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Douglas Howell
@douglaswatchanime.bsky.social
A 51-year old anime fan who dabbles in historian. Or an amateur historian who enjoys anime. Something like that, anyway.
Due to a health issue, my blog launch is back to next Monday. So it goes.
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
At some point in the next week, I'll be removing all my ANIME QUOTES OF THE DAY, from this account and my others. They'll show up again in due course.
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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December 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
About 12 years ago, I was living with some good friends and watching anime with them. That was the first time I saw "Cowboy Bebop" and "Trigun". A small bee crawled into my bonnet that day, and suggested an article in the old "compare and contrast" essay style of my A-level youth. 1/2
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This blog launches on January 5th, and it's starting to feel real now. I need a better logo.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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If you want to read and listen to reviews of old anime - and I mean really old - then #DouglasWatchesEveryAnime is starting in January.

Once that's up and running, I'll be reviewing music as #LookDadOldTunes, at a site to be determined.

#MusicReview #AnimeReview
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
An Operation Sealion joke, GATCHAMAN? Really?
May 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Two successive episodes of "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" that couldn't be more different.

Ep 35 is an inexplicable dip into an Arab-coded civil war that would have meant the ISO was meddling in global politics, where no-one knew Galactor was actually involved until the third act. But then!
May 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
it's always amusing to watch football animated by someone who has clearly never seen it.
May 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I thought I was going to play some Elite Dangerous tonight. But as I was walking down the stairs, my brain sang "Kagaku ninjatai, Gatchaman! Gatchaman" at me. So it's Battle of the Planets instead. Oh well. How sad.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Bl...
Bob Sakuma - Destroy Galactor! (Gatchaman Theme)
YouTube video by wesgriff1
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May 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Anyone speak Japanese?
April 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Back on the DWEA and watching "Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman" [“Science Ninja Team Gatchaman”], better known as Battle of the Planets. 1/3
April 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the first attempt by SUZUKI Toshimichi to get an idea out of his head. The next two would be "Bubblegum Crisis" and "A.D. Police", which would be a lot bloodier and lingerie-clad.

At some point I'll be reviewing both those titles on probably YouTube? Keep this frequency clear.
But also
April 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I just sent an email off to a certain YouTube railway historian after finding a 1932 "animation" that was really a collection of live-action railway clips. It's rather more his part of the Venn diagram than mine, but he's famous enough to have been in a Jay Foreman video. So I'm surprised I did it.
January 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM