The Old School Otaku Lounge

Probably just Area 88 for me. Having had KOR hyped up to the nines to me for years, I was a bit underwhelmed when I finally saw some of it. Great music though.

So, the Banana Fish anime started today. I'd prefer if the mean streets of New York looked a bit... meaner, and more populated, but that aside, I was very impressed. From what little I've seen of the manga, the character art is pretty faithful, and MAPPA have done a great job with the animation - th...

Nozomi Entertainment has both Cobra and a ton of Dirty Pair on their Youtube channel. Since they're the license-holders, I imagine watching the episodes there is legal. I know Cobra 's on Crunchyroll but do you know where else is Dirty Pair ? Yeah, afraid Nozomi's youtube is the only legal stream I...

Lupin's not on this week, so decided to continue rewatching the Dirty Pair instead. It's never occurred to me to wonder before whether the animation in this is so good because Sunrise were determined to one-up TMS's work on Cobra.

In case anyone is curious, the digi edition of GitS in the bundle is the old left-right Dark Horse version, not the new right-left ed from last year.

Having acquired it as part of the Kodansha Humble Bundle, I had a look at Automatic Behavior , which I think is the story that would have been available for free comic book day. It's fine. It doesn't bring anything new to the table, but it feels exactly like one of the self-contained episodes of SAC...

The official twitter for the project just linked some gift art by Kohji Nakakita, the character designer on Gatchaman Crowds. It's uh, slightly unnerving, to be honest...

You know, it might not even be that. I feel like the attempted humour undermines the more serious parts of the show, but Cutie Honey has never been a massively serious series anyway, so maybe it wouldn't seem right without it. Something about Universe just doesn't work for me, but I struggle to put ...

Kodansha have a great Humble Bundle Deal going on for digital manga at the moment. $20 will net you a whole ton of manga in the format of your choice, most notably including the complete OG Ghost in the Shell, GitS: Stand Alone Complex, Battle Angel Alita, Last Order and Mars Chronicle, plus a few o...

Rather keen for this - presumably following on from the Japanese tribute anthology that came out around the time of the live-action film, Kodansha are publishing an English language GitS book from Western creators in September. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media-us-standrad/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/21...