My Neighbor Totoro - It's probably the most famous anime film I've never seen before. I'm sure it'll be worth the purchase due to it's pedigree.
Fatal Fury: the Motion Picture - The steel book edition. Watched it last week. Don't think it was quite as good as the two preceding OVAs, but still a decent enough time (and it gets points for going all out on the Mai fan service, lol).
Code Geass - I haven't watched this since it last aired on Adult Swim back in the day (& I don't remember that much of it, especially the later parts, since me & buddy would spend all weekend playing video games back when it aired). This has both series, & I've just started on the second this weekend. It's really good stuff, even if I don't think I like it quite as much as my absolute favorite childhood/teenhood anime.
Bonus: Fatal Fury steel book outside the slip case, front & back (it's a largely clear case, so the only major difference is the removal of the BD & NEO GEO logos, as well as the "100 Minutes" graphic).
Art under the Totoro slip case is exactly the same, so I didn't include it.
@WanderingBullet, looks like I chose the right time to get into City Hunter, lol.
I think Discotek is releasing all the old TV specials/movies in a Blu-Ray collection in January, so I'll have that to look forward too as well since I haven't seen them yet.
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@WanderingBullet, yeah, I heard about it some time ago though I didn't know it was so close.
Too bad it's licensed by Amazon though. From what I understand they (& Netflix) are the worst when it comes to physical releases of their anime (as in, they often don't release one).
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@KidBoruto I don't think there are many episodes of Spy x Family left (I think 3?), though I'm not sure if the dub if a few episodes behind so it may be a bit of a longer wait for them to release.
Thankfully only a 2 episode delay for the dub. I'm sure Part 2 is worth the wait .
Would be nice if Netflix also streams some of City Hunter's anime in 2024 as well. Just like they streamed Cowboy Bebop's anime weeks before the live action series was released.
A bit off-topic but, with all the isekai anime and manga about kingdom/base building (think for example, Overlord, and the dime in a thousand budget copies), Have any of you feel the need to play a base-building game "just in case"?
If I get isekai'ed now I would be screwed, not owning anything, not even built a single wall in Fallout 4.
@WanderingBullet, not sure which country you're in, but in the US all the City Hunter anime (including most/all of the specials/movies) are legally available to stream on Retro Crush, Pluto TV, & Tubi. They are ad supported services though.
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Retro Crush pretty much specializes in retro anime (though I think they've started carrying some things in a similar interest zone, like the 90's Sonic & Street Fighter cartoons as well as some Tokusatsu stuff). Most stuff is free with no strings attached (though you may need to make a free account to watch certain things), though last I used it they were starting to make a few things premium only (like maybe a dozen titles, don't know if it's gotten worse).
Pluto TV is a bit more general interest, and is like free "internet cable" in that on it's face it presents as linear tv (different channels to surf with a pre-set lineup), even if a lot of it is just one show (ex. they have a Happy Days channel that only shows Happy Days & it's various spin-offs like Mork & Mindy). For this topic in particular you'd probably be most interested in Anime All Day, which is what it says on the tin (they also have dedicated Naruto, One Piece, & Lupin III channels that just loop large parts of the series). More importantly though they do have an On-Demand section where you can browse their entire catalog and watch what you want just like any other streaming service. Oh, not anime related but it's owned by Paramount so one of the channels is "Paramount+ Picks" and sometimes it'll marathon P+ exclusive shows, usually before a new season starts on the more premier streaming service (I've caught some Star Trek Picard this way).
Tubi is Pluto TV's biggest competitor and seems to have even more stuff, especially in the anime department. I actually tend to use this one a bit more lately, and I think in terms of marketshare it's actually the largest.
Just for completionists sake there's also FreeVee, which is Amazon's foray into the free TV marketplace. Never really looked into how much (if any) anime it has, but I figured I'd mention it just to be safe. Oh, and it sometimes carries some Prime exclusives like how Pluto gets Paramount+ exclusives occasionally. I think some of the older Prime stuff might be on there permanently.
Also, some of the stuff that Retro Crush has locked behind it's paywall can be watched free on Pluto or Tubi. I think Retro Crush exclusively carries HD remasters of some ancient OVAs like Angel Cop (which is one of the paywalled titles), while the other mentioned services only have the SD original, which is probably why that's the case.
Anime's Goodest Boy Arrives in Time for Christmas.
Street Fighter II: the Animated Movie - A certified classic that I haven't seen in awhile, and I'll be waiting a bit more as when I unwrapped it to take this picture it was somehow missing the damn disc. I ordered it a couple weeks ago now & I don't know how I'd get across that the disc was actually missing, so I don't know if I should fight for a refund/free replacement or just order a new one. This has never happened to me before, but I suppose it was bound to eventually.
InuYasha set 1 - Luckily this one seems to be complete. This is THE comfort food anime to me (practically being my life in middle & early high school), and whether anime or manga (through official or illicit means) I manage to go through it once every other year or so (just finished up buying/reading the entire manga on Kindle a few months ago), so I figured it was about time to start collecting it physically. I last watched it in 2020, when I binged it on Hulu in preparation for YashaHime (which kinda sucked, but let's not go there yet).
Jungle De Ikou! - Oh god, this is the most shamelessly degenerate anime I've seen, lol. Now, I enjoy a blatantly ecchi anime from time to time as a guilty pleasure (and I vaguely remember seeing at least part of this online somewhere years ago) so I decided to give this a shot, but now I know why I probably never finished it back then. It's a parody of the magical girl genre (young girl gets the ability to transform into a powerful adult form) where almost all the comedy comes from blatant sexualization & innuendo. I wouldn't have a problem with this if it was just focused on the transformed state, but they make sure to get in a lot of "loli" stuff too. Sad thing is I can't even really bring myself to really dislike it either. The humor (and fan service) can hit when the target is more palatable, and it has that quintessential 90's anime aesthetic that I absolutely love to look at. Think I'll just bury it at the bottom of the pile, lol.
Bonus: Alternate Box Art Under the SFII slip case:
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Finished up Akira Toriyama's Manga Theatre this morning. A collection of one shots & mini series he'd released over his career.
The most fascinating story (though not the best) was Dragon Boy, which was clearly a Dragon Ball prototype (which had proto versions of Goku, named Tangtong with dragon wings instead of a tail, Master Roshi, same name & still had nimbus but wasn't a pervert, and Puar, can't remember it's name but it was a cat creature that could transform into different things).
While that one seemed to have influenced DB the most, some elements of the Adventures of Tongpoo (which was the next story in the collection) made their way in to. It's female lead was much more of a Bulma-like, and it introduced the idea of capsules.
Really interesting collection overall though. While they weren't all hits, I liked stories like the Elder, Cashman: Hero of Savings, & Mamejiro.
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