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

just got the anime limited mystery boxes

the blue one (I assume as it had a B on it) has;
Promare Steelbook
Big Order
Kakeguri
Boogiepop Phantom
Code Geese the ressurection

What I assume is the green box has
On Gaku/Our Sound
Josee, the and the fish
Anti magic academy the 35th test platoon
El-Hazard the mysterious world
My Hime

Not bad, 5 of them I haven't got already and 4 of them i'd been eyeing up.
 
Apparently the pigs are having to be careful whilst landing in hell due to ice on the runway.
Gunbuster is up for pre-order, on blu-ray with a dub in the US now, and it's only something like $30.
That's a far cry from the old UK DVD release which was poor quality, sub only and edited, or the previous US release which was much better quality, sub with a music edit and an RRP of $65.

Even now that it's up for pre-order it seems like something that shouldn't be happening given it's one of the titles that for 20 odd years it's been out of reach/consistently "no way it'll ever get dubbed as the music and effects tracks can't be found".

The only reason I haven't pre-ordered it already is i'm not sure if it's going to work on a UK player, and i'm hoping ATA will announce a UK release ;)
 
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HungryHippos said:
Working my way through Haikyuu, it's really good, Volleyball anime.

I never knew Volleyball could be so intense!
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It's weird I've watched a few anime where the base subject matter has no appeal for me, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the series and at the same time learned a bit about the sport or whatever at the same time. I think it's a sign of good story telling when they can do that.
 
If you can find it cheap you might like Princess Nine, although that's about 20 years old now, and I'm not sure how well it'll have aged watching high school girls trying to form their own baseball team to go to Koshien when you're in your 30's and 40's :)
 
I'm managing about 2 episodes a day at the moment if i'm lucky:)
At the current rate, assuming I stop buying anime and don't start watching anything on streaming etc I reckon I'll have my backlog done in a couple of years :p

I'm actually watching the one with all the A's (Akira, Ai, Al, Alicia etc), which i'm really enjoying as it's such a relaxing anime but a lot of little details, and Spy X Family or Nagatoro.
 
Still very slowly watching my way through the Aqua anime, I had completely forgotten so much of it since I watched the original DVD's, loved the episode where Akari ends up having an impromptu meet up with all the seniors and you learn about their history
And it turns out they all met as quite young children, and Akatsi didn't realise Akira was a girl, or that he'd me Alice all those years ago.
It's also funny to think of Akira as having been a bit of a tomboy and misbehaving on the school trip.
 
Still slowly watching my way through A ria, loving it, I think it must be 10-15 years since I last watched it so i'd forgotten a huge amount of it, especially seasons 2 and 3. It's such a peaceful and fun story, and I love the music and visual styles, especially the end song for season 3.
I'm hoping that the new season that IIRC is due this year will make it to the UK a little bit faster than the original 3 did.

I've also almost finished Spy X Family season 1 now (on episode 25) which i'm enjoying, and Reincarnated as a Sword which is silly but fun.
I'll probably start on Irresponsible Captain Tylor once I finish the A series.
 
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That's good news.

Another weird one that i'm looking forward to is the Vending Machine one, I remember reading the light novels (only 3 of them IIRC) when a friend suggested it and it was really daft, but also seemed well thought out and was very fun (how does someone who can't move and can't communicate with words not only stay "alive" but do well).
 
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Been out of the loop for while and my googlefu is failing
Do you mean there is a NEW season coming up?link please :)
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My mistake it looks like there were/are two films released in 2021, for some reason I thought it was a new series :(
It looks like they revolve around Orange Planet and Himeya company (so Alice and Aika)
Aria the Benedizione
Aria the Crepuscolo
 
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Raymond Lin said:
One of my childhood love that isn’t Ghibli (Laputa is my fav), is Project A-ko. I really don’t know why? It’s about 3 girls who kicks ass of aliens lol, it sounds so crap on paper and probably crap by today’s standards.
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You're probably aware but Discotek released a remaster of it based off the original film masters, apparently the head guy at Animego found them whilst looking for something else in a Japanese archive :) (they'd been misfiled and he recognised a probable mispelling on a form), I'm hoping ATA will release it here as they've been releasing a number of the other discotek titles.
 
