Monday, 12 October 2026

Films

Werewolf of London (1935)
[#70 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

Fiction

Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi (translated by Kevin Leahy)
Chapter 5

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing — in fact, this week is the one-year anniversary of joining my first!

Saturday, 10 October 2026

Films

Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
[2nd watch]
[#68 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]
aka Avengers Assemble

Vampir Cuadecuc (1971)

Fiction

Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi (translated by Kevin Leahy)
Chapter 3

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

A little pile of new additions this week, two new releases and a few sales pickups. Plus it's time again for the monthly running time update.

Number of titles in collection: 3,749 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 959 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,790 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 567 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 8,993 [up 6]
Number of films: 4,841 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 519 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,145 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,341 [up 4]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
625 days, 12 hours, and 35 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 11 hours, and 21 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday, 9 October 2026

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Fiction

Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi (translated by Kevin Leahy)
Chapter 1

Oh look, I’m starting another series! This is the first book in the Vampire Hunter D series (would you believe it!), which was adapted into the 1985 anime that I watched recently, which I’ve owned for a while but was inspired to finally put on because before that I’d picked up the whole series of novels as ebooks (well, the whole series that’s been translated into English — there’s an ever-growing pile that hasn’t been, unfortunately). It might seem daft to jump in like that, but… well, it’s the kind of thing I do. Besides, it was a dirt cheap bundle, and as ebooks they don’t take up any real space, so... But I do hope I like them. They seem like my kind of thing.