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Maxximum Nostalgia: IDW's Remastered Version Of THE MAXX, In Brief
Apologies, friends, for having fallen silent over the last month or so: I've been very sick, work has been hell, my work-after-work has been no less daunting, I've been very angry about things I have...
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Open The Gates: Gamer Gate Post 2.0
Just so we're clear, friends... it's been a rough month. I'm sick. I'm broke. My car's in the shop. My internet died. About the only thing keeping me sane is the pure, undiluted greatness of Hyrule...
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Lying Evily By Moonlight: Viz Defends SAILOR MOON Upscale, Lies Through Their...
IN THE NAME OF VIDEO QUALITY,I WILL THROTTLE YOU!Really, Viz? You're going to make me do this, huh? Alright then. I've had a go at Media Blasters, I've called FUNimation on their bullshit, I can't tell...
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The Age Of Master Unity: Why Video Games Aren't Worth $60 - But Could Be...
More stuff on the horizon. Been too busy and crazy to form coherent writings the last couple weeks, and things aren't going to get better until Thanksgiving. Worst case scenario, this explosion of...
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Flying Too Close To The Sun: Media Blasters' KITE Blu-Ray
It's safe to say I'm a pretty massive fan of Yasuomi UMETSU's 1998 two-part OVA, released as A KITE/カイト in Japan, and as the slightly simplified "KITE" everywhere else. The miniature movie, a blood...
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Zombi Holocaust Denial: Let's Help 88 Films Fix Media Blasters' Shoddy Work
Thai posters are glorious, in their own special way.UK genre label 88 films has, up until now, mostly been a sort of "Bizarro" equivalent to US labels like Full Moon and Troma Films - releasing high...
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KITE Revisited: The Most Infuriating Failure of 2014
Remember when this was supposed to be a thing?And how instead we got BOSTON LEGAL: MAGICAL GIRL SQUAD?I'm not gonna' lie. I've got super mixed feelings about Umetsu's career as a whole.First off,...
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Burial Treasure: There's Still Time To Crowd Source BURIAL GROUNDS
Just a friendly reminder that 88 Films' have successfully funded their remaster of Zombi Holocaust for 7,500 pounds, and are trying to reach their stretch goal of 12,500 to restore the far superior...
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Playing With Toys: Wii U, Amiibo, And Pretentious Idiots
I know, I've been quiet for a while. Been busy with a lot of stupidity which includes my old Samsung LCD getting super funky on the ol' back-lighting, necessitating that I put that multi-year warranty...
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Dead or Alive, You're In HD: Takashi Miike's D.O.A on Blu-ray
Holy crap, ladies and gents, it's been a while, hasn't it? I must apologize for dropping off the face of this little corner of overlong glorified shitposting I call the Kentai Blog, but in my defense,...
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Gamer Gators vs Social Justice Warlords: The Final Post
Pls Marvel don't sueWARNING: Yup, it's another one of these posts.Next time, we'll do something more fun. I promise!Months ago, I promised an anonymous reader that I'd write a proper addendum to my...
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How Hard Did Viz Screw Up The Original SAILOR MOON?
Hard enough that the upcoming Japanese re-run of the original 1994 TV series are going to be from Toei's own HD Remaster. To the best of my knowledge Toei hasn't done an HD master for a vintage TV show...
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The Cover Up: Canonical Conundrums
How do you even begin to quantify what is and isn't "canon" in fan fiction, I wonder?Don't worry friends, I'm not talking about 50 Shades of Gray - if I ever want to go down that road, we damn well...
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THE PHANTOM NAME: The Past, Future, and Implications of A Hideo Kojima Kojima...
I'm back, baby!In a limited capacity, at any rate. I moved last month, which was Hell. I tried to unpack the first week, only for my plumbing to promptly explode and vomit horror all over the place,...
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PSA: KITE Is Uncut On Blu-ray in Japan
DANGER!! DANGER!! DANGER!!THIS IS A BULLSHIT UPSCALE!AVOID LIKE THE WHOOPING CLAP!...well then.So. This is... unexpected. After a thoroughly frustrating Media Blasters Blu-ray release of A-KITE, it...
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Despair In HD
Pictured: Kentai's Current FeelingsI seriously don't have the energy for this bullshit right now, so consider this a brief PSA:* The Japanese import for A-KITE is an upscale. Like, entirely upscaled...
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Upscaled Embarassment: A Tale of Two KITE Blu-rays
It is with nothing but thanks and respects to old timey nerd Buster D that I present a quick, dirty, and thoroughly devastating comparison between the Media Blasters and Green Bunny BDs for Yasuomi...
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And You Will Watch In Terror! THE BEYOND Blu-ray Comparison
As Bob Murawski himself was has pointed out, the Grindhouse Releasing Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci's  THE BEYOND/...E tu Vivrai nel Terrore! L'aldilà  is a release several years in the making. There's...
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Head Transplants and Metal Gears: Ruse Cruise, or Something Scaries?
Pictured: My current level of raw, pulsating confusion.Look, I don't know what to think anymore, but this past week or so has been really, really interesting for casual digging...Loathe as I am to give...
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We Hunt No More: VAMPIRE HUNTER D on Blu-ray
Vintage Japanese Video AdBefore I get to my main point, it's worth noting that Discotek Media is releasing Yoshiaki KAWAJIRI's 2000 film, VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST, on bilingual DVD and Blu-ray...
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