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KYOTO VIDEO Quarterly Report 2024 (May - Jul.)
Published: May 14th 2024, 4:30:46 pm
Apologies for the VERY late posting of the schedule. Here’s what is coming up for the next series of KYOTO VIDEO
May 19th: Tamala2010: A Punk Cat in Space
This is an odd pick of the litter. See how a pseudo-anonymous musical duo crafted weird-as-all-get-out movie about Tamala, a punk cat in space, and how she is both an avant-garde countercultural icon that is also the crassest commercial icon who’s impact spans across time and space. Hope you brought your cigarettes.
May 31st: Battle Royal High School
Ichirō Itano’s career as an animator is an unshakable legacy that will stretch on into the farthest reaches of the future. Itano’s career as a director, though, is far more spotty. Hence the caution we approach Battle Royal High School, an adaptation of a shonen manga of about a high school Kenshiro who fights supernatural demons. And while it has Itano’s boarding and character designs by Nobuteru Yūki, is it enough to one of is better outings?
June 17th: Fake
It’s Pride Month and we need to celebrate the queerer side of retro anime. Believe it or not, it does exist! First, we’ll start by looking at Fake. An anime about New York cops on the beat who are trying to solves crimes while being super and explicitly gay to each other. We’ll discuss a brief history of yaoi up to that and see how one of the genre’s less explicit offerings holds up today.
June 31st: Kimera
We end Pride Month with an anime that’s proof that not all that glitters is gold. The OVA Kimera is famous for being an anime that, through an alien vampire subject, breaks through a lot of the heteronormative conventions about gender and relationships. It is also infamous for being really quite bad as well. Is there something worth salvaging here or should we just put the stake through it’s heart?
July 17th: Battle Athletes
The 2024 Summer Olympics are happening this month so what better way to celebrate it with some out-of-this-world competition. We’ll be doing a retrospective on the Battle Athletes franchise, covering both the OVA and the series. Does this franchise still hold up to earn a medal or is it just best left at the starting line?
July 31st: Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
Masami Obari has made somewhat of a comeback thanks to Brave Bang Bravern, but now turn back to the clock to his youth when he had unimaginable power. We’re gonna be talking about Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer. The anime he directed based off a game he helped design for. Whether it’s good or bad is almost irrelevant. What matters is that this anime is peak Obari!