[Orphan] Cat-Eyed Boy - 13 - 14 (LD)

Orphan is pleased to present more of our favorite half-youkai, with episodes 13 and 14 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 more monsters in order to help two different village boys confronted by baffling phenomenon:


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 blog entry.