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From: lazarus@quack.sac.ca.us (Albert Sze-Wei Wang)
Subject: Re: Anime references in Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 8 Jan 1993 09:18:54 UTC


POSSIBLE DEEP SPACE 9 SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT.  Hit 'n' now to avoid
me ruining the episode for you.





In article <1993Jan8.012609.4597@ntmtv> takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi) writes:
>In article <1ii99bINN2pk@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> jhm@scorch.EBay.Sun.COM writes:

>Well, you're right that Rick Sternbach is in the credits for STTNG, but
>not because he's associated with ILM.  Rick Sternbach works in the
>Art Department in the Star Trek Production Office as a Senior
>Illustrator and sometime technical advisor.

>He's also the source for the many anime in-jokes that have popped
>into STTNG from time to time.  I don't know if any have sneaked
>into Deep Space Nine, but I wouldn't be surprised...

You mean you MISSED the Lensman Brittania class ships at the end of the 
episode???
Shame on you!!! ;) ;) ;)

>BTW, ILM hasn't been involved with STTNG since the premiere episode
>     "Encounter at Farpoint"...

I doubt this.  ILM did all the stock footage for the STTNG and considering
they have all the models, they are the only ones which could have shot the
really cool opening sequence at the beginning of the 2 hour season premiere.

I found this premiere very refreshing and liked it very much for a first
episode.  Strange thing is I actually found a strong sense of believability
in the characters of DS 9, more than I did with the characters of STTNG when
it first started.  The characteres were stiff of course, all of them still 
getting used to their roles, but I think the first tour of duty on board DS9
is going to be very very interesting, not to say eventful.  There were lots
of special effects in the premiere.  Plus we got to see a small part of the
dessimating of the Federation Fleet by the Borg.  I was probably sitting there
like Calvin's stuffed tiger Hobbes when the episode opened:  Wow wow wow wow...

Plus that Cardassian Star Base looked kinda gothic and refreshingly different
compared to the sterile look of the newer aerodynamically shaped Star Fleet
ships.  I do think that more cameos by the crew of STNNG should have been
made to add an aura of authenticity to the episode, but oh well...  Just
seemed like Picard was the only guy around really running anything on the
old 1701-D.

Well, I've babbled enough... back to our regularly scheduled program.


Albert


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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:30:57 CST
From: <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: GUNDAM: CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK: So, what's the big de
Distribution: world
 <726325568snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au>

In article <726325568snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au>, michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au
(Michael Studte) says:
>
>In article <93004.152748U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> U19807@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
> >
> > As you might guess,I've ducked behind a five-foot thick concrete blast
>wall.
> >
>
>And that's gonna save you when a Gundam otaku drops a colony on you?
>Like hell! :)

Nah. The Colony Laser that I bought wholesale from the neo-Jions might,
though.... >:)

      ** Chris Krolczyk,esq.  * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
      ** Maniac-at-Large      * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
      ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET  * sity of Illinois at Chicago.   **
      ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So much for frivolous lawsuits.**

P.S. It's ironic that someone from Oz should be mentioning the dropping
of Sides on earth...you _do_ remember which country gets hit by Side One
at the beginning of the original Gundam movies,right? >:)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Subject: Re: Animeigo (should) release KOR tv series LDs!!
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:12:53 GMT

>Ah, but if they could sell more video, they could hire more people to keep up
>with the demand.  So how do they increase profits?  See below.
(etc...)

     Sorry, these "In articles" lost me, so....

     Below only describes what I saw in Fort Wayne, Indiana, my home.
Only and thus I AN NOT saying that I know anything about anything out side.
From what I saw at the few places that has AnimEigo tapes (Streamline tapes
were first to hit the market here), I found that they are not selling very 
well at all.  At first it was interesting that some shops actually carries 
Japanese cartoons, but after a while, it seemed that they begins to collect 
dust (in some cases, quite literally).  
     As far as the city I am in, the max profit curve probably does not
matter from what I saw in this case. 
      
     I could be wrong!!! 

                                                              -TKH '93

P.S. If you are wondering why I did not buy them, I don't have a VCR yet.

Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: cyu@athena.mit.edu (Erorppn Xrzavgm)
Subject: Re: (more) KOR movie discussion/questions
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:11:14 GMT

In article <106322@bu.edu>, shimkevi@acs.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich) writes:
|> Funny, even though I love Maisson Ikkoku, I find that I do not care about
|> the characters in the slightest (with the exception of Kozue-chan, possibly).
|> Godai is a selfish coward (one of the worst kinds of people, excluding serial
|> killers and war criminals) and Kyoko is no gem, either. I've met similar
|> people in real life, too. Mitaka is the same Godai who had the luck to grow
|> up in better conditions.

I have to agree with you there.  Everybody but Kozue does a pretty good job
of making me sick.  Personally, I think Kozue is too good for Godai.
From: m0336@tnc.UUCP (Ralph Jenkins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: RAA Statistics for 1992 (the top 200 posters)
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:44:32 GMT
Reply-To: m0336@tnc.UUCP (Ralph Jenkins)
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.


