Cardcaptor Sakura on blu-ray

I just preordered what I think might be the most expensive anime box set I've ever bought.

It's the whole of Cardcaptor Sakura, on blu-ray. Discounted on Rightstuf, but still the equivalent of over £100. (It will probably be more like £150 when shipping and customs charges are added. I should probably think about getting a dedicated region-free blu-ray player as well...)

I really like that series. It's a super-cute magical girl series, where everyone is friendly - even the monsters.

It shows many, many kinds of love, and not as a weird taboo thing, which I think is good to have in a show for kids.

It also made me love takoyaki before I had even seen or tasted it.

I hope NIS America do a great job on this box set. It comes out in August.

Cardcaptor Sakura manga to be rereleased

I just noticed this evening that Dark Horse are going to release the Cardcaptor Sakura manga this Autumn, in omnibus editions.

Dark Horse website

I really enjoyed the anime version of Cardcaptor Sakura but I haven't read the manga (well, not much of it).

Seeing that I went and bought their omnibus edition of Clover mainly because I thought it was printed and bound so nicely, I've decided to put in a preorder! ^_^

Kimura Takahiro's character designs

I was tidying up this evening, glanced at my DVDs, and... how come I never noticed before?



The certain blonde lady on volume 5 of my Godannar DVDs....

...looks just like a certain green-haired lady in Code Geass...

...except that she's blonde and has bigger boobs.

If anyone says that the Code Geass character designs look more CLAMP than Kimura Takahiro.... well, I disagree with them. :P

(EDIT: I get the feeling my brother might have mentioned this to me before, and I forgot about it...)