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Manic Spreadsheeter (ist? izer?). Likes old anime dubs, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and that weird sticky goo that holds magazine inserts in place. Frequently wrong.

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Slowly working on the world’s most pointless game of spot the difference. Have at least 3 more unique copies inbound.

…on another note, if anybody is in the market for far too many copies of Ghost in the Shell on DVD once I’m done documenting these, I may know a guy
5 copies of Ghost in the Shell on DVd with very minor differences in their covers Backs of the dvd cases, showing more minor variations.
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The PS5 is also just really frustrating to use and lacking in features. With the exception of 4K upscaling, it’s a worse DVD/BD player than my PS3 from 2006.

The remote is also awful for disc playback, and doesn’t have audio track or next/previous chapter buttons, which drives me nuts.
PS5 remote. It’s got like 10 buttons, and 4 of those are streaming service shortcuts. PS3 media remote. It’s a real remote, with like 50 buttons
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Interestingly, WNET Thirteen was actually on the production committee for Phoenix, so they threw a chunk of change into a series they never aired.

According to MB, their involvement in the US release ended after 1 recording session. So weird.
How they are involved is that they were going to show it on PBS and wanted to make sure professional so was in on first session and once saw NYAV, they were happy and never came again.
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Birdy the Mighty mentioned, today is a good day.

Shame it’s in an article about how you can’t watch it, but I’m still going to use this as a springboard to say that everyone should watch Birdy the Mighty Decode if they can. Yes, even you.

(The 90’s OVA’s not half bad either)
Birdy the Mighty: Decode Australian DVD set from Madman. Birdy is on the cover doing a superhero pose and there’s an explosion in the background.
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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All games must converge on Generic Anime Look™ because that’s the lowest risk option, and it allows jamming your characters into the gacha crossover of the month with little effort.

</rant>
Langrisser II box art, with Satoshi Urisihara’s very distinctive designs Langrisser I&II remake box art, with very generic character designs.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Random discovery of the day: Apparently back in 2006 Nielsen tracked anime dvd sales, and the top 10 list has a few surprises.

fast.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-01...
1 - Spirited Away 2 - Animatrix 3 - Princess Mononoke 4 - Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie 5 - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 6 - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 7 - Akira 8 - Ghost in the Shell 9 - Ninja Scroll 10 (tie) InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time 10 (tie) Vampire Hunter D
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My favorite anime, Jerry Maguire.

ebay.us/m/zJIacl
Yu-Gi-Oh Dragon Ball Z Digimon Anime VHS Lot Vintage Battle City Duels VHS movie eBay listing Zoom in on the photo from the listing. YuGiOh,Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, and Jerry Maguire
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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So how many times do I need to watch the new Netflix batch of Detective Conan episodes on loop to juice the streaming numbers so the impossible happens and TMS/Discotek give us another Blu-ray.

(The Tubi dubbed episodes are already gone. I don’t want the series to slip away again.)
Detective Conan New Episodes banner
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Slowly going insane as I try and catalog the different variations of the 1998 Ghost in the Shell DVD (UPC 780063552929). I'm up to 6 variants, and I'm pretty sure there's at least one or two more...

Thankfully, they're all dirt cheap, so I've ordered a few to get good scans of.
1st GitS DVD design, with "Two Thumbs Up" printed at the top 2nd GitS DVD design, with "Winner 1997" printed at the top 4th GitS DVD design, with "DVD Video" logo on the front spreadhseet table: Front Left Logo Front Right Logo Top Line Back Logos SKU Disc Art Disc has SKU? Barcode Essentials Slipcover? Manga DVD Two Thumbs Up Manga, Polygram, Palm 800 635 529-2 Body Faces Right No Short Manga DVD Winner 1997 Manga, Polygram, Palm 800 635 529-2 Body Faces Right No Short Manga DVD Winner 1997 Manga, Polygram, Palm 800 635 529-2 Body Faces Up MANGA5529-2 Short None Manga Winner 1997 Manga M5529-2 Body Faces Up No Short Yes (Unknown UPC) Manga DVD Video Winner 1997 Manga, Anchor Bay M5529-2 Body Faces Up No Short Yes (013138505897) Manga DVD Video Winner 1997 Manga, Anchor Bay None Body Faces Up No Full-Height
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Demi Moore is a Dirty Pair fan, apparently.

