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(This is a post I made on my cohost a lil while ago, I lightly edited it for clarity)
You've seen this post about Hidamari Sketch right? It's kind of famous, at least it is to me. If you can't click through to see the link text here it is.
Remember how Hidamari Sketch aired during the DTV transition, and SHAFT knew exactly what to do with the new real estate for the widescreen version?
This was a fact that bounces around in my brain like a DVD screensaver. Hidamari Sketch aired in Japan between January and March 2007 during the DTV transition and they prepared two versions for broadcast, one that was HD 16:9 and one that was SD 4:3. I've heard of things going wrong during this transition like the shot of Mugi getting cropped out in the 4:3 broadcast version of K-On but this time period isn't super well researched in the admittedly small digging I did.
So it makes sense that a studio during this time would make these changes right? Your show is going to appear in two very different formats, you're going to want to make sure it looks fine in both. Anyway I was reading the replies of this post one morning and I read one that gave me pause.
This started me researching the analog to digital transition in Japan which I won't get into here but long story short, yes it did air during the analog to digital transition. There was an analog digital simulcast of both signals in Japan that started in about 2003 and ended in 2012 when all analog transmissions were shut down. So there was a period where broadcasters were putting out both HD 16:9 and SD 4:3 to serve people/areas who had not made the jump to the digital signal.
But it got me thinking, some people in the replies were talking about not being able to find proof that it aired in 4:3. Chances are they just didn't know where to look. Anyway I just looked on nyaa and lo and behold.
So I had the original broadcast versions of season 1 and 2 in 4:3. (i was unsure what the second torrent would be, it didn't have any information in the description and "TV broadcast" could have been the 16:9 broadcast bc there was a simulcast but it was the 4:3 version).
Anyway I was curious if there were any other changes, I kind of doubted that there were since it's already a lot of effort to produce two different versions of scenes but maybe there was something that the person that put together the original comparison missed.
If you, like me, believed the truth of that original post I'm about to tell you Santa Claus is not real.
I compared these with the BD and found 2 of the frames from the original post. (the other I presume is from the first episode of season one also). And, they're,,, cropped from the 16:9 version.
In hindsight this makes perfect sense, I know sometimes they will redraw or reanimate certain scenes for the blurays because production is sometimes very fucked and they don't have the time to make things to their usual standards but if you're working for TV schedules why would you give yourself more work to do?
I'm sorry im sure this is interesting only to me but "Shaft redrew the wide character shots for HD during the DTV transition" is something that had the same veracity in my brain as, water is wet and i thought about it about as often. Two things make this very funny.
The image is cropped from what I assume is the original which makes it more obvious that it was a joke.*
the person that made that edit (presumably on 2ch or a/ on 4ch) didn't like, make the entire image 4:3 they popped the background out so it wouldn't appear squished. Which is such an insane effort post that you still see people go, oh yeah no it has to be real no one would go to the effort to do that. (read this post, people go to insane lengths for zero reward all the time)
I cooked up a very quick comparison in photopea to show what I mean. At this point it's trivial to remake the background, it's just a repeating pattern anyway.
*I would love to tell which is older but google recently changed how reverse image search works and it doesn't show you pages with the list of dates of when that page was last crawled so it's a little hard to figure out and I don't want to spend a bunch of time figuring out an alternative. So whoever cropped out the obvious joke part is one of histories greatest pranksters in the relatively small pond of people that give a shit about slice of life anime.
tl/dr two people, the person that made the original image and the person that cropped off the obvious joke part have combined their efforts to fully prank me 10 years later and I don't think anyone else I've told about this has felt owned or surprised to the same extent as me so I feel like histories greatest fool here
Tasting History with Max Miller
Ask a Mortician
PBS Eons
Animalogic
How To Cook That
Girl With The Dogs
Watcher (for Ghost Files and Puppet History, mostly - also the now ended Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime/Supernatural)
Jocelyn Anderson Photography for cute slo-mo videos of little birds dining at the Hand of Snacks
HiHo Kids
James Gurney (art) (he was on twitter...he decided to go with mastodon, alas. But his blog is always around!)
Bondi Vet
Time Team Classics (also new time team)
America's Test Kitchen
Clint's Reptiles
Weird History
Korean Birder
Scishow
ChickaDDDs (mostly shorts...he's buddies with all the chickadees)
Hercules Candy
Boone Bake
HidaMari Baking
Joconde's Baking
Pasta Grannies
De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina
Kənd Həyatı
BIRD/NEST CAMS
divided into 'live feeds' and 'clip compilers'
Live Feeds
Cornell Lab Bird Cams (various)
Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain Eagle Cam (bald eagles)
367 Collins (peregrine falcons)
Calfalcons (peregrine falcons)
NatureTec (this is the channel for Mini and Pip, or blue tits and great tits as well as hedge hogs and various bird feeders)
Southwest Florida Eagle Cam (bald eagles)
Live Royal Albatross Cam by Department of Conservation
Purple Martin Conservation
Clip compilers
Lady Hawk
Liznm
Nice to meet you; and welcome to my introduction post~
My name is Aaron, I am 20 years old as of writing this, and a couple key identities of mine include being queer (more info), autistic, a stoner, an otaku, and a leftist.
The purpose of this Tumblr for me is mostly to find community and to find fan creations of my favorite media. I come from Neocities but have a... complected history with Tumblr from middle school lol.
