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The basic premise of an alien/otherworldy kaiju monster of the week is the same, but the giant robot aspects are completely different, and avoid the NGE mindfrell and psycho deep dive characterisations. The giant robot is a machine (not anthropomorphised in any way) built to fight the invaders...

I think they gave it up pretty quick. I'm in the middle of my first rewatch of the Shippuden DVDs, and by collection 23 the song subtitles are long since history,

The theme songs aren’t subtitled on the Manga DVDs either.

I don't like giant robots as a genre per se, but there are some I have a lot of time for. Dai Guard is my go to, like Patlabor TV it's got a heavy dose of slice of life but it's more of an Evangelion clone, but here the twist is that it's the salarymen (and women) who ride the giant robot, and...

Third Window Films’ first 4k UHD release will be a doozy

I wrote this about Baki when I reviewed it last year... "Baki has made me pull out the ‘if you like this sort of thing, you’ll love this’ cliché." and "Baki is the kind of show you watch if you like the idea of people flaying each other by happy slapping." and "At one point Baki hears...

Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack for the win (loss?)

Looks like Kizumonogatari 1-3 for £7.99 each are this weeks DOTW https://www.anime-on-line.com/2964-Deal-of-the-Week

I'd go for the 47 episodes of the TV series first. then the 16 episodes of the second OVA series.

Yeah, Jerome worked for Manga for quite a while, but Manga went down the crapper (I seem to recall Jerome had a social media meltdown at one point too) and they parted ways. Jerome started Animatsu, and made enough of a success of it, that when Manga hit the skids, he was able to buy it and...

https://www.anime-on-line.com/31501-non-non-biyori-vacation-u-blu-ray.html

A Lull in the Sea did get a UK release, although you'll have to trawl eBay looking for pre-owned at this point. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=a+lull+in+the+sea&_sacat=617&_from=R40&_trksid=p4624852.m570.l2632

Jerome, who owned Manga Entertainment before selling it to Funimation, who were bought out by Crunchyroll, bought out by Sony.

Is anyone else having trouble checking out at Anime On Line? I can't see any option to pay by card or Paypal, and if I get two or more items past the free shipping threshold, there's a random penny added to the total.

So Jerome Mazandarani now writes the Answerman column, and yesterday’s offering was about Sony/Crunchyroll’s destruction of the physical media market.. I’m impressed that he wrote all that with zero irony or self awareness. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2026-02-09/.233909