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Beyblade the Movie "Double Feature": You Spin Your Top Right Round, Right Round, Till You Go Down, Till You Go Down Down
The concept of the spinning top is one that dates just about as far back as humanity can possibly trace back to, being one of the oldest…
Obscusion B-Side: A Complete Overview of the PS2's GunCon 2 Rail Shooter Decet
A couple of years ago I went over the four games that comprised Capcom's infamous/notorious (depending on the person) Gun Survivor sub-seri...
Retrospect in Retrograde: Beast Fighter: The Apocalypse
As mentioned in the previous review , Ken Ishikawa's apocalyptic sci-fi manga Majuu Sensen / The Demonic Beast Front only managed to run fo...
Oh Me, Oh My, OVA! δ: Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog
There are certain words that have a wide variety of interpretations, depending on the usage, context, & intention, & "dog" might just be one...
Majuu Sensen (OVA): Who Needs "The Father, The Son, & The Holy Spirit" When You've Got "The Bear, The Lion, & The Eagle"?!
Born on June 28, 1948 in Karasuyama , Nasu, Tochigi (now Nasukarasuyama , since merging with Minaminasu in 2005), Kenichi "Ken" Ishikawa wou...
Obscusion B-Side: The IF Neverland Reportage: Prelude to a New War
Previously on The IF Neverland Reportage : "Without a doubt, the earliest games in the IF Neverland franchise can be evenly split into two ...
Obscusion B-Side: Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog: 1995 (Part 3)
Previously on Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog : "With the Jag now having actual major competition on the North America market in ...
Obscusion B-Side: It's All About the Ataris, Baby... The Companies, Not the Punk Rock Band
There are only so many words in any language, so it's only natural that people only have so many words to name a company that they start up…
Obscusion B-Side: Frames, ARKs, Presidents, & HOUNDs: A Look at FromSoftware's Un-Armored Cores
Founded on November 1, 1986 by Naotoshi Zin, Tokyo-based FromSoftware initially made its name as a developer of various business applicatio...
Television Spectaculars Across the Grand Line! A Look at the Original Four One Piece TV Specials
While they're still done on rare occasion to this day, the concept of the " TV special " has certainly lost the luster it once had. In an…
Obscusion B-List: 4:3-Only Wii Games That Resisted Widescreen
When it comes to imagery, one of the most important things to consider, from a compositional perspective, is aspect ratio . This determines ...
The Ages of Jump Encore Part 2: Going Out Fighting, Allegro con Fuoco
55 years ago, Shueisha launched Shonen Jump, a biweekly magazine meant to act as a sister publication to Shonen Book, a monthly magazine lau...
The Ages of Jump Encore Part 1: "Play 'Freebird'!"
Close to eight years ago, a.k.a. sometime in late 2015, I came up with the "brilliant" idea of using Wikipedia's list of every single manga ...
The Tangerine Terminator: A Look at Shonen Jump's History of Early Cancellations, By the Numbers
In the 55 years since the original launch of Shonen Jump as a biweekly magazine in July of 1968, the magazine has become the iconic origin f...
Samurai Deeper Kyo (GBA): Not Quite First to Arrive, But Definitely Last to Leave
Launching in Japan on March 21, 2001, with a worldwide release a few months later throughout June, the Game Boy Advance has an interesting &...
Celebrating 55 Years of "Weekly" Manga Goraku, Manga's Island of Misfit Toys
I've celebrated notable anniversaries (i.e. 5s & 0s) for various manga magazines here over the years, whether it's numerous ones regarding W...
Obscusion B-Side: Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog: 1995 (Part 2)
Previously on Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog : "On the one hand, the Jag would wind up being Atari's second-most appealing conso...
The Career of Masashi Ikeda, Anime's Most Successfully Incomplete Director (for TV, At Least)
What exactly constitutes being "successful" in something like anime, especially in being a director? Is it being in charge of an influential...
Demo Disc Vol. 22: Underground & Underexposed?
Debuting on March 12, 1991, Monthly Shonen Gangan marked the start of Enix's foray into publishing, and it's still running to this very day ...
Obscusion B-Side: Metal Dungeon: Orcs to the Left of Me, Kobolds to the Right, Here I Am Stuck in the Dungeon With You
I've previously brought up Microsoft's rocky time trying to sell the original Xbox in Japan back when I reviewed Maximum Chase in 2021 , bu...
Obscusion B-List: Portable Games Ported to Non-Portable Hardware
Prior to the launch of the Nintendo Switch in early 2017 it was the general consensus that, by and large , video game consoles were separa...
Obscusion B-Side: DNA, Robots, Viruses, & Space: Genki's History of First-Person Shooters
When it comes to the various genres in video games, part of the appeal is seeing how different regions of the world interpret them. For exam...
Obscusion B-Side: Zzyzx vs. Zyzzyx Road: This Road Might Be Big Enough for Both of Us... *cue Jimmy Barnes screaming*
In 1944, radio televangelist Curtis Howe Springer & his fiancée Helen filed a mining claim on an 8 mi x 3 mi piece of land in the…
"How Much Are You Worth?": The Multiple Continues of Kazuya Minakura's Bus Gamer
Like many successful mangaka, Kazuya Minekura's career & legacy is defined mostly by a single work: Saiyuki , her purposefully loose reinter...
Obscusion B-Side: Looking Back at Dynamite & Marvel Bringing the Golden Age Into the Modern Age, 15 Years Later
On April 13, 1938, National Comics Publications released Action Comics #1 , an anthology which introduced a variety of brand new comic supe...
