The anime thread sequel (it's still not as good as the Manga though),
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Fantastic series
L's death remains one of my favourite scenes ever.
Penguin drum just keeps on getting weirder....
Soldato
I liked them, but I did see them before I saw the anime (or any anime for that matter).
The acting isn't that good, but the plot is slightly different, and I prefer the ending they offer.
Don't bother with the 3rd one though
The acting isn't that good, but the plot is slightly different, and I prefer the ending they offer.
Don't bother with the 3rd one though
Ah cheers
might have to look into them then since they're going pretty cheaply at the Rainforest.
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Yeah I linked to that as it was cleaner than linking to a search page, I was referring to the individual products on that page though 
yes it's not a box set or a compilation disk, just that the cover and spines are labelled numerically and they are called "The Studio Ghibli Collection" which I thought was what the OP referred to by collection.
I don't think there will ever be a day when Studio Ghibli would release multiple films on a single disk, it's unprofessional and from a collectors PoV is actually really annoying. Don't mind so much for series releases though.
yes it's not a box set or a compilation disk, just that the cover and spines are labelled numerically and they are called "The Studio Ghibli Collection" which I thought was what the OP referred to by collection.
I don't think there will ever be a day when Studio Ghibli would release multiple films on a single disk, it's unprofessional and from a collectors PoV is actually really annoying. Don't mind so much for series releases though.
Soldato
Just ordered the 6/7 Spice and Wolf GNs and preordered the next novel which is due out next month Grabbed Madoka whilst I was at it. Im not as big a fan as many, but its a decent series, and at £30, its cheaper here on Blu than well anywhere else until this batch runs out whereby I believe Manga have stated they'll have to release it again in volumes.
Haven't been watching too much recently, as I'd been playing Tales of Graces F amongst being busy away from my hobbies...although with its leanings, dub cast and Project IG involvement, the tales games are pretty heavily anime-ish in he first place.
Decent game, although not quite up there with Tales of Vesperia IMO. Looking forward to Xillia next year
Grabbed Madoka whilst I was at it. Im not as big a fan as many, but its a decent series, and at £30, its cheaper here on Blu than well anywhere else until this batch runs out whereby I believe Manga have stated they'll have to release it again in volumes.Haven't been watching too much recently, as I'd been playing Tales of Graces F amongst being busy away from my hobbies...although with its leanings, dub cast and Project IG involvement, the tales games are pretty heavily anime-ish in he first place.
Decent game, although not quite up there with Tales of Vesperia IMO. Looking forward to Xillia next year
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Now I've been stuck up a creek since I ordered the lucky star anime legends collection when UP had stock, but they took the lot to the London expo and managed to sell all of it leaving me with a two week wait to find out if they could get any extra stock (which was impossible since rightstuf had already de-listed it).
My only option now is to get the Australian release, but I'm unsure where to get it from (I know there was one site that sorted out all the customs stuff without any nasty bills from royal mail, but I can't remember which one it was and I don't have the patience to go through the whole of this thread looking for just one link).
My only option now is to get the Australian release, but I'm unsure where to get it from (I know there was one site that sorted out all the customs stuff without any nasty bills from royal mail, but I can't remember which one it was and I don't have the patience to go through the whole of this thread looking for just one link).
Soldato
Personally I've used EzyDVD for getting stuff from Aus but I don't think they do anything special with customs.
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I remembered that one online store in Australia (this was a while ago) that had a royal mail shipping option for those in the UK where (I think) all the customs stuff was sorted out beforehand (although I can't find it now, but I'm not sure if the store is the one I've found where the site is down for upgrade).
At least I was able to pick up the final two volumes of K-On! on blu-ray before they sold out and I had to resort to the Australian version again (but I'll probably leave the lucky star collection until later since the Australian version will cost more then the US version which does include any shipping and possible customs charges).
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Saw a bunch of anime movies at the Leeds Film Festival last week, not nearly as good as other years overall but it included some good stuff:
Wolf Children: This was funny and moving, adorable without being (too) soppy and cheesy, art style was cutesy but not excessively and it did have some majestic moments. Plot seemed to meander pointlessly a bit like there was no firm structure to it, but it had a decent ending. Not a must-watch but a pretty good movie overall.
