Welcome back! Today we’ll take a look at Episode #02 of Phantom Blood. A treacherous poisoning is uncovered, a lifelong friend is met, an alliance is forged! This is gonna be a long one. Let’s dive right into it!

• In the pre-opening scene, the BDs give us a nice bit of introduction as to what we’re seeing. 1888, London, East End:

• Here we have the first bit of uncensored gore for this episode (they also toned down on the shadows):

• And here as well:

• The reflection on Jack the Ripper’s blade is shorter (I know, I know, who cares):

• This shot of the daily newspaper has an added vignette:

• Aaaand here come the redraws! Let’s begin with Dio in this shot:

• WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY? YOU WANT IT TO BE MORE DRAMATIC? YOU WANT IT REDDER? AND WITH MORE THINGS ON THE SCREEN? ALRIGHT, I GUESS:

• The scratch pattern they’ve put in this scene is slightly different in the BDs:

• Dio has been redrawn, and the interviewers’ eyeballs have been shaded:

• The strokes in this shot are way thicker:

• “Those are some very nice arrows” “Oh, thank you” “Why though?” “I’m not sure”:

• Dio and Jonathan are both redrawn in these shots:

• George is not immune to the redrawings. If you look close enough even the bed has a thicker outline:

• Sneaky Dio is not sneaky enough to get past David pro’s redrawing pencils:

• The BDs give Jonathan a sharper shade of surprise:

• Dio no longer looks as if he has no idea what’s going on:

• This whole animation has been redrawn, and the background is blurrier (I’ve also added an image comparison because this is a particularly huge redraw):

• Dio has been redrawn here:

• The BD tells us that this was “Two days later, London”:

• Thankfully Jonathan’s face in this scene was redrawn:

• This animation is slightly brighter and uncensored:

• This other one has been uncensored (and I honestly don’t get why it was in the first place):

• As was this other animation (if you look closely, you can see that the dude walking in the foreground has also been moved slightly to the left):

• And another one:

• We interrupt this stream of gory uncensored animations to bring you some breaking news! The shoe in the bottom left corner is for some reason brighter (riveting, huh?):

• Alright, let’s go back to the interesting stuff:

• Now you can see this dude’s messed up hand in all its g(l)ory:

• The thunders in this scene are brighter:

• And now for some good ol’ credit mistakes! Speedweed’s voice actor (Ueda Yōji) was previously misspelled as 上田耀司, while instead it’s 上田燿司; if you don’t see anything different, here it is: the second to last kanji is not 耀, but 燿. Small difference, but still:

• Not one, but two misspelled names: both 辻秀一 (Tsuji Shūichi) and 辻健志 (Tsuji Kenji)’s surnames (辻) apparently only have one “drop” on the left side:

• And finally, here 小松原聖 (Komatsubara Kiyoshi)’s name is spaced differently; since in japanese three-kanji surnames are somewhat rarer, I suppose they chose to put a clearer separation between the surname and the name, to avoid confusions:

And that’s it for Episode #02! Man, David production really redrew a lot of things for Phantom Blood. The more we go on, the less things I’m expecting to get redrawn, honestly. But we’ll see, I guess!

That’s it for now; you take care and see you next time! Bye!