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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Looking for CD soundtracks to various animes
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:49:16 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <1993Jan8.210210.29310@cs.brown.edu> esj@cs.brown.edu (Eugene Santos Jr.) writes:

> Hi. This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am amazed by the
> traffic that goes through here. Well, it looks like a good source
> of anime related information so....
> 
> I would also like to know of any other CD soundtracks from the animes
> available in the US and where I might find them. Addresses and
> phones numbers and e-mail address would be great!
> 
> Please reply by e-mail. If enough info gets sent and people would
> also like to know this stuff, I'll compile it and post to the
> newsgroup.

Steve grins evilly and sends him the CD List.  No summary needed! :-)

Steve
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From: 00gdwessel@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Proposal for a rec.arts.anime split...
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:54:36 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

YOu know, why do I get the feeling that some smart-ass is gonna repost that
huge thing about splitting r.a.a. into about 1000 different groups??? (i.e.
r.a.a.carl.macek.die.die.die, etc....)  :)


On a more serious note, I kinda like the idea, except for a few problems....

	1)   If it's only up to one person who decides what does/n't get posted
	     to the new r.a.a.info, then isn't that kind of a matter of
 	     personal taste what goes on there??  Sounds suspiciously like
	     something the FCC would do....

	2)   Would stuff like, say, my BSJAS postings be considered
	     "r.a.a.info" material, and the like???

	3)   What about those of us (like me) whose newsservers suck (both
	     Usenet and Tass!) and won't be getting r.a.a.info....I remember 
	     my RAPEMAN posting, and Conty saying "Followups to r.a.manga,"
	     and not being able to followup MY OWN POSTING since I can't get
	     r.a.manga.....in fact, on rec.music.industrial, I voted YES to the
	     creation of a rec.music.hardcore, and I STILL can't get it, even
	     though I helped make it!!!!

Answers anybody?????


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: me01063                         
Subject: Orange Road/B-club Question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: What to buy, what to buy ?
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:55:00 GMT

  Ohaiyo gozaimasu.

  I was wondering if someone out here in net land could help me with a question.

  While shopping at my local comis store, I ran across an very high priced
B-club special book wrapped in Plastic and dumped in a bin.  The cover
was almost identical to one of the Orange Road LD covers.  I did not have
time to translate the Kanji on the cover, but I am pretty sure it was Orange
Road.

  My question(s) are:::

  What is this?  What (or Who) is the B-club?  Has anyone bought this?
  What is it about?  Is it worth the high price?  

  As only a causal Orange Road fan, I am not a die-hard enough to buy this 
without some questions.

  Any replys are appreciated, but please email me at::;

  saen0001@student.tc.umn.edu,

  This account I am posting on should close at any moment.

  Thanks in advance
  - Noe Saenz
From: rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Subject: Re: Gall Force
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:01:22 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <C0MKt3.2JJ@panix.com> jwp@panix.com (Justin Bach) writes:
>In <1993Jan8.122433.10653@ucc.su.OZ.AU> kurtf@sue.econ.su.oz.au (Kurt Frank) writes:
>
>>Besides this is all a part of known human history anyway (Adam & Eve is a typo,
>>It's Patty & Rumy).

>Rumy as the mother of all humanity?  Now, that's scary.....

Actually, it explains a lot. :-)

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: R.A.A Awards Polling UPDATE.  Official leaders
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:27:19 GMT

> # In article <1993Jan1.191222.10709@pegasus.com> ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha) writes:
> # >        PRELIMARY Poll results..  Polling ends on January 31st
[...]
> # >The user who's Anime collection you'd most like to inheret
> # >        1st  Robert Woodhead    29 (4)
> # >        2nd  Conty Enrique      14 (1)

[Conty imagines a stampede of otaku e-mail asking him for tapes...]

I think I should make this clear:
	My collection is quite small, by net.standards.  I tend to
	borrow/rent tapes from friends a lot, but don't usually dub
	tapes, unless:
	- It's an anime I'm intrigued by and no-one I know has it, so
	  I'll get it from someone in net-land.
	- It's an anime I'm impressed with.  More often than not,
	  I eventually end up getting a commercial copy.

