{"id":37393,"date":"2019-12-30T04:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=37393"},"modified":"2019-12-30T04:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:03:24","slug":"ask-john-does-the-saki-sanobashi-anime-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-does-the-saki-sanobashi-anime-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Does the Saki Sanobashi Anime Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYIS-KnhxPI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled across a somewhat pervasive ongoing online search for a &#8220;lost&#8221; anime colloquially referred to by the names &#8220;Saki Sanobashi&#8221; and &#8220;Go For A Punch.&#8221; The &#8220;search&#8221; such as it is, seems rooted in a hoax. Although unconfirmed, a week ago someone under the name &#8220;u\/SakiSanobashiOP&#8221; admitted on Reddit, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SakiSanobashi\/comments\/ee5bgd\/i_am_the_op_of_saki_sanobashi_its_fake_and_im\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web2x\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I am the OP of Saki Sanobashi. It&#8217;s fake, and I&#8217;m sorry.<\/a>&#8221; Even if this anonymous confession is dismissed, I still have extreme doubt that this &#8220;lost&#8221; anime ever existed in the first place. I must emphasize that despite my extensive experience with anime, I&#8217;m not aware of everything that exists, so I can&#8217;t guarantee that this mysterious anime short doesn&#8217;t exist, but I&#8217;m extremely skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched a lot of obscure horror anime including <em>Roots Search<\/em> (1986), <em>Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei<\/em> (1987), <em>Hell Target<\/em> (1987), <em>Maryu Senki<\/em> (1987), <em>Deimos no Hanayome<\/em> (1988), <em>Umezu Kazuo no Noroi<\/em> (1990), <em>Shoujo Tsubaki<\/em> (1992), <em>Toile no Hanako-san<\/em> (1996), <em>Inuki Kanako Zekkyou Collection: Gakkou ga Kowai!<\/em> (1999), and the 2000 <em>Yonimo Osoroshii Grimm Douwa<\/em> &#038; <em>Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi<\/em> OVAs. I&#8217;ve also watched a considerably amount of doujin anime.  I spent my lunch breaks in the early 2000s watching fan created anime shorts on Nico Nico Douga. I&#8217;ve been exhaustively watching anime since. Maybe I&#8217;m being presumptuous or overconfident, but I suspect that if this morbid and grotesque &#8220;Saki Sanobashi&#8221; anime about imprisoned girls killing themselves out of desperation actually existed, I believe I would have encountered some reference to it before now. I have to say that the description outline of this &#8220;lost&#8221; anime sounds most to me like a made-up hybrid of the grim 1985 adult OVA <em>Datenshi-tachi no Kyouen<\/em> and <em>Higurashi no Naku Koro ni<\/em> (2002 game, 2006 anime). If &#8220;u\/SakiSanobashiOP&#8217;s&#8221; confession is truthful, then even the passing similarities to &#8220;Feast of Fallen Angels&#8221; and &#8220;When They Cry&#8221; are coincidental at most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1215\" height=\"552\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels.png 1215w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orgy.of_.fallen.angels-450x204.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1215px) 100vw, 1215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allow me to pose a suggestion.  Viewers that want to see an obscure older anime short that will cause nightmares and forever scar one&#8217;s psyche should watch Renzo Kinoshita&#8217;s 1978 independently produced short film <em>Pica-don<\/em>. I saw this short broadcast on television in Malaysia (or perhaps it was Singapore) in 1979 (or perhaps it was 1980). I was a young child at the time, and this short horrified me and haunted my mind for decades following.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSxkZTTWaec\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now allow me to request assistance in identifying a particular anime.  Back around 1990 during a late night screening at a convention, I watched an early hentai anime that I found unexpectedly sympathetic.  The singular scene I recollect most vividly involved a small, nude bunny girl cowering in fear beneath a table. A laughing man depicted only as tall, inky shadow bends over and drags the helpless girl out by grasping her ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve thought that the episode may have been the 1987 <em>Cream Lemon episode 21: Yumeiro Bunny<\/em>.  But it&#8217;s not.  Likewise, the tone and style of the short I recollect was very similar to the 1984 Nikkatsu <em>Lolita Anime<\/em> three-episode series directed by Uchiyama Aki. But it&#8217;s not part of that series. As far as I&#8217;m aware, the OVA I&#8217;m thinking of isn&#8217;t part of the six-episode Wonder Kids <em>Lolita Anime<\/em> series, either. The Wonder Kids &#038; Nikkatsu <em>Lolita Anime<\/em> series are the most likely origins of the OVA I&#8217;m thinking of, but I don&#8217;t believe either of those series contain the episode I recollect.  There are many other early adult anime I haven&#8217;t watched, so perhaps someone can point me in a direction, if not supply a precise identification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled across a somewhat pervasive ongoing online search for a &#8220;lost&#8221; anime colloquially referred to by the names &#8220;Saki Sanobashi&#8221; and &#8220;Go For A Punch.&#8221; The &#8220;search&#8221; such as it is, seems rooted in a hoax. Although unconfirmed, a week ago someone under the name &#8220;u\/SakiSanobashiOP&#8221; admitted on Reddit, &#8220;I am the OP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-john","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/saki.sanobashi.fan_.op_.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37400,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37393\/revisions\/37400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}