Weekly New Releases – November 30, 2021

Akudama Drive
Amazon
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
Amazon
Bungo and Alchemist: Gears of Judgement
Amazon
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
Amazon
Death in Paradise
Amazon
Death of Nintendo
Amazon
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
Amazon
Endgame
Amazon
Comments Not the Avengers movie.
Food Wars 4
Amazon
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
Amazon
Heaven Can Wait
Amazon
I Dream of Jeannie
Amazon
Kakegurui
Amazon
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
Amazon
Party Girl
Amazon
Reds
Amazon
Saint Maud
Amazon
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
Amazon
To Hell and Back
Amazon
Trolls Holiday / Holiday in Harmony Double Feature
Amazon
Trolls: Holiday in Harmony
Amazon
Urusei Yatsura: Only You
Amazon
Comments The first film directed by Mamoru Oshii.
Wild Indian
Amazon
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.”