Hand Maid May Blu-ray Review In my earliest days of anime fandom, I came across an eleven episode series called Hand Maid May. Despite its ecchi nature, it had such a level of charm to it that I bought the DVDs as soon as I could afford them. I didn’t plan to get the Blu-ray
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A Look at Discotek’s “Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro 4K UHD”
March 10th, 2025 
AstroNerdBoy A Look at Discotek’s Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro 4K UHD One surefire way to know if I really like a title is to count how often I’ve “double dipped” for it. In the case of Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro, I originally purchased this on 4:3 VHS. Then I purchased
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“Takeshi’s Castle” and “MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge”
October 2nd, 2024 AstroNerdBoy “Takeshi’s Castle” and “MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge” When I lived in Japan, I was introduced to an insane series called Takeshi’s Castle. I loved it so much, I wrote a piece about it for the early days of this blog in late 2006. Fast forward to early August, Discotek Media announced that they license-rescued
Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie Review (#LupinIII)
April 29th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie Review LUPIN THE ⅢRD 峰不二子の嘘 Lupin the IIIrd: Mine Fujiko no Uso –> Buy this anime from Amazon.com SPOILER Summary/Synopsis MINE Fujiko works for a man named Randy, who lives in a badlands area along with his son, Gene. Randy embezzled $500 million from the Godfrey Mining company. As such,
Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray (Movie Review)
February 15th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Lupin the 3rd: Goemon’s Blood Spray Lupin III Ishikawa Goemon’s Spray of Blood Goemon Ishikawa’s Fountain of Blood Lupin the IIIrd Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon LUPIN THE ⅢRD 血煙の石川五ェ門 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: On a Japanese-styled gambling ship, the yakuza owners employ Goemon as bodyguard. A member of another yukuza group is busted cheating. As such, the
Monster Farm DVD Review (aka: Monster Rancher)
October 21st, 2019 AstroNerdBoy Monster Farm DVD Review (aka: Monster Rancher) Monster Farm: The Secret of the Stone Disk モンスターファーム〜円盤石の秘密〜 Monster Farm: The Path to the Legend Cup モンスターファーム〜伝説への道〜 Monster Rancher I don’t remember when I saw the English dub version of Monster Farm, known as Monster Rancher, on American TV. I didn’t know anything about it, other than
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I Started “Monster Farm” DVD (aka: Japanese version of “Monster Rancher”)
September 4th, 2019 AstroNerdBoy I Started “Monster Farm” DVD (aka: Japanese version of “Monster Rancher”) Hey gang! I went to my DVD stash of unwatched anime titles. And I went for my more recent purchase (as in I bought this in 2018) of Monster Farm from Discotek (their Eastern Star subdivision). For those who don’t know, Monster Farm originated
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A Look at Discotek’s “Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro Collector’s Edition”
July 16th, 2016 AstroNerdBoy A Look at Discotek’s “Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro Collector’s Edition” Longtime followers of my blog or ramblings on other sites know that Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro is one of the main seeds that was planted in me in during my time in Japan way back in the day. As such, it
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