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Classic Shonen Analysis: The Complete Collection

Go to https://TryFum.com/BONSAIPOP or scan the QR code and use code BONSIAPOP to get your free FÜM Topper when you order your Journey Pack today! This is the definitive…

Bonsai Pop

Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Man (Aoki Honoo v2)

Aoki Honoo is a one-shot OVA from 1989, based on a six-volume manga by Yanagasawa Kimio, a prolific mangaka who is almost unknown in the…

Collectr's Blog

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Otaku Collection Haul for September 2024

For this haul, we have decided to collect the entire City Hunter anime series on Blu-ray, secured a number of Asian films in 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray…

The Normanic Vault

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Summer 2024 – Week 10 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With my housemate back from vacation, my progress through Sailor Moon’s final season has slowed precipitously, but I am…

Wrong Every Time

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Space Heater Chat – June 12 2023: Post Convention Syndrome

Mike, Kevin, and Mohammed give a few thoughts on Anime North almost three weeks after, the City Hunter live action almost three weeks after Mike was supposed to…

Anime Roundtable

City Hunter (1987) [Anime Review]

City Hunter; or, Mokkori Mania      There’s a chance you will celebrate your next birthday in hell. Inspired by the Netflix live-action adap...

Watching Asia Film Reviews

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Anime Crossover 40 Years In The Making | Lupin III vs Cat's Eye

In the world of anime and manga, there exists quite a few crossovers between different series. But there is one anime crossover that seemed like such a no…

Anime Top Scholar

I can't believe it's not Shoggy! : Riding Bean OVA review

It's been a whirlwind month for us with attending Anime Expo and San Diego Comic con, but we couldn't neglect our blog readers, so we're her...

Weekly Shounen Sunday Edition

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City Hunter (2024) [Film Review]

City Hunter; or, Mr Private Eye      I’ll take you on your case. Let’s go avenge your brother. I’m back with new, belated update. This time,...

Watching Asia Film Reviews

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - Ep 131: Live-action Anime Special! Netflix City Hunter with Rueben

  Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This episode is sponsored in par...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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The history of Studio Dove: Studio Sunrise’s hidden trump card – Nobuyoshi Nishimura Long Interview

If you've watched any Sunrise anime from the 1980s or 1990s, chances are you've encountered Nobuyoshi Nishimura’s work or become aware of his name.

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Nayuta

Nayuta is a 1986 sci-fi OVA,based on a three volume manga by Sasaki Junko. (The manga is not available in English.) It's another show that a...

Collectr's Blog

Genji Part 1

Here's another project that's been on my "to do" list for a long time: 1992's time-travel sci-fi mind-fuck OVA Genji (Part One) . The "Part ...

Collectr's Blog

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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (1969) – Serial 03

So many legendary franchises have been launched by manga originally serialized in the magazine for the manliest of boys, Weekly Shonen Jump. Mazinger Z, Cobra, Kinnikuman, Dr. Slump,…

THE SKARO HUNTING SOCIETY

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Twitter: @kcserinlee

Source: https://www.pxfuel.com/en/desktop-wallpaper-tkvvn It is my pleasure to introduce you all to a new member of our team, Kathy! I met Kathy recently at AX 2023, and am excited to have…

The Anime View

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I Used a Randomizer to Watch WEIRD Anime

The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/lextorias07239 💬 SOCIALS 💬 Support me on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/lextorias Second Channel ➜ https://www.youtube.com/@alextorias Twitter…

Lextorias

The Manga Review: In Your Ear

This week’s Manga Review is something of a departure. Instead of rounding up links from around the web, I’m focusing primarily on podcasts. On Wednesday, I posted a…

Manga Bookshelf

The Manga Review: In Your Ear

This week's Manga Review is something of a departure. Instead of rounding up links from around the web, I'm focusing primarily on podcasts. On Wednesday, I posted a…

Manga Bookshelf

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OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #913) Chobits

Shownotes :: (show 913) :: () :: () :: () :: () With City Hunter (Season 1), recorded live December 4th, 2022. This week, we classic, we…

otakugeneration's Podcast

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OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #912) City Hunter (Season 1)

Shownotes :: (show 912) :: () :: () :: () :: () With City Hunter (Season 1), recorded live November 27th, 2022. This week, we watched an…

otakugeneration's Podcast

The Lost Soul Plot – The Manga Gold Standard?

There is no one shonen plot to rule them all, but there is a plot that has basically become a “gold standard” for shonen manga targeted at young…

RobynPaterson.com

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Translating Manga ft David Evelyn

On this episode, I'm joined by Japanese-English translator, David Evelyn. David has worked on visual novels, games, manga, light novels, and other Japanese media. Currently, he translates for…

The Wonder of Anime

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(#ShonenJumpMovieNight) City Hunter: Bay City Wars

So yeah, it’s time for the second shot at City Hunter. This time, well it feels like a conventional sort of action movie, 45 minutes long. But one…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

High Risk (1995) [Film Review]

High Risk; or, Die Hard Jackie!      A man should rely on himself. I think I should acknowledge this right off the bat. I would not have pen...

