The anime thread sequel (it's still not as good as the Manga though),

Aye, and it's interesting that there is a suggestion that it's happening to women as much in Japan but less reported, and may be happening here as well to a degree.

A bit of very welcome news from across the pond, Nozomi have license rescued Princess 9 :D (it's one of my odd favourites, odd in that I don't care about sports much, let alone baseball:p).
I've almost been afraid to get my old ADV discs out because I know they had some sort of disc rot/failure endemic to certain batches (for example disc 1 was well known to fail - and it cost me as much to source a replacement disc 1 as the complete set about 6-12 months after it went OOP).
 
Welcome back to the UK :)

I'm looking forward to Stiens gate (my copy hasn't shipped yet) :)

Currently watching Cat Planet Cuties (dub at the moment as I've gone and picked up the threat infection from hell:p), and the number of punnish words they've got in there - both for cats and dogs :p
 
You know, sometimes it's nice to realise I'm not the only one who can appreciate a (very) fan service heavy bit of fluff :p

Robgmum, if you liked chobits have you ever read the manga? (I picked up the omnibus editions as they were release and liked it more than the anime).
 
Howl's is good (haven't got round to buying that on blu - i think I have the DVD).
Nausicaa is very good imo.
Grave - get tissues handy.

Bebop if great, I'm tempted to get the Blu-rays, but already have it twice on DVD (original version, and the remastered version with surround sound).

I've currently got Sekirei (season 1) in the player, with stiens Gate and Tiger & Bunny set 3 to watch :)
Unfortunately I'm not likely to get much anime watching done for a while as I'm away for the weekend and need to get ready for that :)
 
I managed to squeeze in all bar the "extra" episode on K-on! season 2 (I way all, the last 5 episode), and really enjoyed them :)

I'm going to try and watch the last episode tonight, and make a start on set 3 of Tiger & Bunny :)
 
memyselfandi said:
Well it's been announced today by Koji Hoshino (president of Studio Ghibli), and reported in various places, that Hayao Miyazaki is going to retire and the current film, Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Has Risen) is his last.

Sad loss to the anime industry but not that unexpected and has been speculated about for ages.
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That's, as you say, a sad loss to the industry but he is in his 70's, and he's done some of the classics.


pecnarf, Aye freedom is good, I think I picked up the LE cheapish a year or two back, and it ended up sitting on the side for a few weeks.
 
After weeks of barely being able to watch anything (let alone anime)*, I managed to squeeze in Deadman Wonderland and the last half of Tiger & Bunny over the last few days.

Deadman wonderland was I thought really quite good, but felt like it could have done with being longer (and as a tip to anyone watching it, don't watch any of the English VA extras until after you finish the series).

Tiger & Bunny was fun, but a little unfilling, I'm not sure if I'll get the films for it as well.

I'm probably going to watch Macross II, and Frontier over the next week if I get time, as it's been years since I saw II (I can't remember it at all), and I've never watched Frontier.


*I've been in a fairly foul mood on and off for weeks because of a combination of being run ragged with various things, and what seems like loads of minor illnesses (it seems like I've either been running around after people or sleeping in all my free time).
 
I just finished From Up on Poppy Hill*, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, you can tell it's a Hayao Miyazaki film/script even though it's Goro directing, as it's got the feel and look you expect :)

As I'm tired I was watching it dubbed, and finally it seems like the songs are actually getting subtitled - in most of the other Ghibli discs it seems unusual for the songs (at least those playing during the films) to get subbed which always annoys me.



*Having received an email from Amazon about 2 hours before they dispatched my copy of the collectors edition saying they didn't know when they'd have the CE in:p
 
memyselfandi said:
Hmmm ..... Amazon are listing steelbook versions of Totoro, Nausicaa, Howl and Ponyo for the end of November (25th). Each has BD + DVD. (linky)

Personally I don't think the art work, shown better here on ANN, is good enough to make me want to purchase the films yet again ...
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I like steel books, and I like most of the covers for the new Ghibli releases (especially as they're the same sort of price as the normal releases were at launch rather than some silly premium), unfortunately I cannot justify buying them for the third/forth time.

On a slightly different topic, I started watching the Steins Gate from the beginning again last night as the second set arrived :)

I also spotted Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail up for pre order on amazon for £16, so will probbaly order that tonight.
 
Iron Warrior I'll keep an eye out for it :)


I finished Stien's Gate Friday evening which was very good, really nicely done and something I don't think I've seen done in quite that way in any sci-fi before.
I'd recommend it to any sci-fi fan (younger brother surprised me when I mentioned I was watching it by coming out with "do da doo" :D - and then admitted he'd only seen the first episode).

I'm not quite sure what i'm going to watch next, but I'm currently reading the first of the High School of the Dead omnibus editions, by supporting most of the weight on my desk whilst reading it.
It's like holding a couple of reams of printer paper with the size/weight*, but is really nicely printed, and looks like it's going to go a fair bit further than the anime in the story (I'm about a quarter of the way through it, and probably about a third/half the way through what was covered in the anime at a guess).


*Nearly 800 pages, A4 in hardback :eek:
 
Double post time;)

Just spotted that Animeigo are looking at doing a kickstarter for a blu-ray release of Bubblegum Crisis, with some of the extras being thought about things like potentially including A.D Police if a certain level is reached, but with other extras including things like the "data bank" images and books, possibly the drama cd's (presumably with some sort of slide show and subbed), and possibly even a new dub if enough people pledged.
The most interesting bit for me though, is that they look to be doing it region free and with the ability to send it anywhere in the world apart from Asia (I guess they must have ROW rights to it), all of which makes me want it*, despite having already bought BGC at least twice.


*Assuming cost isn't massive (from what little I've seen they want to make the set available for backers at one of the lower tiers).
 
Is the new blu-ray of Bebop a big improvement over the DVD's?
I'm sort of tempted, but I've already got it once or twice :)

penarf, I've got FMA:B part two sat here waiting for me to get a chance to watch it, unfortunately the mutt's been ill the past week or two so I've had almost no anime time :(
 
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running the image url through google image search suggest patlabor 2 (film), but I can't say for sure because I can't see the original picture at all.
 
I'm probably showing my age and failing memory, but I didn't realise you were an anime fan Stelly....

/fully expects to have it pointed out you've been posting in this thread for ages :p


Cheers Putty, I may well look at getting them at some point in that case.
Aye, I'm oddly excited about Patlabor on Blu-ray - I've got it pre-ordered (and already have the old US dvd's).

Talking of old stuff getting blu-rays, it looks like Animiego are probably aiming to do their new Bubblegum Crisis release for about $45 + shipping as the starting price for a set on their Kickstarter proposal :)
At that price even though it's going to get hit by customs (adding about 50% to the cost after handling), I'm probably going to get it, despite already having both the pink and blue boxes.
 
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