Updated oct 03Here is a fairly comprehensive list of pages about or related to Mamoru Oshii's anime Angel's Egg. I've included just about all the remotely relevent pages I could find. Please let me know of any more which should be here!
(Some of these sites are in Japanese. However, thanks to sites such as Altavista and Elingo you can view them in English, more or less. The effect is often like reading an extremely long cryptic crossword clue, but you can usually figure out more or less what's being said! Strangely, the software seems to translate 'Mamoru Oshii' as 'Pushing Newt'!)
- NEW - very useful info!
- Watch the Japanese DVD with English subtitles
If you have the Japanese DVD of Angel's Egg and a DVD drive in your PC, then you can watch the film with English subtitles! Visit this site for full info and the things you need to download. Wow. Thanks Philippus!
- related official sites
- www.oshiimamoru.com
Angel's Egg director Mamoru Oshii's personal/official site. In Japanese only, alas.- www.amanosworld.com
The official page of Angel's Egg artist & designer Yoshitaka Amano. Includes a page featuring nice development sketches, and info on the film.- Anchor Bay Entertainment
This company allegedly had the rights to release a US DVD of Angel's Egg... but sadly are no longer planning to release the film :-(- Avalon
Oshii's new liveaction/CGI movie. It's Polish, it's quietly astonishing and is clearly the future of cinema! Download the trailer now!! Japanese site...- French Avalon site
Official website for the French release...- site [ou]
Another official Oshii site, mostly about a forthcoming live action movie called G.R.M.. (I think this may have been a working title for Avalon.) The Shockwave version is very nice, or there's plain html. English or Japanese pages avaliable. (not sure if this site works any more)- Production IG
The English section on the Production IG anime studio site includes interviews with Oshii and others working on his recent anime Jinro and Blood: the Last Vampire. Lots of really interesting stuff, a rare insight into the workings of anime production, and there are great discussion forums too.- Jin Roh
Official site of the US DVD and theatrical release of the newish anime movie written by Oshii.- Highly amusing account written by Oshii of his visit to Cannes to promote Avalon, and the shoe-related trouble encountered there! Part 3 now online, featuring Oshii's attempt to reach LA by following David Lynch!!! (English and Japanese versions)
- sites with Angel's Egg images
- A German page with lots of slightly fuzzy videograbs as well as info and summary in German.
- Several original cels from the film, at the really styish Professor Atomo's Anime Cell Gallery. A really nice site with a great collection of anime cels and sketches!
- info, script and quite a few images on the www.bestanime.com database.
- Lucian's illustration gallery page includes images by Amano.
- Another Amano image
- scripts
- Visit my Angel's Egg scripts page for more scripts + info.
- Short, readable English language script of Angel's Egg
- Timing Script for fansubbers, at this great script archive
- angelseggspanish.ssa - Spansh subtitle script - Script translated (from the English subs) into Spanish by a generous visitor to this site. In .ssa (Sub Station Alpha) format.
- Don't forget to visit this site for everything you need to watch the Japanese DVD version with English subs on your PC!
- forum/discussion
My new Angel's Egg Discussion Forum! - I couldn't find any online, so I made my own. Please go and post something, anything! It's pathetically quiet in there. Just use it as a guestbook if you like... anything! :-) (currently defunct... will reinstate soon)- Angel's Egg Forum at the rather nice Anime Grapevine forums site. (Not sure if this still works??)
- interviews, articles and odd bits of info
- Peering into the Mists of Avalon - good + entertaining interview with Oshii, mostly about Avalon
- Pulp Magazine printed a good interview with Oshii in their Sept 01 issue. Interesting insight into Oshii's thoughts on Christianity + more. Also stuff about Jinroh. To find the articles on their site go to 'Archives' and scroll along at the bottom to issue 5.9. Great!
- Dead Souls: The Abandoned City of God - A very interesting essay by Carl Gustav Horn about the religious symbolism in Angel's Egg, and Oshii's interest in Christianity. (From Cal-Animage)
- Some factual info on a Japanese page (in English). Brief cast/crew/production credits etc.
- An interview with Amano
- Info on an AE fansub tape also including Oshii's Twilight Q: Labyrinth Objects File 538. It's on the site of Meke Meke Distribution, who are now unfortunately closed.
- A letter from Anchor Bay Entertainment reguarding the future English DVD release.
- Angel's Egg drinking game!!!!
- reviews
- What is Angel's Egg? - nice review/description from animenation.net's very informative 'Ask John' page.
- a couple of glowing reviews.
- a review at j-pop.com with synopsis and small images.
- Another review
- Yet another review. All reviews of this film that I've read have been favorable, which is nice!
- Marya's Anime Page includes a very nice AE image and a suitably enthusiastic paragraph on the film.
- an exerpt from an Animerica article on 'experimental anime' concerning AE.
- A Czech page about the film...??
- A review in Russian!
- Tenshi No Tamago's listing on the Internet Movie Database.
- Tenshi No Tamago (V)'s listing on the Internet Movie Database. (link fixed) - Confused info to say the least! Refers to a Canadian release of some live action short based on the anime?? If this exists at all, I'd guess it's a cut down version of Aftermath. (If not, I must see it!)
- In the Aftermath's listing also on IMDB.
- Angel's Egg stuff for sale/rental
(please note that I personally have not purchased anything from these people, and cannot particularly endorse or recommend them; all I know is that they are selling stuff...)
- If you can't wait for the Anchor Bay DVD release of Angel's Egg you could buy the Japanese version here on cdjapan.co.jp!!!
- original Angel's Egg cel for sale.
- Angel's Egg soundtrack CD for sale at Anime Nation
- Rent the unsubtitled region 2 DVD from www.scarecrow.com (I heard a rumour that in the good old days of VHS there was an $800 deposit on the ultra-rare video!!!!!)
- other useful anime resources
- AnimeResearch.com - academic research about anime, manga and other aspects of Japanese culture. Includes several essays on Oshii's work. Also site editor Brian Ruh is currently working on a book about Oshii, which I look forward to.
- If you like Angel's Egg, you'll probably also enjoy the beautiful Night on the Galactic Railroad
- The Fansub Database - the best place to find out how to get fansubs of the anime you're after!
- Nausicaa Net - Great site devoted largely to the amazing Studio Ghibli, contains some Oshii interviews and info too...
- The Anime Turnpike - A good directory of anime sites.
- Anime Spider - A very useful anime search engine.
- Icomic Links - another anime directory.
- AnimeResearch.com - devoted to academic articles and resources on anime. Useful + interesting stuff.
- Gainax - Official site of the ever innovative studio Gainax. (In English, Korean and Japanese)
- my pages
- Spite Your Face Productions - Animation and short films by myself and fellow animation revolutionary Tony Mines.
- Cultivate Twiddle - The main index of my surrealism, mail art, animation, collages and other art, as well as links, Lego, bootleg toys and other homepage type stuff too!
- My anime page! - Needs updating SOOO badly! But there's some stuff there, so please look!
- Cementimental, my experimental noise project!