3D Anime on VHD "Double Feature": Man, Anime Really Does Come Out on EVERYTHING, Doesn't It?
Being a form of visual media, it's only natural that anime has seen some sort of release on just about any type of medium that you can think...
Twelve Older Anime That Deserve License Rescues XIII: Mr. Aniplex, Tear Down This Wall! Part 2
Not long after Part 1 of this look at 12 Aniplex anime that "deserve" license rescues went live, someone argued that Toward the Terra TV, w...
Twelve Older Anime That Deserve License Rescues XIII: Mr. Aniplex, Tear Down This Wall! Part 1
In March of 1968, the Japanese Sony Corporation & American Columbia Broadcasting System/CBS incorporated a 50/50 joint venture which allow...
The Boy with Kryptonite Hair: A Look at Locke the Superman's Anime Adaptations
On October 30, 2022 mangaka Yuki Hijiri (real name: Kiyotoshi Hasegawa) passed away from pneumonia at age 72, though this wasn't actually re...
Obscusion B-List: The Oddities of Xbox's Backwards Compatibility Program
Debuting on November 15, 2001, the original Xbox marked the start of PC giant Microsoft's true entry as a console gaming competitor (after i...
An "Overdosed" History of Manga?! Translating & Examining the Yarisugi Manga Timeline
Without a doubt, one of the most disappointing aspects of English-speaking anime & manga fandom, though mainly the latter for the purposes o...
The Land of Obscusion's Twelve Favorite Posts of 2021 & 2022!! Part 2
Well, here we are with the final entry of this blog for 2022. "What to expect in 2023?", you may or may not (but more than likely the…
The Land of Obscusion's Twelve Favorite Posts of 2021 & 2022!! Part 1
Happy Boxing Day! Another two years have passed, and with it the first two years of The Land of Obscusion's second decade of operation! Need...
Oh Me, Oh My, OVA! γ: Deus ex Rota
It's been well over a year since the last installment of Oh Me, Oh My, OVA! , a segment where I cover four different anime released straight...
Arcadia of Anime Gaming's Youth: The Original Anime Video Games on Console?
Today, looking for a video game based on an anime or manga property is like shooting fish in a barrel, i.e. you don't even have to look, bec...
Obscusion B-Side: Business Superiority Through... Alphabetry? A Look at the "Children of Atari"
While the concept of "video games" certainly existed prior to the founding of Atari, Inc., the successor to the short-lived Syzygy Engineeri...
Kinnikuman II-Sei: Ultimate Muscle 1 & 2: "I Believe in Your Love", But Only if You "Trust Yourself"
On September 14, 2022, three days after Episode 36 of Toei's Kinnikuman II-Sei TV anime aired in Japan, 4Kids debuted its English adaptatio...
Obscusion B-Side: Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog: 1995 (Part 1)
Previously on Prowling the Official Atari Jaguar Catalog : "Regardless of how 1994 panned out, though, 1995 will truly have to be the make-o...
Theory Musing: Why Does Saint Seiya Consistently Fail in "North of Mexico"?
Debuting at the start of 1986 (technically late 1985, but let's not split hairs here) in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, Saint Seiya was t...
Obscusion B-Side: Spider: The Video Game: Night of the Cybernetic Crawler
Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders, and while only so many people actually have a downright phobia of those eight-legged arachnids (it's a...
Kinnikuman II-Sei Part 2: Go! (Go!) Go! (Go!)... FIGHT!
Previously on the Kinnikuman II-Sei Review: "The first half of the TV anime adaptation of Kinnikuman II-Sei does admittedly have a bit of ...
Obscusion B-List: Wait... Capcom Published WHAT!?!
Originally established back on May 30, 1979 as I.R.M. Corporation, the Capcom that we know today (named after a clipped compound of subsidia...
Kinnikuman II-Sei Part 1: Let the Generation "Get You"!
In mid-1998, following a 5-part "Legendary Prologue" from mid-1997 to the start of 1998, the mangaka duo called Yudetamago debuted Kinnikuma...
Obscusion B-Side: Cybernetic Empire: Wolf Team's Last Stand with Telenet
Founded in October of 1983, Telenet Japan was a Japanese video game developer that got its start on Japanese PCs of the time, but would beco...
Obscusion B-List: Video Game Ports That Shouldn't Have Been Possible... But Actually Happened... Yet Again
It's been a couple of years since the last time we looked at six "impossible" ports of video games, and while I have a proper video game rev...
Kinnikuman II-Sei "Double Feature": A Beef Bowl for All Ages
Meeting for the first time in 4th grade, Takashi Shimada & Yoshinori Nakai became fast friends and after finishing up middle school they sta...
Demo Disc Vol. 21: Valiant Varsity
We're coming down to the last stretch of letters remaining for Demo Disc, as my goal has long been to do one for each letter of the English…
Ragnarök the Animation: Humanity Can be Divided Into Madmen & Cowards... And the Same is True of Fantasy Worlds
During the serialization of Ragnarök in South Korea, manhwaga Lee Myung-Jin was approached by a video game company called Gravity, which it...
Obscusion B-Side: The Histor-Ys of Adol Christin's First Adventure on Consoles
On June 21, 1987, Nihon Falcom released an action RPG called Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished for NEC's PC-88 line of home computers, followed throu...
Ragnarök: Into the Abyss: Everybody is After Chaos... It's Not a Hope or a Dream; It's Like a Hunger, a Thirst...
Born in April 12, 1974, Lee Myung-Jin got his start in South Korean manhwa in mid-1992 with the series It's Going to Be a Wonderful Night (...