Now we are onto the second bookcase. Surprisingly I did not acquire any new
Aniplex of America titles for 2022, and the main reason was because I was in a pretty decent position to not worry about them for a while. Granted there was another OOP batch in the past month but other than perhaps Nisekoi I can live without the others.
On the third & fourth rows, we have the UK standard releases from
Crunchyroll, which was originally known as Funimation UK and Manga Entertainment UK. There was a bit of a push to get a various number of titles from the UK branch throughout the year, but with Crunchyroll no longer providing slipcovers for their Blu-rays there’s less peer pressure and little reason to buy the titles on Day 1, especially with the pretty poor SRP on select titles.
I also acquired a few Part 1 or 2 releases that are housed inside their limited edition box sets.
New additions for Crunchyroll UK (Non-LE releases):
- Azur Lane
- Black Clover Season 2
- Dragon Ball Z Season 1
- Dragon Ball Z Season 2
- Dragon Ball Z Season 3
- Dragon Ball Z Season 4
- Dragon Ball Z Season 5
- Dragon Ball Z Season 6
- Dragon Ball Z Season 7
- Dragon Ball Z Season 8
- Dragon Ball Z Season 9
- Fire Force Season 2 Part 1 (not pictured, inside LE)
- Gleipnir
- Goblin Slayer: Goblin’s Crown
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) Part 1
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) Part 2
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) Part 3
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) Part 4
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) Part 5
- Isekai Quartet Season 1
- Isekai Quartet Season 2
- My Hero Academia Season 3
- My Hero Academia Season 4
- Plunderer Part 2 (not pictured, inside LE)
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Part 1
- Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Part 2
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 Part 1 (not pictured, inside LE)
Because the Crunchyroll UK releases were taking up a lot of space I decided to re-position the
MVM Entertainment standard Blu-rays into another row. Due to the shifting of bookshelves I also placed the
Universal Pictures UK anime sets and the
Viz Media anime sets here for the meantime.
There were plans to acquire more MVM releases but my timing was off and some of them did get a re-release from Sentai so those UK sets eventually became redundant.
New additions for MVM Entertainment (Non-LE releases):
- Alice in Borderland
- Bakuon!!
- Kandagawa Jet Girls
- Killing Bites
On the sixth row a brand new distributor joins the collection, and it’s one that I should have added many years ago.
Discotek Media releases are very interesting because they prioritise the on-disc experience over collector’s packaging and when available they also provide Standard Definition on Blu-ray releases for shows that don’t have a HD remaster. The journey with Discotek began in April 2022 and while I briefly stopped due to other things getting in the way, the sudden shock announcement of a few titles going out of print caused a panic for a lot of people and as much more titles began to discontinue.
I was extremely lucky for some of those discontinued releases, but ideally what Discotek has recommended is simply pre-order the titles that you want the most and acquire whichever is likely to discontinue next. The suggestions so far have been a niche series/film, subtitled only, or the title in question has been in print for so long (from DVD to Blu-ray) that their license window has come to a close.
Part of the reason why I held off on Discotek for so long is because Anime Limited licensed some of the titles that they’ve distributed which saves costs, but at the same time the window between the two can be as long as multiple years as seen with Kaiba and Magic Knight Rayearth. In the end, Discotek releases are not cheap to pick up but ideally once I am able to catch up it would get easier to acquire.
New additions for Discotek Media:
- Actually, I am…
- Aho-Girl
- All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
- Babel II
- Black Jack the Movie
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
- Blue Seed
- Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
- Crusher Joe
- Crusher Joe the Movie
- Darkstalkers: The OVA Collection
- Dear Brother
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Devilman (1987/1990)
- Devilman Lady
- Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
- Fatal Fury: The OVA Collection
- Fist of the North Star
- Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
- Genocyber
- Goshogun
- Goshogun: The Time Etranger
- Haruka Nogizaka’s Secret
- Haruka Nogizaka’s Secret Purezza
- Holmes of Kyoto
- Machine Robo: Battle Hackers
- Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos
- Memories
- Miss Machiko
- New Cutie Honey
- New Getter Robo
- NG Knight Lamune & 40
- Ninja Robots Tobikage
- Nutcracker Fantasy
- The Princess and the Pilot
- Saint Seiya Movie Collection
- Sister Princess
- Sister Princess Re Pure
- Sorcerer Hunters
- Space Warrior Baldios
- Space Warrior Baldios the Movie
- Star Ocean EX
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
- Submarine Super 99
- Super Dimension Century Orguss
- Tenjo Tenge
- To Be Hero & To Be Heroine
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
- Urusei Yatsura: Only You
- Violence Jack
- VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire
- Wicked City
- Yowamushi Pedal
- Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road
- Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE & Re:ROAD
- Yowamushi Pedal the Movie
Next we move to the seventh row which is where I have positioned all of the anime and limited edition Asian Cinema releases that are presented in 4K. Yep, this is the
4K Ultra HD collection for this part of the medium.
Also picked up but not featured in the photos are the regular 4K Ultra HD releases of Parasite and Ran from
Curzon and
Studio Canal respectively; which are in another area with Shadow.
New additions for 88 Films (4K UHD):
New additions for Anime Limited (4K UHD):
- BELLE
- Future Boy Conan Part 1
- Future Boy Conan Part 2
- Violet Evergarden the Movie
New additions for Arrow Video (4K UHD):
- Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル)
- Ju-On: The Grudge (呪怨じゅおん)
New additions for Crunchyroll UK (4K UHD):
New additions for Curzon Artificial Eye (4K UHD) [not pictured]:
New additions for Eureka Entertainment (4K UHD):
- Police Story Trilogy (警察故事 / 警察故事續集 / 警察故事3超級警察)
New additions for Studio Canal (4K UHD) [not pictured]:
Because my glass shelf was running low on space, I decided to relocate all of the
Asian Cinema Limited Edition titles into its own row and so they are now positioned at the bottom of the shelf. These titles are distributed by
88 Films,
Arrow Video, and
Eureka Entertainment.
New additions for 88 Films:
- Black Cat (黑貓)
- The Iceman Cometh (急凍奇俠)
- On the Run (亡命鸳鸯)
- Righting Wrongs (執法先鋒)
- The Seventh Curse (原振俠與衛斯理)
- Tiger Cage Trilogy (特警屠龍 / 洗黑錢 / 冷面狙擊手)
New additions for Arrow Video:
- The Daimajin Trilogy (大魔神 / 大魔神逆襲 / 大魔神怒る)
- Shawscope Volume One
- Yokai Monsters Collection (妖怪百物語 / 妖怪大戦争 / 東海道お化け道中 / 妖怪大戦争)
New additions for Eureka Entertainment:
- Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Joseph Kuo