Time to catch up on some unboxing efforts! Last year to offset all the pandemic tomfoolery I made a couple of large bulk orders of records from Japan and decided to record the unboxing and excitement that ensued! This is the first of two videos, captured around a year ago with a focus on mostly […]
Kimagure Orange Road Singing Heart getting reissued should be a cause for celebration given Kimagure Orange Road has something of a legendary cult status amongst anime fans. It was one of the first anime productions that explored the tsundere archetype as part of a shounen rom com, it is gloriously 80s in every amazing way […]
One Last Kiss, veteran Japanese pop star Hikaru Utada’s latest release, has managed to sneak an anime EP release into the international charts that has defied expectations with huge critical and commercial success. With records dominating physical sales of music, Utada was kind enough to simultaneously release her latest onto both digital and vinyl formats […]
It seems odd that it’s taken this long for a vinyl release of Cowboy Bebop’s soundtrack. With the ongoing vinyl resurgence straddling the lines around novelty, collectability and audio wankery, Milan Records’ release of such a seminal anime series’ iconic soundtrack was sure to draw attention. The tight integration of music and anime has been […]
Metal Slug drew all sorts of excitement when the series hit arcades in the ’90s on SNK’s fan-favourite Neo Geo platform. Nazca’s legendary development on the iconic visual splendour and awesome run and gun gameplay have been the focus of all sorts of fan discussion over the years, but with this release from Data Discs […]
Sonic Mania’s captured a fair share of love on the internet and certainly stole our collective hearts away, leaving a gushing initial playthrough in its wake, but in addition to a great presentation and razor-sharp gameplay, its soundtrack performs an amazing job of revisiting classic tracks and creating new ones to accompany the additional levels […]
Altered Beast roared into arcades on Sega’s mighty System 16 arcade platform in 1988 before famously joining the Mega Drive as a pack-in title at launch. The game has copped plenty of criticism over the years for its simple gameplay, but to be honest I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it. Cutting […]
Gunstar Heroes, one of Treasure’s most revered games, is often lauded for its graphics and astonishingly great gameplay. The first time I ever played the game was in 1993 – Anime Inferno co-founder Inferno and I wheeled our bikes around to our local independent rental haunt, Power Play, and lo-and-behold, there was Gunstar Heroes in […]
Data Discs, renowned purveyors of beautifully mastered and presented classic game OSTs on vinyl, have dropped the news on two amazing new soundtracks. Yoshitaka Azuma’s soundtrack to cult favourite Panzer Dragoon will be released as a 2-LP set with all the usual finery and trimmings we’d expect from Data Discs. The game itself was released […]
There’s nothing like indulging in the Mega Drive’s delightful FM synth on vinyl, retro begetting retro as it were. We’ve previously had an amazing time listening to the oft-underrated Shinobi 3 OST on vinyl, and when the opportunity arose to check out Data Discs’ latest release compiling the soundtracks to Golden Axe I and II […]