Tag: 1990s

For the past thirty years, the protagonists in the Tenchi Muyo OVA-verse have built a harem dynasty. Since, the new ...

Following the tumultuous production of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993-94), series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino took a prolonged hiatus from the ...

After the release of Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991), the next logical step in bringing new life to the then-flagging ...

The history of Western companies taking inspiration from Japanese media, if not collaborating with the original producers, has seen more ...

I happened to see that March 7 marked the very first broadcast of Sailor Moon, one of the most influential ...

It’s been said that to really appreciate Hideaki Anno’s now-classic Rebuild of Evangelion films, you have to have seen the ...

Many know of the storied studio Sunrise as the house that spawned classics as varied as The Vision of Escaflowne ...

Even at its onset, Yoshiki Takaya’s Bio-Booster Armor Guyver series proved popular enough to gain not only a single OVA adaptation, but ...

Masaki Kajishima’s long-running Tenchi Muyo! is considered one of the more peculiar franchises to have come out of the 1990s. ...

As a fan of classic anime from the 80s, I keep on the lookout for unique products to make available ...

For the longest time, it’s been all but taken for granted how live-action Western adaptations of Japanese manga and anime ...

The 1990s weren’t particularly known for breakthrough Western adaptations of Japanese manga and anime, whether theatrically or direct-to-video. If you ...

Known as Hokuto no Ken in Japan, and among French fans as Ken, le Survivant, Fist of the North Star ...

The promotional posters for G Gundam don't shy away from how the anime is a different beast from what came ...

The poster and DVD cover for Space Thunder Kids, though grossly misleading, is indicative of the end product, as none ...

While the long-standing Gundam franchise was already a media and merchandise giant by the mid-1990s, its future at that point ...

The so-called “lady action” or “Girls with Guns“ sub genre has been something of a recurring anime staple since the ...

You don’t have to be an otaku to see how big Gundam is in Japan. The franchise’s presence in foreign, ...

Coming off the heels of 0080: War in the Pocket (1989), Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991-92) is the second ...

The release of Shin Sakura Taisen (2019) in Japan saw the return of the long-dormant Sakura Wars series. While not ...

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1997) was produced by Sunrise as an OVA miniseries continuing from where the TV show New ...

First debuting in 1988, the Ninja Gaiden franchise remains a classic staple in Japanese video games. Whether it’s the infamously ...

Released in 1993 on Laserdisc, Desert Rose: The Snow Apocalypse (Japanese: Suna no Bara: Yuki no Mokushiroku) is an action ...

We've all been there: we invest a huge amount of  time into an anime series, only to have a terrible ...