And, of course, I never dub a tape if one of the Big Four (oops, make
that "Big Four-and-a-half") has released it here in the US.
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: Anyone hear from Manga-chan recently?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:33:48 GMT

In article <l0d=hA-@engin.umich.edu>, bernyeh@engin.umich.edu (Bernard Yeh) writes:
> Has anyone heard from Manga-chan recently?

Same here.  I sent him a couple of messages last week, and no answer yet.

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From: hcy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (hon-chi.yu)
Subject: Re: SVHS tips
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:26:19 GMT

In article <C0GDx5.KrC@ecf.toronto.edu> linmo@ecf.toronto.edu (LIN MONTEIL) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.232446.345@irvine.ingr.com> morimoto@irvine.ingr.com (Michael Morimoto - Irv.SA) writes:
>>
>It's mainly because that I bought the SVHS that I'm broke. What's the worst
>that you'll accept? SP on normal (non-HG) tape? or EP on HG tape?
>>

By the way, may I ask you why you got the JVC editting VCR?  Unless you 
plan to do a lot of editting, you will certainly save a lot of money
by getting one of the low end SVHS VCR that have limited editting features.
Like the JVC HRS4700 or Panasonic 4260/4270 (?) which sells for about
$450.
Oh, I hope you know that no matter how good a SVHS VCR is, it's still no
match for a Fatima. ^_^

>Eiji

Hon Yu, the man with no signature block, but 3 VCRs.
From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: R.A.A Awards Polling UPDATE.  Official leaders
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:01:41 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center
X-Phone-Reply-To: 045-336-5358 (work)/045-320-0492 (home) [in Japan]

rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
# In article <1993Jan1.191222.10709@pegasus.com> ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha) writes:
# >        PRELIMARY Poll results..  Polling ends on January 31st

Thank you for your votes.

# >The user who's Anime collection you'd most like to inheret
# >        1st  Robert Woodhead    29 (4)
# >        2nd  Conty Enrique      14 (1)
# >        3rd  Mark Crispin       11 (2)
# >             William Chow       11 (1)
# >        4th  Albert Wong        10 (2)
# >             Hitoshi Doi        10 (1)
# >        5th  Adam Chaney         8 (1)
# >             Ryan P Gavigon      8 (1)
# >        6th  Dave Liang          5 (1)
# >             Kong Chang          5 (1)
# >             Chris Swett         5 (1)
# >             Tonghyun Kim        5 (1)
# >        7th  Dave Deitrick       3
# >        8th  Ken Primer          1
# >             PUMA                1
# >             Carl Macek          1

What's the definition of an "Anime Collection"?
Is it just the anime videos and LDs?
Or does it include CDs, posters, anime manga, anime magazines,
books, stickers, toys, dolls, cels, pencils, etc..?

If it's only videos, my collection isn't worth having.

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From: jhm@scorch.EBay.Sun.COM ( The Lion of Symmetry )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Anime references in the new Star Trek
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:02:19 GMT
Reply-To: jhm@scorch.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: scorch.ebay.sun.com


>While it's not the right place to rave about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
>which premieres this week across North America, I *did* notice Rick
>Sternbach's name in the credits and was wondering if anyone knew if this
>meant we'd see some anime references in it?..

You should also have noticed Sternbach's name in the credits for every episode
of Star Trek:TNG. That's because Sternbach works with ILM, which does the models
and effects for Star Trek. So don't expect any more anime references than you've
seen in TNG...


scorch

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From: ck423@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doug Cha)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: My hard Drive sucks
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:04:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


>Everyone was discussing the trials and tribulations of owning
>a hard drive that dies ever once in a while.

>Hitoshi Doi writes "why don't you guys backup you data?"

