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Greed
No, not the famous, and famously butchered, 1924 Erich von Stroheim film, but an hour-long OVA from 1985. Greed is kind of a swordfighting fantasy and sci-fi hybrid. It was released on video tape and...
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Leiji Matsumoto is one of the great names in Japanese manga. His numerous projects include The Cockpit, Space Battleship Yamato (with Yoshinobu Nishizaki), Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express...
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Sangokushi 2 (1986)
Here's the second Sangokushi OVA, from 1986: Orphan's 125th release. It starts after the Battle of Red Cliffs and charts the ups and downs of Liu Bei Xuande's attempt to create a viable state in Shu...
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Yume Kakeru Kougen
To this day, Japan retains a strong bias against foreigners. However, a small number of anime movies have been made about foreigners who loved Japan and helped rebuild it in the aftermath of the Second...
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Alice in Cyberland
A lot of OVAs, particularly those that were promotions for other media (manga, video games, novels), were one-and-done affairs, such as Sanctuary, Meisou Ou Border, Cosmic Fantasy, and Joker: Marginal...
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Hidamari no Ki, Part 4
Here is the final installment of Hidamari no Ki: episodes 20 to 25. The chaos of the Bakumatsu reaches its climax with the overthrow of the Shogunate, an event that has decisive consequences for...
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It's been more than four years since FroZen-EviL finished the standard-definition Yawara! project by releasing Yawara! The Atlanta Special, more formally known as Yawara! Ever Since I Met You... The...
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So here's Orphan's last word on Hidamari no Ki - the batch torrent. There are minor fixes in eleven episodes, for nomenclature inconsistencies and typos. If you don't want to download the v2 files, or...
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Oishinbo Special: Japan-America Rice War
After a rather lengthy delay, here's the second Oishinbo special, Japan-America Rice War (Nichibei Kome Sensou). Although I have no firm evidence, I suspect that this delay resulted from a simple fact:...
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Okane ga Nai!
So why, after swearing off R1-licensed anime, is Orphan releasing Okane ga Nai? Call it conservation of momentum. The project got started yonks ago, when M74 and I were plotting to redo some of the...
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Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki: Long Distance Call
Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki Long Distance Call (Business Fighter Yamazaki: Long Distance Call) was a successful manga by Tomizaki Jun. It ran from 1992 to 2000 and was collected in twelve tankoban volumes....
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Wild 7
For a society as orderly and law-abiding as Japan, the anime-watching public seems to love shows where society in the grip of criminal "carnage" (to quote a recent so-called leader). The only solution...
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Techno Police 21C (Blu-ray)
There's a saying: "Once in happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action". If that's true, then Something's Going On, because the Blu-ray release of Techno Police 21C is the third...
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Ultra Nyan: Hoshizora kara Maiorita Fushigi Neko
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Ultra Nyan! Yes, Orphan Fansubs once again delves into its feline obsession to bring you the first of two OVAs about Ultra Nyan, the interstellar cat come to Earth...
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Ultra Nyan 2: Happy Daisakuse
Nyan, Haruka, and the whole human and feline gang return for a second adventure in 1998's Ultra Nyan 2: Happy Daisakuse (Ultra Nyan 2: Great Happy Operation or Happy Battle). Like the first Ultra Nyan,...
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Kiss wa Me ni Shite
The Margaret video series was a set of six shoujo OVAs released at monthly intervals in 1993. They were based on manga published in Margaret magazine and animated by Madhouse. In chronological order,...
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POPS
The Margaret video series was a set of six shoujo OVAs released at monthly intervals in 1993. They were based on manga published in Margaret magazine and animated by Madhouse. In chronological order,...
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Bloat
This blog has mostly been descriptive, providing introductions to Orphan's releases. The thought and opinion pieces that peppered the early years of the blog have by and large disappeared. It's time to...
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Boyfriend
Boyfriend is a 1992 OVA/TV special based on an award-winning shoujo manga. I'd describe it as a fairly routine shoujo romance crossed with a sports anime. Yuuki, a girl with a weak heart, falls for...
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Singles
The Margaret video series was a set of six shoujo OVAs released at monthly intervals in 1993. They were based on manga published in Margaret magazine and animated by Madhouse. In chronological order,...
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