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Damekko Doubutsu
Damekko Doubutsu (Useless Animals) is a short-form anime comedy from 2005. It was originally hardsubbed by Ryuu-Rogue back in the day. Darkwispers redid the show in 2022, with translation-checked...
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Miyuki Forever
After Miyuki was finished back in 2014, the team basically disbanded. When a viewer pointed out that the DVD box set contained an AMV called Miyuki: Forever Selection, there wasn't much enthusiasm to...
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Maegami Tarou
Here's a rarity: a 1979 TV Nippon Animation special called Maegami Tarou. It's based on a children's story by Matsutani Miyoko and was broadcast as part of Fuji TV's "Nissei Family Special" program. A...
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Kikansha Yaemon: D51 no Daibouken
Orphan presents the first English-subtitled release of Toei's 1974 feature cartoon, Kikansha Yaemon: D51 no Daibouken (Yaemon the Locomotive: D51's Great Adventure). Based on a popular storybook series...
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Elf 17 Blu-ray
Elf 17 was done back in 2020. It was a a lot of fun, marred only by its source, a VHS rip. I wasn't hoping for a better source, but lo! one has appeared: a fully remastered Blu-ray. It didn't take much...
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Gulliver no Uchuu Ryokou
Gulliver no Uchuu Ryokou (Gulliver's Space Travels) was Toei's eighth feature-length cartoon, released in 1965. It was dubbed in English and released in the US as Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon in...
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Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin
I'm not sure how we got interested in Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin (Hell Hall Spirit World Connection), a 1996 one-shot OVA. I had the R2J ISO in pile of raws and mentioned it to Perevodildo. He thought...
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Shounen Sarutobi Sasuke
Toei's second feature-length cartoon was 1959's Shounen Sarutobi Sasuke (Young Sarutobi Sasuke). It was Toei's first wide-screen feature and the first Japanese animated film to be released in North...
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Kininaru Kimochi 04v2
Back in 2014, Orphan was trying to finish up orphan series of any kind. This included three hentai OVAs - Beast City, Lunatic Night, and Kininaru Kimochi - with unlicensed, untranslated final episodes....
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Space Fantasia 2001 Nights
Sometimes, you find a project; other times, a project finds you.Space Fantasia 2001 Nights in a one-episode "hard" sci-fi OVA from 1987. It's based on three stories out of 19 from Hoshino Yokinobu's...
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Arabian Nights: Sindbad no Bouken
Arabian Nights: Sindbad no Bouken (Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures) is a 1962 Toei Douga full-length cartoon. It's part of Orphan's Toei Douga project to redo many of the pre-1975 Toei cartoons, in...
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Phantom Yuusha Densetsu
Phantom Yuusha Densetsu(Phantom Hero Legend) in a 1991 OVA based on a novel series by Takeshima Shou. It's one of those pseudo-non-fiction, ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers, like those of Tom Clancy...
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Returning to the Scene of the Crime (Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki II)
A decade ago, Orphan subbed a borderline hentai show called Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki (St. Michael School Drifting Story), a convoluted time-travel OVA with multiple time travelers, alternate...
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Kachikenee!
If two decades of working in anime taught me anything, it should have been, "Never say never." In the post on Trust, a 2025 Anime no Tane OVA, I wrote, "Actually, this is the end of our work on all...
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Knackered (Korogashi Ryota)
Knack was an anime company founded by former employees of Toei Douga and Mushi Productions. Despite the number of anime-industry notables who worked with Knack over the years (including Go Nagai, Ken...
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But the Cat Came Back (Cat-Eyed Boy, Ep 13-14)
Orphan returns again to its intermittent releases of Cat-Eyed Boy; in this case, episodes 13-14. These episodes don't differ materially from the previous ones, except for the monster of the week....
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Yukiguni no Oujisama
Here's a bit of an unlikely bird - not a black swan event, exactly, but not something I was expecting, either.Yukiguni no Oujosama (The Snow Country Prince) was a 1985 movie, released for the Christmas...
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Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (batch)
Seishun Anime Zenshuu (translated as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature for its English release) is a 1986 anthology series that retells well-known stories from modern Japanese literature.It's...
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The Harp of Burma
Seishun Anime Zenshuu (translated as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature for its English release) is a 1986 anthology series that retold well-known stories from modern Japanese literature. It's...
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Student Days
Seishun Anime Zenshuu (translated as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature for its English release) is a 1986 anthology series that retold well-known stories from modern Japanese literature. It's...
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