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Growing Up

Seishun Anime Zenshuu (translated as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature for its English release) is a 1986 anthology series that retold well-known stories from modern Japanese literature. It's…

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Nessa no Wakusei

Okizari presents the first English-subtitled release of the original version of Nessa no Wakusei (Desert Planet or Hot Sandy Planet), a mid-1990s borderline hentai OVA. It's better known in North America…

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2025 in Review

2025 turned out to be even more calamitous than I had feared. I couldn't bear to watch the news, as one horror followed another.Orphan FansubsDespite the adverse conditions…

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Heavy

Orphan has done a couple of shows about boxing already: Takahashi Rumiko's 1989 OVA One Pound Gospel and the 1992 three-part OVA Nozomi Witches. We're now releasing another,…

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Reader's Digest Condensed Anime - Cello Hiki no Gauche (1998)

Some Japanese stories are so beloved that the have been made into an anime many times. One of them is Miyazawa Kenji' s Cello Hiki no Gauche...

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Buried

I'm less than halfway through my enforced hiatus for cataract surgery, but something remarkable has happened. Instead of Orphan's work grind...

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Bride of Deimos

Deimos no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku ( Bride of Deimos: The Orchid Suite ) is a 1988 one-shot OVA. It's based on an incomplete 17-volume ma...

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Junk Boy | KYOTO VIDEO

1987 's Junk Boy is here to remind you that, as bad as some perverts in modern anime can be, they could also worse. The gorgeous city pop…

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Hayou no Tsurugi

Hayou no Tsurugi was a series of forty (!) light novels by Maeda Tomiko, published between 1989 and 2017. (A spinoff series, Hayou no Tsuru...

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Junk Boy (OAV)

Type: Title says it all Synopsos: Like Golden Boy, but not as good. Pros: The OAV is about a walking lawsuit waiting to happen getting a job at…

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Sensou Douwa: Chiisai Sensuikau ni Koi wo Shita Dekasugira Kojira no Hanashi

Sensou Douwa ( War Tales or War Fables ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…

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