General anime thoughts/discussion thread.

Probably a bit daft but me and my teenage child were listening to Tiny Dancer by Elton John on the radio in the car and the bit where he says he is going to make a stand both of us instinctively yelled (sadly two different) Jojo's references. Kiddo yelled the noise that Star Platinum yells when doing a melee of punching and I shouted STONE OCEAN

Then we both burst out laughing šŸ˜‚
 
Just a thought
But
How do companies like mvm and animelimited come up with the ideas on which blu rays they release? It it basically anything that has not got a licence so they go for it or something else? such as mvm, they have released some really niche anime, which really has not sold well at all previously like nurse which komugi etc, so who is it decides whaf is released? There are an awful lot of stuff i would like to see released over here which i doubt ever will, which in itself is a shame, but it stuff im sure other would like and have seen, i know mvm normally release quite abit of sentai stuff, that being said, not all, they decided to release umaru chan season 2 rather than season 1 first
 
(Apologies if there's a more appropriate thread for me to post this in - I could find a thread for "anime-related memes and nonsense". If one doesn't exist, perhaps someone more authoritative than me could start it? I'll delete this post, and post this video there instead. I have dozens of videos I can drip-feed into such a thread over the coming weeks and months.)

Someone remade the opening to One Piece as if it were sung by, and starring, Donald Duck. The theme tune is absolutely hilarious. I won't tell you why - it truly needs to be experienced to be believed.

 
So I'm rewatching my Nana DVD imported from Region 4, and two episodes into disc 4, I get a weird feeling picking the disc out of the player. I take a closer look, and a square of plastic has been lifted off the centre of the hub. Forget disc delamination, this disc is literally falling apart; the only thing keeping that piece of plastic in place while spinning is gravity plus centripetal acceleration.

So I'm in a panic. I had got one of the last of the Madman DVD collections when they had a clearance sale, and finding a replacement disc at this point is impossible. The Blu-ray looks locked to Region A, so I start searching the web on how to repair a DVD with superglue.

One forum, about ten posts down, someone writes that before trying anything crazy with a disc, to back it up first. Which is when I remember that I have a DVD writer. That should have been my first thought, but I guess it shows that I'm a good boy when it comes to anime piracy. The only hard thing now is finding blank dual layer DVD-Rs, as the old days of picking up a spindle in a supermarket, or PC World are long gone. I now have an intact, Nana Disc 4, and in the process I backed up a Windy Tales disc that was glitching on my DVD player (the copy doesn't glitch). Windy Tales is $100-ish now.

Got to keep an eye on that physical media!
 
Just Passing Through said:
So I'm rewatching my Nana DVD imported from Region 4, and two episodes into disc 4, I get a weird feeling picking the disc out of the player. I take a closer look, and a square of plastic has been lifted off the centre of the hub. Forget disc delamination, this disc is literally falling apart; the only thing keeping that piece of plastic in place while spinning is gravity plus centripetal acceleration.

So I'm in a panic. I had got one of the last of the Madman DVD collections when they had a clearance sale, and finding a replacement disc at this point is impossible. The Blu-ray looks locked to Region A, so I start searching the web on how to repair a DVD with superglue.

One forum, about ten posts down, someone writes that before trying anything crazy with a disc, to back it up first. Which is when I remember that I have a DVD writer. That should have been my first thought, but I guess it shows that I'm a good boy when it comes to anime piracy. The only hard thing now is finding blank dual layer DVD-Rs, as the old days of picking up a spindle in a supermarket, or PC World are long gone. I now have an intact, Nana Disc 4, and in the process I backed up a Windy Tales disc that was glitching on my DVD player (the copy doesn't glitch). Windy Tales is $100-ish now.

Got to keep an eye on that physical media!
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I'm really curious what the disc looks like! Can you show us the state of the disc?
 
It's just a shame the remaining serieses of Hidamari Sketch never got an official release in this country meaning the only way to legally watch it is to import from America or another country.

Might have to sail the seven seas again :(
 
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