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Kosuke-sama Rikimaru-sama: Konpeitou no Ryuu
Kosuke-sama Rikimaru-sama: Konpeitou no Ryuu ( Kosuke and Rikimaru: The Dragon of Konpei Island ) is a 1988 OVA from Toriyama Akira, the cr...
Dragon Ball, Dragon Fist, Huckleberry Finn Monogatari, Beyond the Heavens, Tsuki ga Noboru made ni
Ninkuuuuuuu!
With the release of a batch torrent, including the drama CD, Soldado and Saizen's Blu-ray version of Ninku is complete. (DB - remember them?...
Tezuka Osamu: The Secret of Creation
Another first for Orphan: a live-action documentary about (who else?) Tezuka Osamu. A raw for this showed up recently on the anime community...
Toei's Kitten
Several major themes run through Orphan's releases: rescuing shows stranded on the wrong side of the Digital Divide; rescuing shows abandone...
Choujikuu Romanesque Samy: Missing 99
Choujikuu Romanesque Samy: MISSING 99 ( Superdimensional Romanesque Samy: MISSING 99 ) is a 1986 sci-fi fantasy that makes no sense along m...
Katte ni Shirokuma, Rurouni Kenshin, Sangokushi, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings, Reign: The Conqueror
Baby Love
Baby Love is such a familiar shoujo romance that it seemed like a refugee from the Margaret Video Series, but it was actually made somewhat ...
Angelique, Armitage III, Assemble Insert, Dear Brother, Whisper of the Heart
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep 13-15
Here is volume 5 of Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament: In the Beginning , which continues the Exodus story through the giving of the...
Fire Emblem, Ghost in the Shell, Next War Chronicle Ehrgeiz, Ninku, Sanctuary
Salvaging an Investment (Cherry no Manma)
Many, many years ago, members of the team were interested in translating Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage , a three-part horror OVA from 1989. The...
Darkness of the Sea, Shadow of the Moon, That Girl is 1000%, Call Me Tonight, Cherry no Manma, Lupin III
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament, Ep10-12
In my blog post on the third set of episodes, I piously hoped that there wouldn't be a year gap again, as there had been between the…
Laughing Salesman, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Sanctuary, AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave, Dallos
Practice Makes Perfect (A-Girl v3)
You were probably not expecting (or needing) this: a fourth version of the 1993 shoujo OVA A-Girl. Well, practice makes perfect. In 1992, Ma...
The Fashion Boy is Cool, Singles, Zetsuai 1989, A-Girl, Kiss wa Hitomi ni Shite
2021 in Review
The world continues to go to hell in a handbasket. The pandemic continues to rage. The world supply chain is borked. Inflation is rampant. W...
Rain Boy, Yawara!, Bakumatsu no Spasibo, Super Cub, Horimiya
Chameleon 4
What's this? Two episodes of Chameleon in the same calendar year? Is Satan gliding around his domain on ice skates? In the blog post for epi...
Sensou Douwa: Aoi Hitomi no Onnako no Ohanashu
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…
Doraemon, Fire Emblem, Shin Hakkenden, Alice in Cyberland, Shin Chan
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...
Senya Ichiya Monogatari, Ace wo Nerae!, Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, Mirai
Yuki
Forty years ago, the famed "social realism" film director Imai Tadashi released his one and only anime movie, Yuki . It was based on a 1976 ...
Bakumatsu no Spasibo
Yet another project that began in the deep, dark past. Bakumatsu no Spasibo ( Gratitude in the Bakumatsu ) is a 1997 movie about Russian adm...
A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose, Fire Emblem, Tree in the Sun, Bakumatsu no Spasibo, Initial D First Stage
Alice in Cyberland, the Sequel
In my blog post on the original Alice in Cyberland , more than three years ago, I commented on the mystery of the missing second episode.…
Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve
Here's another project whose antecedents are lost in the mists of time: an English subtitled version of the 1993 sci-fi movie Mother: Saigo ...
Fruits Basket, Joker, Kimagure Orange Road, Yamato 2520, Ai no Kusabi
The Girl That Got Away
Orphan-raws is releasing its encode of Kakutou Bijin Wulong ( Fighting Beauty Wulong ), done from R2J DVDS. Therein lies a story: a project...
Fighting Beauty Wulong, Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth, Yawara!
Sangokushi Dai San Bu Harukanaru Taichi (HD)
The third movie of the Sangokushi trilogy is Sangokushi Dai San Bu Harukanaru Taichi ( Sangokushi: The Distant Land ). With this release, O...
Shin Takarajima
It's no secret that practically every staff member in Orphan is mad for Tezuka Osamu. The team has done more shows by the God of Manga that ...
Pro Golfer Saru, Urusei Yatsura, Wanpaku Tanteidan, Bakumatsu no Spasibo, Fire Emblem
Cat-Eyed Boy (Youkaiden Nekome Kozou) 01
Just in time for Halloween, Orphan presents the first episode of Umezz Kazuo's 1976 horror series Youkaiden Nekome Kozou ( Spirit Legend Ca...
Anne of Green Gables, Chinpui, Haguregumo, Perrine Monogatari, Rain Boy
To-Y Blu-ray
To-Y is a 1987 OVA about a Japanese indie rock band and its lead singer. It is based on a ten-volume manga by Kamijou Atsuji. To-Y …
Death Note, Karuizawa Syndrome, Satsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro, VINLAND SAGA, Black Lion
Laughing Salesman HD Completed
Today, another milestone: the last group of high-definition TV episodes for Laughing Salesman ( Warau Salesman ) has been released. The TV ...
