The European sword-and-sandal genre seems quite unlikely to be found in anime, right? Wrong! Yoshikazu Yasuhiko directed and animated a big budget epic in the 80s steeped in Greek mytho...
2023-09-30 00:47:15 +0000 UTC View Post
One Piece is pretty popular right now, so now is an opportune time to do a video on it. So we go back to before the anime's premier but after the manga entered serialization. We're talk...
2023-09-17 04:31:59 +0000 UTC View Post
You like cute anime girls? You like fighter jets? Well, otaku in the 90s sure did. Take a look at Idol Defense Force Hummingbird and see why it's spent too long flyer under our radars.<...
2023-08-30 01:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Ninja Resurrection was once one of the most infamous anime titles that ever got dumped on to the overseas market. Take a look into the lie that formed around this anime and see whether ...
2023-08-15 02:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Ninja Resurrection – August 14th
1998 is a bad year for anime and from that year of troubled productions and Evangelion rip-offs spawned Ninja Resurrection 2023-08-09 11:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Enough time has passed! A new Street Fighter game is out so we can now propertly talk about Street Fighter II's cinematic foray into animation!
2023-07-31 00:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In the mid-90s, AIC resurrected a one-off to reboot it into a franchise. And while it was somewhat successful, it doesn't change the fact that all this reboot and had going for it was t...
2023-07-15 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
An early gothic horror shoujo gets itself an anime! Can it survive a marked down budget to deliver the promise of spooky, atmospheric gothic fiction?
2023-06-29 21:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, everyone. Let’s get down to brass tacks. So if you are $1 and up Patron, you probably are privy to the upcoming schedule and you will know that the video I had planned to be released around t...
2023-06-26 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
KB teams up with streamer Cyra D. Redspear to explore the history of shmups videos games and how resulted in Konami's forgotten in foray into the OVA sphere. Does Vic Viper translate to well ...
2023-06-17 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
No piece of media set in high school is complete without a graduation episode and for one fore-running raising sim franchise, it was decided that their big OVA project would be exactly ...
2023-05-29 22:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
On the same year Slayers released its most divisive TV entry, it also released its most divisive movie entry. See what happened when Lina and Naga are pitted against each other when Sla...
2023-05-11 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Slayers Great – May 11th: The annual review of a slice of the Slayers franchise continues unabated. And this one is a really fascinating one. Running alongside the divis...
2023-05-07 17:15:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it possible for a cutesy animated film to teach the lesson of the cruelty of nature and fate? The creators of Hello Kitty and Anpanman say "yes."
2023-04-30 01:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
You would think that a sequel to a popular horror-mecha OVA that has been far more actionized and cutified would be a recipe for disaster, right? But Toshiki Hirano somehow made it work...
2023-04-15 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Before the light novel, there was the pulp magazine. And before the light novel adaptation, there was the pulp magazine adaptation. And out of all of them, Vampire War sure is the pulpi...
2023-03-31 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
30 years ago, the space opera anime finally got its comedic take with The Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Tune in and find out why an anime about the laziest bum to ever captain a space ba...
2023-03-18 15:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Yoshinori Kanada was one of the first Japanese animators to develop a trademark style that continues to influence animators to this day. But he only one anime that could truly be consid...
2023-02-27 01:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post
By the late 90s, the allure of the OVA format was beginning to wane and one prominent victim of this sea change was Ayane's High Kick; a kickboxing anime that shows us that the direct-t...
2023-02-12 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ayane's High Kick – February 13th: All eras must eventually come to an end and the decline of the OVA format from its Golden Age was certainly a sight to behold. One of the more ...
2023-02-09 00:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
For KYOTO VIDEO's 5th anniversary, we return to where we started: looking at an anime anthology film that has Katsuhiro Otomo attached. But this one is bigger, better and, in many ways,...
2023-01-30 01:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In the late 80s, young gun animators Satoshi Urushihara and Kinji Yoshimoto got the break of a lifetime by being given free reign to bring a wholly original sword-and-sorcery anime to l...
2023-01-15 02:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
For the last video of 2022, we finally set our targets on a long overdue franchise and the movie that most embodies it best (and worst qualities).
2022-12-30 01:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The isekai genre has always been associated with some pretty absurd premises over the years. So you would pleased to know that one of the genre's earliest examples also followed suit. G...
2022-12-16 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You've got a popular and well-regarded shoujo manga that can be adapted to anime. But why do that when you can just make a video using cover art from the manga? KYOTO VIDEO looks at the...
2022-11-30 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 7
All things must come to an end. But in the case of Looney Tunes and the studio that made them, it was not a dignified one.
2022-11-24 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Even a cutting-edge studio like Trigger had to start somewhere. Luckily for its co-founder Imaishi, he nailed it on his first shot with 2004's whacked-out trip of a film Dead Leaves. 2022-11-14 02:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Dead Leaves – November 14th: Studio Trigger is certainly one of the biggest anime studios in the world right now. But without this short film helping to introduce Hiroyuki Imaish...
2022-11-07 13:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post
20 years ago, Blood: The Last Vampire looked to be one of the most revolutionary works of animated horror around. Today, it's a mere footnote. What happened to make such an internationa...
2022-10-27 16:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A vampire-themed October kicks off with a look at the product of a cursed marriage between Toei and Marvel. Their dark ritual gave birth to Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, a vampire adaptation th...
2022-10-14 00:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post