Ah 2002, the year I got broadband and chugged away on WinMX downloading fansubs.

Anyway, here’s this year’s dose of Ojamajo Doremi.

What is this? I have no idea. It appears to be about superdeformed transforming bullet trains. Enoki Films has it available for licensing if you want to add it to your DVD release schedule.

Telecom adventure show that had it come along 20 years earlier would probably would have been shown on UK TV. Possibly even US TV. Nowadays it remains unlicensed in English (continental Europe got it though). It is interesting to ponder that the Telecom style that once made them more palatable to Western audiences, is now probably not Japanese enough to appeal to today’s audience.

Boys love light novel about superpowered reincarnated warlords gets adaptation from Madhouse. Picked up for adaptation due to similarities to X?

Good idea, poorly executed. Thankfully they let someone else have a shot later and they got it right. This was another Gonzo show where I got 4 episodes in and had had enough thank you very much. Which was a shame as the idea of a soldier with no social skills forced to pose as a schoolboy is a great one. To the extent that I think as long as the rumoured Hollywood adaptation keeps that core idea they’ll be onto a winner regardless of what other changes are made.

I wrote about Kinnikuman and this sequel here.

I feel like I wilfully ignored this show back in 2002/03 when folks were going crazy for it. I think it might be the male leads dopey looking face. Look at his giant eyes, they look like they’ve eaten the forehead of his spherical bonce. Taraku Uon (Read or Die) reportedly did the initial designs, but it appears Hiroaki Gohda then went and ruined them for the cartoon.

Couldn’t find the OP so that’s a trailer instead.

Another trading card game gets animated (see Mon Colle Knights), by the sounds of things this draws on the world of the cards, rather than make an anime about people playing the card game. Because it’s SERIOUS FANTASY and therefore doesn’t want to roll around in bed full of children’s pocket money.

Not sure why it got released in English given that the card game wasn’t out in the US. Is it that good a show that it was worth putting out without context?

Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, Shin Mazinger) created this tale of a girl who splits into seven separate girls. Sgt Frog creator Mine Yoshizaki did the character design (and some Sgt. Frog characters make cameos). While it got a US release it seems to be pretty low profile, and what few reviews there are seem lukewarm.

Oh boy, when I saw the first episode back in the day, I pretty much hated it for being so derivative of Evangelion. Then I caught a random episode from the middle and totally couldn’t equate to the first episode. It was like a completely different show. It’s one of those shows I mean to pick up when I can find it at a cheap enough price (and I finish watching all the other shows I’ve picked up at cheap prices over the last year or two).