The worst-quality anime of last year’s Blu-ray has this year’s saddest improvement so far

Anime that told fans “We’re in serious trouble” has a troublingly tiny art revision for home video release.

In the current TV anime industry, it’s pretty much the norm for schedules to be tight and budgets stretched to the snapping point, so just about every season there’ll be at least one series with a few laughably bad animation errors. But even in that environment, My Sister, My Writer, called Ore ga Suki na no ha Imoto Dakedo Imoto ja nai in the Japanese market, was an especially messy train wreck of a show.

Things got so bad that the production staff stuck a hidden cry for help into the credits, listing an animator with the name “We’re in serious trouble.” One week, the new episode wasn’t even finished, forcing broadcasters to rerun the same episode from a week ago.

▼ When even the characters’ mouths start trying to leave the show, you’ve got problems.

「俺が好きなのは妹だけど妹じゃない。」これはもうダメでしょ笑笑 作画崩壊から作画ミス(上級)になりましたね。 https://t.co/6S9fnYYVcG

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つっくん(アニメ大好き) (@Tukkun0816) November 04, 2018

But My Sister, My Writer somehow managed to limp to the finish line, wrapping up its 10-episode run in mid-December, and now the first Blu-ray disc is on sale. Considering how much clean-up work gets done these days between anime TV broadcasts and their physical media releases, this could be a chance for the series to really spruce itself up, right?

Well, let’s take a look at a side-by-side screenshot comparison, provided by Japanese Twitter user @mikune777. “The Blu-ray has an extensive revision,” he excitedly announces…

いもいもBDでは大幅に修正されてる！ (シーツの色が) https://t.co/OT5XPmjJ4c

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みくね (@mikune777) February 26, 2019

…before specifying the improvements is to “to the color of the sheets.”

Further hammering home the insignificance of the “upgraded” Blu-ray visuals is the fact that @mikune777 doesn’t even bother specifying which screen shot is from the TV broadcast version and which is from the home video release, because whether the sheets are white or pink, female lead Suzuka still looks awkward and stiff, and, in keeping with My Sister, My Writer’s overarching aesthetic, her awkward stiffness here is different from the awkward stiffness she has in other scenes, so she’s not even on-model.

本日は「俺が好きなのは妹だけど妹じゃない」BD/DVD Vol.1の発売日🙌 特典として恵比須清司書き下ろし短編小説や、近藤玲奈さんパーソナリティのWebラジオCDに加え、ムフフな新規短編アニメーションも❗️ぜひチェックしてみて… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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「俺が好きなのは妹だけど妹じゃない」アニメ公式 (@imoimo_anime) February 27, 2019

Still, if you’re a big enough fan to not only be able to determine which bedsheet color is from the Blu-ray version, and if that enhancement is enough of a tipping point to convince you to buy anime’s most problematic problem child of the last year, Volume 1 can be ordered from Amazon here.

Source: Twitter/@mikune777 via Hachima Kiko
Featured image: Twitter/@mikune777
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