Twenty-six DVD compilations have been released by Aniplex between the first on February 7, 2007 and the latest on March 4, 2009.[12][13] The first thirteen compilations contain episodes of the first season, and all successive compilations have episodes of the second season. On March 31, 2009, Funimation released the first thirteen episodes of the anime as a DVD compilation.[14] The next thirteen episodes were released on June 23, 2009, and on Blu-ray released on January 5, 2010.[15][16]
The DVD compilations of the D.Gray-man anime are released by Aniplex. As of September 2008, only Region 2 DVD compilations have been released in Japan. Thirteen DVD compilations of the first season, all containing four episodes except the thirteenth DVD compilation (three episodes), have been released by Aniplex between February 7, 2007 and February 6, 2008. Thirteen DVD compilations of the second season, each containing four episodes, have been released, the last on March 4, 2009.[10][13] Funimation released the first thirteen episodes of the anime as a DVD compilation on March 31, 2009 and the next thirteen episodes were released on June 23, 2009. Funimation's home media release listed four seasons instead of Aniplex's two "stage" seasons.[14][15]
One year has passed after the events of the last episode, and Godai and Kyōko are about to get married. Even though they are quite nervous about it, everyone expresses their support to the couple and finally Godai and Kyōko join their lives together. We get a glimpse of some of the characters' futures, and after some time a new member of the Godai family is born.
Thank you for addressing my question from the 100th episode thread! Great episode as always and awesome closing remark, I literally lol'd. What are you going to say when we get to the Year of the Six Emperors i wonder?
Hi Mike!
I wonder if the name "Commodus" does have any connection with the word "commode", quite apart from his behaviour, it might have been a very noble name in his time. I will have to go over his new episode a few times, there is, as already mentioned, so much in this one. Great work!
Not being up to the latest episode, one is always late to the party with comments, but here it goes. Your recommendation of Zinn was quite surreal. My conservative brethren have outed him sufficiently so I will not drag out the dead and now swollen horse for more critique. Let me just say that you have spent over a hundred episodes building your reputation on solid research and a heart-felt search for the truth. Why blow it with Zinn, who is not up to your standards? His works are agenda-driven and see American history through a leftist victim-hood prism. Lefft is right.
Thanks for helping me impress my attending physician today on rounds. I'm on an infectious disease rotation at my med school and today the boss asked us about a fungus called Candida lusitaniae, specifically why its species name was lusitaniae. He was amazed when I was able to recite that Lusitania is basically modern day Portugal so the fungus was probably discovered there - he said I was the first student he'd ever taught to answer that question correctly. I only knew it because I'd listened to the "Provincial Matters" episode last weekend, so seriously thanks man.
I'm a huge fan. I love listening to one episode after another, so it's really difficult for me to wait a whole week for a new episode. I found the podcast when you were on #65 or so, and I listened to about 4-5 podcasts a day while I worked out. Man - I've never looked so forward to my workouts. Alas, now I've caught up and only work out about 20 minutes a week :)
With that said, it is ironic to look upon today's historians and the histories they write in relation to the roman historians. First off, as has always been the case, most of the written history seems to be about the elite and military campaigns vs. the common person (which is one of the main reasons Zinn's book stands out as being so important). Even in today's free-thinking western cultures, there is societal pressure not to rock the boat. It is so interesting to think of the roman historians in the time of emperor x writing about the life and times of emperor x-1, and how much the popular and elite perceptions of the past would have played into what actually ended up being written. I know you've talked about this during episodes and I appreciate the insight. Finally, even with all the bias that ran rampant in Roman histories, it's hard to imagine a Roman historian practicing critical introspection about the grandeur and righteousness of the Roman state.
Lei Xing:
Good afternoon. This is your co-host Lei Xing, former chief editor of China Auto Review. And this is episode #96. So we just got off a panel discussion with our good friend Edison from Deutche Bank. So we're probably going to repeat some of what we said, but let's start off with Ford and CATL. My question to you: is Ford desperate?
