By the way, how many disks will both Blu-Ray boxes contain?
Kamen Rider = 2 discs, plus a 3D blu-ray for Kamen Rider: Run All Over the World and Kamen Rider World
Super Sentai = 3 discs, plus a 3D blu-ray for Super Sentai World and Toei Hero Daishugō (a crossover of Tokusou Robo Janperson and Blue Swat)
From what I read, the 3D discs can be played on a regular Blu-Ray player, so you only lose the 3D the four shorts had.
The disc breakdown from Toei's site, as translated from Google Translate:
[HIDE]Super Sentai:
[disc 1]
Hurricane secret bomb squadron FiveRangers ■!
(Published July 1976 / 20 min)
■ VS FiveRangers Blitzkrieg Squad Jacker
(Published 1978 / 24 min.)
■ Electronic Squadron Denjiman
(Published July 1980 / 46 min.)
■ Sanbarukan Sentai Sun
(Published July 1981 / 28 min.)
■ Great Squadron Goggle
(Published March 1982 / 28 min.)
[Disc 2]
Kagaku Sentai Dynaman ■
(Published March 1983 / 26 min.)
■ E-bio Super Man
(Published July 1984 / 45 min.)
Dengeki Sentai Chenjiman ■
(Published March 1985 / 24 min.)
Dengeki Sentai shuttle base Chenjiman ■! Thrilled To Death
(Published July 1985 / 20 min)
Supernova Flashman ■
(Published March 1986 / 20 min)
[Disc 3]
■ Squadron Light Mask Man
(Published July 1987 / 21 min.)
■ Fast Squadron Taborenja
(Published March 1989 / 25 min.)
■ Jar five stars Dairen Squadron
(Published April 1993 / 24 min.)
■ 忍者戦隊Kakurenja
(Published April 1994 / 30 min.)
■ Ultra-warfare corps Orenja
(Published April 1995 / 40 min.)
Bonus Disc [Blu-ray]
Super Sentai World ■ (3D)
Hero Daishuugou Touei ■ (3D)
Kamen Rider:
[Disc 1] (130 minutes)
Kamen Rider vs. Shocker ■ (the March 1972)
Very Ambassador Rider 対Ji ■ (Hiraku Kimi July 1972)
■ V3 vs. Destron Phantom Rider (published July 1973)
Riders vs five Kingudaku ■ (Hiraku Kimi July 1974)
[Disc 2] (141 min.)
8 Kamen Riders ■ VS King galaxies (published March 1980)
Masked Rider Super 1 ■ (the March 1981)
■ BLACK Yankee Onigashima Rider (published March 1988)
■ BLACK Rider fear! Devil Monster Museum Pass (published July 1988)
Bonus Disc [Blu-ray]
Running Through World Rider ■ (3D)
World Rider ■ (3D)[/HIDE]
The Kamen Rider set is being released in 4 days. Anyone who's getting it, please review it, because I know none of the Blu-Ray review sites I know will review unfortunately :disappoin. Thank you for any help you can give.
A little note about the main topic.
I don't believe anything televised pre-Bouken will even see a Blu-ray release, that includes V Cinema. Theatrical films are obvious exception as they were obviously shot on better film and whatnot. But TV stuff... Judging from the DVDs, the level of detail that could warrant a blu-ray release is simply not there. Sure they could rescan the film, but it wouldn't bring much improvement, since what exists is already struggling for details. Moreover, it should be noted that while JAKQ ~ Ohranger (sans Jetman) were rescanned from film for DVD, Goranger, Jetman, Car~Time and all V Cinemas up to Gao vs SS were not. What this means is that Toei used old analog telecine transfer. Aside from Goranger which simply looks blurry, it means trouble in form of field blending, bad coloring and slight lack of details in comparison with new rescans of old episodes (let alone digitally produced stuff). Since the line of remastering randomly breaks with Jetman and from ep6 of Carranger on, I suppose the reason for that is Toei simply lost the original film. So, no HD there, ever.
Well, it's still better than Doctor Who situation!
Goranger and Jetman were, I think, the first old Sentai to get series DVD releases after Gogo V. Toei may've not decided to rescan the film until after these series got released and deciding to rescan after seeing the results, gotten feedback on Goranger and Jetman. I'm sure they'll rescan the film for HD/Blu-Ray releases.
As for Gogo V and the Sentai of Car through Time and also including Gao to Magi, those shows were very likely finished on tape. In that case, an HD version would require them to rescan the film and re-edit it to conform to the original SD versions. They didn't do that for the DVDs because, while it would've made the DVDs look better, it wouldn't have been worth it from one SD source to another. For an HD transfer, I'm sure Toei would then do all the work necessary to make them HD ready. For the effects, they can re-composite the filmed elements (mecha and actors against blue/green screen) and redo the CG elements. For those now going "Oop, forget it if they have to redo CG" I direct you to the episodes of Gokaiger that have featured past Sentai warriors. The recreated Henshin sequences the Gokaiger use are so spot on, Toei could reuse them to do HD versions of the episodes. You go "Okay, Monkey, but what about the CG mecha?" All I can say...well, they don't exactly have that much to do. Most of it is used a million times after its introduction, so they only need to redo it once and just reuse it when needed.
As for the uptick in detail, I remembered seeing Wizard of Oz on the special DVD and thinking "Dang, they can't top this". Well, got the Blu-Ray and it beat the DVD. The movie box set should be a good indicator of how the series will look since, in my opinion, the movies on this set are not that different from the shows they're a part of (not meant as a insult). Either way, movies and shows have a way of surprising me and looking better on Blu-Ray. If they release the series on Blu-Ray and not just upconvert the SD tapes, the Blu-Rays should look magnificent, or at least pretty darn good.
