Reely Interesting | California Crisis: Gun Salvo (1986 Japanese High Quality 4K Upscaled VHS Anime) @ReelyInteresting | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This is California Crisis: Gun Salvo (SE-0825), a Japan-only, VHS-exclusive OVA released in 1986.
The story begins in mid-1980's southern California with our protagonists, Noera, a rather cocky chronic underachiever, and Marsha, a young & outgoing biker girl. Their lives collide (quite literally) when they're run off the road by a seemingly runaway truck. Marsha totals her bike in the accident and drives off with Noera. What Noera doesn't know is that Marsha is carrying a container with a very special item..., an item that both the American Air Force and the Kremlin want! Will they find out what this special item is and survive to tell the tale? Only time will tell...
This anime was made by Studio Unicorn & directed by experienced anime director Toshihiko/Mizuho Nishikubo (of Ghost in The Shell and Kill Bill Chapter 3 fame). One of the things that almost any viewer of this anime will instantly notice is the unusual art design. The art style is practically a carbon copy of that developed by the very popular 80's-era Japanese graphic designer, Eizin Suzuki, who was known for his vacation-themed pop art. His art mainly focused on American west coast life and much of his art can be found on the cover of "New Music" (AKA City Pop) albums. Being that this OVA plays upon California life as seen through Japanese tropes of 80's America, the style is quite appropriate.
This OVA is also known for it's excellent Japanese boogie/synth-funk soundtrack performed by
Miho Fujiwara and released on a rare EP titled the same as this OVA ("California Crisis"). Yet, even with a danceable soundtrack and truly unique & skillful artistry throughout, the OVA can not be saved from it's mediocre storyline and limited character/plot development. Perhaps that's why it continues to live in relative obscurity...
Enjoy this unique retro anime OVA!
Note: If you enjoy the Japanese Boogie tracks in this OVA, be sure to check out the accompanying soundtrack which I uploaded from the promotional cassette release here: youtu.be/N_qf_t49XZw
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This was played back using a restored Victor HR-W1 W-VHS player.
English subtitles by BOX.
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This is California Crisis: Gun Salvo (SE-0825), a Japan-only, VHS-exclusive OVA released in 1986.
The story begins in mid-1980's southern California with our protagonists, Noera, a rather cocky chronic underachiever, and Marsha, a young & outgoing biker girl. Their lives collide (quite literally) when they're run off the road by a seemingly runaway truck. Marsha totals her bike in the accident and drives off with Noera. What Noera doesn't know is that Marsha is carrying a container with a very special item..., an item that both the American Air Force and the Kremlin want! Will they find out what this special item is and survive to tell the tale? Only time will tell...
This anime was made by Studio Unicorn & directed by experienced anime director Toshihiko/Mizuho Nishikubo (of Ghost in The Shell and Kill Bill Chapter 3 fame). One of the things that almost any viewer of this anime will instantly notice is the unusual art design. The art style is practically a carbon copy of that developed by the very popular 80's-era Japanese graphic designer, Eizin Suzuki, who was known for his vacation-themed pop art. His art mainly focused on American west coast life and much of his art can be found on the cover of "New Music" (AKA City Pop) albums. Being that this OVA plays upon California life as seen through Japanese tropes of 80's America, the style is quite appropriate.
This OVA is also known for it's excellent Japanese boogie/synth-funk soundtrack performed by
Miho Fujiwara and released on a rare EP titled the same as this OVA ("California Crisis"). Yet, even with a danceable soundtrack and truly unique & skillful artistry throughout, the OVA can not be saved from it's mediocre storyline and limited character/plot development. Perhaps that's why it continues to live in relative obscurity...
Enjoy this unique retro anime OVA!
Note: If you enjoy the Japanese Boogie tracks in this OVA, be sure to check out the accompanying soundtrack which I uploaded from the promotional cassette release here: youtu.be/N_qf_t49XZw
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This was played back using a restored Victor HR-W1 W-VHS player.
English subtitles by BOX.
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If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford the "Eizin" filter for my glasses so I can see the world solarized just as it should be, please click the link below:
https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop
![1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWF7S5uyJow/hqdefault.jpg "1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)
This is a collection of commercials for Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, & B. Sanfield intended for broadcast in the Rockford, Illinois, USA market. This footage comes from the original digital master tapes.
Not too much is known about the commercials and if any were aired. These were recorded between 1998 & 1999 for the aforementioned stores, some of which were chain retailers. As a result, a lot of the commercials appear to have used generic (analog-sourced) commercial footage (such as a segment with B.B. King) with regional information overlaid on top. Since analog broadcasting was quite low-resolution and noisy, it is almost assured that a consumer wouldnt notice the, perhaps, stark contrast between the digital & analog-sourced footage. Can you tell the difference?
In addition, some of these segments appear to simply be video-less radio bumpers.
D-9, also known as Digital-S, was JVC Victors attempt to create a competing, comparable format to Sonys Digital Betacam. The tape format uses DV compression (like the common miniDV tape), but at twice the bitrate (50 Mbps) for extremely high fidelity picture reproduction and very low generational losses. Just like how Sony used Betamax-sized tape for Digital Betacam, this tape format used tapes extremely similar to VHS in size and shape, hence the Digital-S (like S-VHS) name! In fact, the tapes are identical to and interchangeable with the rare W-VHS analog HD tape format (but the recording formats are obviously quite different)!
Enjoy these rare commercials in unusually high quality from an era gone by!
Sad fact: This tape is cursed! While other branches may exist for the major retailers, not a single Rockford, IL branch or business mentioned in these recordings exists today. That even includes the production house!
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This D-9 recording was played back using a JVC BR-D85U D-9 deck.
This is a REELY EXCLUSIVE upload! This footage is from the only known master recording.
Note: The video was edited to eliminate unnecessary color bars, countdowns, and long-spaces between segments. This recording would have otherwise been 60 minutes long!
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