Lei Xing:
Sure, we should have two more episodes, two more weeks. And then we'll be, I guess, now, probably sometime next week, we'll drop our latest MAX episode. It's pretty much finalized, just getting the last kinks out.
Tu Le:
And you and I have a Beijing, Shanghai bias. But if we talk to our friends in Shenzhen, business is normal, life is normal. There are no COVID ripping through that community yet. So it'll go in waves, and it's going to be at least through Q1 before anything really kind of normalizes I think. So. All right, then man, hey, thanks for listening, everyone. I'd like to think Lei that you and I could put in a little effort for the last episode of the year to kind of do our Top 10 like we did last year. So for those listeners, the last episode of 2022 we are going to do our Top 10 of the year and our outlook for 2023. We hinted at some of that in this week's episode, but we'll get into more detail at it in two weeks.
D.Gray-man was an anime series that ran from 2006 to 2016. In total 116 episodes of D.Gray-man were aired. With a total of 25 reported filler episodes, D.Gray-man has a moderate filler percentage of 22%.
It is during the second half of the season when the filler episodes begin to wear out their welcome. If the repetitive plots during that story arc did not show a lack of creativity during this part of the season, the need to reiterate character developments already established in the first season and then reestablished during the first half of the second season hammer the point home. The story then feels like a slap to the face in the finale when everything that developed during that arc cancels out when Allen and company arrive at the destination that they should have reached 20 episodes ago.
The episode for "Mary Anne and the Memory Garden" was originally released on January 22, 2018 and is BSC #93. You can listen to it here. This episode is 1:12:50 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jahnna N. Malcolm.
MORRIE WARSHAWSKI: If you want to get up and stretch, please dothat now. And can I get Bruce to come up here and stay with me? Mytalk today is entitled, "What I Learned on the Way to the Cleaners."Let me give a brief introduction. Recently I had a problem forwhich I needed expert assistance. My favorite silk Giorgio Armanitie had a spot on it. I'd acquired the tie on a business trip toPortland, Oregon, and it cost me an arm an a leg. The tie wasperfect in every way, just the right length and width. Itsbeautiful burgundy and navy blue pattern complemented almosteverything in my wardrobe. However, I couldn't buy a replacementsince the tie was no longer available from Armani, and I couldn'tafford to fly back to Portland anyway. So I decided to consult witha few professional dry cleaners in my neighborhood, and got thefollowing answers to my dilemma. The first person I called said hewould not give me any advice about cleaning the tie, because he wasafraid that I might do what he suggested, and then ruin the tie andcome back to sue him. His advice was to take more care in thefuture and to avoid getting my tie dirty in the first place."Scotchgard your tie before wearing it," he said. He also suggestedthat I wear a bib when eating, or at least turn the tie backwards,or better yet, tuck it into my shirt and completely out of harm'sway. I went to visit another cleaner in person. She looked at thetie, checked its label to see if it was 100% silk, asked me what hadcaused the stain, and then said with confidence, "No problem. I canmake it look good as new." Wanting a second opinion, I triedsomeone else who said, "Well, I can work on the stain, but to behonest, your tie will never look the same. You'll always notice aslight difference in color where we have done our work." Still onemore expert examined my cravat and had the following news: "Forgetthis tie. Cleaning it will ruin it forever. Let me make a new onefor you with some material I have in the shop." I sent aquestionnaire out to experts in the field via mail, fax and EMail,and I picked up the phone and talked directly to companies andindividuals who worked with tape on a daily basis, many of whom arehere at the conference today, and whose brains you should pick ifyou can. What follows is a layman's thumbnail sketch of what Ilearned while on the way to the video cleaners. The truth is thatthere is good news and bad news when it comes to cleaning andremastering. The bad news is, that few people want to openlydiscuss their methods in detail. Either from fear of being sued forbad advice, or because they prefer to maintain a business advantageover business competitors. The area of videotape cleaning is alsoan incredibly complicated one, with only a very tiny