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

I may have gone overboard last year, this is what I've got in chronological order...
Although well over half of this lot were in sales so ~5-15 each.

The Ancient Magus Bride: Part 1 blu-ray
The Ancient Magus Bride: Part 2 blu-ray
Goblin Slayer Season 1 Blu-ray
Clannad and Clannad After story LE blu-ray
Momotaro, Sacred Sailors - Blu-ray/DVD Collector's Edition
Children who chase lost voices blu-ray Steelbook LE with ost
Armed Girls Machiavelilism collectors edition blu-ray
Konosuba season 2 collectors edition blu-ray
Rosario & Vampire seasons 1 and 2 blu-ray (still waiting)
Paranoia Agent Blu-ray
Charlotte Collectors edition blu-ray
Domestic Girlfriend Blu-ray
Love Live! School idol project move blu-ray collectors edition
Why the hell are you here teacher? Blu-ray
demon slayer season 2 collectors edition blu-ray
wise mans grandchild blu-ray
highschool dxd hero (season 2) blu ray
Made in the Abyss: Dawn of the deep soul movie. Blu-ray
Penguindrum Collectors edition blu-ray (arrived a couple of weeks back)
Violet Evergarden Movie collectors edition
Frutis Basket season 1 part 2 blu-ray
K-ON! Complete Collection [S1, S2 & Movie] - Limited Edition (12) Blu-Ray
Love Live! Sunshine!! Over the Rainbow - Blu-ray Collector's Edition
Real Girl collectors edtion blu-ray
Evangelion Ultimate Edition Blu-ray
miss hokusai Special edition blu-ray )dub/sub)
Sword Art Online Alicization, War of the Underworld Part 2 Collectors edition
Sword Art Online Alicization, War of the Underworld Part 1 Collectors edition
Aria season 1 blu-ray
Black Lagoon complete series collectors edition
Air TV series DVD
Little Busters (season 1) Blu-ray
Little Busters Refrain (season 2) blu-ray
Little Busters OVA (blu-ray)
Flip Flappers collectors edition blu-ray
Campione Collection Blu-ray
Mishiko and Hatchin complete collection DVD
My girlfriend is a shobitch collectors edition blu-rau
Gate complete collection blu-ray
Twin Star exorcists bundle volumes 1-4 blu-ray
Cardcaptor Sakura Blu-ray collectors edition
Heavens memo pad dvd collection
Kanon DVD collection
Pet shop of horrors.
Fullmetal Alchemist Blu-ray Collectors edition part 2
Love Live! Sunshine season 2 blu-ray
Boggiepop Phantom Collectors edition Blu-ray
El-hazard the Magnificat World OVA series 1 & 2 collectors edition blu-ray
Kakeguri collectors edition blu-ray
My-Hime collectors edition blu-ray
 
I've been watching Little Busters (picked up all 3 seasons for £13 from MVM in their sale), which I'm enjoying, I didn't realise it was a Key series at first but thought it felt familiar.
First season was a enjoyable but a little generic, the second season really kicked it up and i'm just starting the OVA/season 3 now.

I also just ordered Beyond the Boundary from Amazon as they'd got it for a tenner which is the cheapest I can remember seeing it.
 
Supremacist said:
Demon slayer has been so good I’m actually surprised.

not a big anime guy grew watching dbz and recently dipped my toes into a few of the well know animes like jujutsu kaisen, attack on titan etc

just watched battle angel original 2 part anime, which I really liked. Was wondering if there was a narrated storybook or something so can get the rest of the story? Not into manga but just wanted to know what happens.
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Unfortunately AFAIK not at the moment, they are starting to do audiobook versions of some light novels, but only the wildly popular ones and a very small number to date.
I suspect the rights for any audio/visual version of Battle Angel are probably completely tied up.

There is an audio book of a prequel to the film, and the film tie in book but they're quite different to the manga.
 
I just saw the Spice and Wolf news and i'm a lot happier wolfy now than I was a few minutes ago:p
I've been waiting/hoping for more for ages, and I was just saying to one of my friends a couple of nights ago about it when IIRC Nichiju got a second season announced.