Tiger and Bunny: I hadn't even heard of the series this film was based on, but fortunately the movie was a prequel to the series so I didn't need to know any background. This was a superhero comedy and a parody of reality and talent shows, imagine Watchmen meets America's Next Top Model, but funnier than either of course It was fast-paced, well-plotted, and had some really iconic but hilariously over-the-top character design (especially for the superheroes and their powers - few genres can make violence as funny as anime can and this was a great example of it!). Not all the characters were relatable, in fact most of the superheroes were one-dimensional caricatures, but tbh all the funnier for it and they had their hands full just establishing the premise in 90' - I imagine there's more drama and characterisation in the full series. But while it was pretty funny as a straight-up comedy I mostly loved it for its wry critique of our celebrity-obsessed culture and its showing up the cynicism artificiality of our so-called "reality" shows. This was a superhero comedy with a brain, sure you came for the slapstick combat and the over-the-top violence, but there was a lot more to it! I imagine its most brilliant ideas are also reiterated in the series though, so I doubt this is a must-watch if you've already seen that.
Asura: This was the pick of the day for me, a beautifully-drawn movie and an uncompromisingly bleak tragic story. Makes Grave of the Fireflies look like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Really glad they showed it first, I needed the comedy of the two above to get me out of my depression after seeing this! Keep the Kleenex and the whisky handy, but watch at all costs!
Berserk OVAs Parts 1&2: Not sure what idiot decided to show the first 2 parts of a trilogy at an anime movie marathon, but if they forget to show the 3rd next year I won't be sad at all. I only watched a couple eps of the original 90s series, and these movies were every bit as puerile and idiotic as the original. The two male leads had all the depth of a pothole and seemed designed to appeal to 14-year-old girls (one was oh look at me I'm so gruff and tortured, the other was oh look at me I'm so pretty and girly), but the female characters were so flat that they made the men look like deep and multilayered characters from a Dostoyevsky novel. The whole setting was trying to be generically medieval in a really ignorant and uneducated way, full of moronic anachronisms, sticking in different elements from wildly disparate historical periods like a toddler at a pick'n'mix station with no regard to sense or consistency. And the combat... oh the combat! I'm not asking for realism from my fantasy, by any means (though this was proclaiming itself to be realistic low-fantasy with few supernatural elements). I'm the type that enjoys wire-fu-style John Woo movies. But when you're showing me a needle-thin rapier blade cleaving through massively thick full-plate armour AND the dude inside it, it just makes me bury my face in my hands and groan loudly and audibly. There were a couple of short fight scenes that were well-choreographed and slightly impressive, but there was SO MUCH FIGHTING, and most of it was SO BAD AND SO UNREALISTIC that I wanted to lobotomise myself halfway through! Berserk made the terrible straight-to-video martial arts movies I was reared on in the 80s look like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was almost bad enough to ruin the previous 3 movies for me, and I left the cinema in a pretty sour mood.
Anyway, I've vented now, so I guess I'll stop. Wolf Children and Tiger and Bunny are both worth a watch, but it was Asura that felt like an unmissable masterpiece to me.
Wolf Children: This was funny and moving, adorable without being (too) soppy and cheesy, art style was cutesy but not excessively and it did have some majestic moments. Plot seemed to meander pointlessly a bit like there was no firm structure to it, but it had a decent ending. Not a must-watch but a pretty good movie overall.
Tiger and Bunny: I hadn't even heard of the series this film was based on, but fortunately the movie was a prequel to the series so I didn't need to know any background. This was a superhero comedy and a parody of reality and talent shows, imagine Watchmen meets America's Next Top Model, but funnier than either of course
It was fast-paced, well-plotted, and had some really iconic but hilariously over-the-top character design (especially for the superheroes and their powers - few genres can make violence as funny as anime can and this was a great example of it!). Not all the characters were relatable, in fact most of the superheroes were one-dimensional caricatures, but tbh all the funnier for it and they had their hands full just establishing the premise in 90' - I imagine there's more drama and characterisation in the full series. But while it was pretty funny as a straight-up comedy I mostly loved it for its wry critique of our celebrity-obsessed culture and its showing up the cynicism artificiality of our so-called "reality" shows. This was a superhero comedy with a brain, sure you came for the slapstick combat and the over-the-top violence, but there was a lot more to it! I imagine its most brilliant ideas are also reiterated in the series though, so I doubt this is a must-watch if you've already seen that.Asura: This was the pick of the day for me, a beautifully-drawn movie and an uncompromisingly bleak tragic story. Makes Grave of the Fireflies look like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Really glad they showed it first, I needed the comedy of the two above to get me out of my depression after seeing this! Keep the Kleenex and the whisky handy, but watch at all costs!
