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From: GREENJ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:20:49 GMT
Organization: Yale University

>
>In article <92239.142259IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET> <IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>>From this week's MacWeek:
>>
>>"Central Park Media of New York has released 'The World of U.S. Manga Corps',
>>a $49.95 CD-ROM of art captured from Japanese animations. The disc contains
>>more than 1,000 24-bit Photoshop images and more than 100 QuickTime movies."
>>
>
>I thought it was a collection of 24-bit targa images and Quicktime's.  Then
>again Photoshop might use targa images...  Anyway, I can tell more about
>the CD when the damn thing appears in the mailbox. ^_^
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   I have one of these beasties. The images are in targa format, probably to
make them more MSDOS accessable.  The disk comes with a demo version of
Photoshop, which can read targa files. There's a cute browser program with
very small thumbnails of the images, and brief descriptions of the movies
covered.  Both Mac and Windows browsers are provided, and a PC image viewer.
   Most of the images are small ones taken from the movies, but some look
like they came from production sketches or phone cards. All are 24-bit, and
some of them (like videotape cover art) are huge 1Mb+ monsters.
   I haven't pushed through many of the quicktime movies, but some of them
jems.  (Dancing Pumas!)  These aren't of much use to MSDOS users until
someone comes up with a movie viewer for Windows.  (I have a Mac.  Gloat,
gloat :-)
   The downside of this disk is that you need a CD-ROM reader to use it.
I bought the disk at AE, and had to wait until I got back to work to use it.
   The disk was produced by Vanguard Media, which I know nothing about.
Buried in their "credits" directory is a selection of what looks like either
fan art or preproduction work for an anime feature.  If it's fan art, it's
GOOD fan art.
   If you're a data junkie with a bazillion gifs, you want this.  If you're
a rabid fan of any of the movies listed, you want this. If you collect
weird merchandising, you want this.  It's the first of it's kind, as far as
I know.
  I hope it catches on.  I would love to see AnimEigo do a few of these.
GIF-addict's dream - an entire disk packed with 24-bit Madoka and Lum scans.
Droooool.
 
 
John Greenwald             | Rule #1 - Never mix Ren & Stimpy with Dr. Slump
greenj@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu |
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From: ij59@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Re: I come from the land of rec.arts.animation....
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:05:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.181309.16620@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, bkeener@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian E. Keener) writes:
> Hello... I have been informed that the term "anime" is used instead of
> "Japanimation freak".  I am enlightened.

Heh.  Actually, that's "anime" in place of "Japanimation" and "(anime) otaku"
in place of "Japanimation freak." :)

> (2) Which animation company did the 1979 anime version of "The Little Mermaid"?
> 	I think it might be Tatsunoko, but I'm not sure.  Damn good movie.

Is this the version recently released by Starmaker and selling for about $10? 
I saw that but didn't buy it because I had no idea if it was any good.  If so,
I'll pick it up right away.  Shimatta, I knew I should have got it when I first
saw it...hope it's still available.

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From: gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:19:02 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <37465@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
>In article <92239.142259IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET> IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>>From this week's MacWeek:
>
>>"Central Park Media of New York has released 'The World of U.S. Manga Corps',
>>a $49.95 CD-ROM of art captured from Japanese animations. The disc contains
>>more than 1,000 24-bit Photoshop images and more than 100 QuickTime movies."
>
>>real judgement in the product. It kinda looked like fun. I remember seeing
>>one clip from what I think was Venus Wars. Has anyone out there bought the
>                                ^^^^^ ^^^^
>>disk ? Opinions ?
>
>If this disc has "The World of USMC" on it, does that mean that USMC
>has acquired the rights to Venus Wars?  If not, what is it doing on
>the disc?
>
Yes, they do have the rights to Venus Wars.  And no, it wasn't Sunrise that
controlled it, (though it looked like it was 8-), but I can't remember what 
company John said they licensed it from.

Ryan Gavigan
gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu

>IBM PC - Who wants a politically correct computer?           \X/  Only AMIGA!
>========================================== Bring Back the Caltech Cannon!! ==
>Roderick Lee, HMC '91      "The Professional Agitator"      agitator@ucsd.edu
From: Carl_Horn@library.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Have a BEST Anime music video contest!
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:24:00 GMT
To: anime-l@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU

Before there were the MTV Music Video Awards, there was MTV and its MTV
viewers. Truechiles of the 80's were down with MTV in 1981, the days of
the heavy rotation of J. Geils' Band "Angel In A Centerfold." But the
important thing was that MTV got you moving. Videos were quickly
incorporated into clubs, and MTV inverted the concept with "Club MTV."
So what's the point? The headbanging, fist-pumping, and general
moshivity displayed by the viewers in the upstairs ballroom of Brad
Kelley's "Enter Sandman"/ICZER-ONE video is surely more authentic praise
than any arbitrary award. Remember, the idea is to have fun.

