Search results

This Mazinger release is from 2018, so it was setting off my imminent FOMO alarm. I must have had some residual FOMO in my bloodstream when I added the second season of Nanoha to the order, despite it being a recent release and me not knowing if I'll like the show yet. With Discotek it feels...

You beat me to it. Silent Hill f is giving off strong Forbidden Siren vibes. The cutscenes look impressive and it's interesting that it's being written by the author of Higurashi. It must still be a long way from release though, since they managed to talk about it for 45 minutes without showing...

That's surprising. Shows that stream on Hidive usually vanish into obscurity after one season. Maybe there's hope for The Executioner and Her Way of Life after all..........?

MASK is back (in toy form)! This stimulated my nostalgia gland. I had the original versions of the bike and plane from this video until I had to massively downsize the remains of my childhood a couple of years ago. The only one I kept was Piranha (bike with a sidecar that turns into a...

The official Youtube channel for TMS has several dozen anime shows. Some are region-locked, but a lot of them appear to be available in the UK. Of particular note is that this appears to be the only legal streaming source currently for some, including 80s super robot shows like God Mazinger, New...

Joking aside, Lain is an interesting case to consider. It's ostensibly SF, but rather like Videodrome it was made at a time when the technology it's about was in its infancy, and its potential is portrayed more like magic than science. Lain herself is So, from that perspective, could she be...

This week on They Made a Magical Girl Spin-off of That?! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-05/86-magical-girl-spinoff-manga-ends/.221997

That sounds like plenty of time to have mentally redacted the trauma of the ending. When I rewatch Oreimo I stop at the end of the second TV series these days. Also

I'm provoking waifu wars everywhere I go this week. Also, we seem to remember that ending very differently. Unless I'm forgetting something,

Can we compromise and just scrub the season 2 OAVs from existence?

Hold the press; I was wrong. These can stand up, but the packaging doesn't bother to explain how. I didn't figure it out at first because it involves leaving one of the pins exposed, which isn't great unless you're planning to put it in a display case.

Nothing for me there. Based on their current slate, I'm just waiting for the Yello version of Cobra. I can't recall Discotek ever having so few upcoming titles that interest me.

Blind-boxed Sailor Moon mini-figpins. I don't usually try my luck with blind boxes, so I was pleasantly surprised at what I got. Sailor Mars is common (1:5), but the others are rare glitter variants, with Luna being 1:15 and Sailor Moon 1:40. Ideally I would have preferred Jupiter instead of...

The dawn of Salaryman Zero.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-02/yuri-dark-fantasy-manga-i-want-to-love-you-till-your-dying-day-gets-tv-anime/.221845 The synopsis doesn't sound particularly romantic, but we'll see.

Some things I either didn't realise, didn't remember in time, or couldn't work into the discussion: There have been some really weird magical girl shows over the years. https://www.cbr.com/weirdest-unbelievable-magical-girl-anime/ I'd never twigged that Kill la Kill is a magical girl show. It...

I'm glad you both enjoyed it. I'd like to do retrospectives of other genres at some point, but organising this one took a lot more time than I expected, so I'll leave it a while before thinking about another one, unless someone else wants to take the reins on that. I went with magical girls due...

"We've had an anonymous tip. There's a landmine in one of the pockets, but we don't know which one!"