I have a question, is there a good reason why Dark Horse didn't include Miura's original color pages in the Deluxe Editions?
It seems they're re-using the assets they have on hand, not re-licensing additional editions from Hakusensha. After all, the standard Japanese volumes don't have the color pages either. Only a few international editions brought those over, along with of course the original episode publication. So I wasn't surprised to see them absent here.
Also the pages are not gloss (similar to photocopy type paper) which we see in other manga 'Deluxe Edition' releases. Considering the high retail price, i'm a little bewildered.
Non-glossy paper isn't really the status quo for deluxe manga editions. I actually can't think of one that does it (I'm sure they exist, but I don't own one nor have seen one). Anyway, it doesn't mean it isn't good stock, or a good print. You can still get good looking prints out of uncoated paper.
That being said, it's tough to tell from a YouTube video but ... the biggest issue I'm seeing in that video is the image banding on several of the shaded areas, which was always a big problem with the early Dark Horse volumes. It's a technical problem they solved in future volumes, but never retroactively fixed in the older volumes. It's also present in a few pages of the Japanese volumes as well, but not in nearly as many places as Dark Horse's scans, so it's clearly a compounded issue. I'm guessing they scanned it poorly on the first pass at the assets, and left it that way for ... reasons. See a few examples below.
Now, I understand that Dark Horse may be limited to their existing scanned assets for licensing reasons (you licensed this edition, this is what you get -- one pass at it), but if they're going to just upscale these scans with known issues, I find that problematic for a premium edition. Of course, re-scanning everything would also necessitate them laying out all the translated speech bubbles on the fresh scans, but well guys, it says "Deluxe" right on the box, so that's not really my problem.
So what we're left with here is, it's a bigger, leatherbound edition of the same volumes you already have. +SFX.
There's also this problem on the Miura page. The Dreamcast game came out in 1999 (2000 in US).
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makes sense better to release them one after another.
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I definitely don't remember that one! It's funny that our thoughts on it flipped since then too. We all liked the idea of Zodd having been an old human whose body couldn't keep up with his will to fight.
