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Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament: Batch
So here, four years after we started, is Orphan's final word on Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament: In the Beginning . The batch cont...
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...
Hellsing Ultimate, Moonlight Mile, Samurai 7, Senya Ichiya Monogatari, Video Girl Ai
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep22-24
The eighth volume of Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament covers the glory days of the Kingdom of Israel, its decline (mostly skipped)...
Armored Trooper Votoms, Run Melos, BABYLON, Tree in the Sun, Black Jack
Sotsugyousei Revisited
Back in the airly days (2013), Orphan did a number of projects based on the -uusei eroge franchise, starting with a three episode OVA from ...
Rosario + Vampire, Banner of the Stars, Dominion Tank Police, Ergo Proxy, Sanctuary
Doukyuusei: Climax v2
And now for something completely different. Orphan's next release is a revised version of the 1995 OVA Doukyuusei: Climax . The original rel...
Maison Ikkoku, Next War Chronicle Ehrgeiz, Sazae-san, Cosmic Fantasy, First Loves
Tengai Makyou
Our 300th release, or at least that's what is says on the release page. Orphan starts out 2023 on the right note with the first English-subt...
Cosmic Fantasy, Crest of the Stars, Tree in the Sun, Laughing Target, Shuten Doji - The Star Hand Kid
2022 in Review
2022 winds down as catastrophically as most other recent years. The war in Ukraine grinds on. A "tripledemic" rages in the US. Covid has ret...
Star Dust
Orphan's last release for 2022. The 1992 sci-fi OVA Star Dust is the brainchild of Itano Ichirou, a well-known action director who worked o...
Death Note, Dragon Fist, Fruits Basket, Karuizawa Syndrome, Ushio and Tora
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep19-21
The seventh volume of Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament is the pivot point between the mythic and "historical" parts of the Bible....
Cowboy Bebop, Witch Girl Meg, Nozomi Witches, Yamato 2520, Initial D First Stage
What's in a Name?
Today, in honor of the anniversary of the passing of our late colleague, CP, QC extraordinaire for many groups, we have a mass release of on...
Haruka Naru Toki no Nake de 3: Owarinaki Unmei
And now the other shoe drops; Orphan presents a new version of the 2010 TV special, Haruka Naru Toki no Nake de 3: Owarinaki Unmei ( In…
To Heart, Yowamushi Pedal, Gintama, Gravitation TV, Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2010)
Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep 16-18
Here is volume 6 of Tezuka Osamu's Tales of the Old Testament: In the Beginning , which concludes the Exodus story and starts the books abou...
BAKI, Canaan, Fire Tripper, Kai Doh Maru, Mashin Hero Wataru
Laughing Target
Orphan concludes (for now) its Rumiko Takahashi festival with the third Rumic World OVA, 1987's Warau Hyouteki ( Laughing Target ). This is...
Death Note, Laughing Target, Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - Ai no Shiro, Nozomi Witches, One Pound Gospel
Fire Tripper
Orphan's Rumiko Takahashi mini-festival continues with 1985's OVA Fire Tripper . This is a terrific time-travel adventure, the first of the ...
Joker Game, Katte ni Shirokuma, Eguchi Hisashi no Kotobuki Gorou Show, Izumo, Joker
(Maris) The Choujo - Dual Audio
So... a dual audio version of Maris the Choujo , that is, an updated release including an English dub track. You may be asking yourself, "Ha...
Hameln no Violin Hiki
Here's a project that everyone on the team loved: the 1996 short movie Hameln no Violin Hiki ( The Violinist of Hamelin ). Based on a 37-vol...
Barbapapa, Satsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro, Sol Bianca, Yawara!, Akai Hayate
Kaitei 3-man Mile SD
Here's a standard-definition version of Kaitei 3-man Mile , encoded from the R2J DVD. There's not much to say about this release; it's a sma...
Wolf Guy v2
When Orphan released Wolf Guy back in 2016, I noted , "The laserdiscs came from two sources. The first three volumes are from Erik's collec...
Nemure Omoigo, Sora no Shitone ni (HD)
When we released Nemure Omoigo, Sora no Shitone ni , a nyaa downloader asked why we hadn't used the high resolution R-Raws encode instead. T...
Never Say Never Again (Cat-Eyed Boy 02)
Happy Halloween! Orphan again brings you some thrills and chills with the second episode of Umezz Kazuo's 1976 horror series Youkaiden Nekom...
The Little Norse Prince, Unico, Cyborg 009, Moomin, Ninja Hattori-kun
Nemure Omoigo, Sora no Shitone ni
From the depths of the unfinished projects vault, Orphan and M74 bring you a new version of the 2014 sci-fi anime, Nemure Omoigo, Sora no S...
