The 90s weren't ready for it

It's sad this isn't more popular. It sold very, VERY poorly in the 90s. In fact, they sold almost no copies. There's 12 episodes & we only got ONE in english. This is a crime against anime & VHS fans alike. Kenny lauderdale takes a look at a retro anime series that's famous in Japan, but unknown everywhere else. Shonan bakusozoku was released partially in the 90s as bomber bikers of shonan, but never went past the first part which is a shame. I cover the circumstances surrounding this delinquent series & why it's stuck on VHS, & touch on some of the spinoffs of this Japanese series as well. Less of an anime review & more of a series analysis / retrospective. Currently there's efforts to translate it into english by fansub groups so we're hoping that pans out.
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[@swimmyswim417]

We women may not wholly understand the sheer force of masculinity at work here, but there’s nothing more attractive than a guy with a sweet hairdo who can knock someone out with a single punch, and also has a healthy appreciation for the art of embroidering. GIVE US THE HUSBANDO.

[@GaryOfPallet]

Eh, you talk like Mabel

[@luvhair255]

Yes!

[@sagehoge]

It's on KZbin In English kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqbaaHqjntmGb7s

[@garysuarez9614]

Funny story: my brother who is a former Marine heavy machine gunner and amateur fighter out west is also a seam...(ster?) and outdoor clothing designer. They exist. Go get 'em.

[@unenglishable]

it's so crazy. i started riding motorcycles and now i've gotten into embroidery because of it a lot of biker gangs have emblems, and they wear them proudly. but where did all of those emblems come from? someone had to design and sew them biker gangs and embroidery are deeply connected. they got deep roots in both japan and america through WWII i felt like i could connect with my heritage by blending the two cultures i've been raised with in designing an embroidery for my own jacket i ride solo though, so it's an emblem representing just me

[@basedhalcyon]

You'd think with the whole a e s t h e t i c thing and how much of 80's Japan is being upcycled, we'd get more rereleases of this type of older anime. Now I'm gonna be salty because I can't watch this

[@nozoto]

You should check Orphan Fansubs' blog. One of their big projects is to get a Laserdisc play, so that they get to digitize some old rare anime posted in the LD format.

[@basedhalcyon]

I've got a few of their releases already, shit's gooood @@nozoto

[@sangan3202]

basedhalcyon the aesthetic meme just uses shit everyone knows already

[@Yukosan13]

I feel the same way.. there are several old anime that only got a few episodes translated into English usually through pirated scanlations.. but god I wish could finish them or even find the manga they are based on because sometimes that's even harder to find 😭

[@TurtleGamers1]

@@sangan3202 hell they even use shitty bart simpson edits for their "a e s t h e t i c" shit at this point

[@ChromaticRed]

Not Josuke but the Yosuke who saved Josuke from a Blizzard. O_O

[@iamlucidess]

Wait seriously this could of happened.. chronologically and historically accurate..

[@NucleaRaptor]

@@iamlucidess >stealth overlap with the JoJo fandom Maybe that's why it's so popular over there. It's like Event Horizon getting a revival in the recent years because people have discovered it's essentially a WH40k movie.

[@Alan-nj2zs]

real

[@abstract0407]

Ah yes its all coming together

[@luvhair255]

Naw, as a gal, I love watching goofy, manly delinquent boys and serious, badass delinquent girls with the husband. We scream and cheer at the screen together.

[@tooruoikawa8985]

I love jojos too ;) lol

[@klaushassen3954]

@@tooruoikawa8985 Yu Yu Hakusho

[@drewdederer8965]

I was at Otakon (the one that was held at Penn State back in the 90s), when Robert Woodhead explained why and how he brought this over. It was an experiment, and he got the rights (at least for the episodes on the single tape) as a "round up" on another license fee (he said to the next increment of $10,000 but he didn't say what was the original show he was licensing). He said he had turned a profit, but the demand hadn't been there to do the others (he was already doing all of Urusei Yatsura, one crazy project at a time). He joked that he hoped it would catch on with American biker gangs, who would demand more "Bomber Bikers", Loudly..

[@jedcauffield1858]

Sounds like a Going Dutch licensing deal where no one really knew what they had a license on.. because neither has been in the other person’s country in the early 90s!!

