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February 2025 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases

A couple notable anime titles make their way onto home video, including Heaven Official’s Blessing and Rising of the Shield Hero. Plus Bubblegum Crisis gets a new release.

The Normanic Vault

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People are Still a Woman’s Best Work

The AD Police Files is set in the same world as Bubblegum Crisis, differing from that more renowned anime by including much darker stories. It still features humanoid…

Medieval Otaku

Michite Kuru Toki no Mukou ni

This has been on my wish list for a very long time: the 1992 TV special Michite Kuru Toki no Mukou ni ( Across the Surging Times…

Collectr's Blog

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When Old Work Reaches New Audiences: An Interview with Bubblegum Crisis' Kenichi Sonoda

Seasoned manga creator and character designer Kenichi Sonoda discusses reinvigorating retro art and Rally Vincent's updated ride.

Anime News Network - Views

Houkago no Tinker Bell

Houkago no Tinker Bell ( After School: Tinker Bell ) is a one-shot OVA based on the second in a series of 23 (!) light novels by…

Collectr's Blog

AD Police Files [OVA Review]

  A D Police Files; or, Stop! An officer will shoot      At least she died as a woman. The weather outside is as beautiful as ever this…

Watching Asia Film Reviews

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AD. Police by Suzuki Toshimichi / Tony Takezaki

I suspect that by the time I get to the end of this search through cyberpunk manga, I’m going to be very tired of Aikira “homages.” SPOILERS .…

MangaKast – A PodCast of All Things Manga

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Babbling About Overrated Anime

The List Code Geass Inuyasha Satoshi Kon Samurai X Trust and Betrayl Nausicaa and Spirited Away (Pom Poko Only Yesterday) Full metal alchemist brotherhood Ghost in the Shell Bubblegum Crisis (armitage, Mid-Late 2010s -…

animebackwhen

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Review: SILENT MOBIUS

 Well, considering that Kia Asamiya was a guest at this year's Otakon, maybe it's time for me to cover his most famous manga work. SILENT MO...

The Manga Test Drive

Review: SILENT MOBIUS

 Well, considering that Kia Asamiya was a guest at this year's Otakon, maybe it's time for me to cover his most famous manga work. SILENT MO...

The Manga Test Drive

Interview: Aramaki Shinji (Otakon 2023)

Aramaki Shinji is a creator known for his mecha design work on Bubblegum Crisis, Genesis Climber Mospeada, Megazone 23, and more. He also designed many of the toys…

OGIUE MANIAX

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 121: ReView: Project A-ko Versus

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month’s episode is another sh...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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 la...

Collectr's Blog

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Never Let a Good Idea Die: ARTMIC’s History of Recycled Ideas and Design

Drawing from their experience in TV anime, 3D photo stories, and other media, ARTMIC created rich OVAs that, more often than not, shared familiar thematic elements along with…

ZIMMERIT – Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin

Chameleon 6 (Series End)

After more than seven years, it's done. Orphan started in on Chameleon in the spring of 2015, because it had been left unfinished - only the...

Collectr's Blog

Disaster Report: EL HAZARD - THE WANDERERS

There are a lot of reasons I cover shows here on Disaster Report.   Some of them are famous failures.   Others are shows I wouldn’t even kno...

Renaissance Josei

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The Only 100 Anime You Need To Watch

100 Anime Recommendations These are the only 100 anime you need to see! Some of the old.. some of the new, I’m sure there are dozens that are perfect…

animebackwhen

Five Years On; Anime Feminist Vs Japanese Pop Culture

Well, as you can see, not a great deal of writing is getting done for this blog. To be honest, I have put the blog on hold for…

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

Disaster Report: TENCHI IN TOKYO

AIC produced a lot of hits over the years, but few of them could compare to the success and impact of the 1992 OVA Tenchi Muyo! .  What…

Renaissance Josei

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Ranking Retro Anime Watch Priority

List of anime: • Aim for the Ace • Akage no Anne • Akira • Angel’s Egg • Ashita no Joe • Barefoot Gen • Beck • Belladonna of Sadness • Berserk • Birdy the Mighty • Bubblegum Crisis •…

Anime Top Scholar

January1991 Pt. 2 Anime Hasshin.

   Anime Hasshin  “The Rose” ( 4TH. ANNIVERSARY ISSUE)  the Newsletter of Anime Hasshin number 25 (January 1991, 22 pages). Editor Lorraine ...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

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AnimEigo Talks With Anime Herald (Or “The House that MADOX Built”)

Anime Herald: Many years ago you did a track for Shogun Assassin with Samurai L. Jackson, excuse me, Samuel L. Jackson. How did that come about? Robert

Anime Herald

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What Else Did They Write? (Sadayuki Murai)

Not sure exactly how this series of posts will work, maybe it’ll evolve over time into a different structure or focus? But for now, I’m planning to just…

The Review Heap

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The Strangely Sanitary Role of Police in Cyberpunk Anime

Have you ever noticed how often cyberpunk anime focus on law enforcement? Cyberpunk is the anti-establishment genre of sci-fi, one designed to showcase

Anime Herald

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The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 101: Creative Conversations with Laura Watton

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month, I’m making my long ove...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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Artist spotlight: Shin’ya Ohira

This is just my personal opinion on the matter, but I don’t think many animators ever reached the same level of genius as Yoshinori Kanada in terms of…