--Carl "Up The Irons" Horn

I close my eyes and walk a thousand years
A thousand years that aren't mine...

       --Soundgarden, "Room A Thousand Years Wide"

KEI: Ryan, quit whining. What are you going to do with us?
SCOTT: Nothing yet. But since you are sitting there, tied up...
RYAN: Great. There goes my virginity!

      --from Pinesalad Productions' "The Dirty Pair Duz Dishes"
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From: twax6@isuvax.iastate.edu (Shawne Kleckner)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Reply-To: twax6@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:02:38 GMT

>
>As far as reading Mac CD-ROMs on a PC...
>I suppose you'd need the equivalent of one of them programs to read Mac
>floppies on a MS-DOS 3.5" drive.  Don't know where to get such a beast
>for CD-ROM, though.
>-- 
>			    E n r i q u e  C o n t y
>			The Incredible Man-with-no-Life
>			      jester@ihlpl.att.com
>		    Disclaimer: You're not dealing with AT&T

Actually, the USMC CD-Rom will read directly on any PC which is capable of
CD-ROM use.  The files use the ISO standard.  You will not be able to 
use the Quicktime movies (at least until an emulation package for windows
is released).  It is a nice product, which I have used on my PC, utilizing
either 8 or 24 bit TGA graphics.  A bargain for the price.

Shawne Kleckner
              

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From: albertw@netcom.com (Albert Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime,rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Intron Depot out at Nikaku
Keywords: YEAAAAAH!
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:20:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug22.213521.580@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> dscott@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Danielle M. Scott) writes:
>--
> 
>Irton Depot out at Nikaku, FINALLY! 
>Thier price is $35.00's (HEY!, I thought it was only $20!)

They also have Silent Mobius volume 5 (which seems to follow the Silent
Mobius movie very closely). ^_^  Too much new stuff to buy...
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From: JMLEITHE@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu (James M. Leithead)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: HARO
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:15:30 GMT
To: ANIME-L <anime-l@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>


    Hello there all!  My name is James and I'm new to this list.  I'm a
decently big fan of anime and my current obsession is _Gundam: 0083_.
Any other 0083 admirers out there?
    I'm also treasurer of H.A.R.O., the Houghton Anime Review Organiz-
ation, a student group here at Michigan Tech in Houghton, MI.  We're a
small campus organization with around 20ish members (based on last
year's membership).  We have public anime showings an hour a day, three
days a week on-campus.  We do, however, have a problem:  We're pretty
much out of new stuff to watch (and we have a problem with having only
partial runs of some series).  Anyone out there willing/able to do some
swapping or some such?  I'd be happy to provide anyone with a list of
our modest holdings if you're interested in a mutual library building
project.
    We are currently hot to get _Z Gundam_ eps. 13+, _Nadia_ eps. 9+,
_Gundam: F91_, _Lodoss Wars_ eps. 3+, and just about anything new and
interesting.  Any interest?
    Well, that's all for me for now.  Until there's a convo to jump
into...  Have a good one!
                                                James L.
From: wang@ocf.berkeley.edu (Albert Sze-Wei Wang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Intron Depot
Date: 25 Aug 1992 20:50:28 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailstorm.berkeley.edu


I went to Nikaku last weekend and asked Bill Kogura and Ed Hunter about
Intron Depot.  What they told me was this:  Studio Proteus did the
translation for it and it was released bilingually as Intron Depot in 
Japan and the United States.  The only difference between the book being
released in Japan and the one being released here is the price.  The
US distributor is working off a larger mark up for profit.  Sick ain't
it?  I'm glad I'm getting mine from Japan.  It may even be cheaper to have
Kinokuniya order it for you from Japan.  Sheesh.


