This is how I see it, and feel free to disagree.
Ghost in the Shell: The Movie - based upon the original manga by Masamune Shirow, it's basicaly a reworking using the Project 2501, The Puppeteer Plan story line as its basis. The movie opens at the same point as the manga's part 01: Prologue...
I've literally just finished watching the last six episodes of GitS SAC 2nd GIG and at the moment haven't watched any of GitS in original language/sub format. I feel that on first viewing, watching any of GitS as a sub would have left me a touch bewildered.
Having complex story lines and...
I was looking at trying to get this a couple of months a go. Never did get round to it though. English dub version was by Streamline Pictures (did the original Akira dub)
This was taken from Anime News Network's Lost Tresure review of Robot Carnival.
"A very nice Japanese DVD with the...
Our local Post Woman brought me:
Air Gear vol 3 - how long have I been waiting for this - two weeks actually :(
Bleach vol 7
Hunter X Hunter vol 3
Tomorrow should see our postie knocking on my door once again, but with a parcel containing GitS: SAC 2nd Gig boxset :D
Just ordered from...
Naruto 1-12 (for the third time), then I'll strat on Negima 1-12. It should last me through my next working week :D
Aaron, what's wrong with Liverpool. City of Culture 2008 don't you know :lol: I'm at my happiest when traveling east bound on the M62 :D
It's hard to pin point exactly why I like manga above other comic styles... I was trying to reason out the other day what it is about it that appeals above European and American offerings. For me it's about its styles, its flow and its stories.
Also, the stuff I read appeals because it's...
The quality of the R1 box set and the re-mastered episodes is good (though a metal case would have been a nice touch). Like the review says, there is film grain present in the picture but it doesn't detract from what’s going on (gives it a 35mm film look on a big screen), and the cleaned up...
Yesterday saw me unwrap:
Ah! My Goddess: TV series vol.1 :yeah, way better than the OAV's:
Tenchi Muyo: Ryo Ohki OAV box set
Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Forever
The Place Promised in Our Early Days :outstandingly beautiful piece of Anime:
Just pre-ordered:
She, the ultimate weapon box set
Going for a show and tell version - sorry about the poor photo quality.
Manga GN
Anime DVD
Anime VHS
Manga in comic format
Aqua Knights - Book 1, 2 & some 3
Battle Angle Alita - Book 1 - 9 nearlly complete
Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z - vol 1 to 6 equiv' of each
Evangelion...
The Gunbuster 3-disc boxset just arrived and it looks v. nice :)
Only had time for a quick viewing, but the picture quality is good with only a few small artifacts visible from the remastering *, though the audio seams a touch on the tinny/thin side, but clean.
Episodes 1 - 5 are 4:3...
Nope, they're still mono only. I'd imagine they'd also charge more per volume if it had the colour pages inculded.
Going of Del Ray / Tanoshimi pre-order relese dates on Amazon, it looks like Del Ray's editions go on sale roughly a week prior to Tanoshimi's.
Bleach vol 5, Hunter x Hunter vol 1 & 2 and One Piece vol 6 arrived on friday morning, all off which I have now read :D along with Bleach vol 6 and Rurouni Kenshin vol 5, 6 & 7.
On order:
Bleach vol 7
Hunter x Hunter vol 3
One Piece vol 7
& still waiting on Air Gear vol 3, come on UP
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