Berserk 1997 Anime Coming to Blu-Ray in USA

[Gobolatula]

Discotek just announced that they will be releasing the 1997 Berserk anime series on blu-ray in March.

https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1744570688827215905?t=6P0-S-XzWo5Y6Ty1SXBVeQ&s=19

I am especially happy about this because Discotek is my favorite company that actually still releases physical media these days. They actually care about what they put out and I'm expecting the best!

 

[Aazealh]

Oh, that's neat. I guess that's the first new release in English since the digital remaster on DVD by Anime Works that came out some years ago. Our member @DirectDK was the editor on that one!

 

[cijhho123]

That's so cool! I hope they'll include some extra content or behind the scenes for the adaptation (if there's even any more to share after all those years)

 

[Walter]

Neat, I'll pick that up. Nice that it's getting good treatment.

 

[Gobolatula]

Here is the stream from last night where they were talking about the release in more detail. It starts around 1:14:00

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[Death May Die]

Awesome news! Looking forward to it!

 

[Domeniko]

wont it just be the japanese blu ray? Whats different?

 

[Aazealh]

wont it just be the japanese blu ray? Whats different?

English subtitles and dub.

 

[Odysseus]

I've been him hawing about importing the European Blu-ray release for years, so this is good to see lol.

 

[Walter]

Available for preorder now. $60, out on March 26.

https://a.co/d/5zKhVrF

 

[Rhombaad]

Definitely going on my birthday list.

 

[TheItCrOw]

You guys think it's worth it beyond a collection purpose? I've seen the anime in, I don't, I guess 480/720p? Is blue ray a significant difference in experience from that? I actually don't own any blue rays - it was DVD for me and then the jump to digital copies.

 

[Griffith]

You guys think it's worth it beyond a collection purpose? I've seen the anime in, I don't, I guess 480/720p? Is blue ray a significant difference in experience from that? I actually don't own any blue rays - it was DVD for me and then the jump to digital copies.

Yeah, I have a few but the writing was on the wall with that vs digital... then again, now streaming digital copies aren't even a sure thing to continue existing like something in your hand. Anyway, it's 1080p, so maybe it'll look amazing, but then some old stuff looks best on tube TVs or whatever it was meant for at the time. Plenty of HD remaster horror stories out there, but it looks like this is legit. I'll want to check it out, anyway.

 

[Rhombaad]

You guys think it's worth it beyond a collection purpose? I've seen the anime in, I don't, I guess 480/720p? Is blue ray a significant difference in experience from that? I actually don't own any blue rays - it was DVD for me and then the jump to digital copies.

I think it'll be just about the best it'll ever look. It's worth it to me as a collector's item and as a fond way of revisiting how I got into Berserk in the first place.

I haven't seen it in ages and my wife has never seen it (she's read the manga, though). I'm looking forward to revisiting it and showing it to her for the first time.