bit ofreliable, independent research that has been done and published. Noone I talked to was willing to give the video equivalent of adefinitive Hints from Heloise on how to clean videotapes. One lucidand succinct document is the paper by John Van Bogart of theNational Media Laboratory, "Recovery of Damaged Magnetic Tape andOptical Disk Media," which is in all of your handout packets, andI'd like to thank BAVC for taking the time and energy to Xerox it.It's full of diagrams and pictures and good advice. I highlyrecommend it. In fact, Van Bogart is now my hero of cleaning andremastering. The good news is that all the secrecy and complexitydoes not seem to matter all that much. Cleaning may not be a fullycodified science, but it is a fine art that has many reputableprofessional practitioners throughout the country. If you have adirty tape, chances are incredibly good that you can find a companyto restore it at a reasonable price. Tapes beyond any possiblerecovery and remastering constitute, at least with the people I talkto a very small and probably statistically insignificant minority ofthe population. Although, to be honest, there is little or no dataon this as well. The culprits. Videotape may look like a simplemedium, but placed under even a low-powered microscope, it becomes acomplicated sandwich. In fact, I wish I'd heard the analogy earlierto coconut cream pie, but I'm afraid I might have been tempted thento tell a joke that Soupy Sales once told on television and gotkicked off TV for a year for telling it. I'll probably get kickedout of the conference. So, let's stay with the sandwich. I hope Idon't get you too hungry. A complicated sandwich made up of a topcoat, substrate and backing, and you can find a picture of this inVan Bogart's handout. Into that mix throw a mayonnaise of binder,magnetic particles, lubricants, polyester to taste. Not allvideotape sandwiches are made the same. Every manufacturer variesthe recipe, and keeps these under lock and key. To complicatethings further, keep in mind that with the rapidly changingtechnologies of video, have come a mind-boggling variety ofvideotape sizes and formats, from the relatively gargantuan two inchto the tiny Hi8 and everything in between. And for each of theseformats, there may be a half dozen or more manufacturers with verydifferent formulas and disparate ingredients. As I thought aboutvideotape, I was reminded of the hilarious episode from the JerrySeinfeld show, where Jerry and his friends become addicted to thesoup made by a very temperamental and secretive chef, known only as"The Soup Nazi." Jerry's friend Elaine gets evicted from therestaurant and thus denied access to the city's most exquisitesoups. It's one of my favorite episodes - I've seen it three times.But Elaine exacts her revenge in the end - she discovers the chef'shandwritten recipes in an old dresser drawer bequeathed to her byKramer. Now Elaine can let the world have access to the chef's finesoups without his bad manners. Would that this were true in thevideo world. Ampex, Sony, BASF, et al. may not have bad manners,but they do have secret recipes. So until we gain access to theirdresser drawers, we just have to use our taste buds and makeeducated guesses about some of the ingredients in many tape formats.Mona Smith's Round Table paper on Analysis and Evaluation, which youjust heard, and I have to tell you that I called Mona two days agoand asked her if there was going to be any overlap between ourtalks. She assured me there wouldn't, so if I ever meet Mona, she'sin trouble. ...has already detailed the kinds of things that can gowrong with videotape that cause it to need cleaning and remastering.Briefly, the catalogue includes damage caused by temperatureextremes, exposure to water, high humidity, mold, dust and dirt,improper handling, dirty or misaligned playback machines, inherentreaction of the chemicals in the tapes' own makeup, that can causebreakdown in any of its layers or migration between layers. So manythings can go wrong with tapes, and so much of it inexplicable, thatI would be tempted to add some other elements to the list ofculprits, including gremlins, bad vibes and the positions of thestars. What to do? Once a tape has been damaged and needscleaning, there are a number of options available. Depending on thetype of damage inflicted, an expert could employ any one or acombination of the following methods: baking - and in fact, I justsaw a diagram for a baking machine that was made from a cardboardbox, a meat thermometer, and a blow dryer with some racks on theinside. In fact, blow dryers seem to be very popular in thecleaning world. Scraping, burnishing, washing, rinsing with watersolutions, chemical