[@blackrat1228]

I've been backing his kickstarter projects since the gunsmith cats release and had no idea who he was. I had no idea he had been involved in bringing over anime that long.

[@drewdederer8965]

@@blackrat1228 Dude wrote the Original "Wizardry" Computer Game back in the early 80s, he got invited to Japan and discovered Anime (married his translator too).

[@blackrat1228]

@@drewdederer8965 that's legit. Going off his candor in the kickstarter newsletters I figured he had experience but nothing like that.

[@JonBailey]

I backed all the UY DVDs, back when that meant ordering it on his website, he actually wrote his whole online store page since he's an old-school Apple coder (obvs!). AnimEigo handled the remastering of Macross/RoboTech, and that was a monster project - he's a true fan of the art.

[@doubtful_seer]

I’m not even the “target” audience and I would watch the hell out of this anime.

[@chefar]

Careful tho, delinquent animes can be a drug

[@zenuko620]

@@chefar Any recommendations?

[@chefar]

@@zenuko620 sure, what i enjoyed: Shounan Bakusouzoku Sakigake!! Otokojuku Kyou Kara orewa Be-Bop High School Go!! Karate Club Hareluya II Boy they are all old, but easily found on *cough cough* websites

[@bakoun3692]

​@@zenuko620 Mangas have more options and are better most of the time

[@raycerx87]

As an anime VHS collector myself, I hate people that overprice these tapes. Most VHSnobs weren't even into that stuff until a few years ago. Now I try to buy a tape and it's ridiculous! Hell, I used to get made fun of on VHS Facebook groups, and now they are trying to sell anime tapes and pretending they are into it. Ugh. Awful.

[@nogidoki3325]

Wait people still collect VHS tapes? I thought they got extincted or something.

[@raycerx87]

I collect it. My gal and I watch tapes still.

[@nogidoki3325]

@@raycerx87 .... now you make feel bad that i threw my most of my familiy tapes to the trash,I mean our VHS died years ago and nobody really watch tapes here anymore,not to mention that getting a new one is impossible.

[@raycerx87]

@bruh drake no worries, dude. No one could predict the "return" of anime VHS or just VHS in general. Mainly, the fanbase likes bad horror movies from the 80's, which is cool. Just not my thing. I just like all the wacky cuts and dubs of something like Dagger of Kamui becoming Revenge of the Ninja Warrior. A lot of folks on my "old school" anime Facebook pages found recently that Techno Police was an inspiration to Bubblegum Crisis. Fun stuff like that. Plus, Celebrity Just for Kids tapes are fun. They are rarely ever in good condition.

[@zakazany1945]

If people stopped buying overpriced things there won't be overpriced shit

[@mckstellar1005]

Gotta love those manly handkerchiefs mine says "I love mom" on it knit it myself.

[@IntrovertedOreo]

Red haired pompadours just brings out the Kuwabara in everyone 😄

[@klaushassen3954]

*URAMESHIIIII!!!*

[@S_047]

JUST AS THE CHERRY BLOSSOM IS A FLOWER AMONG FLOWERS, KUWABARA IS A MAN AMONG MEN!

[@funwithflags4539]

I was looking for this comment

[@Robert-00768]

This is his older Bro of course lol 😆

[@baylego]

my god the channel picture at the end

[@JoeRobson]

I live in the Shonan area of Japan (it’s about 40 minutes southwest of Tokyo) and it really does look that a e s t h e t i c in the evening. The waves are the only unrealistic thing about Shonan in that anime. Most of them aren’t even a foot high.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Is it known for it's biker gangs or its surfer scene? For some reason there's another anime that takes place in Shonan called "Shonan Junai Gumi", & that's based on delinquents too. Coincidence?

[@JoeRobson]

kenny lauderdale both! Not so much biker gangs these days but there are biker clubs and people with custom lowriders who just cruise up and down the coast every night. Surf culture is massive here and the main beach (Enoshima) is actually twinned with Miami Beach! You can see what it looks like in real life in the movie Ping Pong.

[@merceralex1935]

Yosuke...... Josuke....... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@VzieI]

look at the guy's hair

[@clipsotrips6657]

so beautiful.. :,) chew

[@sangan3202]

Mercer Alex19 also yusuke

[@Ali-gv1yw]

Is this a jojo reference?

