^ You don't see the importance of having your screen filled? Good, I don't see the importance of having superfluous elements at the cost of a square window inside my TV.
Which is why a full "redirected" remake will solve it: a full remake will be meant to be seen in widescreen and everyone will be happy.
Think what you want, but we don't have widescreen TVs to see half of the screen not used, sorry but I'm not buying a book to have the last tier filled with blank pages, regardless of the story stopping way before. You don't pretend that fact doesn't exist and put the product as is despite the fact that it's not synchronized with the recepee anymore, you fill those blank pages with something new if need be, which
Kai did.
So this IS a problem, and
Kai has proven that good widescreen does great, they even ADD new parts of the pictures, which means you actually WIN something and all that is lost is acknowledged as irrelevant by the production company itself.
But if you like it, next time you watch a video on your computer, reduce the video window to half of the screen, see if you're happy. Cause that's always nice watching something in a window smaller than your screen just because "somebody somewhere decided it was meant to be seen that way" (let's say it's to emulate the fact that you're supposed to be far from your TV set, that way you'll see the picture as if you were watching a TV on the other side of the room when you're just in front of your computer screen, that's the way it was meant to be seen!!).
Just like the manga IS now meant to be seen in full color, regardless of "how it WAS meant to be seen" back then.
See how "WAS" makes the expression "how it WAS meant to be seen" irrelevant to present times?
But to each their own, if you want to let some outdated director decide what's good to see today, suit yourself. It's like asking most grandfathers what's the best streaming website: how can he know what's good when he didn't have the tools to get acquainted with that back then. We have tools today that can go beyond the original vision they had, so why not use it?
Or maybe you want to stop using the microwave oven because it does not respect the vision your ancestors had of "how it's like and how it feels to warm up some food" and you're really losing something compared to them?
Now you want the show as it was meant to be seen otherwise it's redirecting it? Fine. Then don't take a blu-ray. Or a DVD. The show was not meant to be seen on such devices back then, the experience will be modified.
Don't buy it if they did any kind of great remastering: it was not meant to look as good as it is when greatly remaster from today.
See the point? Today we have DVD technology so we want it on DVDs, today we have Blu-Ray technology so we want it on Blu-Ray, today we have widescreen pictures so... guess the end of the sentence?
So I'm terribly sorry if it all sounds snappy, but your post really seemed like "I have the right opinion, you don't", or "this is the right way, period" so it prompted me to show you what it's like when someone rubs tthis to your face when there's no actual, objectively right opinion on a subject.
The truth is, your opinion is valid ("discarding today's features for the original vision") and mine is valid too ("discarding the original vision for today's features"). To you, the original vision is the priority, to me it's something optionnal because it's already gone at the time being, even in the creator's mind who would likely do things a different way today (widescreen, for example?
), and changing the original vision could actually be the way to be closer to the creator's actual vision (as it has likely evolved to adapt to the current context, including current tools).
As I said, the ultimate objective truth is that there are advantages and disadvantages to both 4:3 and widescreen when it comes to the old series that was originally 4:3 but our products are now meant for widescreen.
And the ultimate objective truth is that the only way to have only advantages and getting rid off all disadvantges and making everyone happy about the aspect ratio is to have a new version that is
meant to be widescreen from the start, which was the point of my post, my opinion on the subject was just a trivia note (France has already chosen that "
Kai smart widescreen" is the way to go, so we're fine here).
And to finish, I will agree with you that for this very specific release, 4:3 is the way to go, because those buying this want the original series, including all its flaws: if they wanted an updated product, they have
Kai available.
But from a general point of view, I have a different opinion than yours as to what is to be done with a 4:3 product at the time of widescreen sets.
