I finally finished watching the Devil Lady anime series yesterday. I mentioned it in a blog post from July 2024; that’s when I started watching it. I started out watching it on DVD (from a box set I bought in 2005), then switched to watching it on Amazon, when I hit a snag with one of the DVDs. Then, it disappeared from Amazon, and I thought I’d watch the final DVD in the set, but there was a problem with that DVD too, so I found that it was streaming on Pluto, and finished watching it there. Overall, I don’t know if it was worth all the effort. But hey, that’s one more anime DVD set I can cross off my bucket list!
The next item on my list is Excel Saga. I started watching that one not long after I started Devil Lady, but only got through disc one. (Both of those shows are the kind of thing I need to be in a fairly specific mood to watch, so I’m not exactly binging either one. I’ll get in the right mood, watch a few episodes, then give up on it for a few months.)
I’ve been having trouble with DVDs a lot lately, and I’m finding that discs that don’t work on my Xbox work fine on my computer’s DVD drive. So I’ve done some DVD ripping recently (well, Dec 2024, so kinda recently), and I seem to have a workflow figured out for that. I’m using HandBrake to rip, and VLC to watch stuff on my Apple TV.
I’m ripping the Excel Saga DVDs right now. (Seemed like a reasonable thing to do on a Sunday.) Of course, I’ve also realized that all of this stuff is on Crunchyroll, which is only $8/month, so I’m not sure why I don’t just give up on the DVDs and stream this stuff.
I was just listening to an episode of Judge John Hodgman where a married couple were arguing about what to do with the husband’s DVD collection after he dies. I think maybe I should be leaning towards getting rid of my collection, but… I don’t want to.