Watching stuff with friends again today.
Blazing Transfer Students ep1-3
Very much taking the Aliens approach to sequel concepts, this live-action continuation to the barking mad original sees 7 new transfer students fighting for their right to remain at an elite academy. It's very much aligned to the usual Japanese tv adaptation of an anime fare in its approach (i.e. hugely camp and a bit cheap looking), but it catches the spirit of the original rather well, it's endearingly daft , and I definitely intend to finish it.
The Disastrous Life of Saiki-K ep1-6 (dub, rewatch)
Nothing new to add. I really like the show, it has a strong dub, it annoys me that neither CR nor Netflix provide captions for the large amount of onscreen text.
Lupin III: The Blood Spray of Goemon Ishikawa
Until the half-way point, I was liking this more than The Gravestone of Jigen Daisuke, but the story doesn't add up to much overall and it ends up feeling a little insubstantial - it's more like an episode of a series than a stand alone film. Nevertheless, Takeshi Koike's direction is as slick as ever, and I desperately want the more adult strand of Lupin anime to continue. Zenigata film next kthnx.
Hoshi Neko Full House ep1
Probably the most unexpected winner of the night, this is a curious little Noboru Ishiguro OAV about a young space smuggler who comes to the aid of three highschool girls drifting in orbit, as an AI on earth instigates a revolution for mankind's robotic servants. While it does have a lot of the teen male wish fulfilment fantasy about it, there's some remarkable care and attention gone into the animation here, and even if it's played for laughs, the underlying story is surprisingly sinister, with scenes of the robots rounding up the human population and herding them away to parts unknown. We'd probably have watched more of this, had technical mishaps not left us with the smallest subtitles known to mankind.