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This is horrifying.

In a inspired piece of promotion for the new action/RTS game Kunitsu-gami: Path of the Goddess, Capcom lean into the Japanese mythology of the setting with this prologue filmed as a bunraku performance. It's a style of traditional puppet show that I haven't seen before.

I thought all UHDs were region free. Is that not the case?

I'm not seeing any mention of those for the UK. Am I missing something?

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire This improved on Afterlife by not recycling the plot of one of the previous movies verbatim. I don't know if I would say it's a better movie overall though. The Ghostbusters formula is usually supernatural action-comedy, but this one only manages the supernatural...

Fancy Lala!! Between that on Tubi and Minky Momo going to Crunchyroll, we're finally getting access to some of the OG magical girl shows in the UK.

If anything I was being optimistic, considering how little UK distributors seem to care about shojo stories. I should just go back to my usual state of weary resignation.

OSCAAAAAAAR!! That looks promising. It's going to have a hard time living up to the original adaptation though. Then again, maybe chopping it down to movie length means the UK might finally get a release from this franchise...some time around 2030.

There's no easy answer because they're both great adaptations. Filler isn't really a factor since, like a lot of early Takahashi, Urusei Yatsura is purely episodic hijinks with no ongoing plot beyond the ever-expanding cast. The original series starts strong, since the first few dozen episodes...

Should MPs be allowed to claim Anime Limited ultimate editions on expenses?

A variety of shows are still being produced. What's changed is the signal-to-noise ratio. The quantity of anime series produced has been increasing on a near-yearly basis for well over a decade. Rather than leading to more variety, it's led to more homogenised trend-chasing. Plenty of other...

Bartender: Glass of God When a manga receives multiple adaptations, there's always the fear that they will retread the same ground in a redundant way. Thankfully that's not the case here. The 2006 Bartender anime was made partway through the manga's run, but the manga was long finished by the...

I wonder if the diversification is to compensate for low sales.

IIRC, those kinds of image recognition security tools have been used to build a training dataset for generative AI, so that's not surprising. It's typical corporate nonsense that the ultimate purpose of a tool ends up breaking its original purpose.

I've used them occasionally over the last 20 years, mostly for game imports. I haven't had any problems with them.

So this is where the Japanese game announcements have been hiding all month. https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-in-nintendo-direct A few things that stood out to me (which probably differ from those that will grab other people's attention due to my indifference for most Nintendo...

Just watch out for swans. They'll peck your kneecaps off and steal your wallet.

The Discotek release is the only one I know of. It was in print for over a decade, so you may see copies floating around on eBay.

Definitely the original series, if Discotek's DVD set isn't out of print yet. It has a psychedelic visual style, a twisted sense of humour, and is full of 70s Go Nagai energy. If you like the fan service, get New Cutie Honey too. Storywise it's a relatively dry, post-apocalytic series that...

Tricky. The Gathering is one of the weaker B5 stories, but it does have important events that are referred back to later.