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In the name of love, justice and merchandising, welcome to the magical girl retrospective simulwatch. Rather than watching an entire series, this February's simulwatch will cover the first 1-3 episodes of several landmark magical girl shows, in broadcast order, to track how the genre has evolved...

Voting closed. The magical girl retrospective will start here on 1st Feb 2025. Most of the poll options are self-explanatory, but here is the plan for the magical girl retrospective. Rather than watching the entire series, we would watch the first three episodes of several landmark shows in a...

As someone who is generally unhappy with the inaccurate, fiddly and buggy nature of much game emulation, maintaining access to my full collection of games becomes increasingly difficult as the decades roll on and things start to wear out or break. I'm curious what problems others have run into...

I figured this would make a good companion to the anime documentaries thread. Post links to any interesting game documentaries you find. Thorgi's Arcade This channel does massively detailed retrospectives of fighting game series, helped along by the presenter's sense of humour. They also do...

We're into the new financial year now. Despite the death of E3, late spring is still a common time for game announcements. So what do you think we'll hear about this year? Likely Resident Evil IX - Village was originally planned as a spin-off, so I would expect the next mainline entry to be...

Movies aren't always all good or all bad. There are plenty of movies that are only worth watching for the action scenes, for example (I'm looking at you, Matrix Reloaded. You too, Sucker Punch). Sometimes though, a movie will start great, but fall off a cliff after the first act. There can be a...

If you find any good anime documentaries on Youtube or elsewhere, post links here. A couple of the best channels I've found for well-researched anime documentaries are: kenny lauderdale If you're interested in old or obscure anime, this channel is a goldmine. He specialises in shows and OAVs...

This came together faster than I expected, considering it's been 18 months since I last painted anything and 20 years since I last did an ocean scene. 2.5 hours in Painter 2016 using oils brushes and blenders. https://www.deviantart.com/daigohji/art/Godzilla-at-sunset-907322432

List things that increased or decreased your faith in humanity recently. We'll give humanity the benefit of the doubt and begin with a neutral score of zero. Each positive thing will give a +1 Faith in Humanity Score, and each negative thing will give a -1. Was evolution a mistake? Let's find...

Searching back through the forum archives, it seems to be several years since there was last an active yuri thread. I'm sure forum membership has changed a lot in that time, and the genre has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, so I'm curious if there are many other fans here...

Here are the rules: Syllable structure must be 5-7-5 Must include a seasonal theme (otherwise it would be a senryu, not haiku) Must start romantic, but end unromantic Examples: Changing face of March Chill of winter slips away Now file tax return Sweet summer maiden Your ripe melons on the...

In typical Crunchyroll fashion, they've only given little over a week's notice that the remaining Ultraman shows are being removed. They're all going on 31st March. https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2021/03/19/select-makoto-shinkai-ultraman-titles-leave-crunchyroll-on-march-31 I...

I should really get around to upgrading my ancient VHS copy of Grave of the Fireflies, but I don't know if I could ever bear to watch it again.

Take a western movie, series, or book, and give it two new titles: one imagining it had started as an anime, and the other imagining it had started as a light novel. Examples: The Avengers Anime: New Century Superhuman Taskforce Abengel LN: This Super Team Ain't Big Enough for this Rich Ass...

Sometimes the people making a movie and the people marketing it just aren't on the same page. Maybe the marketing team didn't understand the film, or maybe the studio wanted to draw in a different viewer demographic, but sometimes you can be left wondering what happened to the movie you thought...

All is ephemeral. From dust we came, to dust we return: it's true of people, nations, and optical media. This thread is for you to lament your tales of the tapes the VCR chewed up, the LPs that were scratched by the stylus, the comics that become water-logged, and the DVDs that decided to...

There are certain diseases that only seem to exist in anime and related media, so I thought it might be interesting to list them. Here's what I have so far: The Anime Cold Perhaps the best-known condition, the Anime Cold differs from the common cold in several distinct ways. This virus is...

Hold onto your family jewels, because the next simulwatch will be: Land of the Lustrous This 12-episode TV series from 2017 adapts roughly the first five volumes of the manga Houseki no Kuni by Haruko Ichikawa. "No matter what the odds, life will find a way to continue, with young Phos and...

Anime is a weird and wonderful industry. What are some of your favourite bits of anime trivia? I'll start off with a well-known one, but which never stops being strange. Back when they were released at Japanese cinemas in 1988, My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies were screened as a...

Godzilla vs Kong has been bouncing around the release schedule like crazy. First it was due to hit in March 2020, then November, then May 2021, and most recently it's been brought forward to this March. The first trailer finally hit today: It's interesting that Legendary's Monsterverse has...