My latest haul from the MediaOCD Store went to Stackry for the first time and what we have are two AnimEigo releases as well as four Discotek Media releases.
Starting off with the AnimEigo pickups we have two from Osamu Tezuka's works. The first is
Black Jack, the 1993-2011 Tezuka Productions OVA series directed by Osamu Dezaki for the first 10 episodes followed by Satoshi Kuwahara & Masayoshi Nishida for the remaining two episodes. I have the film that Discotek Media released but this series came first anime-wise. AnimEigo's release includes the existing English dub for the first 10 episodes plus a third Blu-ray disc dedicated to bonus features.
The second is
A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose, a 1983 Tezuka Productions television special directed by Tetsu Dezaki. I hadn't heard of this until SkySet Entertainment acquired the license and produced an English dub. Interestingly after they released it, AnimEigo stepped in and made a new version (and the two eventually collaborated together to produce an English dub for
Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope).
Next we have the Discotek Media pickups which is the first for this year. Now I normally do a massive bunch but because of what's been going on with the Crunchyroll store and how Discotek are slowly adding titles in batches onto the MediaOCD Store there currently isn't enough to warrant a super haul (and my recent work circumstances isn't helping either) so I decided to stick to a smaller batch. We have two recent releases and two titles that were part of the Deep Dives Batch 1, the latter is dedicated to bringing back in stock titles that were treated badly by Crunchyroll Store with random delistings even though they're still in print licensing-wise.
Starting off with the Deep Dives batch we have
Cleopatra, the 1970 Mushi Productions film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. This is the second instalment in the Animerama trilogy dedicated to exploring the more erotic side of anime whilst still not technically a hentai, and it's the least favourite of the bunch in my opinion. I have Third Window Films' release so this is a double-dip purchase. The reversible cover features uncensored artwork.
Next we have
Dallos, the 1983 Studio Pierrot OVA series directed by Mamoru Oshii. Apparently this is the first official OVA ever made for anime which is interesting. Discotek Media previously released the series on DVD before and this is a HD upgrade, though they weren't allowed to include the English dub this time around (which according to many wasn't very good anyway).
Moving onto the brand new recently released titles, both of which coincidently were originally licensed by Viz Media and serialised under Weekly Shōnen Sunday so they each have a pretty long four-cours worth of episodes. The first one is
Flame of Recca, the 1997 Studio Pierrot series directed by Noriyuki Abe, and the second is
Project ARMS, the 2001 TMS Entertainment series directed by Hirotoshi Takaya & Hajime Kamegaki. The latter was split into two seasons that aired back-to-back. Discotek Media previously released both series on DVD before and these are new releases on Blu-ray presented in Standard Definition on Blu-ray format.
