So far, I have found four other versions of this: KTYM, Baka-Anime, Exiled-Destiny, Arigatou and ZX.
Mine's a custom version made with some R2 raws I found on Japanese P2P years back. They look better then what I have ever seen from R1 rips.
You be the judge:
KRYM VS DmonHiro
Baka-Anime VS DmonHiro
Exiled-Destiny VS DmonHiro
Arigatou VS DmonHiro
ZX VS DmonHiro
My conclusion: Baka-Anime is filtered though hell and back and looks horrendous. ZX is an old Divx5 .ogm version, and it shows. KRYM looks as bad as ZX without the excuse of being old. Exiled-Destiny is decent, but even more cropped then mine. Arigatou looks about the same as mine, better in some cases, but when your watching it, it seems a little off, I can't explain why. Also, they have the only styled .ass subs, but they are very poorly styled, hugging the bottom of the screen. If you want the English audio, go with Arigatou.
Video: mkv, 640x360,WMV3
Audio: Japanese, mp3 128 kbps
Subtitles: English, R1, srt
Torrent: Vandread (DVD, wmv, mp3)
how do they fare against B-A?
ReplyDeleteShouldn't be too hard to get hold of the zx version.
ReplyDeleteThe ZX version has WORSE video then the KRYM version.
ReplyDeleteAs for BA, check above, I upped the screenshots.
i like the colors of b-a better
ReplyDeleteThe filtering on the B-A release is horrendous. Thanks for the upload.
ReplyDeleteExiled-Destiny released another rip by the end of 2010, which is far better than what i saw before. H.264 video with AC3 english and japanese audio. The only drawback are the srt subs.
ReplyDeleteI nevser knew ED released Vandred. I'll check those out.
ReplyDeleteHmm
ReplyDeleteED encodes are never good.
If you want dual audio, it would best to go with Arigatou who also has h264 encodes and styled subs instead of srt/vobsubs.
Oh, for the love of God, how many more releases are you going to make me compare to? Jeez... :D
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeletenone because dual audios shouldn't be compared to single audios.
Screw that, I'm going to compare to everything I can find.
ReplyDeleteThe last Arigatou release i saw was terrible in both audio, video and subtitle (Kashimashi). Exiled Destiny is a lot better even without post processing, and their audio can be upscalled to dolby digital, while Arigatou's cant without tons of noise.
ReplyDeleteI have Anime-MX's version, they are outdated unfortunately, but I remember it was much better then zx's.
ReplyDeleteThis show really needs some new love, like some other oldies. :)
After seeing all the screenshot comparisons. E-D wins, but Dmon's release is still better than any older one.
ReplyDelete@ Croix: I don't see why .srt subs are a disadvantage in this case -- there are virtually no points in Vandread that *need* any text formatting or typesetting, and you can easily set them to be whatever style you want. Besides, styled .ass subs in dual-audio rips are typically "glorified .srt" anyway, since most groups don't do any text positioning or alternate styles with them. Check out Arigatou's Magikano to see what I mean.
ReplyDeleteI saw B-A's awhile back, thought it looked okay but didn't have anything to compare it to. I deleted it once I got the DVDs, but the version I *really* want to see is the Elite-Fansubs TV-rip of 2nd Stage (I did manage to find E-F's 1st Stage).
Too bad Vandread wasn't produced in anamorphic widescreen, so all the rips are cropped down to 400p or 360p.
I don't see ACX's version on there.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.animecorpx.com/weblist/releases.php?group=VD
Will you release your version of s2 anytime soon aswell?
ReplyDeleteThis is both S1 and S2.
ReplyDeleteAnd just after I finished watching the show...grabbing it anyway for posterity, Ftw.
ReplyDeletePLease SeeD~!! :D TY!! Just found out this anime awesomeness.
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