Topic: Manga and Anime discussion

@ThereThere Spy X Family is really good so I've heard.

No problem, hope you enjoy! I still need to watch both shows myself.

Got a little haul in.

City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes - I fell in love with City Hunter when I watched the first season on Retro Crush, so I decided to nab the recent movie. Watched it this morning & liked it.

New Cutey Honey - I first watched this about a decade ago on a YouTube channel that was uploading a bunch of old US Manga Corps/Central Park Media (which has been defunct) properties & remember really liking it. Needless to say I was excited to find out it had been picked up & remastered for Blu-Ray by a new licensor & am hoping to see if it still holds up.

Maken Ki season 1 - Similar story to the above, as in I watched it probably about a decade ago (though on some pirate site) and remember enjoying it (particularly this first season). I've been eyeing it for awhile and just haven't pulled the gun until now (no matter what I'll probably pick up season 2 eventually just for completionist's sake).

Bonus: Alternate art for City Hunter the Movie under the cardboard slip cover.

@KidBoruto, what a massive haul! Hope you enjoy Medabots, I watched it a little over on Retro Crush and it made me fill like a kid again (I only watched an episode or two when it first came out, so finding it was a bit of childhood wish fulfillment), and had a lot of fun with it.

Also let me know how you get on with Kenichi. I loved the manga when I read it years ago, though the anime didn't seem to really capture it well when I was first made aware of it so I never watched it.

@RR529 Make sure to watch the Jackie Chan City Hunter movie! Absolute steaming garbage but Jackie Chan is always watchable and I have a soft spot for it.

@nessisonett While not technically anime, did you ever watch the Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon? That was pretty entertaining actually haha. 😆

@TowaHerschel7 Yep, that was on when I was a kid! Quite liked it actually, it was a bizarre premise but totally worked.

@TowaHerschel7, @nessisonett, I had heard of the Jackie Chan City Hunter but had no idea it was related. Will definitely check it out at some point.

Totally forgot Jackie Chan Adventures even existed, but now that it's been brought up I remember loving it (not sure if I ever finished it, or if it ever did get a proper ending, though). I think it was a Saturday morning cartoon over here, part of the same block as Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Started watching Yona of the Dawn recently and am really enjoying it so far. Feels like what Fushigi Yuugi could have been without the omnipresent sexual assault, weak heroine, and troubling handling of transgender character.

Of course, it's early days for me, so there's always time for the show to show its butt. Unfortunately, it seems like the show never got a second season, so I'll probably have to transition to the manga sooner than later.

Could still get renewed, though. If The Devil Is a Part-Timer can get a second season after all these years, so can anything!

@RR529 Happy to see another anime collector on here, thought I was the only one!

Another order came in recently, I got Black Clover Seasons 1-2 & Tokyo Ravens Complete during some sales.

@KidBoruto, yeah, I don't own much physically (I only had Captain Earth, Godannar, and the first two Evangelion rebuild films before my recent purchase), but I'm gonna try & get into it more often.

@RR529 Everyone's collection starts off small, I only owned a few anime DVD sets a few years ago.

Now I own around 100+ anime on Blu-Ray...thank you RightStuf, Sentai, and Amazon holiday sales.

@RR529 Big fan of the City Hunter series and some of the movies as well. Love Saeba and gang. The anime had some really nice and catchy city pop songs as well. Unfortunately, Shinjuku Private Eyes was only a 6/10 for me.

@nessisonett Lol, Jackie Chan had some really good movies during the 80s and 90s but that City Hunter movie terrible. Plus that Street Fighter scene was a joke.

There's also a French version City Hunter movie.

@WanderingBullet, I thought the movie (Shinjuku Private Eyes) was pretty fun.

I guess maybe the drone CGI clashed with the 2D animation (which itself looked really good, IMO) a bit too much, and watching it dubbed I think they shouldn't have tried to translate his catchphrase ("Nookie" just doesn't have the same ring to it), but other than that I don't have anything to complain about.

It also made me realize I need to watch Cat's Eye at some point.

@RR529 I've watched all the City Hunter series episodes and movies (I think) but not Cat's Eye. Hopefully, one day they'll be available on Netflix.

My recent anime order finally arrived in the mail!

Some anime I got in over the weekend.

Lupin the 3rd: Jigen's Gravestone - the first in the "Koike" trilogy of Lupin films. Watched it on Saturday night and other than being a tad shorter than I typically expect from a movie (it's just about an hour long), I thought it was excellent & will definitely check out the other two (the way the villains tried to execute Fujiko certainly was... something, though).

Tekkaman Blade II - Like New Cutey Honey in my last batch, this is an old 90's OVA series I last watched on YouTube a decade ago, and was thrilled to see it available remastered on Blu-Ray. It was pretty short (6 episodes) so I binged it over the weekend, and still thought it was fantastic.

Maken-Ki season 2 - If season one was any indication, this is just going to be more fan service guilty pleasure than anything else, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Bonus: alternate box art for Jigen's Gravestone under the slip case.

@KidBoruto, yay, another InuYasha fan! There doesn't seem to be that many of us around these days.

Also, what's the show in the plastic wrap? The glare is obscuring the title.

@KidBoruto I really enjoyed black clover. The last 10 eps feature some of the best anime fights available. Hope it comes back soon.

@RR529 InuYasha fans still exist, we just have been overshadowed by YashaHime and other anime giants sadly lol. To be honest though, I haven't even seen Final Act yet!

Planning to re-watch the entire original series first before I start it and YashaHime.

That anime would be The Book of Bantorra! Blind buy that I got after seeing the trailer and some positive reviews.

@z0d15g0d I've heard good things about Black Clover but haven't watched yet! Waiting for them to release a Season 3 Complete Blu-Ray first.