One Piece Seasons on Blu-ray
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When is Funimation going to release the One Piece episodes on Blu-ray?
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Not in the foreseeable future I believe. Honestly, the episodes wouldn't look much better than a Blu-Ray player upscaling the DVD's automatically anyway. Though it would be nice to have season 4 onwards on Blu-Ray.
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There aren't even any Blu-rays in Japan, despite the show being animated in HD for the past couple years.
Basically, very unlikely any time soon.
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It's somewhat relevant to this topic, so I'll post it here.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-12/one-piece-tv-anime-blu-rays-listed-in-japan
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@Gyt:
It's somewhat relevant to this topic, so I'll post it here.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-12/one-piece-tv-anime-blu-rays-listed-in-japan
looks like we got a long wait before we get to those episdoes
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So FUNi's season 10 or 11 if they get that fare in will be on Blu-ray . . . . . SWEET!!
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So FUNi's season 10 or 11 if they get that fare in will be on Blu-ray . . . . . SWEET!!
Not confirmed, but hopefully so.
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I'd prefer they get the missing episodes up for streaming first…
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it's not about looking better, it's the principle of having all the collections on blu ray
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First of all, FUNimation has stated the reasons episodes 207-onwards aren't being released on blu-ray is to stay consistent with the previous episodes' releases.
Secondly, Toei only just starting releasing the series on blu-ray this year in January, starting with episode 579. In most cases, if it's not out in Japan then you aren't aloud to release it anywhere else. Simply put, until the episodes are out on blu-ray in Japan FUNimation can't release the blu-ray.
Im sure we will get blu-ray's at some point, but episodes 1-206 im not so sure. A couple of years ago the first 50 episodes or so were upscaled and aired in Japan as 'One Piece High-Resolution Special Edition'. and they looked pretty good to me.
We just have to hope Toei goes back and re-releases the HD episodes on blu-ray and maybe upscale the SD episodes as well, then FUNimation will be allowed to release them. But I don't see them doing that soon as they are still releasing the log collections.
Im sure we will get blu-rays eventually but for a few years at least.
