Hey everybody! Through some technical wizardry that I don't know too much about, thecalicrusher and SlindexMon have brought forward recovered YouTube videos that were thought to be lost to time! First of all, video footage of the Joint Press Conference, taken from Bandai's old website! It was split into two parts, so I spliced them together. https://youtu.be/t0NGu_X7Fu Second, two videos of an interview with Hirohiko Araki, taken from both Bandai's website, as well as the fil

Hey all! I've been giving what I said in the last post some thought, regarding starting a social media campaign of sorts to try and get Shueisha's attention. Now, I'm coming to the realization that there is no better time than now to start getting things off the ground. The film's 20th anniversary is next year, and if we miss this opportunity, we'd have to wait another 5 years for another big milestone. Right now, it's only a hashtag; however, I'm workin g with some people be

Hey everyone! First of all, happy (late) Phantom Blood day! As of the 17th, the film has officially turned 19 years old. Isn't that wild? Anyway, thanks to pizza_rigatoni on Discord, back on January 21st of this year, we received a magazine article from the French magazine Animeland that contains an interview with Junichi Hayama, talking about Hokuto no Ken and, obviously, Phantom Blood . What he had to say solidifies the story of what happened to the film after its theatric

Hey all! Told you that posts here would likely be infrequent. I just wanted to keep anyone that still checks this site in the loop (since at this point I am most active in the Discord server) on what's happened as of recent. Our biggest finds recently have been from a site called Mixi, a Japanese blogging site that I had no idea existed, as well as 5chan, a variant of 2chan that I also had no idea existed until thecalicrusher on Discord brought them to my attention back in No