Memories finally being upgraded to UHD. Does that mean nearly everything Otomo has made is in 4K now?

The Big O rescued too? Mecha fans are eating

And apparently damn near ALL of Patlabor was just rescued? Original series, New Patlabor, and all the movies (including new subs for the mistranslated Sentai release).

It's @discotekmedia.bsky.social time - watch out for Lupins & Toradoras & Bears, oh my!

Good times at the @omoi.com panel run by our favorite manga boy, @evanminto.com! Big get, being able to digitally release Sukeban Deka in English for the first time ever!

And now time for the main course - Chime, followed by a new scan of Serpent's Path! If I hadn't already seen Nadja (albeit a older, low quality scan), could have easily gone the other way, but I'll make it up to Almereyda when that comes to physical.

AFI Silver day it is! Really came down for tonight, have yet to choose between Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime or Michael Almereyda's Nadja, but catching Terminator 2 on 70mm is a hell of an opener!

To pay that forward after ages of promising "After KH II", drove up to Reisterstown today, paid my respects at Howard Ashman's grave. Resting under a tree's shade, a literal chorus of songbirds accompanying, fields of grass in every direction - arcadia. Too beautiful to capture, the setting.

The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls

Overjoyed to have finally received the first issue of the @animeherald.com Magazine. Huge shout out to @sam-animeherald.bsky.social for going through with that reprint - the demand is certainly here, happy the gate was not closed to this latecomer!

You say "half-assed," but all I'm hearing is "Ruby was low-key the coolest person at that function, and they were lucky to witness your casual domination of the space."

Best find of the con? This guy cosplaying Mike Dawson from Dark Seed. Not only did he give me that 3/4 view shot, but he also (handily!) had a copy of the game on him. Y'know, "in case I forgot."

3rd Panel concerns 'Metacontext'. The panel runners approaching this from the perspective of "We think videogames have helped create a new, Post-Modern, Artistic/Philosophical Movement." Bold claims, let's hear 'em out

Starting the day off with a panel from @izumoo.de. Talking about the state of porting classic games in 2026: defining the relevant terms, explaining why that is desirable, charting out how difficult the process is, and giving updates on the ports and where they are in the porting process.

Had to miss out on Day 2 of MAGFest - headaches - but back again for Day 3! Started out by paying tribute to the new old blood: Nightmare Kart! I know it's available on PC, but the arcade cabinet is something else. 10/10, would kart again!

2nd panel features the audio program manager for Microsoft's first Xbox - Brian Schmidt. Didn't realize how much work went into the black box's soundchip - getting Dolby Surround support, "putting a recording studio on a chip" - big differentiating features for the new 3rd console space competitor.

Started out with A Tribute to the Bee: 50 Years of Hudson Soft. Always nice to see/hear Master Takahashi!

Being my first MAGFest, *of course* I spaced checking who else I knew would make an appearance. Hope to see some of you this long weekend!

The Band Concert from 1935 features an even more explicit "I'll do the fingering" version of Alien: Covenant's David teaching Walter how to play the flute between Goofy and Clarabelle Cow. Don't know how they did it, but they managed to skirt the line between frottage & penetration here

Need to convey how bad Minnie has it for Mickey in 1933's Building a Building. Who could have predicted it: two Disney icons fingering a very *ahem* suspiciously drawn pie!? Wow Mickey has recently seen personality reforms to correct his boring-as-'90s image, where is *this* Minnie? Agency is key!

With how online patching wasn't really a thing back on the PS1, and revisions were usually silent, small details, missed a step upon seeing the transformation this infamous room from the original Resident Evil 1 got for the later Director's Cut release.

Wait, what's the title of this movie?

Considering how intimidating their webs look, you'd think yellow garden spiders would have a more appropriately gnarly name.

As someone who caught it again last night, I can vouch that seeing it today is the best time to do so - what a picture. Enjoy your trip to the cinema!

And the design - Gaia ironically 'united under one roof' formed from a melange of World's Fair exhibitions. See touches of Montreal's Biosphere, various Industrial Crystal Palaces. Even nods towards NY's illuminated cables, lights now vertically stretched over the structure between land and sky.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Avoiding the (admittedly) most iconic shot, but I had to pick the one closest to my heart. As more time passes, can't help but uncover new details and nuance in the imagery, composition. Reactions vary, but I wish all films today had such 'cinema' aspirations.

And last (but not least) is Mars, a Whitest Kids U'Know animated feature film that premiered at Tribeca last year. Less 'animated' than a lot of other AnimEigo releases, but very much carrying that mid-oughts WKUK sense of humor.

3rd announcement is for - and this is absolutely bonkers - Big Boobs Busters. Trust me when I say it has an amazing trailer. Tagline: "Just because you have small boobs doesn't mean you have a small heart."

2nd Announcement is for Alien Nine. "A sports anime in the spirit of Gundam 0080" - Justin Sevakis