Shirobako 1 [Blu-ray]

I am a big fan of the series (I've watched it four or five times now on Crunchyroll) so of course I pre-ordered it, and just now finished my sixth runthrough. It's interesting to see the Sentai translations compared to Crunchyroll's. At the start of Episode 1, for example, Taoru describes the first episode of "Exodus", the anime-within-an-anime as being a purification for the director, while the Sentai translation says it's a clean slate. The reference being to the director's previous disaster with an anime titled "Jiggly Heaven". In addition, Sentai provides translator's notes, explaining some of the in-jokes (and there are many).The story is, of course, great. Five stars. It's about adults, solving adult problems. It's a primer on how anime is made. It's directed by my favorite director, Tsutomu Mizushima (of Girls und Panzer fame). So what's not to like, why only four stars? Well, the story is great, but the delivery leaves something to be desired.First of all, it's subtitled only. I don't mind, but my wife (and other acquaintances who are not so much into anime) much prefers dubbed. Second, surprisingly, the video quality is not as good as the Chrunchyroll SD transmission. I paused both on my home television, and switched back and forth. The Blu-ray is noticeably fuzzier than the streamed version. It's not so bad as to be unwatchable -- in fact, it only detracts if you've seen the streamed version -- but it really is inexcusable, particularly for a product that costs $60 for a one-disk program. Unfortunately, we are at the mercy of the marketing companies, and the only alternative is to not own a copy.Season 2 is scheduled for release in May, 2016, and I'm going to pre-order that as well.

The animation is itself nice, as commented by other viewers. Some people complained about video quality, I noted no issue about that. Even it seems crushing 12 episodes on one disc, for a BD DL disc, it is still fine. The video is about 3.3GB per episode for 25 minutes, which translates to ~19Mbps, not very high, but above the streaming video quality for most website. (~1080P@8Mbps for most cases. Granted, streaming website can use more advanced/updated codec like X264, so there is less advantage. ) Also, considering animation is at 24fps, with large blocks of similar color, compression will not cause much artifact. If someone feels the video quality is worse, this may be player specific issues instead of video quality. (e.g. rendering settings )The issue is that the caption, especially those overlaying Japanese ones are distracting. Granted, they have to add captions and subtitles due to copyright issues, but there are clearly better ways to do this, such as putting the caption above or below the original ones. Overlaying the caption using the same color made it very hard to read what is on the screen, especially if you know both languages used.

Shirobako is a great anime. If you wanna have a personal copy of the series then buy both collections. This contains episodes 1-12, is part one of a 24 episode series, distrbuted by Sentai Filmworks. It contains Japanese audio and English Subtitles. If you are looking for a version with the English dub then Sentai released another one called Shirobako Complete Collection that contains all the episodes and has english dub.

The blu ray version is great but a personal con is that the subtitles are yellow. I'm used to the white subtitles given on crunchyroll and the subtitles on the disc goes a bit too fast. If only they can just use the subtitles from crunchyroll that would be great. There was also the part where they called her Meow-mori instead of Miyamori which really annoyed me. I don't know where they got this translation but they should really change that cause Meow-mori just doesn't click.

A very nice slice of life set in the anime industry that follows five women who are just starting out on their careers. Unlike an earlier reviewer who thought it looked worse than on crunchyroll, there are no picture issues. What is an issue is not including the Exodus to Tomorrow episode as it was included on the Japanese Blu-Ray. Hopefully both this and the Airbats/Area 88 inspired 3rd Aerial Girls Squad episode will appear on the second Blu-Ray collection.

I really love the series, but that just made me more disappointed when this release didn't include the OVA or almost any of the special features or behind the scenes content.

A must see series it's an Anime about the anime industry, wonderful animation and some great characters. You owe it too yourself to watch this series!

One of the best series I've seen recently. A great look into the anime industry and how it works, with a great mixture of humor and parody.

Cómo es de esperar, el Blu-Ray trae una calidad excelente en cuanto a vídeo, las imágenes son nítidas y el audio se escucha bien. Pero en cuanto a subtitulos, deja mucho que desear, para empezar están mal acomodados, te los ponen 1/4 arriba del filo de la pantalla, que es molesto de leer y cuando se hacen dos renglones de subtitulos te llenan casi que la mitad de la pantalla y cuando hay dos personajes hablando al mismo tiempo, olvídate, te añaden unos subtitulos extras encima de los que ya tienes y como resultado tienes una pantalla abarrotada y es muy molesto.Dejando eso de lado, la traducción es mala, poniendo "motes" como el "Meow-Mori" que sacan de contexto y no tienen nada que ver, ademas de que muchas expresiones y frases están mal traducidas y te dan a entender otra cosa.Un ultimo detalle muy personal, es que los subtitulos son amarillos y hoy en día la mayoría de animes los trabaja blancos o de colores, personalmente me molesta un poco, pero como todo, te terminas acostumbrando a los dos episodios.Recomendaría comprar este Blu-Ray solo si eres fan del anime y ya sabes de que va, porque si quieres entrarle desde cero, puede que no entiendas el contexto o los términos al cien por cierto, recomendaría ver la serie primero en algún servicio de streaming y si te gustó, entrarle ahora si a esta versión.

Must have for a fan of the series!!

レンタル・セール版の最終巻に含まれる特典映像「第三飛行少女隊」は含まれませんが、本編を見るだけなら、安くて良い商品です。

画質はとてもきれいで、字幕が消せないとレビューにかかれていましたが、ちゃんと消せました。安くて日本での販売とかわらないので得した気分でした。

字幕を消すことはできませんが、北米版はとてもコスパが良いです。特典などには興味がなく、本編を見たい人にはオススメです。