Been awhile since my last post so this will be larger than usual.
Demon City Shinjuku - Demons have taken over Shinjuku and now a young man who knows some sort of spiritual swordsmanship must keep them from spreading worldwide. Kinda feels like a moodier take on something like Yu Yu Hakusho. Pretty fun stuff.
Iria: Zeiram the Animation - Animated OVA prequel to the live action Zeiram horror/action films. Pretty good 90's sci-fi action stuff.
Prison School - Raunchy comedy, a lot better than it has any right to be. A girl's only school goes co-ed and the few male students get thrown into an honest to goodness jail on campus after they spy on the girls' baths. A hilarious cat and mouse game soon ensues as the boys try to formulate an escape plan all the while the student council conspires to get the boys into even more trouble so they have an excuse to expell them.
Urusei Yatsura TV Collection 1 - Currently going through this. It's one of the oldest TV anime I've ever watched (though the first Lupin series probably has that honor of being the oldest), and it definitely shows in the animation quality, however it'll occasionally have an episode where the quality really jumps up. Episodic comedy, it can be pretty humorous.
Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling - a 10th anniversary film. Pretty much felt like a long episode, but it was fun seeing this world animated with a more distinctly 90's style rather than 80's.
Urusei Yatsura: the Final Chapter - The conclusion of the manga in film form. Pretty decent, but I didn't think it was very strong/definitive for a finale.
Wicked City - A pair of secret agents (one human & one demon) must team up to protect an ancient dignitary who holds the key to prolonging a peace treaty between the human and demon worlds from a group of demon extremists who want war. This is good stuff with a lot of creative body horror on display, but it's not for the easily offended (this is one of those 80's OVAs that really likes to push the boundaries of gore & nudity).
BONUS: Alternate box arts.
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PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@RR529 I heard about Prison School in a anime magazine I got a half a year or so back, and all I have to say is you're the last person I thought I'd see with a copy of it
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Finished watching Little Women II: Jo's Boys and I love it. A great sequel. This series motivates me to be strong and become a better person. Plum Field feels like home. Seeing how the characters grew, especially Dan really warmed my heart.
The lineup on Ghibli Fest 2023 is as follows, and I've been seeing all of them up to the penultimate movie:
March: My Neighbor Totoro
April: Spirited Away (Live on stage)
May: Ponyo
June: Kiki's Delivery Service
July: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind/Castle in the Sky
August: Princess Mononoke/Porco Rosso/The Wind Rises (10th anniversary)
September: Howl's Moving Castle
October: Spirited Away
Appleseed - Based on an earlier work by the creator of Ghost in the Shell. Pretty good sci-fi movie.
A Wind Named Amnesia - Another interesting sci-fi film. A young man & woman take a road trip across the US (being chased by a killer mech!) after a mysterious "wind" blew across the planet taking away humanity's knowledge returning us to stone age mentality.
My First Girlfriend is a Gal - Pretty run of the mill harem show. Decent if you know what you're getting into.
Re: Cutie Honey - A take on the classic fan-servicy "magical girl" series helmed by Hideaki Anno (Evangelion). Very crazy, but very fun.
EDIT: Also picked up Very Private Lesson (another ecchi comedy), but didn't picture it as the cover may be considered a bit saucy & I wanted to tread safely.
@TheJGG you near London? It’s showing as part of the BFI festival in London next week before it’s theatrical release next year.
It’s a good line up this year. They are also showing Chicken Run 2, The Killer (David Fincher’s new film), Saltburn (the director worked on Killing Eve and Promising Young Women), Killers Of The Moon (new Scorsese film) and Poor Things which is getting good buzz about a Victorian era women who is brought back from the dead and wants to run away from uppity society. I also want to see Tiger Stripes after it freaked people out when it was shown at Cannes.
@jump Sadly not, in fact every time I'm in London I usually end up driving four hours away from it >p. About an hour away from Exeter, actually but I'm going up north for university soon and I'll juuust miss some good screenings. Hoping to see Killers of the Flower Moon myself, it's gotten absolutely rave reviews.
Joined my local Anime Society and watched the first episodes of One Punch Man, Toradora, Jujutsu Kaisen, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and the first four eps of Nichijou?! I think I like Nichijou the most actually, it's so bizarre that it circles round to being normal again.
Forgot to post about it here but SCOTT PILGRIM THE ANIME COMES OUT TWO WEEKS AFTER MY BIRTHDAY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Genuinely picked up the entire book series in prep for this (haven't had the time to go through them yet though) so I'm absolutely over the moon it's coming out so soon!
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Finished watching The Story Of Pollyanna, Girl Of Love yesterday. The anime is quite a bit too dramatic for me and I think in general a little bit too heavy for young children. Still the anime shows how important it is to stay positive and to not give up, because in the end it pays off. Thankfully there are also alot of warm and lighthearted moments. The cast is very likeable.
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