Albert

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From: emru@CAM.ORG
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Oh no!  American vs. Japanese animation
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:36:23 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1992Aug18.213259.19466@sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
>Enter anime.  To be sure, anime has more than its fair share of duds
>and escapist fare (BTW, Ryan, I found your comments about the
>immaturity of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" amusing when your main
>writing accomplishments around here have been DP and BGC fan fiction,
>two shows which are not renowned for their intellectual maturity 8-),
>but try to find animation in the US to rival Wings of Honneamise,
>Grave of the Fireflies, or just about any Miyazaki movie.  Disney is the
>only ones I feel could compete on a technical level with them and there's
>no way they'd do a story like GotF, and everybody else doesn't even have
>great animators working for them.
>
>However, I'd watch the mindless praise of anime, gentlemen (and
>ladies, if there are any participating in this discussion - I didn't
>notice any).  Anime has its flaws too.  For instance, I don't see how
>one can attack Disney's work for being too "cartoony" and not see that
>anime characters - with their oversized eyes and funky body
>proportions - are just as much of a caricature of humans but in
>different ways.  Also, I often find that the character animation in
>most anime is either limited - due to budget constraints, I'd guess -
>or too jerky (although I think their mechanical animations are really
>cool! 8-).  It's a little hard to compare anime to American animation,
>since most "American cartoons" are actually animated in Asia anyway!

Right.  A good friend of mine by name of Marc Elias has been an animation
fan for a long time, and everyone who told him about anime hyped it to an
insane degree.  When he finally saw it, he was more than a little
disappointed... until I showed him WINGS OF HONNEAMISE.  Since then, he's
moved on to naming himself "Anime Disillusionment Officer" of FPS, and
he's writing a series of articles on the merits of anime, or the lack
thereof.  He's quite fair and objective in his observations, and he tends
to be honest - either brutally or embarassingly praising - in his opinions.
We're discussing posting his articles to the Net in the near future.

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From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRVowZj9OO1YbKEI=?= )
Subject: [Curtis Hoffmann] more changes to the walking guide
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-2022-JP
X-Phone-Reply-To: 045-336-5358 (work)/045-320-0492 (home) [in Japan]
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:39:48 GMT
X-Mts: smtp

   This file contains more changes to the Tokyo Walking Guide.

   Ikebukuro:

   Sakura Toys: This is the toy store in the basement of Sunshine City.
There is another toy store of the same name, one or two floors up,
inside the same building.  The upper store has more models, and anime
collector cards (mainly Dragon Ball Z, and SD Gundam, though.)

   ?????: (The name is all in Kanji.)  Used bookstore.  Not a big place,
but does have some used manga.  From Ikebukuro station, east exit, walk
out to Meiji Dori and turn right.  It's about a one-mile walk.  Eventually,
you'll get to a wide green bridge passing overhead -- this is Meijiro Dori.
Climb the stairs, or go up the connecting side street, and head east again
(left turn from Meiji Dori,) and walk half a block.  It's a dingy little
shop on your right.  Definitely has stuff no longer on the shelves
elsewhere.  Go there if you have nothing to do for a day.


   Shinjuku:

   Kopii (or Copy.) (This name may be wrong, but I didn't see anything
   else that could be a name.)
   A block before you get to the Wendy's, on your way to Animec, there
will be a used bookstore on the left hand side of Shinjuku-dori, on the
corner of the intersection.  This place has a large selection of used
manga, for about 200 yen each, and anime movie program books in fairly
decent condition.  They bundle books up per series, and sell them as a
set.  21 volumes of Yawara for 5000 yen, and 30 volumes of Urusei
Yatsura for 7000 yen.  Plus many other books that are now out of print.

   Takadanobaba:

   The book strip:  This is the area to go to for used bookstores.
   Just exit at the Takadanobaba station, and step out at Waseda Dori.
Turn right and walk about half a mile.  When you get to Meiji Dori, keep
walking straight.  There are about 20 shops on both sides of the street,
that carry used and new books.  This is a university area, so some shops
only carry used textbooks and non-manga.  Other places have complete
collections of City Hunter, Patlabor, and Yawara that they sell as units
for just under an average of 200 yen per book.  (You have to buy the
complete set, though.)  For used books, they're in good condition.  Some
places also have back-issued magazines.
   I'm not sure how long the strip is, but I hiked at least a mile on
it.

                                        Curtis H. Hoffmann
                                        August 20, 1992

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Last night (August 25), Fox TV was showing the "Supermodels of the World"
competition.  As the ending credits rolled, I noticed the music was
familiar.  In fact, it was from Project A-Ko, either track 3 or track 7
(don't have the CD here at work)!

Since the music was produced by Joey Carbone, who lives in LA, I guess
it wasn't too big a surprise, but it was still kinda nice.

