Doomed Megalopolis Blu-ray
About Doomed Megalopolis Blu-ray
Doomed Megalopolis contains episodes 1-4 of the anime directed by Rintaro.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the supernatural anime classic makes its stunning blu-ray premiere!
An evil sorcerer bent on crushing the "greatest city on earth" uses dark powers to awaken the destructive spirit of Tokyo's historic "guardian." To save the city, a team of occultists, scientists and children become embroiled in a multi-decade supernatural struggle to oppose the forces of darkness! Long out of print, the epic four-chapter saga returns in all it’s horrific glory!
Special Features: Mapping Out Tokyo, Signs Of Darkness, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Interview with Actor Kyusaku Shimada and Director Rin Taro
Details
- Publisher: MEDIA BLASTERS
- Media: Blu-ray
- Spoken Language: English, Japanese
- Subtitle Language: English
- Genre: Horror
- Themes: Historical, Supernatural
- Age Rating: 16+
- Run Time: 135
- Year Created: 1991
- Release Date: 11/9/2021
- Dimensional Weight: 1
- Region Code: A
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Ratings & Reviews
3 reviews
Horrible Video Quality
by John -
Video quality is not very good. looks like an upscale of a DVD at best not sure if the masters were just this poor or if there was some other reason, very disappointing. Content is still good but only has the US dub.
One of the greatest classic horror OVAs of all time!
by Loren G
Finallllllly! Allllll of the classic ova on one Blu-ray. Looks better than my old DVDs. I am verrrrrry happy this great horror anime is finally out, I hope more people discover it and see how ahead of its time it was. I hope the live action adaptation will be released next! This anime is in my top five anime horror OVAs if all time. Better than DVD quality, great sound, and UNCUT! BRAVO AND ENCORE! Hey!!! More 90s anime and genre films like this, PLEASE! SUCH A MASTERPIECE!
Disappointing "Remaster" -- It deserves so much better than this!
by Paul
When I heard that Doomed Megalopolis, what I consider to be one of THE classic golden era anime OVAs (along with pretty much everything else released by Streamline Pictures in the 80s and 90s) -- I was SO excited to see this in remastered 1080p quality. I had only ever seen it on VHS, DVD, and whatever other lower-quality sources that weren't doing it much justice. Needless to say, this was pretty much a day one purchase for me.
Sadly, upon viewing this remaster I was shocked at just how poorly done it was... What the hell was even remastered here?? Like another reviewer said, it looked like little more than a DVD upscale, as digital artifacting was obvious from the opening credits. The picture was dark, murky, and details were blurry, especially obvious with characters standing in the background. I'm not sure how they got away with basically slapping the DVD version on a Blu Ray and calling it a remaster, but it is horribly disappointing how badly they dropped the ball with this.