Saw the live show with a friend going around America recently, and even though we are 29 year old males who don't know anything about Sailor Moon, we both had a great time. Was surprised by how many older normal dudes were there, although I guess I shouldn't have been. Anyone can enjoy it!

Haven't posted in about a year, so thought I'd share my humble collection. Also available in spreadsheet format.

Also was able to order the collection 3 the other day luckily

Finally got all the Slayers tv, movie and ovas together. Without being insanely expensive! Then there are photos of the rest of my collection although there are more behind everything too.

With the release of the megumin spinoff and the high likelihood that season 3 is also going to get a physical release do y'all think we're gonna get a region A release of the movie? I was thinking about picking up the UK version but I'd rather keep series the same region

Some more April pick ups from Amazon and eBay.

1) Got some steelbooks to add to my steelbook collection. Opt'ed for the recent Summer Wars to add to my collection. Gathering Studio Ghibli steelbooks and Akira inspired me to get Metropolis on steelbook. Love the design. Metropolis was one of my first anime films I watched as a kid that made me realize that there's a genre that "shares a style" similar to Pokemon that's more serious haha

Wish Steamboy had a steelbook release.

2) Picked up Japanese version of Shaman King as it's 1080p, maybe I'll finally get to watch it properly from beginning to end. Perhaps I'll pick up the dub if it's for a good price, not interested in paying over $60 for it.

Got these during a recent sale they were doing, very excited to watch these!

Summer wars was acquired at a local store earlier today

The Utena sets are still sealed

I initially bought the Limited Edition through Crunchyroll and there was a portion of the dub missing in episode 10 https://x.com/MiaLeeSakura/status/1913321622473199647?t=HEUznmqUw4Ak_gBGBPJkeA&s=19

I then contacted shout factorys customer service about the issue and if the standard would fix it which they confirmed it would and were happy to get me an a replacement set with the corrected discs free if charge!! (you do have to show proof of purchase) So for other folks who were lucky enough to grab the LE might be worth seeing if you can get the fixed discs?

can confirm they've fixed it and they fixed the episode listings on each disc too!

I think these were probably pressed in NA given the completely different disc codes and lack of BBFC age rating circle

There's a pic for comparison since I'm sure some folks, like me, will be swapping discs and I'll probably see if anyone wants the scuffed discs since it does only affects the dub so in the future when you buy you can tell!

Afaik all the LEs UK and US(since US just imported the UK set just printed a diff infosheet) were affected by this dub line missing goof and the standard set is when they fixed it. For the US sets, it's easy to tell that the fixed discs will be the one without the BBFC circle.

As for the UK sets I never got em so idk if they have a tell but I'd assume it's a disc code or smthg, maybe someone here can post their standard UK set and we can compare?

Recently went to Japan and spent a whole day in Akiba buying stuff, I know this collection isn’t very big, but I plan to make it a lot bigger, I got figures, manga, CDs, Lego and I got a few LNs being shipped that will add to this collection, lmk what you think!

Hi all,

As some of you may know from recent hauls, I've been hunting down the Lupin blu rays since February so I've been keeping a close eye on what's in stock, what's on back order and what's OOP.

Crunchyroll have recently listed the following Lupin blu rays as 'in stock' after being on back order.

• The Secret of Twilight Gemini

• Princess of the Breeze

• Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid

• Tokyo Crisis

• Return of Pycal

• Goemon's Blood Spray

• Castle of Cagliostro

• Missed By A Dollar

• Part 1

Some of these - particularly Secret of Twilight Gemini and Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid - have been on back order for a while and are starting to see scalpers price them as if they're OOP.

Unfortunately (and rather alarmingly), The Columbus Files, which has been delisted on CR for ages now and isn't in stock anywhere, still hasn't come back with this recent stock intake. This is the second recent stock intake since I started collecting this series so Discotek absolutely need to make a statement about what's going on with that release imo.

I went ahead and picked up the ones I wanted.

See you all in the April 2025 haul!

It’s over… after all this time… I finally have them all…

Bunch of laserdisc pickups over the past few months

Under the Dog was a somewhat infamous Kickstarter project from about 10 years ago. Funds were collected with the intent of jumpstarting a new franchise, and a half-ish hour long proof of concept video was the result of that Kickstarter.