[@merceralex1935]

@@sangan3202 yusuke

[@ostangvulkahn1875]

One thing that always got me was how anime back then felt fresh. Like the wild west of animation and they had crazy neat stories like dragons haven etc. Now it's just isekai and school animes with a couple of original pieces that somehow become popular.

[@ostangvulkahn1875]

I mean I don't wanna sound like an elitist but, stuff back then was neat any more as a lover of anime I look back at the older shows and marvel at the ideas and then see authors now and feel like they have potential. That could be used for other things than, "omg now I'm in a fantasy work with hax!"

[@ostangvulkahn1875]

Also stuff like Cybernetics Guardian and Genocyber. Man what crazy ideas! I mean stuff like black magic m-66! Where is that kind of imagination now?

[@kennylauderdale_en]

OVAs weren't always good either, but occasionally they worked. For every girl detective club there were 3 cyber city Oedo

[@ostangvulkahn1875]

@@kennylauderdale_en Very true sir.

[@WeebRevolution]

Those blue ray images are the perfect aesthetic, and it's greatly upsetting there doesn't seem to be a sub for it. If only we had more of a fan culture that wasn't put under a stranglehold by legal streaming so we could put forward a collective effort into subbing these older gems *sigh*

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Some people on 4chan's /a/ board found out that the subtitles from the netflix release MIGHT be translatable into english. If we're really lucky someone will just translate those subtitle files so people can drag & drop them onto the official blurays. Thank you so much for commenting!

[@fernandoxavier5688]

I'm from the future and I'm here to say that right now we have access to 10 OVAs subbed in English, in extremely high quality! It's from a subber called Inka-Subs. I've just found them in Nyaa tracker :)

[@southcoastinventors6583]

@@fernandoxavier5688 Well I am from the future future and I like anime so I am learning Japanese because if you really like anime then you need learn to truly enjoy because the translation is often inaccurate as I have found out.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

It's funny that back in the early noughties all our anime was fan-subbed AVIs off of DC++

[@night_fiend6326]

Well there may be a fan sub on one of those invite only anime sharing sites. The other option is just learning Japanese. With all the anime and video games that have not got translated, and the censorship on translations, it is what I am trying to do.

[@gobahgaber6909]

why am i watching this if i cant watch the anime

[@doubtful_seer]

john cena Knowledge

[@OtakuD50]

Oh wow, I did a review of this a few years ago and, while I knew it was obscure as fuck, didn't think it was THAT rare. My copy was in pristine condition, liner notes and advertisement for the crappy Bubblegum Crisis comic included. I ended up not liking it all that much while simultaneously lamenting that we didn't get more.

[@Shenaldrac]

"When you say anime and motorcycles, everyone thinks Akira." I think Yu Gi Oh 5D.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I think Oh/Ah My Goddess! or You're Under Arrest!.

[@Darkfire9189]

iirc it's a cult classic in Japan. But, you have to understand this was released when Anime was almost entirely unknown. They really need to remake it as I'm sure it'd do well.

[@tombraider1111]

This series was actually quite famous in SE Asia back in the day. Most people knew it as manga, and have probably never watched the anime series, or even knew it existed. The full manga was translated into Mandarin and can be easily found on the usual Chinese websites. Just do a search for 湘南爆走族.

[@KichiMiangra]

Siiiigh... am I the only lady out there that just... like pompadours?

[@luvhair255]

Nope! :)

[@alianar.d.8724]

Hello fellow woman of culture

[@doubtful_seer]

KichiMiangra Not at all. I, too, am a lover of the pompadour.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Pompadours are pretty old-fashioned, unless you're Conan O' Brien.

[@myristicina.]

Nahh

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

I somehow found this over a year ago, don't even remember how, but since then I've been trying to talk about it online and raise some awareness for it. From what I can tell, this baby is excellent, absolutely deserving of an official translation. It's hilarious and so beautiful to look at. I didn't know I need hour long anime episodes. It's also got a two episode spin-off OVA, Shin Shounan Bakusouzoku Arakure Knight. We could really use more delinquent translations, but at least the Be-Bop Highschool OVA is finally out. I'm glad you liked it and raising some awareness!

