Nurse Witch Komugi 1, a Vaccine for Humanity
Created/Updated 2004-11-08
- Catalog Number : DNW-001
- Manufacturer : ADV Films
- Series : Nurse Witch Komugi-chan
- Printing Date : 2004-08-17
- Region : 1
- Price : N/A
- Play Time : 90 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 2
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : English Dolby Digital 5.1ch
- Audio2 : Japanese Dolby Digital 2ch
- Subtitle1 : English
- Subtitle2 : English (signs only)
Animephile Rating: F (2.5)
- Video Scan Type : interlaced-OAV (-3.5) -
24 frames per second with 3:2 pulldown.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -2.0
- Video Separation : -0.0
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
- Other : -2.0 -
At least one of the chroma channel timing is off slightly. It's not
as bad as what I've seen with certain Pony Canyon titles, but on a
colorful series like this, it can be annoying. Also, I only briefly
listened to the English 5.1ch track, but I think there's something
horribly wrong with the channel levels and probably other things, too.
Comments:
This volume contains Karte.1, 2, and 2.5. These are animated by
Kyouto Animation Studio using their cell-less process, which I didn't
like at first. Regardless of how I like it, though, there's no doubt
that the source should be as perfect as they come. Somehow, though,
ADV's release isn't anywhere close to being perfect. If it were
animated by another studio I liked more, I'd have bought the R2s.
Too bad. I'll just have to be satisfied with audio CD purchases for
this series.
First of all, if you read my original listing for this series, which
I put up yesterday, you'd have seen the field separation-related
complaint from me. I was wrong about that. I got rid of the screen
captures, but if you saw them, you might remember that the other
field that is left contained only chroma information. This is still
strange to me since even lines' chroma information should not have
been shown on odd lines and vice versa. For all I know, this version
of WinDVD may actually have chroma upsampling bug. Either way, I
cannot blame the DVD producers for this one.
Regardless of all that, there's apparently something else that is not
very good since DScaler craps out of film mode very easily. I am
actually not sure what it's not liking, but FLI2200 seems to do just
fine. The worse the quality is, the better FLI2200 does compare to
the others.
Image1 (lossless): OP/ED credits are hard-sub. Check out distortions
around letters, too.
Image2 (lossless): Check out that red. This is captured with WinDVD,
which does not have chroma upsampling problem, so there's something
wrong with the source.
Image3 (lossless): They aren't even moving much yet there's far too
much compression artifacts.
Image4 (lossless): High movement scene. Even more artifacts.
Image5: Bwahahahahaha!
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