EPISODE 5
Termite Terrace enters the 50s and, in the face of budget cutbacks, lack of credit, and an unexpected, short-live shutdown of the entire animation department, one director stood tal...
2021-10-11 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Before got the classic 1991 martial arts gorefest that we know and love, the manga Riki-oh actually had a few OVAs released as tie-ins to manga. Unfortunately, these OVAs might actually...
2021-09-24 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you folks like furries, giant robots, screwball comedy and Team Rocket-esque villain trios? Well this anime's got all that, but not much more.
2021-09-09 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been covering Slayers for quite awhile now and since we've finally finished off the TV show for the time being, it is now time to take the next logical step into the prequel movie...
2021-08-28 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So you think anime was better in the olden days back when we didn't have cute girls doing thing and just had manly men scream and shoot guns from their giant mecha? Not so fast, it turn...
2021-08-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the upcoming slate of KYOTO VIDEO episodes to be airing this quarter
Twinkle Heart – August 13th
Say, did you know the guy behind Dream Hunter Rem mad...
2021-08-04 11:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, is Art of Fighting really the worst fighting game adaptation? If it isn't, it is certainly up there. A fate perhaps undeserving for one of SNK's more unfairly regarded franchises...
2021-07-30 00:22:49 +0000 UTC View Post
There's this weird little short film about cat children. It's disturbing. It's off-putting. It's also heartwarming and kinda sad when you think about it. This is everything you need to ...
2021-07-16 23:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It was destined to change the world. It was gonna be the perfect merging of video game technology and animation technology. It would revolutionize film-making as we knew it. And, by the...
2021-07-02 00:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Leon Schlesinger has finally sold his studio and the new management now expects results from the four directors and units they inherited. Luckily for them, Termite Terrace is ready to m...
2021-06-26 15:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It was inevitable that a video on Urusei Yatsura would be uploaded to this channel one of these days. Of course, we gotta start things off with Urusei Yatsura's first movie Urusei Yatsu...
2021-06-12 01:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's episode of KYOTO VIDEO finds us watching Take the X Train, one of the weirdest tributes ever to American jazz legend Duke Ellington. The designs and animation of this absurdist ...
2021-05-28 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
KYOTO VIDEO delves into the forgotten 80s comedy anime PREFECTURAL EARTH DEFENSE FORCE and shows you just how much good animation can factor into making even better comedy. Comedic saku...
2021-05-14 00:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the upcoming slate of KYOTO VIDEO episodes to be airing this quarter.
Prefectural Earth Defense Force – May 14th
We kick it back to the small yet prescient gen...
2021-05-03 23:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
During the explosion of fantasy anime in 90s, there was a popular anime called Sorcerer Hunters. It involved adventurers hunting down evil overlords as a day job and two of them could t...
2021-04-29 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
At the turn of the 90s, fledgling distribution company U.S. Renditions released their first two localized anime titles. The first was Gunbuster. The second was another giant robot anime...
2021-04-17 00:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Women's wrestling was very popular in the Japan of the 1980s. And yet, it felt like there was only one anime that capitalized on the craze. Wanna-Be's is a short OVA from 1986 that shou...
2021-03-26 14:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
After so much copyright BS, I think I was able to get this video through for the time being.
Enjoy!
2021-03-18 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Isekai anime sure is popular, huh? But what many people don't know is that the genre goes back way farther than they think. Released in 1985, Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko is o...
2021-02-26 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Metropolis was a high-budget passion project done in tribute of one the greatest creators of anime and manga. But nearly 20 years after its release, pop culture seems to have forgotten ...
2021-02-13 18:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the upcoming slate of KYOTO VIDEO episodes to be airing this quarter.
Metropolis – 2/12/2021:
We look at the 2001 Metropolis, a large-scale film...
2021-02-02 18:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For Kyoto Video’s 3rd Anniversary, we finally tackled the strangest product of the 80s OVA boom: Cipher the Video. A 1989 anime that would rather spend its valuable runtime on license...
2021-01-30 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We discover how Termite Terrace took a simple screwball rabbit character and turned him into a pop cultural icon.
2021-01-21 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you like watching 80s anime for the aesthetics? Do you like anime filled with action setpieces at the expense of plot? Do you like tripping out and seeing visions beyond the comprehension of the...
2021-01-15 03:34:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a special holiday treat from KYOTO VIDEO to you with a video analyzing the second TENCHI MUYO movie DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS.
2020-12-22 03:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post
What happens when an very influential anime director with decades of prestige under his belt gets hired to work on a low-budget schlock OVA? You get Sword for Truth. And it ain't pretty...
2020-12-12 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Anime often goes to absurd lengths to jam as much fanservice as possible into it's screentime. But Agent Aika take that philosophy to the next level. Watch as we try to analyze this ani...
2020-11-27 01:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost forty years after landmark left-wing protests in Japan sprang up, a movie was released that took the lessons learned from those protests and used to create an anti-fascist story ...
2020-11-14 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tough times are upon us and winter is drawing near. But that doesn't mean KYOTO VIDEO has stopped. What do we have in store for the next three months.
November 13th - Jin...
2020-11-03 12:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the insurmountable pillars of hyper-violent 80s anime, Violence Jack's sheer devotion to showing the darkest content ever committed to an OVA has launched into retro anime infamy...
2020-10-29 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post