Ideas for 2021
After 2020, "plans" seems altogether too strong a word for Orphan Fansubs' projects in 2021. So rather than write down some impossible set of goals, or even an aspirational set, I'm listing some of the...
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Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - Ai no Shiro
Let's get 2021 started with a bang (so the speak), with another really obscure OVA, 1990's Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - Ai no Shiro (Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - The Castle of Love). Despite the somewhat...
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Nine: Original-ban HD
HD raws of Nine have been floating around the web for a while now. They were streaming rips, and they were letter-boxed or pillar-boxed. I wasn't prepared to transplant Orphan's Nine subs to these raws...
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Nine 2: Koibito Sengen HD
Here's a high definition version of the second installment in the Nine trilogy, Nine 2: Koibito Sengen (Nine 2: Declaring Love). Once again, the raw is a 1080p web rip, downscaled to 720p with the...
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Nine: Kantetsuhen HD
Orphan's HD releases of the Nine saga reaches its end with the third installment, 1984's Nine: Kanketsuhen (Nine: Final). Niimi Katsuya, Karasawa Susumu, and Kurahashi Eiji are all third-years, as are...
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Sensou Douwa: Chiisai Sensuikau ni Koi wo Shita Dekasugira Kojira no Hanashi
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 Boy and The Sea...
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Coluboccoro 2019
In the deep, dark past, an animator named Itoso Kenji created a one-man show called Coluboccoro. He did the story, the planning, the animation, and the direction. By 2015, he had formed an animation...
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Ohoshi-sama no Rail
I'm not sure how I feel about the 1993 movie Ohoshi-sama no Rail (Rail of Stars). Based on a 1983 autobiographical novel by Kobayashi Chitose, it tells the story of a Japanese family's escape from...
View ArticleTechnology Continues to March On
In previous posts, I've written about advances in technology that have enabled Orphan, and other fansub teams, to get more out of analog sources. These included:The Domesday Duplicator, which taps into...
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Megami Paradise
Sometimes, Orphan's path to a project is so convoluted that even I can't quite figure out how we got there. That's pretty much the case with the 1995 OVA Megami Paradise. Back in the "airlie days",...
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The Green Cat v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books:1The Green Cat19832Rain Boy19833Lunn Flies into the Wind19854Yamataro Comes...
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Rain Boy v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books:1The Green Cat19832Rain Boy19833Lunn Flies into the Wind19854Yamatarou Comes...
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Lunn Flies into the Wind v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books:1The Green Cat19832Rain Boy19833Lunn Flies into the Wind19854Yamatarou Comes...
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Yamatarou Comes Back v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books:1The Green Cat19832Rain Boy19833Lunn Flies into the Wind19854Yamatarou Comes...
View ArticleOut of Gas
You've probably noticed that Orphan's releases this year lean heavily towards re-releases of past projects or of previously fansubbed material. Basically, the group is out of gas; our translators are...
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MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi
Here's a wonderful example of the "wide-screen baroque" school of anime science fiction, the 1987 movie MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi (Maps: The Legendary Nomad Star Tribe), or just Maps for...
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Chameleon 3
I bet you weren't expecting another episode of Chameleon. Frankly, neither was I. Even though laalg translation-checked all the remaining episodes years ago, I found the series so distasteful that I...
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Call Me Tonight
Pink Noise was a series of unrelated OVAs issues by C.Moon, the "adult" label of Bandai Visual. It consisted of four titles:Call Me Tonight (1986)Gakuen Tokusou Hikaruon (1987)Maryuu Senki, 3 episodes...
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Tabi Suru Tobi Neko
Today, Orphan is releasing Tabi Suru Tobi Neko (The Journeys of the Jumping Cats). It's about... cats! Cute Cats Doing Cute Things™: Playing! Eating! Sleeping! Playing! Eating. Sleeping. Playing......
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Sensou Douwa: Boku no Boukuugou
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 Boy and The Sea...
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