Watching Asia Film Reviews

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(#ShonenJumpMovieMonth) City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy

City Hunter is a franchise that I’ve never had any interest in checking out. Stil, it is pretty visible in a lot of retro anime sort of areas…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Dead Justice

detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,

ボクの事件簿

Guest spot: Manga Machinations

  While I'm working on getting the new podcast episode finished, you can check out my guest appearance on one of the recent episodes of the ...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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Review: City Hunter (Season One)

Imagine if Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China ran a detective agency. Imagine if, instead of being a completely incompetent idiot, he actually had the skills…

Ani-Gamers

397 – Manga in Motion 55 – Nicky Larson

For the final installment of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective we’re joined by our friend Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast to discuss the 2018 French action comedy…

Manga Machinations

396 – Manga in Motion 54 – City Hunter Anime

For part 3 of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective, we watch the original 1987 anime! dakazu also discusses his discomfort with reading Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni…

Manga Machinations

395 – Manga in Motion 53 – Jackie Chan’s City Hunter

This week dakazu talks about Our Flag Means Death being BL, more series from Manga Planet Library, and Jiro Matsumoto’s Ichigeki and beautiful place! Then it’s time for Part 2 of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective where…

Manga Machinations

394 – Saikyo Selections 15 – City Hunter

Welcome to the start of our Multimedia Retrospective on City Hunter! Throughout the rest of this month of May we’ll be looking at various iterations of the girl chasing private detective,…

Manga Machinations

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Mutsumi Inomata and Atsuko Ishida Discussion on 80s Cute Girls Anime

A retrospective between Mutsumi Inomata and Atsuko Ishida from 2012 on 80s cute girls anime, where they talk about working at Kaname Pro on projects such as Plawres…

Heisei Etranger

Spiraken Manga News Ep 41: March 24th - 30th 2022

Let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast    In this episode, Xan discusses the new City Hunter english release, announces the winner of the 15th annual…

Spiraken Review Podcast

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - Guest Episode: Cat's Eye with the Zannen Canada Podcast

  Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! Valentine’s Day may be over, but...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

More Old-school Anime Valentines!

  Another year of old-school anime Valentine cards!  Yes, I’m back again this year with more cheesy puns for your Valentine needs.  Save & p...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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Of Magnums and Mokkori: 36 years of CITY HUNTER

I cast my eyes over an entire anime Franchise I’ve been watching over the last year. A very iconic one too!

Animehead's Retroworld

A Roundtable Discussion With 8 Female Animators (Animage, June 1990): A DeepL “Translation”

NOTE: This is by no means a professional translation, this was done via machine translation. As such, not every meaning may be reproduced with 100% accuracy or flow well…

Genga Land

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What I Watched This Week – 5/9-5/15

City Hunter – This absolutely is not the kind of show I would normally watch, but it came out in 1987, and that’s the last year in the…

The Romantic Goldfish

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Gude Crest

Orphan's presents a new English release of the 1990 sword-and-sorcery OVA Onna Senshi Efe & Jira: Gude no Monshou ( Woman Warriors Efe & Ji...

Collectr's Blog

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MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi

Here's a wonderful example of the "wide-screen baroque" school of anime science fiction, the 1987 movie MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-t...

Collectr's Blog

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Old-school anime Valentines!

Another year of old-school anime Valentine cards! Yes, I’m back again this year with more cheesy puns for your Valentine needs. Save & prin...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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Classic Shounen Jump Anime | Cats Eye (1983)

You can also check out the article we wrote on Cat's Eye here: https://www.retroverse.net/2022/05/16/cats-eye-1983-1985/ We're back! Today we're taking a look at the 80s Lupin-esque anime, by the creator…

Anime Top Scholar

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Makoto-chan the Movie

Some western anime audiences are familiar with Crayon Shin-chan , a very long running Japanese anime series about a five-year-old boy with l...

Collectr's Blog

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Elf 17

Orphan's projects get started for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, a raw intrigues one of the translators. Sometimes, an orphaned series ge...

Collectr's Blog

November 1990 Pt. 3 Anime V magazine

'Anime V' (New Video Magazine.) , Published by Gakken Co., Ltd.  ( 学習研究社 )  Consisting of 132 to 140 pages (including the front & ba...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #790) City Hunter Shinjuku Private Eyes

Shownotes :: (show 790) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With City Hunter Shinjuku Private Eyes, recorded live July 27th, 2020. …

otakugeneration's Podcast

September 1990 Pt 8 Anime V magazine

'Anime V' (New Video Magazine.) , Published by Gakken Co., Ltd.  ( 学習研究社 )  Consisting of 140 pages (including the front & back covers), #9...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK