This season has been such a deep disappointment for me that the only thing I've got to look forward to is the release of the second and third episodes of Aika Zero. The second ep is supposed to be out on Tuesday, and I predict the first rip of the BD will hit the torrents by Wednesday evening. I won't be surprised if it's out by Tuesday evening (my time zone, PDT).

To some extent I think this about every season, but as I read what others have written about the shows they're watching, sometimes things appear to be better than I had thought, and I give them a try. But that hasn't happened this time. There hasn't been anything I've been even slightly interested in.

That isn't quite true. I did scan through the second episode of Heaven's Lost Property, but I wasn't tempted to watch it, and I'm not curious about anything else that happened in it.

My daily visits to Tokyo Toshokan have been limited to looking to see if SD&Taka have finally released another ep of DBK (ep 28 today) and counting down the days to the next ep of Aika Zero. It's lean times, folks, lean times.

I think I'm going to put in an order for DVDs tomorrow.  Things have been accumulating, and it's probably going to be the following:

Real Bout Highschool (DVDs 1-4) -- turns out that Samurai Girl Real Bout High School was released here under a different title, which is why I missed it. So this one's a guilt buy, in part.

DB 2nd boxed set

Dragonaut (first half)

Sergeant Frog (first part)

DBZ Bardock/Trunks BD

And either the BD release of Burst Angel or the BD release of Witchblade

And I might order the complete set of Jinki Extend

Not too much of it massively excites me. I think Sgt Frog might be fun. I watched a sample episode of it dubbed, and the dub sucked, but this release includes the original Japanese and it may be better.

As to the BD sets? I want to encourage a growing R1 market in BD anime releases, and the only way that's going to happen is if existing releases sell. Neither series really interests me much, but they should be fodder for top rotation pictures. Same thing for Jinki Extend. Stupid story, but lots of eye candy. (Which is also a pretty good description of Dragonaut, in fact.)

UPDATE: I've claimed victory over the weird screen rendering by Zoom Player a couple of times before, but this time for sure. Turns out the solution was to change from VMR 9 Windowless as the video renderer to EVR, whatever that means. At least for DVDs, anyway.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 05:21 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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