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KYOTO VIDEO 2025 Quarterly Report (Feb - Apr)

Published: February 8th 2025, 3:52:15 pm

Original Dirty Pair - February 22nd

‘Bout time we caught up on what the Lovely Angels have been up to. Frankly, it’s been too long. Especially now that we are talking about Original Dirty Pair or Dirty Pair 2, the official sequel? to the television series. See how Kei and Yuri remix the rules and break everything in the process as they do their episodic adventures with zero broadcast standards and regulations.

Lupin III: The Secret Gold of Babylon – March 15th

We also haven’t check in on Lupin and the gang in awhile, either. And lemme tell you folks, this was gonna be tricky. After a massively successful 70s, the Lupin franchise transitioned into an awkward 80s. The pinnacle of that awkwardness is The Secret Gold of Babylon, Lupin III’s third cinematic outing with a very trouble production. Can a Lupin III movie be salvaged without the guiding hand of Otsuka and Miyazaki?

The Star of Cottonland – March 30th

The 80s were an important decade for the formation of anime culture, more specifically the culture of cuteness. But while we’ve talked about how shonen and seinen creators influenced the nascent moe movement, what about shojo creators? This is where 1984’s The Star of Cottonland comes in. A movie created by a Year 24 group artist that asks the questions “what if cats looked like little girls?”

Hyper Speed GranDoll – April 14th

Stop me if you’ve heard this one already. A spaceship crashes on planet Earth. A couple walks up to it and finds a baby inside. And that baby soon grows up to become the savior of humanity. I am of course talking about Hyperspeed Grandoll, a mid-90s that attempted to ride the sci-fi inspired magical girl trend to the bank but got sapped by the kryptonite of time and forgotten… until now.

Crying Freeman – April 29th  

Long ago, I talked about Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike’s manga Wounded Man and how much its anime adaptation sucks and blows. Luckily, they appeared to have gotten their shit together with their next, and far more, famous outing Crying Freeman. A crime manga about a hypnotized assassin that took Asia by storm in the late 80s, which resulted in a high-quality OVA series courtesy of Toei Animation. But is it good enough all these years later?