What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

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Received today from Anime-on-line.
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Why are the corners of the slip so beat up on a new release?
I am seeing that a lot here with items from Anime-on-line. I've been buying my Crunchyroll discs from Anime Limited, but as it seems like they aren't getting them anymore, having not gotten anything since the April releases and never responding to my inquiry about this, looks like I will have to also buy from Anime-on-line in the future, and I'm concerned about how they appear to be handling things.

I plan on buying around ten titles at a time so I hope they will package them well.

 

[Titan]

Why are the corners of the slip so beat up on a new release?
I am seeing that a lot here with items from Anime-on-line. I've been buying my Crunchyroll discs from Anime Limited, but as it seems like they aren't getting them anymore, having not gotten anything since the April releases and never responding to my inquiry about this, looks like I will have to also buy from Anime-on-line in the future, and I'm concerned about how they appear to be handling things.

If you are only ordering a couple of titles, Anime-on-line will normally send them in a bubble wrap envelope. So the slipcovers can get damaged, especially the corners.

I plan on buying around ten titles at a time so I hope they will package them well.

Then you should be fine, as Anime-on-line will most likely use a cardboard box to ship that many titles in.

 

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If you are only ordering a couple of titles, Anime-on-line will normally send them in a bubble wrap envelope. So the slipcovers can get damaged, especially the corners.

Then you should be fine, as Anime-on-line will most likely use a cardboard box to ship that many titles in.

Thank you. The other question I have is about preorders. Will they hold an order so everything can ship together? I saw this in their FAQ:

4] If I place an order for an in-stock item and a pre-order, will they be sent separately or together?

Unless requested, any back catalogue stock gets shipped once stock arrives. This usually takes 1-2 days, dependent on if stock is available at the time of ordering. Pre-release item/s will then ship separate as and when they arrive.

I know the order form has a place to put a note, is that where I would request this?

As I'm outside the UK, maybe orders would be held anyway, but it doesn't really say.

 

[Titan]

Thank you. The other question I have is about preorders. Will they hold an order so everything can ship together? I saw this in their FAQ:


I know the order form has a place to put a note, is that where I would request this?

As I'm outside the UK, maybe orders would be held anyway, but it doesn't really say.

Yes, just leave them a message on the order form, asking them to hold the order until all items are ready to ship.

 

[Anime1977]

Breath of the wild expanded edition & tears of the kingdom players guides and links awakening unofficial players guide.

 

[zrdb]

Good News Bad News

I found Queen's Blade S2 on Amazon for £17. That was the total price from the USA to the UK. It was still that price yesterday if anyone is interested.

However, what turned up is pictured.

Hmm, the supposedly long oop S1 bluray parts 1 & 2 from Mediablasters, I got mine when they first came out years ago. What pisses me off is that beyond S2 and the ovas that Sentai released is that the rest of Queen's Blade hasn't been released outside japan.

 

[Otomo]

Hmm, the supposedly long oop S1 bluray parts 1 & 2 from Mediablasters, I got mine when they first came out years ago. What pisses me off is that beyond S2 and the ovas that Sentai released is that the rest of Queen's Blade hasn't been released outside japan.

Now I can't wait to get home tonight and check.
It really seemed that I've got S1 and S2.
I haven't read the back, only put in a disc to check regions.

 

[NormanicGrav]

2025 HAUL - JULY v1

First package of the month arrived yesterday! I have more orders being sorted (payday was last Friday) but they'll be scattered throughout the month and next.

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#01: Radiance Films Summer Sale Haul

Spoiler: Context

Radiance Films held a new sale on their webstore which included many of their releases on offer including any partner labels they collaborated with. A lot of the limited edition releases were on offer for £9.99 which is a pretty great price, so I made use of that opportunity to grab more from the backlog that I hadn't yet picked up that I was interested in.

