Chicago quad reel from Japan - boot?

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Really odd. Not sure what to make of it. Looks like a real good boot. The reel has youmex japan on it. They have some mid eighties releases. The reel though looks real as far as the columbia logos.
 
It does say under wikopedia that the founder was from King Records. Could be a real reel anomaly .

here is info on them. Could be it was pressed for use in a film.

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Youmex (ユーメックス株式会社 Yūmekkusu Kabushiki Kaisha) was an anime production company and record label (under their label Futureland) established in 1985 as a subsidiary of Toshiba EMI and founded by Junji Fujita (formerly of King Records).[1] The company was absorbed back into Toshiba EMI in 1998,[1] after taking on debt defaulted on by Artmic.[2]

Some of the more well-known works for which Youmex released soundtracks and other CDs (under its Futureland label) include Kimagure Orange Road (Sound Color 1–3, Loving Heart, etc.),[3][4] Bubblegum Crisis(Complete Vocal Collections 1–2),[5] and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water(Vocal Collection).[6]

In 1995, Youmex worked with Adam Warren through Dark Horse Comicsand Artmic to come up with the original concept for Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal, an original English-language manga series.

Productions

Listed in chronological order.

Sources:[1][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Soundtracks and other music

These were released under their label Futureland. Titles listed in chronological order.

Sources:[1][3][4][5][6][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]

References

  1. ユーメックス (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  2. "AnimeCentral 1999". EX.org. 1999. Retrieved 2008-01-01. Artmic went bankrupt; it no longer exists. AIC and others like Youmex, they were loan cosigners, so they got stuck with the bills for the loans that Artmic defaulted on.
  3. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Kimagure Orange Road". Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  4. Hitoshi Doi. "Kimagure Orange ☆ Road Loving Heart". Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  5. "Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal Collection vol. 1". Archived from the original on 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  6. "Nadia, Vocal Collection 1". 2000-12-23. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  7. バブルガムクライシス (1987) (in Japanese). AllCinema Online. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  8. "Youmex". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  9. Poitras, Gilles (2001). Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know. Stone Bridge Press. p. 4. ISBN 1-880656-53-1.
  10. Ninja者 (1996) (in Japanese). AllCinema Online. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  11. Muñoz, Maria. "Aka-chan To Boku". EX.org. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  12. Yung, John. "Blue Gender". EX.org. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  13. Clements, Jonathan; Helen McCarthy (2001-09-01). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese animation since 1917. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 176, 315. ISBN 1-880656-64-7. OCLC 47255331.
  14. Keller, Chris (1993). "Shinjuku Loft: Anime Music Beat". V.Max: the Anime & Manga Journal. Santa Clara, California: V.Max. 6: 26–28.
  15. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Iczer-One". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  16. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Prefectural Earth Defense Force". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  17. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Borgman". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  18. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Riding Bean". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  19. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Earthian". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  20. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  21. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Otaku no Video". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  22. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Slow Step". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  23. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Sequence". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  24. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Ushio to Tora". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  25. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Living Game". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  26. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD information: Yaiba". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  27. "CD Releases". EX.org. Retrieved 2008-01-05. Akachan to Boku: Original Soundtrack, Youmex-Futureland / TYCY-5516 / ¥3000
  28. ファンシーララグッズ (in Japanese). 「時間の記憶」. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  29. ファンシーララ(ファンカタログ) - ぴえろ (in Japanese). Studio Pierrot. Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  30. 「エーベルージュ」のメディアミックス展開で富士通ら6社が提携 (in Japanese). ITmedia/SoftBank. 1998-03-11. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  31. Jerry Hsu. "Anime CD Information: Karura Mau". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
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RED FLAGS:

1) 30110 number - I don't think the Japanese reel releases used the original Columbia pressing numbers
2) The Columbia 4 track logo should not be on this reel. That's a stereo symbol and logo, and is a copy of the logo on the stereo reel, which is obviously a Columbia House reel.
3) The reels might be TDK tape, but they could easily be sourced from the Quadio Box

Nice job though, I am sure they will sound great. The seller does say he created the reel labels, so who knows?
My guess - QUADIO! :)
 
But who would put youmex on the label. That seems odd and a clue
 
Quad reels don't have a label on both sides. All four channels are recorded in the same direction using the entire 1/4 inch tape width, so one label will list all of the songs … not half on one side and half on the other like an LP record.
 
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