Raymond Lin said:
Really enjoying My Dress Up Darling more than I thought I would. I think i am a weeb afterall, a degenerate weeb.
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I'm quite enjoying it, it's different to most of the other anime i've been watching and always fun to see anime about people's hobbies etc :) (one of the reasons I loved Genshiken).
 
Alexrose1uk said:
So...more news about the new S&W pls... DONT LEAVE US HANGING JAPAN!!! :D

(And Genshiken was great fun Werewolf, I still remember the scene where the guy explains the difference between what a guy and a gal sees from drawing a few simple lines lmao)
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I probably need to rewatch Genshiken again sometime, as I loved it:) I reread the manga a few months back and I do wish they'd done another season of the anime to finish it. I loved the whole Kibiji Unbalanced (I think i've got that right) thing where they created the manga/anime for the characters to reference as part of the story, then actually did it for real:) (and it even got licenced and released in the west!*)
montymint said:
Because I haven't seen s2 yet I'm going back through one-punch man.

Love it. It never gets old to me.
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I need to watch that some time, one of my gaming friends is a massive fan of it, but somehow I never quite manage to get it to the front of the queue.



*From memory there was one of the OVA's for it as an extra on one of the Genshiken sets, then a Genshiken OVA on the Unbalance set so to get everything you had to buy all three boz sets :)
 
I've been watching a bit of a variety of stuff recently, just finished My Senpai is Annoying which I really enjoyed, especially as the "slice of life" with the slowly developing relationships between the various characters (both friendships and budding romance;)).

I finished Gate yesterday having picked it up in anime on line's Christmas sale (they're doing a blu ray clearance at the moment with about 20 titles for a fiver each), which in some ways felt like a typical Iseki type thing at tomes, but managed to throw out some red herrings and surprises, overall very enjoyable and fun to watch with a couple of bits I didn't really expect.

Currently just starting watching the Evangelion UE, which looks fantastic especially as I remember watching it on ropey avi's, then the original NTSC DVD's, it's cleaned up brilliantly and I'm seeing little details/text that I don't think was ever clear on the older releases. Unfortunately no Fly me to the moon for the end credits:(
I'm watching it with the "classic" dub at the moment, but will almost certainly go to the Sub on my next watch.
 
Finished my rewatch of Eva in HD (the ATA UE is gorgeously presented).

It's been so long since I watched the films that I'd largely forgotten much of it (the TV series I've seen loads of times, the films maybe 3 or 4), oddly it felt like the TV series was sharper/better transfer than the films at times, I think possibly because IIRC the original TV episodes had some quite bad jitter where the animation cells were not quite centred consistently. I seem to remember the original DVD's had a second pressing where they tried to fix that (then the Platinum edition did some more), but the first film possibly used the original uncorrected shots?

Either way it was really nice watching it from start to finish in HD for the first time, especially as I'd been putting off watching it again for a few years waiting for the chance to see both the series and films (and not wanting to watch the new translation on Netflix*).

Now I want to watch the rebuild films again, but so much stuff to watch**

I've also finished off watching My Dress Up Darling, which is probably one of my favourite new series of the last couple of years, I can't quite say why except that I just love the dynamic between the main characters and the fact that the background is basically people doing slightly geeky hobbies and just being accepting of it. I guess it's the "feel good" and low impact, relaxed feel to it that makes it a nice fun and cheerful series:)
It's much the same reason I liked Genshiken.


*I'd read too much about how awkward and unwieldy it was, and because I do prefer to watch on DVD/BD where I can pause and rewind a few seconds, or step forward if I miss something (and with the Eva scenes that step forward is about the only to see some of the blink and you miss it bits).

**Penguindrum, Black Lagoon, Utena, Inuyashi season 1, SAO: war of the underworld , Clannad &AS, Boogiepop and My Hime to name just the discs in sight (I've not been managing to watch much anime on disk recently:( ).
 
