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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.

Trillion Game ep1 Considering that I don’t think we’ve had an anime adaptation of any manga Ikegami has worked on since the Crying Freeman OVAs ended, I was curious to see what a modern take on his art style might look like. And honestly? Bit derpy. The show isn’t unappealing to look at, but...

People keep telling me I should sign up for Threads…

Dan Da Dan ep3 Welp. ‘Grandma’ Seiko gave me a feeling so complicated. Gun Gale Online II: Gunner Galer Onliner ep2-3 For a series that, by design, runs on computer game logic, it sure feels like none of these characters are familiar with any of the gameplay tropes one might associate with...

Day of the Dead (1985) A team of civilian scientists trying to find a cure for the zombie plague faces mutiny from their military protectors in the third instalment of George A. Romero’s Living Dead series. Opinion seems to have warmed to this film over the years, with its fans citing the...

Uzumaki ep3 Production issues notwithstanding, I don’t really know what to make of Uzumaki. Much as things seem to be getting steadily worse for everyone in the village, the general reaction seems to be for anyone not directly involved to ignore it and move on, as if everyone is too polite to...

Dan Da Dan ep2 Ninja Kamui ep2-3 Yeah. It’s undemanding enough that I might keep this up as something to stick on in the background while I’m working, but much as a ninja-themed Kawajiri throwback ought to be right up my alley, this is an almost comically bland series, and everything about it...

Prey (2022) A fresh and engaging entry to the Predator series (when last could you say that?), that sees a young Comanche woman (Amber Midthunder) and her brother encounter cinema’s most famous big-game hunter in the wilds of 18th century America. The film’s modest circumstances do show in the...

Uzumaki (English dub) ep1-2 Well, that was a journey. Not having read the manga, my suspicion is that they’re rattling through the material at a much faster pace than they should be, to the point where it feels a little unintentionally (?) camp, but the first episode is really quite an...

SAO Alternative: GGO II ep1 Oh no, this came back. Oh no, I’m watching it again. Oh no. In all seriousness, I was curious to see how they’d continue this one, given that unless they plan to introduce a lot of new characters, they’ve already exhausted the schtick of revealing how everyone’s...

Dan Da Dan ep1 I could quite happily not see , but otherwise this seems fun; the quest-swapping dynamic between the two leads is entertaining. The animators have certainly been huffing magic markers again too, it looks great. Bullbuster ep8-10 The CR app keeps reminding me that I never...

The Fable ep23-25 [end] While I was never blown away by The Fable, it was a refreshing break from the usual fare (a show with a cast exclusively made of adults!) that kept me entertained pretty consistently all the way through, and it definitely filled a gap for me in giving us an anime...

There wasn’t much that appealed to me this season; the only thing that I stuck with all the way through was Terminator Zero, which I guess would make that my choice by default. I did enjoy it though; some unlikeable characters notwithstanding, I thought it did a good job of making me want to...