Hey everybody! We've got another recovered video on our hands, this time a new version of the theatrical trailer! For context: there have been multiple versions of it uploaded throughout the years, particularly to YouTube and Dailymotion. However, these versions featured graphical glitches at different places, and the audio quality was slightly muffled. Mangomation put these two versions together to try and make a more "definitive" edition, though the graphical glitches still

Hey all! We've got some more recovered YouTube videos, courtesy of CaliCrusher! (I don't know what I'd do without you, brother!) They're both old interviews with Hirohiko Araki and SOUL'd OUT from MTV Japan, and are quite curious. First, the SOUL'd OUT Special featuring Araki from 2005: https://youtu.be/XyiIQCZ85WI?si=cZQRhOCM-yWNIf-w And the later interview done in 2007: https://youtu.be/TmqWBcPKNLQ?si=VQsQgf-U0F8hmC6S The 2005 Special has been transcribed courtesy of the Jo

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