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Train to the End of the World, episodes 8-12 Shinkansen-like, that went by much too fast. I did enjoy that ending, but if this doesn't get a continuation I will be quite annoyed. There was so much going on I feel like I've only just got to know the characters properly, Shizuku especially...

London's skyline is certainly looking more cyberpunk these days, but it's a bit too clean. Where's the acid rain and the flare stacks? iirc ICI Billingham has the dubious honour of helping to inspire both Blade Runner and Brave New World: Huxley worked there and Scott was familiar with it...

Train to the End of the World, episodes 1-7 Whoops, wrong image, let's try that again: There we go. There's probably a whole book to be written about anime and train journeys into the strange and unsettling, whether it's Night on the Galactic Railroad, Galaxy Express 999, Evangelion...

That packaging design is excellent and actually made me interested enough to look into and probably watch the show. Cover art departments please take note.

Absolutely sick of hearing about this winter fuel allowance lark, even sicker to see that most of the people against means testing it are those I would normally consider myself politically aligned with. If I were Starmer, I would stand up and publicly say: "Why are you ostensibly 'left-wing' MPs...

I feel like fujos would be more interested in the Specialists' poles, but I could be wrong.

Damn it, @Dai I blame you and your Monster High talk for me falling back down the Winx hole. Not only am I now aware that nearly every episode is officially available on YouTube in HD in multiple languages but also that I missed the 20th anniversary party in Italy by a matter of days. There was...

Kind of on the fence about this, I mean scalping might be morally questionable, but buying something and selling it on at a huge mark-up is not prevented by law with any other commodity and if it was, the global economy would probably collapse because that's what every retailer does, not to...

Tell me about it, they clearly underestimate little girls like us; no multiple language options or subtitles on a lot of discs either. I had to import all my Winx Club DVDs from Italy just so Tatiana Dessi’s deep-voiced and imperious Icy could make me feel funny I could watch it in Italian. I...

A lack of disrespect? Dare I ask what Mr. Smith thinks Starmer should have done to the portrait of Thatcher? I have a few ideas. Seriously though, since when have politicians been expected to venerate their political opponents? What next, “Farage accused of lack of respect for Lenin?”

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Yeah, they’re basically the same shop now except Waterstones has a reward card that gives you a £10 voucher once you’ve spent £100 and Blackwells doesn’t. Can’t say I’ve found much reason to choose Blackwells over Waterstones recently.

I'm not that much older but I definitely remember watching Thundercats and enjoying it, which got me wondering when it aired here. I was guessing we got it a lot later than the US, as we used to with everything (I distinctly remember the mid '90s when it seemed like everyone at school but me had...

Not to ignore the relevant points some people have made on other topics, I will probably return to them in due course, but I feel a burning need to address the events of yesterday. As a resident of Middlesbrough until recently and someone with the dubious distinction of having the place on my...

Perhaps it's a difference in attitudes from one person to the next, but I imagine seeing someone who deprived a person I love of their life (particularly if they did so in a horrible, violent way) deprived of their own would prove fairly satisfying and conclusive to me personally, and I suspect...

Boomers with paid off mortgages on houses they bought for tuppence ha'penny in 1970 and are now worth half a million quid absolutely deserve to have their winter fuel payments means tested in just the same way younger people aren't allowed benefits if they have more than 6k in the bank and have...

The mass of unelected civil servants who remain in place regardless of who is elected (including, in America, officials the President simply appoints and do not even have to be elected) plus the corporations and interests who support and influence elected officials via lobbying and campaign...

I've said before that despite all these dire warnings about him being a threat to his country and democracy the major thing which makes me believe Trump is in fact no threat at all to the establishment is the fact he still continues to breathe. Generally, if the powers that be decide you are a...

It's actually harder for me to bring to mind a single '80s anime I haven't enjoyed. Genuinely good or hilariously bad, you're usually guaranteed a good time either way.