Return to the Forbidden Planet
When I first started buying anime DVDs in the UK, the Shaftesbury Avenue mothership of Forbidden Planet was my outlet of choice. And I enjoyed my purchases of Azumanga and Noir very much. Nonetheless I felt the pinch of skipping lunches to save up for one DVD a week and was enlightened about how it was often better value-for-money to buy thinpak boxsets from The Right Stuf. Popular titles (e.g. Ghost in the Shell) were also deeply discounted at Amazon.co.uk; the UK arm of the Bezos empire also offered free delivery for a minimum spend that the price of one DVD easily covered.
But I've been impressed by FP's fightback for my wallet. After browsing comics yesterday, I saw that it was selling Paprika (which I enjoyed tremendously) for GBP 14.99 which matched Amazon UK's price while it had marginally undercut Amazon UK price of GBP 15.48 on the GITS: Solid State Society DVD with its offer of GBP 14.99 and won hands down on the Vision of Escaflowne box sets - Amazon UK at GBP 34.98 each; Forbidden Planet GBP 24.99 each.
Of course TSRI could beat FP (marginally after factoring in Got Anime! 10% discount and international S&H, or hands down if there was a 40% Bandai sale) but the desire for instant gratification, especially with the current postal strike, and the fear of GENEON contagion led me to make the above purchases. Forbidden Planet, good job!
Fool Metal Zaku Fufufu in Nakano
On Day Two of the Tokyo expedition, this Zaku took it easy. Slept in to nurse my worn out leg servos and gyros, blogged yesterday's happenings before having lunch with an old university friend and only after that did I launch off towards Nakano Broadway via the Tozai line. Less photographs than yesterday because of the high staff to area ratio, making it much harder to get away with snapping close-up pictures of stuff and thus having a high risk of breaking the 11th Commandment.
The Rebuild of Megumi Hayashibara
The big screen is the added spice of Paprika! Spicy is the sound of the voice who said "..." to Dragooooooon SLAVE! No tying down the bright smile, light-footed, fancy-free woman set against the cold, harsh, terrible beauty of the winter sky scientist! Since when can science and technology tell the heart what to feel or who is a part of who? Oh the heart groans fonder absence makes it flutter higher! Raising my raging heart pure my heart for the leading ladies I heart the movie! The series of images trip the light fantastical through wonder and madness! A Madhouse animates a dollhouse showcase strutting its stuff in a parade! My shoulders march to the rhythm of the parade! The parade procession winds its way through the story on the screens on the screen in the screen of my mind of my mind's eye! The apple of my eye the worm nibbling a bite that reveals like desire unhidden! I love you Paprika! I love you Atsuko Chiba! Welcome back to the Megumi Hayashibara!!
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