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Asatte Dance

Here's another ecchi OVA from Knack: 1991's Asatte Dance ( Dance till Tomorrow ), adapted from a seven volume manga by Yamamoto Naoki. It's...

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Mellow

Another year, another ecchi OVA about cross-dressing from Knack. This time it's 1993's Mellow , which is based on a manga by Kasahara Rin th...

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Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water

Despite superficial similarities to the works of one of the industry's immortal titans, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is the work of the up-and-comers who would go…

Anime News Network - Views

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 120: Creative Conversations with Rock M Sakura!

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! Not only does this month mark 10 Y...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 114: 2022 Year in Review with Zee & MDi

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! 2022 is just about over! So you kn...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

By Andrew Osmond. Speaking at 2014’s Tokyo Film Festival, Hideaki Anno mentioned that he once watched a rerun of his series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and was pleased…

All the Anime

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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

February 1991Pt. 2 Protoculture Addicts Fan Magazine

  Protoculture Addicts No. 11.  FEBRUARY 1991  NADIA, HARLOCK, COMIC PREVIEW, TFOS: Macross Characters. Protoculture Addicts – The Anime & M...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

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Review: Rebuild of Welcome to the NHK

Tatsuhiko Takimoto’s Welcome the NHK is an important piece of 21st century fiction that provides a vivid fictional account of social problems in turn-of-the-century Japan. Based on the…

Ani-Gamers

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Popular Reviews from the Last 6 Months

This is a post where, as suggested, I highlight some reviews that have been popular in the previous 6 months. (Last time around I also did a post…

The Review Heap

November 1990 Pt. 2 Animedia magazine

Animedia - First Published in July of 1981 by Gakken Co., Ltd. , #11 November 1990 (No 112) 500 Yen. Consisting of 156 pages (includ...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

November 1990 Pt.1 Newtype Magazine

' Newtype'  - the moving pictures magazine '. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 188 pages (including front & back covers),...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

October 1990 Pt. 2 Animedia magazine

Animedia - First Published in July 1981 by Gakken Co., Ltd. Consisting of 144 pages (including the front & back covers), #10October 1990 (No...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

October 1990 Pt.1 Newtype Magazine

'Newtype'  - the moving pictures magazine'. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 188 pages (including front & back covers), #...

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September 1990 Pt.4 Anime Hasshin

 “The Rose” the Newsletter of Anime Hasshin number 23, and what follows is a brief overview,   Special Features  Nadia's Mysterious Ocean [...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

September 1990 Pt. 2 Animedia magazine

Animedia - First Published in July 1981 by Gakken Co., Ltd. Consisting of 144 pages (including the front & back covers), #9 September 1990 (...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

Popular Reviews from the Second 6 Months

So, this is the second set of these posts for Heap, where I highlight reviews (or posts) that ended up being the most popular across a certain span…

The Review Heap

September 1990 Pt.1 Newtype Magazine

'Newtype - the moving pictures magazine' #9 September 1990.  Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 188 pages (including front ...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – Nadia vs Atlantis

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 / Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001 I wanted this post to be far more comprehensive than…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – Visual Analysis

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 I took far too many screencaps with these posts and so I thought I’d better to…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – The Tartessos Arc, Episodes 35-39

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Seventh part – it’s a little longer than the last one, but hopefully not unbearably so,…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – The Africa Arc, Episodes 32-34

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Post number six now and the show is still very much in a bad way. In…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – The Island Arc, Episodes 23-31

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Time for post number five, where things really fall apart – though there is another sucker…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – Beneath the Mask Arc, Episodes 20-22

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Onward to the fourth post now, with what is perhaps the second most important (if short)…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – The Nautilus Arc, Episodes 9-19

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Post number three now – this is the longer ‘arc’ as it were, and things are…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – A Growing Darkness Arc, Episodes 5-8

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Here’s the second of seven or eight posts on Nadia! A quick note – while I’ve…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) – The NHK Arc, Episodes 1-4

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 Following on from this introduction post I thought I’d start things today – and let’s see…

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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia)

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia) 1990 There’s valid debate as to whether Nadia of the Mysterious Seas should actually be considered a…

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The Secrets of ‘Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water’

The following is an interview with Dr. Marc Hairston about Gainax’s Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Me: What is Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water? What is…

The History of Gainax