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.

Arifureta Shokugyou De Sekai Saikyou (Series rating: 8/10)

Nagumo Hajime and his entire class are transported to another world. There, they are all welcomed as heroes who will save the world and each receive a class. Sadly for Hajime, his class is Synergist, and it’s considered useless. When they journey into a dungeon and get ambushed though, it’s Hajime’s quick thinking that lets them survive the encounter. But as they are escaping someone attacks Hajime, knocking him off a cliff. He is then left for dead. But Hajime didn’t die. Through sheer will power and rage, he survives. What’s more, he does something to stupid, so insane and so desperate that is pays off: he is now unbelievably powerful and he’s going to use that power to crawl out of the dungeon. On his way out he meets and saves Yue, the last vampire, who was also betrayed and trapped in the dungeon. They form a powerful bond and their adventure is ass kicking and love making begins.


Oh boy… this show is a mess. Production wise, I don’t know what happened, but the first episode is almost unwatchable. It’s very hard to see what is going on, the story is disjointed and the directing seems non-existing. Thankfully, once Hajime meets Yue it gets much better. I enjoyed it a lot because Hajime just doesn’t give a fuck. He will shoot you mid sentence if you mess with him. I love that ruthlessness. I also love that the revenge angle is very played down. Hajime is pissed at whoever betrayed him, but it’s very low on his priority list. On a technical side, the show doesn’t do so well. The CG is the worst offender. It’s hideous. But if you can get past that you’re in for a ride, with an OP protagonist that thankfully has no qualms about killing his enemies. And if you mess with his harem, he’ll kill you slowly if he has the time. Oh, and there’s fanservice.

Subtitles are from Mad le Zisell for the episodes and Hikki for the prologue and specials.

Project K - Seven Stories (Series rating: 6/10)

What the hell? A 1080p release from DmonHiro? Why yes, I did make a special exception for this. Why? Because it’s freaking gorgeous, that’s why. Project K - Seven Stories is exactly what is says on the tin: seven different stories (back stories, side stories) of the different clans. So why are there 13 episodes if it’s just seven stories? East 2 episodes make one “movie”. That’s how it was advertised, but on the discs, it was split into episodes. The seventh story is an exception. The segments of it was split into several parts and scattered on different discs. Annoying? Very? I had to splice it back into one episode.

The subtitles for episodes 01-12 are internal PGS. The subtitles for the special episode are internal ASS. For some reason, the special did not have any English subtitles, even though the subtitles on the disc are the same ones used by Crunchyroll. Maybe they just forgot. Anyway, the subs for the special are from Horrible-Subs. Enjoy.

Sora No Aosa O Shiru Hito Yo - Her Blue Sky (Movie rating: ?/10)

Second-year high school student Aioi Aoi feels indebted to her sister Akane ever since her sister gave up her dream to go to Tokyo with her ex-boyfriend Kanamuro Shinnosuke, a struggling guitarist, in order to take care of her after they lost their parents in an accident 13 years ago. One day Aoi is invited to perform as a session musician at a music festival for a famous enka singer named Nitobe Dankichi. On the same day Shinnosuke returns to their town after being away for a long time, and then a boy named Shinno mysteriously appears who is actually time traveling Shinnosuke from 13 years prior and Aoi falls in love for the first time…


I don’t usually do this, but here’s a movie I HAVEN’T watched. I’m gonna let this one surprise me.
OK, honest reason: I WAS going to watch it and then upload it if I liked it, but I accidentally encoded it instead of something else. So what the hell. It’s Okada Mari, there’s bound to be something I like about it.
Internal PGS subs, in case “someone” stops by to thank me for it.

Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur (Series rating: 7/10)

Excaliburs: extremely powerful (and random) artifacts that appear through time. Arthurs: people (usually) who wield an Excalibur. Problem is they tend to change history and make a complete mess of the continuum. Enter our team of six heroes. Their goal is to go to different eras and destroy the Excaliburs that appeared there, and maintain history the way it is meant to be. Lead by Dancho Arthur, they go on many adventures and fight their way to victory through wit and strength. Sadly, they have more of the later then the former.

