Yuukan Club (The Leisure Club)

The 1991 OVA Yuukan Club (The Leisure Club) is about six high school students who are the sons and daughters of the elite and powerful. Together, they run the Student Council at their private high school and still have time for adventures as The Leisure Club.

Clockwise from the top left corner:

• Bidou Granmarnier, son of the Swedish Ambassador. He's a playboy with lovers around the world.
• Kenbishi Yuuri, daughter of the Kenbishi conglomerate. She has inhuman appetite and stamina.
• Shouchikubai Miroku, son of Superintendent General, Metropolitan Police. A mechanical genius.
• Kizakura Karen, daughter of a jeweler. She's primarily characterized by her adult sex appeal.
• Kikumasamune Seishirou, son of a major hospital's director. An intellectual martial arts master.
• Hakushika Noriko, daughter of a tea ceremony master. She is a Go master.

All of the Japanese characters are named for brands of sake; the one westerner is named for a French orange liqueur. The Chinese characters in episode 2 are named for Chinese alcoholic beverages.

The OVAs consist of two standalone episodes. In the first, the Leisure Club must contend with a nefarious petnapper. In the second, they get entangled with the Hong Kong mafia after impulsively flying there (in the Kenbishi private jet) to eat and shop. The episodes are random arcs from Ichigo Yukari's Yuukan Club manga, which ran to 19 volumes. In both, the emphasis is on comedy and madcap adventures. The franchise also includes a 2007 live-action TV series, which seems to have more of a mystery focus.

The voice cast is like a Who's Who of Japanese voice actors from the last 30 years:

• Tsujitani Kouji (Kikumasamune Seishirou) played the lead in 3x3 Eyes, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and Otaku no Video, as well as Miroku in the Inuyasha franchise.
• Katsuki Masako (Kenbishi Yuuri) played Maroko in Gosenzosama Banbanzai and its movie version, Maroko, Mira in Ginga Tansa 2100-nen: Border Planet, and Tsunade (Fifth Hokage) in the Naruto franchise.
• Tominaga Miina (Kizakura Karen) played Persia in Magical Fairy Persia, Hikaru in episodes 2-6 of Chameleon, Karen in DNA^2, and Kamiya (the antagonist) in Tokimeki Tonight.
• Hidaka Noriko (Hakushika Noriko) played Satsuke in My Neighbor Totoro, Akane (the female lead) in Ranma 1/2, Peter in Peter Pan no Bouken, Mrs. Yamada (the mother) in the first two Chii anime series, Near in Death Note, and Kikyo in the Inuyasha franchise, among others. She is still active and recently appeared in Little Witch Academia.
• Koyasu Takehito (Bidou Granmarnier) has appeared in hundreds of video games. He played Izumi in Zetsuai and Bronze, Doujima Gin in Shokugeki no Souma, Thirteen in Grimoire of Zero, Dio in Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, the title role in Master of Mosquitron, and Lennon O'Sullivan in Yamato 2520. He's currently appearing in 18if and Elegant Yokai Apartment Life.
• Seki Toshihiko (Shouchikubai Miroku) played Sanzo in all iterations of the Saiyuki franchise (including the current one), Matsuda in the Yawara! properties, Riki in the original Ai no Kusabi, Zorro in Kaiketsu Zorro, and Mousse in Ranma 1/2.
• Nagai Ichiro (the Hong Kong mafia leader) provided the off-the-wall narration in Gosenzosama Banbanzai and Maroko. He also played Professor Doherty in Nora, Togo in Yamata 2520, and, of course, Happosai in the Ranma 1/2 franchise.
• Ogata Kenichi (the Hong Kong chef) played the put-upon father in Gosenzosama Banbanzai and Maroko, as well as Smee in Peter Pan no Bouken and, most recently, Gran Torino in Boku no Hero Academia. However, he's best known to me as the voice of Ranma 1/2's Sataome Gemna, whose alter ego - the grumpy panda - is my avatar on most anime forums.
• Oobayashi Ryousuke (Miroku's father) played Tendo Soun, Akane's father, in Ranma 1/2.
• Yokoo Mari (Yuuri's mother) appeared in Oz, Outlanders, and, most recently, Gangsta.

Most of them have also done h-anime work. (A voice actor's gotta earn a living, you know.) The director, Shibuichi Setsuko, is a veteran animator. She also directed Damekko Dobutsu (Useless Animals), one of my favorite short series. The songs are by Toy Boys and are typical 90s hard rock.

Iri translated the show, Yogicat timed it, I edited and typeset, and bananadoyouwanna and Nemesis did QC. The raws are from laserdiscs, encoded by Erik of Piyo Piyo Productions. The first episode includes a recorded performance of Toy Boys' Psychedelic Beat, which is used as an insert song in the episode. Our media guy bought the CD single of the song, which facilitated translating the lyrics. The names of the Chinese dishes in episode 2 are a bit problematic; they are a mangled mixture of Mandarin and Cantonese spoken by a Japanese actor with a faux Chinese accent. gu niang (姑娘), also used in episode 2, is a Chinese word meaning a young girl or maiden.

So enjoy Yuukan Club. It is, as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says of Earth, Mostly Harmless. There's little onscreen violence and no nudity. (This can be seen as a plus or a minus, depending on your point of view.) You can get it from the usual torrent sites or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net. The episode 1 CD single (Psychedelic Beat, Shake Dance) is also available.

Eien no Filena

Eien no Filena (Eternal Filena) is a 1992 OVA series with six episodes. It's based on a series of light novels written by Takeshi Shudou and illustrated by Takada Akemi. In 1995, it was made into a role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Although the game was only released in Japan, patches and walk-throughs are available in English.

Eien no Filena is set in a fantasy empire vaguely similar to the Roman Empire, but with most mod cons - TVs, telephones, and cars, but not airplanes. Like Rome, this Empire has gladiatorial contests, between slaves called Battlers. Unlike Rome, the contests are scripted, sort of a lethal version of today's professional wrestling bouts. (The opening episodes' gladiatorial combat scenes contain graphic violence.)

The protagonist of the story, Filena, is the surviving princess of a kingdom called Filosena, which is wiped out by the Empire in the opening moments of the story. Raised as a boy, Filena fights as a Battler, using her wits and speed to compensate for her small stature and lack of strength. With the help of friends, including her "wife" Lila - another slave - Filena must outwit and outlast her enemies in order to reclaim her destiny and her throne. The show is, after all, "the story of a hero," as the opening narration repeatedly proclaims. Except... the show never gets there. Rather like Wolf Guy, it gets to the Big Reveal of the Big Bad and then stops.

Perhaps the OVAs were just a teaser for the novels. Also, they were released before the light novel series was finished. Either way, the inconclusive ending make the show a bit of a disappointment. In addition, the possibilities of Filena's gender switch and her "marriage" to Lila are never explored. Filena's disguise as a man is thin: she has a nice figure, and it shows.

Nonetheless, the male characters don't seem to catch on.

This project started in Stardust Fansubs. At Stardust's request, konnakude brought it to Orphan to be reworked and completed as a joint project. Exode of Stardust did the original translation, and Mitsora of Stardust translation checked episodes 1-3. tenkenX6 checked the last three episodes. Yogicat timed, I edited and styled, and Calyrica,  konnakude, and VigorousJammer did QC. The raws are Laserdisc rips from the Internet and are fairly good.

Filosena was played by Andou Arisa, a veteran voice actor with many roles to her credit, including a number of h-animes. For example, she appeared in Doukyuusei Climax, which Orphan translated. Lila was played by Mizutani Yuko. She too has many normal and h- credits, including Pinoko in all the Black Jack properties and Rika in Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki, another Orphan project. Horiuchi Kenyuu (Nest) has an extensive resume, including Jin Akira in Wolf Guy and the title role in Guin Saga. Hori Hideyuki (Baraba) also had a lengthy career. The background music and ending song, by guitarist Jinmo, are spare and very effective. The character designs by Koizumi Kenzou (who also directed), based on Takada Akemi's original illustrations, are unusual, featuring normal noses and eyes rather than the usual anime conventions.

I'd really like to know how Eien no Filena turns out. Everything on the web seems to reflect the game. If anyone has read the light novels, feel free to post an extensive spoiler in the comments. Meanwhile, you can get the OVA at the usual torrent sites, from bot Orphan|Arutha in IRC channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net. You can also get the original soundtrack on the usual torrent sites.

