The Old School Otaku Lounge

“Michiko & Hatchin”. I do remember the promo artwork for this show, but it did slip under my radar. Thank god Funimation rescued it. Apparently some other obscure company had already tried to get on TV and just sat on it. I didn’t realise this show is another Sayo Yamamoto (of “The Woman Called ...

Actually, I forgot about this. I’m pretty sure they will ship to Japan (as long as it’s not Aniplex USA stuff). I know some US BDs won’t play on Japanese BD players (the disc checks the country setting and won’t play if it’s a Japanese player), but they can’t do that with modded DVD players.

Sorry about the crazy price, and be ready for painful shipping & handling. No, there is no English dub. No, you can't buy this anywhere else for a lower price. This or nothing, bubbala. :) Not sure if Voyager would ship to Japan where greg is. I picked up the first couple of BDs from the Book O...

What is fantastic about this figure is that the model comes with decals for her eyes! I'm happy about that. That's pretty bloody awesome. I remember my efforts with smaller figures. I bought a Maschinen Krieger kit when I was about 10 or 11 and by attempt at doing the eyes made the figure look deme...

Yikes! Sounds like the showing was kind of a mess! I feel lucky that every "anime" film I've seen in theaters was mostly just small crowds of people who where either there because they were an adult anime fan (like when I saw Spirited Away), or they were clueless parents who were just bri...

Today "Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion" played all around the country. One-off screenings in most capitals with Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne sold out apparently. Canberra had about 260 or so in the cinema, nearly 3/4 full (population of the city is 358,000, so I guess that...

“Trollhunter”. For a found footage movie, this pretty damn good and much more believable and entertaining than most in the genre. There was one sequence which looked way too CG for its own good, but the rest of the effects came off quite well. Both the tired and old hunter and the film students came...

It's amazing to see this kind of intrusive re-working of a property in this day and age, but the Robotech people seem to believe they have some kind of actual stands-on-its-own franchise, instead of a license whose strengths came from everything the Americans DIDN'T write. I'm really not sure why t...

Wow. I've never heard of that one before. It' interesting to see the anime world displaying great ignorance of Buddhism and not just of Christianity as usual. Weird. Well it's an anime written and funded what can only be described as a cult . Kofuku no Kagaku have released a number of anime films. ...

Clearing away my backlog. I used to have boxes of unwatched stuff, now I'm down to a few discs. I don't buy as much as I did a decade ago, which is probably a good thing (for space and the bank balance). "The Rebirth of Buddha". Yes, this is a Kofuku no Kagaku (or more amusingly in English...