Time to catch up on some unboxing efforts! Last year to offset all the pandemic tomfoolery I made a couple of large bulk orders of records from Japan and decided to record the unboxing and excitement that ensued! This is the first of two videos, captured around a year ago with a focus on mostly […]

Author: Mangaman
Review: Otherside Picnic – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Otherside Picnic posits the question – what would you do if you accidentally stumbled across a doorway to another dimension that wasn’t dominated by JRPG tropes and otaku power fantasies? Sorawo unwittingly finds herself travelling back and forth to a bizarre parallel dimension contemplating the value of her own existance when she crosses paths with […]
Uncle From Another World is the best anime on streaming platforms right now
Uncle From Another World dropped onto Netflix last week, promising a somewhat unusual take on contemporary Isekai anime tropes by thrusting my Japanese doppleganger into the story. It is arguably the greatest new anime streaming on any platform right now, with scenes like this dominating the narrative: The above is from the opening episode where […]
Review: In/Spectre The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
In/Spectre The Complete Season promises a combination of supernatural thriller smashed together with amateur detectives and a fair whack of bloody violence. All of which sounds delightfully entertaining, but with a lot out there to compete against it will be a challenge to stand out from the crowd. Set in modern day Japan, In/Spectre The […]
Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion The Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
Neon Genesis Evangelion The Complete Series has arrived on Blu-Ray in Australia. And my god, it is just as amazing now as it was when it first released locally on VHS back in 1998. I’ll be honest – I’ve been wrestling with how to even approach this review for a while now. Watching Neon Genesis […]
Review: Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation (Blu-Ray)
Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation brings together the third and final arc of this legendary series. Nearly 40 years on though, how does it hold up? For Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation (which, in my head, I believe should be called The Invid Saga) we skip ahead a number of years […]
Review: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax Complete Season 3 (Blu-Ray)
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax tackles the tricky task of keeping the momentum up with the series while trying to resolve a number of loose ends for this third and final season. Picking up after the second season, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax presents a challenge to the Service Club by taking the […]
Review: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Complete Season 1+2 (Blu-Ray)
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Complete Season 1+2, as the name suggests, brings together the first 2 seasons of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, also known by it’s more palatable translation (at least to me) My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected. On the surface it reads like it has all the makings […]
Review: Robotech Part 2 – The Masters Saga (Blu-Ray)
The mighty 80s anime juggernaut Robotech continues with the second arc covering the adventures of 2nd Lieutenant Dana Sterling and her motley crew in the Southern Cross Army as The Robotech Masters descend on Earth to grow plants of doom. Well, that’s probably being a little flippant – where Robotech: The Macross Saga focused on […]
Review: Ikebukuro West Gate Park – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Ikebukuro West Gate Park (or IWGP for short) promises a mash-up of edgy street crime drama amongst rivals youth gangs in Tokyo’s iconic Ikebukuro district with more bishounen characters than you can poke a stick at. Ikebukuro West Gate Park is all about the underground street gang culture coalescing around the huge Ikebukuro train station […]