The Anime/Manga I Bought Today Was...

Grabbed all of Noein from Zavvi's meltdown sale for £11.99 (thanks to a kind stranger showing me a cheaper set when I picked it up). I'm not even sure I'll like it but I can live with the risk at that price.

Bought because everyone suddenly started mentioning it recently and it made me want to give it a try.

R
 
Rui said:
Grabbed all of Noein from Zavvi's meltdown sale for £11.99 (thanks to a kind stranger showing me a cheaper set when I picked it up). I'm not even sure I'll like it but I can live with the risk at that price.

Bought because everyone suddenly started mentioning it recently and it made me want to give it a try.

R
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I'm going into town tomorrow so I'll definietly try to pick up Noein from Zavvi :)
 
Rui said:
Grabbed all of Noein from Zavvi's meltdown sale for £11.99 (thanks to a kind stranger showing me a cheaper set when I picked it up). I'm not even sure I'll like it but I can live with the risk at that price.

Bought because everyone suddenly started mentioning it recently and it made me want to give it a try.

R
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Even though it would've been hard for even me to resist buying it at that price, it would've been better to get the R1 set for a few quid more. The R1 set has proper subtitles (the R2 set is supposed to have only dubtitles) and the R1 set is full-sized, meaning it looks more expensive than a thinpack set.

The Noein dub isn't very good. I tried watching it dubbed for an episode or two before quickly switching back to listening to the wonderful Japanese voices. A number of the English voices don't match the characters (adult Isami for one) and the highly intelligent quantum physics person has an awful accent that makes her sound like a $20 per hour whore.

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Aside from FINALLY managing to get GotF on eBay and also picking up Batman: Gotham Knight for cheap, I haven't paid for any anime. My drive has gone.

I have, however, paid for a few volumes of manga - Vol. 1 of A.I. Love You, Vol. 2 of Tsukihime and Vol. 7 of NHK - but I also have no manga reading drive atm. I got two just to complete my collections and the other because I enjoyed reading Vol. 1.
 
Aion said:
Even though it would've been hard for even me to resist buying it at that price, it would've been better to get the R1 set for a few quid more. The R1 set has proper subtitles (the R2 set is supposed to have only dubtitles) and the R1 set is full-sized, meaning it looks more expensive than a thinpack set.
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Yeah - because I'm not too sure whether I'll like Noein it would never have been bought if I had to do it premeditatedly (i.e. online). As a cheap impulse buy I can live with crummy Manga UK quality. If I like it I might upgrade...

Though I do really like thinpacks in my tiny house.

And I'll be skipping the dub ;)

R
 
Looked in Zavvi for cheap anime, but unfortunately they had blocked off the upstairs (where the anime normally is), and I looked around downstairs, but they didn't have any anime, except an overpriced "Dead space" dvd ;_;

Gantz volume 1 - Skimmed through this, looks really stylish and looks like something I'll definietly enjoy; If I do, I'll go back next week and get volume 2! (or order online :p)

Also got latest neo mag with a whsmith gift card I had been given over christmas :d
 
Rui said:
Phoenix (complete collection).

R
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I was enjoying that around crimbo but the last couple of episodes on my first disc are corrupted I tried the disc in several players but it is the same in them all. It was pretty cheap so I am not too bothered but may try to track down a cheap disc one to replace it. If you watch it soon let us know if your discs are okay.
 
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, vol 3


also some manga-

Berserk vol 21-22 - Still addicted to this.

Battle Angel Alita vol 1 - figured I'd give it a go after seeing some of the OVA.
 
Wildcard said:
Battle Angel Alita vol 1 - figured I'd give it a go after seeing some of the OVA.
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Guess you liked it then =) There's a James Cameron movie coming soon.... ish.

BTW, I'm guessign you got yourself the manga, right?
 
Just bought the rest of Tetsujin 28 from Secondspin as I realised it's probably not a priority to be finished over here and it was super cheap.

Dracos said:
I was enjoying that around crimbo but the last couple of episodes on my first disc are corrupted I tried the disc in several players but it is the same in them all. It was pretty cheap so I am not too bothered but may try to track down a cheap disc one to replace it. If you watch it soon let us know if your discs are okay.
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Ouch! Just bumped it up my backlog to check and skimming through it looks as though my disc is fine. Hopefully you can replace your faulty one and it was a one off...

I'll watch it properly over the next few days and post again if there's any weirdness.

R
 
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