Recent content by Dai

His leather jacket and headband are lined with Kevlar, but it's not mentioned in the anime. I only recall that from the liner notes included with the VHS release. Those notes don't explain how he can rip a car door off with his bare hands though... I presume that was rhetorical, but if not then...

Nothing that interesting, I'm afraid. I was just going for a hike up a mountain when I turned and saw wildfires burning in the valley below. The flames spelt the words Slender, Denim, Jean. Then an old shepherd walked by, wearing skinny jeans and a Zaku-shaped helmet.

How did I never make the connection between the names of the first three Zeon pilots who appear in the original Gundam? Slender, Denim, and Gene Jean. That is some Akira-Toriyama-level punning.

You can always count on the law to lag half a century behind what companies are doing. See also: the complete lack of customer rights for most digital products.

I had to pre-order this from Japan three months in advance. SHEEH!

I suppose it makes sense to release a new edition of Minus One now, with the hype building for Minus Zero and the deluxe edition long out of print. I already have the deluxe edition though, so I would have been more interested in releases for some of the older Godzilla movies that have recently...

The absence of this has been an annoying gap in the story for years, so I'm glad it's finally available. Now if someone would just give this and season 3 a physical release...

Hmm. As with any slate full of licence rescues, how interesting it is depends on whether you missed out on anything you wanted the first time. For me this is mostly a mix of things I either already own or was never interested in. I'll only buy the Patlabor movies again if they include the UK...

Another totally unpredictable slate from Animeigo. They're turning into the weirdest company still releasing anime, which is a direction I can get behind. I've been annoyed at myself for not buying Relife when it was still available, so I'll definitely be getting that. I might get Irabu's...

Where did you find the sales figures? I'm surprised that any companies would be so transparent or that such exact figures would be available.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life is leagues ahead of most isekai shows. It's frustrating that it's also one of the few not to have received a second season, perhaps due to it languishing in obscurity on Hidive.

I wonder if they're finally ready to reveal the new show.

Good point. I'd forgotten about the interchangeable drives on the newer model. My PS5 is the earlier one with the built-in drive. Of course, in the spirit of everything in life being a trade-off instead of a solution, those add-on drives require a one-time connection to Sony's servers to...

I'm a bit surprised to see people doubling down on physical releases after the announcement. On the one hand it makes sense to have copies that aren't tied to a PSN account, especially with all the things that can cause people to lose access to their DRM-infested digital collections. On the...