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

Alltheanime has a few offers on at the moment, mainly for tokyo ghoul related stuff, and animeonline.co.uk have Chobits on BD for £15, and Mysterious Girlfriend on DVD for a tenner (they seem to have stated doing a DVD and BD every week now, sometimes for the same title, sometimes different ones).

And I've still not started on GITS:SAC, I've not even watched the last couple of episodes of The Ancient Magus Bride which I was really enjoying, I've run into the problem that I'm desperately trying to paint some models for a deadline and can't paint and watch anime at the same time (instead I'll either listen to radio shows* and audio books, or commentary tracks on films).


*Never listen to "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" or "Just a minute" whilst doing detail work with a brush, unless you want uncontrolled squiggles as you laugh unexpectedly.
 
All the Anime are doing summer deals.

So far I've ordered
Psychic School Wars - Blu-ray/DVD Ltd. Collector's Edition and Project ITOH: Harmony in thei'r BOGOF offer, currently they're doing a director focus set of offers (including psycho pass 2, and napping princess)
 
Alltheanime have a few offers on until some time today, Kiznaiver, Aoharu x Machinegu and Anthem of the Heart.

I've just finished watching Ghost in the Shell: SAC TV, which is actually better than I remember it.
The bit with the Tachikoma's using the sateliite with their processors/memory to save the Major still makes me watery eyed as it heads down whilst they're singing, although a bit when they're discussing it in virtual space and the last Tachichomatic Days does suggest at least one of them may have survived in virtual space, whilst the Fuschicoma's having the samve but more robotic voices, combined with that last 'Days episode also suggests they may not have been lost completely.


There were lots of bits I'd forgotten about, and I'm sure I picked up on some stuff I'd missed before thanks to the HD transfer meaning I was able to read some of the background/web graphics.

I'm going to try and watch the OVA's next, then I've got some BD's from AlltheAnime's last sale to catch up on (Psycho Pas Season 2, \Harmony, and Psychic School Wars).

I've sort of fallen behind a bit on Anime again over the last few months, as I was painting models and I can't paint and watch anime:(
 
I've just finished watching Ghost in the shell: Solid State Society, I'd completely forgotten what happened in it so it was like watching it for the first time :)
It's a really good addition to the SAC story.

I'd completely and utterly forgotten that the Major had left Section 9 and had been running around on her own with the Tachikoma's reconstructed from memories
 
I just finished watching "Lu over the wall", which was extremely fun, a weird art/character style at times, and very trippy in places, but really enjoyable :)

I'll probably watch "Psycho Pass" season 2, or "In this corner of the World" next
 
Goblin Slayer is one I'm going to try and watch ASAP as i'm really enjoying the light novels - I've ended up reading a variety of the LN's for different stuff now, and the number of times I've muttered to myself "this is silly, but fun" is getting rather high;)

Currently watching May and the Witches Flower, which I've had sat on the side for a few weeks (pre-ordered the steelbook), and I'm enjoying but haven't had much time to sit and watch.
 
You're Under Arrest is fun, it's basically two police women and their (mis?)adventures, one is unusually strong and doesn't think things through, the other is an excellent and methodical thinker and a brilliant driver.
Haibane Rendmei is very slow, relaxing and basically about getting on with life (it does have it's tense moments), beautifully done.
The collection in the second picture of 11 movies is a Chinese bootleg copy of the Ghibli movies (I think a few of the titles in the set are copies by the looks of it), pretty much any of them are great films but you may not get the best experience with the chinses bootlegs
Azumanga Diagh is just plain fun, although you need to get the humour and be able to go along with the jokes.
Princess 9 is a surprisingly good baseball anime about an all girls team getting started and getting to know each other/learning to work together, with added drama (I have little interest in sports, no interest in baseball, but really enjoyed it when I watched it years ago).
Nadia is ok, good if you like Ghibli or Gainax works (it's early Gainax based roughly on an adaptation that i think was originally going to be a Miyazaki project).

Last Exile is very good (and it looks like you've got the LE figure), very enjoyable sci-fi/fantasy involving what are basically fleet battles in aiships/submarines with the main characters being pilots of what are effectively a small mail craft/fighter.

Akira is a classic cyberpunk/sci-fi anime (probably one of the two best known ones).

Ai Yori is basically a love story, it's pretty good if you enjoy that sort of thing.

Love Hina is a romantic comedy/harem anime that I remember being good at the time when I watched it (nearly 20 years ago), it depends on your taste :) I rewatched it a while back and it hadn't aged as well as some other series.

