Shin Ultraman

[Kailem]

*insert image of crossed fingers and no region locking here*

[lhb412]

My copy arrived. Probably won't watch it in full for a few days, but doing a spot check of the various things: subtitles seem good, picture quality good, the new commentary seems well researched and packed with info, spiffy packaging, and it is indeed region free!

Oh, and Cleopatra's transfer of the trailer (their sole extra) was weirdly low res? Yeah, it looks normal on Raven Banner's.

[Kailem]

So after spending the past few months watching more classic Ultraman and not being in a huge hurry to order this after the Cleopatra subs fiasco, I finally decided to *actually* get round to picking up the Raven release; only to find that they don't ship to the UK. Apparently they're cool with shipping to *Russia and Belarus* right now, but not here. At least according to the checkout page on their site, which has no mention of "United Kingdom" or "England" as selectable shipping addresses like most other sites do (and no option to view their prices in pounds either). And it doesn't look like their version of Shin Ultraman is available on either the UK or US Amazons either. Just one more way the idiots who voted for Brexit probably screwed us over, I'd imagine.

Regardless, I saw that Madman put out an Australian Blu-ray release too, and given that they're the same region as the UK, I decided to order that one instead. From what little I've been able to find out about it online it sounds like it's a good release and doesn't suffer from the same subtitling issues as the Cleopatra one, so fingers crossed (again) that's the case!