Akudama Drive | |||||||||
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Comments | Cyberpunk anime series about a group of criminals tasked with pulling a heist from a train that is viewed with religious awe from the residents of future Osaka, one of whom is barely a criminal, but gets roped into taking part by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. | ||||||||
Blood for Dracula | |||||||||
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Bungo and Alchemist: Gears of Judgement | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about “Alchemists” (probably closer to sorcerers) who have to delve into works of fiction and keep demons from manipulating and changing the ending – using spirits based on writers. Is based on a mobile game. | ||||||||
Darling in the Franxx | |||||||||
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Death in Paradise | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Death of Nintendo | |||||||||
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Comments | Coming of age story set in the Philippines, as a bunch of kids in Manila hang out and play video games together in the weeks leading up to the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. | ||||||||
Downton Abbey | |||||||||
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Endgame | |||||||||
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Comments | Not the Avengers movie. | ||||||||
Food Wars 4 | |||||||||
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Comments | Season 4 of Food Wars. | ||||||||
Freud | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Giallo Collection (Arrow) | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Contains The Possessed (1965), The Fifth Cord (1971), and The Pyjama Girl Case (1978). | ||||||||
Grantchester | |||||||||
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Heaven Can Wait | |||||||||
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I Dream of Jeannie | |||||||||
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Kakegurui | |||||||||
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Comments | Physical release of the previously Netflix exclusive anime series about a high school where students can wager their social standing through gambling, with a girl who has come to shake the system apart – and who enjoys gambling to an unhealthy degree. | ||||||||
Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Kodocha | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Re-release of the first 51 episodes in SD-BD, with all the music intact this time. | ||||||||
Last Matinee | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Re-release of the crossover now with an English dub. | ||||||||
Malignant | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Man in the Moon | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
My Life is Murder | |||||||||
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Party Girl | |||||||||
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Reds | |||||||||
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Saint Maud | |||||||||
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Saiyuki Reload | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Semi-post-apocalyptic anime inspired by Journey To The West. | ||||||||
Sex and a Girl | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Starring Soleil Moon Frye and Alison Lohman | ||||||||
Ticks | |||||||||
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To Hell and Back | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Trolls Holiday / Holiday in Harmony Double Feature | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Trolls: Holiday in Harmony | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Urusei Yatsura: Only You | |||||||||
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Comments | The first film directed by Mamoru Oshii. | ||||||||
Wild Indian | |||||||||
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Z/X Ignition | |||||||||
Amazon | |||||||||
Comments | Anime series based on a card game, based on the premise of monsters emerging from portals from various worlds and duking it out on Earth – with the protagonist (and the player of the card game) being someone on Earth who is able to take control of some of those monsters to fight back. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “In my view, Akudama Drive is one of the best anime of 2020, and one of the best works of Cyberpunk fiction made for the screen, and I would very much recommend giving this show a watch – streaming it, if not buying a physical copy outright.” Blaine says, “nothing I’m familiar with grabs my eye.”