[@justinkashtock333]

Possibly due in part to this video, all 12 episodes have been subbed and can be found on streaming sites like 9a

[@Divinegoldenlight]

I might be a woman but this is one of those animes I don't tell my friends about because I just felt so happy with it I might not understand all the way but it just makes me happy, even though I feel a bit greedy to keep it secret

[@justinkashtock333]

All 12 episodes have been subbed and are available online.

[@MyMelody5]

Interesting that in Tokyo Revengers, there is a character who is also in a biker gang and the leader of the sewing club.

[@justinkashtock333]

It's probably an homage/nod to this series. I don't recall who it was - Was it Baji?

[@bakoun3692]

Tokyo revengers referenceses alot of older delinquent mangas/anime ^^

[@daisy12pinkanime85]

​@@justinkashtock333 no, it's Mitsuya

[@sp19047]

Man those Blu Ray images looks absolutely gorgeous. Makes me love the colors and art design of this era of Anime even more and I wish creative stuff like this will return. It'll be really exciting to see the rest of this anime subbed someday with the blu Ray transfers, because that will be amazing.

[@NucleaRaptor]

I was always under the impression that this was the prequel to GTO about Onizuka's delinquent heydays.

[@Subzero2115]

That’s Shonan Junai Gumi and the manga Bad Company (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

[@NucleaRaptor]

@@Subzero2115 Oh shit, so I was half-right! Thanks for the tip. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@InvaderSamXD]

This anime looks great.. I'm one of those people that throw around "aesthetic" a lot, but id agree with you, the colors and shots in this anime look lovely. I wanna watch it now QwQ Also, Motorcycle gang leader who has time to be a soft boy and sew?? Sign me up.

[@Spiegelgeist]

Ty again Mr. Lauderdale for continuing to be the best anime KZbinr around. I can be sure I'll find some rare classic when I watch your videos. This anime really is like they animated a Eizin Suzuki painting. Keep up the excellent work! :)

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

It really reminds me of Hiroshi Nagai. There is even a shot in a bar, where you can clearly see a poster in the background with palm trees.

[@Spiegelgeist]

@@RyumaXtheXKing Yes, I agree with the Hiroshi Nagai comparison as well, and I am sure he was an inspiration to the animators. Just personally the color palette and the use of vehicles and the ocean just give off a stronger Eizin Suzuki vibe to me. Both are excellent inspirations and I'm glad the animators used them.

[@Spiegelgeist]

@@kennylauderdale_en Yeah.

[@theyapper1337]

So glad I found your channel. 80's anime doesn't get enough love outside of Akira and Gunbuster.

[@Nadia1989]

What about Patlabor?

[@justinkashtock333]

Vampire Hunter D, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (actually the first anime VHS tape I ever rented/watched), First of the North Star, Golgo 13, etc. There's plenty of 80s anime that get love all the time if you're talking to the right people.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

There's also Dirty Pair, Yawara, Metal Armor Dragonar, Dancougar, Area 88, Macross... many to count and name, to be honest.

[@StellaEFZ]

Talking about Shonan, there's an anime OVA series with 5 episodes called "Shonan Jun'Ai Gumi" that is basically the predecessor of GTO.

[@RadikAlice]

Well, that's one sure way to sell me on it! Nice Stella pfp btw, gotta love the Cat Boomer

[@StellaEFZ]

@@RadikAlice Oh, thank you! Stella is the best

[@RadikAlice]

@@StellaEFZ You're welcome!

[@MishaMishaMatic]

oh man I love delinquent shows... Now that you shared this rare gem we can all be sad that there is no subs.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

I'm working on it. I'll watch the entire thing in japanese with hand done google translate subs if I have to.

[@thisspaceforrent5737]

What kind of blows me away is how GOOD the animation can be for shows that glorify juvenile delinquency. Not just this; "Kyo Kara Ore Wa" looks fantastic, too.

[@dpc4548]

My uncle was a bosuzoku. My aunty was in that group too, which is how they met. I grew up with this setting being romanticized and it looks nice.

[@lemon-nu7xp]

omg when u mentioned tatsuro yamashita i was like finally! Someone who knows him!