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From what i recall from the exhibition, he made it all in his spare time, in his room, then took it to all the local places to try to show it. The entire thing was by him. Female character's voice obviously isn't, i think that's his wife's voice, but all the drawing, story etc, it's as solo as it can get. It's interesting to see the theme from that early on in terms of the story of what he likes to make.

You can clearly see what he improved upon each by each, which is why i would encourage people to watch it in order, not for the story but for his craft developing. The raindrop animation in Garden of Words for example is something they had done and that animation of rain shows up in all his subsequent films.

re: 5cm per second, which i think refers to the distance of a sakura falls. When i was in Japan and the wind blew a little harder and all the sakura started falling, I think about this every time.
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Aye

IIRC the initial version was made on a mac in his room with he and his wife/gf doing all the voices and the music done by a friend (and the song by another), that version is/was an extra on the disc, the version that got released basically only had the voice track changed to use professional actors.
Basically he did the story, the art, the animation and male voice, with the only assistance being the music, singing and female voice.
I'm still blown away by that, as pretty much on his own he created one of the best anime I'd seen in years, and even the fact the music was done by work colleagues rather than as the normal anime type production works in it's favour as it's very simple but extremely effective.

I seem to remember the story being that when ADV wanted to put out a HD release of it, they received the original drives from the mac with the renders on them or something like that, and I remember being annoyed at how long it took for it to get a release :p. Having said that my copy of the voices/place promised double pack only cost me £21 on release even if it was on pre-order for 2 years.
 
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All the Anime have definitely Aimed for the Top.

They've gone and done it, they've announced Gunbuster on BD for the UK :D:D:D

also a bunch of other releases including Macross Plus movie edition at the cinema, which hopefully means a BD release with both Movie and OVA's later on, and I think is the first Macross title to get a release here in years, so hopefully more to follow.
 
From what I can tell (not having seen the anime) it's holding true to the manga where there was an arc with the main character
trying to be a bit of a pacifist because he was basically sick of killing and IIRC disillusioned with the whole revenge thing after finding out some truths, and becoming a slave.
 
Oh boy :D

The rebuild of eva films are very very loosely based on the TV series and the original film, but veer off and take a lot of stuff from IIRC various games* etc that came out after the initial TV series and film as well as some completely new materials.

I quite liked all 4 of the rebuild films, but it did take me rewatching then all in quick succession to appareciate them, as IIRC the skip between 2 and 3 is huge and it was something like 5-7 years between film 2 coming out and film 3.


*I think they took bits from some PC games, some pachinko tie in stuff (Gainex loved their pachinko machines**), various different tie in/spin off manga etc.

**To the point where for years you'd hear "Gainex are doing a new project with title X", get all excited and find out it was yet another pachinko machine..
 
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That is awesome news, I vaguely remember when I first watched the TV series thinking it felt like it had skipped something, then reading the books and noticing new stuff.

It's been feeling over the last couple of years like they've been going back to a number of the titles that were cut short around the time of the NA anime crash and starting anew, or giving a second season 10 years later.
 
I've not seen that one, but i've been quietly enjoying "Reborn as a vending machine, I now wander the dungeon", and I will admit silly Iseki's are a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, especially the really silly/novel ones where it's not just "the hero dies and becomes an OP saviour".
Although I'd love to see something along the lines of Madoka, where it turns out that Truck Kun is really part of a race of beings who are manipulating things so that when they run people over and send them to the other world, they then benefit from energy released/the speeding up of that other world's collapse as it turns out the heros powers come at at the expense of bringing around the destruction of that world/parallel universe.

On another note, something that until a couple of years ago I never thought I'd be able to say.

My UK Gunbuster blu-ray has shipped!
 
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