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Stop!! Hibari-kun! Song Book
Just in time for Christmas, a digital version of the 1984 Stop!! Hibari-kun! Song Book - a collection of songs from the anime, including the opening, the ending, and various insert and character...
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A-Girl v2
It's taken three tries, and fifteen months, but here at last is a complete and listenable version of the 1993 OVA A-Girl.In 1992, Madhouse and Margaret Comics collaborated on an OVA of the shounen-ai...
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Happy Holidays from Orphan Fansubs
On behalf of all the dogs and cats and other critters of Orphan Fansubs...Here's wishing you a joyous, and safe, holiday season.
View Article2017 in Review
This year, I've tried to bury my anxieties by avoiding the news and doubling down on my hobbies. I don't know if it works as therapy, but it sure has resulted in Orphan releasing a lot of shows in...
View ArticleToujours de l'audace (Audio Editing)
Over the years, I've discussed many of the skills needed for fansubbing: translation, timing, editing, typesetting, QC, and encoding. In 2017, I encountered a new one: audio editing. It's not often...
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Stop!! Hibari-kun! 7-12
As I said in my end-of-2017 summary, Orphan will be working on two relatively long series this year. One of them, of course, is Stop!! Hibari-kun!, the 1983 comedy series. It's taken a loooong time,...
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Hidamari no Ki, Part 1
In my look back at 2017, I said that Orphan would be undertaking two larger series this year. The first is the continuation of Stop!! Hibari-kun!, from 1983. And now, here is the second, Hidamari no Ki...
View ArticleHow Orphan Chooses Projects
[I'm republishing this because I keep getting the same questions.]Orphan doesn't get a lot of comments on its releases, but along with the "thank yous" (always appreciated) are invariably requests of...
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The Soul Business
The roly-poly salesman with the shark-like smilecomes strolling towards the camera, and in the unmistakably resonant tones of Oohira Tooru he introduces himself:My name is Moguro Fukuzou.People call me...
View ArticleOrphans Dashboard
Except for short-runtime shows, few current series are left orphaned, because almost everything gets streamed and captured. Thus, orphaned series are mostly a matter of the back catalog.Orphans rescued...
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Smash Hit! (Hit wo Nerae!)
As promised (threatened) when Orphan released Cosprayers, here's the first companion series, Smash Hit! (Hit wo Nerae!). The second companion series, Love Love?, is licensed; go buy or rent the DVDs if...
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Hidamari no Ki, Part 2
Here is the second installment of Hidmari no Ki, episodes 7 to 13, bringing us to just past the halfway mark in the series. This seemed like a logical breaking point, because the ending song changes in...
View ArticleSenya Ichiya Monogatari (HD)
Tezuka Osamu's Animerama trilogy of "adult" anime - Senya Ichiya Monogatari (1969), Cleopatra (1970), and Kanashima no Belladonna (1973) - have long gotten a bum rap. They've been labelled as cartoon...
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Sonic Soldier Borgman: Madnight Gigs
Here's another Anime Music Video (AMV) from Erik's seemingly Endless Collection of Laserdisc Goodness - Sonic Soldier Borgman: Madnight Gigs (1989). It consists of seven songs from the original Sonic...
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Cleopatra (HD)
As promised, here's the HD version of Tezuka Osamu's 1970 Animerama film, Cleopatra. I've already written extensively about this film and its companion "adult" anime, Senya Ichiya Monogatari. See the...
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Purple Eyes in the Dark
Here's another anime music video or AMV, 1987's Purple Eyes in the Dark. It's based on an award-winning, 12-volume shoujo manga by Shinihara Chie about a teenage girl who finds she sometimes turns into...
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Condition Green
Inferious Wakusei Senshi Gaiden Condition Green (War History of the Inferious Planets: Condition Green, or just Condition Green for short) is a 1992 science-fiction OVA series. It documents the...
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Fantasia (The Girl from Phantasia)
We weren't really planning on doing the 1993 one-shot OVA Fantasia (English title, The Girl from Phantasia, possibly to avoid copyright issues with the Walt Disney film), but then Erik ripped the...
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Ai no Kusabi (1992)
When Orphan released Cathexis last year, it was supposed to be the first release in an ambitious project to redo early BL OVAs with modern encodes and softsubs. The original Lupin Gang scripts were...
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Starship Troopers
One of my favorite projects at Yoroshiku Fansubs was the six-part sci-fi OVA, Starship Troopers (Uchuu no Senshi, literally Space Soldiers), released by Sunrise in 1988. It was based on Robert A....
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