Hey, @bwprowl.bsky.social, any chance you could run this suggestion by @annlynzee.bsky.social? Say it’s your idea, you know, to make it respectable.

Not helped by the streaming rights ping-ponging between Crunchyroll and Sentai between the various seasons/series, but agreed on substance: crazy that you can’t get discs of the really good stuff.

Y’know, I think it would be interesting if ANN ran a poll that was like “what five recent anime would you buy on BD if they were available in your region”, seed it with like 50 titles from their contributors, but also do that thing where their poll engine allows you to add new items.

Oh, and Akebi’s Sailor Uniform.
And Super Cub.

Goddammit, Crunchyroll, there’s like $500 of Blu-Rays here that I would buy from you if they existed.

Recent anime I’d preorder in a picosecond if there were BDs in my region:
• BanG Dream It’s MyGO / Ave Mujica
• The Café Terrace and its Goddesses
• Makeine: Too Many Losing…
• 16-Bit Sensation
• Thunderbolt Fantasy
• Endo & Koboyashi Tsundere Princess…
• Pop Team Epic S2
• Love Live Superstar S2&3

I used to think the shows I liked weren’t getting BDs because they’re 2nd or 3rd tier and pretty obscure, but now it’s just straight-up that I don’t watch shonen or isekai and those are the only audiences Crunchyroll wants to serve anymore.

Bombastic PS2 Walkthrough - Basic Rules YouTube video by Elephant Master

Someone needs to bring back Devil Dice / Bombastic / Xi for Switch. youtu.be/PXhPOBlqg94

Purple Rain (Live From Minneapolis) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I’m neither a huge Bruce Springsteen fan nor a huge Prince fan. But this is pretty spectacular. youtu.be/nwY_P8kQOeU

A one page color Milk and CHeese comic called A Day in the Life of Milk & Cheese. It's 12 panels of hijinks, involving alcohol, violence, bad jokes, cuteness, surrealism and pop culture.

NERD INFERNO is out April 28th from @darkhorse.com.

Every day until then (or the world ends) I will post something from the 648-page brick. Today: A Day In The Life Of Milk & Cheese. All you need to know to love/fear them.

#NerdInferno #ItsaComicBook #AlmostForgotToPostToday #Busy

My list of top superhero movies.

1. Darkman

Thank you for attending my TED talk.

News used to be better

It’s not strictly an accent, but it is quite true that people from Michigan add a possessive S to store names. I was only in adulthood, for example, that I discovered the grocery store is called “Kroger” and not “Kroger’s.”

The AI for Yahtzee in Nintendo’s “Clubhouse Games” is gratingly stupid. It leaves so many points on the table, I’m genuinely offended.

Financial Times story after Trump’s 2024 election. Includes the quote: “I feel liberated, said a top banker. We can say retard and pussy without the fear of getting canceled. It’s a new dawn.”

Somebody check in on this Wall Street asshole again.

He Is a Man, He Is a Child by Hannah Cruz on Apple Music Song · 2026 · Duration 3:34

Listening to new cast of Chess, and just hit Svetlana’s new song. Plausibly a lost ABBA track from a 1979 recording session in Stockholm? Works for me. music.apple.com/us/album/he-...

I do think there’s a fascinating generational divide somewhere between Gen X and Millenials of being able to recite Monty Python sketches from memory versus being able to recite dril tweets from memory.

I think the only cover of The Who that ever particularly impressed me was Heart doing “Love Reign O’er Me”. I mean, Nancy Wilson, right?

I’d be up for Tommy, though I imagine it’s been watered down from the cynicism of the original album. Kind of interesting to see that revived at all, actually. Its Broadway run was back in like the 1990s, right?

Willy Crash arcade game stuck on error screen

i guess he will

I never tire of seeing Android take an L, but this is a particularly good own-goal.

I’ve seen so many play-it-safe adaptations that I’d rather see something that makes major changes to work in its new format. At least that way you know the people working on it care enough to make it their own, rather than just assuming the source material’s greatness will shine through somehow.

The box art for Portal, featuring a stick figure diagram of someone falling through a portal.

The box art for Mirror's Edge, featuring its protagonist Faith, a young Asian woman, in front of a white city scape.

There's this influential first person game from the mid-2000s that's a short but very tight experience, isn't gun focused, has unique gameplay mechanics, is all about platforming, only received one massively expanded sequel, and has an ending theme song called "Still Alive."

No wait, there's two.

Now you just need one of those hooded table lamps and a Galaga machine.

Jeez, this episode made me angry. No fault of Brian, just the malicious stupidity of a big chunk of our society.

Rhythm games hit a new high note thanks to independent developers The rhythm-based RPG People Of Note emphasizes how independent developers have revolutionized the rhythm game.

The rhythm-based RPG People Of Note underscores how independent developers have revolutionized the rhythm game.

www.avclub.com/rhythm-games...

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

Jeez, I think the last time a new anime that I liked got a region 1 BD was GWitch. Which was, what, two years ago? Three?

Not that I’m crazy about every Discotek or Animeigo release, but at least there’s *something* there to buy.

I too enjoy “Lovesick Ellie”. I’m currently reading volume 7.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Mmm. Tacos.