What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

[Lucky_Deity]

From anime-on-line

Fate/Zero



My Fate collection is really coming together now.

Spoiler: Fate Collection

I also have Fate/kaleid S1 but that's with my CE's / LE's.

 

[BrokenPhoenix]

Final Xmas order from Anime Limited arrived today. I'll let the spines do the talking as there is a fair few! Just glad that's over for another year

 

[Girls with Guns]

A fine row of elephant butts!

 

[Otomo]

Wouldn't normally buy a Tom Baker plate but it was £18. Might end up using it as a present.
Haven't heard the Cave Monsters before. It was £18, I usually prefer to pay less for my audiobooks.
The Destiny Angel figure is a bit rubbish but I like the artwork.
Pretty sure I've have never watched Q the Winged Serpent and at £2 for a still sealed DVD, I couldn't refuse.

All from an Antique shop in Bolton.

 

[NormanicGrav]

January Haul #3

I am slowly getting through my cold but thankfully I'm well enough to sort out my latest pickups. These arrived/acquired on Wed 28th & Thurs 29th.

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#6: One Battle After Another

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I took another trip to York as I was visiting the Picturehouse Cinema to watch No Other Choice. Before I watched the film I also checked HMV and realised that Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 film One Battle After Another just got released.

This is a pretty intriguing film and one of my top picks for the year. Bizarre was my first reaction but in a good way and I really enjoyed the characters and journey from start to finish. Whilst the 4K Ultra HD release won't have the IMAX aspect ratios or even any disc extras (those extras are exclusive to the steelbook release later down the line), I wanted to revisit this film.

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon), Sean Penn (Licorice Pizza), Benicio del Toro (The Phoenician Scheme) and Teyana Taylor (The Book of Clarence).

#7: Terracotta January Pre-Orders Haul

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One of many pre-order hauls I've done to keep myself up-to-speed with the Asian Cinema collection. This haul focuses on January's pre-orders from distributors Eureka Entertainment and 88 Films.

From Eureka Entertainment we start off with a very special release which I expect to sell out pretty soon. Cloud/Charisma: Two Films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a collection that contains the 1999 film Charisma (カリスマ) and the 2024 film Cloud (クラウド), the latter of which is exclusive to this limited edition release which I found odd considering Criterion is releasing this normally over in North America. I have enjoyed a lot of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's works and to see more released over here is great. This release is part of the Masters of Cinema range and the limited edition also includes a slipcase and booklet.

Next we have Gordon Chan's 1992 film King of Beggars (武狀元蘇乞兒) starring Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle). I've not checked out either the director or actor's works yet but I know Stephen Chow is a big actor in the Hong Kong scene so I wanted to pick this up sooner than later. This release is part of the Classics range and the limited edition also includes a slipcase and booklet.

Moving over to 88 Films is their latest Shaw Brothers releases which came out of nowhere considering their previous batches were much earlier in 2025. Here we have two films; Chang Cheh & Pao Hsueh-Li's 1972 film The Delightful Forest (快活林) and Tony Lou Chun-Ku's 1984 film Secret Service of the Imperial Court (錦衣衛), the latter of which was released during one of the final years that Shaw Brothers were actively producing films until they eventually shifted focus on other things from the late 80s onwards. Both only include a slipcase this time for their first print run but the artwork looks great.

#8: Code Vein II

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A brand new game for 2026 and the first one I decided to pick up is Bandai Namco's Action Souls RPG Code Vein II for the PlayStation 5. The first game was a lot of fun and I didn't check out much of the gameplay for the second game as I knew they would keep what made it special. I've played a good number of hours into the game and so far it's decent. The combat is fine, though the health system is weird as half of your health is dedicated to your partner offering you support which I felt was interfering with the experience.

The boss fights can be pretty tedious due to how they literally don't get staggered or when you recover they immediately mess you up with multi-hit combos. There is a parry system but it felt way too slow so timing is pretty challenging. I don't remember struggling this much with the first game but all I can do at this point is further build the character's stats to make sure I can get past this hurdle. At the moment the game's a decent 6/10 but that can change as I progress further into the game (there's no missable trophies so a Platinum trophy is possible).

#9: Eureka Ent. Shaw Brothers Catch-Up Haul

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Rounding up the month is another Eureka Entertainment haul and with this one it came from a recent sale they did on their online store which featured one of the Shaw Brothers releases that I was after.

The Magnificent Chang Cheh collection features two of his works; his 1966 film The Magnificent Trio (邊城三俠) and 1967 film Magnificent Wanderers (江湖漢子). I forget which one people really enjoyed and the other they disliked so either way they're in this collection.

Also picked up from their online store is the Exact Revenge collection which features two films; Teddy Yip Wing-Cho's 1971 film The Eunuch (鬼太監) and Jang Il-ho's 1972 film The Deadly Knives (落叶飞刀), also known as Fists of Vengeance. Both collection sets were released as part of the Classics range and the limited edition also includes a slipcase and booklet.

With these two, I'm now caught up on Eureka's Shaw Brothers releases. Whether they will release any more I have no clue but there's hundreds that need to be brought over.

 

[Rob F1UK]

 

[JeiKaos]

Ergo Proxy Steel book edition along with Tokyo Godfathers and Chain Chronicle.

 

[HWR]

From eBay. Took most of yesterday to install it on my PS5.

 

[sniper_samurai]

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From eBay. Took most of yesterday to install it on my PS5.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. The disc version came out months after the digital release and only until you get out of the intro quest is on the disc.

 

[awadama]

 

[BrokenPhoenix]

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To me...

 

[Gemsy-chan]

To me...

...to you

 

[awadama]

Oh dear, oh dear!

 

[Lucky_Deity]

From HMV

Human Lost




From ebay

Free! Iwatobi Swim Club (LE) and Free! Eternal Summer (LE)



I'm glad to finally own all three seasons of Free! in their limited edition's. I am missing the movie collection limited edition though which is ridiculously expensive so not sure when I'll be able to own that but I'll keep looking. They look great on the shelf though.

Spoiler: Free! Collection

 

[BrokenPhoenix]

At last! It has arrived. Bit of a mishap with stock for Trails Beyond the Horizon at various retailers as NISA EU apparently did not send enough copies for all pre-orders to be fulfilled of the PS5 version.

However, TGC were very good at keeping people in the loop, and now it is here. Although, it's not like I'll be playing it any time soon anyway, as I still need to catch up!

 

[ID5]

Some recent arrivals:

 

[Titan]

Received today, from The Game Collection:

 

[Anime1977]

Three t shirts from redbubble and a new artbook.they came yesterday .

 

[RadFemHedonist]

I will try to add some write ups to these posts later but for now am just doing a big update of everything that arrived since I last posted in this thread

 

[RadFemHedonist]

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