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sub_dividedPut these up for a friend, figured I might as well share here before the yousendit links expire.
3x3 Eyes first OAV series
Episode I: Pai (link)(alternate link)(alternate alternate link)
Episode II: Yakumo (link)(alternate link)
Episode III: Sacrifice (link)()alternate link)
The quality of episode I (ripped from the dub VHS) is terrible, but II and III are decent. Anyway!
FUJII Yakumo is a sixteen-year-old boy whose father is an archaelogist obsessed with Tibetan demonology. Yakumo hasn't seen him in years! He lives in the city on his own, goes to high school, works part-time at Culture Shock (a transvestite bar) to make ends meet. One day on the way to work he runsinto over a strange, very dirty young girl. The girl has four things: 1) his father's skull, 2) a letter, 3) a split personality, and 4) a demon bird in her walking stick.
The letter is from Yakumo's father. Paraphrased, it says:
To My Dear Son Yakumo,
This girl is the last of an immortal race of three-eyed people for whom I have been searching all my life. Her greatest wish is to become a human being -- although strangely, she can no longer remember why. I want you to help her, Yakumo! Her name is Pai. There's an artifact called "Ningen no Zou" (Statue of Humanity) in my office in Hong Kong. Please take Pai with you to pick it up, she'll know what to do.
Love,
Your dad who abandonned you many years ago.
P.S. You'll drop everything to fulfill my last wish, right?
Poor Yakumo! One thing leads to another, and somehow he becomes an undead zombie slave. XD Yakumo's one of those always-smiling-never-opens-his-eyes types. Pai is cute and innocent, except when she isn't (it's that double personality thing).
Three by Three Eyes has a stong Hindu bent, although this is less obvious in the anime than in the manga. The series is extremely violent, often funny, and can be disturbing in a "tentacle monster" kind of way. The first OAV seres, as a whole, is rushed -- makes sense when you remember the producer had to fit many volumes of manga into only a few direct-to-video episodes -- but the unusually fast pacing of the first episode is deliberate, I think. Yakumo must think events are unfolding too quickly, too!
I'm still VERY UPSET with Dark Horse for dropping the English manga release a few years ago. Of course the sales were poor, you released half-length volumes for $15.95! I really, really want someone to pick this up for re-release in the current industry standard (unflipped, ~200 pages, $10), but I doubt it will happen.
This has been a good month for old series/zombie series love. XD
3x3 Eyes first OAV series
Episode I: Pai (link)(alternate link)(alternate alternate link)
Episode II: Yakumo (link)(alternate link)
Episode III: Sacrifice (link)()alternate link)
The quality of episode I (ripped from the dub VHS) is terrible, but II and III are decent. Anyway!
FUJII Yakumo is a sixteen-year-old boy whose father is an archaelogist obsessed with Tibetan demonology. Yakumo hasn't seen him in years! He lives in the city on his own, goes to high school, works part-time at Culture Shock (a transvestite bar) to make ends meet. One day on the way to work he runs
The letter is from Yakumo's father. Paraphrased, it says:
To My Dear Son Yakumo,
This girl is the last of an immortal race of three-eyed people for whom I have been searching all my life. Her greatest wish is to become a human being -- although strangely, she can no longer remember why. I want you to help her, Yakumo! Her name is Pai. There's an artifact called "Ningen no Zou" (Statue of Humanity) in my office in Hong Kong. Please take Pai with you to pick it up, she'll know what to do.
Love,
Your dad who abandonned you many years ago.
P.S. You'll drop everything to fulfill my last wish, right?
Poor Yakumo! One thing leads to another, and somehow he becomes an undead zombie slave. XD Yakumo's one of those always-smiling-never-opens-his-eyes types. Pai is cute and innocent, except when she isn't (it's that double personality thing).
Three by Three Eyes has a stong Hindu bent, although this is less obvious in the anime than in the manga. The series is extremely violent, often funny, and can be disturbing in a "tentacle monster" kind of way. The first OAV seres, as a whole, is rushed -- makes sense when you remember the producer had to fit many volumes of manga into only a few direct-to-video episodes -- but the unusually fast pacing of the first episode is deliberate, I think. Yakumo must think events are unfolding too quickly, too!
I'm still VERY UPSET with Dark Horse for dropping the English manga release a few years ago. Of course the sales were poor, you released half-length volumes for $15.95! I really, really want someone to pick this up for re-release in the current industry standard (unflipped, ~200 pages, $10), but I doubt it will happen.
This has been a good month for old series/zombie series love. XD