Madoka Shafted – “They Fixed All The Dodgy Bits!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2011 08:33 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, Comparison, DVD Extras, Mahou Shoujo, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Shaft
Fans of Mahou Shoujo Madoka have been delighted to note that for the Blu-ray release Shaft has (as usual) taken the opportunity to fix all the dodgily animated bits and substantially upgrade many of the merely “alright” parts, resulting in the definitive magical puella experience.
There are now at least three versions of each episode – the terrestrial TV version, the premium AT-X version and the BD version.
The OP with all three, showing some rather severe quality issues in the original TV version:
Sales have not yet been announced but are expected to be very high.
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Madoka!!!
She died for our sins
Lol wow. I hope that wasn't a spoiler.
Don't worry, she didn't actually die.
You haven't seen the series but your already reading article in sankaku about the blu-ray sales?
She's loli Jesus.
Actually she died for the sake of magical girls, and sort of just stuck the middle finger to the rest of humanity.
It is. lol what an asshole
Ok I'll watch the DVD version although not my taste in anime but the controversy makes me curious.
This anime was great because they were willing to make it dark and not afraid to kill of characters to heighten the effect. Made the whole thing more real than most magical girl anime. They need to put back the scenes they cut because of the tsunami if they want it to rock and be true to the spirit behind the show.
Indeed the extremes they were willing to go to for the sake of the story made the show.
Is there any actual evidence that whole scenes were cut?
Yes, Sankaku even had an article on this.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/04/25/the-real-reason-madoka-was-cancelled/
Long live SHAFT!
Sometimes I can't help myself and splurge on an airing series, even if speed releases are a little sloppy in haste, meanings v2s and v3s and hopefully I'm patient enough to at least stick to one group.
But that's usually not what I consider ideal. There's years of legacy works and series in my backlog. I can wait for the studio's polished version, and our own polished encodes.
Pic 006: Did I saw a nipple?
／人◕ ‿ ‿ ◕人＼
I can answer that for you.
I'm not making a contract!! Stop pestering me already!!
ok now that just send me a chill down my spine...
mmm
／人◕ ◕人＼
delicious flat chesto
Do you wish you can see it?
Yu did not.
I also see it too
FUCK OFF PERVERT SHIT! JUDGMENT IS COMING SHIT HEAD!
BD=BIG DICK!!
It wouldn't be the same without Meduka.
Now in HD.
And yes, I'm hapy some of the derpy bits survived the BDification. It adds a nice touch
being meguca is no longer suffering
Holy sh*t! It feels like watching a brand new series!
SHAFT pulls this ALL THE TIME... <_<
It's a totally different anime after these so-called "fixes." :P
Oddly enough, since most of us are already too used to Shaft's surreal presentation, a lot of us probably didn't see those background changes coming.
If anything, this is the most appropriate BD sales strategy; worth watching the TV version, worth MORE owning the BD.
They basically "killed" Madoka
Shaft=Simply Amazing
I couldn't imagine how they'd be able to make it better but I guess they just did
Shaft animation is horrible. Most scenes are simply still images with sound or something else because it's easier to animate, etc.
Although they tend to produce original animes with good history/content. And ONLY for this I praise them, since this lacks from almost any anime nowadays.
Aside from Bakemonogatari(still loved it though)
Problem is that you judge them from their frame rate not their actual content. Does everything have to OVA expensive for your satisfaction? These thing are more expensive to make then you might think
I'd at least be able to relate since I draw anime as a hobby
You see, not animating is not the same as having bad animation, and in SHAFT's case I would say it is a matter of style rather than lack of production values.
That distinctive style is what sets them apart and beyond all other animation studios.
Yeah, I can see it's a style with all the "Shafted" things out there.
And you see, even if it was a style, imagine you in a cinema, and the movie you are watching is just a fucking ton of photos and voices.
Gainax is still the best studio in my opinion. They have nice titles, their own style and well made animations.
Sigh, why does nobody instead praise Shaft for their extremely unique and stylized way of dealing with deadlines and budgets? I mean, they could have just taken the route that so many other studios go down and shell out crappy animation, but instead they do their best to work with what they got and come up with interesting ways to save a bit on expenses.
Makes me feel that some of the negative comments are coming from Narutards or something.
Ya don't need to always depend on expensive kinds of presentation. A good story can make anything epic but apparently a lot of people won't be satisfied unless animators break their hands.
Just say it if ya don't like or understand the story enough to go on bad mouthing the animation >>STYLE<< of Shaft then just don't watch any of them and stick to the mainstream stuff
@Diemeow23: very true - I've seen some god-awful shit animated on ones. High frame rate =/= high quality animation. Shaft often use a very low frame rate, and instead put a lot of effort into those hold frames (I mean, just look at the architecture porn). It's what sets them apart from the other studios and gives them their unique style.
OK, not everybody likes it, which is fine because different people have different tastes. But it's simply unfair to pick on just one particular choice that the animators made and call the whole thing shit just because of that.
"I'd at least be able to relate since I draw anime as a hobby"
lol... I think this line just invalidated your opinion since it proves you have no idea what you're talking about.
P.S. It's clear you haven't watched Bakemonogatari because that is the definitive example of SHAFT QUALITY ANIMATION.
I have watched the whole series twice even
I mean to point out the still frames and those blank frames in Bakemonogatari
Ya know those red and black "frame 001 cut" instances where most forums say were scenes they couldn't finish in time, those are what people mostly argue about. Those were fine for me but it seems to be not so for most people
Or maybe you watched the blu-rays I don't know if they fixed those in the CDs
Just hurts me to hear that you thought I didn't watch the series!
I have three posters stuck on my wall for crying out load *cue exaggerated crying*
Fucking hell, some people just do not understand art. Saying that a series is graphically bad for not having constant animation is like saying an oil painting is bad because not every bit of it has vivid colours.
Even if a movie is "just a fucking ton of photos and voices", that does not make it bad. Unless it is mainly about explosions which seems like something just for you, you boorish anon.
It adds even more to Kyuubee's creepiness that he remains identical while everything around him has dramatically changed...
Yeah. A lot of that counts as full one revisionism. It's a veritible Star Wars SE of background changes and CGI additions. I'm for fixing up some crude drawings, but did they have to CG every Soul Gem now, even the well drawn ones? I rather liked how Mami's looked different from Homura's.
Reminds me why I collect TV versions.
They're pleasing my genitalia twice.
More importantly I wonder if they're going to show more guro, perhaps in the third or last episode.
I think an extended mami mogu mogu scene is unavoidable.
Meduka evolved into Madoka.
Madoka evolved into Madokami.
Alright time to challenge the gym leader again.
Madokami i choose you.
Madokami uses TIME PARADOX on QB
IT IS SUPER EFFECTIVE!!!