[@garnetthemighty1930]

Yesssssss exactly!!

[@damianstarks3338]

Old school anime never dies.

[@JM_Solo]

What a rollercoaster. I got so excited and then so depressed that this wasn’t available. And then I found the comments… looks like I have at least 10 episodes to watch!!!

[@WilltheHedgehog02]

Welp, time to learn Japanese so I can watch this show.

[@blindcassette]

I watch all these videos, and I get excited cause I wanna watch these and expand my horizons, but then I crush myself with the knowledge that i have no way of watching these animes that sounds so interesting.

[@mateuszobszanski274]

I'm glad that so many people saw this video and now know about this anime

[@ImmortalRimas]

Almost every 80’s & 90’s Anime is amazing and flawless

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

Okay, this looks pretty kick-ass

[@tango636]

Loved it! Whenever I hear VHS, I instantly remember the actual smell of the tapes and the sound of the VCR's head spinning

[@tbxvividos]

2:21 holy crap I did not expect such an incredible looking scene to suddenly appear What a reminder of what we've lost. Like, I want to watch this anime now simply because of this riding animation. Edit: Jesus every frame of this ova is incredible. Just subbed simply because of finding this video randomly in my feed. Thanks for enlightening me to its existence.

[@Hyperion509]

Kenny, your videos are seriously helping me get through these weird times. Thank you! ✌️❤️

[@LedosKell]

"Handmade handkerchiefs" You cannot knock a man for being dedicated to his hobby.

[@diejobWHO]

Great news: it's currently being translated by a sub team. Seven episodes are already available and they are fantastic.

[@bluespaceman7937]

Cool

[@justinkashtock333]

Yeah all 12 are subbed and available on 9anime

[@vladlock]

where?

[@privatedino3239]

where

[@pompadourawesome]

where???

[@Daigohji99]

Bless Animeigo and their VHS liner notes, letting me sing along to Konya wa Hurricane and understand all the puns in Urusei Yatsura years before the internet was an option.

[@Skrunt]

Seeing this video in 2022 the influence this show has on Tokyo Revengers is crazy, beyond the deliquient biker gang genre there is a ton of similarities in the characters and styling

[@fluffcake]

It’s so pleasantly aesthetic. Forgotten anime always breaks my heart, no matter how bad or good due to the art that they threw their heart in. (Except for Boxer lol)

[@Absolutely_Nobody]

All I have to say is... Goodnight, my honey angel.

[@BadlanderOutsider]

This is easy enough to fix. 1. Plump out 30,000 yen or roughly 280 dollars for the BDs. 2. Learn Japanese, or beg/pay others to translate it for you. 3. Do the sort of things we know about but won't say. And there you go. Oh wait, did I say easy? But yeah, even today there's strange gaps in what's subbed and available and what's not, due to all manner of reasons. This is especially weird when you're into robot anime and such, where we only recently in the last few years got all of Tomino's directed work (in regards to just robot anime of course, there's a fair bit of his work prior to him starting on such shows still in limbo). It's only been in the last few years that we've had releases of Mazinger (with the original and Great) and there's still tons of stuff not only unreleased in the West but unsubbed (even if you take crabsticks/HK-subs as subbed which no one should) so if you wanted to grab JP releases (and pay that huge amount of money), you can't.

[@canalsincontenido]

It's really weird that only last year there was a sub for Jeeg when it was broadcasted in all of asia, europe and latin america. Like, how could it be obscure when it was common place in 70% of the world?

[@farout_tech]

