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 tall to push the Looney Tunes shorts to new heights. This is the story of how Chuck Jones owned the 50s.
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 be less exciting the Story of Ricky if you can believe that.
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 series. How exactly does this movie compare to the the TV anime and, more importantly, what exactly is Naga's deal?
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 turns that even in the days of VCRs did anime centered around cute girls exist. And out of all them, Twinkle Heart might just be the most cloyingly cute!
Experimenting with title format for this episode. Might revert if no changes in view count are detected.
2021-08-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Twinkle Heart – August 13th
Say, did you know the guy behind Dream Hunter Rem made another stab at a potential OVA franchise? Apparently, this one didn’t turn out to be as successful as it only got one episode, but that doesn’t mean we can’t cover it. Twinkle Heart is a forgotten little oddity from the peak OVA day and one that proves that the concept of “cute g...
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 know about Cat Soup and the creator who inspired it, Nekojiru.
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 end of August 2001, it was completely forgotten. This is the story of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and what went wrong.
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 meet those expectations with some of their best shorts and their best new cartoon stars.
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 Yatsura and see if it can pull a Lupin and be an ideal starting point for the series.
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 jazz odyssey is simultaniously captivating and off-putting and that's the reason why it works in the first place.
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 sakuga if you will.
2021-05-14 00:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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Prefectural Earth Defense Force – May 14th
We kick it back to the small yet prescient genre of 80s comedies with the 1986 parody anime Prefectural Earth Defense Force. An obscure little title that was almost thought to have been lost outside of third-generation VHS tapes, this is an anime that combines mile-a-minute comedy with some explosive 80s sakuga. It sure to be a blast!<...
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 turn into super-powered dominatrices. Why exactly has this anime been forgotten?
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 that, despite obvious production troubles, managed to achieve a cult following of sorts. That anime was Dangaioh.
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 should work. It's one the first projects of Kenichi Sonoda and got all that 80s cheese that I love. But what exactly keeps this anime from finishing clean?
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 one earliest forms of isekai anime that set a gold standard for the genre, and all with a team of young talent just starting out.
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 about it. KYOTO VIDEO explores why Rintaro's Metropolis is so great and why you should watch it.
2021-02-13 18:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Metropolis – 2/12/2021:
We look at the 2001 Metropolis, a large-scale film created in the midst of a second anime film renaissance that seemed to vanish just as soon as it premiered. We’ll dive into it’s production history, how it stacks up to the manga and 1927 film it’s adaptating and how it’s the ultimate tribute to one of anime’s greatest masters.
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 licensed pop music, extended montages and stiff English voice acting over adapting its source material. But maybe, that’s the point? Let’s hear it for the boy!
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 human mind? Well then maybe you should watch Ai City.
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 anime while not getting distracted by the impossible amounts of booty on screen.
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 told from the point-of-view of a person deep in the fascist machine. That movie was Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade.
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 Roh: The Wolf Brigade: Times are tumultuous and democracy is on the brink, so better time than to talk about a super-political anime film. Hiroyuki Okiura and Mamarou Oshii's 1999 political thriller Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is a classic anime film that has earned it's spot in pop...
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. However, you would be interested to know that infamy doesn't always translate to quality.
2020-10-29 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post