It's Discotek Day!

We have a few new titles to announce & we're doing it right here on social media!

Sorry for the delay, Bluesky was kind of dying for a bit.

We spent the last few days compiling a big list of pretty much *everything* that was delisted, & it came out to be over 100 titles… many of which were not OOP, as stated in the announcement.
Just want to give a big thanks & props to our community for helping us out with that big list. You guys rock!

🚨BREAKING🚨

Crunchyroll has allegedly rolled out a new "Slow Sellers" policy for the Crunchyroll Store in which products that fail to meet internal sales expectations are flagged, leading to order cancellations & delisting of product to prioritize "fast selling" products from Well Known IPs

www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Just got sent an unsolicited email from a company wanting to AI dub anime. I replied that I would rather eat my own sick.

j/k I'm not prepared at all

Never thought working on the darkest, most fucked up hentai in my college years would prepare me emotionally for politics in my 40s but here we are

Sanctuary (OVA, 1996)
(politician tries to smooth things over with a colleague)
(pulls unconscious, hog tied woman out of a closet)
"Come now, share this woman with me."

Saw that in high school. Didn't know it was a documentary.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Anthony Bourdain sitting outdoors with a fancy coffee and little baguette, in a buttoned up jacket, scarf, and round sunglasses. Very cultured, so elevated.

Film students can't sit through movies, manga editors won't read widely, the rest of us drink deeply from the well of life and belch proudly.

Dear Brother is one of the most “required viewing to understand the anime industry” series that most western fans never acknowledge

it’s like how the modern animation industry is about 50% “people who watched Utena”

you watch Dear Brother and it makes so many other shows just click into place

Well done, Seattle

Humanity is lost

New Discotek Deep Dive coming this week!

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com

MediaOCD Launches 'Discotek Deep Dives' Project to Offer Discotek Media's Back Catalog Titles MediaOCD to add 20-30 titles monthly for pre-order via its own website

MediaOCD has launched a "Discotek Deep Dives" project to offer Discotek Media's back catalog titles for sale through its website, adding 20-30 titles per month.

what about the PS5 Pro ?

Like I said a few days ago, I believe somebody's going to jail on this indictment but I don't believe it's going to be James Comey.

A Don Knotts mask which is one of many masks being pulled off the bad guy in the Jonny Bravo episode "Bravo Dooby Doo"

A recurring tourist character from the TV show "Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated" who is a Don Knotts style character

The Sheriff from the direct to video movie "Scooby Doo: Music of the Vampire" who is a Don Knotts parody

The character Earl Cogburn from the TV show "Velma" who is a parody of Don Knotts

Despite the actual actor only appearing in two episodes of the series, the memetic concept of "Don Knotts" has powerfully tied itself to the Scooby-Doo franchise, to the degree that even without the involvement of Knotts, they simply keep inventing new Don Knottses

AnimEigo SKU/Liner Notes Survey This survey is a tool to help track AnimEigo DVD reprints that either changed the SKU on the spine, or stopped including the liner notes booklet. Hopefully through crowd-sourced information, we can ge...

Have a stack of old AnimEigo DVDs? Like filling out (short) internet forms? Want to help me answer some long-standing (but not very important) questions about their DVD reprints? Then do I have the google form for you:

forms.gle/LzzhQ42KDLjw...

Arrow’s site has this up for preorder now and it confirms it will have all the SF video/audio extras AND the archival talent interviews from the old UK DVD (which SF does not have). It’ll also have an essay from @dylancheung.bsky.social which is great. So hands down a better release

Definitely needing some gas money to get me through the week. Just $5 to get some fun stuff 🫡 likes and shares are much appreciated 🍻

Kayinworks - Game Journal: Baby Steps I've been a pretty consistent fan of Bennett Foddy's work. I love Getting Over It to the point where I got a Gold Pot by accident, just by casually playing over and over again. I've even had the pleas...

kayin.moe/baby-steps

Wasn't expecting to do a more full writeup but whatever, here's Baby Steps, talking about Hiking, Climbing, and Being a Fucking Loser.

YouTube video by MarvelMusicVEVO Fantastic Four to Be Reckoned With (From "The Fantastic Four: First Steps"/Audio Only)

that fantastic four film is on the internets now. it was a pretty OK one. my favorite part is the theme song. most marvel BGM themes are just silvestri/giacchino hog slop, but the latter did good work here. i like how you can sing "fan-tast-tic FOUR" to the leitmotif. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEMz...

Dirty Pair Blu-rays

Dirty Pair Blu-rays

I've heard about all the issues, will be investigating but I can finally close this chapter. Amongst the negativity I do want to shout out the all individuals who contributed to this project, and to those who helped drag this across the finish line.

‼️Important Update‼️

There have been increasing reports of people receiving verbal abuse when calling in complaints

So we've put together steps + a script to follow if this happens!

Please be careful out there

↻💬♡ to help spread the info!

Chipped away at my pile of unwatched (mostly Criterion) discs over the weekend:
• Paper Moon - Classic bratty-kid ad hoc family road movie. Gorgeous. Shame about the O'Neil's tho
• Afire - Wow, this one cut deep. A new favorite.
• Crossing Delancey - Cute, very 80s NY Jewish romcom. Shrug.

Otakon not updating the header on their website made me freak out that I messed up all of my travel plans

Welp, we’re finally out of Dagger of Kamui on DVD. A few stores still have it, but after their stock is gone, it’s donezo.
Blu-ray will come eventually.
For DVD we’re down to just Riding Bean, Miyu and ADPolice. I don’t plan on reprinting any of them, so get em now.

YouTube video by content Attic 03. professed intention and real intention

The entire back half of that show is a fucking mess and every character in the background is off model and it doesn't really matter because you got shit like this that isn't even in the show. Immaculate feeling and perfectly captures how miserable and lonely the internet is. youtu.be/AViTtSdUkTc?...