[Orphan] Cat-Eyed Boy - 09 - 12 (LD)

Happy Halloween from Orphan Fansubs! We’re pleased to reach the midpoint in the saga of our favorite half-youkai, with episodes 9 to 12 of Umezz Kazuo’s Youkaiden Nekome Kozou (Spirit Legend Cat-Eyed Boy, or just Cat-Eyed Boy for short). This minibatch 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 four more monsters as he journeys to find his missing mother:






Skr continues to do the heavy lifting on this show, now with help from Perevodildo, who translated the episodes from 11 onward. For more details, see this bog entry.

This release, and all Orphan releases, are available for direct download from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.