Princess Mononoke is Ghibli, so good :D

The Slayers are a classic comedy/fantasy series, good for it's time, but not sure how well it's aged (it was a massive hit back in the day).

Steel Angel Kurumi is a sci-fi/comedy set in a slightly alternate timeline, I can't really remember much about it.

Voices of a Distant Star is a very short (45 minute) sci-fi about a girl who signs up to fight aliens and gets separated from her boyfriend who is left on earth, told through the text messages they send each other which take increasingly long times to arrive - very good, and exceptional when you realise it was the work of one guy with some assistance from a couple of friends to do the music and original songs (IIRC the DVD has both the original track of the Shinkai* and his GF doing the voices, and the professional japanese dub).

There are also various Tenchi Muyo bits in there (films and one of the Sasame spin offs) which vary in quality, but you'd probably want to see the Tenchi Muyo: Ryo Ohki OVA's to understand most of it.


*He's gone on to do some absolutely brilliant work as a professional anime director/writer
 
NP, I've seen a lot of them over the years (I have a lot of them on DVD:D)

If you find you enjoy last exile, the sequel is available over here cheaply now, iirc it's about £6-7 per half season set on blu-ray if you shop around.

I forgot to say Last Exile and Haibane Renmei iirc have the same character designer :)
 
The Cowboy Bebop Ultimate edition set is showing on alltheanime's site, SRP £300 :p

I love the look of it, and would really like it, but unless they do an offer around the £150 mark (or less) there is no way I can even attempt to justify buying it, especially as I've already got it on DVD and blu-ray.
 
I've started watching (finally) Sound Euphonium season 1, which I've had sat on the side for 6 weeks, only a couple of episodes in but I think I'm going to enjoy it:)

I also got an email from TRSI saying the Patlabor Mobile Police Ultimate Collection BD set is in, and if I knew it would play on region B players I would probably buy straight after Christmas:)
 
I keep thinking of region free/multi region BD players, but I'm reluctant to get one as I don't want to end up with a load of discs that I may have issues playing in the future :(
I've got hundreds of R1 DVD's which I'm a little worried about playback on non PC platforms as it is.

I'm hoping that someone like ATA will release the set here, but suspect the cost of getting it through the BBFC may be far too high for 33 hours of what will be a niche release:( (although if they can do a shared release with Madman it would cut the mastering/replication costs).
 
If you have a logitech universal remote you may be able to set it up to work as one of the models that do have the extra buttons.

This is one of the things where modern mobile phones are actually lacking a useful feature that used to be fairly common - IIRC a number of early smart phones and devices had IR ports, which could with the right app work as remote controls, including doing things like running macros that made resetting DVD player regions easy, even those that required a specific code to be entered within a specific timescale.
 
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Has there ever been a good live action adaptation of any anime? I honestly can't think of one.
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They've been getting better and it is worth noting how most of them have been Japanese live action adaptations where the norm isn't for massively high quality versions, nothing wrong with them but IIRC they're normally done as a fairly quick/cheap cash in or deemed to "need" a lot of changes to make it palatable to western audiences or in the case of Japanese productions shoehorning in actors/singers who aren't actually necessarily suited for the role but their agency is using it to promote them and paying some of the cost.
Bebop is probably one of the easiest major Anime's to do a live action adaptation that is acceptable to a wide audience given how western the source material feels, add in the fact Netflix have been doing some very good adaptations (including of complicated sci-fi stuff) and have the money and seem to be willing to take some risks by not dumbing down the source material when making a show and I'd say they've probably got a reasonable chance, as long as no one expects it to slavishly mimic the anime scene for scene.



I will admit I quite enjoyed the Live Action GITS, and thought they did a stunning job of getting the general feel of it right, and the look was pretty much spot on, but I think the time they had to tell the story in wasn't long enough which led to some of the story changes I didn't agree with (mainly to do with the Major's background), but that's a title that has had *thinks hard* 3 anime continuities, a manga and then the live action film, and the live action film took bits from two of the anime continuities (if not all three) and the manga :p
 
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I ordered the Assassination Classroom set as I realised I've only seen season one.

Hopefully there will be nothing much in day 5's offerings for me:p


On a different note, I watched Tokyo Godfathers again last night*, first time on Blu-ray, and I still love it:) It's one of my favourite Christmas type movies, and it's Satoshi Kon!
My only minor disappointment with the new release is it doesn't have the dub, which makes it a bit harder to watch when tired (and harder to get others to watch).





*I tend to watch it about once a year.
 
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