treatment, relubrication, vacuuming, dry wiping,and then there's been a rumor that some people are using sound wavesto do cleaning, although I haven't found anyone yet. So if there'sany information in here about sound waves, I'd love to hear it. Inmy interviews, I found that these methods were accomplished eitherby hand or through the use of homemade machines, a number of whichemploy simple elements like Remington electric shavers and blowdryers, and/or through machines that are mass produced andcommercially available. Which method should you use for yourparticular problem? I would refer you to Van Bogart's paper, wherehe gives general guidelines for the most common cleaning problems.For instance, baking for sticky shed problems, vacuuming and wipingfor dust, rinsing in tap water for sea water contamination, windingcleaning machine for mold, etc. But, with each of these methods, Iwould add the following disclaimer, one that I have heard fromprofessionals and read in dozens of reports, and it goes like this:"XYZ method is not a universal panacea for the ABC problem. XYZwill only work with very specific types of ABC problems, and if notapplied properly, may actually cause more damage than help. Expertadvice is recommended." In some, don't try these methods byyourself at home. Go consult a professional, and leave the cleaningto them. Remastering: once your tape has been cleaned, you may wantto remaster it in order to insure a playable preservation copy. Infact, in the instance of half-inch reel-to-reel tapes that have beenrecovered through a baking process, most experts recommendremastering immediately within a week or two after cleaning, beforethe effects of baking get reversed. Let me say something at theoutset. Remastering is just a fancy word for copying. Luckily, theact of copying a tape is a relatively simple matter devoid of allthe wild complexities we encounter during the cleaning process.However, remastering does have its own set of issues. For instance,there is the technical and practical question of which format youshould use. There are also the ethical and aesthetic questionssurrounding the enhancement or lack of enhancement of a tape signalduring the act of copying from one machine and format to another.For instance, do I tweak a color here, brighten a sound level thereto make the tape look better or more like what I remember? Luckily,this topic is being handled by at least two other working groups atthis conference. In terms of formats, there are two broadcategories of choices: analog and digital. Analog and digital wars.Within these categories, my response - the people I talk to,currently tend to prefer either Betacam SP in the analog domain, andD2 or Digital Betacam in the digital domain. Are either of theseformats any more stable or permanent than the tapes they arereplacing? We don't know. Does that mean you may have to beprepared to remaster your tapes yet again in another ten or twentyyears? And then again, ad infinitum? Well, yes, I'm afraid so. Andwhen you go to make the copy twenty years from now, will there stillbe a machine available that can play back your tape? Or will thattechnology have become obsolete and assigned to a junkyard? Welcometo a curator's nightmare. During one of my interviews, I asked atechnician what he would advise a librarian to do with a large videocollection. His response was: transfer everything to D2 and buy twoor three D2 machines for insurance. An excellent solution for thoseof us with deep pockets. Another professional confided to me thatin his experience, the most durable medium for storage was thenow-ancient two-inch tape format. Unfortunately, there are very fewtwo-inch machines left in the world, and even fewer people who knowhow to repair them. As to our two main avenues, analog and digital,each has its defenders and detractors, and in fact, I need to warnyou that this is a highly contentious field in both the areas ofcleaning and remastering, and a lot of arguments either way that dosound logical. Digital has many proponents, because every time itis copied there is no degradation of recording quality. Each copyshould be identical to the source, no matter how many generationsseparated from the original. However, digital formats arerelatively expensive. Also, and this is the complaint I heard fromsome people, digital tapes show little sign of degradation up to thepoint when they do fail, and at that time, large sections of therecorded information could be lost. Something known as the cliffeffect. Analog tapes are more economical to purchase and play back.Where analog suffers, is in its addition of some level of tapenoise, both image and sound, every time a copy is made. Every newanalog copy will a