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

I was having a look through netflix earlier and it looks like they've got quite a lot of new/new to them anime that is up now, or going up in the near future, including Hight Rise attack (which I want to watch), Sword Art Online S3 (Alicization), ad the Promised Neverland.

I'm currently watching Sword Art Alternative Gun Gale Online which is fun but very different to the main SWO series, next up is probably Made in the Abyss as that's been sat on the side for a while, then probably one of the films that have been collecting dust on my shelf for a few months.
 
Due out this month, out in the west at some point in the next 10 years;)

I saw that the new MVM release of Paranoia Agent will be uncut which was good news as I'd only seen the old UK DVD release.

I've finally finished the Genshiken manga, after having it sat on the side for 7 years, the second series books carried it on nicely well past the events of the TV series and make me wish they'd do more of the anime.

Currently watching Made in the Abyss, which I should be finishing today with luck, it's a bit of an odd mix of at very cutesy characters but some reasonably gruesome moments, and the narration reminds me of Nadia: Secret of Blue water.
 
I just saw that Discotek in the US have found one of the fabled relics of 80's Anime, the long lost Project AKO film masters.
I'm now desperately hoping that ATA will get the licence for a UK release using them, as it's one of the first anime I saw back in the day but the only copies that have been available to buy for ~25 years have been based off old analogue tapes, and IIRC the old DVD's were mastered very early in the digital era IIRC using composite interconnects* and look pretty terrible even compared to some of the other DVD's of the time (let alone later DVD's made from better masters).

That was one hell of a surprise to read, the film masters had been lost for so long I think they were believed to have been destroyed, but it seems that Robert Woodhead of Animeigo noticed a possible typo or something in some documents whilst he was hunting for the film masters of Madox for their new upcoming kickstarter (yet another one I'll end up backing).

I'm really oddly excited by the news :)



Another new release is Rosario + Vampire which MVM are releasing here on blu-ray, and have as their pre-order deal of the week for £30, which includes both seasons.
I'm probably going to order it as I remember the series being really fun when I watched it 15 years ago and I was thinking about it the other day (I found a keychain I'd received with an MVM order of one of the characters).

*As opposed to RGB/Component which gave much better results, similar to what you could see if you used a DVD player with cheap composite only scarts vs the same player/disc/tv with RGB scart.
 
You're right, it's only about 9 years, but it seems like a lot longer - I think at some point in the last 5 years I've lost all track of time :p (not just last year but I pretty much lost 2 years completely out of the last 5-8).

Gray unfortunately a lot of old content looks poor on modern screens, sitting a bit further away/using a smaller screen or playing with some of the settings on the screen can help, I've been surprised at how well some of my old DVD's have stood up to being watched in a 40" 4k screen, but I'm watching from about 3 meters away most of the time.
One of the reasons I'm unduly excited about project AKO (and a few others) is that some of the older ones were really subpar even for the time, IIRC about half my relatively few CPM DVD's were quite poorly done - I think they had a host of issues with things like sound from one audio track bleeding into the other, reversed audio (the solution swap your speaker cables round) etc ;)
 
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I watched High Ride Invasion on Netflix which was fairly good, I'd like to see a second season but it's not one i'd buy on physical disc unless the price was right, currently watching The Wandering Witch and a bit stalled on Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (it's not quite jelling with my current mood so i'm about an hour in).

I got an email from mvm earlier saying my copy of konosuba S2 has shipped so that should be fun in a few days :) I also received my copy of Children of the Sea yesterday from ATA.
 
The forgetting you've ordered something is exactly why I keep a spread sheet with them on!

It also helps with remember which ones have arrived...I spent about an hour looking for Children of the sea a few weeks back before I remembered it hadn't shipped! :p
 
Probably something everyone who cares has seen, but it looks like we may be getting more Macross in the west, apparently the US and Japanese companies have decided that rather than keep throwing lawsuits at each other and trying to bury the hatchet in the others backs they're going to co-operate in regards to allowing licencing.

With luck this might mean we see things like Macross in HD (with both sub and dub), a new release of Macross Plus and the first official western releases of the likes of Macross 7 (even though that's the weakest of the bunch), Zero and Frontier etc.
I know I'd be up for a Frontier, Zero or Plus release on blu-ray:) or even just being able to watch them on streaming with a good sub.

In what I've been viewing I'm slowly watching some "so I'm a spider" which is fun and holds true to the books although they've rearranged things a bit, and "The Hidden Dungeon that only I can enter" which is fairly fun so far but i'm not sure it won't drop in quality.

I watched Konosuba season 2 which was good fun, although it seems extremely short and left me wanting more, and "The Ancient Magus' Bride" which I thought was very well done, nicely paced and a good progression for both the main characters with a wide (for a 24 ep series) selection of reoccurring secondary characters.
 
Aye IIRC the Konosuba film comes after season 2, and before S3.

