D.C. ~Da Capo~ DVD-BOX I, Disc 1
Created/Updated 2003-11-19
- Catalog Number : KIBA-9940
- Manufacturer : Star Child
- Series : D.C. Da Capo
- Printing Date : 2003-10-22
- Region : 2
- Price : Y9,800 for 2 discs
- Play Time : 98 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1 of 2
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 2
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : Japanese Dolby Digital 2ch
Animephile Rating: B (8.0)
- Video Scan Type : progressive (-0.0) -
30 frames per second, 2:2 pulldown.
- Aspect Handling : anamorphic-ANY (-0.0)
- Compression : -0.0
- Video Separation : -0.0
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
- Other : -2.0 -
Chroma timing relative to luma timing is horribly off. Also, music
videos are processed using horrible deinterlacing algorithm. Using
'mplayer dvd://1 -vf scale -ssf chs=1 cvs=1' helps immensely for the
chroma timing issue.
Comments:
Da Capo is a stereotypical game-based anime. In fact, I think it
actually tries hard not to deviate from, and even emphasize, its
roots. The main "couple" is a sibling pair (brother & sister, of
course) who are _not_ related in blood. If that's not a typical
simulation game theme, I don't know what is. We also have a robot
girl, cat girl, maid girl,.... Oh, why not just combine the cat girl
and the maid girl and see what we get? We have rich girls, smart
girls, little cute girls, strange girls, etc. Basically, nothing
special as far as the characters and the stories are concerned.
Art also emphasizes its game roots. Just about every girl is
"decorated" with ribbons of some sorts. Ribbons and frills are
important in this kind of art style. Believe or not, I'm quite fond
of the art style used in Da Capo. I also like the random appearances
of animal characters. There also seems to be some kind of connection
between certain characters and animals, but I do not have enough
episodes to form concrete data.
I think Da Capo has an unusually high artistic value and if I weren't
starting to seriously cut back on anime purchases, I'd continue to buy
it. I am probably going to try to obtain used copies of the rest of
the boxset at some point, though. Note that my endorsement is purely
for the artistic value, not for the story. I don't think the story
has any real value.
Image1: Can you spot an animal character?
Image2: Look carefully at the edges for horizontal color offsets.
Image3: Slanted objects in non-moving scenes should not look like that.
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