The Old School Otaku Lounge

http://animesols.com/

Official stream site (similar to Crunchyroll) with streams for Creamy Mami, Yatterman, New Yatterman, Blackjack, Tekkaman, AND MORE! They're also taking pledges (kinda like Kickstarter) for some of them to be released in DVD box sets. I just signed up and I'm gonna watch the first ep of Creamy Mami to see how the subtitles are. I'm so excited to see someone taking a chance on older titles like this!

Ok, so I watched the first 2 eps of Creamy Mami. The picture quality's great for something that's A. streaming and B. pretty old. The translation seems pretty good (to my limited knowledge of Japanese, at least) and the subtitles are timed well. So far it's a thumbs up for me! I definitely wanna watch Yatterman as well, I've only seen a few random eps back in the VHS tape trading days. (I loved what I saw of Time Bokan as a kid though, so I'm looking forward to it~)

Sweet, I've always wanted to watch Creamy Mami! Especially since Akemi Takeda did the character designs!

ryoran wrote:Sweet, I've always wanted to watch Creamy Mami! Especially since Akemi Takada did the character designs!

Yes! I love Akemi Takada, I wish she still did character designs for more recent things. She's the only reason I bought Fancy Lala on DVD here, now I'll have to get Creamy Mami to go with it!

Looks interesting. Can't wait to see what else they license.

I'll check this out when I get home. Most likely it's blocked in Japan, but I want to give it a shot. If they released Yatterman subbed on DVD, I would definitely buy it. My daughter is now tying a handkerchief around her neck and calling herself Yatterman. She draws Yatterman pictures, too. She's asked all the kids in her nursery school class if they've seen Yatterman, and was excited when one boy said he's seen it.

I've wanted to watch Creamy Mami for a long while, mostly because of Akemi Takada. Kotobukiya licensed some Creamy Mami merchandise a few years ago, like chopsticks and such.

Yeah, sadly it's North America only, unless you can watch it via a proxy somehow. :/

They're doing a kickstarter-like crowd sourcing for DVD box sets. I dunno if they'd ship to Japan--they said in the FAQ that the ordering will be fulfilled via Right Stuf, so if they ship to Japan, that should be ok?

And your daughter sounds so cute! X3

Thanks. Her cuteness is legendary. She's starting to think that by being cute, people will like her. I told her that by being kind to everyone, people will like her. I don't want her to turn into one of those pretty girls in school who is a conceited princess jerk. (She appears on rare occasions in my YouTube videos. I never make videos about her since that is inviting trouble, but occasionally she will "contribute" to one of my Japanese snacks videos and is usually my copilot when I play the Gundam arcade game.)

RightStuf certainly ships to Japan! I've bought my Dirty Pair, Nadesico, and Versailles box sets from them. Shipping isn't quite as cheap as Amazon's, but quite often their lower prices make up for it.

I may not be able to stream videos on their website, but I bet I can sign up and pledge a committment to buy their DVDs. I hope this will be the future of anime for North America: letting smaller business ventures release classic titles sub-only directly to those who will buy them, without spending all sorts of marketing and distribution money trying to make older titles seem attractive to normaltards.

greg wrote:I hope this will be the future of anime for North America: letting smaller business ventures release classic titles sub-only directly to those who will buy them, without spending all sorts of marketing and distribution money trying to make older titles seem attractive to normaltards.

Amen to that. I will gladly support Anime Sols in hopes more companies do something like this, especially for the older harder to find titles.

Well, nuts. I understand that I cannot view the videos on their site, but I am unable to pledge money for the DVDs. It just says "sorry." This must be because I live in Japan. I wonder if there's any way around this?