What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

2023 HAUL VER 9.4
(note: images are hosted via AUKN for the meantime)


More parcels arrived to wrap up the week. One from Thursday and the rest came today.


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Eureka Entertainment in the past few weeks recently revealed another batch of films that have had limited edition offerings would be going out of print (and replaced by standard editions). One of those was Lee Hsing's 1972 film Execution in Autumn (秋決) which is also from Taiwan. The film's been out for a year now and it's only until recently that I started to look into it as it's one of the very few I didn't pickup last year. As the film is part of the Masters of Cinema range only the slipcase is limited.


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Collection of Mana for some reason has been going up in value and availability is low for its European release, so I decided to pick up a cheaper copy via eBay which is the North American release. The bad news is that despite being new and sealed, the case is a bit bent so I want to amend this so that it doesn't further damage the artwork by ordering some replacement cases (which I've also ordered some for PS3 & PS4).

For those wondering it's a compilation of Action RPG games from the early parts of the Mana franchise and not remakes/ports of other versions. The collection includes Final Fantasy Adventure (also known as Adventure of Mana), Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, the latter of which wasn't released in the west prior to this point so the Switch is the first English debut for the original game.


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Three more Nintendo Switch games that received the Limited Run Games treatment arrived from Video Games Plus across two packages. Here we have DOOM: The Classic Collection (consists of DOOM, DOOM II: Hell on Earth, and DOOM 3: BFG Edition), Quake and Shadow Man Remastered. Despite the physical media treatment, each of them do have updates.

I currently have two more LRG games that have yet to arrive but that's currently it for VGP unless I want to get any more later.


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Amazon code had been going around in the past day and I decided to use that opportunity to order Black Clover manga volumes 11, 12, 13 & 14. I hadn't been picking up any more from this series in town because they were missing one of the volumes so this was a good opportunity make more progress. These are the Italian prints like many others are in my Shonen Jump shelf.
 
So finally, I received the majority of my 10-title order from the RS Summer Sale I made back on 21/7; there is one more title currently in transit that will arrive early next week, leaving only two pre-orders remaining that are not due out until next month:

Reincarnated as a Sword
My Isekai Life
Triage X
Immoral Guild
Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World Season 2 Limited Edition
Chivalry of a Failed Knight Steelbook
Shinobi no Ittoki


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So finally, I received the majority of my 10-title order from the RS Summer Sale I made back on 21/7; there is one more title currently in transit that will arrive early next week, leaving only two pre-orders remaining that are not due out until next month:

Reincarnated as a Sword
My Isekai Life
Triage X
Immoral Guild
Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World Season 2 Limited Edition
Chivalry of a Failed Knight Steelbook
Shinobi no Ittoki


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Triage X. Immoral Guild.
I salute you. It's a deep fanservice hole you are about to fall into. Please be safe.
 
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Received the AoA Lycoris Recoil blu-ray from Right Stuf.

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The set features the entire first season on 3 discs, 2 CDs of the OST, a booklet (pictured in the first image) of character art and other materials and a single card pictured left here, all contained in a outer box of sorts. Between the front outer box cover, both sides of the disc case sleeve and the art card, all 6 pieces of the JP volume cover art is used here. The Discs also use the digipak art from those JP volume releases.
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The set also uses a DVD sized case that is also quite large, much bigger than a standard DVD case.
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I will also add that the outer box is incredibly thin, about the same as a slipcover (possibly even slightly worse than some) and will require some care due to how flimsy it is.
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Awesome, I just got charged on my credit card for the Japanese 4K/BD box set of Suzume at Amazon JP, so I should receive it via DHL sometime later this week. I saw the movie in theaters twice, both in IMAX and on a standard screen, and am so looking forward to seeing it again as I ranked it almost on par with Your Name, my all time favorite movie! The JP release does have English subtitles.
 
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Received the AoA Lycoris Recoil blu-ray from Right Stuf.

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The set features the entire first season on 3 discs, 2 CDs of the OST, a booklet (pictured in the first image) of character art and other materials and a single card pictured left here, all contained in a outer box of sorts. Between the front outer box cover, both sides of the disc case sleeve and the art card, all 6 pieces of the JP volume cover art is used here. The Discs also use the digipak art from those JP volume releases.
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The set also uses a DVD sized case that is also quite large, much bigger than a standard DVD case.
I will also add that the outer box is incredibly thin, about the same as a slipcover (possibly even slightly worse than some) and will require some care due to how flimsy it is.
That's rather underwhelming considering the price. A fat DVD case in a card slipcover barely thicker than air 🫤

Hopefully MVM get Call of the Night, preferably with a CE.
 
That's rather underwhelming considering the price. A fat DVD case in a card slipcover barely thicker than air 🫤

Hopefully MVM get Call of the Night, preferably with a CE.

I am a bit disappointed with the thin slipcover, but at least it is a side-load slip rather than a lame o-card slipcover, so that's still a plus. And this does have two OST CDs included, which is a rarity. I do like that they were able to get all 6 cover arts from the JP singles incorporated into the release, even though I'm not too crazy over the two girls being shown more as just CGDCT in all the images rather than having any action shots from the series itself with them weilding their guns. Unfortunately the cost is just their typical AoA pricing, which I am long used to paying, seeing as I own about 150 of their titles now.

And I would love to double-dip on an MVM CE box set for Call of the Night, I'd be all-in for that. Same goes for Reincarnated as a Sword - for me that is the best isekai series out there.
 
So finally managed to complete my Nura rise of the Yokia clan so, gonna sell on my old Kaze DVD's.

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I decided to the same now after buying the all the Nura sets on BD (Which I'm shocked that haven't gone OOP yet after a decade)
The only reason why I even kept my Kaze Nura sets for this long is due to the rare factor, but unfortunately which I ultimate became to realise in recent years that the Kaze DVDs not just limited to Nura sets have aged poorly, plagued with issues.

For better and worse, the Nura Kaze sets served me well and I really liked the artwork for each of the box sets, but it's time to let them in search for a new owner.
 
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