In the Italian collection we have Bandits of Orgosolo, a 1961 film from Vittorio De Seta, and the UK release also includes The Lost World which is a collection of short films that were released between 1954-1959. Next we have I Vampiri (The Vampires), the 1957 horror film by Riccardo Freda and supposedly the first Italian horror film of the sound era of cinema which is interesting. And then we have Misunderstood (Incompreso), the 1966 drama film that's caught my interest thanks to Radiance's trailer but I never got around to picking it up until this sale.

Then we go into the Japanese collection! Japan Organised Crime Boss (日本暴力団 組長), a 1969 film by Kinji Fukasaku and Underworld Beauty (暗黒街の美女), a 1958 film by Seijun Suzuki. Two classic films that I didn't pre-order when they were released and now I have them to further build the Fukasaku and Suzuki film collection.

Like previous releases of Radiance Films, these limited edition sets include a o-strip to cover the info and ratings, reversible cover that features the original poster artwork and a booklet with writings about the films and/or director.

 

[SkwigglesWorth]

Now I can't wait to get home tonight and check.
It really seemed that I've got S1 and S2.
I haven't read the back, only put in a disc to check regions.

This was a while back for me but I got queens blade 2 the first time and it looked a little off, I think it was still a silver disc but the disc print was a little off (overly pink if i recall correct), I think it was still region A but the discs were i think only 25GB disc. I honestly wasn't sure about it so I bought another copy which ws legit, but never sold the old one (its somewhere about) as if I'm unsure on it then I don't want to try selling it off. And it was 2nd hand from a 3rd party amazon seller, so that where it might differ from you.
Assuming it was a fake, there are some good fake one's out there, that are hard to spot, (I'll try and have a look for it and maybe give some comparison shots for you)

 

[Otomo]

This was a while back for me but I got queens blade 2 the first time and it looked a little off, I think it was still a silver disc but the disc print was a little off (overly pink if i recall correct), I think it was still region A but the discs were i think only 25GB disc. I honestly wasn't sure about it so I bought another copy which ws legit, but never sold the old one (its somewhere about) as if I'm unsure on it then I don't want to try selling it off. And it was 2nd hand from a 3rd party amazon seller, so that where it might differ from you.
Assuming it was a fake, there are some good fake one's out there, that are hard to spot, (I'll try and have a look for it and maybe give some comparison shots for you)

I've got 2 Blu-rays. Each with 2 discs.
The running time on each box is 300 minutes. So I must have series 1 and 2.

Titles are The Exiled Virgin and The Evil Eye.

S2 is pink.

 

[SkwigglesWorth]

I've got 2 Blu-rays. Each with 2 discs.
The running time on each box is 300 minutes. So I must have series 1 and 2.

Titles are The Exiled Virgin and The Evil Eye.

S2 is pink.

I eventually found my spare (and probably fake)

Here are some comparison shots:

Spoiler: Comarision shots

Top is the one i think is fake and is noticalbly pinker and I would say probably slight less qualitly
As well as the disc looks to be a BD25 rather than a BD50 (see back cover where it states both discs are BD50)

This is where it makes me unsure, as this is the inner circle of the what i think is fake, where it says "Queens blade season 2 disc 2"

Covers although I can barley tell the diffence on these. but does mention the under disc type they are surpossed to be BD50

Hopefully it vagueley helps.

 

[Lucky_Deity]

From Amazon Spain and anime-on-line.

Teasing Master Takagi-san (BD) and Urusei Yatsura (2022) (S3 + S4) (BD)

 

[cfx]

I eventually found my spare (and probably fake)

Here are some comparison shots:

Hopefully it vagueley helps.

The one you believe to be legit is in a Viva Elite case, which is not something I'd expect a bootleg to use so that seems accurate. The suspected bootleg is in one of those cheap generic cases. That doesn't automatically mean bootleg as Discotek and the new Animeigo often use similar cases and if I remember correctly the one Media Blasters set I have is in that type as well, but it is definitely what I'd expect a bootleg to be in.

It doesn't help that the Region A logo symbol on both is not the real symbol, but I guess from Media Blasters that's no surprise.

Beyond that I don't have any particular insight.

