While the convention season still has a few things ahead for us, it largely came to a close for the summer with Otakon the weekend prior, which we talked about last week a bit here. The week since has been one that has been fairly quiet for the most part as we get some of the summer doldrums happening. With Comiket 94 before it bringing out a lot of things, we’re mostly in that middle of season period where some tidbits about the fall continue to come out, a few nods towards the next year, and maybe one or two other things, leaving it a mostly light week. Which always feels weird since it often feels like there’s just so much to talk about.
So what I did get to do this week was dig back a bit as I was pulling various DVDs from my collection for reasons and grabbed some fun stuff along the way.
Most of the studios back in the day used to put out samplers for conventions and other purposes and this one made me grin as it just had so much from 2005, including things like Fantastic Children, IGPX, Hoop Days, and Overman King Gainer. A number of this properties are still absent from both streaming and ownership and in high definition that it makes it a little bit sad. These samplers were always fun things that you could put on just as a kind of mini-music video thing as well.
On release coming up for review this week is this colorful bit:
while we also go for something darker with:
There’s also a bit of recap goodness ahead:
In pulling out a few things from the backlog, I had found some old VHS CPM tapes that I converted to DVD, complete with tracking stuff and all, such as Dog Soldier and Wanna-Be’s. I also found my really old “Video Comic” of the Lensman anime movie that makes wish that whole property would get propery explored again. I also sighed over the lack of Genesis Survivor Gaiarth getting any kind of DVD treatment. But I comforted myself in more Dirty Pair OVAs.