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how many Little Women?

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Kokusai Eiga-sha Part Two: International Movies

(Where were we…let’s see.  BRYGER, yes, HONEY HONEY, all right,  ACROBUNCH, sure, NANAKO SOS... okay... BAXINGER! 1982 would see the return of the J9 in GINGA REPPU BAXINGER or “Galactic Gale Baxinger” as the toy helpfully puts it. 600 years after the climax of BRYGER, the fragile peace of the fifty-planet Solar System is being disrupted by revolutionaries who may be in

Kokusai Movie International Eiga-Sha Corp. 1

Movie International Corporation theme song CD It’s hard to say when I first encountered Kokusai Eiga-sha, or Movie International Co., Ltd.  It might have been a Sunday afternoon cartoon in a non-peak time slot on a niche cable network. Or it might have been a super robot toy incongruously racked in a tacky mall gift shop.  As an anime studio, Kokusai Eiga-sha (or “MIC") produced a lot of

the wonderful children's book of Honey Honey

HONEY HONEY'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES children's book published by Eikosha circa 1981. Based on episode #6 of the Kokusei Eigasha HONEY HONEY television series, "Hamelin Is Full Of Cats". Click on smaller images to enlarge, and enjoy! Special thanks to Rick Zerrano for the translation assistance!

Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures

Can a European teenager and her cat find love and happiness while being chased throughout the world by a mysterious thief and four ethnic stereotypes in the wild and wacky days before World War One? That's the question asked every episode of HONEY HONEY, the show that kept many of us glued to our cable TV sets in the early 1980s! HONEY HONEY began as a manga success from the pen of