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Wolf Guy
Here's another good show that was lost on Laserdisc: 1992's six-part OVA, Wolf Guy. This is an action/adventure/sci-fi story about immortals who can transform into wolves battling the Phoenix Group, a...
View ArticleBack to the Shadows Again (Kage)
Compiling an official list of Orphan's releases made me realize that the name is older than I thought. It dates back to 2007, when I had been fansubbing only a little more than a year. I had already...
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GR ~Giant Robo~ (2007) Special
Here's a little something to close out 2016: the special from the 2007 version of GR ~Giant Robo~. Apparently, this was the pilot for the TV series. However, there were significant changes between the...
View Article2016 in Review
2016 has been a momentous year and a source of great hope and anxiety for many people. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. (Let's hear it for the good guys!) Donald...
View ArticleCollectr's Curmudgeonly Guide to QC
When I took up fansubbing in 2006, most groups had strong QC teams and QC processes. The teams took pride in putting out a good product; revisions after release were looked on with distaste. That began...
View ArticleOrphans Dashboard
Status hasn't changed much since mid-2014. Few current series are left orphaned, because almost everything gets streamed and captured. Thus, orphaned series is mostly a matter of the back...
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Yousei Ou
Orphan's first release of 2017 is a 1988 OVA, Yousei Ou (The Fairy King). It's a bit of an amalgam, part high fantasy, part shounen-ai romance. Based on a five-volume manga by Yamagishi Ryouko, it...
View ArticleAcross the Analog Divide
Yogicat introduced me to a series of YouTube videos called Techmoan that are just up my Luddite alley. Techmoan features a genial Brit who explores the obsolete dead-ends of consumer technology,...
View ArticleKarma (Chameleon)
A long time ago, in a fansubbing scene far, far away, I was happily collecting rarities and uploading them, often without viewing, to BakaBT (or as it was known back then, BoxTorrents). One of the...
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Cosprayers
So… Cosprayers. Seriously? You might ask why Orphan and ReDone are resubbing such a maligned show. Call it the tyranny of good intentions.After working on Kiteseeker's Blu-Ray release of Hanaukyo Maid...
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A Penguin's Memories
The cover show cuddly blue penguins. It looks like a children's movie. But it's not.A Penguin's Memories is a strange bird indeed, a parable of war and its aftermath, using anthropomorphized penguins...
View ArticlePanic in Anime Park
In the past couple of weeks, nyaatorrents - the most popular Japanese media torrent site - has disappeared, apparently taken down by its owner. BakaBT - the best archiving torrent site for translated...
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Neko Neko Fantasia
Here's a piece of whimsy for the cat lovers out there: the 1991 OVA Neko Neko Fantasia (Cat Cat Fantasia). Yes, I know the English title sounds awkward, so it's often rendered as Kitty Cat Fantasia,...
View ArticleTsuki ga Noboru made ni
Here's a deceptively simple story about the power of stories, the 1991 OVA Tsuki ga Noboru made ni (By the Time the Moon Rises). A father decides to take his young daughter into the country to see the...
View ArticleChameleon 2
Well, he's back.Yes, Yazawa Eisaku, pint-sized wannabe delinquent, returns in the second episode of Chameleon for another round of hi-jinks, braggadocio, and narrow escapes from doom and his...
View ArticleScoopers
I try not to criticize other fansubbers. After more than a decade working on fansubs, I know just how hard, tedious, and time-consuming the process is. It's easy to make mistakes, through inexperience,...
View ArticleStop!! Hibari-kun! 1-6
Orphan Fansubs is releasing Stop!! Hibari-kun!, which aired in 1983-1984. The only attempt to fansub the show was abandoned after five or six episodes, making it a true orphan.Stop!! Hibari-kun! is 35...
View ArticleYawara! Sore Yuke Koshinuke Kids!! (HD)
FroZen-EviL just released the 1992 Yawara movie, Yawara! Sore Yuke Koshinuke Kids!!, loosely translated as Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!!, in glorious high-definition. (The last word in the title is...
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Grim Douwa - Kin no Tori
Here's a bluebird, or more accurately, a golden bird - the 1987 movie Grim Douwa - Kin no Tori (Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird). Released as part of Toei's Manga Matsura series, it was actually...
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Time Slip Ichimannen Prime Rose
From 1978 to 1989, NHK's annual 24-hour telethon, "Love Will Save the World," frequently featured an animated special from Tezuka Productions. Over the next decade, eight of them were broadcast: 1978 -...
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