Orphan concludes (for now) its Rumiko Takahashi festival with the third Rumic World OVA, 1987’s Warau Hyouteki (Laughing Target). It’s a supernatural suspense yarn, featuring the creepy childhood fiance from hell intruding into the placid lives of an ordinary high-school couple. Original Kotomi subs have been translation-checked and updated. New encode from a Japanese laserdisc. The source is a mess, so the encode is at 60fps, to minimize the visual artifacts. It mostly works, but not always. See this blog entry for more details.

No English dub track at this time.

This release, and all Orphan releases, are available for direct download from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.