Then there's also something like SF Saiyuuki Starzinger, one of Leiji Matsumoto's lesser known works as a writer, which was a clusterfuck outside of Japan. Being a "journey to the west anime, but in space" they decided to rebrand it to be about the three musketeers and call it "Spacekateers" instead in a package show called Force Five in the US, of which I'm aware of a single upload exists (kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqKxkq2ia6yGe8U). Similarly, it was aired as El Galactico alongside Steel Jeeg, Gaiking and Magne Robo Gakeen in another package show called Festival de Robots. In Italy it was dubbed and released in its entirety, but in Scandinavia Sweden got episodes 5 through 25 and then the final episodes on VHS, while Finland based their release on that, but the final VHS is exceedingly rare, so for all intents and purposes Finland basically did not get the ending. In the UK it was released in some form as Sci-Bots, but I have no clue what the deal with that one is. Currently there exists a "Starzinger movie collection" that you can buy on Amazon, but it's a weird English dub directed by William Winckler that just compiles various episodes into movie format (episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8 for the first, 36, 49, 50, 51 and 64 for the second and 65, 66, 70, 72 and 73 for the last one). Starzinger is by no means a very special show, but surely they could've done better than make one character's line be "Who let the dogs out woof woof woof!" in that release. As far as subs go, ILA did subs for about 20 episodes at some point, and had the script for the rest but never got around to finishing it. Then TSHS picked it up again years later, doing touch-ups on ILA's release, but I have not seen many updates on that since the 11th episode. It's gotten to the point where I just watched raw italian dub of the show and tried to piece together the plot with a dictionary.

[@canalsincontenido]

@@farout_tech have you heard about Captain Harlock and the queen of the thousand years? In the US Harmony Gold decided to import Harlock, but it had too few episodes for sindication, so they mixed it with Queen Millenia. Not only it makes no sense (Harlock is a self contained future, QM is set in 1999 about the earth being invaded) but it also had like 20 episodes too many. So they did a free mixture, cutting first and making the dialogues and plot later. It's a hilarious mess.

[@farout_tech]

@@canalsincontenido Yeah, I've heard about that one, but more due to Harmony Gold's shenanigans with Robotech which is an equally amazing mess.

[@canalsincontenido]

@@farout_tech Robotech is pristine in comparison. They didn't even get Leiji Matusmoto's name right in the opening, characters die and come back to life in the same episode (because they though they were different people), voice actors get confused on which character they are, and of course, they try to set Harlock in 1999 as some sort of space military trying to stop the villain from a different anime. HG went mad with power, I guess.

[@FreeAllenWrench]

As a vhs collector and an ebay reseller, i want to thank you for doing your part to keep the market going.

[@deptofcarstereorepair]

4:04 thanks, I just went down a weird rabbit hole about Alien Rap

[@kymo6343]

...That dude wasn't knitting. He was sewing, specifically an embroidery. Yer welcome, manly man.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

When a shirt gets dirty I just throw it in the oil rag pile with my tools. That's just how it's done.

[@ExodineMusic]

love your videos dude, I'm glad people like yourself are doing commentary on some of the old goodness. I'll take the old school anime over all this bland isekai shit that keeps getting pumped out every season.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Thanks, I put a lot of work into this video & not many people saw it so that means a lot.

[@valkunstgeist5041]

thank you so much for bringing this gem of a series to light out here!

[@McbrideStudios]

I wish more old anime was more readily available. Anything made earlier than the mid-90s starts to drops off the deep end with scarcity. But I generally enjoy old stuff a lot more than most main-stream anime out today. This sounds a million times more interesting the Fire Force or Attack on Titan to me.

[@mordredoforkney6185]

As soon as I knew what this was about I paused this and found the subs scattered throughout different sites all the way to ep 11. As someone who loves Yankii stuff it kills me that the genre isn't more popular in the US since they largely got their style and music influence from us as well as that "bad boy biker who does what he wants" attitude that Japan loves to apply to Americans, that we just do whatever the fuck we want. And they're right for the most part. Anyone who loves Yankii stuff and is willing to learn some hiragana, check out the Kenka Bancho Series of games. it's exactly like the Yakuza games(bar Like a Dragon) except instead of yakuza you are Yankii students who get into fights and get into insult matches, followed by more fighting and romance options.

[@anikevin]

Hey don't bully my waifu Ueno-san

[@onithered519]

I lived in japan for just a bit over a year between 2012-2013 and that was enough for me to grow quite familiar, even before that I remember trying to get my hands on the manga after I had my yankee manga phase as a teen (kyou kara ore wa/ crows/worst/clover/shonan junai gumi/ gokusen) after a Japanese friend recommended it but I couldn't find it translated in any of the languages I spoke at the time. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't gotten more recognition since, at least the first 6 volumes appear to have been fan translated then dropped since then.