My discord is kyatapira_ and my messages are open. I do struggle with an intense fear of people and being precised; so please do not take it personally if I ghost or don't reply despite accepting a friend request.
Otaku: Seasonal anime, CGDCT, Touhou Project, Denpa, Visual Novels, Iyashikei, Rythum Games, Kirara manga, & anything Moe. Some specific series I really enjoy are FKMT, Monogatari, GLT, Hidamari Sketch, Yuyushiki, Machikado Mazoku, LL!, Haruhi Suzumiya, Nichijou, Panponi Dash, Subahibi, Saya no Uta & Osu!Mania. My anime list can be found here.
Animals: Big special interest in birds, especially pigeons, corvids, and parrots. I also adore cats, snails, and cows.
Media (other): MLP:FIM, South Park, Kirby, & Overwatch.
Assorted: Some of my other hobbies include sewing, HTML/CSS, homemaking (not trad), cooking + baking, permaculture, cob architecture, and reading. My political preference is communalism, but I often will just use 'letfist' as shorthand.
As far as my life offline, I live in southeastern Alaska, with my lovely boyfriend and the stray cat Toby Tomcat Tommy that comes by sometimes. I spend my days just trying to kill time. My dream in life is to hug a cow.
Nice to meet you~
DNI racist, bigoted, transphobic, homophobic, abelist, yk the drill... Also if you like Akagi Shigeru specifically because he makes my blood boil.
Please interact if you enjoy anything above or are just generally a cool person.
my name is maya, and i am a mexican-american student with a love for the arts and humanities! this blog, ofalqamar will be dedicated to documenting my time as a university student, recording my studies as well as my hobbies as i navigate my 20s.
kim namjoon described the indigo album as an archive of his 20s. i hope that this will be mine.
so get to know me down below! i’m not new to tumblr — can even be found at @theladydimitrescu for sporadic video game content! — but i am new to the study side of tumblr. don’t hesitate to reach out, as i am excited to meet new people!
all about maya
name: maya [ofalqamar]
age: early 20s
favorite color: green
favorite film: el laberinto del fauno (2005)
favorite season: autumn
favorite song: black swan by bts
hobbies:
acting: although i don’t have technical training as of yet, i’ve enjoyed the voice acting i have done in the past and would love to continue learning. i want to practice so that i can do film-based acting :)
baking/cooking: i like trying new things from around the world!
dancing: i did ballet as a child and unfortunately abandoned it due to financial strain. i now plan to learn contemporary dance as well as hip-hop based movement so that i can be a dancer again. dance makes me happy
drawing: i don’t actually know how to draw but i have the drive to learn
music: i like to sing, and i have a decent voice that i want to improve over time (lean into my natural abilities and all of that). i also adore listening to music and analyzing music videos
reading: i read a lot as a child and have slowly regained my love for literature as a young adult!
writing: i have a plethora of wips i am working on, including a story about día de los muertos, a star wars standalone, a star wars trilogy, a cyberpunk video game, and many more!
interests:
books: babel by r. f. kuang, the ones who walk away from omelas by ursula k. le guin, un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes by gabriel garcía márquez, a game of thrones by george rr martin, the hunger games by suzanne collins, iron widow by xiran jay zhao, the cat’s eye chronicles by t. l. shreffler, the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
next on the list: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia, human acts by han kang, black flower by the witcher series by andrzej sapkowski
film: el laberinto del fauno (2005), knives out (2019), spider-man: into the spider-verse (2018), the green knight (2021), it comes at night (2017), barbie as the princess and the pauper (2004), your name (2016), get out (2017), in the mood for love (2000), the lady vanishes (1938), interstellar (2014)
music: bts, nemahsis, alaina castillo, megan thee stallion, lil nas x, txt, xg, gloria groove, the weeknd
streamers/youtubers: berleezy, kennie jd, xiran jay zhao, dylan is in trouble, joeiaco, pg, coryxkenshin, binging with babish, amanda the jedi, the try guys, cari can read, moreant, with cindy, somebros [berleezy, joeiaco, pg, krystaology, imdontai, rico the giant, poiised, jojothamofo], jazzyguns, moreant, best ever food review show, hidamari cooking
Television: game of thrones (2011)/house of the dragon (2022), beyond evil (2020), the witcher (2019), the mandalorian (2019)/andor (2022), bojack horseman (2014), undone (2020), avatar: the last airbender (2005)/the legend of korra (2012), doctor who (2005), daredevil (2015), euphoria (2019), the walking dead (2010), vincenzo (2020)
video games: the last of us (2013), gris (2018), uncharted series (2007), tomb raider series (1996), resident evil series (1996), kena: bridge of spirits (2021), spider-man (2018)/miles morales (2020), god of war series (2005), witcher series (2007), telltale’s the walking dead (2012), life is strange franchise (2015), what remains of edith finch (2017), indie horror games on steam :)
studies:
humanities: world mythology, english language and literature, world history (with a focus on mexico + korea), anthropology, sociology, psychology
english: literature (analysis and critique, as well as historical context) and writing (primarily fiction)
film/cinema: acting, cinematography, directing, producing, and writing
language: english (native) with a desire to learn korean, spanish (latin american), arabic, turkish, latin, ancient greek, etc.