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Glasgow Film Theatre having a mini-season, notably including End of Evangelion https://www.glasgowfilm.org/a-recent-history-of-anime

Detectives These Days Are Crazy! Ep1-2 This is an odd one - maybe it’ll come into play more as the show goes on, but having established that its main character was a child prodigy detective who has grown inept and lazy as an adult, it kind of doesn’t seem to be doing anything with that? I...

New Panty & Stocking ep3 (English dub) The parody did nothing for me, but otherwise that was again pretty funny. Not quite sure what it is that’s clicked for me this time around compared with the original series - feels like maybe it’s less hung up on trying to be outlandish and more focused...

Turkey! Ep1-2 Despite having largely avoided spoilers, I partially guessed where this was going before the end of episode 1, but the reveal that the girls’ bowling team still made me laugh. Would buy a pint for whoever came up with that idea. Going on the general tone of it, particularly as...

Looks like an AI-gen image of SpyXFamily, sorry.

It would be interesting to know if the show’s producers felt that Lazarus was a success. I don’t know how much input they have (was Adult Swim the main investor?), but it is notable that it’s another one from Jason DeMarco, who appears as executive producer on a number of Adult Swim shows that...

Amazon certainly getting the big titles this season. New Panty & Stocking ep1 (English dub) Never having been a great fan of the original, my reaction to them making more was bemusement at best, but here we are. The first few minutes are a bit rough; the onslaught of exposition mixed in with...

Giving very little away, but Apple have released a teaser for their adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It’s nice that they’re finally doing it, but I do wonder if the moment has passed. I know adaptations of the book have been floated a number of times before to no success, but it’s...

Not to say it isn’t a wider issue, but is Lazarus a notably bad example of the form? I do remember other people complaining about the dub, to the point where I’ve purposely avoided the show so far, in the hope that the Japanese audio might be made available down the line. The last thing I...

Catch Me At the Ballpark! ep1-3 Not quite what I was expecting (I thought it would be more of a straightforward romance), this is a sweet and often very funny little comedy series that works well with its vignette-style format. I’ve seen a few comments about the production feeling kind of...

28 Years Later Appreciably different from the previous films, this second sequel to Danny Boyle’s influential zombie olympics plays out more as a gory coming-of-age story that just happens to take place after the (as it turns out, very localised) apocalypse. Strong performances (notably from...

Friend showed a couple of random things for us last night: Wanna-Be’s (1986, rewatch) There’s not a lot to it, but I still kind of like this one, it’s very much ‘we wanted a film about ladies wrestling, but we got John Carpenter to write it’. Does make me wonder why we’ve never (to my...

Finally finished something I started probably around the last time I posted in this thread (ouch). Randomly found this photo from an old catalogue of a model that I thought looked like she was doing accidental Blade Runner cosplay, and thought it would be a laugh to actually draw that. Trying...

The Dinner Table Detective ep1-3 The first episode of this did nothing for me - some obnoxious rich people try to solve crimes involving other obnoxious rich people - but it grew on me quite a bit once the introductory case was out of the way. Smugface the Butler gets on my nerves and I think...

Maniac Cop (1988) Possibly most famous for its striking cover art, which seemed to be ever present in rental places during the 1990s, this is a workmanlike b-movie thriller about a tall, super-strong killer roaming the midnight streets of New York dressed as a police officer, leading to a young...

Regardless of where they’re coming from politically or their questionable grasp on what anime is like as a medium (are we really calling VHD ‘erotic’?) I don’t get much sense of why they’re giving it 4/5 from the review. Nothing grinds my gears quite like an arbitrary score that seems to have...

Kowloon Generic Romance ep3-4 This seems to have solidified more now; there’s a stronger sense of conflict creeping into it and the main thrust of what the story is about has begun to look clearer. It’s a pleasingly unusual series with a strong sense of atmosphere, but even if this is cut down...

I’m very curious to see what they’ll do with the story in this one. I found V tired and aimless, but RDR2 gives me hope that they might be able to up their game this time.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise ~ Alternative Architecture ep 9-10 My original thought was to go back and finish the Arise OVAs, but to my surprise, I already did (at the time, I apparently said they were unmemorable, so that was on the money). Despite remembering next to nothing about the finer...

Urusei Yatsura (1981) ep8-10 Feels a bit like I’ve fallen into the same trap as with Ranma, in that I’m spending more time mentally comparing both the original and remake versions than just enjoying watching the show, but I think these have been the most noticeably different so far, it feels...