Anime and manga history, nostalgia, and other cool stuff from around the world of anime fandom of the 70s to 20XX!
Anime-on-DVD and VHS collector, anime magazine digger, and popular culture explorer.
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Anime on Commodore Amiga!
World of Manga, released in 1993, is an Italian demoscene slideshow 'prod'. There was frequent crossover between the Amiga/ST demoscene and European anime fandom, with both screencaps of popular shows and pixel art fan tributes often shared.
Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's combined vision of a gothic world drowning in silence and decay.
Now back in UK theatres and well worth experiencing on the big screen.
📺: Angel's Egg, 1985
Correcting a mistyped date: the manga was serialized from 85; it's 86 for the movie.
A snippet from the 1998 dub of Panzer Dragoon OVA (1996)
Studio Giants, Production I.G, and a whole mess of other companies doing bits and pieces on it, including Studio DEEN and Gainax.
They try to cram a *lot* into a touch over 25 mins.
Soaring from the big screen to videotape in 1993: Porco Rosso.
As vintage inter-war aviation is one of other things I'm fond of exploring, Porco is one of my favourite Ghibli movies.
📖: Technopolis, December 1992
Planet Anime's movie-edit ads are a little treasure.
25% off domestic tapes and 20% off domestic DVDs all the time!
📖: Protoculture Addicts, July 1999.
I've refreshed my memory on Grey, and I'm struck by how much of a 2000 AD's Rogue Trooper vibe I get from it. Plus similarities in character design to an obscure PC-88 game called The Screamer.
"The "Right Stuff" has never been so nicely packed!"
Ahem.
(The Right Stuff refers to post-WWII high-speed test pilots)
801 T.T.S. Airbats (1994-1996, Studio Fantasia) is a seven episode OVA focused around the slice-of-life misadventures of an all-female JSDF acrobatics squadron.
A manga series (and movie!) that I'd forgotten about, but had a little niggling remembrance of when I watched Girls' Last Tour and saw how that played around with WWII military vehicles. Just couldn't place the name of it until today.
Yoshihisa Tagami's Grey (1986).
Scrapping off a few cobwebs, and kicking off some new, regular posting with a voyage into infinite space.
Pulled from a 2002 Minami CD.
📺: Lost Universe (1998) 🎶: Infinity 👩🎤: Megumi Hayashibara
