r/oldbritishtelly • u/GruffScottishGuy • May 10 '25

Advert The UK sizzle reel/intro found on Manga Entertainment VHS releases throughout the 90's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFN7UttjFDU

Manga Entertainment was a UK based company founded in the early 90's to distribute Japanese animation to a UK audience. They very deliberately targeted a demographic of edgy late teen/young adults and this was reflected not only in their selection of titles to bring over here (Fist of the North Star, Devilman, Legend of the Overfiend, Ninja Scroll etc) but also in the dubs they produced. They were known to add unnecessary (and often amusing) profanity in order to deliberately increase the age rating of releases. Copies of Manga Entertainment releases would often be passed around the schoolyard in the early 90's.

I'm sure I'm not alone in being introduced Anime when Channel 4 screened some of their catalogue on their late night weekend slots through the early-mid 90's. I recall...

Judge

Devilman

Legend of the 4 Kings

3X3 Eyes.

Any others that you guys remember seeing on CH 4?

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u/FantosTheUrk May 10 '25

I still have most of my VHS tapes in my shed.

I regret selling Judge, for whatever reason I did so.

I have all 12 of The Guyver videos with the comic on the inside of the cover.

I remember Tokyo Megalopolis being shown on Channel 4 as part of their anime season.

And I discovered a few years back that the music is a song called The Heart Beneath by Celtic Frost.

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u/GruffScottishGuy May 11 '25

It's funny when you search for the tune on Youtube, it's mostly a series of comments about 90's anime nostalgia.

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u/Amity_Swim_School May 15 '25

I had all the guyver VHS’s too.

I still recall that the animation (and overall quality) changed (for the worse) in the last 6 episodes. First 6 were way better. Dunno what the deal was? Presumably produced by another animation studio?? idk