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Sotsugyousei Revisited
Back in the airly days (2013), Orphan did a number of projects based on the -uusei eroge franchise, starting with a three episode OVA from the turn of the century, Sotsugyousei (The Graduate). By...
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Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep22-24
The eighth volume of Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament covers the glory days of the Kingdom of Israel, its decline (mostly skipped) and fall, the Babylonian captivity, and the return of the...
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Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep25-26
With the return of the Jews (as they were now known) to Jerusalem, the historical narrative in the Old Testament basically peters out. The books of Ezra and Neremiah provide a look at the early years...
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Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament: Batch
So here, four years after we started, is Orphan's final word on Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament: In the Beginning. The batch contains four revised episodes: 4, 5, 6, and 12. Two of them are...
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It's Broken, Broken, Broken
For some time, I've wondered why anime groups have taken to specifying exactly which video players they support for their releases. Some say "mpv only". Some specify others. I've finally figured out...
View ArticleHiatus, Involuntary
Orphan's seven fans must be wondering what is going on. It's been a month since the last blog post, and even longer since the last release. The answer is simple: I caught Covid, and it knocked me...
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Rehab Assignment (Grimm Douwa: Kin no Tori Full HD)
When it came to Covid, I was pretty lucky, considering my age. No hospitalization required, no lingering after-effects. Still, it knocked me flat on my back for almost a month and created a mental fog...
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One Small Step for VHS Tapes (Hayou Tsurugi v2)
When Orphan released Hayou Tsurugi last year, I noted that "the tape had copy protection, which caused problems during the ripping process and may have contributed to audio sync issues in the encode."...
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Junkers Come Here v2 (Laserdisc)
In my original blog post for the 1994 OVA Junkers Come Here:Memories of You, I wrote, "The show was never released on laserdisc, let alone DVD." Well, I was wrong. The OVA was released on laserdisc...
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Sanada 10 Special
Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi (New Legend of the Warring States Heroes:...
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Noel's Fantastic Trip
Iruka (which means "dolphin" in Japanese) is a Japanese folk singer and children's book author. In 1983, she wrote the songs and story for a children's movie called Noel no Fushigi no Bouken (Noel's...
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UTOPA (1080p)
Recently, a fellow who goes by the handle Ioroid has been uploading high-quality 1080p webstreams of a number of Orphan's releases. We've already re-released Grimm Douwa: Kin no Tori in full HD. Now,...
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Noel's Fantastic Trip (LD Version)
As I mentioned in my post on the DVD version of Noel's Fantastic Trip, the movie was originally released to home video on VHS tape and Laserdisc. There were considerable differences between the...
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Wan Wan Chuushingura (Full HD)
Another re-release in full HD, courtesy of Ioroid's raws. Wan Wan Chuushingura is a 1963 feature-length cartoon from Toei Douga. It tells the story of Rock, an Akimi pup who lives in a mountain forest....
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Sanada 10 - The Battle of Sekigahara (Ep 1-3)
Sanada 10 - more formally, Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi (New Legend of the Warring States Heroes: The Ten Warriors of Sanada) - has an interesting history. First, the story of...
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Heart Cocktail Vol 1
Heart Cocktail, based on a manga series by Watase Seizou, has been on my wish list for a long time. Our media maven in Japan acquired the six laserdisc volumes through several years of patient...
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Sanada 10 - The Sanada Six (Ep 4-6)
Although the series title (and the folk-tales on which it is based) refer to ten brave Sanada warriors, at this point, we've only met six, all of them retainers of Sanada Yukimura:Sarutobi Sasuke, a...
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Dallos (Blu-ray)
It's been more than ten years since Orphan first released Dallos. After release posts for the DVD version, the HD web version, and the laserdisc summary version, is there anything new left to say about...
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Sanada 10 - If SIx Turned Out to Be Nine... (Ep 7-9)
At long last, Sanada 10 stops setting the stage and moves into telling a story. However, it promptly runs into a prime difficulty of historical fiction: how can you insert fictional characters into...
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Heart Cocktail Vol 2
Heart Cocktail, based on a manga series by Watase Seizou, is a joint project between DarkWispers (Darkonius), Lonely Chaser (MartyMcflies), and Orphan. Here is volume 2.This volume is basically just...
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