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Not gonna lie, I was hoping for a bit more from the summer sale - perhaps some of January's CEs (mainly El Hazard). I'm sure they'll be in the Xmas sale, but it's such a disastrous time to order stuff when AL have millions of orders to ship and the post is a nightmare. Anyway, came away with...

My copy's on the way from Wordery. Very excited to finally read YKK. While I'm here, and while we're typing about joy, I'll post this. Was a couple of weeks ago but eh. Both series almost done, in what feels like no time at all.

Absolute MEGATON. We hoped, but we never truly believed. Until now. God bless Discotek. Manga soon to be completely released in English after a couple of aborted attempts 20-odd years ago, a new ~50 episode TV series airing in months, and now this, the Holy Grail of UY. If this is a dream...

As someone mentioned here before, UP will place special orders for TRSI items at sale prices, but you have to contact them to ask. One item I wanted, for example, is $12 in the sale, for which UP quoted me £16 + P&P - much cheaper than their regular price (which I'd never have paid) or importing...

I'd hoped UY5 would be out earlier than December, but it is what it is. It's a decent enough movie, but a weird one for me. I've always felt as though the original anime ended with the fourth movie as that brought the Oshii/Yamazaki TV era to a close. Rewatching that recently was a poignant...

Not necessarily - Belle CE was "from 7th July" and that's shipping now. But I do think that they need to stop this "out in 1-2 months" pre-order thing when they must be aware that there's zero chance of that happening. AL will always deliver in the end, so I get that people are fine paying for...

From AL? Waiting on Zavvi 'ere... ⌚

Almost thirty years after airing, the first UK release in any format for Captain Tylor... a year after I spend over 200 quid importing the TRSI Ultimate Edition 😭 Still, I'm going to tell myself that it was worth it for the (admittedly fantastic) art book. And I'm pleased that more people will...

That is so nostalgic. I owned all of those at one point, even the Western Connection Fuma Conspiracy with the mistimed subtitles. Really want that on Blu-ray, c'mon Discotek. Coincidentally: This version of Mamo has all four dubs produced, including the lively Manga UK one that wasn't on their...

Seems that way. And yet last year they hired that marketing guy from Crunchyroll who, on his LinkedIn, calls himself a "Global anime marketing leader". Maybe he's doing some good work somewhere but we're not seeing much of it. Maybe it's just my natural pessimism, but it feels like the whole UK...

It isn't showing up on the list but Franxx is on sale as well. Not sure if want 🤔

I think AL are all right. Delays are part of their DNA. My observation is that they're wildly optimistic with release dates. CCS, for example, was announced in December for release in... January/February? Call my cynical (go on, I dare you) but they must have known that wasn't going to happen...

This reminds me of the thing with "some" copies of Violet Evergarden not having two stamp books. I don't think I've seen anyone say they got two. Seems they don't want to draw attention to an issue that many people won't notice, which I kind of get, but... eh, bit slippery of them. Don't really...

Typical. You wait four years for more UY on Blu-ray (Beautiful Dreamer was February 2018, god damn) and two turn up in a week. Don't like Remember My Love that much - too sentimental and Ataru spends most of the film - but... it's UY. Being an upscale of an early digipaint show, I was never...

Amazing. When I were a lad, I dreamed (literally) of having a room with rows of shelving units taller than me, full of anime and manga, like a library. Clearly I didn't dream big enough 😲 From United Publications:

There are no words to describe how cool that is. You're living the dream, man 😎

Don't see why that should prevent them from informing us of delays, which would take all of a sentence on social media. Josee delayed, going to be a while longer, etc. I really don't think that's unreasonable.

Less than a week until release and this is how we find out. How is it that AL, with all their online presence, can't communicate these things more effectively.

Needs more Giant Robo for sure. Also Street Fighter II movie, Memories, and Beautiful Dreamer. Typing of UY, still waiting on Only You from UP. I swear it's always the things I want most that take longest 😫 Did get Project A-ko a couple of weeks ago though. Film hasn't held up too well...

In that case, no idea what's keeping them from sending Silver Spoon. I paid a month ago, release date has passed, stock is now sitting in Amazon warehouses, and... nuffin. This is why I usually avoid their store in favour of UP. Except they don't have any of these releases listed yet 😫