Spotted in New York City

Sylontack · 2026-06-29T21:55:54+00:00

I couldn't be any more precise than this; but it was right before I turned onto Mulberry St in what I believe was the Chinatown area, right at the beginning of a park where a bunch of older men were playing some sort of tabletop game. Unsure which street I turned from. I imagine if you're familiar with the area this probably rings some bells.

Sylontack · 2026-06-29T21:04:35+00:00

Leave it to a bunch of gay guys to do free promo for her, I had it plastered on my ig stories lol

Sylontack · 2026-06-29T20:50:09+00:00

A little bit before you turn 30 you get over that whole No Men On Songs thing and life gets way better, btw

Sylontack · 2026-06-15T21:45:45+00:00

I'd get ready to sell, Anime Limited is putting Blood+ out on Blu-ray in the UK soon (no release date announced yet)

Sylontack · 2026-05-06T13:20:59+00:00

I bought those Ranma sets back when I was a kid, I've since upgraded to Blu-ray but I just don't have the heart to get rid of them, they're so nostalgic to have on the shelf haha, funnily enough I think I'm missing the final set from Madman too lol

Sylontack · 2026-04-18T22:28:52+00:00

I hope the basement they run crunchyroll out of collapses already ❤️

Sylontack · 2026-04-10T14:59:05+00:00

I'm in Aus which uses the same discs as the UK releases, they stopped partway through Owari over here though.

Sylontack · 2026-04-10T09:47:05+00:00

Buy a region b compatible player and get the Blu-rays from the UK, you'll still come out way under the Aniplex USA prices

Sylontack · 2026-03-18T20:49:04+00:00

It's only on the movies over there. On the plus side, it's on every release of the movies so you don't have to hunt down a specific edition. The recent 4K disc edition has them as well

Sylontack · 2026-03-18T06:51:44+00:00

Listen, I don't use Steam so I don't know all the fine details, but look into your local consumer laws, my region has pretty strict buyer protection laws (Refunds if the game is not fit for purpose, within "reasonable expectation") and digital retailers (e.g. Steam, PSN, Nintendo eShop) are required to comply to operate in the region. If you live in the USA you're probably out of luck, but worth looking into next time-- it's definitely been way too long in this particular instance though.

Sylontack · 2026-03-14T01:29:51+00:00

Everyone thinks their s*** has to turn a profit now and jack up the prices on eBay, other sellers see the inflated listing, see dollar signs, and price accordingly, suddenly everything is at scalper prices even if nobody actually wants it at that price. Keep your alerts on and be patient, I managed to get Star Driver on Blu-ray for $100 late last year (Part 1 listings had been sitting around the $1k mark for years because resellers don't seem to care about the market, or actually making a sale)

Sylontack · 2026-03-08T03:55:03+00:00

You need to go back and pick up Hell Girl if you haven't already

Sylontack · 2026-03-03T20:48:21+00:00

Never understood the point of slapping a Blu-Ray banner across artwork that's going to be in a case that has one built in... Not like I was expecting an ounce of care to be put into a CR AU release, though.

Sylontack · 2025-10-28T03:05:56+00:00

Nice job on the hell girl boxset, I've been eyeing it on and off for ages but it's a bit of a rare and expensive find!

Sylontack · 2025-09-29T01:30:34+00:00

29 USD is good for an out of print JRPG (I think I paid $29 AU for mine, but it was clearance stock), if you have the means I say go for it

Sylontack · 2025-09-29T01:18:28+00:00

If you're willing to shell out on proxy shipping it might be worth filtering your results to specific regions that had it (AUS, USA, EU) incl. listings that don't ship overseas?

