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Something to Watch: Discs

While there doesn’t seem to be any actual genre movies or TV this week, Nerve comes pretty close, and is an edge-of-your-seat kind of adventure. Skiptrace is a Jackie Chan action/comedy worth checking out as well.

In Anime In Search of the Lost Future: Complete Series is the 12 episode story of a time traveler hiding out in the Astronomy Club, sent from the future to save a life that ended too early. Owarimonogatari Part 1 is just as surreal as anything else in Nisio Isin’s Monogatari series of light novels, and they transitioned that to the anime rather well. This package has the first 7 episodes of the 12 episode series. The Perfect Insider: Complete Series has an architecture professor and a math prodigy teamed up to solve a locked room murder of a genius programmer.

Tessa Violet

I have enjoyed Tessa Violet’s music since she released I’ll Be Your Star Trek Girl quite a few years ago under the stage name Meekakitty. She continues to put out excellent new music under her own name these days, and I wanted to share a few of her recent tracks. The first song is Dream, posted online this September. She wrote the music and lyrics as well as edited the video, Isaac White directed the video and created all the video effects for it. The second track is Haze and was just posted yesterday, the third is Not Over You posted on October 14th and possibly my favorite of the bunch. All three of these and two other tracks are on her forthcoming EP Halloway, and if you go for the physical copy the first 1,000 of them will be signed.

Something to Stream: Ronja the Robber’s Daughter

Goro Miyazaki created an Anime version of Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy novel Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, and Amazon has picked it up for their Amazon Prime streaming service. Gillian Anderson will be narrating the story for them, and as a fan of all things Studio Ghibli I am looking forward to watching it. My only question now is when it will be available; they only finished dubbing the English audio in the last week or two, and searching the US and UK Amazon sites reveals no information.

Something to Watch: Discs

In Movies the two primary winners, both sequels. Tim Burton’s Alice Through the Looking Glass can be picked up by itself, or in a two-pack with the earlier film Alice In Wonderland. I saw both of them in the theaters, and I highly recommend each of them. Independence Day Resurgence is all about the action visuals, more than the plot or dialog, although a few of the actors were able to make something out of what the writers gave them to work with. There is also the kid-centric Nessie & Me for those looking for something to share with your children.

Anime doesn’t really have any new genre titles this time around, but the classic series The Vision Of Escaflowne is being re-released, both the complete series and the movie in a single boxed set. For those who already own some portion of it they are also coming out with the movie separately, and each 13 episode season in its own box. Finally, a 4 movie set made up of Memories, Paprika, Steamboy, and Tekkonkinkreet is being released, four of the finest anime feature films ever made.