the battle with Alice ten years ago and has since been in stasis. He woke up after sleeping for 87,016 hours in a capsule. Media Light novels When the first novel of Lost Universe was released in 1992, it enjoyed moderate success. Kanzaka was already in negotiations for the Slayers anime. Manga A manga adaptation by Shoko Yoshinaka was published in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Dragon Junior magazine from December 1997 to November 2002 and was collected into four volumes. Anime Lost Universe ran for 26 episodes and was plagued with numerous production problems. Most notably, large amounts of the raw work for the first few episodes were destroyed in a studio fire and had to be quickly replaced, resulting in reduced quality for those episodes. It also ran during the Southeast Asian financial crisis of 1998, which severely limited budgets for anime series across all studios. A Lost Universe film was rumored in 1998, but was cancelled in favor of more Slayers films. Lost Universe is distributed in North America by Enoki Films, and was originally licensed for American distribution by ADV Films, who released the series onto both dubbed and subtitled VHS tapes and bilingual DVD. Following ADV's bankruptcy in 2009, the rights to the anime have since transferred to Nozomi Entertainment who re-released the complete series in a new bilingual DVD box set. The entirety of the show's English dub can be streamed and watched for free on Nozomi Entertainment's YouTube channel. The 4th episode entitled , which aired on April 24, 1998, was initially animated by a South Korean animation company, San Ho Studio. Because the studio had only basic reference sheets of the characters to go by, the results wound up being dismal in quality. that it was therefore later reworked for the Laserdisc releases, and the term "yashigani" would later be adopted by Japanese anime fans as a derogatory term for poor art and animation in anime. The San Ho depiction of that episode is no longer considered canon. Reception Further reading References External links Doga production website for Lost Universe List of Lost Universe Characters (English page) 1992 Japanese novels 1998 anime television series debuts ADV Films Adventure anime and manga Comedy anime and manga Drama anime and manga Fujimi Fantasia Bunko Kadokawa Dwango franchises Light novels Science fiction anime and manga Shōnen manga Slayers TV Tokyo original programming Holography in television Anime and