What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

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The first two seasons of Chihayafuru were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively, so they were setting off my impending OOP alarm.

I saw some of the Monster High reboot on Netflix and was surprised at how good it is. Got to love a show that uses a Wilhelm Scream as the school bell. The US release is DVD-only, presumably because Nickelodeon assume young girls don't care about picture quality. But what about middle-aged weirdos like me?! They've crammed 26 episodes onto 3 DVDs, so I hope they had someone world-class doing the encoding.
 
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The first two seasons of Chihayafuru were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively, so they were setting off my impending OOP alarm.

I saw some of the Monster High reboot on Netflix and was surprised at how good it is. Got to love a show that uses a Wilhelm Scream as the school bell. The US release is DVD-only, presumably because Nickelodeon assume young girls don't care about picture quality. But what about middle-aged weirdos like me?! They've crammed 26 episodes onto 3 DVDs, so I hope they had someone world-class doing the encoding.
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Thanks for the tip regarding Monster High, might check that one out then :)

I went shopping in Devon where I'm staying with my mum and got her a lovely storage jar plus I bought myself some iron on patches for attaching to clothes, and from charity shops a book containing some of Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales with illustrations by PJ Lynch (I loved their illustrations for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which I also own in hardcover) and a lovely winter scarf. I bought Ran and the Gray World off Ebay a few days before I travelled to my mum's and had it sent to her so I'd have smth to read on my holiday and so it wouldn't get left in the hallway and nicked while I was away if delivery was slow :)
 

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It's from Courtney Taylor aka Jack from the Mass Effect games. She was also the female Sole Survivor (Nora) from Fallout 4, KO from the Cartoon Network series OK KO Let's Be Heroes, Starla (Muscle Man's girlfriend/wife) from Regular Show, Callisto and Magik aka Illyana Rasputin from X Men 97 (the former was originally voiced by Jennifer Dale and the latter was originally voiced by Tara Strong in X-Men TAS), one of the several voices of Ada Wong from the Resident Evil games, etc
 

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After waiting 9 days for Amazon to post, it took a week to go from California to my door.
I got Strike Witches. Bashed and bruised.
I now have to decide whether to return and more than likely get a replacement in similar condition. They'd probably use the same thin bubble wrap envelope.

This does give me a chance to mention that Strike Witches has my favourite review on Amazon.
A Mrs X says
"I bought it for my son, I've not watched it yet but he seems to have really enjoyed it."

Don't come in mum, I need to watch Strike Witches on my own.😇
 

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I received the final title from my May pre-order at Crunchyroll US. The slipcover has a matte finish instead of the usual standard glossy finish:

Berserk The Golden Age Arc Memorial Edition

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Dai said:
I saw some of the Monster High reboot on Netflix and was surprised at how good it is. Got to love a show that uses a Wilhelm Scream as the school bell. The US release is DVD-only, presumably because Nickelodeon assume young girls don't care about picture quality. But what about middle-aged weirdos like me?!
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Tell me about it, they clearly underestimate little girls like us; no multiple language options or subtitles on a lot of discs either. I had to import all my Winx Club DVDs from Italy just so Tatiana Dessi’s deep-voiced and imperious Icy could make me feel funny I could watch it in Italian.

I tried watching new Monster High. It seemed entertaining and much better animated than Gen 1, but what happened to the accents? Draculaura with a generic American accent instead of her squeaky Bela Lugosi voice is like, well, dubbing over Bela Lugosi in Dracula with Keanu Reeves. The same goes for the entirely bizarre decision to make Abbey Indian instead of Russian. Nothing against having Indian characters, obviously, but it seems a bit odd for a cartoon that’s always touted inclusivity to basically erase eastern European identity. If the problem was that the VA’s were putting on those accents rather than them being natural, couldn’t they just have hired Romanian/Russian VAs? They had no problem making Toralei English or Lagoona Latina, which makes me think the decision was altogether more sinister based on current geopolitics. The Russians love their children too, Mattel.
 
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