Actually I do.  But usually only for a few months AFTER
my hard drive dies.  I start saying "man, I'll know better next
time to back up all that data!"   A few months later after no
crashes, I'll say "hell with backing up!  it'll never happen
again!"
Then BOOM!!!


PS>  I can't believe this thread is still alive.  I thought
     everyone would either ignore it, or flame it for causing
     excess traffic.
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From: lonewolf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Benoy Koshy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Anime Expo GoH #5 (Silent Mobius Fans Rejoice)
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 23:35:57 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

shogun@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa) writes:

- Anime Expo is pleased to announce its 5th Guest of Honor:
- 
- Michitaka Kikuchi
 
You mean Kia Asamiya don't you?!  (Oh no, not THIS thread again! :)
So did you hear the real story behind Kikuchi sensei?! Is he in fact
Kia Asamiya (being his manga name) and Kikuchi (his Anime name)?!??!
Their styles are too similar...

- Also, remember, the Anime Expo membership deadline is in one week! (July 15th
 
What do you mean by this, the cheaper membership rate (if so, what does 
it cost after this week?) or the actual membership deadline (in which 
case you can only get it at the con.....)???  I'm curious...
 
Being a Canadian, if I'm going down to the con, I'm going to both or 
none.  I've already heard that with these warring politics that alot of 
people are reconsidering going down at all...I hope it doesn't escalate 
any further beyond a separation of the cons.  And perhaps next year if 
there are going to be 2 cons, 6 months apart would be nice...

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From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: (WS) I saw a live action Misty May the other day...
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:08:07 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12

Hello folks,
 
I was watching old music video just the other day.  One song,
"Baby It's You", by the brother/sister group Promises, caught my
eye.  The girl, whilst her face wasn't quite it, had the bounce of
Misty May!  Migosh!  Put a wig on her!  There's every otaku's
dream boat.  Her taut shirt, braces like round brackets, her body
moving to the beat.  Sigh...  What memories.  Last time I heard,
she fronted (whoops!  Pun unintended!) a Heavy Metal group,
"Precious Metal" which wasn't all that good. I'm also afraid that
her body caught up with her bust.  Oh well...
 
Anyone disagree with me that she (once was) the personification of
Misty May?
 
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From: ferret@synecdoche.engin.umich.edu (kenneth r lipka)
Subject: Re: English language in Japanese music 
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 12:50:48 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: ferret@synecdoche.engin.umich.edu


In article <1992Dec28.215641.1994@guinness.idbsu.edu>, wmb@jalama.Idbsu.EDU (William M. Bennecke) writes:
> -
> I have a general quesiton open to the net.  Why is it that in 
> most of the Japanese Animation begining music and ending music
> there are english phrases to be found there?
> Most of the lyrics are in Japanese, but now and then an english
> phrase can be heard sung by the vocalist.
> 

	It makes me wonder how the Japanese ever achieved civilization without
words for "love", "high", etc.

	Yes, I'm being sarcastic (slightly).

	Ken Lipka
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From: shogun@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime Expo Membership Extensions
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:27:50 GMT
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation

Because Mikimoto did not confirm to Anime Expo until the end of
December and because we will be announcing one or two more guests by
the end of this week, the Anime Expo membership deadline was extended
to January 15th.

Mike

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From: maxcon@server.uwindsor.ca (Christopher Leung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: ROBOTECH...Any orriginal animation? or is it all hacked?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 20:31:24 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

In article <1993Jan11.000459.3501@netcom.com> albertw@netcom.com (The Email Otaku) writes:
>Harmony Gold didn't hack three differenet series to make Robotech...they
>glued them together. ^_^;

Glue, eh?  In which we have a choice of stick glue, white glue, colour glue,
paste, and rubber cement.  I wonder which one he used? B-}

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From: z_beddoerj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu (Crusher Joe Beddoe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: quick animedia feb 1993 + more]
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:47:43 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <quick.animedia.feb.1993.1@sailor.moon.ufo.catcher>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:

> I know I'm behind on the magazine summaries..
> I'm in the middle of animedia Jan 93 and animeV Feb 93.
> But a quickie from animedia Feb 93.
> Cuz It's the best issue of animedia ever!
> 
> [It's also sold out at many bookstores already.. (went on sale 3 days ago)]

Sheesh.  Just what I need.  More magazines to keep up with. :)

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Hmmm....well, I'm sorry!  I would have, but I just used the names that I used on
my scanning machines' hard drive.  I guess you could suggest better names, and
I would be glad to rename and re-upload.  How's that?  Or maybe you could just
rename them locally.  :)  Hmm....I'll try for most originality next time.