(From the recent Haruka Takachiho interview for the Kickstarter set)
Would you like to see a live-action adaptation of Dirty Pair? -Jordan I once received a message from Demi Moore saying, "If you ever make a live-action film of Dirty Pair, I'd like to play the role of Kei." However, I think the anime version with Mr. Dokite's character designs is better than a live-action film would be. However, if Dirty Pair is ever animated again, I would like Demi Moore to do the English version of Kei's voice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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They also put out the 1-episode Sanctuary OVA on VHS around the same time.
Sanctuary: Subtitled Edition on VHS
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Update from Justin Sevakis on the official Discotek subreddit regarding communication about titles going OOP

old.reddit.com/r/discotekme...
I understand everybody’s frustration. Not as an excuse but as an explanation, many times we’re not sure either if things are OOP. Situation 1: A certain title is a good, steady seller and is up for renewal. The contract is ending soon, and we contact the licensor repeatedly to remind them that we need to renew. Sometimes they get back to us, sometimes not. But the clock ticks past the deadline and we still have hope. Plus, legally, we have 6 months left to sell whatever we have in stock. Do we announce it as OOP? Because with a single email everything might be OK! Situation 2: A title is just an OK seller, and the contract is about to expire in like 12 months. We honestly don’t know whether or not to renew. But we’re out of stock, and it’s very unclear if we would be able to sell the minimum print run (1000 copies) in the time we have left. No choice but to wait and see if there’s enough demand to bother. But for the time being, everybody has run out. Do you call it OOP? The licensor might even be annoyed with that, since you still have a decent amount of time left. It’s easy to blame the licensors for this (and in some cases, fair). But most of these guys are understaffed, and the stuff we sell brings in such little money compared to the mega-hits and current titles that we’re simply the lowest priority. There is still a third scenario where a dispute (either between us and the licensor, or between partners on the Japan side) and we just have to pull the title. That’s rare but it has happened a few times. To be fair, Mr. Discotek is trying to get better about announcing titles that he knows are going OOP. But this creates its own problems. Sometimes people start going nuts panic-buying, we run out immediately, making another print run seem justifiable. Then we manage to restock really quickly and it just SITS THERE because all the panic buyers have moved on.
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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If I’m correct with my timeline, this actually beat the JVC to the market by a couple of months, and may have been the very first consumer product with an active-matrix LCD, 5 whole inches in this case
The screen
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The machine is quite portable, and can be run from a battery. Even has a little TV tuner and antenna!

This is the euro model. A slightly different version, the VC-LT50(A) was sold in the US and Japan. It adds Hifi Audio, but drops the TV tuner and multi format capabilities.
The top of the player with its handle The back of the player, with an antenna and mono input/output jacks. There’s a gaping hole where the missing battery cover would go The side of the machine, showing headphone jacks, power in, and some video dials
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Some of Sugoi’s licensed titles, as far as I can tell:

sugoi.shop/collections/...

sugoi.shop/collections/...

sugoi.shop/products/the...

sugoi.shop/collections/...
Eminence in Shadow BD, with Sugoi and Sentai logos Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning BD+DVD, with Toei and Sugoi logos. It looks like the Shout Factory release The First Slam Dunk BD with Toei and Sugoi logos Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun. It’s just the Sentai BD, but it says Art not Final
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Huh, apparently Discotek used to do fancy limited editions with bundled soundtracks.

…or at least they did once, with Electric Dragon 80,000V in 2006.