Berserk OVAs Parts 1&2: Not sure what idiot decided to show the first 2 parts of a trilogy at an anime movie marathon, but if they forget to show the 3rd next year I won't be sad at all. I only watched a couple eps of the original 90s series, and these movies were every bit as puerile and idiotic as the original. The two male leads had all the depth of a pothole and seemed designed to appeal to 14-year-old girls (one was oh look at me I'm so gruff and tortured, the other was oh look at me I'm so pretty and girly), but the female characters were so flat that they made the men look like deep and multilayered characters from a Dostoyevsky novel. The whole setting was trying to be generically medieval in a really ignorant and uneducated way, full of moronic anachronisms, sticking in different elements from wildly disparate historical periods like a toddler at a pick'n'mix station with no regard to sense or consistency. And the combat... oh the combat! I'm not asking for realism from my fantasy, by any means (though this was proclaiming itself to be realistic low-fantasy with few supernatural elements). I'm the type that enjoys wire-fu-style John Woo movies. But when you're showing me a needle-thin rapier blade cleaving through massively thick full-plate armour AND the dude inside it, it just makes me bury my face in my hands and groan loudly and audibly. There were a couple of short fight scenes that were well-choreographed and slightly impressive, but there was SO MUCH FIGHTING, and most of it was SO BAD AND SO UNREALISTIC that I wanted to lobotomise myself halfway through! Berserk made the terrible straight-to-video martial arts movies I was reared on in the 80s look like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was almost bad enough to ruin the previous 3 movies for me, and I left the cinema in a pretty sour mood.
Anyway, I've vented now, so I guess I'll stop. Wolf Children and Tiger and Bunny are both worth a watch, but it was Asura that felt like an unmissable masterpiece to me.
Soldato
Of those Wolf Children and Asura sound interesting to me, (I wasn't keen on the series for Tiger and Bunny personally). I see the third Beserk movie (Berserk Golden Age Arc III
escent ?) has just been handed an 18+ certificate in Japan, although this is not a property I have any interest in personally.
I rewatched the K-On! movie last night and watched the latest episode of "Say I Love You"
escent ?) has just been handed an 18+ certificate in Japan, although this is not a property I have any interest in personally.I rewatched the K-On! movie last night
and watched the latest episode of "Say I Love You"
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The series was great and I highly recommend watching it. Fantastic characters (the main character in particular is a breath of fresh air for modern anime), really enjoyable story telling and no bad episodes.
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K-On is cute and sometimes amusing, and I was drawn to it from the music references; it's not particularly a clever series though; just warm and light.
RE: Wolf Children.
Heard that's meant to be getting a cinema release here next year, if so I really want to see it with my other half
From what I've read I think we'll both really enjoy it
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It would be good if there is a cinema release for Wolf Children. The cinema I normally go to normally tries to have a subtitled showing (instead of dubbed) for these sort of things, they did for instance for Arietty, which is good.
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I remember reading Manga had picked it up for Home and Theatrical release. Could be wrong, but it would be nice to see it in the cinema
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The latest episode of Shinsekai Yori was like so yaoi.
There was even tongue play in it.
Personally, I think we need need more Yuri instead.
Still an awesome anime, am hoping it starts to heat up soon and the killing starts.
There was even tongue play in it.
Personally, I think we need need more Yuri instead. Still an awesome anime, am hoping it starts to heat up soon and the killing starts.
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Re-watched Welcome to the Space Space show yesterday ... nice film with a Ghibli-esque feel to it.
Currently re-watching the first season of Nodame Cantabile on the R3 release (which has English subtitles ... but whilst they are reasonable they don't quite meet the normal R1/R2 level of quality). Nice series though if you know anytihng about orchestras.
edit: BTW it appears that there is going to be a third series of Rozen Maiden made desu
Currently re-watching the first season of Nodame Cantabile on the R3 release (which has English subtitles ... but whilst they are reasonable they don't quite meet the normal R1/R2 level of quality). Nice series though if you know anytihng about orchestras.
edit: BTW it appears that there is going to be a third series of Rozen Maiden made desu
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I love the first season of Nodame. I felt that the second and third were somewhat rushed and don't live up to the first (and don't have nearly enough of the excellent music scenes), but were still enjoyable.