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

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They including the 'Official Dubs' and the original Dubs. I think that means the Netflix and the ADV dubs are included.
I'll let you know when it arrives in December

Aye it's both.

It's an odd way of putting it but almost certainly how Khara wanted it. Personally from what I've read the "official" dubs are very clumsy in their use of language due to the translation, technically very well done in terms of performance but led down by the Japanese insistence on use of wording that doesn't sound natural to a native English speaker (IIRC the phrase "Third Children" is used which probably raised an eyebrow and question by the dub director an actors given it's such obviously wrong language to use when referring to one person).

It's an expensive set, but IIRC I paid ~£90 for the original US Perfect Collection box (RRP $190), about £15 each for the Platinum Edition DVD's (IIRC RRP $30 each), and £13 for the UK Platinum edition Tin from Zavvi after ADV UK folded.

Unfortunately it doesn't have Fly me to the moon in any of the 26 variants they used originally for the end, but hopefully it does have the correct end videos (IIRC the original DVD release didn't have the colour changed ones).


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It looks like it's sold out at ATA, and a comment on twitter by them says there will be other versions with details on the 30th.

 

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Aye I saw some comment about it being nearly the cost of a small house per episode just for the song rights

It's a shame because as much as I used to joke about the number of different versions they had, it fitted quite nicely in an odd way.

For anyone who buys a reasonable amount of ATA's discs their Anime Unlimited membership is worth it.
I worked out the other night that the ATA streaming sub I bought last year saved me about 70-80, much of that during the Christmas sale when I ended up getting the bebop UE with the 20% off voucher, and this years membership is adding up.

 

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3.33 was I think the weakest of the 4 films (although I had no memory of 2.22 at all despite having watched it before), 4.44 I think took it back on track and explained a lot of what had happened in the skip between 2 and 3.

I just saw that ATA have extended their print run for Eva by 1000 units which is good, apparently the US release also sold out in 12 hours.

 

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I've just for some reason remembered I need to watch the movie and that it's sate on the side in it's bubblewrap...

Well that's tonight's viewing sorted

 

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It's Eternity and the Auto-Memory Doll, the first film, IIRC the second one hasn't got a release date here yet.

 

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Finally watched the Violet Evergarden film last night and I was a wreck at the end of it. Took me by surprise but finishes it off nicely and there is a after credits scene.

I need to watch that, probably tomorrow night as I need to be up reasonably early tomorrow

I've just finished season 2 of Fruits Basket which has taken it a lot further along than the original anime with a few surprises so I'm looking forward to seeing season 3 now.

I also receive the MVM release of A*** which I'm really looking forward to watching over the weekend, and hoping that it does well enough for them to release the other seasons.

 

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I still haven't remembered/managed to watch the Violet Evergarden film on netflix

I did was Real Girl which I really enjoyed, I went into it utterly blind as it was a case of "ooh MVM have the collectors edition for £15, worth a punt".
I sort of guessed a bit about what was going to happen quite early but it did a good job of keeping me unsure, and as I say I really enjoyed it.

I watched Miss Hokasu (the new dual language ATA release) which I really enjoyed, and made me want to learn a bit more about the main characters in the real world.

Then I watched Belladonna of Sadness which was different to pretty much anything I can remember watching in terms of anime before, it was interesting.

Currently watching the MVM release of A*** the animation which I'm really enjoying although I'm struggling to find time for it as it's one of those anime where I really want to just sit down and pay my full attention to it and relax.

I'm also slowly watching Restaurant to another world season 2 which is fun.

And finally, www.anime-on-line.com have started their Christmas sale with some good bargains including complete blu-ray seasons starting at about £4, and alltheanime are starting theirs tonight at 5pm with their normal mystery bundles.

 

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My mystery boxes from ATA shipped via fed-ex so should be here tomorrow

 

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Let us know what you get! Chance are I have a lot of them, so holding off at the moment.
. :/

It turns out my run with Fed-ex having time machines for their tracking may be continuing.
My delivery was meant to be by 6pm today and still states that, but it still doesn't look like it's reached the local delivery depot
I know they're busy but it often seems that fed-ex deliver a couple of days late whilst still stating delivery expected by X day when it's X+2 or X+4

Looking at your order list I think i've got much of that, but have been filling in some gaps (I might order Shana season 2 and Grimaire of zero 2-4)

 

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There's a few options I've used for UK orders:

https://www.alltheanime.com - probably most up to date site, does a fair few releases. Christmas sale on at the moment.
https://www.anime-on-line.com - similar to ATA but seems smaller, less staff etc. Still they also do their own releases under the MVM banner. Christmas sales also on at the moment.
https://www.up1.co.uk - terrible site but orders seem fine, and they work OK. Tend to be a bit cheaper but the website experience shows it.
Amazon have a good selection of anime blurays as well, including releases from ATA and MVM.
Zavvi sometimes have alright sales on especially on the Manga titles.

I guess the top 2-3 in my list would benefit more from your business as they rely on a smaller customer base

I'd possibly add base.com as they sometimes have prices that are better than amazon and zavvi, and io've known them to have stuff in stock that's been out of stock elsewhere.

At the moment I'm mainly ordering from ata, aol and zavvi for my anime, especially ata when it comes to pre-orders as their early bird prices are usually the best.

 

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Baccano is one that I bounced off very hard the first time I tried to watch it, the second time a while later had me loving it.

