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Got it for £20 from Zavvi in 2024. Still haven't watched it. Although I did finally get a UHD player a week or so ago.

Project A and Project A II. There's also a Sammo Hung Blu-ray of Painted Faces

88 Films announced one of my fave movies for release in June alongside some Jackie Chan 4Ks Fumihiko Sori's live action adaptation of Ping Pong is finally coming to Blu...

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