I was wondering, however, if there was still interest in my uploading my GIFs of
the Shampoo Special and Shampoo Memorial.  I still have them, but this is NOT
the type of thing you would just leave on some unsuspecting FTP site. :)  I 
could put them up locally, but people would have to get them after hours.
Any comments?

Later,
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: Ayukawa...-kun?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:58:00 GMT

In article <v702gfj@rpi.edu>, tsait@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Theodore Leonard Tsai) writes:
> Something I've wondered about is why Kyousuke doesn't call Madoka
> "Ayukawa-kun".  After all, she calls him "Kasuga-kun".  I used
> to think that it was just a little nuance and didn't really
> matter, but in one episode of the TV show (doI can't remember
> which-- one of the ones wherere Kyousuke hypnotizes himself into an
> asshole)he calls her "ayukawa-kun" and she was shocked.  Could someone
> please explain her reaction?

In a nutshell: in the former case, Ayukaka talks to Kyosuke as someone
in the same "level", while in the latter case Kyosuke is talking *down*
to Ayukawa, something very unusual for him.

Of course, it's more complex than that,  but that's the gist of it
(and hopefully I got it right).  Ah, the nuances of the Japanese language.  
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From: ortega@cactus.org (Paul Ortega)
Subject: Re: r.a.a. widely known?
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:08:18 GMT

In article <p162brk@rpi.edu> tsait@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Theodore Leonard Tsai) writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.101242.16686@netcom.com> genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario) writes:
>>
>>How would you rate r.a.a. as compared to other anime forums on your other
>>online services?
>>
>>Gene--
>>
>>
>>-- 
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>
>Well, I tried GEnie for a month during the summer when I was away from my
>school account (on their 'money back if not satisfied' guarantee).  I 
>thought it was a decent service, especially for the price, but the way
>the anime discussion groups were split into so many sections kind of
>was a pain.  But that's just me talking.  Lots of other people might 
>appreciate the way they could cut a lot of the noise out just by not
>reading certain topics in a RT.  It didn't really suit my taste is all.
>Also, traffic was kind of slow.  While on r.a.a., within 24 hours you can
>almost count on 120+ showing up, it took GEnie's group 2 or even 3
>days to get that kind of traffic going.  

GEnie seems clunky to me, but then I'm used to trn and a
unix shell command line.  But, it really makes you wonder
when there is software (Aladdin) that is for the user
to run at his end to make reading the GEnie newsgroups
easier.

>  But GEnie had a lot of other groups which were better, IMHO.  The
>rec.arts.comics.misc group here pales in comparison to the one on GEnie.
>And for Wild Cards readers, almost all of the authors of that series have
>GEnie accounts (in fact, there is one RT where they plan their stories.
>But, it's off limits to everyone but the authors-- no eavesdropping).
>Melinda Snodgrass and George RR Martin are frequent contributors to
>the Wild Cards discussion groups.  

Well, I have a pretty low opinion of the Wild Cards stuff anyway...

"Hey, is that lock on the door to keep people out or to keep
them in?"  ;)

>  But you asked about r.a.a.  I'd take r.a.a. over the GEnie anime RT,
>but everything else on GEnie compares very favorably.

I wouldn't rate GEnie quite that high.  The only real reason
I have it is for convenient access to the Dow Jones Info
retrival and other pay services.  Otherwise, it seems to
be another Fidonet node.

I much prefer my usenet access.



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