The latest posts from the blog:
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Otaku Collection Haul for February 2025
For this haul, the first Discotek package of the year arrives plus a couple of AnimEigo & Nihon Nights releases also make their appearances. Meanwhile, we catch up on the latest Ghost Ship manga volumes as well as a dozen of Asian Cinema releases including recent Shaw Brothers, Category III and Director’s Company titles.
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May 2025 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases
A shorter slate this time around, with only a few titles planned by each distributor.
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Otaku Collection Haul for January 2025
For this haul, there’s a few specific themes here – Akira Kurosawa, Koei Tecmo, Limited Run releases and even some Nikkatsu titles. There’s also some pre-orders and delayed arrivals that have made their appearances here as well.
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Love Live! Superstar!! Season 2 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
Anime Limited decided to release Love Live! Superstar!! Season 2 before the US had yet to sort out theirs, with a subtitled only collector’s set.
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
Keiichi Hara’s anime film adaptation makes its way onto home video in the UK by Anime Limited. Let’s take a look at the collector’s set.
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April 2025 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases
April tends to be a quiet slate and Crunchyroll does just that with a few releases including more Shangri-la Frontier and Classroom of the Elite.
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Seven Samurai (Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Unboxing
The classic film by Akira Kurosawa recently received a 4K Ultra HD release by BFI in the UK. The limited edition sold out but I managed to secure one before it was too late, so let’s take a look.
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Q1 2025 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
The UK Asian Cinema home video release starts out strong with Cure, Dragon Fist and Yojimbo in 4K, plus more Director’s Company, Japanarchy, Nikkatsu and Category III films on their way.
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Q1 2025 Solicitations for UK Anime Home Video Releases
2025 starts off with a lot of new releases! From To Your Eternity and Welcome to Demon-School! Iruma-kun all the way to The 100 Girlfriends, BAKI and Macross Zero.
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The Video Games I Played in 2024 (Part 2)
The second part of my 2024 completed games discussion list! Here’s my thoughts on Astro Bot, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, TimeSplitters, Toy Story 2 and more!
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The Video Games I Played in 2024 (Part 1)
For 2024, I finished 29 games plus 1 more that just ended up in 2025. In this post we check out a couple Final Fantasy games including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Bandai Namco’s anime games, RUINER and more.
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Otaku Collection Haul for December 2024
For this haul, I received numerous packages from all over the place, whether they came from sales over in the UK or US, or even pre-orders that showed up before the year was over, earlier than planned. Plus there’s also the Christmas haul.
The Normanic Vault 