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  1. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya - Episodes 1-2 Fate does magical girl - the only readily available series from the franchise that I haven't seen, but more recently decided that I should eventually get around to it after hearing the latter season and movies are quite good. I do wonder how the...
  2. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sorry guys, been unwell so have some catching up to do. Life After Magic. If you happen to play it, let me know how you find it - the concept sounded fascinating. Madoka Magica Episodes 1-3 Shame I couldn't do this one daily as it's the one I've most been looking forward to. This was the...
  3. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Don't have much to add to the first episode of precure apart from agreeing with you on the design elements clearly having merchandising in mind. Feels like it did for girls, what voltran did for boys. I would have said transformers, but I guess that was far more global a phenomenon than the...
  4. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Princess Tutu episodes 1-3 Or as its light novel title would go: Magical girl provides psychotherapy through the medium of classical ballet in fairytale land. Now this one I've been wanting to watch for a good while, but only recently finally imported a US copy, and even more recently joined...
  5. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Fancy Lala - Episodes 1-3 The magical girl formula here is used to fulfil the dream all kiddos have of growing up quicker to live the glamorous adult life (poor sods have got no idea...). Like Sakura, the animation quality is a step up here. It's the first one in this simulwatch to focus on...
  6. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Oh my good God, I am so embarrassed 🤦, I am not allowed to post anything when not in my right mind... Fascinating stuff! I'm biased, but Anno's static shots I actually really liked and did think that, whilst they were clearly helping reduce workload, their implementation did serve an artistic...
  7. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    That is quite interesting and smart, if one were to inaccurately assume they had double the time to produce one season if, to create 40 episodes, they're actually making 20 episodes' worth of new material, by reusing sequences for up to half of each episode. Clearly that won't reflect reality...
  8. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sailor Moon R The Movie Mask dude love triangle, with the return of a long lost alien boyfriend, sets things in motion for the movie. Certainly darker elements and self-sacrifice are here as you mentioned @Dai , that form the basis of some of the later grimdark shows in the genre. However, the...
  9. Geriatric hedgehog

    UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

    Awesome, thanks for the info. Guess I'll start by emailing AL as well then. I wish they would just send replacements out automatically, as one may be none the wiser if not on the ball... Then again, MVM were fantastic when I needed my first disc for the Air dvd replaced after realising the...
  10. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sailor Moon - Episodes 1&2 I could fill this post with screenshots of the first ten minutes of the first episode - I found out to be very funny with a very likeable cast and protagonist. I think the Japanese voice acting for most of the cast, including supporting cast, is great and a...
  11. Geriatric hedgehog

    UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

    Welp, I pre-ordered this and haven't unwrapped mine yet. What was the issue with the original sets they released if you don't mind me asking?
  12. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Can't say I have much to add for Minky Momo's episodes 2 & 3, as they seemed generic to me, as @Professor Irony mentioned not having much to say apart from entertaining kiddos and selling march, as @Dai confirmed. The occasional sarcastic meta comment, I definitely agree did feel like the...
  13. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Minky Momo - Episode 1 If I had a veterinarian other-half who decided they were going to go off on a jolly to Antarctica to "treat polar bears with colds", I'd file for a divorce. Then, if they suggested to address being lonely with the joys of balancing a household+/-job? with childcare, I'd...
  14. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Princess Knight - Episode 2 Angel boy's backstory (ah man he is so annoying)! So it is his shenanigans that lead to Princess Knight getting a Y chromosome in addition to a second X - so would this then make them the very first animated intersex character? And those two horses seemed rather...
  15. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Princess Knight - Episode 1 Wow, I was not expecting the androgynous princess being a social commentary on the the prejudices relating to gender and class, right from the get go, in a presumably pg-rated show from the fifties with a completely Disney-inspired aesthetic and soundtrack. This even...
  16. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Good stuff, I've got the blu ray as well and hopefully this info will help anyone without a physical copy
  17. Geriatric hedgehog

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sorry dude, I can't find this on Disney+, hidive, Netflix, crunchyroll or prime 😔. Is it on tubi or maybe with VPN with one of the streamers?
  18. Geriatric hedgehog

    Feb 2025 simulwatch voting thread

    I'm totally trusting you bro and happy to go with the revised plan with the cutbacks!
  19. Geriatric hedgehog

    Simulwatch Planning Thread - Suggest & Discuss

    Made in the Abyss is a good one and I was planning on rewatching that in order to finally watch the second season, now that I've jumped on the presumably sinking ship that is hidive. But may be more tricky for others with access if it's only on hidive, unless people own the physical versions. In...
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