I've seen Clannad a couple of times (got the original US sub, and then dub dvd's, as well as some lithographs), but not for about 5-10 years, so looking forward to it.

I received notification from MVM that they've shipped my Air dvd set, at first the email threw me as they don't give the content of the package just the order reference which is a bit confusing when it's something that's been pre-ordered for months.
 
I'm not sure if they decided to redub a lot of the old gundam stuff, or simple had to redo seed because the remaster may have changed the timings for the audio tracks.
I remember when ADV got the "remastered"/"Platinum" version of Eva they had to redo a fair bit of the dub which required some changes in cast due to people who'd stopped doing dubs/couldn't be contacted/were going to cost to much to physically get back into the studio and that was only about 5 years after the original dub.
I think with Escaflowne it was largely because the new release had slightly altered the timings and either Funi didn't have access to the original isolated voice tracks (as the original dub was ~15 years old and done for Bandai USA) or couldn't match it up.

Another possibly reason for a complete redub is to to make things consistent across all the releases (same terms/pronunciations), and possibly to improve the audio quality generally as the equipment they use today is a huge improvement on what they were using back then:)
 
Finally got round to starting to watch Sword Art Online Alicization War of the Underworld *takes a deep breath*, and it looks like the disk two of the first set might have an issue with my Samsung BD player as it gives a "disc does not meet specification" message (or something very similar) when I put it in, it does however work fine in my Sony BDP360.
I'll try it in the Panasonic, and again in the Samsung as I've got a feeling I had something similar a while back with disc 2 of a set and powering the player down or putting another title in between discs 1 and 2 sorted it.
 
I just saw the ATA pre-orders/licence announcements for the month at it's looking good:)

They've got A Victorian Romance Emma season 2 up for pre-order now (at the discount price), next week is Violet Evergarden the movie, then El-Hazard Alternate world the week after, and they've announced Irresponsible Captain Tylor which will be in two sets (third time of getting it for me).

On the one hand I love the selection ATA are putting out, and their LE/CE versions are always good, but on the other hand it's hard to resist buying them:p

As to watching, continuing with SOA War of the Underworld, which I'm enjoying but only managing an episode or two a day if that :(
Also watching on streaming Spy X Family which is fun and Anya is adorable:) (especially as she's the only one who knows everything that's going on in the "family") , Skeleton Knight which is quite fun so far but a little over reliant on the tropes, and A Couple of Cuckoos which i'm enjoying but it feels a little weak.
 
Zenduri said:
Watched the first few episodes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tonight and really like it so far.
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Same here, it's looking good so far.

In completely unrelated news, the show with all the A names is having it's second season (aria the natural) being released by MVM, and they've got the first half up for an early bird price this week, with the second part next week I think:)
I'm very happy with that as I wasn't sure season 1 sold enough for them to to ahead with the later seasons (I know they've dropped a few, as IIRC Patlabor only got the first OVA set).
 
HungryHippos said:
Not sure how I would find that to be honest, I'm a big fan of single track stories with a moving narrative and some permanence to events/characters.

It's kind of like original NGE vs Rebuilds for me, different timeline on the Rebuilds didn't add anything for me, personally speaking anyway.

Episodic shows don't usually carry the same weight for me I guess.
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don't get me wrong, when i say they can be watched independently you still get more out of watching all the stuff in one timeline, but most of the individual series don't require it for that specific series to make sense (assuming you don't try and watch say Seed Destiny without having watched Seed or IIRC the recap movie*).
Basically it's like watching Spiderman, you don't have to have watched The Hulk for it to make sense, as opposed to going into Avengers Endgame without watching any of the rest (it's closer to watching say Guardians of the Galaxy and if you're a long term comic book fan catching all the little references in scenes like the Collector).
From memory one of the best Gundam stories is basically standalone set inside one of the main timelines following a ground unit, and it's a short OVA series to boot.


*I think several of them have recap movies intended to air/be shown to remind you of what happened when say the gap between Series 1 and 2 might have been a year or more.
 
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