Unboxing [US]: Deadman Wonderland - Complete Series: Anime Classics (BD/DVD)

Back in the end of June I acquired a few titles thanks to an Amazon deal of the day sale. The first one is a title that suffered a Blu-ray hold-back but came back as an Anime Classic release from Funimation.

Unboxing [UK]: Rage of Bahamut: Genesis - Complete Series: Limited Edition (Blu-ray)

With the Funimation US limited edition no longer in print and Anime Limited hosting a special offer sale last weekend, I decided to finally dip in towards the well-received Rage of Bahamut series with its first season.

Find out what's different for this UK release that's a near replica of the US version with this unboxing.

Unboxing [JP]: Sengoku Basara HD Collection (PS3)

Managed to make use of my 1000 Yen coupon for Solaris Japan. Even better the rate got better in time so I finally placed an order. Here we have the second of two, which is actually a collection of games.

Unboxing [JP]: Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! - The Best! Edition Reissue (PS3)

Managed to make use of my 1000 Yen coupon for Solaris Japan. Even better the rate got better in time so I finally placed an order. Here we have the first of two.

Industry News: Anime Expo 2017 Announcements Round-up

Anime Expo 2017 has been packed with tons of industry panels and announcements through July 1st to the 4th. So rather than splitting up the panels into multiple posts I decided to place all of them in one huge blog post. There are some surprises with a few of these distributors.

The following panels covered in this round-up are as follows:

Anime - Aniplex of America, Crunchyroll, FLCL, Full Metal Panic!, Funimation, Kadokawa Pictures, Nozomi/Rightstuf, Ponycan US, Sentai Filmworks, Studio Trigger, Viz Media, Warner Bros Japan

Books - Kodansha Comics, Seven Seas, Vertical, Yen Press, Viz Media

Games/Visual Novels - Aksys Games, Bandai Namco, JAST USA, MangaGamer, NIS America, Sekai Project

Otaku Collection 2017: June Update | Birthday stuff, SAO Catch Up, More Games

It has been a month since I had returned home from University. I've received my results and successfully achieved an overall 2.1 grade for my Computer Science for Games course. I'm happy with the outcome as well.

Industry News: Sentai Filmworks October 2017 Line-up

Sentai Filmworks is offering a selection of complete collection re-releases as well as some other new bits.

Unboxing [UK]: Sword Art Online II - Part 4: Collector's Edition (BD/DVD)

Pretty much as soon as I acquired the third part, I decided to get the final part to fill the gap on what was left to acquire for the show.

Like Parts 1-3, these boxes have a special texture of sorts that makes the set really hard to take photos on.

Unboxing [UK]: Overlord - Complete Series: Limited Edition (Blu-ray)

OVERLORD has now come to the UK, with a special near-replica release of the limited edition. Find out what's different for the UK release with this unboxing.

Unboxing [UK]: Prison School - Complete Series: Collector's Edition (Blu-ray)

One of the most popular ecchi series out there arrives in the UK without any cuts or censorship. Time for Prison School.

Unboxing [UK]: Persona 3 the Movie -#4 Winter of Rebirth- - Collector's Edition (BD/DVD)

The fourth and final instalment of the Persona 3 movie series arrived!

Unboxing [UK]: Sword Art Online II - Part 3: Collector's Edition (BD/DVD)

For the past couple of days I have been playing Sword Art Online: Lost Song and I decided to go ahead and try to acquire the rest of the series. Part 2 has already gone out of print so I figured there was no point waiting for a good sale and just get it out of the way.

Like Parts 1 & 2, these boxes have a special texture of sorts that makes the set really hard to take photos on.

Unboxing [UK]: Gonna Be The Twin-Tail!! - Complete Series (BD/DVD)

I've been after this series for a while now but it was always at a close SRP price tag (£40). I forgot to even pick it up at MCM Comic Con but now Zavvi had discounted the set for a low price of £15.99. I still had access to Unidays so I got a 10% discount as well.

Industry News: Funimation September 2017 Release Slate

Funimation have finally started going after the Summer 2016 titles.

Otaku Collection 2017: May Update | The End of University

University is over. I've finished my final year course and gotten most of the results for it so far. And since the rate got better temporarily I made use of getting a number of items.

This haul includes a number of games as well as the usual anime. In addition some of these are imports from Japan!