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KYOTO VIDEO: Quarterly Report (Nov. - Jan.)
Published: November 3rd 2020, 12:54:05 pm
Tough times are upon us and winter is drawing near. But that doesn't mean KYOTO VIDEO has stopped. What do we have in store for the next three months.
November 13th - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade: Times are tumultuous and democracy is on the brink, so better time than to talk about a super-political anime film. Hiroyuki Okiura and Mamarou Oshii's 1999 political thriller Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is a classic anime film that has earned it's spot in pop culture. We'll be talking about it's history, it's goregous handdrawn animation and how, despite being told from the point of view of a super-soldier, it is a seminal work of anti-facist cinema.
November 27th - Agent Aika: On to more lighter affairs, we take a good long, lecherous look at the most shameless echii title of the 90s, Agen Aika. We'll explore it's Project A-ko origins, it's surprisingly good animation and figure out if it's a guilty pleasure in spite of it's liberal ass-shots or because of. Butts.
December 11th - Sword for Truth: Osamu Dezaki is one of the great, influential anime directors and yet even he has stinkers under his belt. 1990's Sword for Truth is a lackluster chanbara OVA that may have been forgotten had not Dezaki been discovered as it's director. We'll find out what makes it stink, as well the history of Western companies trying to pass it off as a Ninja Scroll sequel.
December 25th - Tenchi Muyo: Daughter of Darkness: Just in time of Christmas! We return to the storied Tenchi Muyo franchise and look into it's second movie/psuedo-Christmas special 1997's Tenchi Muyo: Daughter of Darkness. Warm up the eggnog because we'll spend the holiday trying to figure where this movie fits in the Tenchi universe's convoluted timeline.
January 15th - Ai City: It's deep in the 80s and Project Eden director Koichi Mashimo is tasked with directing a film adaptation of a popular sci-fi manga. The result is Ai City, one of the trippiest, most psychedelic big-budget anime titles that has ever come out of the Second Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. Regardless of how well it holds up, it's gonna be a wild ride!
January 29th - Cipher the Video: For KYOTO VIDEO's 3rd anniversary, I've decided to analyze an anime that was pretty much an inevitability. This is the type of anime that KYOTO VIDEO was made and I am going to attempt to decipher the big mystery behind one of the biggest oddities of the 80s OVA era, Cipher the Video.