From: macross@foretune.co.jp (Michael House)
Newsgroups: alt.manga,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Orion & Ghost in the Shell
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:53:26 GMT
Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd.  Tokyo, Japan

In article <sd523INN8cn@agate.berkeley.edu> wang@ocf.berkeley.edu (Albert Sze-Wei Wang) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.173200.1652@wdl.loral.com> dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume) writes:
>>Could someone please offer a synopsis of Orion?  (...and relavent mythos,
>>too... [Susano-o?] What are the pac-men with squiggly tails?)
>>
>>Could someone also offer a synopsis of Ghost in the Shell?  How do
>>you like it?  (Should I buy it?)
>
>
>Both are good.  Art in GitS is better, and in my honest opinion the better
>of the two, however, I do have a bias for technology. :)  Both are extremely
>fun but you'll need to find someone to translate.  An article on GitS will
>appear in later issue of Animag.  
>

I read and enjoyed both of them, though I found the technical language
Shiroo uses in GitS, and the techno-magical language of Orion, to be
real brainstrainers for the most part.  Loved the Endorno ("Endorphine
Pornography," which is when three anatomically-female cyborgs fuck in
one place, and transmit their collective sensations to a receiver
plugged into the "watcher's" head, elsewhere, and all at the same time;
highly illegal, a hobby of the main character, a cyborg named Kusanagi
Motoko, and if you think I'm making this up, read it yourself) sequence
in GitS, especially.

But I don't think synopses would do any good; they're both too complicated
for that.  I recommend reading them yourself, or paying someone to
translate them for you.  Another note: these are supposedly only the first
volumes in each series, and judging by the endings, esp. GitS, I believe
it.  But for now, at least, he's doing Applesed again, or will be when
Comic Gaia #9 comes out at the end of this month, so it'll probably be
a while before either series continues.

Off the subject department: I suppose talk on this one has already come
and gone, but I wanted to recommend the Macross the Complete CD set to
anyone and everyone who considers himself a Macross fan.  It was released
3/21/92, contains three CDs with a total of 115 tracks running some
230 minutes, as well as two liner booklets, and has a fairly reasonable price
of Y7500.

It contains all the BGM and songs from the TV series and the movie, both
previously released and unreleased, plus selected songs from the image
albums, including a Christmas song trio by Sasaki Run (Vanessa Reyard),
Tsuru Hiromi (Kim Kaviroff), and Muroi Miyuki (Shammie Miriom), and a song
by Takeda Eri (Miria Farina-Jiinas/Miria 639), who is actually a popular
singer-songwriter who just felt like having a fling at anime voice-acting,
according to the liner notes.  Also according to same, she wrote,
composed, recorded, performed, and recorded this song in her own studio.
The songs's name: "Miria no Lullaby" (Miria's Lullaby), written for the
birth of her daughter, Comiria, but never used in the TV series.

Bonus for Karaoke fans: the second CD has full-length karaoke versions of
11 songs from Macross: Macross, Watashi no Kare wa Pilot, 0-G Love,
My Beautiful Place, Shao Bai Lung, Silver Moon, Red Moon, Sunset Beach,
Ai wa Nagareru, Yasashisa Sayonara, Runner, and Ai Oboeteimasuka (the long
version).  You can't get these anywhere else.

The liner booklet also contains new artwork by Mikimoto, in addition to
some of his art from previous releases, and articles on the music of
Macross by some of the series's leading staff members.  This one is
definitely a winner.