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I'm VERY excited for the Macross Plus ultimate edition. Looks gorgeous, wonderful stuff. Haha I have an American colleague coming to the UK soon. They're bringing Project A-Ko over for me. It's a shame that it's already been purchased - I would have much preferred the UK release. This is the...

It's only in recent years that I've understood how pensions work and how investing works. I feel so angry for not knowing any of this stuff before - and I've made it my mission to try to educate my pals, so they don't make the mistakes I made. I've helped them to come out of the default...

Ooh interesting, thank you for sharing this! I'll definitely watch some of these. Looking forward to it. Side note: I assume that YMS's mighty debunking of the "Disney stole Kimba for The Lion King" myth has been shared before on this forum? I think I've watched it about three times now, it's...

The problem is on disk 2, about a third of way through the 2nd episode (the episode called "HELP! Shabranigdo is Reborn"), as they enter Rezo's tower, the disk is broken. I tried it on two players. On my Panasonic player it manifests as playing about ten seconds of video, then freezing for a few...

I now have the first three seasons of Slayers on DVD. Amazingly, Slayers Try is brand new, and still in the original shrink wrap! Slayers Next is in a bigger cardboard case that holds four individual thin plastic cases, whereas the other two are in one single plastic case that is slightly less...

I will say that I appreciate how he showed regret for a lot of his edgy (read: tedious) statements over the years, including the name Rapeman. This is a good read Steve Albini Discusses Edgelord Reputation, Use of the N-word on Odd Future Post in New Interview

Yeah it's a huge loss. Such sad news. Like many others, over the weekend I'll be playing tons of the music that he made and touched.

While slowly working my way through the All The Anime blog since I discovered they had one (why didn't they ever mention new posts on their mailing list??), I came across this excellent 2023 post by Jonathan Clements, aka J-Clo, aka Jimmy Clamms, aka Jeffrey Clementine...

I didn't even realise there was a blog. I'm surprised they don't mention it more on the mailing list. I'll read anything that Jonathan Clements is involved with, so it looks like this weekend will be spent going through the archives. Looking forward to it, though a shame if it's come to an end...

Boogiepop Phantom, complete eps 1-12 (sub) Creepy, stylish, deep, dark, and weird. Love it! I must say that I found it quite difficult to follow because the story is told out of order, and from the perspective of different characters. It was satisfying to feel the pieces slowly come together...

Not me replying to 8 month old posts, no way. I really enjoy watching TOTP episodes from the early 90s, because there was such a staggeringly diverse mix of music - and it was all just presented at face value, with no cynicism. It could go from metal to a boyband to eurodance to a balad to...

Yo I'm half a year late to this, but there's some great stuff on here. Love the new Peter Gabriel album. I'm a huge Genesis fan, and I generally spend more time listening to the Collins era, but I'm definitely an all-eras fan. Some of my absolute favourites are from the Gabriel era (Fountain of...

Delighted that I now have all six of the Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo manga that were released in English. For some reason the first book isn't book 1, and also the first book they released in the West starts halfway through the manga in Japan. Who can say why this one didn't win many fans in the Western...

Spy x Family Code: White Omfg incredible. Utterly perfect. I'm going to avoid spoilers, and just say that if you're a fan of the series the it's everything you would want it to be. The action is stylish and gripping, the comedy is laugh-out-loud funny. The story feels like a movie, rather...

I'd not heard of that. Do you mean the song at the end of this? If so, then sadly not. That song has the flute all the way through it, whereas the song I'm trying to find just has a flute for about 10 seconds. It's the same melody repeated a few times through the song, in between male vocals...

I ADORE that Read or Die song! Haha I found it myself while searching for anime songs with a flute. Always a pleasure to listen to it again. Thank you for sharing it! Lol it would be just my luck if it wasn't a flute after all, and instead was some other wind instrument. One problem is that the...

Haha it's a fun mystery, and a maddening one! I've spent so many hours listening to random 90s anime theme tune playlists in the hope that it might come up. Sadly I don't have the mixtape any more - I don't have many of the possessions from my teens and early 20s, thanks to various acts of...

I've literally just started watching Boogiepop Phantom. I see that the acronym "MPLS" appears in the opening credits. A quick Google tells me they're a type of character in the show. I've not read any more, because I don't want spoilers. Anyway, this made me laugh, because MPLS is also one of a...

I made a reddit post in the hope that someone might recognise this melody As the title says: "It took me about 40 attempts to make even this terrible approximation of an anime song that I'm trying to remember. I'm so deeply sorry to anyone who can actually play an instrument. Anyway, I'm 99%...

Spy x Family, Season 1 Eps 1-12 (ie Part 1 on Blu Ray, subtitled) What a joy this show is! Loved it. On paper, the plot sounds ridiculously contrived - and yet it works perfectly. Gorgeous animation, and many episodes that had me laughing out loud. The dodgeball episode was a particular...