This Is Where I Came In...
I just had the pleasure of editing the Blu-ray version of episode 58 of Yawara! - the last one I had never touched (or seen) before -…
Death Note, Eguchi Hisashi no Kotobuki Gorou Show, Black Jack, Shin Chan, Shigeru
Sangokushi Dai Ni Bu Choukou Moyu!
Here, after an unconscionable delay, is the HD version of the second movie in the Sangokushi trilogy, 1993's Sangokushi Dai Ni Bu Choukou M...
Ai no Kusabi, Fullmetal Alchemist, High Speed Jessie, Naruto, Phoenix
Kageyama Tamio no Double Fantasy
Kageyama Tamio was a Japanese actor and writer. He is probably best known to anime audiences for his book Coo: Tooi Umi Kara Kita Coo , whic...
Summer Days with Coo, Mezzo, Oedo wa Nemurenai!, Dragon Ball, Okama Report
Tobira o Akete
Tobira o Akete is a sword-and-sorcery fest from 1986. It's based on a 1984 short story by the Japanese fantasy and science fiction writer M...
A Long Time Coming: King Fang
About four years ago, a gentle Swede who goes by the handle Go no Ken found a rare VHS tape of the 1978 TV special Daisetsuzan no Yuusha…
Botchan, King Fang, Perrine Monogatari, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tokimeki Tonight
Sensou Douwa: Kiku-chan to Ookami
Sensou Douwa ( War Fables or War Tales ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…
Wedding Peach, Cool Cool Bye, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Fire Emblem, Maison Ikkoku
Kasei Yakyoku v2
When Orphan released Kasei Yakyoku in late 2018, we had to use a VHS tape for the first two episodes. At the time, I said we'd redo…
Junod, Nightsong of Splendor, Marine Express, Peter Pan & Wendy, Rose of Versailles
Kaitei 3-man Mile
Toei Douga pioneered the feature-length theatrical cartoon in Japan, starting with 1958's Hakujaden . Orphan has released several Toei featu...
Lupin III, The Little Norse Prince, The Green Cat, Triton of the Sea, Dororo
Blue Sonnet
Akai Kiba Blue Sonnet ( Crimson Fang Blue Sonnet ), usually known as just Blue Sonnet , is a five-episode OVA series from 1989. It is based...
Maps, Nozomi Witches, Reign: The Conqueror, AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave, Kiba
(Maris) The Choujo
I'm not as familiar with the works of Rumiko Takahashi as an anime fan ought to be. I've never watched Maison Ikkoku , Urusei Yatsura , Ranm...
Akuma Tou no Prince: Mitsume ga Tooru, Fire Emblem, GeGeGe no Kitaro, Fumoon, ISLAND
More Raws from the Attic
Time to share a bit more buried treasure with the anime universe. Today's offering is Super Real Mahjong, a pair of OVAs from 1990 which sha...
Sangokushi Daiichibu Eiyuu-tachi no Yoake (HD)
This has been in the works for a while. High-definition versions of the Sangokushi movies appeared on Japanese streaming sites in the spring...
Body Jack (Laserdisc Version)
I wasn't planning on doing any more of the Pink Noise series after Call Me Tonight , but the laserdisc for the fourth and last show in…
Exper Zenon, Urusei Yatsura, Tokimeki Tonight, What's Michael?, Call Me Tonight
Hashire! Shiroi Ookami
Orphan hasn't done a critter feature in a while, so we're quite chuffed to present the first English-subtitled version of the 1990 movie Has...
Cleaning Out The Attic
Everyone in Orphan is a fan of old anime, so it's not surprising that the team has collected a lot more raw anime than it can translate. (Th...
B.B. Fish
There just aren't enough anime about scuba diving. Yes, there was Grand Blue , but it was primarily a gross-out comedy. And there was Amanch...
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...
The Fashion Boy is Cool, Twin Spica, Ai no Kusabi, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Alpen Rose
Aspect Ratios
In this blog entry, I am venturing into deep water without a life jacket, because I'm not an encoder, and I don't play one on TV. To keep…
Sensou Douwa: Boku no Boukuugou
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…
Futatsu no Kurumi, Gravitation TV, RahXephon, Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki, Fire Emblem
Tabi Suru Tobi Neko
Today, Orphan is releasing Tabi Suru Tobi Neko ( The Journeys of the Jumping Cats ). It's about... cats! Cute Cats Doing Cute Things™: Play...
Call Me Tonight
Pink Noise was a series of unrelated OVAs issues by C.Moon, the "adult" label of Bandai Visual. It consisted of four titles: Call Me Tonight...
Chameleon 3
I bet you weren't expecting another episode of Chameleon . Frankly, neither was I. Even though laalg translation-checked all the remaining e...
Fruits Basket, Nozomi Witches, Saiyuki, Sangokushi, Tsuritama
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...
Out of Gas
You've probably noticed that Orphan's releases this year lean heavily towards re-releases of past projects or of previously fansubbed material. Basically, the group is out of gas; our…
Nijuushi no Hitomi, Sakyo Komatsu's Animation Theater, Ambassador Magma, Fighting Beauty Wulong, Maps
Yamatarou Comes Back v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books: 1 The Green Cat 1983 2 Rain Boy 1983 3…
Lunn Flies into the Wind v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books: 1 The Green Cat 1983 2 Rain Boy 1983 3…