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The Lasting Legacy of Looney Tunes | THE MERRIE HISTORY OF LOONEY TUNES
Posting here for Patrons' sake.
The Termite Terrace may be over but the story of the Looney Tunes does not end their. What came after is practically its own tale to tell as the character ris...
2025-12-31 13:08:45 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas and KYOTO VIDEO Scheduling Change
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all, loyal watchers and Patrons to my channel!
But I’m not just here to wish you a Merry Christmas. I’m here to keep you up to date with some sud...
2025-12-24 14:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostSNEAK PREVIEW: Final Episode of Merrie History of Looney Tunes
Join the Patreon today to get a sneak preview of the first 45 minutes of the Merrie History of Looney Tunes' final episode.
NOTE: This is a rough cut of the a video. Things seen here are sub...
2025-12-08 01:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostDigital Devil Story: The First Megami Tensei Anime | KYOTO VIDEO
Learn the history on how a popular novel trilogy birthed one of the most-influential JRPG franchises of all time and a good-looking but flawed OVA film at the same time. Could you guess which one i...
2025-11-27 00:55:21 +0000 UTC View PostIdol Project: Pretty Looking Noise | KYOTO VIDEO
Before they made they made the crowd go mild with Wild Cardz, Studio OX made a genuine stab at a multimedia franchise with idol-packed project Idol Project. But instead of being a sweet melody, all...
2025-11-15 19:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostKYOTO VIDEO 2025 Quarterly Report (Nov - Jan)
November 15th: Idol Project
Let’s shake off the Halloween hangover with something light-hearted. And you sure as sugar can’t get any more light-hearted than an anime abou...
2025-11-01 20:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostBoogiepop Phantom: Unsung and Unnerving | KYOTO VIDEO
Happy Halloween! I bring you a much-loved yet still under-discussed psychological horror masterpiece.
2025-10-30 00:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostPuppet Princess | KYOTO VIDEO
Manga legend Kazuhiro Fujita once wrote a series of short stories and somehow, one of those got animated. Tune in with KB to see how an anime with an odd premise and some skin-crawling plot beats t...
2025-09-30 23:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRG Veda: Clamp's Dazzling Debut | KYOTO VIDEO
The possum gets around to talking about the four ladies of Clamp and the obscure OVA of their debut manga that helped launch the shojo anime renaissance of the 90s. It's an important anime, even if...
2025-09-15 23:58:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The Cockpit: Leiji Matsumoto's WWII Anthology | KYOTO VIDEO
80 years after America's victory in Europe and the Pacific, no doubt many heroic tales have been written about the victors. But what about that war's losers? What are their stories? Well, Leiji Mat...
2025-08-15 02:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostKYOTO VIDEO 2025 Quarterly Report (Aug - Oct)
The Cockpit - August 15th:
VJ day is turning 80 this August. 80 years since the end of World War II. The perfect opportunity to talk about Leiji Matsumoto’s The Cockpit...
2025-08-06 16:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Arena Toshinden | KYOTO VIDEO
A toy company makes a shockingly innovative 3D fighter. Said fighter is an immediate success. Said company proceeds to milk the franchise dry, but not before bankrolling an anime so boringly terrib...
2025-07-31 02:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostNinja Cadets | KYOTO VIDEO
Today, we look at Ninja Cadets, an anime OVA that has a surprising amount of technical craftsmanship. But unfortunately, is let down by the state of both ninja anime and the OVA format in 1996.
2025-07-15 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostLost Universe: Slayers' Forgotten Sci-Fi Spinoff | KYOTO VIDEO
It's 1998. The anime landscape is rapidly changing but Slayers is still white hot. So hot that it was decided that Hajime Kanzaka's sci-fi "spin-off" series should get an anime. Did it turn okay? T...
2025-06-28 21:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostAssemble Insert | KYOTO VIDEO
With anime culture developing fully in the 80s, so did the anime parody. And here's where we find the 1989 OVA comedy Assemble Insert, an anime parody that's quite granular to a fault. 2025-05-31 02:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hand Maid May | KYOTO VIDEO
At the turn of the new millennium, anime production began to move towards the otaku crowd, specifically the growing maid craze. And one newfound company, TNK, went off the beaten track immediately ...
2025-05-17 00:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostKYOTO VIDEO 2025 Quarterly Report (May - Jul)
May 16th: Hand Maid May
The year is 2000. Humanity has passed into a new millennium. And the anime industry has found itself in the throes of maid robots. Out of that mini-cr...
2025-05-06 01:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostCrying Freeman | KYOTO VIDEO
Kazuo Koike is a legend and pioneer in the field of seinen manga, but you wouldn't know that from the less-than-stellar anime adaptations of his work. Can Toei's big budget OVA adaptation of his an...
2025-04-29 21:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHyper Speed Grandoll | KYOTO VIDEO
CW: flashing imagery
OVAs may be dying but the late 90s can still produce inspired concepts like "what if Superman was a bespectacled anime schoolgirl?" Is the concept bulle...
2025-04-16 01:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Star of Cottonland: Anime's First Catgirl | KYOTO VIDEO
The archetypal anime catgirl is a more recent invention than you would expect. But did you know that it came from a shōjo manga by a Year 24 Group author? And said manga got adapted into ...
2025-04-02 03:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostLupin III - The Legend of the Gold of Babylon | KYOTO VIDEO
We're back with Lupin and we're taking on the wild era of the 80s "Pink Jacket" era. See how the most divisive era of Lupin III is exemplified by its most divisive film.
2025-03-19 02:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal Dirty Pair | KYOTO VIDEO
We see the long-awaited return of the Lovely Angels as we delve into their OVA series/second season. And after the missteps of Project Eden and Nolandia, does this one have what it takes to be a wo...
2025-02-23 02:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostKYOTO VIDEO 2025 Quarterly Report (Feb - Apr)
Original Dirty Pair - February 22nd
‘Bout time we caught up on what the Lovely Angels have been up to. Frankly, it’s been too long. Especially now that we are talking abo...
2025-02-08 15:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostState of the Channel: 2025
What is up, people? Before I lay out the anime I plan to talk about during the new year’s 1st quarter like I always do around this time, I need to make an announceme...
2025-02-06 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostPatlabor: The Movie | KYOTO VIDEO
The Patlabor franchise finally takes the next big step with its big screen debut. See how Mamarou Oshii and the rest of Headgear turn the normally mundane police procedural into an action-packed te...
2025-02-02 04:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostTransformers — Scramble City: The Mobilization | KYOTO VIDEO
UPDATE: Fixed editing mistakes I missed.
Because of its vast success in the West, some people have made the wrong assumption that the Transformers owe everything to America in its success. T...
2025-01-17 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostUnico in the Island of Magic | KYOTO VIDEO
It's time to check in on Unico again and witness him going on a super psychedelic adventure that was guaranteed to give children of the 80s nightmares. And you can all thank Osamu Tezuka bringing o...
2024-12-18 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Girl From Phantasia | KYOTO VIDEO
The Girl From Phantasia is another footnote of anime history could've easily been swept under the rug as an Urusei Yatsura rip-off... had it also not been produced by a legendary studio in the proc...
2024-11-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post