Perfect Blue - and Anime on DVD in general really...

[RED]

Was in town with jock, babyharpseal, tick, 8ace et al and I picked up Perfect Blue on DVD. No idea what it's about just seen it's name bandied about - so come on people what have I let myself in for? :E

Also while browsing in HMV I was once again slightly miffed that they don't have an Anime on DVD section - I have to search through all the others to see what they've got! This su><0r5 so what is there on DVD anime-wise that is worth getting in the UK?

[StealthBuda]

Ghost in the Shell and Rei Rei..;)

[WeaselFierce]

There is, sadly, a dissapointing lack of Anime on DVD in this country at the moment.

I think Ninja Scroll is on the horizon but, apart from that, I've no idea.

Only good news is, if you've got a multi-region player, there's a good selection of R1 titles out there you can get on import (which also aren't butchered by the BBFC).

:smokin:

[RED]

>there's a good selection of R1 titles out there

I've got the Wharfedale player so spill on what these titles are!

[WeaselFierce]

Patlabor
Sword for Truth
X
Big Wars
Darkside Blues
Angel Cop:Collection
Wings of Honneamise
Urotsukidoji

--to name but a couple :cool:

[otaku2000]

I really enjoyed Perfect Blue when I watched it last week.

Its the first anime movie I have bought since the release of Ghost in the Shell, which is still my favorite. I managed to pick up the actual ghost manga, and I couldnt beleive how much of the story, and other details were left out of the anime.

still, its damn good.

0taku

[WeaselFierce]

Shirow's supposedly been working on the Manga follow-up to Ghost. Unfortunately, I've no idea what stage he's at yet. :confused:

[eV^WildArm]

Did someone mention Ghost in the Shell ..... heh heh :)

I think the details in the GitS manga where left out of the anime deliberately to cut down on the films size and make it easier to watch .... I still cringe when I try to read the last twenty or so pages of the manga :D. All that EN, karmic connection crap ........ ugh :(

The follow up is called Ghost in the Shell: Man Machine Interface and WAS almost finished in Japan until Shirow decided to rework it. So it'll be a while until we see it over here. To keep up to date with it check out:

http://www.neomythos.com/intheshell/

[EVA1]

Anyone who read the book or ghost in the shell comics always wonders what happened to the spider style mechs the police had ;( the psx game has them as is extremely cool. perfect blue i watched about 2 months ago and i agree it is superb the quality of animation and general feel makes it a classic.

Fs

[Intron]

The poor uk doesnt have a large dvd market so companies are un willing to releace but are now lightening up as japan moves more closer to phaseing out videos some companies have already gone soly dvd.

The up and comeing relaese to watch are the robotech ones and the Eva Films (eva out in september)

I liked the spider bots from the manga. never got to play the game though. top film


perfect blue is really good and its sucha simple story :) alfred hitchock meets anime

[~SiDeKiCk~]

DVDs are like computer games- it's only worth importing rather than waiting for official releases ;)

I'll give Perfect Blue a shot then...

[Intron]

Perfect blue has to be the best dvd ive bough there is so much free stuff with it all those intervies the makeing of it the music and voice clips then there is all the masse of japanes stuuf which i cant read too well i made out about 4 bit i understand lol but loads more if i can read it :) and those 5 screen savers are quite good so there is lots on it.
Only just found the japanes one after qoundering what was on the dvd

[WeaselFierce]

Cheers the link, WildArm. :stare: It's nice to catch up on some Manga news again.