[@cjsdizzy]

This looks so good. We need this transition

[@lukashm4298]

This looks awsome I might give it a try some day

[@Moleje1337]

I love this channel so much 😭

[@luisignaciotartalosaredez1522]

Y really loved this review! Thanks so much!

[@SnowBunneh]

Animeigo actually got back to me. They claimed it would cost too much and the VHS sales from 30 years ago were not promising. You just need Netflix and a subbing company at least to turn a profit.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

I figured as much. They're a really small company.

[@DaisukeKigurou]

Get a petition going, get Animeigo in on the cutting room floor. That way we have Netflix and the original rights holder at least getting some of the kick back from such an old series.

[@DaisukeKigurou]

Maybe they could do merch for the show while Netflix and the Japanese holders have the rights to the digital side?

[@DaisukeKigurou]

I think that would at least make up some of the lost revenue, from the vhs tapes.

[@Shenaldrac]

"the VHS sales from 30 years ago were not promising." Well in case they haven't noticed, the audience for Anime in the west is just a teeny bit larger today than it was 30 years ago...

[@azadalamiq]

iirc shonan junai gumi was more popular in the west. which had its ow spin off GTO same premise. large biker gang that was thugs with hearts, one ends up becoming a teacher who goes into teaching for high school girls, but after getting to know his class and why they are a hard class he softens up his stance and helps his class.

[@jacobe2995]

when I was a teenager there was this local vhs shop owned by a family (not a big box name brand thing) anyways they had a huge selection of anime and after I found your channel some years ago I started feeling like a dummy because a lot of the rare anime (including this one) where on the shelves there and I wish I had known then what you have shown me in the last few years because the place closed down and all that anime has disappeared somewhere. It had a great name for a store too, it was called "vidiots".

[@commentingisawasteoftime7195]

If you can track down the family, they might still have some of the stuff that wouldn't sell.

[@fenrirsdaughter9880]

Ah, small quibble: that was very clearly embroidery, not knitting.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

I'm just happy you watched the video!

[@bubbletea1985]

I wonder if Eguchi was an inspiration for Kanji from Persona 4 :o A delinquent teenager who also likes sewing

[@Thedesertguy75]

80s and 90s was our peak in so many ways.....it just was...

[@unique_mushroom]

decided to look around your channel after watching your nora video and am delighted to find someone else who collects anime on vhs. i wish there was a larger community/more readily available info on rarity and availability of the stuff!

[@azurelord64]

0:45 Kuwabara? Is that you?

[@animem54]

nah that's his dad

[@tagortis5883]

Got any recs on where to get some obscure VHSes?

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Alright, firstly, that was a fantastic way to end your video. Putting your channel avatar in the Warning: Bear sign was brilliant! Secondly, fantastic video. Thanks for sharing another awesome-looking series you've found. It really does look a fun, crazy watch - I mean, vampires!? I just can't a handle on Japanese biker anime; one minute they're _Wild 7_ and violent and gritty and played mostly straight. The next they're this. I guess ya just never know what you're gonna get, but it's almost certainly gonna be a great time. Hopefully someone like Animeigo like you said - or fellow "old anime connoisseur" distributors like Discotek/Eastern Star or Nozomi/Rightstuf - end up hunting the rights to this down someday and subbing it up for a release.

[@humbertotorres7970]

Man, I wish I knew so many aesthetic and old anime, I don't know much, but I love this channel and love the animes that he shows. If there's any recommendations from someone, I'd be very happy

[@Hectorito]

Fantastic video as always; hopefully some fan subbers see this video so we can finally see this show in all its glory.

[@nozoto]

I only trust Orphan Fansubs when it comes to this type of project, tbh. Most have moved on, subbing the current flavors of the season.

[@Hectorito]

Beggars can´t be choosers :/

[@Firguy]

4:27 They throw the word around so much that they forget that it's a noun and not an adjective at all.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Kids these days, always changing the meaning of words on the fly.

[@igors2383]

i will still be watching your videos 20 years from now

[@cat4517]

I was very lucky to stumble upon this series when I did. As it seems that just a few months ago someone by the name of Inka-subs actually took the time to subtitle all 12 episodes of this anime beautifully clean looking blue ray. I watched all the episodes and enjoyed the shit out of them. It was great no vampires seen in the show though.