Daishizen no Majuu Bagi (Blu-ray)

Orphan and M74 are proud to bring you a new version of Tezuka Osamu's 1984 TV special Daishizen no Majuu Bagi (usually translated as Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature). This release features a high-resolution, 720p encode and, for the first time, a professional translation. With this show, we've reached the halfway point in our collaboration with Beatrice Raws to release all of Osamu's NTV "Love Will Save the Earth" TV specials in high-definition.

Bagi tells the story of a human-cougar hybrid created in a super-secret government lab. Bagi escapes and is adopted as a normal kitten by a boy named Ryousuke, whose mother actually created Bagi as an experiment. As Bagi grows up, she starts to exhibit human traits, including the ability to stand on two legs and to write. Realizing that she is attracting suspicion, Bagi runs away. The devestated Ryousuke turns rebellious and joins a biker gang. Nine years later, the gang encounters the now fully grown Bagi. She tears everyone to pieces except Ryousuke, whom she recognizes. Together, they set out to discover the secret of Bagi's origin and to find Ryousuke's mother. Many wild adventures ensue.

The show is filled with nice touches. While the young Bagi looks like a normal kitten, the grown Bagi is a full anime cat-girl, complete with (fur-covered) breasts. This allows for some fanservice interludes, but they're not over the top. Bagi is very loyal to Ryousuke, a trait not normally associated with cats, particularly big cats, and she has the perplexing habit of sometimes dressing up in clothes and sometimes going bare, without any particular rationale for the choice. At one point, Ryousuke is guarded by Cerem Bond, a sort-of James Bond parody, at least if the background music can be taken as a clue. Bond leaves every decision to chance, kind of like Two-Face (Harvey Dent) in Batman. And various members of Osamu's "star system" show up as bit players.

According to Wikipedia, Bagi was Tezuka Osamu's protest against the Japanese government's decision to allow research on recombinant DNA. Today, the furor over gene manipulation has only grown, with large companies creating genetically modified organisms (GMO) for commercial profit, and a growing segment of consumers demanding clear labeling (fiercely resisted by agribusiness) and GMO-free food. The advent of inexpensive techniques for DNA manipulation, such as CRISPR/Cas9, means that recombinant DNA research will become ever more widespread - and potentially ever more dangerous.

I've chosen to use the literal translation of Bagi's name (バギ) rather than Baggy, which appeared in previous English translations. (Baggy would be バギー.) There's no reason to alter the Japanese title. For this release, M74 transcribed and timed the subtitles and encoded the BD source. I edited and typeset. We both did QC, along with Nemesis.

The adult Ryousuke was played by veteran seiyuu Inoue Kazuhiko. He has had starring roles in many shows, playing Yuki Eiri (the seme) in Gravitation, Saruwatari Gotou (co-lead) in Moonlight Mile, Tojo Iori (the noble gangster) in Tomoe ga Yuku, and Hatake Kikashi in the Naruto franchise. However, he's best known to me as the glorious comic voice behind Nyanko-sensei (and his alter ego, Madara) in all six seasons of Natsume Yuujinchou. Shimazu Saeko, the voice of Bagi, has also had a fine career, playing Yuri, one half of the eponymous Dirty Pair, as well as featured roles in the Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura franchises. Haneda Kentarou, who composed the music, has worked on many shows, including Barefoot Gen 1 and 2, Odin: Starlight Mutiny, Sherlock Hound, and the original Macross TV series and movies. Tezuka Osamu co-directed; he needs no introduction.

So enjoy this Tezuka Osamu classic. You can get it from the usual torrent sources or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.

Kidaichi Shounen no Jikenbo movie 1 ("full 480p")

When Orphan released its LD-based version of Kidaichi Shounen no Jikenbo movie 1, there was viewer pushback on the 640x480-with-letterboxing format that the encoder chose. Some viewers thought it should have been cropped to 640x352 (or thereabouts). Personally, I liked the letterboxing, as it minimized the subtitles' impingement on the limited viewing area, but that was just IMHO.

