New Anime Releases for Monday:

Welcome to the Space Show (Blu-Ray and DVD Double Play)
(Manga Entertainment)

RRP: £24.99



Welcome to the Space Show (DVD) (Manga Entertainment)

RRP: £19.99



Dragon Ball Z: Series 1 (DVD) (Manga Entertainment)

RRP: £34.99

Want both, however both will have to wait. My brothers more so want Space show.

No matter how much I try to familiarise myself with it and accept that it's there, that Double Play band still makes me weep tears of hate.

I've pre-ordered the double play of WTTSS from HMV, but it hasn't been posted yet.

All over welcome to the space show. Just wish play would have taken my money by now and sent in the post

I'm also still waiting for Space Show to ship (from HMV) - been in "Awaiting stock allocation" all day.

Mine only shipped today from Amazon which is a little annoying. Not that I really need to watch it immediately I guess.

The double play band is ugly, but since I only ever really see the spines anyway I'll probably safely ignore it.

I always use Amazon. I've switched to HMV recently because people were getting things early while I was waiting ages (Clannad was shipped from Amazon on the day of release and arrived around 11 days later). So naturally Angel Beats wasn't shipped until release date and took a few days to arrive, and now Space Show.... I'm darned whatever I do. Might as well go back to picking things up from store on release date.

Ditto about "stock allocation" for me. Having tried HMV thanks to their 20% offer, I think I'm more than happy to stick with Amazon getting anime releases to me for the day of release - or at worst the day after.

Word of warning to those buyin' the DBZ set, for some reason Marathon Mode is missing.

Not a deal breaker, just kinda annoying.

Is that the thing FUNi did that plays the eps back-to-back without credits?

and without the voiceover man recaps, otherwise I would have made a snarky comment about Conan's skip button being busted.

The UK release is authored by Madman (hence the lack of the marathon feature), and is a PAL release, so it's got the 4% speed-up if you still want your episodes to go by faster.

Haved swapped to a playtrader since play don't have it in stock

Yeah, it's a really nice feature, like I said, not a deal breaker but there you go.

And it's not being there is a Madman thing?

I was suspecting as much, since they do their own authoring so it wouldn't automatically be there just because FUNi did it; they'd have to duplicate the feature.