StreamOfKaijuness wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:56 pm
^ Arrow's releases of the Heisei Gamera films are the best I've ever seen them look. The black levels and colors are more natural than Mill Creek's discs and there's more visible detail.
G1's composite effects actually look better.
G2 looks the least different because it already looks really good on Mill Creek's release but it has more visible detail too.
G3 has the most noticeably different color correction, with flame-filled scenes now tinted orange and scenes high in the night sky now tinted blue, and that also helps to mask the film's weaker composite shots. At the same time, comparing Arrow's
G3 disc to Mill Creek's reveals just how yellow-tinted a lot of the daytime scenes look on Mill Creek's release, with Arrow's disc having the more natural-looking colors overall.
Arrow's Heisei Gamera discs also include all of the extras from ADV's DVDs and Mill Creek's BRDs plus a lot more. All three films have video introductions by August Ragone, image galleries, and audio commentaries by Matt Frank on
G1, by Kyle Yount on
G2, and by Steve Ryfle & Ed Godziszewski on
G3. The biggest additional special feature is a retrospective Japanese documentary from 2010 called "A Testimony of 15 Years" that runs more than six hours in total, split into three parts among each disc.
Plus, unlike Mill Creek's releases, Arrow's Heisei Gamera set includes
Gamera the Brave on the fourth disc! It has an audio commentary by Keith Aiken & Bob Johnson, all of the extras from Media Blasters' release and even more ported Japanese extras.
Arrow's standard-edition Yokai Monsters collection is also available for $50 right now. Those movies are worth getting too!