Anyone remember which "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" had some more
A-Ko music?
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From: lonewolf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Benoy Koshy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Gundam 0083 Episode 12 (SPOILERS)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 09:28:27 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 
 
 SPOILERS FOR GUNDAM 0083!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SPOILERS FOR GUNDAM 0083!!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 You read past this and you're spoiled man...
 
 
 
 
This is it, one whole screen width!  SPOILERS!
 
 
I managed to see Gundam 0083 #12.  For those of you who ranted and raved 
about this being THE Gundam episode to see of any Gundam episode well I 
think you should calm down.  Anybody who hasn't seen Gundam, much less 
the previous 0083 episodes would be lost completely at what was going on. 
 It was however a very powerful episode for those who are following the 
0083 series.  Quite a change from the standard fare that we've been 
seeing up to this point.  Cima betrays Delaz because of her hatred for 
Gato and plots aside with the federation!?  Main character taking drugs 
to keep himself going throughout the battle!?  The Earth doomed as the 
colony passes the safe limit?  But a backup plan of setting up a network 
of solar panels and creating what is called a 'solar system'?  Now I 
noticed that Bosque Om was present at the solar system location, I'm 
kinda wondering if they are going to use a colony laser type attack or 
merely reflect the suns rays into the colony's panels and reignite the 
boosters saving the earth?
 
Are my earliest suspicions going to be proved correct as Gato joins Kou 
to battle against Cima?  Nina is seen confronting Gato and Gato looks 
very surprised, or at least torn.   Nina is the long lost (or not so 
lost) sister of Gato?  Who was Kelly then?  I guess we'll find out soon 
enough.  Gato is just too cool...Shima's insane, and Kou's just Kou.
 
 BTW, on the federation side of things when Cima wanted to deal with the 
feds, did the highest ranking general refuse and the lower ranking feds 
double-cross him and take him away so they could deal with Cima!?  Just 
wanted that cleared up...

Ben Koshy/Lone Wolf              lonewolf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
President of B.A.K.A.            Banzai Anime Klub of Alberta
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From: jmkaraka@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN MARTIN KARAKASH)
Subject: HDTV
Originator: jmkaraka@c00061-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jmkaraka@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN MARTIN KARAKASH)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:10:58 GMT


	An interesting note to the HDTV angle.  I was reading a science
magazine (I think it was Scientific American) about a new way of
compressing data.  It splits the data into two parts.  The first part is
for broad, relatively static areas, at low resolution.  The second part
is for all the detailed information.
	Now because of the FCC's (reasonable, I think) ruling that any HDTV
transmissions also be viewable by standard sets, this would be the
perfect technology to use.  One signal would give the old sets what they
need, and the second signal would boost it up to HDTV standards.
	It has an amazingly high compression rate and works very well with
digital information.

	-John 'Will we be *gasp* AHEAD of the Japanese?' Karakash-
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Subject: Re: Question about BGC's Mega-Tokyo
From: ramberg@futon.SFSU.EDU (James Ramberg)
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:35:34 PDT
Organization: San Francisco State University

Cheers..
 
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Please send e-mail to ramberg@quark.sfsu.edu
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From: gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: To Purchase a LD player, or not to???
Keywords: LD Purchase Buy Well???
Date: 29 Aug 92 05:36:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <BtpMr9.HM1@ecf.toronto.edu> giggey@ecf.toronto.edu (GIGGEY Mike S) writes:
>This is a question that cannot be easily answered. I shall elaborate as to why. 
>
>Because of your 'address' I will assume that you are in North America. We use the NTSC system here and those people who are responsible for the development of the High-Definition TV system and its compatability with the existing NTSC system have still to decide on many issues (both technical and otherwize). For this reason it will be a while before HDTV will exist commonly here. Hence: 'I can't really advise you what to do'. 
>
>In Japan, they have a HDTV system and they have LDs that are 'encripted' with information that will normally consist a HDTV picture. There is a particular standard/ssytem that is used it is called MUSE. There are several MUSE LD players available. But they are, alas, in Japan only (to my knowledge). 


The FCC is in testing right now, and is scheduled to decide on the US HDTV
format within the next few months.  From the looks of things, they (FCC) are
going to choose a fully digital format, which is somewhat distressing
to japanese companies, of which the MUSE or others standards they have been 
developing are partially analog systems.

I personally think the FCC is making a good choice, for I think the HDTV
would be limiting itself by sticking to a partially analog system compared to
an all digital format. LDs are analog (video wise), CDs are digital, as was
stated many a time at the Central Park Media panel, when full length movies
of VHS or better quality can be fit on 5" discs, that is when the disc will
dominate the market.

Ryan Gavigan
gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu