The animation may be a step down from the first season, but Gunslinger Girl — Il Teatrino has a much stronger story and it arrives with a surprisingly pleasing 1080i transfer on Blu-ray.
These girls may be cute, but they sure are deadly — Gunslinger Girl: The Complete First Season drops on Blu-ray with a decent dose of supplements, but a middling video transfer from Funimation.
Disney’s newest princess arrives on Blu-ray in royal fashion with a beautiful high-def transfer and entertaining lossless surround mix.
Hayao Miyazaki’s magical Ponyo arrives in a superb, reference quality release from Disney, but the lack of a lossless version of the original Japanese soundtrack is disappointing.
The original Ray Harryhausen classic arrives in a deluxe Blu-ray Book with VC-1 video transfer unworthy of the gods or Laurence Olivier.
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The rebuild of this classic mecha anime franchise arrives on Blu-ray with a reference 1080p video transfer and two superb 7.1 TrueHD soundtracks.
Claymore is a great anime series that you won’t want to stop watching once you start. The 1080i transfer could be better, but its good enough to make this a more than enjoyable release from Funimation.
Greek mythology and science fiction come together in this action-packed anime from Funimation, but the video quality is once again a bit of a disappointing transfer.
The origin of Green Lantern is presented in a pristine 1080p VC-1 transfer from Warner and surprisingly for the studio, they even provide a lossless TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack this time around.
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This anime may have started its life as an RPG, but over the course of its 26-episodes, it moves well beyond any game and into the realm of serious drama. The 1080i MPEG-2 encoding may have some flaws, but it is still a solid effort.