Shortly after movie 1 was released, a team member noticed that both movies had been broadcast on HDTV in Japan. We were too late to capture the first movie, but someone did encode it. Unfortunately, the encode featured horrible blocking and wasn't usable. Skr downscaled it to 480p and filtered it to produce a usable raw. We're rereleasing movie 1 using this raw for viewers who want a larger, clearer imaging without letterboxing.

This version does have its drawbacks. First, it has a bad video glitch at 35:20.

It was probably caused by signal dropout, a common problem with satellite broadcast channels. Second, it doesn't have the wonderfully hokey preview for the second movie that was on the laserdisc. Accordingly, I don't regard this version as definitive and have labeled it as "v0." It's possible that the HDTV broadcast means a DVD or even BD version of these movies is in the offing. It's equally possible that these movies will not see the light of day again for a long time.

Meanwhile, if anyone does find a better raw or has an uncorrupted transport stream, we'll do a true v1.

I won't repeat the original credits. For this release, Yogicat shifted and aligned the script to the new raw, I restyled the dialog and redid all the signs, and Skr did the encode and the release check. You can get the release from the usual torrent sites or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news.

Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo movie 1

The Japanese anime-watching public seems to love mystery stories. Meitantei Conan (Detective Conan), a show about a teenage detective with the physical appearance of a primary school student, has run for more than 850 episodes, 15 OVAs, and 15 feature-length movies - longer than Naruto or One Piece. Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo (The Young Kindaichi's Case Files) hasn't been quite as successful, but it ran for 148 episodes in its first TV apperance in 1996, with two movies and two OVAs. It was subsequently revived for another 47 episodes recently.

Kindaichi retells the crime-solving adventures of Kindaichi Hajime, a high school student who is the grandson of a famous (fictional) detective, Kindaichi Kousuke. The plots often involve supernatural elements or locked room mysteries. In some ways, the show seems like a deliberate throwback to the "Golden Age" mysteries of the 1920s and 1930s, when the murder or murders were committed in an isolated location (a country house, a snowbound train, an ocean liner) among a small, self-contained group of suspects, and the amateur detective solved the crime by pure deductive logic.

In particular, the first Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo movie reminds me of the pre-World War II stories of John Dickson Carr, who wrote locked room murder mysteries almost exclusively. It has all the virtues and defects of Carr's stories: ingenious (or overly ingenious) plotting, a complex, seemingly insolvable puzzle, and too many interchangeable straw characters. Carr is generally credited with the "best" locked room mystery ever written, The Three Coffins (in the UK, The Hollow Man). The trick in the Kindaichi movie kind of reminds me of Carr's book. More I dare not say, but you might want to peruse chapter 17, "The Locked Room Lecture," after you've watched the show.

In this movie, Kindaichi and his not-quite-girlfriend Miyuki return to an isolated island hotel/theater, where the Illusion Theater Company is going to present a non-musical production of The Phantom of the Opera. ("Return" because the TV show has a Phantom of the Opera arc that supposedly happened first, even though the TV show aired after the movie was released.) The actors are at each others' throats, and pretty soon there's a murder in a locked room, apparently committed by the Phantom himself. Things spiral out of control from there, and it ultimately takes twenty minutes of pure exposition for Kindaichi to explain what happened. Not one word of it is believable, but Golden Age mysteries were rarely meant to be realistic. The puzzle was everything. Still, the movie plays fair, as the "rules" of the Golden Age mystery required. All the clues are in plain sight, and the solution follows logically from the clues... sort of.

For this movie only, Kindaichi was played by Yamaguchi Kappei, who jumped ship to the rival Detective Conan/Case Closed franchise. His prolific career includes leading roles in properties as diverse as Gravitation, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, and the currently running Kyoukai no Rinne. Nakagawa Akiko (Miyuki) stayed with the franchise, and it remains her best known role. The director, Nishio Daisuke, helmed both the original TV series and the more recent reincarnations. He has a good feeling for building suspense through camera angles and cutting; in one sequence, he even riffs on (or rips off) the famous shower sequence in Psycho.