[@spaghetti_dm]

The manliest thing in this video is Kenny's big hairy arm.

[@LikaLaruku]

"Women would never understand this anime." Perhaps, but I guarantee they would ship all the guys together regardless.

[@samuraisista5130]

How dare you share our secrets!?

[@babithehuman2505]

That's why men keep these animes on secret

[@bubbletea1985]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJLQm3uHlLuSmrM

[@Nadia1989]

The animators work hard, but the fujoshis work harder... 🤣

[@mrspiceywolf]

0:26 I see you had the YKK OVA set out. I love that slow melancholic story at the end of the world. The manga was fantastic.

[@alejoOpusMagnum]

I thought I had a good knowledge about anime, but following your channel has made me understand how poor was database... THanks for this amazing videos

[@Anitropius]

It's strange that an anime distributor (or whatever) hasn't started translating aesthetic cult gems like this yet. Feels like a lucrative trend - just slap a "as featured in some random city pop mix tape on KZbin!" on the cover and everybody will want it.

[@eclavegrunt7448]

80s and 90s cartoons where the best!!!!!

[@lakespeed]

Thank you for bringing up Ueno. Hadn't heard about that glorious piece of anime yet. It's not only got a sub but also a dub. Ueno's voice is the same as the voice actress that dubbed Satsuki from Ghost Stories, pretty sure. Top tier recommendation. )))))

[@itzel6698]

Every time i think ive watched all your videos 3 more pop up! :")

[@RhiMorningstar17]

This looks like a really decent Anime to watch I am an old school Anime fan, I don’t mind some modern Anime but fuck stupid crap like My Hero Academia I wanna see this and if one day it gets re translated and gets a Blu Ray I would definitely buy it!

[@Karma20XX]

Are you kidding me? I love yankii boys and sukeban. :p ♥ And omg those backgrounds.

[@Spiegelgeist]

@@kennylauderdale_en That footage of the waves looks a bit digital to me at points.

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

Bluray rips are on the internet.

[@Spiegelgeist]

@@RyumaXtheXKing Sweet, God bless torrents.

[@hardlyworking_]

looks like someone uploaded a vhs rip onto the internet archive! excited to check this out

[@hemidas]

0:22 *800$ for a boxset!?* Fuck it, I'm gonna stream it!

[@ectofrost]

Awesome.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

so basically kuwabara is based on this guy also the mangas online so there you go

[@Karateka1973]

The point about scenes looking a Tatsuro Yamashita album cover is spot on. That one scene looks strikingly similar to his "For You" album cover. The leader of the largest biker gang has a strong similarity to Kazuma Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho.

[@lynnmoore3840]

Love your channel! 80s and 90s anime is the golden era for anime!! I wish they would revert back, I hate half the junk they have now

[@om3g4z3r0]

Just me some quality anime microwave food a gun and one bullet.

[@darylchurch2115]

@@kennylauderdale_en I hope so...

[@matthewvicari6762]

3:12 This is the reason that this anime was not released, or widely accepted outside of Japan. Keith Code was horribly disgusted by this egregious counter-leaning, and he devoted his life to making sure no one would be influenced by this sloppy riding technique.

[@novanoir8309]

That Blue Ray look majestic!

[@FreedomFighterAsuka]

I despise the fact that modern streaming services only bring currently airing shows when they could also bring back some classics from the '90s, 80s and beyond that would be just as popular as seasonal shows today with some clever marketing. I highly recommend the streaming service RetroCrush. They don't have the greatest selection in the world but for people who are willing to give retro anime a shot, they're an excellent starting point as they have the most popular 80's/90's anime like Kimagure Orange Road, Urusei Yatsura movie 2, City Hunter etc. complete with Blu-ray quality.

[@groidcel]

Give me the transcript of each episode, and I will make .ass files for the BD Rips if you can find them.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

do me a favor & send me an email. [e-mail]

[@tsm688]

You make some good .ass files I take it

[@saint-juste]

It's so unknown over here cause most anime fans are weaklings who don't like the old look of old anime and just like their "HD" anime and basic plots they're seen a thousand times. They'd rather watch Boku no Overrated Academia 50 times than check out a classic.