Video:

the video looks very good on my tv, although I remember an episode where the contrast was really high, so u ended with very light (almost white) faces .

Audio:

japanese audio isn't good. it buzzes a lot. since I don't care about english dub that's the only one I used.

Subtitle:

the subs are made up on the english dub version, which means a lot of free translation and interpretations. since I can get almost everything in japanese, it annoyed me to see how they made up sentences, but for someone that doesn't speak nihongo it will look ok. also, there are some missing lines.

Comment:

it's fushigi yuugi. It's a serie that doesn't deserve its fame , IMHO, but it's a nice way to spend free time. anyway much better that Ayashi no ceres, which was a big pain in the a** ^_~

Video:

Well, even though this has been ripped from it's R1 counterparts much like the previous Suzaku set, there are a couple of foul things afoot with the transfer on this set. Firstly, the picture tends to flicker rather violently for a few seconds during one or two of the action scenes. While this is certainly distracting and annoying, thankfully it only constitutes something like ten or twelve seconds of the twenty-five or so episodes on offer here. So while it's not a big deal, it is quite sloppy considering how the Suzaku set, didn't have this problem. Lastly, the transfer doesn't seem quite so defined as the previous boxset. While it's not a great loss in quality, comparisons with the original Suzaku set show that the picture is noticeably more blurry in some places. Again like my first gripe, this does happen infreuqently and for the most part, the video in the Seiryuu set is on par with what was seen in the Suzaku set, but the fact that these needless flaws remain, means that my score for the video has to be graded lower than that of the previous set. Don't get me wrong, on the whole the visuals crisp and defined and quite comparable to their R1 counterparts. But this is quite far from a perfect transfer as a result of those niggling flaws. Still, they didn't bother me too much, but they are there however. Good video, just not quite as good as the previous Suzaku set.

Audio:

As before, this set sports the same Dolby Digital throughput as the previous set as well as retaining that muffled Japanese audio track whch invariably may have been present in the original R1 release. To add to this unfortunately, the sound tends to skip once or twice (at least on my Cyberhome DVD player and PS2) during the start of the first episode. In addition to this also, when listening to the English audio track, there seems to be a few sync problems since the words that the characters say predate their mouths by a good second in some places. It's not quite severe or regular enough to damage your enjoyment of the set but it is noticeable and thus rather annoying. While such flaws are no biggie like some of the video discrepancies mentioned previously, it just boggles my mind why such a good audiovisual transfer from the original wasn't maintained here, sans of course, the flaws. Not bad, but why the sync problems?

Subtitle:

Thankfully, one thing that has stayed consistent is the quality of the subs. Fans of watching anime in their original audio track will find much to like here since the subs tend to be mostly spot on (except for a few timing errors) and are grammatically solid overall. Like the previous set, the subs here aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination (that's MAC for ya I guess, but they are getting better) but they are quite functional and easy to understand. Not bad at all.

Comment:

This set could have been just good as the previous Suzaku set, but it falls just short due to careless technical flaws and errors. Even so, such things weren't enough to marr the enjoyment I gleaned from this tremendous series. One of the enjoyable and charming anime shows of recent times, make sure you don't miss out. Recommended.