 

[SkwigglesWorth]

The one you believe to be legit is in a Viva Elite case, which is not something I'd expect a bootleg to use so that seems accurate. The suspected bootleg is in one of those cheap generic cases. That doesn't automatically mean bootleg as Discotek and the new Animeigo often use similar cases and if I remember correctly the one Media Blasters set I have is in that type as well, but it is definitely what I'd expect a bootleg to be in.

It doesn't help that the Region A logo symbol on both is not the real symbol, but I guess from Media Blasters that's no surprise.

Beyond that I don't have any particular insight.

I've probably switched the case, knowing me probably on the legit and the fake one, for what ever reason my brain decided (poor or damaged orginal case, or I had spare nicer makes of case (or even it was one of the eco case)), so unfortunatly basing it off the case won't really work.

 

[zrdb]

I eventually found my spare (and probably fake)

Here are some comparison shots:

Spoiler: Comarision shots

Top is the one i think is fake and is noticalbly pinker and I would say probably slight less qualitly
As well as the disc looks to be a BD25 rather than a BD50 (see back cover where it states both discs are BD50)
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This is where it makes me unsure, as this is the inner circle of the what i think is fake, where it says "Queens blade season 2 disc 2"
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Covers although I can barley tell the diffence on these. but does mention the under disc type they are surpossed to be BD50
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Hopefully it vagueley helps.

Those aren't fakes-they're 100% real, same case inserts, same exact discs. Media Blasters was using cases which varied depending on which duplicator they were using for their blurays. I do know they were oop for quite a few years and super expensive (if you could even find them) so either somebody found a bunch of unsold stock or else Media Blasters started making them again.

 

[Relaxo]

You might inquire Media Blasters directly over Twitter on the issue.

 

[Girls with Guns]

Good News Bad News

I found Queen's Blade S2 on Amazon for £17. That was the total price from the USA to the UK. It was still that price yesterday if anyone is interested.

However, what turned up is pictured.

So you received both Seasons 1 and 2 of Queen's Blade for your order of just Season 2? Lucky you. Those are the exact same original Season 1 and Season 2 sets I picked up from Media Blasters eBay site two weeks ago, for an equivalent cost of about £40.

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Received today from Anime-on-line.

 

[Otomo]

So you received both Seasons 1 and 2 of Queen's Blade for your order of just Season 2? Lucky you. Those are the exact same original Season 1 and Season 2 sets I picked up from Media Blasters eBay site two weeks ago, for an equivalent cost of about £40.

Maybe lucky.
Each series was wrapped and the two were then wrapped up together.

I ordered S2 from Amazon.
S1, I ordered from the media blasters shop on eBay. It arrived today.
So now I got too many and spent too much.
Anyhoo, I now own 2 of the most inappropriate anime.
Kanokon is a DVD. Not sure if it's one of the on demand ones. I cut some of the cover as even I look at it and wonder, who thought that was a good Idea.

 

[Scrambled Valkyrie]

2025 HAUL - JUNE v8

Last package of the month which arrived on Saturday.

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#20: Ishiro Honda Double Feature & Mothra

Spoiler: Context

Eureka Entertainment ran a sale on their website dedicated to Japanese films and they had two older releases that I had yet to pick up for the collection, both happen to be from Japanese director Ishiro Honda and are part of the Masters of Cinema range.

We have the Ishiro Honda Double Feature collection that includes the 1958 film The H-Man (美女と液体人間) and the 1959 film Battle in Outer Space (宇宙大戦争), both are science fiction stories that I hadn't heard of prior to Eureka's release, and this is the second print edition that doesn't include the slipcase but kept the booklet (which will go away in the next print run).

And there's also Mothra (モスラ), the 1961 Japanese film and debut of the iconic Kaiju monster. This is the standard edition version which loses the rigid slipcase but still comes included with a booklet (which will also go away in the next print run).

As a big Godzilla fan and someone who has seen Mothra quite a few times I can't see anything to do with the Mothra movie without hearing the song in my head. It's like a learned response. It's just so memorable. It's as the kids might say these days "a banger"