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The History of Mushi Pro – 05 – Farewell to Tezuka (1970-1972)

From a Tezuka-centered perspective, the legacy of the Animerama films is difficult to assess. They were certainly pioneering, but the studio had to pay a heavy toll for…

Animétudes

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Don’t @ Me: Six of my Anime Opinions: Cleopatra’s Wardrobe Changes Edition

It’s Monday, which means it is time for this! Welcome back to Don’t @ Me! The place, like Cleopatra from the 1963 titular film, I constantly change my…

Shallow Dives in Anime

Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep25-26

With the return of the Jews (as they were now known) to Jerusalem, the historical narrative in the Old Testament basically peters out. The b...

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085 - The Osamu Tezuka Story

Fans of Astro Boy, Buddha and Blackjack will be happy to know that today’s episode is all about the manga god that is Osamu Tezuka! After reading his…

We Appreciate Manga

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! ( I Am Shiratori Reiko! ) is a one episode shoujo romantic comedy from 1990. It is based on a 7-volume manga ...

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Lupin the Third Part 1 Episode 1: The Legendary Thief Lupin

The 1970s was a pretty eventful decade for Japanese animation – with regards to animated features, Cleopatra (an X-rated production directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto) debuted…

Anime Commentary Returns

Yuki (BD 720p)

This one's for you, DmonHiro. To prepare for encoding the 1080p version of Yuki , M74 made a "test" encode at 720p for review. It looked fin...

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The Story of Animerama: Legacy

The Animerama trilogy officially ended in 1973 with the failed release of Belladonna of Sadness and the closure of Mushi Productions.  That...

Renaissance Josei

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The Story of Animerama: Belladonna of Sadness

 By 1971, things looked grim for the Animerama project and Mushi Productions.  Cleopatra had flopped, Tezuka had resigned from the studio i...

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The Story of Animerama: Cleopatra

  A Thousand and One Nights didn’t come together quite as smoothly as Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto hoped, but they did manage to make a...

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The Story of Animerama: A Thousand and One Nights

Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto, and the staff at Mushi Productions had nothing but high hopes for the Animerama project when it started.  Jus...

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2020 In Review

Boy, am I happy to see 2020 in the rear-view mirror. Pandemic, protests, political polarization... Millions dead world-wide... It can't end soon enough. Despite that, Orphan Fansubs had…

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Ten Years Ago on a Cold Dark Night...

It sort of slipped my mind with everything else that's going on these days, but this month is the tenth anniversary of Orphan Fansubs' firs...

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