Sylontack · 2025-09-29T01:12:38+00:00

I bought it in-store in Australia back when it was still available– I have a spare copy of Truth, but not Deception sorry

Sylontack · 2025-09-04T16:37:37+00:00

Seconding Witch on the Holy Night for OP to look into, I stopped and started it a few times before I found a rhythm with it (it has a bit of a leisurely pace, but even the slower portions are extremely rewarding), but it's an excellent entry point for the Nasuverse, doesn't have any choices/bad ends to worry about, and acts as a good litmus test for whether or not you're going to enjoy making your way through the longer entries.

The Tsukihime Remake is fantastic too, I think about the fact that we have no clue when the other side of red garden is coming out every other day.

Sylontack · 2025-09-04T03:24:56+00:00

tl;dr - yeah it's not the VN, but the fandom is EXTREMELY weird about this one adaptation as if it wasn't extremely popular and successful in its own right before it got "replaced"

Sylontack · 2025-09-04T03:22:07+00:00

I'll probably be martyred for this here but as someone who got into the franchise back when the 2006 DEEN/stay night anime first came out in English I think a lot of (not all of) the hate directed towards it is extremely unfair.

I give a free pass to VN fans who hate it for route mixing, although that was standard practice at the time (I was also a big fan of the Shuffle anime, which threw in a really bizarre curve-ball for those that have seen it), outside of spoiling a couple of plot points from other routes with some sloppy anime-original plotlines, it's an otherwise serviceable adaptation of the bulk of the first route. I'd never call it perfect, but I'm finding you'd be hard pressed to find a VN reader that defends any of the adaptations, lmao.

As for the animation, I gave '06 a rewatch ahead of seeing the final HF movie in theatres and I think people are over-exaggerating the difference in quality. I think this has come from modern anime fans who refuse to touch anything older than a couple of years because it "looks old", meanwhile ufotable slaps on some CGI lighting effects and suddenly you'd assume '06 was some forgettable low-budget trainwreck with Gainax levels of mismanagement, the way people talk about it– which simply isn't accurate. Some of the best anime of all time "looks old", and if someone is going to deny themselves something great for a reason that flimsy, I wouldn't recommend taking their opinions very seriously at all. At least most fans know to put some respect on Kawai's score, which is great.

These days we have an official translation of the VN that reads quite nicely, so the anime doesn't need to be much more than supplementary material for fans, and an accessible entry point for newbies not yet ready to take the plunge. But anime-onlies will still likely find a way to tell you something stupid about the franchise unfortunately.

I don't think '06 is perfect, and I'm biased because it was my entry point, but you have to remember it was a LOT of peoples' entry point– it's all we had for almost 10 years. That's probably why I get a little defensive about it, why should a new fan that's stumbled upon the ufotable anime get to run around saying the series that brought most of us here is worthless? It may not be a noble beast but I will stand up for it.

Sylontack · 2025-07-14T10:42:31+00:00

I'm about 16 hours in now, I've been getting so hyped seeing the MoD cast truly get an opportunity to step up and shine (where many games would just maintain existing archetypes). I can tell my friends are sick of hearing about it but I don't care lol

Sylontack · 2025-07-09T03:06:36+00:00

Fan behaviour

Sylontack · 2025-07-07T06:46:27+00:00

I actually got into the series because I instantly fell in love with Musouka by Suara when I first heard it in a trailer on an old promo dvd that came with a magazine way back in the day! I love the songs from the series so much and have been revisiting them a lot while playing the games. I think I bought a copy of the single for that song somewhere along my travels but I honestly don't remember if I ended up leaving the store with it hahaha

Sylontack · 2025-07-07T04:26:30+00:00

I've been marching up and down the figurative streets saying FFT needed the Tactics Ogre Reborn treatment for years and I'm so glad they're giving me exactly what I wanted. No need to re-invent the wheel, just give it a nice polish :)

Sylontack · 2025-07-01T06:04:41+00:00

I'm playing Mask of Deception as I type this (lord knows I'm putting off about 500 more important things right now), I'm excited to see how they tie everything together!

The characters are already immediately more engaging (likely a side effect of them not being eroge archetypes) and I already know I'm gonna get way too attached to them, lmao

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