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Student Days

Seishun Anime Zenshuu (translated as Animated Classics of Japanese Literature for its English release) is a 1986 anthology series that r...

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Season of the Sun

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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AI on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Trust)

Inka-Subs and Orphan Fansubs finish their work on Anime no Tane 2025 with Trust. The other three shows were:Dive-In!, no dialogGalaxy Apartment Cosmo Hills, subtitled by Inka and…

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The Toei Douga Project

As I mentioned in the 2025 review, Orphan is planning to redo "some" of the early Toei Douga (today, Toei Animation) feature-length cartoons; they weren't called anime back…

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Sora and the Big Tree

Inka-Subs and Orphan Fansubs return to the scene of their last Anime no Tane heist with another short from the 2025 edition, Sora and the Big Tree. The other…

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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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Shounen Jack to Mahou Tsukai

As promised (or threatened), Orphan is releasing more of the early Toei Douga anime movies; in this case, the 1967 tenth anniversary release, Shounen Jack to Mahou Tsukai…

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A Ghost Story (Hoichi the Earless)

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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Botchan (1986)

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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Kyuukyoku no Chef wa Oishinbo Papa

A new year, a new Okizari hentai release. This time it's the 1990 OVA Kyuukyoku no Chef wa Oishinbo Papa (The Ultimate Chef Is Gourmet Papa), based on…

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The Old (Seeding) Order Changeth

Since late 2017, the Arutha foundation has provided Orphan with its torrent seeding and IRC XDCC bot capability. That means Orphan's releases have been continuously available, instead of…

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Hiroshima ni Chiban Densha ga Hashitta

A new year, a new Orphan release about the atomic bombings in World War II. This time, it's the 1993 NHK TV special Hiroshima ni Chiban Densha ga…

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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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Yawara, Complete

The batch torrent for all 124 Blu-ray episodes of Yawara! has just been released. So, after more than 14-and-a-half years and close to 200 scripts, it's done.The complete…

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The Dancing Girl

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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Angel

Okizari presents a new English-subtitled version of the 1990 hentai OVA Angel. The show is based on a fragment of a long-running manga by the prolific ecchi and…

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Yawara! Live Action Movie

This is pretty much the final gasp of the Yawara! project: the live action movie. It was actually released in 1989, less than half way through the manga's…

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The Sound of Waves

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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Hi no Ame ga Furu (It Rained Fire)

Orphan has already released an anime movie about the firebombing of Japanese cities, 2005's Ashita Genki ni Naare! Although that film began with the firebombing of Tokyo, it was…

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On the Malleability of H-anime: The ProxyMan Project

The handle ProxyMan has cropped up several times in this blog as a source of rare anime, both mainstream (Shibuya Honky Tonk, Dragon Slayer Eiyuu Densetsu: Ouji no Tabidachi)…

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Ashita Genki ni Naare!

The firebombing of Japan's cities is less well-known than the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but they caused heavy loss of life and enormous property damage.…

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Orphan at 15

Orphan Fansubs turned 15 in September. I missed it completely, just like I did its ten-year anniversary, but better late than never.In that blog post, I recounted the impetus…

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The Izu Dancer

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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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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Heart Cocktail: Spring Stories

As hoped/promised/threatened, DarkOrphanChaser is back with more Watase Seizou; in this case, his latest spin on the Heart Cocktail formula...

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Heart Cocktail Colorful: Summer Stories

As hoped/promised/threatened, DarkOrphanChaser is back with more Watase Saizou; in this case, his latest spin on the Heart Cocktail formula...

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Kimu no Juujika (Kim's Cross)

Kimu no Juujika ( Kim's Cross ) is a 1990 movie based on the novel of the same name by Wada Noboru. It tells the story of…

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Swearing Off Yakuza Shows

As I said in my previous post, Orphan is done with Yakuza shows, at least for a while. That means we won't be subbing Abe George Kattobi Sei...

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Mahjong Hishouden: Naki no Ryuu

As I promised/threatened in my blog post about Naki no Ryuu '91 , here is the predecessor three volume OVA, Mahjong Hishouden: Naki no Ryuu...

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Condensed Anime Take 2 - Hashire Melos 1979

Just like Cello Hiki no Gauche , Hashire Melos is a beloved Japanese story. Written in 1940 by Dazai Osamu, known for the novels No Longer ...

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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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Tanjou: Debut

Tanjou: Debut ( Birth: Debut ) is a two-episode shoujo OVA from 1994. It was originally subbed in the VHS-fansub era. Its two stories revol...

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Tenjou Hen: Utsu no Miko

And now the other shoe drops. Orphan presents the first English-subtitled release of the movie version of Tenjou Hen: Utsu no Miko ( Prince...

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Utsu no Miko

Tenjou Hen: Utsu no Miko ( Heaven Chapter: Prince of the Skies ), commonly called just Utsu no Miko , is a well-known OVA series, released ...

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Tistou Midori no Oyayubi

Tistou Midori no Oyayubi ( Tistou of the Green Thumbs ) is a 1990 movie, based on a beloved French children's novel by Maurice Druon. It te...

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Zetsuai 1989 v2

Redoing Zetsuai 1989 was not in this year's plan (or any year's, for that matter), but when WOWmd did a new Domesday Duplicator rip of the ...

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Toraemon

In 1985, the victory of the Hanshin Tigers in the Japan Championship, the equivalent of the US World Series, occasioned a one-shot OVA,  Tor...

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Sakyou Komatsu's Animation Theater

Another anthology show, far better than the last one... Sakyou Komatsu (1931-2011) was a Japanese science fiction author and screenwriter, ...

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Mikosuri Han Gekijou

Mikosuri Han Gekijou dates from 2013. It's basically a collection of short (30-40 second) dirty jokes grouped together by setting. It's bas...

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Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Tsuyoshi no Time Machine de Shikkari Shinasai

My Discord colleagues in the Inka kairetsu have a dismissive term for the vast bulk of anime that is neither outstanding nor outstandingly ...

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Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 4

More ghostly doings in Japanese schools. Gakkou no Yuurei ( School Ghosts) , volume 4, is much like volume 3: six segments of about the sa...

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Seirei Tsukai (Elementalors)

Seirei Tsukai ( Elementalors ), not to be confused with Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance , is a one-shot OVA based on a manga by Okazaki Takesh...

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Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 3

Let's start out 2025 on a scary note, 'cause it's gonna be a scary year. Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 3, features more supernatu...

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2024 in Review

A year of retreads and repeats, none of them good: War in Ukraine. War in the Middle East. Famine in Sudan. Famine in Gaza. Covid and…

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Plastic Little

Let's face it: the world does not need another version of the 1994 OVA Plastic Little . kuraze spent years wrestling decent video from the D...

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Natsufuku no Shoujo-tachi

As I wrote in my blog post on Kuro ga Ita Natsu , artists have grappled for more than a century with the problem of presenting massive trage...

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Ichigatsu ni wa Christmas

Orphan doesn't often do holiday releases and has never done a Christmas show, as best I can remember, so here's a first: the 1991 shoujo OVA...

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In Memorian (Cat-Eyed Boy Episodes 7-8)

Between the Halloween release of Cat-Eyed Boy episodes 4, 5, and 6, and this Christmas release of episodes 7 and 8, the anime world lost tw...

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Happy Holidays from Orphan Fansubs

Well, it's that time of the year again. In the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood, "Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the stre...

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