My Dear Marie
Created/Updated 2001-05-17
- Catalog Number : VHSMD-001S
- Manufacturer : ADVision
- Series : Boku no Marie
- Printing Date : N/A
- Region : N/A
- Price : N/A
- Play Time : 90 minutes
- Number of Discs : N/A
- Number of Sides per Disc : N/A
- Number of Layers (side1) : N/A
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : Japanese Analog Hi-Fi 2ch
- Audio2 : N/A
- Audio3 : N/A
- Audio4 : N/A
- Audio5 : N/A
- Subtitle1 : English
- Subtitle2 : N/A
- Subtitle3 : N/A
- Subtitle4 : N/A
- Subtitle5 : N/A
Animephile Rating: D (6.5)
- Video Scan Type : interlaced-OAV (-3.5) -
Well, duh! It's a VHS tape. dTV is able to detect 3:2 pulldown fairly well.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -0.0 -
What compression?
- Video Separation : -0.0 -
Depends on your VCR or TV I guess.
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0 -
It's pretty good for VHS tape.
Comments:
I've seen the first episode LONG time ago at FanimeCon. I'm pretty sure it
was when FanimeCon was still at Foothill College campus. Now, that's a long
time ago! I knew it was available here, but I wanted it on DVD. I could not
find it on Region2 DVD, so I decided to get the tape.
Boku no Marie is only 3 episodes long and yet does a good job of letting us
know about the main characters. At first, the phrase, "down to earth" came to
my mind, but it went away during the 2nd episode. If I had to choose one
word, I'd use "sweet." Of course, ADV's marketing team took over the cover
art and messed it all up.
Animation is somewhat like a simplified and stylized manga art. I'd have
expected myself not to like it, but I like it just fine. I've always trusted
my gut-feelings when it comes to anime and it says that this one is worth it,
so I ordered all the drama CD's (used, of course). We'll see.
I knew about Miyamura Yuuko, who does the voice of Marie (the android one),
but I never listened to her voice carefully before. Her voice is surprisingly
similar to that of Tange-san's. Tange-san has more range, but Miyamura-san's
voice is more natural. Both are very likeable. For those who are lost,
Miyamura-san did Asuka in Evangelion.
The image below was captured using VirtualDub. Actually, I captured the whole
tape at 640x480 29.97fps and compressed it (divX). I do that with my VHS
tapes because I don't really like dealing with tapes. I use 1.2Mb/s, 1.5Mb/s
and 2.0Mb/s rate, which is quite high for divX.
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