It’s not a fatal flaw, and after a faltering start the Misa character does become a third vertex of a triangle with Light and L at the other extremes.
#Ona anime definitiion series#
While it is the mind-games between Light Yagami and L that enthral, light up the screen, and drive the plot, the series strays from this central focus by introducing the Misa Amane character, who has the effect of somewhat weakening the story. The images in this review were kindly supplied by Manga Entertainment. There is still the rare moment of judder over pans and scrolls, but this is a very pleasant viewing experience in high definition. The only snag will be the digital banding, but you have to expect that from an upscale. Death Note looks fantastic, the line art is smooth, the detail levels are as good as you can hope to get from an upscale, without significant artificial filtering or sharpening, and there is no compression visible at all.
#Ona anime definitiion 1080p#
But Death Note gets a worthy upscale to 1.78:1 widescreen 1080p format, and given the vividness, the rich and lush life to the colour palette, they must have gone back to the source material rather than the DVD masters. You have to remember that we got Death Note on DVD back when every anime got an NTSC-PAL standards conversion, and wound up looking worse than the US NTSC releases, so just getting the show at the correct frame rate, without ghosting is already going to be a step up. That said, Death Note certainly gets a spruce up on Blu-ray. While not HD in the slightest, suddenly colours were richer, 24fps progressive animation with zero visible compression resulted in clear imagery with much more in the way of detail, and the animation was smooth in a way that interlaced NTSC could never manage. Some companies started putting out SD digipaint anime scaled up to HD re-mastered from the original source, and the results were astounding. The second thing is that the colour palette on DVD is limited in comparison to Blu-ray, so you don’t always see the colours that the creators intended. For one thing DVD introduced a lot of compression to squeeze six or seven episodes into 9GB of space. But the truth of the matter is that DVD masters aren’t the same as the original source animation.
Sure enough, the early attempts to put old shows on Blu-ray were just that, an upscale of the DVD masters at best, or at worst artificially post-processed to make them look faux-HD, but resulting in a lot of DNR, smearing, and actual loss of detail to get things looking sharper.
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