Witch Comparisons

  1. Presenting Series 2's obligatory "main character is on a ship in distress on the second episode" episode.

  2. Difference on the very first frame, golly. The zoom out from the Neuroi hives starts slightly further out on the BD version.
  3. Quick flashbacks to last weeks episode, containing the same fixes.
  4. Sakamoto's chin has been redrawn, and the collary bit of her cloak has been adjusted.
  5. The shading on the crewman in the background have been tweaked.
  6. During the beach scene with Sakamoto testing her shield, the shadows have been blurred and lightened in this shot.
  7. Sakamoto doing the Mulan thing with her sword has been redrawn shinier.
  8. The TV version of this shot ends with a zoom while fading back to the present day, while the Blu-ray is static.
  9. The background has been given some focal blur to draw attention to the foreground, Sakamoto's cloak is darker and Miyafuji's right cuff has had fixed shadows.
  10. A few frames later, a single-frame dark patch under Miyafuji's shirt has been corrected.
  11. Sakamoto's Reppumaru has been redrawn with new shadows and highlights. Miyafuji's eyes are less shiny.
  12. The missing striker stand has been added behind Miyafuji.
  13. The sky outside the window is a deeper shade of blue, and Sakamoto's face has had some changes. Her eyebrows are longer and her visible eye is shaded darker.
  14. Her mouth has been moved downwards and a patch of shadow on her hair has been removed.
  15. Extra shadow added to her left ear.
  16. Again with the striker stand.
  17. Miyafuji's eyes are shaded darker and Sakamoto's mouth has been reanimated, alongside the previous tweaks to Reppumaru.
  18. Strikeerrrss.
  19. Different shading in this scene, Miyafuji's swimsuit and strikers are shinier, the big green indicator light is brighter, and the metal stand is more metallic looking.
  20. Shinier strikers.
  21. This takeoff shot has been reframed.
  22. Just like this flying shot.
  23. The sky is tinged with red and blue from Miyafuji blocking Neuroi beams with her shield. As an added bonus, the cockpit is shaded darker.
  24. The table in the center of the room has been re-textured with a nice wood grain, and the strikers resting ontop of it are looking much less flat.
  25. In this frame of Lucchini doing cute Lucchini things, her ear has a fixed inner shadow and the patch on her sleeve is slightly different.
  26. Ear, ear, ear.
  27. Lucchini's communicator has been added to her ear. Nice catch, director, I'd almost forgotten these things existed. A couple of lines here and there are slightly moved.
  28. Big diagonal shadow added to this shot.
  29. The clouds behind CGI Miyafuji are zoomed out.
  30. The clouds behind regular Miyafuji are zoomed out.
  31. This looooong tracking shot has been brightened up.
  32. A portion of the barrel of Miyafuji's weapon goes flesh coloured for a moment on TV. The obvious solution is to erase it completely, whoops. Additionally, her animal ears are missing shadows.
  33. More ear shadows.
  34. This tilt shot of Sakamoto is higher up.
  35. Miyafuji's eyes and nose have been redrawn, she now has a bead of sweat on her cheek, and hey look, another ear shadow fix.
  36. She's now gritting her teeth rather than just frowning.
  37. Minor tweaks to this shot of Sakamoto doing cool Anime things. A stray shine on her hair is removed and she has extra buttlines and crotchshines.
  38. It's weird they didn't fix Sakamoto just hanging completely motionless midair.
  39. This shot of Sakamoto doing cool Anime things has been reframed.
  40. For some reason, Sakamoto lost her shoes on the TV version. Besides that, the Neuroi damage shards are bloomier.
  41. An extra line has been added to Sakamoto's neck.
  42. Miyafuji blinking has been retimed by about half a second, and she opens her mouth rather than starting with it open.
  43. The pair have been moved marginally downwards. Miyafuji looks concerned.
  44. Shirley and Lucchini are looking a little sharper, and Shirleys ear has been cut off.
  45. The sky and Sakamoto's eye has been shaded slightly darker.
  46. Yoshika's reaction shot has the same contrast changes.
  47. Massively redrawn face, extra shadows, fixed eyepatch, eyes, everything.
  49. On the TV version, when Sakamoto lifts her eyepatch, she rips a highlight off her face with it. This is corrected. The other highlight is removed.
  50. The outline to Sakamoto's plot-vision is slightly different, with the right side blur missing and a weird bar at the top removed.
  51. Sakamoto has her tail back.
  52. The other highlight is still MIA.
  53. Brighter shot of Miyafuji firing her weapon.
  54. And another.
  55. When Miyafuji flips around to raise a shield, the background stops scrolling to match her movements on the TV version.
  56. More ear nonsense fixed.
  57. This scrolling shot of damage being inflicted is sharper.
  58. Slightly different framing on the exposed core.
  59. Miyafuji's strikers, upper shirt and head have been recoloured in places.
  60. Slight reframe with a touch of motion blur.
  61. The clouds here scroll at a different speed.
  62. Shirley flies past slightly slower. Nyoom.
  63. More cloud changes.
  64. Miyafuji bobs up and down less agressively on the Blu-ray.
  65. More clouds. Clouds are boring. I think I'll stop commenting on the clouds.
  66. Slightly moved shot of guess who firing her Anti-tank rifle.
  67. Thankfully, they realised the pose Lucchini was in would have overbalanced her, so she's now standing upright. Miyafuji looks much happier.
  68. The black cowling part of Miyafuji's striker was in the wrong place, but unfortunately they fixed it by just covering her leg up more.
  69. More striker tomfoolery.
  70. Perrine's weapon is nice and shiny. Swoon.
  71. Same with Sanya.
  72. Trude bobs up and down a bit as she's readying hers.
  73. More bobbing up and down.
  74. They added some scrolling faint light patches to this shot of Minna flying. It's really faint, but helps get a sense of movement.
  75. Sakamoto (finally) getting in her strikers is given a quick dramatic zoom out.
  76. Sakamoto's propellers are always activated, rather than popping up a few frames late.
  77. This speed bwoosh is blurrier.
  78. Oh hey, it's this shot from the opening titles.
  79. The Neuroi is now trailing sparkles.
  80. Deja-vu.
  81. Sanya's eyes have been redrawn.
  82. Framing!
  83. The Neuroi zooms in as Sakamoto gets closer in the Blu-ray version.
  84. Trude and Erica are zoomed in and some sparkles are entering the frame.
  85. The Witches have been redrawn for this pan.
  86. Sakamoto's mirth looks less like a grimace.
  87. Miyafuji is noticeably taller and redrawn, Lynette is merely redrawn.
  88. Mio's nose has an errant line removed.
  89. And for our last shot, Perrinne's glasses have the nose rests coloured in.