For its holiday release, Orphan presents the first English version of the 1985 OVA Karuizawa Syndrome, a sexy, seinen slice-of-life. Like many Orphan projects, this one has a rather checkered history. Its original release included some live-action sequences of nude AV actresses. These didn’t have much to do with the story, so in 1986, an anime-only version was released on VHS tape and then offered on DVD in 2002. That’s the version Orphan has used; sorry, AV fans. fong encoded the raw. For more details, see this blog entry.
All Orphan releases are available from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.
Comments - 10
hugeweeb
Thanks!
Keigo_Kakiguchi
Thanks
Saucygdogg
Thank you so much! Great to get anything directed by Nishikubo. You guys are awesome!
Zorlaf
The older release contained more animated nude sequences that got apparently cut out of the DVD. Too bad you didn’t use it. There is a bad quality raw version on vimeo, so one can watch the missing scenes.
lain-is-love
Day in the life of [Orphan]:
Holy hell. How can one fansub group be so based?
lain-is-love
Also, just out of curiosity, why was Hiatari Ryoukou released under an Anononymouse Nyaa Account instead of your @archivisth account?
archivisth (uploader)
@lain-is-love - Just a mistake; I’ll fix it. As for how Orphan does it… good people. People are what matters. Process is just there to help.
SomaHeir
Thanks!!!
NaoMeToqueAi
Thanks!
kandi_gloss
@Zorlaf are the nude scenes really so important that they should have used a lower quality rip? I feel like we got more than enough in this version.