I'd say the Ancient Magus Bride works well as a self contained story, I'm not sure if the manga goes further but the anime ends at a good point, however it is I suspect one of those anime where how much you'll get out of it depends on preferences so probably try and watch a few episodes before buying (IIRC it's on Crunchyroll in their free plan). I think I'd got about half way through when it was only up on streaming but got side-tracked until I picked it up cheap a few months back.
 
I just had my copy of Clannad/After Story delivered from MVM :)

I really need to try and sit down and watch more stuff, as my backlog isn't exactly going down and at the moment includes (amongst others) Charlotte, Clannad/AS, Kill La Kill, Kings Game, Planetes, and Utena.
 
I'm just going through some of my recent (last 4 months or so) anime purchases and adding them to my dvd profiler, trying where needed to put in basic details as for anime dvd's it rarely seems to have them (I suspect the number of people with DVD profiler, who buy anime AND update the profiles is tiny).

At some point I'm going to try and go back to some of my older entries where I just added them but didn't do any profile/submit one as there are a lot in my collection like that (and unfortunately some of them will likely not get an accepted profile because finding the release date for say old Beez titles is hard).
 
Not really been managing to watch much anime recently, but I'm nearly at the end of the excellent AlltheAnime release of Planetes which looks great in HD* and I'd forgotten how good it was, as I think last time I watched it was about ten years ago.

Diskotek in the US are showing once again that they're possibly the Criterion on Anime with some of the announcements today, including Gunbuster on blu-ray!!!! with something that for years everyone had been told was impossible, an English Dub!!!!
I'm wondering if they had another find in the misfiles, or if it will turn out that the truth is that the "lost music and effects" track wasn't all that lost, just that someone didn't want to look for it (or apparently the Japanese redubbed some bits a while back so maybe they remade it?) either way it's great that one of the classics is going to both get a release in HD for it's existing fans, and might be a bit more accessible to newer fans.

I'm hoping ATA over here pick up some of these licences for UK release, or discotek do some of them as US/EU coded.

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Just finished Planetes, and loved it, it's so different to most of the space anime, and I'd forgotten the ending more of less entirely.

*You can read the text on the screens in places, and it's actually real text that makes sense in context!
 
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I hear lots of buzz about Fruit Basket this week as the anime just finished? Is it worth binging?
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I think the last episodes of the third season of the full version may just be airing.

It's usually considered very good, and has done well enough that they did a series back in the early 2000's that covered one arc, and then went back to it a couple of years ago (after the manga finished) and did an entirely new adaption starting from scratch so they could follow the manga more faithfully, and it's just about starting/ ending it's third and final season now I believe.

I enjoyed the original, and have been enjoying the new one but it's something that I think is usually seen as a bit more on the "girly" side of anime (no epic battles, no fighting demons, mecha, tanks, spaceships etc) as it's more about relationships and the like.
If you've got a sub to funimation now, I think it's up on there.
 
Aria is very relaxing, it's sort of a slice of life but hard to describe so it's probably best if just post the synopsis and trailer.

When Akari Mizunashi travels to the city of Neo-Venezia on the planet of Aqua, the beauty of the city is beyond anything she’s ever seen before. It’s here that Akari hopes to achieve her dream of becoming an “undine” — a female tour guide who navigates the canals of Neo-Venezia on an elegant gondola. As she begins her training with the prestigious Aria Company, will she be up to the challenges that await her on the path to achieve her dream?
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One of the best comments about it I remember from the old Anime on DVD forums was someone posting about "we got to Athena's ankle this episode!" (I think it was), as a joke because it's such a relaxing, laid back anime to watch and has basically none of the common in your face fan service.
 
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I think the first episode was put up on Youtube officially at some point for a promo, it's one of the series that I bought on DVD based on what at the time were two key factors for me, a good review on animeondvd and that it was a nozomi (TRSI) release, as I'd learned to trust AOD reviews, and TRSI had a habit of only releasing what was generally very good stuff (those two criteria led me to several unexpectedly enjoyable series with things like Aria, A victorian Romance Emma, Princess nine etc).

I just received notification that aniemeonline have shipped my K-on blu-ray set which is nice, although at the moment i've still got a huge backlog so I probably won't get round to watching it for a while.
 
Watched the first of the Eva films earlier for what is probably the first time in about 5 years and I enjoyed it, it keeps fairly closely to the early episodes of the TV series.

For those who ordered the new K-On! release from Funi/Manga check your discs sooner rather than later, apparently there are a lot of reports of the picture breaking up.
I suspect Funi will have to do a disc swap or recall for it, as it doesn't seem to be the odd bad disc in a batch.
I've moved it up my watch list so it's next after the Eva films.

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Also ATA are either officially announcing the contents of, or putting up an Eva set on Thursday at 5pm (likely Thursday rather than the normal Friday to match a US release). I'm hoping for it to be like the Escaflowne UE and have both the normal, and directors cuts, and all the available dubs etc.

And finally, they're also announced they're releasing Inuyasha, starting in September with a season 1 set.
 
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