What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

My missing order form the Anime Limited Christmas sale arrived. They got it sorted pretty quickly when I let them know it hadn't shipped so that's nice. This includes The Skull Man, Venus Verus Virus, Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon, Lupin the Third Part 5 and Gundam Seed Stargazer.

My first orders of 2025 were for the oversized hardcover edition of the Trigun manga and the PlayStation version of Tales of Grace f. Trigun is one of my favourite manga series so I had to at least get the first volume before it enters its much longer and better second part Trigun Maximum. Grace f is a game I've been wanting to play for a few years now and this updated re-release was reasonably priced. So hopefully it holds up.
 

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I received one pre-order title today from Crunchyroll US:

The Apothecary Diaries Season 1 Part 1

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These arrived, and I'm pleased to report that the crochet hooks set comes with stitch markers and darning/tapestry needles as well, it's actually a decent set of things one needs for the hobby and comes with a neat case (the blue floral one in the pic) for carrying everything too, the book looks good but will see how the instructions fare when I'm actually crocheting a project :)
 

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Got my easy tubular yarn, it's really great and easy to work with (you'd hope so given the name lol) am now crocheting a bunny from a YouTube tutorial, and I got my 1kg pack of plushie stuffing as well! :)
 

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Sizable haul arrived via FromJapan today.
  • Shin Kamen Rider 4K Limited Edition, which includes:
    • Film on 4K UHD Disc & Blu-Ray
    • 2+ hours of Special Features/Deleted Scenes on 2 additional Blu-Ray discs including a 5-episode re-edit of the film.
    • 2 Replica Muffler Scarves
    • Exclusive Soft-Vinyl Figure
    • Pre-Order Bonus Clear Bookmark
  • S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Buffa Figure
  • Bocchi the Rock Kessoku Band - Kirara Tribute Collection (Cover Album) CD
  • The Guy She was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All Manga Soundtrack CD
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I've been on the fence for ages regarding Dr Stone.
The HMV exclusive is £4.99 per part.
Can't really complain if I don't like it.
No idea why it's exclusive unless it is because it's 2 parts??

Edit
Just opened part 1. There's 4 art cards and a poster. More than I've got with some collectors editions. 😜
 

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2025 HAUL - JANUARY v2

Another batch of Asian Cinema arrived to wrap up the January haul.

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#11: Terracotta January Pre-Order Pickups
To avoid having too many individual pickups in the post at various times I decided to focus a bit more on larger batches instead. Which is why I ordered almost all of the January pre-orders for Asian Cinema from Terracotta altogether, the only exception being the 88 Films titles as they were ordered a few months ago which arrived a month earlier than its release date and the Radiance Films titles because they can be tracked on their stock statuses by the distributor themselves.

First up we have a brand new Arrow Video release. This is a 2005 Japanese anthology film called Rampo Noir (乱歩地獄) directed by Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satō & Suguru Takeuchi. I hadn't heard of this film prior but the artwork looked awesome. The first print edition includes a slipcase and booklet like previous Arrow releases.

Next we have two brand new British Film Institute releases, both from director Akira Kurosawa. With recent 4K restorations in Japan, BFI have been re-releasing his works onto either the 4K or Blu-ray format. In this batch there's his 1963 film High and Low (天国と地獄) and his 1949 film Stray Dog (野良犬), both are more of a crime/police drama compared to his more known samurai films. Both of these do have 4K Ultra HD releases in Japan but BFI must have decided it wasn't worth the upgrade. Each of these are first print editions which includes a booklet.

And to wrap up this batch we also have two brand new Eureka Entertainment releases, both also part of their Masters of Cinema range which in case you missed the recent notice that the booklets will now be part of the first-print run only going forward (and for their older catalog). Starting off with a classic Japanese horror film from 1997 it's Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (キュア), re-released for 4K Ultra HD using the recent 4K restoration. When Eureka released the film years back it was an older transfer while Criterion put one out using the new restoration but only for Blu-ray. I really enjoyed this film and am happy to upgrade the release to this which also has great artwork.

Also arrived is Running On Karma (大隻佬), a 2003 Hong Kong film from directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Andy Lau. I hadn't heard of this film prior but a lot of people were looking forward to this one and it looks promising so I can see why its placed under the Masters of Cinema banner than the Eureka Classics one.

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#12: Eighteen Years in Prison & Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
The final haul of the month is a catch-up to two releases from Radiance Films that came out during the summer time of last year. They put out a couple of Tai Kato films and I had only picked up about half of them, and it's fortunate they're still available in their limited edition formats. Amazon recently lowered their prices to about £15 each so I figured I'll get both Eighteen Years in Prison (懲役十八年) and Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza (沓掛時次郎 遊侠一匹) at that moment. These were made back in 1967 & 1966 respectively and each come with their reversible covers, booklets and Scanavo packaging.
 
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