VS Knights Of Lamune & 40 Fresh (Series rating: 1/10)

Many years after the events of VS Fire the world faces a new crisis. Parfait and Cacao are all grown up and working hard at keeping the peace. But rumor has it that a new Lamunes has appeared. As the holy virgins, they are to help this new hero bring peace to the galaxy. But something is wrong. This new Lamunes is cruel, sadistic and not at all interested in bringing peace. How could this have happened? A young girl named Lemon might have the answer.

FUCK! THIS! SHOW!FOREVER!
Now that we got that out of the way, let me explain. I fucking hate this OVA. I hate it with the passion of a million devout religious worshipers. This “sequel” to VS Fire is a complete insult, and for a long time it was the only part of the franchise that was available in English. They went from a comedy to a military drama. They went from happy to bleak. And for no goddamn reason. So, there is no comedy in this show. At all. What did they replace it with? Boobs. Lot’s of boobs. Parfait and Cacao spend 50% of the runtime completely nude. Why, you ask? Well, Parfait has a mecha that uses liquid as a shock absorber, so she pilots it naked. And Cacao’s divinations now require her to be naked and/or masturbate to orgasm. First off, that’s dumb. Using liquid as a shock absorber is suicidal. Second off, that is not how the divination worked in the original. These are just cheap excuses to have the girls naked. I like T&A, as my upload list shows. But seeing Parfait and Cacao like this feels icky, like going to a strip club to watch your daughter perform. But that’s not all. Who doesn’t want to see the new Lamunes sexually abuse an android girl while the naked, still alive body of Drum from Fire is mounted on a wall behind him? Or him almost raping and then torturing Cacao? You know what this show is like? It’s like you just finished watching Card Captor Sakura, and then someone gives you an official OVA where Sakura is raped in an alley. Who the fuck came up with this, and why was it given the green light? Even if you don’t have any of the problems I have with this show, you still won’t have a good time because the show is boring. Yes, it has mecha, hot girls, nudity, and it’s STILL fucking boring. Anyway, enough of my rant, and fuck this show.

As for the release, it’s quite fitting that the video source is ass. It’s better then the US DVD, but that was one complete ass, so it’s still better. Clearly nobody gave a shit enough to give this series a decent DVD. And why should they?

VS Knights Of Lamune & 40 Fire (Seies rating: 9/10)

Years after the previous series, a new hero rises: Lamunade. He’s a video game expert who one day meets two cute girls, Parfait and Cacao, who sell him a video game. After beating it, he is transported to the DokiDoki Space, where he must stop Don Genosai from awakening an ancient evil: the dreaded Abraham. Things don’t go so well for our hero though, and he is helpless to fight. That is until an unexpected ally comes to help. It’s Da Cider, and he joins the quest to defeat Don Gonosai. But all is not what it seems. Lamunade keeps having strange flashbacks to event he should not know about. Also, the two strangers to keep helping out sound a lot like his parents.

HELL YEAH! Now this is where it’s at. I love this series. It’s got everything. Everything NG did well, VS does better. Better battles, better character development, better story, better mecha designs and most important: better jokes. You still need to know about Japanese games and stuff to get the jokes, but since this show is from the 90s, you have a better change of knowing what they’re talking about. About the story: this shit gets dark. I mean like… DARK. I’m not even sure the ending counts as a happy ending. But the ride was well worth it. What a good place to end the franchise on…

I don’t know who made the subs. I got them from a subtitle site so I don’t know who to credit. DVD remux. Though it seems this and NG are getting a SD BD in August. If the BD has better quality, I’ll be back.

NG Knight Lamune & 40 (Series rating: 7/10)

Lamune is just a regular 10 year old kid. He loves video games and is an absolute master at them. One day he sees a pretty girl selling a video game so he buys a copy. Later that night, after finishing the game very quickly, that same girl appears out of the TV, announces that he is the legendary hero Lamuness, and drags him through the TV into the Hara-Hara world. He has no time to object and now he has to save the world. To do such, he is given the powerful mecha, King Squasher, and must fight against the forces of Don Harumage, who plans on awakening an ancient evil to conquer/destroy the world.

So, this show is a parody. It’s kind of like Guru Guru, but with mecha. We warned, this show is very fond of puns, some of which do not translate well. There are also a lot of jokes you will not get unless you are familiar with other anime that were airing at the time. For example, in episode 30, Lamuness and Da Cider both team up with aspiring idols to help them win a contest. Said idols are furry versions of the main characters in Idol Densetsu Eriko and Idol Tenshi Youkoso Youko. Also, the plot is very silly, since it was a children’s anime, but does have some cool serious moments. To me, the show was decent, but nothing special. But the franchise keeps getting better and better with each sequel, untill crashing and burning with the last installment. We’ll get to that one eventually.
About this release

You might have noted that this release is 47 GB. You are probably wondering why, since this is a DVD show. Well, here’s the thing: I hate encoding DVDs. It’s a 25 year old technology that did serve its purpose. But I have never been able to encode a DVD and then say “Yeah, I’m happy with this.”. I always feel like quality was lost. And to be fair, it usually does lose. This is a remux. What was on the DVDs is here, just split into episodes. With this, I am happy. I know it’s huge, but I HATE losing quality when encoding from a DVD. If someone wants to encode this, be my guest. But this is how I will be releasing DVD releases from now on, when possible.

The subtitles are from BlueLobster, which I believe are from Crunchyroll.

PS: I will be releasing the entire franchise in this format. Hold on to your HDD space, it’s gonna be a 100GB ride.

NG Knight Lamune & 40 DX (Series rating: 8/10)

Here’s the second OVA series. While the TV show and EX were pretty good, DX is, in my opinion, excellent. Be warned that you need some knowledge of old anime and video games to get all the jokes though.

We’re back in the fantasy world, and Lamune and Da Cider have a new mission: find and rescue a pain of beautiful, almost naked, young women, while trying to keep Milk and Leska from finding out about it. Guess how that turns out for them.

The raws for this one are .wmv. Cannot be helped. Subs from Cruncyroll.
https://anidb.net/anime/1366

NG Knight Lamune & 40 EX (Series rating: 6/10)

About a year ago, someone finally released a good subbed version of NG Knight Lamune. It was BlueLobster, and he named it Ramune. I like Lamune though. Either way, it came to my attention that the 2 OVA series never got a proper release. And that’s too bad, because I really like this show. So here’s the first OVA series.

Right after the end of the TV series, Lamune is back on Earth, but without his memories. The remnant of Gobuhriki followed. And then his allies from the TV show. Mayhem ensues.
I can’t remember where I found the raws. The subtitles are from Crunchyroll.
https://anidb.net/anime/1365