The latest posts from the blog:
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The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
After airing the Visitor arc and the spin-off series, Aniplex & Eight Bit went back to adapt the prequel arc as a New Year TV special. Here’s the Aniplex USA release from 2022.
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The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
Six years after airing the first season, the Mahouka franchise continues with the second season adapting the Visitor arc, which was also dubbed into English. Here’s the Aniplex USA release from 2021.
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The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie: The Girl Who Summons the Stars (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
Mahouka’s original anime film released in 2017, which Eight Bit animated this time around. Here’s the Aniplex USA release from 2018.
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The Irregular at Magic High School Season 1 (Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set) Unboxing
Finally got my hands on the Mahouka franchise, starting with the first season which Aniplex USA re-released as a complete set back in late 2018.
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Q2 2026 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
Dozens of 4K releases incoming from Arrow Video including more Jackie Chan & John Woo films, plus more interesting Japanese films from Radiance, Third Window Films & Treasured Films.
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Q2 2026 Solicitations for UK Anime Home Video Releases
MVM brings in a number of Aniplex releases including Lycoris Recoil and Fate/Grand Order, meanwhile Anime Ltd and Crunchyroll take a step back.
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Otaku Collection Haul for March 2026
For this haul, we catch up on a number of US anime releases, acquired a couple remasters on PlayStation, and received the latest March pre-orders from different UK distributors of Asian Cinema releases.
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The Dangers in My Heart Season 1 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
The first season for The Dangers in My Heart finally arrived on home video from Anime Limited, with a collector’s edition that includes the booklet from Sentai’s steelbook release.
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Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- (Limited Edition Blu-ray & DVD) Unboxing
Sung Jinwoo returns with his shadow crew in this second season of the A-1 Pictures anime adaptation now on Blu-ray from Crunchyroll.
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June 2026 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases
Crunchyroll returns with only two releases, AnimEigo have two (due to one being delayed) and Sentai offers more re-releases to the mix.
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 Part 1 (Blu-ray) & Part 2 (Limited Edition Blu-ray & DVD) Unboxing
With the fourth season soon to air, the third season of Tensura not long ago was released on Blu-ray. Here we have both Part 1 via Crunchyroll UK’s release and Part 2’s limited edition via Crunchyroll US’s release.
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Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
The fourth season of DanMachi, or Familia Myth, not long ago received a limited edition box set from Sentai Filmworks and I have finally acquired it.
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