General anime thoughts/discussion thread.

Wow. I just happened to be perusing my Anime Purchase Spreadsheet I've maintained since the very first anime media I bought back in 2011 - the original Bandai Blu-ray release of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. After taking inventory, it turns out the Queen Millenia Blu-ray from Sentai, which was my most recent order I made on August 30th, was my 50th anime Blu-ray purchase in 2025. This is actually one of my lightest yearly efforts in collecting so far, as I'm on track for buying only 75 titles this year. Since I started my actual anime collecting in March of 2013, I've purchased anywhere between 100-200 anime Blu-rays per year.

And, after tallying up my entire spreadsheet, the current body count for the total number of anime Blu-ray and DVDs in my collection now stands at 1887, so I'm just 113 titles shy of 2000, which I could possibly reach before the end of next year. I don't even want to know or think about the total cost of the anime I have purchased over these past 12 + years! 😵
 
It's interesting how the Haikyu movie is getting released in this country when it seems only the first season of 4 got released in the UK.

Although that's presuming you needed to have watched the TV series to watch the movie(s) if they are a sequel.
 
So with Trigun Stargaze coming along at some point, I thought I'd look at some of the promotional art and see if I could soften my heart towards it. I want to feel joy at the fact my favourite anime franchise has a second lease of life, and I hear Vash has his spikey hair back and even more importantly Milly is back too! But then when I actually look at these new incarnations of Trigun's amazing original cast I just feel empty and sad. Why, why is studio Orange so hell bent on taking such cool charming characters and melting them down to boring bland normies with only trace elements of what made them great. To reintroduce Milly as a generic sexy anime babe is UNFORGIVABLE. Give Milly her long coat and cloak back you cowards! Give Wolfwood his dignity back and give him a pair of socks!

Sorry to any Stampede fans on here, I don't want to do down the show and be a cantankerous old coot, and bear in mind I never watched more than 2 episodes! I just needed to vent. And I just find it odd that when 90s nostalgia (which is seemingly felt even more keenly by the young who missed it first time around) is at an all time high they've chosen to strip all the old school cool off of Trigun's bones and have thus made the show look more dated somehow.
 
Overall, I remember being puzzled about what exactly they were trying to achieve with Stampede. It seemed like they’d put a huge amount of effort into giving the characters expressive faces (something so often missing from CG anime) in a way that would have fitted a comedy series really well, then just made this near humourless downer of a show by pushing past any funny parts as quickly as possible.

I’ll probably end up watching Stargaze anyway, but I dunno, I miss Trigun being fun.
 
Seems like CEX is losing the plot with pricing of some titles, £25 for 12 episodes. When you can buy it new from Amazon for less. Although no doubt in 6 months time those titles will be on offer for £12 as they try and reduce the cash tied up in stock.

And that's before the usual Winterval related sales.
 
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