The movie is a laserdisc encode, one of many that various team members purchased in Japan. Iri translated, M74 timed, I edited and typeset, and bananadoyouwanna, M74, Nemesis, and VigorousJammer did QC. Erik of Piyo Piyo Productions encoded. The movie is widescreen, a format laserdisc doesn't support. Therefore, the release was letterboxed. Erik chose to leave the horizontal bars in. This keeps the subtitles out of the limited viewing area, but some viewers may find it distracting. You can always encode your own version.😋 Erik also kept the production company logos at the start, providing fine example of "state of the art" CGI circa 1996.

While this release is not the first English version of the first Kindaichi movie, it's the first with accurate subtitles and a laserdisc (rather than VHS) raw. You can get it from the usual torrent sources or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net. The second movie is in a second batch of laserdiscs and will get done Sometime Real Soon™.

"I am Son Gokuu" (Blu-ray)

Orphan is proud to announce a new high-definition release of the 1989 TV special Tezuka Osamu Monogatari: Boku wa Songoku, or in English, The Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son Gokuu. This was the last of eight Tezuka Production specials broadcast by NTV between 1979 and 1989 during its annual telethon. This TV special is half a sort-of autobiography, and half a science-fiction retelling of Journey to the West (Saiyuuki), a classic tale that was, according to this film, an obsession of Osamu's from his childhood.

Like a number of other Orphan Fansub projects, this one started with a request on BakaBT for complete and accurate subs. For the original DVD release, laalg and convexity worked on the translation sequentially, archdeco did the timing, I edited, convexity provided the styling and typesetting, and CP and I did the QC. For the BD release, M74 tweaked the timing, I reset the signs, and M74 did a final round of QC. M74 also encoded from a BDMV graciously provided by Beatrice Raws.

The autobiographical half of the show embroiders on the known facts of Osamu's life. (For more details, see this fan web site.) Osamu showed an early interest, indeed obsession with both insects and drawing. As a result, he was teased as a child. Too young, fortunately, to serve in the Japanese military, in 1944 he was drafted as a factory worker in Osaka and harassed by his bosses for being more interested in drawing than in working. He was present when Osaka was firebombed, and it gave him a lifelong hatred of war and violence.

After the war, he started drawing manga while finishing his training as a doctor, and by the early 1950s he was a well-known mangaka. However, his interest in creating anime (or as they were known back then, manga films) had to wait until the end of the decade, when his financial success as a manga artist enabled his to form Mushi Productions. In 1963, his studio began producing Astro Boy, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The film is not a strict autobiography. Some of the scenes play fast and loose with chronology. In the film, Osamu goes to see, and is profoundly influenced by, the Wan Brothers Princess Iron Fan. Because Princess Iron Fan was produced in Shanghai and was released early in 1941, during the Japanese occupation, it's conceivable that it was shown in Japan and that Osamu saw it before the outbreak of war with the US. However, the film shows him as very young, whereas he was 13 years old in 1941. Further, he and Son Gokuu talk about a war breaking out soon, but in 1941 the Sino-Japanese war had been going on for almost four years.

The second half of the show is a science-fiction retelling of Journey to the West. It's partly a comedy and partly a moral parable about the value of good in the face of violence and evil. If it seems a little rushed - Son Gokuu the monkey is converted from egotistical bully to galactic savior inside of 15 minutes - that's only to be expected when the entire tale has to be compressed into half an hour. It's very standard Osamu fare, aimed at youngsters and young adults as they make the transition from self-centered behavior to societally-grounded adults.

Some notes on the translation, courtesy of convexity:

• "It's the weirdo Osamushi!" Osamushi = Osamu (his name) + mushi (bug). Osamu (spelled 治) is his real name. Osamu (spelled 治虫) later became his pen name; a character meaning "bug" (mushi, 虫) was added to make the name a reference to "osamushi," or "ground beetle." (In fact, at first his pen name was pronounced "Tezuka Osamushi" rather than "Tezuka Osamu.") Ground beetles were his favorite insects, in part because their name resembled his. In this scene, "Osamushi" is being used as a derogatory nickname, probably as a portmanteau of "Osamu" and "mushi"; an English equivalent might be "Bug-sama."
• "And accompanied by Hakkai, Sagojou, and Son Gokuu..." Hakkai (八戒 Zhu Bajie) means eight precepts in Chinsese, Sagojou (沙悟浄 Shā Wùjìng) means "sand aware of purity", and Son Gokuu (孫悟空 Sūn Wùkōng) in Chinese means "monkey king."
• "Sanzou-houshi continued on his long, long journey to India." Sanzou-houshi (三蔵法師 Sānzāng fǎshī) means "priest who knows the tri-pi Taka"), while Tenjiku (天竺) is old Chinese for India.
• "A monkey kicks some serious ass in this manga film!" The term "anime" had not been invented; cartoons were called manga films.
• "Frogs are croaking, we are going! We're going home!" Kaeru (蛙 かえる) means frog, while kaeru (帰る) means go home; in short, a Japanese pun.

