This evening the whole of BGR will be in London to see the renewed version of Ghost in the Shell. This is a very special film for all of us, and we are all hoping the renewed version will only make it much better.

An all time classic brought up to date

I posted a quick look at what is in this new version of the anime classic, and I have to admit I an thoroughly looking forward to seeing it in a cinema. As I said before this is one of the film that sets the standard for not only anime, but for Sci-fi. With such a precious film it is not easy to back to and make the decision to re-do it. But I think they have come up with an excellent idea of keeping the original film and story intact and enhancing the actual animations.

I was fortunate enough to see the original when it had a limited cinema run back in 1995. Both Nikobe and Sideswipe turned down my invitation to see it, it is one of only a handful of times I have been to a cinema on my own. But tonight we are going to correct that mistake, and all get a chance to see “The Major” battle a walking tank once more.

If you want to see it, it is on for a limited run around the country. Take a look at the official site for times.

We will put something up about our thoughts on this new version. But I already have the Blu-Ray on order, so its going to be good.

Not going to get in the habit of doing this every month (would be annoying) but just nice to see a month from launch things are still rolling along nicely, I’ve really enjoyed working on the blog so far and look forward to posting/designing allot more over the next year.

Lets talk robots, big giant ones.   Anime/cartoons with them in have long been a source of great joy and expense to me.  From Transformers to Robotech and on to the latest and greatest anime, robots rarely fail to deliver entertainment .  They toys well, they vary a lot more and have often cost me a lot more than any VHS or DVD boxset…

I’ll be raving about the latest anime you HAVE to see, anime you really shouldn’t and toys that should be brought – no matter the cost.

No I’m not scruffy but I will be cleaning up around the place. Just wanted to say hello, unlike Binny I have tried on and off to blog but its just no fun alone so we thought we’d get together and just write about things that would interest us and hope that someone out there <points at tinternet> will be interested as well. Not that we have to have readers, were not attention seekers (well I am a bit).

The site currently doesn’t have a theme of its own (my fault) so we have to use this rather colourful and very well designed one from http://designdisease.com/ who make some rather nice snazzy wordpress themes.