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Errata: Manga Ent. Titles Still Streaming on Netflix For Now

April 11, 2010 in Anime, Errata by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

A new expiration date for Manga titles? (from instantwatcher.com)

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Manga Entertainment titles expected to expire from Netflix’s instant streaming service on April 1st. It’s April 11th and a fair number of them are still available including Blood: The Last Vampire, Dead Space: Downfall, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. (Thanks to an update ANN did on their story for reminding me to re-check.)

So, what is the current status of those titles? Instantwatcher.com, the source for the first post, shows April 30th as expiration dates for those same titles but there’s no corresponding indication on Netflix’s site; the latest date on instantwatcher.com that matches with Netflix’s date is April 18th (next Sunday) so I think Netflix only does alerts a week ahead. FeedFliks has an “expiring soon” listing that extends two weeks in the future – it reaches until April 25th when looking at it today so the Manga titles should show up on that list on Friday Apr. 16 if both sites are using the same data.

I guess we’ll have to see what happens at the end of the month but for now, enjoy the disc-less content if you’re a subscriber on an unlimited plan.

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Manga Ent. Titles To Cease Streaming on Netflix April 1st [Update 2]

March 28, 2010 in Anime, News by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

UPDATE 2 – 4/11 3:40PM PDT: Manga Entertainment titles are still streaming as of April 11th.

While watching Ninja Scroll through Netflix’s Instant Watch service last night on my Xbox 360, I noticed that it and Blood: The Last Vampire were both expiring on April 1st. I decided to see how many other Manga Entertainment titles would no longer be streamed after that date and I came up with a list, thanks to instantwatcher.com.

It doesn’t look like there will be any Manga Ent. titles to remain streaming after April 1st but most of the ones that are expiring still have DVDs available through the mail. (Yes, physical discs that you send back when you’re done!) I’ve indicated which titles currently do not DVDs available with [ND] for “no DVD”.

  • Black Jack: The Movie
  • Blood: The Last Vampire
  • Dead Space: Downfall
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (season 1)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: Individual Eleven
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man
  • Kai Doh Maru
  • Karas: The Prophecy
  • Karas: The Revelation
  • Macross 2: The Movie [ND]
  • Macross Plus [ND]
  • Ninja Scroll
  • Noein
  • Perfect Blue
  • Psychic Wars
  • Read or Die
  • Street Fighter Alpha
  • Street Fighter Alpha: Generations
  • Street Fighter II: Animated Movie
  • Street Fighter II: V
  • Sword for Truth [ND]
  • Tokko
  • Vampire Wars
  • Virus: Virus Buster Serge

I think these are part of a bigger deal that Starz Media, of which Manga Entertainment is a subsidiary, has with Netflix because Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic and Stan Lee: The Condor are also expiring Apr. 1st and both were released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, another Starz Media component.

UPDATE 9:15 PM PDT: I forgot to mention that Manga Entertainment is still streaming its series (such as Virus Buster Serge) along with other publishers’ series (such as Gurren Lagann) on its YouTube channel, on Hulu, and on Manga.com.

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The Packaging of Case Closed Viridian Collection Seasons 4 & 5

March 13, 2010 in Anime, DVD by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

The Viridian Collection editions of Case Closed seasons 4 and 5 arrived earlier this week from RightStuf (ahead of their March 23rd street date) and they look like nicely designed box sets.

The discs feel more stable in these Scanavo cases than in the ones used in earlier thinpak season sets. (I’ve had bits of the disc holders break off in a few sets.) The case design licenses US patent 5,743,390 from Pozzoli and looks custom-ordered to hold the four discs in each set.

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Newtype Suggests Related Works for Kadokawa Adaptations

January 18, 2010 in Anime by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

Kadokawa is a large Japanese publisher so it’s not surprising that there are many anime adaptations based on its properties. On Newtype‘s website, a monthly special tied to its January 2010 issue focuses on adaptations being released this year with accompanying trailers and provides three related works (関連作品) for each title that you can watch through Bandai Channel, a point-based video streaming service. (Newtype is a Kadokawa publication, by the way.)

The feature doesn’t say how these are related to each other so I tried to figure out the connections using the “compare this anime” feature in ANN’s encyclopedia.
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Fifty-One Anime From the 2000s I Wanted To Watch (And Still Do)

January 3, 2010 in Anime by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 6 comments

Happy New Year! (pixiv link)

I’m not going to fool myself into thinking I’ve seen enough series to construct a proper best-of-2000s list of anime, considering I only really started around 2005 and have gotten lax about keeping current with each progressing season of new material. I had an idea on New Year’s Eve that I could do a list of series I had wanted to watch from the decade yet hadn’t (but still want to). When I tried to starting writing it after coming home from a New Year’s party, I wasn’t feeling much energy behind the idea and so I was about to give up until later in the day I read Kiriska’s post about a similar sort of list, albeit hers was more ones she meant to watch and mine seems broader as the ones I had a general interest in. (We had two in common, for what that’s worth. I’ve seen parts of five others.) So I mustered enough energy to construct a want-to-watch list and I have tried to briefly explain each one below.

(Note: the following are all series I have not watched an entire episode of so I didn’t include things like Oofuri/Big Windup and Ristorante Paradiso. I also chose to exclude things that are in my physical backlog, which means Chobits and Koi Kaze are not listed.)

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