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Anime World Order Show # 250 – Everything Happens So Much When Swords Are the Only Gun Known to Man

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It’s our 250th episode, except it’s actually closer to 332! No better time for Gerald to review 1983’s Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years by Osamu Tezuka, now officially released in English. Nudity! Eye gouging! Beheading! Slavery, and not even the B.S. “ethical” kind you see on a curiously elevated basis within contemporary isekai! All this and so much more in a movie meant for the entire family!

Introduction (0:00 – 43:40)
We certainly weren’t expecting to show me the way to you this year, but out of nowhere Sentai Filmworks has announced they will be releasing 1984’s Heavy Metal L-Gaim on Blu-Ray in one complete collection. It’s $65 to preorder it, and while there’s certainly a possibility that it could go on sale later in the year, you are rolling the dice on that since when it comes to these classic anime releases it’s just as likely to quickly go out of print. For now, Panzer World Galient and Queen Millennia remain readily available (and have gone on sale), but all of the previous 1980s Yoshiyuki Tomino mecha titles Sentai Filmworks released–Space Runaway Ideon, Blue Gale Xabungle, Aura Battler Dunbine–are now out of print. After going over some fan feedback to our previous episode, we talk about what current anime we’re watching and manga we’re currently reading. This segues us into discussions regarding the contemporary reticence for anime adaptations to deviate from their source material, and since everything we say is never QUITE up to date, in the time since this recording was made you can once again purchase the Discotek releases of Urusei Yatsura and soon Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles courtesy of MediaOCD’s Discotek Deep Dive section.

Because Apple hates everybody and their draconian rules dictate what everybody else must do, it seems that later this year Patreon will be forcing us to a monthly billing rather than a per-creation one. We therefore are throwing down the gauntlet. For if we get to 350 subscribers, we will review Scarlet by Mamoru Hosoda! Will it make us even more angry than Gundam Narrative? ONLY YOU CAN MAKE US ANSWER.

Review – Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years (43:40 – 1:40:38)
SkySet Entertainment is a newly-formed localization studio, and their first release comes courtesy of Tezuka Productions, whose unofficial slogan ever since the gold rush days of licensing Tezuka’s manga may as well have been “we’ll license out stuff to anybody!” 1983’s Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years is one of several made-for-TV movies created for Nippon Television Network’s annual 24-hour “Love Saves the Earth” charity fundraiser. Originally released in a print-on-demand Blu-Ray authored by SkySet themselves, a better version is now available courtesy of AnimEigo/MediaOCD. You can also stream Prime Rose on Retrocrush in Japanese as well as English dubbed. For those with Amazon Prime subscriptions, Prime Rose is also available on Prime Video.

Some might find the narrative of this film to be most illogical. (This episode incidentally is posted on the 11 year anniversary of Leonard Nimoy’s death.)
The sword is good. The protocol droid for Human-Cyborg Relations is evil, like the penis.
Prime Rose’s hair is in fact purple, not red as Daryl said. She may not have been a commonly used member of Tezuka’s Star System, but she still made it into that Astro Boy GBA game.
Beware, future charioteers riding horse-bulls: the fire breathed from the butthole dragon causes instant petrification!
Most of Tezuka’s traditional “stars” do not appear in Prime Rose outside of brief background appearances. This coliseum crowd shot is the only appearance of all these guys. Can YOU name them all?
Listen. Just go with it.
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Anime World Order Show # 249 – Alpakata Combines the Skill of Capoeira With the Kill of Alpaca

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It’s a brand new year, but not quite a brand new animal as Daryl reviews the somehow already half decade old TV series Odd Taxi. Since it’s something of a mystery series, we’ll note the review contains minor to perhaps moderate spoilers.

Introduction (0:00 – 52:07)
We sound off on the sudden and dramatic shift in practice over at the Crunchyroll Store, in which they will no longer be selling what they deem “slow sellers,” opting to focus solely on big titles. This meant that overnight, several hundred titles from Discotek as well as AnimEigo, Sentai Filmworks, Media Blasters etc. were erased from the store completely, to the point that pending orders for those titles were canceled. For now, the remaining option is to buy direct from the sellers whenever possible. Discotek doesn’t have their own online storefront, but MediaOCD will be adding 20-30 Discotek titles to their storefront each month to lessen the impact of this. So don’t resort to scalpers on ebay charging 500% markup for the removed titles! And that’s not all! Amazon has started not so covertly using generative AI for anime English dubbing, which despite being met with intense backlash from fans and licenseholders alike is proceeding forward regardless.

But contrary to popular belief, we don’t actually WANT to gripe constantly, so we read some emails that congratulate us on our 20 year anniversary as listeners reflect on how far they’ve come in their anime journeys since they first started listening to us. As it’s a new year and a new anime season, we wrap things up by going over some noteworthy titles currently airing as well as what we’re looking forward to for 2026. It’s looking like a lot of classic mecha series will be getting new installments this year: Macross, Gundam, VOTOMS, Patlabor. There were multiple anime films actually released in US theaters between the time of our last episode and now. We saw two of them: Lupin the Third – The Immortal Bloodline and All You Need Is Kill.

Daryl was a guest on The Greatest Movie EVER! podcast to talk about 2018’s Upgrade, which upon rewatch eight years later hits even closer than when it first came out.

Review: Odd Taxi (52:07 – 1:52:10)
Originally, we didn’t think there was a need to review Odd Taxi (often listed as one compound word, Oddtaxi, and stylized in allcaps as ODDTAXI), since it was such a critical darling in 2021. But then Daryl was reminded that 2021 is now half a decade ago when after nearly that many years of waiting, a US Blu-Ray set of the series was finally released by Crunchyroll a few months ago. That’s an affiliate link, as is this Amazon one where as of this writing it’s 50% off. You can also get a Goodsmile plushie of Shirakawa, the alpaca nurse. Mind you, the Blu-Ray set doesn’t quite include everything, but you can (for now) find the English subtitled audio/picture dramas online with little difficulty. What’s it all about? We’ll try to tell you without giving it all away in the process.