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Looks like we've got a clear leader with Haibane Renmei, so I'll leave it until this evening just in case, but if there are no more votes I'll get the thread set up tonight. I didn't actually cast a vote myself, but if I did, it would make a tie, so I'll hold off for now.

If it helps for anyone, Fujiko Mine is on HIDIVE, although it’s not terribly obvious - it’s under Lupin III: Part 1 as season 7, because of course it is…

Apologies for the delay, but I've got the poll up. I've left out Dan Da Dan and Fate / Strange Fake for now, not out of lack of interest or attempted gatekeeping, but I think most folk interested in Dan Da Dan have probably been watching it as it's been going along, and I couldn't see definite...

I was tempted to make a joke about the Jack Bauer Power Hour, but when last did anyone even mention 24? I digress. If we get a conclusive result fast enough, we could potentially look at starting on Friday night (20th), although if folk want time to consider or if it ends in a draw, we can...

Hmm. I wouldn’t be adverse to starting on Friday, but I’ve still to get a poll up to see what people want to go for. If we get a conclusive result by the end of tomorrow, we could aim for a Friday start, otherwise maybe wait another day or so and see what develops. I like the idea of that -...

Since there was some interest in these coming back (and we have a whole new section for it now), would anyone care to suggest something to potentially run over the holidays? In past times, I think we may have over-thought it at this stage, so I’d encourage folk to just throw out whatever’s on...

A shiny penny if you can name me more than three British gangster films from the 80s. All I can think of is Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday and The Hit (1984) A curious, blackly comic thriller that sees John Hurt and Tim Roth as a pair of killers tasked with driving...

Dragonball ep3-6 As it goes on, I can increasingly see why this wasn’t on kids’ TV here - maybe they just did a good job of covering it up in the version of Z we got on TV, but the original seems weirdly obsessed with smutty gags by comparison. It’s still kind of innocent in its way, it feels...

I’m still not entirely sure if I saw the director’s cut of MD Geist or the original- I’m guessing because there didn’t seem to be anything too obviously wrong with the animation that it must have been the director’s version?

At least the kids won’t grow up thinking people have pictures of Kosaku Maeda on their chest…

Joker 2: Jokerer (2024) Would have to preface this by saying I never saw the first film (having seen both King of Comedy and Taxi Driver, I didn’t feel any need to), but the continued adventures of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck picks up two years on from the previous one, finding him in prison...

Ranma 1/2 (2024) ep3-5 I am warming to the Ranmake as it goes on, I just wish it was a bit more ambitious. The business of Ranma’s missing nipples seems to have ruffled a few feathers? Personally, I agree that nothing of value has been lost, but I do think it would be less distracting if they...

Disney have dropped the first trailer for a new version of Cat’s Eye, due in 2025.

Having seen about half the first season, it’s a solid show, but it definitely skews darker than I was expecting and I’m not sure I’m in the right frame of mind to take on a series about right now. I do very much enjoy the retro-futuristic “1975 in the future” aesthetic they have going on...

Not sure how many people watched it (wouldn’t need many fingers to count the number of people I know who have Apple TV), but did you see Severance by any chance?

Entirely fair, it feels like I keep being unnecessarily rude about the new one for some reason. I’m not familiar with the manga outwith the first few volumes, so I wouldn’t have known how the original compared in terms of filler, but someone did say there’d be less Happosai in the new series...

Ranma 1/2 (2024) ep1-2 Okay, I will admit I was all ready to put the boot into this one, everything I’d seen of it in the promo material turned me right off and I don’t think this remake needs to exist, but would begrudgingly concede that it’s good enough in its own right. It’s not Mappa’s...

Saw X (2023) Never seen a Saw movie before, but this is pretty much what I expected it would be like. There’s a certain absurdist comedy in the sheer excess of it all and, if you like this kind of film, I can appreciate that this is a good example of the form, it’s just not my kind of thing...

A Few Moments of Cheers At about an hour in length, I feel this lighthearted drama about a young video maker enamoured with a mysterious musician sits awkwardly between either needing to be shorter and more focused, or wanting a third act to give it more substance, but visually, it’s one of the...

Surprised to see the Pluto one has GE999 in the UK, the last time I remember anyone having that, it was region locked. But yeah, I think Retro Crush was the first online service I’d seen running a TV-style stream with a range of shows at different times of day, but that is region locked.