I received my ATA mystery boxes yesterday, some really fun titles in there, even if I've got many of them already

 

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Apologies, not been on much, trying to sort out brothers' 3D Printer area

Ok so the mystery boxes are (assuming I've not got the contents of the two swapped over)

Spoiler

Blue box
Birthday Wonderland
The Dragon Dentist
FullMetal Alchemist original Anime, Collectors edition part 1 Episodes 1-27
Ride Your Wave

Red Box:
Children of the Sea
K: Season 1
Summer Days with Coo
Terror in resonance


Cheapest place for FMA part 2 seems to be HMV.

 

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My top 5 is very hard to come up with, but here a reasonable selection in no order.

Berserk TV 1997
Bubblegum Crisis, First OVAs
Claymore TV
After the Rain
Gunbuster
Kare Kano
Kakegurui
Macross Do you remember Love?
Macross Frontier
Hyper Police
Maison Ikkoku
Record of Lodoss War
Samurai Champloo
Your Name
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Runway de Waratte
Urusei Yatsura

There are others, picking a few is too hard to be fair.

I'd take most of those, then add in Evangelion (apparently my UE set should be with me in a few days!),
Haibane Renmie
Panty & Stocking (so nuts)
Silent Voice
Your Lie in April (that nearly destroyed me, I went into it blind due to an ATA mystery box)
Macross Plus*
Patlabor
Now and then, here and there. Very hard to watch in places but it felt like it was possibly one of the truest depictions of how war effects the innocent, I remember reading on the old animeondvd boards about how many people stopped watching it after IIRC disc 2.
You're Under Arrest.

Movies would be too hard for me to narrow it down, but includes potentially most of the Ghibli titles, You're Name, Silent Voice, Summer Wars, 5cm per second.

Gunbuster is one that if it gets a UK blu-ray release I'm ordering as soon as it goes up, IIRC it's getting a US blu-ray release thanks to Discotek, but I'm not sure what the rights situation is like over here, last time I saw anyone with any background in the industry comment on it, it seemed that no one quite knew who had the UK rights due to the original licensor going bust and it's assets being bought up/given to people who probably don't know what they are.

Kare Kano I wish had done more of the story, as I really enjoyed it.


*I'm somewhat hopeful we'll see a blu-ray of this now, as Funi/HG and the Japanese companies seemed to have come to an agreement and the movie version is getting a showing in the US Cinemas, I managed to get the OST's from TRSI years ago as a bundle in damaged cases (5 for $15), and I've listened to them so much in the last 18 years

 

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You can always spend more, but maybe best not to go overboard

You say that...

My "Anime DVD" spreadsheet has just hit 1,250 entries today.
Admittedly a lot of those were from the days before everything tended to be released as seasons/half seasons, and a bunch of them were bought as bundles from TRSI (so 18 volumes of CCS at ~£3 each or 15 of YUA at a fiver each).
However that's over 20 years of collecting so it's not that bad, honest...it's an average of just over one a week.

 

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you guys got pics of your collections up? interested to see!

I've not taken any real pictures of my collection for ages as it's in a mess (a lot is in really useful boxes) but a few of my really old ones.

 

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I managed to find the originals of those last two pictures (still resized to keep them reasonable).

Spoiler

DVD cases are about half an inch taller than blu-ray cases, the big issue comes with the fact that at the tome they were usually released as single volumes of 3-5 episodes, so what you get in a single blu-ray case would often take 3-4 DVD cases.

 

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I was/am a sucker for nice art boxes!

I was lucky to get the metal ones for BGC 2040/eva/Gasaraki/Macross because at the time I spotted a link to the Paul Champagne site and registered with a Macross forum to join in their commission, then snagged the other 3 as official merch from TRSI.
Unfortunately it looks like he's stopped doing them at all now, as he used to have a lovely selection for not just anime but a lot of franchises (everything from 60's classics like The Addams Family/Munsters, to 70's westerns, to Aliens, Star Wars etc).
The wayback machine seems to have archived his site quite well.

A lot of the others I was fairly lucky to be able to get hold of because they tended to be short stocked, but I was buying from about 6 different US retailers and did end up with a few duplicates that I sold on at cost (IIRC Chobits, Hack//Sign and Escalaflowne with the model), and a few I picked up from TRSI cheap such as the lunchbox version of Armitige Duel Matrix 3 with the figure which was $15, and a spare boogiepop phantom box as it was a TRSI release and they'd made spares in case of damage so when they sold their box sets they cleared out the empty spares at something like $5 each (so about $8 if you added it to an order for something else).

 

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Yay, my Eva Ultimate edition just came through!

It's a big, heavy box! (around 5kg).
I'm not sure, but it might be heavier than the Perfect Blue UE.

It looks lovely

 

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The new Fruits Basket is really rather good (although i'm a season behind).

I'm currently watching "Banished from the hero's party I decided to become an apothecary" (or whatever it's full title is), and "My senpie is annoying" as streamed titles and they're both good, I'm probably going to sit down and watch Little Busters or Twin Exorcist as my next disc based titles.

 

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A heads up Hidive (Section 23's streaming) are doing a deal for $24 dollars a year at the moment, you go to this page, create an account and it should change the amount from $48 to $24. I think if you've already got an account it'll show the price straight away on that page (the page should have a banner at the top with the $23.99 price and a ticked orange box for the promo code BYE2021)
Looking at their twitter thread on it a lot of people were/are getting confused about the fact that it's not showing the correct price until after you create an account (but before paying).

Note this is not an affiliate link it's the one I copied from the official twitter feed

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I went with it mainly because for ~£2 a month they've got a reasonably amount of stuff I want to see, so a years access for the price of a film on blu-ray