[Orphan] Cat-Eyed Boy (LD) - 15 - 16

Well, it's Halloween in Japan, anyway.

Orphan is pleased to present more of our favorite half-youkai, with episodes 15 and 16 of Umezz Kazuo’s Youkaiden Nekome Kozou (Spirit Legend Cat-Eyed Boy, or just Cat-Eyed Boy for short). This pair of episodes is based of episodes on the laserdisc box set. It’s rough - lots of grain, film burn, a static-y audio track - but that somehow suits the material. After all, this is “gekimation” - paper cut-out animation - from nearly fifty years ago.

Once again, our intrepid hero faces down more supernatural terrors in order to help two different village children confronted by baffling phenomenon; but this time, the "monsters" are offended against than offending.

Skr continues to do the heavy lifting on this show, with help from Perevodildo, who translated the episodes from 11 onward. For more details, see this blog entry. And for direct downloads, check out Orphan's XDCC bot on irc.rizon.net.