Samurai Spirits
Samurai Spirits: Haten Gouma no Shou is a 1994 movie-length TV special that, until now, has only been available in English as a dub. While many viewers prefer dubs to subtitles, I am always concerned...
View ArticleOtaku no Seiza
In a post a while back about anime shows that apparently never made it to DVD, I asked, "Is anyone really waiting for DVD versions of Hi-Speed Jecy or Hashire Melos or An Adventure in the Otaku Galaxy...
View ArticleKuroi Ame ni Utarete
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete(Lashed by the Black Rain) is a bitterly angry 1984 movie about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The scriptwriter, Nakazawa Keiji, was himself a bombing survivor...
View ArticleBacklogged
We're up to our necks in scripts at Orphan Fansubs; the backlog has never been so healthy (and so formidably challenging). Here's a status report on currently active projects.Stop!! Hibari-kun. All...
View ArticleStir and Repeat: Tenkousei
So here is Tenkousei, a four episode softcore h-anime from 1997. Tenkouseihas almost exactly the same plot and stock characters as Doukyuusei and Kakyuusei, except that the girls in the hero's harem...
View ArticleHashire Melos (1992)
Hashire Melos (Run, Melos) is a Japanese short story published by Osamu Dazai in 1940. It is a tale of friendship tested and proven. It appeals strongly to the Japanese and has been made into an anime...
View ArticleGinga Tansa 2100-nen: Border Planet
For me, bringing out a new or improved version of a Tezuka Osamu anime is always a thrill. Accordingly, M74 and Orphan are proud to present a new version of Ginga Tansa 2100-nen: Border Planet (Galaxy...
View ArticleSatsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro
Satsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro (The Murder Ticket Is Heart-Colored) is a 1990 standalone OVA based on a series of young adult novels for women by Yamaura Hiroyasu. Iri translated the show and did the...
View ArticleNora
Here's another project with a BakaBT connection, the 1985 sci-fi OVA Nora. I first learned about Nora in the long (and mostly unanswered) thread called "Old Anime for Subbing." It was one of the few...
View ArticleHow Orphan Chooses Projects
Orphan doesn't get a lot of comments on its releases, but along with the "thank yous" (always appreciated) are invariably requests of the form, "Can you translate XYZ?" And just as invariably, the...
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Kaze no Matasaburou (2016)
Kaze no Matasaburou (2016) (Matasaburou of the Wind) is one of this year's Anime Tamago (formerly Anime Mirai, formerly Young Animator's Training Project) OVAs. It is based on Miyazawa Kenji's story of...
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Utopa
Another show from Anime Tamago 2016, and probably Orphan's last. Utopa is a sci-fi offering from STUDIO4°C, a veteran company known for adventurous fare like Tekkon Kinkreet and Ani*Kuri 15 as well as...
View ArticleA-Girl v0
Here's a bluebird that happened by and flew through the release process in a flash: A-Girl, an OVA from 1993.In 1992, Madhouse and Margaret Comics collaborated on an OVA of the shounen-ai romance...
View ArticleYume Tsukai
Yume Tsukai, a contemporary fantasy series from 2006, was one of the first anime shows I worked on; I QCed the entire series for C1. It was quite popular with fansub groups at the time and was subbed...
View ArticleMeisou-Ou Border
Orphan has done many forgotten 80s and 90s OVAs. Some have been stunningly good, like Oz, and some have been stunningly bad, like Bavi Stock II. But none have led to as much head-scratching as...
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Downhill (Twinkle Nora Rock Me!)
There's no way to soften this. Twinkle Nora Rock Me! (Nora 2) is to the original Nora as Bavi Stock II is to Bavi Stock I: a descent from the barely passable into the laughable. It's so bad...
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Dragon Fist
If I may paraphrase Forrest Gump, 80s and 90s OVAs are "like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get." That's exactly the case with 1991's Dragon Fist. As one of the QCs fumed,...
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Neko Nanka Yondemo Konai
Just in time for the holidays, here's another venture into contemporary short-form anime: 2015's Neko Nanka Yondemo Konai (Cats Don't Come When Called). The series has twelve ultra-short episodes (90...
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Kuro ga Ita Natsu (Summer with Kuro)
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic. -- aphorism attributed (without much proof) to Josef StalinThroughout the 20th and 21st centuries, artists have...
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Juliet
At first, the 1998 OVA Juliet seems like an incongruous mixture of tones, ranging from slapstick comedy to blatant fanservice to violent tragedy, until you realize that it's based on a four-volume...
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