[unaffiliated eBay link]

ebay.us/m/lpylMW
Front of the slipcover for the movie. It’s a “LIMITED EDITION WITH MUSIC SOUNDTRACK CD” Rear of the slipcover, with the old Discotek roller girl logo Inside of the case, showing the dvd Inside of the case, showing the BD
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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For comparison, here’s the standalone releases. It’s not big, but the AnimEigo logo is present on the spine and back of the cases.

[unaffiliated link]
ebay.us/m/sNU8qR
Hello Kitty DVD spines, showing AnimEigo logos at the base Back of DVD one, showing small AnimEigo, Hello Kitty, and Sanrio logos
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Random discovery:

The twin pack of AnimEigo’s Growing Up with Hello Kitty DVDs actually blocks out their logo for some reason. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not, but it means there’s zero company logos at all until you open the set. Weird.

[unafilliated link]
ebay.us/m/eSkYub
Hello Kitty Double Feature DVD front, showing 2 DVDs with an obi-like thing shrink wrapped together Side, showing the Obi covered the AnimEigo logo Back, showing an info sheet on the obi with no company logos, no Sanrio or AnimEigo
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The later 2003 DVD would be done through Liberty International, leaving this 1999 one as something of a relic of some long-gone DVD publisher, forgotten by time.

Do you know who MoonGlow or MR Inc were? Or anything about the final incarnation of Century Video? I’d love to hear from you!
Cover for the Liberty Super Grand Prix DVD. It looks okay (and not sepia)
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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MoonGlow’s company website was never archived (or even mentioned on an archived site), I can’t find any really relevant trademarks, and the only other dvd from them I can find has a different logo, for some sort of “C-Ice” company
Little Marines II DVD cover Little Marines II DVD disc
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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As the DVD era approached, Century (or what was left of them after a bankruptcy) would work with a number of different companies to get their titles out on disc, such as Liberty International and Warner Bros. But for Super Grand Prix, they went companies I’d never heard of: MoonGlow DVDs and MR Inc.
Super Grand Prix 6790140112 Sean Corrigan has a dream that one day he will design and drive his own car in the Grand Prix. After a fiery crash, a stranger convinces him to try again. As "Crash Corrigan" with a car that is too much for him, he crashes again. Finally his courage, determination and talent is recognized and his dream is fulfilled. Approx Run Time: 90 minutes. Century and MoonGlow logos The disc MR Inc logo on the disc
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Note that Century Video Corporation is entirely unrelated to The Century Group, who were the company that bought out Peregrine and were responsible for titles like Macross and Locke the Superman.
Century Video logo Century Group logo
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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First some background: some time around 1983, the anime Arrow Emblem: Grand Prix no Taka was dubbed into English as a compilation film by American Video Factory for Century Video Corporation, the same company behind Magnos the Robot. A number of VHS releases would follow.
Arrow Emblem poster Little Friends VHS of Super Grand Prix
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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It’s low-stakes anime mystery time again! Tonight’s topic: who’s really responsible for the 1999 DVD of Super Grand Prix? And why does the cover look like that?
SUPER GRAND PRIX Intensive Excitement Animated Features for children as you have never seen before
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Well, there we have it. Official confirmation from Crunchyroll that they will not be fixing any further issues on the Dirty Pair set… but only via email from someone who kept asking, no proper Kickstarter update admitting they’re just not including 3+ stretch goals backers explicitly paid for.
A while ago, I emailed Shittyroll asking 'what the hell, man! Where are all the stretch goal extras you promised!' - and they finally got back to me: Quote: Please see the link attached: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...v-series/posts Updates 70 and 71 will address what is currently being fixed on the discs, but as of right now, there are no further fixes planned other than what is represented in the updates. A few commentaries may be missing, via "As for the commentary tracks, the project had gone on long enough and we were having trouble aligning schedules to make this happen. Unfortunately because of this we had to move forward without them but other commentary tracks were added by the cast." But weren't the commentary tracks in the can AGES ago? Report Post
November 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM