterwards.
would prefer if people would cease supporting that release until a fixed version is released.
unfortunately, that might take a while.

aika remastered

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

A catastrophic earthquake has left Tokyo, and most of the Earth for that matter, under the sea. Aika is a salvager who retrieves various remains from the watery ruins. When Aika accepts the dangerous mission of locating and obtaining the mysterious Lagu, she discovers that she’s not the only one after it.

info:

source: r2 remastered dvd
resolution: 704×480 (anamorphic 704×528)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 2.0 vorbis
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

jin-roh – the wolf brigade (blu-ray)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

After witnessing the suicide bombing of a terrorist girl, Constable Kazuki Fuse becomes haunted by her image, and is forced to undergo retraining for his position in the Capital Police’s Special Unit. However, unknown to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between Capital and Local Police forces, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the very girl he saw die.

info:

source: blu-ray
resolution: 1824×976 (anamorphic 1826×988)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 5.1 flac, 5.1 ac3
audio languages: japanese, english
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

ghost in the shell 2 – innocence (blu-ray)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

Following the events of the first Ghost in the Shell movie, Major Motoko Kusanagi has since left her physical body and is now a “ghost” living in the network. This leaves Batou as the top officer at Section 9, the special task force assigned to matters of human/machine relations.

Batou’s latest assignment is to investigate the recent string of suicide-murders perpetrated by a certain brand of “gynoids” — androids designed to look like women. Together with officer Togusa (one of the last few people who hasn’t had his body fitted with cybernetic parts), Batou tracks down the cause of the wayward gynoids — all the while pondering and discussing the hazy realms where machines become dangerously close to human, and humans become dangerously close to machines.

info:

source: blu-ray
resolution: 1920×1040 (anamorphic 1920×1032)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 6.1 flac
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

the place promised in our early days (blu-ray)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

One summer’s day, three middle school students, Fujisawa Hiroki, Shirakawa Takuya, and Sawatari Sayuri made a promise to one day fly across the Tsugaru Strait and investigate the mysterious tower built in Hokkaido by the Union. Since that day, Sayuri has disappeared and as a result Hiroki and Takuya gave up on building an airplane to fulfill the promise. Years later, when Hiroki learns that Sayuri is in a coma, he tries to convince Takuya to resume work on the airplane. Even if Hiroki can persuade Takuya, a looming war threatens to destroy any hope of ever reaching the mysterious tower.

info:

source: blu-ray
resolution: 1904×1072 (anamorphic 1912×1074)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 5.1 flac
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

umi ga kikoeru – the ocean waves

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

The Ocean Waves is a high school love story set in Kochi, Japan. Morisaku Taku and Matsuno Yutaka are best friends when a girl from Tokyo named Muto Rikako transfers to their school. Excluding herself from group activities, she’s eventually labeled a snob. Matsuno has a crush on Rikako, so it’s no surprise that he gets a little jealous when Morisaku and Rikako start spending more time together. The rumors around school get worse, but Morisaku still insists there is nothing between him and Rikako.

info:

source: r2 dvd
resolution: 672×432 (anamorphic 794×436)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 2.0 vorbis
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

whisper of the heart (revision 2)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

Mimi wo Sumaseba, which literally means ‘If You Listen Closely’, tells the story of Shizuku, a junior-high school student who is struggling to find out who she is. The movie takes you on a journey through her imagination and daily life as she makes decisions that will ultimately decide her future.

info:

source: r2 dvd
resolution: 656×432 (anamorphic 789×434)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 5.1 ac3
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

porco rosso

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

During the beginning years of the Great Depression, life in the Mediterranean has become difficult. Aerial pirate raids are gaining in frequency, thus requiring the need for capable “bodyguards”. One of the best is a pig known as Porco Rosso. Once a human and an ace pilot during World War I, he now freelances his services to those in distress. The fascist regime that has taken over the Italian Air Force has grown tiresome of his exploits and places a bounty on his head. On top of that, a hotshot flyer from the United States arrives and not only wants to steal Porco Rosso’s glory, but also the woman he loves so dearly.

info:

source: r2 dvd
resolution: 656×432 (anamorphic 779×442)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 2.0 vorbis
audio languages: japanese, english, french
subtitles: english (ass, srt)

gedo senki – tales from earthsea (revision 2)

anidb ~ mal ~ ann

description:

The world is gripped in terror as plants are drying up, livestock are going to waste, and the human brain begins to corrupt. Natural disasters are punishing the kingdom of Enlad and the light which should be bringing balance to the world is weakening. Meanwhile the sacred sword has been stolen from the king by an assassin. On the verge of passing out, the king mutters the name “Arren”… The name of his only son who is on a journey to find the source of the destruction in the world. When Arren comes across the powerful sorcerer Sparrowhawk, a man formerly known as Ged…

info:

source: r2 dvd
resolution: 656×432 (anamorphic 789×436)
video codec: h264
audio codec: 5.1 dts
audio languages: japanese
subtitles: english (ass, srt)