{"id":12604,"date":"2008-05-01T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2008-05-01T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:54:46","slug":"anime-streetwise-04292008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-streetwise-04292008\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Streetwise: 04.29.2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s offerings have a bit of everything, some beginnings, some endings, and various states of undress.<\/p>\n<p>Viz brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/d-brbs01.html\">Buso Renkin Set 1<\/a>, the entire first thirteen episodes of a show about alchemy, homunculi and guy in a butterfly mask. <em>This from the same creator that put the bad-ass villains in Rurouni Kenshin. I am confused.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-viz.jpg\" alt=\"Buso Renkin 1 - Death Note 4\" title=\"Buso Renkin 1 - Death Note 4\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-viz.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-viz-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Viz is also hoping we&#8217;ll get jealous this week. Which won&#8217;t be hard to do since a collectable figurine of Jealous comes with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/d-dnd04.html\">Death Note Volume 4 Special Edition<\/a>. <em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/d-dn04.html\">standard edition<\/a> is probably all like, yeah but once your gone people will come running to me. Don&#8217;t hate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first volume of the Genshiken spinoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/awdvd-0815.html\">Kujibiki Unbalance<\/a> (also available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/awdvd-0816.html\">1 + Box<\/a> variety) isn&#8217;t as universally loved around these parts as the show it was spawned from, but Media Blasters <em>is<\/em> including the Genshiken OVAs as a bonus feature. One on each volume. <em>Sneaky, sneaky MB. I suppose all is fair in love and tv.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-ku.jpg\" alt=\"Kujibiki Unbalance 1\" title=\"Kujibiki Unbalance 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-ku.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-ku-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tai Seng may be hoping for a knock-out punch as they throw their weight into the ring with the 1980 boxing anime movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/ts41801.html\">Champion Joe (Ashita no Joe)<\/a>. <em>Support the classics! Yatta!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation makes it&#8217;s final bows for the best-selling Witchblade series with <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/animenation\/fn-08636.html\">volume 6<\/a>. <em>Oh my eyes, it has such a shiny.. cover!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-1.jpg\" alt=\"Champion Joe - Witchblade 6\" title=\"Champion Joe - Witchblade 6\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0429-1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digging into the depths of debauchery (<strong>18+ ONLY!<\/strong>) Kitty Media presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/kvdvd-0816.html\">The Sleazy Family<\/a> while Critical Mass offers up it&#8217;s second bout of sexy fighters in <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/animenation\/cmdvd0809.html\">Variable Geo Neo 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hent0429.jpg\" alt=\"Sleazy Family - Variable Geo Neo 2\" title=\"Sleazy Family - Variable Geo Neo 2\" width=\"450\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hent0429.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hent0429-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a final note, I seem to have lost a week and my time machine isn&#8217;t working. However, April 22 did see the Bandai Visual releases of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/animenation\/budhh0121.html\">Freedom volume 5<\/a> on it&#8217;s HD-DVD\/DVD combo format and the first episodes, all two of them, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.com\/budh0143.html\">Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time volume 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bv0422.jpg\" alt=\"Freedom 5 Haruka 1\" title=\"Freedom 5 Haruka 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"284\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bv0422.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bv0422-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear BV, perhaps the best lessons are learned the hard way but why does it have to hurt the wallet so much in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s offerings have a bit of everything, some beginnings, some endings, and various states of undress. Viz brings us Buso Renkin Set 1, the entire first thirteen episodes of a show about alchemy, homunculi and guy in a butterfly mask. This from the same creator that put the bad-ass villains in Rurouni Kenshin. 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