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.