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Ninkuuuuuuu!
With the release of a batch torrent, including the drama CD, Soldado and Saizen's Blu-ray version of Ninku is complete. (DB - remember them? - translated the first 25 episodes back in the Dark Ages.)...
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Kosuke-sama Rikimaru-sama: Konpeitou no Ryuu
Kosuke-sama Rikimaru-sama: Konpeitou no Ryuu (Kosuke and Rikimaru: The Dragon of Konpei Island) is a 1988 OVA from Toriyama Akira, the creator of Dragon Ball. According to AniDB and other sources, it...
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Junkers Come Here: Memories of You
Stop me if you've heard the one about the talking dog...Junkers Come Here and its sequel were novels by Kine Naoto. They featured a Schnauzer named Junkers, who could speak and also work miracles...
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Kakyuusei (1995), DVD Edition
The world doesn't need another version of Kakyuusei (1995), but here's one anyway.An Internet pen-pal who goes by the handle of ProxyMan has been systematically collecting R2J DVDs of older Japanese...
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I haven't done a status report in a long time, because for a long time, there was nothing to report. Now, though, there are quite a few projects on the slipways. Other teams have shown interest in...
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Sotsugyou: Graduation
There are lots of OVAs with Graduation in the title. This one is the two episode OVA from 1995. It is based on a dating sim game and was followed by Sailor Victory, a parody of Sailor Moon, and...
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King Fang v2
In November of 2021, Orphan's timer ninacloud noticed that an uploader going by the handle of fabrebatalla18 had torrented a group of "rare raws" ripped from the web. One of them was King Fang. I...
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Hayou no Tsurugi
Hayou no Tsurugi was a series of forty (!) light novels by Maeda Tomiko, published between 1989 and 2017. (A spinoff series, Hayou no Tsurugi Gaiden, ran to another eleven volumes.) In 1992, the first...
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Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 2
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de (In a Distant Time) is an otome game franchise developed by Ruby Party. It spans at least a dozen games and has spawned multiple anime adaptations, including a TV series,...
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Chameleon 5
We're seven months into a catastrophic 2022. War ranges unchecked in Ukraine. Inflation is at a forty-year high. Drought is killing the rivers in the southwestern US. The Supreme Court has taken a...
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Nana Toshi Monogatari
Here's another project that BlueFixer asked Orphan to redo: the two-part sci-fi OVA Nana Toshi Monogatari: Hokkyokukai Sensen (A Tale of Seven Cities: The Arctic Front). Released in 1992 and 1994, the...
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Beast City (Inma Daitoshi) 3v2
sxales has recently released a new dual audio encode of the US version of the 1990's h-anime Beast City (Inma Daitoshi), which includes the first two episodes. Completing the update, here's a new...
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Lunatic Night 03v2
Here's an updated version of episode 3 of the late 90s h-anime comedy Lunatic Night. This version was made possible by Internet pen-pal known as ProxyMan. He's has been systematically collecting R2J...
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Arisa Good Luck
Here's a true bluebird: the 1999 one-shot OVA Arisa Good Luck. Last month, Tennouji, translator and proprietor of SakuraCircle, contacted me about doing this show. He had the DVD and a script but...
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Arisa Good Luck v2
Now, this is embarrassing.Almost as soon as I released Arisa Good Luck, a viewer posted a comment pointing out that the video was, to put it kindly, a mess: not only crawling with blended frames, but...
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Still More Raws from the Attic
Here's another raw I'd dearly love to translate: Noel no Fushigi na Bouken (Noel's Fantastic Trip), a 1983 children's movie. According to MyAnime List:The film is centered around Noel, a young girl and...
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Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!
Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! (I Am Shiratori Reiko!) is a one episode shoujo romantic comedy from 1990. It is based on a 7-volume manga by Suzuki Yumiko. The manga won the Kodansha Award for shoujo in...
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Kimami ni Idol
Kimama ni Idol (Free-Spirited Idols) is a 1990 dramedy OVA based on a manga by Kotani Kenichi. It tells the tale of three teenage girls who want to become idols but find out that the road to the top is...
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Even the Good Homer Nods (Don Dracula)
The Roman poet Horace noticed that in the Iliad, Homer reintroduced a character that he had previously killed off. Horace's comment was "Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus" or, loosely translated, "Even...
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Ai no Kusabi (1992) DVD Extras
I recently received a copy of the R2J ISO for Ai no Kusabi and was surprised to see that it had seven "extras." These are slide shows with pictures of the character designs and art designs, storyboards...
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