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Lupin III: The Immortal Bloodline - The first half of this was incredible. While they do their best to recap the previous films (that we have yet to get in the UK) this is the conclusion for what this side series of Lupin theatrical projects and is probably experienced in release order; Jigen's...

Babylon Episodes 1-3 Chained Solider Episodes 2-6 Diebuster (2003) and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) - Both early-00s sequels, that also function better when not expected to be sequels, to beloved science-fiction properties with a surprising amount of focus on animating a dog...

Very jealous of the Gundam Sets. They look really nice. I got my Zen Market items today. Including a CD complication of songs from the Like A Dragon / Yakuza series, alongside merch from the limited time Gundam Hathaway promotional cafe. I have some more imports coming later this month but I’m...

could I buy Gunsmith Cats?

Took a break from Yakuza 2 in the hopes of playing some smaller games and clear out some games in my backlog. It's helped me give some things second chances. Valkyrie Elysium (2022) - Valkyrie Elysium is an odd one. Clearly a lower-budget action game by the develops of Samurai Jack - Battle...

Collateral (2004) - This was really good. Jamie Fox plays a taxi driver, Max, in LA who is dreaming of a better life but isn't ready to make the leap forward. Until one night he decides to give a ride to Vincent, an ice-chewing sociopath played expertly by Tom Cruise. Things very quickly go...

This looks really interesting. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to make it this time. I’d have liked to have met a lot of these guests. Maybe next time.

Finally got my Sony Walkman NW-A306 music player, a protective case, screen protector and micro SD card. The charm is a Haro phone charm I got at Animecon this year from Purus’s Counterattack. Thankfully Day of the Gundam’s site it better at listing artists by name than Animecon

Chainsaw Man finished last week. It was fine. I’ve never been especially smitten with the series but the ending is solid. It does a decent job of hammering home what the entire second half has been about and probably makes the whole thing more coherent overall. I do think it is a very sudden...

Finally brought two things I think I've been needing for a long time. Firstly, a digital music player that is separate from my phone. So I can listen to music without getting distracted and save my phone's battery life. It'll take some time to set that up but we'll get there. Secondly, I now...

The following were brought on Amazon Music but took some digging. Yasumi no Kuni, especially their song Akuka-Stocking. Thank you Kouta Hirano for making this song a big part of the Hellsing Manga. Korewoizontoyabunara by the Visual K band MEJIBRAY Joker by Shounanno Kaze. I brought...

Welcome to the team, fellow shut-in. As a kid, realising that you could watch anime on the internet my gateway was also reading the back of a yu-gi-oh magazine telling me who all the coolest anime villains were. I don't know if Sesshomaru actually counts but it lead me to Trigun and here we are.

Glad to hear you are trying new things! @kairoxLine I don't know about Paper Girls. Compared to Saga it is probably on the surface darker and more serious. But at the same time it is a story published in a boy's magazine in the 90s. So while it is has a lot of really big ideas and is written by...

Got some games from Hit.co.uk this weekend. Nioh 3, Dead Space (Remake) and No Sleep for Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files. I’ve much enjoyed the Nioh series so far and the more I played the demo for Nioh 3 the less worried about it I was. I thought the core gimmick would make the...

Probably a big story on a technical side: Nvidia showed off their new technology and it is the fastest and angriest my feed has been in years. DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is Nvidia's software designed to force games to run at higher resolutions and faster frame rates. In theory it's...