Based on the Million Arthur multi-media franchise, this show is a parody. It’s filled with fanservice, references and the occasional serious moment. I enjoyed it, but don’t think about it too much. The main characters are not the brightest in the world. The leader, Dancho, is a perpetually horny lesbian who’s not afraid of showing a lot of skin in order to raise the spirits of her teammates. This only annoys them though. Fact is, she’s a very attractive woman, but her antics tend to make people think she’s nuts rather then sexy. Each of the heroes has a fairy companion who’s job is supporting them, and reigning in their more destructive tendencies.

This torrent contains both seasons. The subtitles are from Erai. Sadly, the subtitles are incomplete. Each episode has a very strange extra segment at the end of the episode. Starting with season 2 this segment was left untranslated in the subs. Unfortunate.

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

Casshern Sins (Series rating: 9/10)

Robots eventually advanced so much that they could be indistinguishable from humans are a glance. They had emotions and could feel just like a human. Sadly, this eventually led to an all out war between the humans led by Luna and the robots led by Braiking Boss. Fearing Luna’s power, Brainking boss sent his top warriors to find and kill her. It was the strongest warrior, Casshern, that eventually killed Luna. But that was a mistake. Along with Luna, the world also seemed to die. Plant life withered away, poisoned filled the air and water. Humans died easily, either from sickness or from battling the robots. The robots didn’t fare much better though. The pollution in the air also corroded their minds and bodies. A plague called “the Ruin” made robots fearful of death for the first time. Now, hundreds of years later, the Earth is a wasteland where most of the robots are mindless monsters killing seemingly at random. Only a handful or them have kept their sanity and their body, but none are safe from the Ruin. Except for one: Casshers. He wonders the world having lost his memories. The Ruin cannot affect him and he is immortal now. He is looking for a meaning in his life.
 
If I had to describe this show in one word, that word would be “bleak”. The world is dying and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The few individuals who have kept their sanity do what they can to keep hope alive. They even started rumors that Luna is alive, and can stop the Ruin. Or that eating Casshern can stop the Ruin. There are no real bases for those rumors, but they show the desperation of those still alive. In the end, this show is about accepting death. The colors in this show are very muted to better portray how the world is ending. I don’t think the Sun shined more then a handful of times during the whole show. The characters were pretty great, and get a fair level of development. The story is a bit convoluted and I’m pretty sure I didn’t understand all of it. For example, I still have no idea what what episode 18 meant. Maybe I’m just stupid. All in all, this is a great show that makes you think.

Digimon Tamers (Series rating: 10/10)

Takato loves Digimon. He loves it so much that he even made up his own Digimon: Guilmon. He drew it and everything. One day though a miracle happened. Gilmon came to life, straight out of the drawing. How is this possible? Well, it turns out that Digimon are real. And now they’re making their way into the real world. Problem is most of them are not so peaceful. But would you be calm if you were suddenly teleported into a different world? Keep in mind that most Digimon are basically wild animals. It’s up to Takato and his new friends to try and keep the peace, as Digimon Tamers. But that’s not as easy when you not only have to watch out for wild Digimon but also for a shadowy government agency that is hell bent on destroying any Digimon that appears in the real world.

Holy damn, is this show good! I don’t mean it’s a good Digimon anime. I mean it’s a good anime, period. Almost everything about this anime is fantastic, except the animation sometimes (thank you, TOEI, as usual). The characterization is some of the best I’ve ever seen in anime, and the story is gripping. It’s also the bleakest of the Digimon anime, in my opinion. It threw its share of gut punches out of nowhere, let me tell you. Also… love Cthulhu Mythos much, mister writer, Chiaki J. Konaka? You can tell he wrote Serial Experiments Lain. If you like Digimon. Watch this. If you don’t like Digimon, also watch this.

https://anidb.net/anime/562