It's time to finally end my Fuuma no Kojirou reviews with the final anime, a 50-minute production that, while not perfect, still stands tall as an enjoyable and consicive ending to the Kojirou saga. Now if only there was an English translation...

Fuuma no Kojirou: Fuuma Hanran-hen

Enjoy!

JManga's sheer amount of potential support is its biggest asset: 39 different manga publishers are supporting the online manga portal, & I take a look at thirteen of them, as well as a title that I personally would love to see from each company on the site. I dub them:

The JManga 13!
Part 1
Part 2

Enjoy!

LordGeo wrote:
lol, Woman Explorer Ray had a Manga? Awesome.

Naikaku Kenryoku Hanzai Kyousei Torishimarikan Zaizen Jotaro is infamous for its horrific first episode as well as its very limited animation. The animation in particular is so infamous that when the show received a DVD boxset release in 2007 Trans-Arts went back and fixed the animation. Admittedly, the show is still limited in animation, but it does look much better. Also, episode 1 received such an overhaul in a couple of scenes that the original "TV O.A./On-Air" version of the episode was included on a "bonus disc". So who does the show compare between its TV and DVD versions and can improved animation help a horrible first episode? Well, now you can see!

Zaizen Jotaro TV vs. DVD:
Part 1
Part 2

As much as anime fans would question a company's logic in doing so, I'd love to see Zaizen Jotaro get licensed one day, and the DVD-quality video combined with the fixes and changes to the animation might hopefully help give the show a little more respect... As long as they skip the first episode, because it just sucks from a storytelling perspective; thankfully it's a standalone story that has nothing to do with the actual story arc the anime tells.

At the end of last year I brought up a hypothetical question: What would I license if I had my own licensing company? Well, here's another hypothetical: What if my company survived that onslaught? What if I could get package deals from two companies, and can choose what I want? Well here it is!

"12 More (+1)" Animes I Would License: Package Deals, Dead Ahead!
Part 1: Geneon Universal Entertainment
Part 2: Toei Animation

Enjoy, and remember that this is all hypothetical. But, if you agree with any of these choices, then make your voice heard!

Leave it to me to find an obscure entry in a popular anime series, and this month every review will be like this! So let's start it off with a big name: Fullmetal Alchemist, specifically the original 2003-2004 anime series. Amazingly enough, FUNimation actually missed licensing one FMA production, a 2005 PPV special... And since this series is pretty important to me being a big anime fan, I felt that I had to review this special as a great way of saying "Thanks" to this series.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Relfections

Up Next: Obscure Entries in Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Enjoy!

LordGeo wrote:


Wow, thanks for this, I had no idea.

Now, of course, I want to see this. I'm truly jealous that you have.

My anime collection is small but growing steadily. It's folks like you that help it along!

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is one of the true anime "epics" & "masterpieces", but normally when this title is brought up it's specifically the 110-episode OVA series. But this series does have some newcomer-friendly entries, including the very first LOGH production, a 60-minute movie that actually is the first part of the story that newcomers should watch, anyway.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

I appreciate the kind words I get on this topic and, as always, enjoy!
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P.S. Bolero by Ravel is truly epic...

The Legend of the Galactic Heroes reviews return with the second movie, which effectively replaces the first two episodes of the main OVA series and surpasses the first movie in quality... Which is no easy thing to do.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War

This leaves one more stand-along LOGH production that I can review, but apparently this third stand-alone actually isn't that great. Anyway, enjoy!

Finishing up the LOGH reviews is the last standalone production, released December of 1992. Though it tells a neat prequel story for Reinhard & Kircheis, this is definitely not one of the franchise's better productions. It's not bad, but it's far from being the greatness that LOGH is generally known for.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings

Enjoy! Also, if anyone is going to AnimeNEXT next week, be sure to stop by Panel Room 4 on Sunday, June 10, from 11 AM to 12 PM, as I'll be doing my very first panel at that time! What's the panel, you ask? It's a little something I call "25 Years of Burning Blood: Masami Kurumada Animes".