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More Hong Kong genre films. Yes, Madam! (1985) Corey Yuen's crime thriller about a pair of mismatched detectives was massively influential in its day - kickstarting a new boom for female action heroes in HK while making stars of then unknown Michelle Yeoh and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock -...

Nice. I casually looked at buying both Shinobi 3 and Probotector a while back, but the prices are through the roof right now, so I don’t think it‘s something I’d go for. Might get a repro cart for Probotector at some point, I dunno. Don’t think I’ve got anything massively rare for the MD...

Pop Team Epic S2 ep7 Hellshake Yano was my favourite skit in the first season, so it filled me with childish glee to see them do an entire episode in the same way. Surprisingly, I think this second season has actually been a step up from the first - I’ve found the sketches more consistently...

Unfortunately, Amazon Prime's range of anime titles is quite limited in general - anything I would have thought of on there has already been mentioned. B: The Beginning came to mind, but that's on Netflix. I think Monster is probably still the best detective serial to get an anime adaptation...

Bocchi the Rock ep1-3 Not quite as taken with Bocchi as I know some folk have been, but it's a nice little show - the main character is a very relatable bag of nerves and there's some nice cuts in the animation. Akiba Maid War ep5 'Oinky Doink Cafe resolves everything with great violence' is...

Oh wow. I remember playing a bit of Elevator Action Returns - I want to say it was a bit on the short side, but it's a lot of fun while it lasts. Super well animated too.

Chainsaw Man ep4 Generally warming to the show more now, but it feels like not that much has really happened since the first episode. On a tangentially related note, someone on the most recent AWO podcast described the series’s appeal as being like ‘a combination of Devilman with Beavis and...

Akiba Maid War ep2-3 I suppose they’re laying on the Ashita no Joe references a bit thick, but that was pretty funny.

Patlabor: The Mobile Police (1989) Scotland Loves Anime cinema showing Very much enjoyed revisiting the first Patlabor movie after quite a number of years - and in the cinema, no less! Seeing Special Vehicles Section 2 tangle with an increasing number of unmanned mecha going berserk around...

Pop Team Epic S2 ep4 Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Prime Numbers Only So. Yeah. I think this is the best of the rebuilds and it certainly came the closest to recapturing what I liked about Evangelion in the first place, but I found this fourth instalment a bit overlong, and, as others have commented...

Akiba Maid War ep1 Well, that was a thing that happened. Beyond the fact that the gangs have been replaced with cafe maids, this seems to be a pitch perfect recreation of 70s yakuza drama and I am cautiously onboard for that. This might actually be what I wanted from Lycoris Recoil (maybe?)...

Evangelion 3.x: Infinity War Having had bits and pieces of this one spoiled for me over the years, I had a rough idea of what to expect going into it, but even at that, I found myself quite confused, at least for the first half, of this third instalment in the rebuild series. I didn't hate it...

Bullet for the General (1967) The first in a cycle of Italian westerns set during the Mexican Revolution, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Gian Maria Volonte (probably best known now as the baddie in the first two Dollars films) stars as a seemingly ambivalent bandit leader who makes a...

Spy x Family ep15 Pop Team Epic S2 ep3 Lupin III: Part 2 ep46 Another good one, seeing the captive Lupin, Jigen and Fujiko auctioned off to an evil billionaire, who attempts to use them as test subjects for training his cyborg army. As you do. Aside from some obvious nods to Westworld with...

Chainsaw Man ep1 Would sum up my initial impressions by describing James Cameron’s famous pitch meeting, but instead of writing ‘Alien$’ on the board, Big Jimmy writes ‘Devilman’, then crosses out ‘Devil’ and writes ‘Chainsaw’. All joking aside, it’s fine. Not sure I wouldn't rather have more...

Call of the Night ep13 [End] A decent ending to what was, overall, a pretty solid series. I wasn't entirely keen on the brief late-game shift into more violent conflict, as I think it runs counter to the generally relaxed atmosphere of the show and it's only invited even more comparison with...

Spy x Family ep14 Curious about what that car the terrorists were driving was - I think it's annoying me because I feel like I ought to know, but can't put my finger on it. At first glance, I thought it was a Lada Samara, but the shape is too different to even be a stylised version of that...

Mob Psycho 100 III ep1 Pop Team Epic S2 ep2 The Masami Obari skit with Biggus McHugeguy is quite special. Lupin III: Part 2 ep44 Lupin being chased by an undead hitman ought to be a good setup, but this one feels a bit aimless and filler-y. With its stream-of-consciousness storytelling...

Spy x Family ep13 Pop Team Epic S2 ep1 Someone at that studio really likes Shouta Aoi. I also slightly miss the random commentary from that one French animator. Lupin III: Part 2 ep44 A few cringeworthy jokes about the Australians aside (probably added for the dub), this was another strong...

Apparently Rebecca has "P.K. Dick" tattooed on her leg - kind of a neat touch.