Collectr's Blog

After three years of continuous project growth, Orphan cut back this year. Many people on staff, particularly the translators and encoders...

Here's another OVA with a bit of a checkered past, 1985's Karuizawa Syndrome . As originally made, it included live-action sequenc...

Every now and then, I remember that Orphan Fansubs was started to complete series  abandoned (orphaned) by other groups. Simultaneous strea...

Except for short-runtime shows, few current series are left orphaned, because almost everything gets streamed and captured. Thus, orphaned...

I was a bit unhappy with Orphan's original release of the 1992 movie Hashire Melos ( Run, Melos ). First, it was very big - 2.3GB for...

Streaming services in Japan are republishing classic anime series and movies in record quantities, often in high definition, sometimes rem...

The 1998 series AWOL is infamous in anime history because of its lethargic pacing. It was so poorly regarded that the original TV series ...