Animétudes

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Bandai’s Brain Bank Media: B-Club

At the tail end of the gunpla boom, Bandai’s enthusiast publishing and garage kit division, B-Club, unleashed a monthly magazine and dozens of garage kits on a modeling…

ZIMMERIT – Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujinshi

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Garzey’s Wing: I Must Make Sense of this Convoluted Situation

Well, it happened. I returned to talk about a series that is connected to something that I watched previously yet again! Pretty much the same thing that I…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Bubblegum Crash: The Return of Boomers

It’s that time again. Time to dip back into the universe of the original Bubblegum Crisis once again. I didn’t have any major lead ups to this point,…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

AD Police Files: Boomers and Humanity

It’s time for yet another older OVA series. A couple years ago, I had a post looking at the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA series. A tale of a…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

October 1990 Pt.7 AnimeUK Newsletter

AnimeUK Newsletter. AnimeUK Newsletter, Consisting of 16 pages, #2 October 1990. Editor: Helen McCarthy.  And was available by subscrip...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

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The Decade in Review : The English Language Adaptation Industry and Fandom Part 1

With the Japanese side of things out of the way, I thought it might be fun to look at the English adaptation side of things. It’s taken me...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

[Links] 7-13 August 2019: Orientalism in “Enter the Anime,” Cosplay at Otakon, and Mistreatment of Foreign Workers

AniFem Round-Up [History] Shoujo Manga’s Lost Generation Megan D spotlights the women who influenced shoujo in the 1950s and 60s, and much of whose work has been lost…

Anime Feminist

[Versus] Decade Apart, Miles Ahead: Lady action heroes in Bubblegum Crisis and Tokyo 2040

Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 aired from 1999-2000, and I have recently discovered that I love it as much today as when I was a preteen girl with a…

Anime Feminist

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Megazone 23

I ALSO wrote this review years ago, and I ALSO never published it. Sorry if it seems different than my other reviews, it was written for another site,…

Prede's Anime Reviews

#70 - Interview with Robert Woodhead (Founder and CEO of AnimEigo)

Last weekend at Animazement in Raleigh, NC, Bill and I had the pleasure of having Robert Woodhead on the show. Robert is the Founder and CEO of Wilmington,…

Third Impact Anime Podcast

Artefacts of Geek Days Past: Anime Babes

Portrait of Lisa Munns with Anime Babes mascot Jojo the Shojo. Art by Lisa Tse, photo courtesy of Laura Watton Despite what the act...

The UK Anime Fandom Archive

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Dead English Language Anime Magazines: “V.Max”

Publisher: V.Max, Newtype Press, Newtype Publishing, R. Talsorian Games Format: 210mm x 280mm (Standard Magazine Size) Genre/Type: An...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

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History of Mecha Anime – Gasaraki – Gundam Wing Endless Waltz – Animerica October 2000

History of Mecha Anime and spotlights on Gasaraki and Gundam Wing Endless Waltz highlight this issue. Ryosuke Takahashi worked on Votoms & Gasaraki. Mecha!

Anime Nostalgia Bomb

Evidence #32 - Bubblegum Crisis Artbook (1988)

Download File Here! (File Size: 101mb) So I'm a little late to celebrate the 6th year this sites been active, and also a little…

Anime of Yesteryear

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Anibros Podcast Episode 98 – I Only Started Watching This Because of This Parasite in My Brain

We’re back in the saddle again! Momentarily escaping from the clutches of that Non-Anime Life, the Anibros have watched Bubblegum Crisis and recorded…

ANIBROS ☆ CREATIVE

Evidence #24: A-ni-me: The Berkeley Journal of Japanese Animation (Vol.1, Issue.1, 1990)

Download File HERE!! (Total Size: 158 mb) Well, now that Animazement has come and gone, I do have a gem that I…

Anime of Yesteryear

OtakuGeneration (Show #519) MY love STORY!!

  Shownotes :: (show 519) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With MY love STORY!!, recorded live May 17th, 2015. This week we…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #518) Death Parade

  Shownotes :: (show 518) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Death Parade, recorded live May 10th, 2015. This week we watched…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #517) Avengers: Age of Ultron

  Shownotes :: (show 517) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Kemonozume, recorded live May 3rd, 2015. This week we saw the…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Evidence #23: The ANIMAG Saga (Issue #11)

HAPPY BELATED 4TH ANNIVERSARY GUYS!! So, this site has existed for 4 years and... 8 days. Yea, so I'm a little…

Anime of Yesteryear

Evidence #18: TurboForce Vol. 3 (Jan 1993)

Happy New Year guys!! Now that were in the New Year, and who knows when i'll post again, I might as well…

Anime of Yesteryear

Manga Mania Mondays – September 1995

NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Anime Projects – Oh My Goddess 4, Bubblegum Crisis 5 (dub) East2West – Kekkou Kamen 2 Manga…

AWESOME ENGINE

Spiraken Movie Review Ep 72: Blade Runner (or It’s Too Bad She Won’t Live...But Then Again, Who Does?)

In this third installment of Spiraken Movie Review's Month of Megahackers, Megatechnology, and Megalomaniac Megacorporations, Anime 3000's very own Sean Russell joins Xan to review the quintessential cyberpunk…

Spiraken Review Podcast