The Samurai Pizza Cats are now on Crunchy Roll!

Three cats that operate a Delivery service and hero business to stop The Big Cheese. Probably one of the few English dubs that give a pass to no matter how much it changed from the original Japanese script. Mainly due to the fact that the characters in the show are anthropomorphic cats and other animals that talk like humans and the three protagonists don battle armor and launch out of a cannon.

I haven't watched the show since 2000 so the heavy pop culture references might make this an odd watch for younger Anime fans.  You can find the show on Crunchyroll's site at the time of this post, the first 18 episodes of the show are viewable for free, while the rest of the episodes are locked away for paid Premium CR users. Thanks Crunchyroll and Discotek Media for making this happen.

Re-watched: Tekkaman Blade II

The direct sequel to 1990s Tekkaman/ Teknoman (the name that Saban Entertainment gave it)

This being a 6-episode OAV and not a full TV show. The  Tekkamans or Radam technology  seem to favor the color red for both the good and evil ones.  The big problem presented in Tekkaman Blade II is the fact that Earth scientists finally figure out how Tek Setter (transformations) works and how to recreate it near perfectly without the mind control side-effects. Unfortunately the tech falls into the hands  of some not so nice people. While I don't think the OVA is a good stand-alone experience. Any fan of Tekkaman Blade (TV series) should take the time to watch


One thing I really answer is what happened to one of the former member of the Space Knights team from the prior show. You would have thought that Rebin would have continued to work on the Tekkaman project but no sign of him.

 I think Discotek Media is currently publishing the series on physical DVD.  The protagonist characters here were featured in a strategy-RPG game for the Nintendo DS. "Super Robot Wars W".  Sadly never released for English speaking gamers.

An old Barenaked Ladies music video is linked to Digimon?

So I was hopping around Youtube listening to a selection of my favorite songs from the 1990s and I got to "One Week" via the official Warner Bros. records channel. For some reason  the track artwork for the "buy this" song  section has a (small) image of the Digimon Anime.

The song itself has mentions of Sailor Moon, but not Digimon. Some other Japanese related things like Sushi, and film director Akira Kurosawa. I never really watched Digimon/ Digital Monsters growing up. So was this song played during the series?  You can watch the music video on Youtube

Anime Music Covers #1 -Slam Dunk

So from time to time I hop around Youtube looking for covers of Anime theme music and on a few occasions I have found videos of interest. This first one is of a Young Woman doing a percussion cover to Slam Dunk's OP theme song.  Out in public

Here is the redirect link  to "view on Youtube.com"

I believe the rough translation of the song title is "I want to shout I love You!" The first op song for a Basketball/Sports Anime.