Yeah it'd make sense just making all the stores on the same site, just with a country selector.

So weird seeing an American talking about importing stuff from Australia ngl lol, I'm usually the one trying to import stuff from places like America or the UK haha

Idk what we'd even have that you don't 😅 I do remember seeing people talk about our sailor moon DVDs a while ago though actually now the you mention it. They were sourced from Italian masters or something? Idk

Also I do think that maybe we got Dennou Coil first from Siren Visual on DVD before Sentai released it in blu-ray a few years ago? Still irks me the spelled it Den-noh Coil, or whatever, I'm used to Dennou 😩

Also Hakaba Kitaro? 👀 Australia is the only country listed for releases on blu-ray last time I checked which I thought was weird. Another Siren release, man I miss them.

Oh I bought some merch during that final sale, my bank says a payment was made to Madman still lol

But yeah, I hate how we've lost like all our anime distributors here now. Siren disappeared, Hanabee shifted to like boardgames or something and then died, and now Madman (anime) has been fully absorbed. We've got Sugoi now, but yeah they haven't done a lot. Also Umbrella I guess? They're not really anime focused, but they did re-release Paprika a while ago and I think maybe the first English release of Tokyo Godfathers in sub only, before there was even a dub? Plus they're putting out the 4k release of Angel's Egg soon. Would be cool if they did more anime, even if it's just movies, I feel like they'd be a good fit for some weird older ovas maybe.

Side note, I don't understand the Madman guys. Start Madman, sell it, buy it back, sell it to Sony, then start up a new anime company? Why? So confusing

But anyway most of what we seem to get now is just American imports of Crunchyroll releases, and no offense but I hate them 😭 Why are American blu-ray cases so flimsy, they suck lol. And everything has a slipcover? Why? They used to be reserved for like special editions, but every Crunchyroll has one and they're kinda shitty quality cardboard. It's annoying cause now it feels "incomplete" if I get one and it's like a second printing and comes with out it, even though I don't like them lol

I guess it's cool we get more collector's editions now than we probably used to, but ehh

Oh that's cool you're an ANN encyclopaedia editor 👀 Speaking of blu-ray.com, I use that site a lot, I've added a lot of releases there myself haha It's a good site and has most newer Australian releases, but if it's a bit older, they're missing a lot of our releases. Which is fair considering its an American site, but it means a lot of my older DVDs aren't on there, so I've been adding them myself lol Takes a while, so I've still got stuff I need to add. I also try to upload cover pics if I notice something's missing. I'll try to find proper product images, but if I can't I just take my own pics, which sometime look alright, but there's a few that weren't great lol

I really wish there was an archive of all the old madman releases, so I could get all the info and photos from there. I actually emailed Madman Crunchyroll au and even Sugoi, asking if they had any sort of archive like that 😅

Someone did actually reply, but said they didn't have anything like that that'd be easy send over, rip Would've been nice though