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

If you don't do so already, it's worth checking anime-on-line.com every Friday as they do a weekly offer from their catalogue for a tenner :)
I've picked up a few bargains and several series that I'd forgotten about/missed on release :)

I'm currently enjoying Tokyo Ghoul on Netflix and watched Terror in Resonance last week :)
 
I started watching "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" last night, I'd forgotten how great it is, as I think it must be about 7 years since I last saw it, things like the early conversations the Tachikoma's had with each other and the human team members.
 
I finished Ghost in the Shell: SAC a couple of nights ago. I really wish they'd made a third series as it still stands up well today.

I've started Assasination Classroom which so far looks to be fun.

And in sale news, https://alltheanime.myshopify.com/collections/specials has Escaflowne (DVD set) for £20, Outlaw Star on Blu-ray for £20 and Selector Infected WIXO collectors edition for £35.
 
memyselfandi said:
Still has the Japanese audio and subtitles and in BD quality ... the dub can be ignored if its bad ... :)
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That's my thought as well :)

I suspect part of the reason they've gone kickstarter and dub instead of just putting it out on Blu-ray is that it does potentially increase the number of viewers a lot by having a dub (it also potentially means they may be able to sublicence it out to the UK/Aus* or offer the dub to the UK/Aus if say Manga or Madman were interested in the series**), and putting it on kickstarter reduces the risk to them for what is a bit of a niche series.

To be honest I'd trust TRSI/Nozomi to do the dub right for it more than most other companies, as they're not churning them out and tend to take a lot more care in their releases than many of the other companies.
Until the pound and the vat free level dropped I was importing pretty much any new Nozomi release because even if it was a series I hadn't heard of before, or hadn't given a thought to they always seemed to be good choices.


*Depending on their licence.

**Given we got Clannad over here I'm no longer ruling anything like Aria out.
 
I spotted alltheanime.com have the blu-ray set for Nadesico up for pre-order for £35, I've already got the R4, TRSI SE and ADV UK DVD's but I'll confess to being tempted by the blu-ray set.

I''d love to get Aria on BD, but I made the decision when I started collecting blu-rays that I was only going to buy ones that would play on an unmodified UK player.
 
I'm umming and arring about the double plus, but it's a lot.

If I knew it was going to get a UK release (several nozomi titles have now), I'd wait, but I'm sorely tempted, and it would give me something fun to look forward to if I go with it.

I'm going to give it some thought for now.
 
memyselfandi said:
I think at the moment for the art book and the season 1 & 2 BDs at the prima plus plus level it comes to ~$281 with international shipping. Don't know yet how much this will be pushed up by the rest of the BDs.

Even if you can't support a level it may be worth picking up one of the lowest levels so you can be a slacker backer and pick up the BDs afterwards at the discounted rate at least (see the updates where they talk about this recently).

edit: And $356 for everything and the guide book at the Prima (triple plus) level including international shipping. (ouch)
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I've decided to be good and not order it.

I love the series but can't justify what looks like it'll end up being £200+ (after taxes) on 3 series I've already got on DVD for upscales (no matter how good) and one I haven't. especially as it could require additional expense to be able to play it (and I'm fairly determined not to end up with a lot of Blu-rays I can't play on a UK player).

I'll wait and hope that there is a release in the UK (we got Clannad!), or possibly the EU/Aus.


I've not been so good in that I have ordered the new Wolf's Rain collectors edition BD from MVM as it's £42 on pre-order (although they do take the money straight away usually), as it's a great series and I've been wanting to watch it again for ages.
 
Outlaw Star is very fun, and I think there were plans for a second series that unfortunately never made it to fruition, there is a related series called Angel Links but it's nowhere near as good.
The end song is very soothing to listen to, and I really liked the end illustrations which I thought at the time looked oddly familiar, it turns out the artist did some covers for classic sci-fi as well.
 
IIRC we were lucky in the UK, we never had the edited version as that was only for Toonami in the US, we got the uncut TV version (I can't remember the channel name, but it showed OS, Bebop, Gundamn Wing and a few others), and then the uncut DVD's.
 
I spotted the Girls Und Panzer film was up for pre-order when looking at Bebop the movie :)

I've just finished Nadesico again, as I treated myself to the blu-ray set when it was on offer last month (it's taken me a month to watch it all), it's still as good as I remember it being, and despite the series being an upscale it looks good.
I would have liked to see more set after the film, and it would have been nice if there had been some form of animated summary of the events in the "gap or two years" that the game was set in, and I

I'm just starting Ghost in the Shell Arise at long last, I picked the blu-rays for that up last month cheap :)
So far after episode 1 I'm really liking it, as it's a different setting/time to the other GITS works.
 
Sumanji said:
Absolutely love Bebop... probabs my favorite anime of all time.

Question, do people (still) use MyAnimeList?

I'm watching through Last Exile at the mo; two thirds of the way through and it's pretty solid (thought the plot has become a bit hazy). Can't believe it's 14 years old!

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I still have a last exile picture as the background on my old phone (and at one point had it as the boot logo on a PC ;)).
It gets a little complicated to follow but is a great series, although the sequel is a little weak.
 
It's the movies first official blu-ray release as the DVD was released by Columbia Tristar back in October 2003 (according to my notes October the 13th and I paid £13 for my copy:)).

You can watch the film after the series, or if you want to watch it during the series I think it can be watched at any point between about episode 8 and 20.
 
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