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Petit Gargantia (Blu-ray)
Another sterling example of why it's dangerous not to finish a project I was invited to work on.One of FFF's last projects was a Blu-ray version of the Suisei no Gargantia series, using UTW-Vivid's...
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Hitomi no Naka no Shounen: 15 Shounen Hyouryuuki
In 1888, Jules Verne published his only novel for children, Deux ans de vacances(Two Years' Vacation). It tells the story of 15 schoolboys from Auckland, New Zealand, who are cast adrift in an...
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Ziggy Sore Yuke! R&R Band
Anime offerings involving real rock-and-roll bands are pretty rare; and when they're made, the plots always seem to be slightly batshit. Perhaps it's the influence of Yellow Submarine, which placed the...
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Mikeneko Holmes no Yuurei Joushu
Another purrfect adventure from Orphan Fansubs, the 1992 OVA Mikeneko Holmes no Yuurei Joushu (Calico Cat Holmes and the Lord of the Haunted Castle). It has mystery, adventure, hints of perverse...
View ArticleWatt Poe
I've mentioned in the past that the fansub groups working on back catalog shows aren't all that distinct. They're more like an interlocking keiretsu than distinct teams. Orphan, Saizen, Soldado,...
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Exper Zenon
Does the world really need another version of Exper Zenon, a 1991 one-shot science fiction OVA? Probably not, but here it is anyway.Piyo Piyo Productions did a first version in 2011 - one of Erik's...
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Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament, Ep 7-9
It's been more than a year since the previous release, but here at last are the next three episodes of Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament. These episodes tell the stories of the descendants of...
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Oedo wa Nemurenai! v2
The uncompressed VHS ripping setup that Orphan's Intrepid Raw Hunter™ uses has been down for a couple of months. A couple of capacitors on the vintage 2004 motherboard went up in smoke (literally), and...
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Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki: Long Distance Call v2
Here's another VHS release that needed a new encode: the 1997 OVA Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki: Long Distance Call (Business Fighter Yamazaki: Long Distance Call). Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki was a successful...
View ArticleNinku Ninku!
My colleague Eternal-Blizzard has just released the last two episodes of Ninku, thus completing a fansub odyssey that began back in 2004. Ninku was started and dropped by no less than six fansub...
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Polishing a POS: Twinkle Nora Rock Me v2
Here is exactly what the world doesn't need at this critical moment, a revised version of the 1985 candidate for Worst Anime of All Time™, Twinkle Nora Rock Me! From the excruciatingly awful animation...
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Greed v2
The 1985 OVA Greed was always an odd duck, an amalgam of sword-and-sorcery fantasy with hard sci-fi. I was rather negative about it in my blog post about Orphan's first release, but it's grown on me (a...
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Shin Dousei Jidai: Hawaiian Breeze
Shin Dousei Jidai: Hawaiian Breeze (New Era of Cohabitation: Hawaiian Breeze) is a 1992 OVA based on a manga by Saimon Fumi. It's an unusual project, even for the era: a seinen domestic drama, with a...
View ArticleWanted: Translation Checker(s)
I'm shelving an increasing number of projects because the fansub or R1 translation base is suspect. This didn't used to be a problem, but now I've learned enough Japanese to sense when a translation is...
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Chiisana Koi no Monogatari
Here's a wonderful TV special from 1984: Chiisana Koi no Monogatari: Chitchi to Sally Hatsukoi no Shiki (Little Love Story: Chitchi and Sally, Four Seasons of First Love). Adapted from a manga by...
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Jikuu Bouken Nuumamonjaa (Chrono Trigger OVA)
Occasionally, I come across an OVA that is utterly baffling, because it requires too much context from the game, manga, or novel it is promoting. That's the case with 1996's Jikuu Bouken Nuumamonjaa...
View ArticleGekijouban Perrine Monogatari
Another "Orphan-raw" release, the 1990 summary movie of the 1978 World Masterpiece Theater series, Perrine Monogatari. This show was started in C1 and finished in KiteSeekers-Wasurenai-Licca. I worked...
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Sensou Douwa: The Cake Tree in the Ruins
Sensou Douwa (War Tales or War Fables) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In chronological order:2002 Umigame to Shounen (The Sea Turtle and the...
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Sensou Douwa: The Boy and the Sea Turtle
Sensou Douwa (War Tales or War Fables) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In chronological order:2002 Umigame to Shounen (The Sea Turtle and the...
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Amon Saga
This one is a bit odd: a new release of the 1986 sword-and-sorcery movie Amon Saga, based on a laserdisc rip. Amon Saga has already been released, based on the R1 DVD. So why go back to the laserdisc?...
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