For more on Son Gokuu's and his accessories, Kintoun and Nyoibou, consult any of the Wikipedia articles on Journey to the West or Saiyuuki.

So enjoy some more Tezuka Osamu goodness, now in glorious high-definition! You can get it from the usual torrent site, from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.

Cosmic Fantasy

So here's another OVA promoting a video game series, 1994's Cosmic Fantasy, released as a tie-in to the last installment of the franchise, Cosmic Fantasy 4. The game series petered out after that, so there was no reason to migrate the OVA from VHS and Laserdisc to digital media. It has lingered in analog limbo ever since its release.

Cosmic Fantasy takes place in a space-traveling universe plagued by space pirates. To combat the criminals, the Cosmic Security Corporation dispatches Cosmic Hunters with magical powers. The OVA focuses on Cosmic Hunter Yuu and his partner Saya, Yuu's mechanical flying squirrel Monmo, and his shady cat-person merchant friend, Nyan, as they confront a rookie space pirate named Belga. Space piracy's a tough business, so Belga wants Yuu as a partner and lover, or if that's not possible, as a trophy to enhance her neophyte reputation. There's some action, some rom-com hijinks between Yuu and Saya, a lot of comedy, particularly involving Nyan, and of course, an inconclusive ending. It's quite enjoyable, if not particularly deep.

Like many shows of the period, Cosmic Fantasy has some fanservice, but it's equal opportunity and not overly strident:

The games and the spin-off doujins are a lot more explicit. No, I'm not providing links.

Technically, this is not the first version in English. However, the existing subs are guesswork and jokes. For example, the line "Yuu already has Saya as a partner!" was rendered as "Yuu already has Saya and he hates green tits!" You get the idea.

Speaking of translation, the subtitle is literally "The Galactic Panther's/Leopard's Trap." The Japanese word for panther/leopard has a subtext meaning a seductive woman, so it's been rendered as "Temptress." Because the show is not set in Japan, there are no honorifics.

The leads are played by a quartet of famous voice actresses, all of whom worked on the video games as well. Takayama Minami (Yuu) is a legend. She played Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service, the title role in Space Girl Yamamoto Yohko, and, most famously, Conan Edogawa in the more than 800 episodes, OVAs, movies, and specials of the Detective Conan franchise. She also sang the ending song. Sakuma Rei (Belga) played Shampoo in Ranma 1/2, Carmencita in Starship Troopers, and Batako in all the Soreike! Anpanman properties. Takada Yumi (Saya and Monmo) played Yoshinaga-sensei in many of the Crayon Shin-chan movies and Ayeka in the Tenchi Muyo franchise. She has also appeared in many classic h-animes, including Karakuri Ninja Girl, one of my favorites. Miyuki Sanae, whose performance as Nyan is a comic gem, appeared as Button in the Yu Yu Hashuko franchise and Alpha in New Dream Hunter Rem.

This release had an interesting gestation. A friend of one of Orphan's translators, skypilot, offered to buy the Laserdisc if skypilot would translate the show. A copy of the Laserdisc was purchased in Japan and shipped to Erik of Piyo Piyo Productions, who captured it as a raw. Then Real Life intervened, and skypilot's plan to translate the show was delayed until this month. VigorousJammer located an English playing guide for Cosmic Fantasy 2, the only installment released in English; this provided the attack names. ninjacloud timed the dialog, Yogicat timed the songs, I edited and typeset, and Nemesis, Vigorousjammer, and bananadoyouwanna did QC. The encode is from Piyo Piyo Productions.

So enjoy this light-hearted sci-fi action adventure; I certainly did. You can get it from the usual torrent sites or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #news or #nibl on irc.rizon.net.