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I do love how that show opens with school girls and donuts and sparkly promises and *fast-forward 5 years* drag racing and EXISTENTIAL DREAD! I also love how the director is literally Seiji Mizushima. It's just a shame we never saw him go on any weirdly aggressively anti-imperialistic or...

Shirobako a cutesy comedy? I'm not sure we were watching the same show there, especially considering many of the events and people were based on real life stories from working in the anime. There's heightened dramatic tension, sure, but that show was transformative in educating younger (& older)...

Great to see Girl's Last Tour get confirmed with the important Sentai extras (i.e. the production materials) intact. Fingers crossed they have access to the same image assets, as both the slipcase and the extras casing have stunning illustrations. Seeing the first two Kizu sets show up is also...

Happy to see Kizu is on the way. With any luck we'll also get an announcement on the final season of Owari. I'm surprised the latter hasn't had any update yet. The movie delays I can understand but the franchise's tv gap has been fairly consistent until now. Btw, does anyone recall whether MVM...

Chances are there are cheaper ways to get around it, but as a novice when it comes proxy services, it seems about standard to me. What JP proxy do you use, btw? I've only used White Rabbit Express before, which was fine for customs, but as I bought a fairly large art book, the p&p cost nearly...

Both the dub and the subsequent dubtitles (the Penguindrum subs just copy the dub script rather than a more literal translation) were written by a fellow called Steven Foster, who was behind many of Sentai's early releases, chiefly the fanservice and comedy-based series. The guy has a reputation...

Yeah, you have to use a proxy shipping service (I used Shipito, but there are several alternatives), so it's only really worth it if you buy in bulk to mitigate the extra costs. My order came to around £114 in total, but shipping to the UK was about £33, while customs was £31. Unless it's for...

In one small piece of good news, my Black Friday package from Sentai finally arrived after an entire month. Seriously, I looked at my confirmation & realised I placed the order on November 16th. It took 11 days for Sentai to ship it and then an entire week stuck in customs, with the rest spent...

If I remember correctly, Paranoia Agent censored a scene in which a trio of misfits attempting a group suicide, try/fail to hang themselves in the woods. It's been a while but I believe the edit shows them attaching the rope to the tree, then stepping up to it, before there's a sudden transition...

I've just come off the first of two awful week long night shift duties over Christmas and have just realised I missed the GuP tv offer in my sleep derived state. Sigh. At least I got a heads up for their pre-order discounts and snagged Made in Abyss & Princess Principal. I'm incredibly happy MVM...

Welp. So long AL's '12 Days of Christmas' deals. We hardly knew ye.

I really wish I liked Maquia (or Okada's works in general) more than I do, because the collectors set looks damn impressive in terms of content. Well done getting all those features. I guess we'll see if Wolf's Rain shows up tomorrow. If not, I'll have avoided buying a single item from the '12...

Well, five days in and I still haven't bought anything, which is bad for my anime collection but great for the leather jacket I'm currently in a bidding war on ebay over. I guess it's just a natural response to the well of licenses slowing down over the last 18 months; I've usually had the funds...

And let's be honest, what is Testament of Sister New Devil if not an...errr... impulse buy?

There's something inherently galling about seeing Yuri Kuma Arashi stuck in a fanservice bundle, considering much of that show was a direct criticism of the genre as a means of judging another's sexuality in a real world environment. That said, there's also few directors out there less...

They're different products owned by different publishers/sponsors. Just because they come from the same franchise doesn't mean their economic ties are similar. I recall this subject coming up during the Aria & Victorian Romance Emma kickstarters, where it was reiterated several times that it...

Honestly, I think the only AL release I haven't brought yet that I'm still interested in is the Wolf's Rain UE set. That's fine with me though. I've spent so much money over the last month (not even counting presents) that I really need to tread lightly this month.

Same. On paper it ticks all the boxes for me, but for whatever reason I just couldn't attach to the show, despite recognising its obvious qualities. Well, I'll always have Yona. :)

Day 1 is up 12 Days Of Christmas 1-Day Special Offers ~ from 1st-12th December 2018 I already own everything I want from that list, but I will say the Snow White collectors case is lovely.

I ordered from Sentai on the 16th and they shipped the order on the 24th. So 8 days. As the sale had only been on for 4-5 days at that point, I imagine the later the order the longer the delay.