Recent content by Dai

I can't remember if this has been mentioned before, but Guyver: Dark Hero is getting a UK blu-ray release on 7th September from a new label called Toy Robot Video. The image quality looks heavily processed in places. Maybe just DNR, but a few of the facial close-ups are setting off my AI...

Looking at the disc-related backlash that seems to be flooding every social media post Sony and their first-party developers are making, I worry that people are fighting the wrong battle. For Sony, the biggest mistake they've made in killing discs isn't the lost revenue, it's that the decision...

If that turns out to be the story, then the most likely version is the Space Firebird 2772 movie from 1980. I haven't watched it, but I remember that a UK video version existed in the 80s. Edit: I checked the manga. I haven't read it for 20 years, so I'd forgotten the story. This definitely...

And since they say some items will be limited edition, it's more like paying for a chance to buy merchandise.

https://www.destructoid.com/sony-cryptocurrency-playstation/ Sony's transformation from entertainment company to dystopian corpocratic oligarch is accelerating from a march to a sprint. Now they're issuing their own currency that you can use to buy indefinite digital licences for their products...

Because having control of a sector includes controlling when to destroy it. Nothing about Sony's recent plans feels like a business with failing branches; it's all too tightly organised and coordinated. This is a planned demolition. And like a typical company, they have the spite and...

That's the worry. If so, that would leave the new Madoka Magica movie and the upcoming final Rascal Does Not Dream movie in limbo. Those might never get western blu-ray releases without AoA.

If the Crunchyroll Store does stop selling blu-rays, I wonder where that will leave Aniplex of America. Aren't their titles pretty much exclusive to the Crunchyroll Store now or does anyone else still sell them? Considering that they're a Sony-owned brand, I worry for their future.

The announcement makes it sound like they won't be selling blu-rays at all. It only mentions, "The new store reimagines our assortment to capture the excitement of convention-exclusive merchandise—collectables, curated drops, and limited-release products inspired by the anime series you love."...

As someone without a 4K TV, I'm not only not excited by the Ghibli catalogue acquisition, I'm kind of annoyed. This is going to be another stack of re-releases clogging up the schedule, and for movies that most of us old gits on the forums have probably bought multiple times already. They will...

Avatar: Fire and Ash It's pretty decent. That wouldn't be a bad result for some movies, but it feels damning for something as huge, ambitious, and lavish as this. The highs are what you would expect of the series by now. The world-building is great, and there's plenty here for people who just...

Predator Badlands I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. My main reservation going in was that I'd heard the banter between the titular predator and Elle Fanning's legless android made it feel like a Marvel movie, which was not something I wanted from the franchise. There is indeed a fair...

Some of Animeigo's other recent announcements sound interesting. Quotes from their newsletter: Also, they've license rescued House of Five Leaves.

I've been wanting to rewatch this show for years, but the old DVDs look awful on modern TVs. Now that I've paid a hefty price for a used Blu-ray copy, you can look forward to the show being license rescued by Discotek within the next six months.