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ジャイアントロボ THE ANIMATION — 地球が静止する日
Seven episodes. Six years. A cast drawn from five different Mitsuteru Yokoyama manga series — Water Margin, Babel II,...
カムイの剣 — Rintaro and Kadokawa's Second Film, One Catalog Number Apart
PILA-1236 is Harmagedon (1983). PILA-1237 is The Dagger of Kamui (1985). Rintaro directed both. Haruki Kadokawa produced...
Magical Circle Guru-Guru: The Parody That Played It Straight
A manga that parodies Dragon Quest was published by the company that made Dragon Quest, in the magazine they created to...
Shokugan: When the Toy Becomes the Product
A ¥5,000 snap-fit combining robot kit ships with one piece of flat soda gum. The gum is the reason the product exists on...
VIRUSWEETS: Desserts That Stare Back
A gashapon figure of a pudding stares at you with spiral eyes. Its setting booklet explains a virus gave it...
Anime LaserDisc: Private Screening Rooms Frozen in Time
LaserDisc is not a dead format. It is a preservation medium disguised as a dead format. For anime made with hand-painted...
Tamagotchi as a World
A plastic egg with sixteen pixels and a piezo speaker sold 100 million units. It has appeared on the runway at Paris...