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Bobby ni Kubittake (1985)

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  https://nyaa.si/view/1648255 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. So, a lot of you might be shocked at the fact that I went and released this...especially given my recent comments on the anime that I had posted onto Twitter. "Marty, I thought you hated  this anime? Why did you work on it?" GOOD QUESTION! Long story short, I didn't know about the anime's quality until after  I watched it. But I'll gladly explain below anyways how this entire project came to be: Bobby ni Kubittake , or as I like to call it, Bobby's Down Bad  (yes, this translation actually works—not sure where Bobby's Girl  came from anyways), was one of many 80s anime titles that had been on my watchlist for quite some time now. Several years now! Naturally, because I get distracted easily (and because I have too many projects to work on), I had not yet found the time to actually sit down and watch it. Fast forward to a couple months ago. I get a few DMs from Tanks, with a new p

Ginga no Uo - URSA Minor Blue (MUSE HD LD)

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https://nyaa.si/view/1644650 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. This OVA's an odd one, though I don't mean that in a bad way. It tells the story of an elderly man and his grandson (Yuri), both of whom live in a laboratory near a lake. While viewing the Little Dipper, they begin to notice that the stars are disappearing one by one, seemingly caused by a huge fish in the sky who's eating them—both Yuri and his grandfather travel across the Milky Way to take down the fish before it eventually begins to consume nearby planets  I was first introduced to the existence of this title through its original soundtrack release from 1994—I had listened to the OST for a while but had never really checked out the anime until fairly recently. This was already subbed by Fong using a DVD source...but guess what? Oddly enough, the LD version for this title is in HD! That's right, it was a MUSE release—which, judging by a quick glance on the internet, allowed for LDs to be disp