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Menus (English) |
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Chapters (10) |
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Trailers: Knight Hunters, Seven of Seven,
Gun Frontier, Ex-Driver |
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Making Of (7 minutes) |
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Textless Opening (1 minute) |
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Textless Closing (3 minutes) |
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| Captures |
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| Review |
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Anthony Romero |
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| Anime Works, a division of Media Blasters
who is likely best known for their Tokyo Shock
division, presents a pretty high standard
release of the short OAV (Original Anime Video)
feature Early Reins. The DVD is pretty
commendable across the board, with good video
and audio quality that is complemented with
a few extras. |
| Video: |
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| The video presentation found on this disc
is pretty solid. There is no noticeable print
damage, while the image looks sharp without
overt signs of compression. The colors on
this release are also very vibrant, although
there are minors signs of over saturation
in clouds and other things that was the result
of achieving this richer tone in color levels.
Early Reins is presented in its
original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, or full screen
as the made-for-video production was originally
intended to be viewed. |
| Audio: |
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| There are two audio tracks found on the
DVD, both of which are presented in two channel
stereo. The first is the original Japanese
track, presented flawlessly with good speaker
distinction for a stereo track. The second
is an English dubbed version of the movie,
which is also devoid of inconsistencies and
does a decent job in terms of the quality
of the dubbing.
The audio can be accompanied with, removable,
English subtitles that can correspond with
either the Japanese or dubbed track.
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| Extras: |
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| The disc is light on extras, but does
feature a wider selection than most Toho DVDs
get in the States. The biggest draw on this
DVD is the Making Of feature. At seven minutes,
this is rather short, and spends most of its
time detailing the process of creating the
CGI train, although does devote some time
to creating the backgrounds seen in the movie
toward the end of the feature.
The other extras are textless versions of
the movie's opening and closing. These aren't
too special, but still aren't bad to have
since Anime Works added their own English
titles to the scenes in the movie and this
gives something for purists to mill over. |
| Overview: |
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Bottom
line, this is a great way to view the short
OAV feature for those interested, and can
be acquired at a fairly decent price these
days. |
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