God Eater, Beast Saga, Berserk, D4 Princess, Girl from Phantasia
Sugata Sanshiro
When Orphan released Botchan , I mentioned that YES raws had an equally good rip of the 1981 TV special, Sugata Sanshirou , just waiting to ...
GeGeGe no Kitaro, Gude Crest: The Emblem of Gude, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Ushio and Tora, Future Boy Conan
Chameleon 6 (Series End)
After more than seven years, it's done. Orphan started in on Chameleon in the spring of 2015, because it had been left unfinished - only the...
Bite me!, D4 Princess, Exper Zenon, One Piece, The Adventures of the Little Prince
Ai no Kusabi (1992) DVD Extras
I recently received a copy of the R2J ISO for Ai no Kusabi and was surprised to see that it had seven "extras." These are slide shows…
Even the Good Homer Nods (Don Dracula)
The Roman poet Horace noticed that in the Iliad , Homer reintroduced a character that he had previously killed off. Horace's comment was "Qu...
Urusei Yatsura, What's Michael?, Sangokushi, Doraemon, Doraemon
Kimami ni Idol
Kimama ni Idol (Free-Spirited Idols) is a 1990 comedy OVA based on a manga by Kotani Kenichi. It tells the madcap tale of three teenage girl...
Fruits Basket, High Speed Jessie, Kaleido Star, Kizuna, Nozomi Witches
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 ...
Eguchi Hisashi no Kotobuki Gorou Show, Pilot Candidate, Outlaw Star, What's Michael?, World Trigger
Still More Raws from the Attic
Here's another raw I'd dearly love to translate: Noel no Fushigi na Bouken ( Noel's Fantastic Trip ), a 1983 children's movie. According to...
Arisa Good Luck v2
Now, this is embarrassing. Almost as soon as I released Arisa Good Luck , a viewer posted a comment pointing out that the video was, to put...
Arisa Good Luck
Here's a true bluebird: the 1999 one-shot OVA Arisa Good Luck . Last month, Tennouji, translator and proprietor of SakuraCircle, contacted m...
Nagasarete Airantou, Natsume's Book of Friends, Wedding Peach, Inukami!, Minion
Lunatic Night 03v2
Here's an updated version of episode 3 of the late 90s h-anime comedy Lunatic Night . This version was made possible by Internet pen-pal kno...
Beast City (Inma Daitoshi) 3v2
sxales has recently released a new dual audio encode of the US version of the 1990's h-anime Beast City ( Inma Daitoshi ), which includes t...
Nana Toshi Monogatari
Here's another project that BlueFixer asked Orphan to redo: the two-part sci-fi OVA Nana Toshi Monogatari: Hokkyokukai Sensen ( A Tale of S...
Cherry no Manma, Everlasting Heart, D4 Princess, Sore Ike! Anpanman, Black Lion
Chameleon 5
We're seven months into a catastrophic 2022. War ranges unchecked in Ukraine. Inflation is at a forty-year high. Drought is killing the rive...
AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave, Candy Candy, Bite me!, High Speed Jessie, Ai no Kusabi
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 2
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de ( In a Distant Time ) is an otome game franchise developed by Ruby Party. It spans at least a dozen…
Ah My Buddha!!, The Story of Saiunkoku, Waza no Tabibito, Ai no Kusabi, Batman: Gotham Knight
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...
Perrine Monogatari, Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac, Zipang, Dragon Fist, MAJOR 2nd
King Fang v2
In November of 2021, Orphan's timer ninacloud noticed that an uploader going by the handle of fabrebatalla18 had torrented a group of "rare ...
Sotsugyou: Graduation
There are lots of OVAs with Graduation in the title. This one is the two episode OVA from 1995. It is based on a dating sim game and…
Boku no Boukuugou, Cerberus, Fruits Basket, RahXephon, Sailor Victory
Status
I haven't done a status report in a long time, because for a long time, there was nothing to report. Now, though, there are quite a few proj...
Kakyuusei (1995), DVD Edition
The world doesn't need another version of Kakyuusei (1995), but here's one anyway. An Internet pen-pal who goes by the handle of ProxyMan ha...
Saber Marionette J, The Big O, Doukyuusei 2 Special: Sotsugyousei, Ergo Proxy, Battle Vixens: Ikki Tousen
Junkers Come Here: Memories of You
Stop me if you've heard the one about the talking dog... Junkers Come Here and its sequel were novels by Kine Naoto. They featured a Schnau...
Junkers Come Here, Junkers Come Here: Memories of You, Nora, Sailor Moon, Candy Candy
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