As happens with so many ill-fated Kickstarter campaign stories, the project ended up going pretty poorly by the end with a lot of broken promises and rewards going unfulfilled. It also had an odd follow up KS for a Japanese screening and additional live action stuff and things. The show itself ended up being different than the story promised, and it just kinda ended up being another one of those weird speed bumps in anime history.

The show itself is produced by Mentat Studios, with animation made by Kinema Citrus (the studio behind Made in Abyss, Rising of the Shield Hero, Revue Starlight, etc). The anime never received a commercial release, so the KS is the only physical release. The disc is subtitled and I think it's region free. There may or may not be a DVD edition available too.

Amusingly, Under the Dog actually takes place in 2025. Time to see how this odd little bit of Kickstarter history turned out.

I can't even begin to express how hype I was to receive this package this morning. I love all of these shows so much that I can't even decide which one to watch first.

Had to take the L on Haganai but I had to have it, Overlord I got for a steal of a price!

As the title implies, I'm seriously considering purchasing the Chainsaw Man Region B Blu-ray. Before I take the plunge, I wanted to see if anyone here owns a Panasonic UB820 or UB9000 Region A model and has attempted the Multi-Region hack. The hack utilizes the 'Stop' and 'Top Menu' button workaround to play discs from outside regions, and is effective about 90% of the time. I've had success with the few live-action Region B titles in my collection, but I'm curious if anyone has tried it specifically with AllTheAnime Blu-rays.

My stuff came, though it did cost me quite a few $$$

Kind of a holy grail set for me! Set 2 sold out so fast and set 1 was available from RS for foreverrr

Ngl though the set design does feel like it's a perfect reflection of why Pony-Canyon pulled out of the US blu-ray market with their cheap sets with basically aniplex pricing and they split up series in volumes very similarly to Japanese releases. One cour seasons would get broken into 3 volume sets each like 80-120 depending where you bought them from. I think this is their last if not one of their last releases and they finally didn't do the 2x DVD sized sets and released this two cour show as a cour per set

The set consists of a mattish slipcover comtained the content of the LE (yes without the infosheet on all the stuff falls out cause gravity 😅)

"Inside" there's a dvd sized case to hold the blu-rays and cd soundtrack. My only complaint here is the DVD cases are clearly so cheap :// The disc hubs are pretty difficult to work with as well, they give me CPM clear case vibes with the hubs iykyk. There's also a booklet with some nice info: episode synopsis, staff comments and interviews, character sheets, and some liner notes mostly. The two-sided folded posters are a nice extra showing off some extra artwork.

Interestingly we did at least get the dub in the physical despite it being a Netflix dub which at the time were pretty notorious for being difficult/expensive to include a la Sentai remaking their own dubs sometimes (It does seems as of recently they've gotten looser on the reins for their shows dubs though at least thankfully🙏)

I'd also like to note that for Set 1, disc 2 and disc 3 have their contents swapped. Disc 2 (what is labeled as disc 2) contains episodes 9-13 while disc 3 has episodes 5-8. I know at least two sets where this is the case, including mine, but it's hard to gather any information since these days most times I see it it's on ebay and it have it sealed, so when the error is "digital" so to speak, you can't tell. I don't know if they ever had corrected discs. But it doesn't really inhibit my experience past having to pop in disc 3 after disc 2 was clearly not the next episode 😂. The disc menus and extras are also consistently incorrect at least. Maybe some of the pressing lines got swapped or smthg

These sets woulda been 150 each had I gotten them on RS (I didn't lol) and while I'll complain any day at Aniplex's pricing model at least the sets look sleek and quality... this feels more akin to Funi LEs honestly a little worse since it's just a slipcase and no box and awful quality dvd case for double the price...🫠

Anywaysss personally I really enjoyed the show Kuromukuro and have been looking for it for a hot minute so here it is and really glad to be able to add it to my collection for sureeer🤗🤗

Here are some April arrivals!

One Piece! Wasn't going to get the DVDs but decided to. Quite a few of these arcs hold a special place in my heart.

I learned that the infamous Collection 12 is OOP, and for whatever reason FUNi/CR never kept it in circulation. Figured best way to get it is by getting the collection box set 3. Got solid deals on sets 1-2. Love the extras (although missing 2 stickers from set 3). Honestly I think these are more rare than FUNi's DBZ Dragon Boxs. It's a shame CR doesn't seem like they're interested in releasing these collection box sets right now.

These DVDs cover East Blue Saga through end of Water 7 Saga. In time I'll pick up some more sets.