Anime Sols
Since I follow ANN to some extent, I got the heads-up on Anime Sols, a new streaming site that's working directly with Japanese production companies and focusing on vintage/classic anime. They're streaming episodes and trying to fund US releases of DVD sets through a crowdfunding model (you can chip in $5 or $10 just to boost a project; to get the 13-ep-or-so DVD boxes it's about $30-$40). I don't have any money for them myself, but I think it's a really neat project and wish them success, and maybe some people on my f-list have similar interests...
Funding-wise, so far the most successful campaign is Magical Angel Creamy Mami. I've been watching the Tezuka Productions "24 Hour TV" Specials, which are wonderful and old-school and cracky (the more I see of Tezuka's work, the more I think that either he was one of the most wonderfully fearless artists I've ever seen, or he was on some really good sh*t). The other series they're running currently are Tekkaman, Yatterman and New Yatterman, Blue Blink, Tobikage (AKA Ninja Robots), and the Black Jack TV series. (New Yatterman and Black Jack are actually fairly recent, but with classic roots.)
They're currently doing an opinion poll about what people think of the site and what anime they want to see offered --- not all of it vintage; 07-Ghost was in the list of possibilities. So if it sounds like fun to you, check 'em out!
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Funding-wise, so far the most successful campaign is Magical Angel Creamy Mami. I've been watching the Tezuka Productions "24 Hour TV" Specials, which are wonderful and old-school and cracky (the more I see of Tezuka's work, the more I think that either he was one of the most wonderfully fearless artists I've ever seen, or he was on some really good sh*t). The other series they're running currently are Tekkaman, Yatterman and New Yatterman, Blue Blink, Tobikage (AKA Ninja Robots), and the Black Jack TV series. (New Yatterman and Black Jack are actually fairly recent, but with classic roots.)
They're currently doing an opinion poll about what people think of the site and what anime they want to see offered --- not all of it vintage; 07-Ghost was in the list of possibilities. So if it sounds like fun to you, check 'em out!
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