>RAA Statistics for 1992 (the top 200 posters)
>total of 24505 articles with 1807 users
 
>  count   user
>    988   conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Conty)
>    803   michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
>    571   pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
>    556   gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
>    457   albertw@netcom.COM (Albert Wong)
>    442   doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
>    353   shogun@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
>    351   tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
>    322   dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume)
>    321   m0336@tnc.UUCP (RALPH JENKINS)
[...!]
 
   Number 10, huh?  This is scary.  Imagine if I was allowed more than
one call per day.
   Let me pose a question.  Of the Top 10 r.a.a posters, how many
spent more time reading and writing messages on their computers than
they did actually watching anime?
 
   Seems fandom can be addicting.
 
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From: thmartin@romulus.rutgers.edu (Miss Animerica)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: R.A.A Awards Polling UPDATE.  Official leaders
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:15:32 GMT
Organization: Crossroads Corporation Consistency Commission

Cha>        PRELIMARY Poll results..  Polling ends on January 31st

Cha> R.a.a man of the year
Cha>        1st  Robert Woodhead   20 (4)
Cha>        2nd  Steve Pearl       12 (1)
Cha>        3rd  Hitoshi Doi       10 (1)
Cha>        4th  Theresa Martin     8 (1)
Cha>             Enrique Conty      8 (1)

Lee> While Mr. Woodhead gets paid for all this, I'd have to give my votes
Lee> to those tireless (and somewhat masochistic  :-) volunteers (in
Lee> order):  Doi, Pearl, Martin

Thanx!  So, since #1 votes are 5, #2 are 3, and #3 are 1, that makes it:
	Robert Woodhead		20 (4)
	Hitoshi Doi		15 (2)
	Steve Pearl		15 (1)
	Theresa Martin		 9 (1)
	Enrique Conty		 8 (1)

Hitoshi and Steve, evening up...

Cha> The user who does the most work for us fans
Cha>        1st  Hitoshi Doi        38 (5)
Cha>        2nd  Steve Pearl        31 (4)
Cha>        3rd  Theresa Martin     21 (2)
Cha>        4th  Robert Woodhead    16 (2)
Cha>        5th  William Chow       13 (2)
Cha>        6th  Mike Tatsugawa     12 (2)

Lee> 1-2-3, same as "Man of the Year"

Thanx again!  Let's see:
	Hitoshi Doi		43 (6)
	Steve Pearl		34 (4)
	Theresa Martin		22 (2)
	Robert Woodhead		16 (2)
	William Chow		13 (2)
	Mike Tatsugawa		12 (2)

21 more #3 votes and look out Hitoshi!  ^_(

Those #1 votes really count for a lot, don't they?  4 #1s = 20 #3s.
And there were only 25 or so votes last I heard.  Maybe the weight
wouldn't seem so heavy if a lot more people were voting.
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From: rmc@wang.com (rmc)
Subject: Re: Sight & Sound, Phone Number?
Organization: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:57:24 GMT
	<Jan.6.14.52.28.1993.18307@remus.rutgers.edu> <1ig275INNbfu@uwm.edu>

xepo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott R Violet) asks about the reliability of
Lazer Craze in Boston MA.

Lazer Craze is my "regular store";  it's not hard to get to after
getting off the train from Lovely Lowell.  The people are really nice,
but i'm not sure how well they'll do for actually finding anime.  They
weren't willing to try to order "Fire Tripper" for me;  i ended up
getting it at Sight & Sound, and getting there shoots a whole Saturday
afternoon.  So yes, i'd say they're honest about their own
capabilities, but believe them if they say they can't.

I have to love the store however.  I rented LDs for Urusei Yatsura
movies 2-6, Iczer I Perfect collection, most of the Lovely Angels
OAVs, lots of pieces that have now become friends.

R Mark Chilenskas
rmc@wang.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: laser disc rot (not again) (was  Re: AD Vision?! Never heard of them.
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:18:40

"MAXSTERLING" == MAXSTERLING  <MAXSTERLING@delphi.com> writes:
MAXSTERLING> a non-contact medium so it should last a long time, but
MAXSTERLING> the disks rot, so they don't even last as long as tapes?
MAXSTERLING> What's the deal?  What percentage of laserdisks rot?

Try only a few CDs from a specific factory that fixed the problem and
it's not even certain that any of the batch of CDs ever reached the
retail market.

The specifics are in a FAQ, probably on
rec.video.something-or-another.

--
J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311 (DoD# 0378)
"It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence
of content.  It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce
itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard
From: tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: The Most Over-Hyped Anime of 1992
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:54:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <-1359216175snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au> michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan8.014521.3139@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu writes:
> >  
> > Macross II, second only to Megazone 23 III in the world of OAVs.
> > Now they're planning Macross III... (This is really depressing)
>
>Seconded! :)

To me, the most disappointing anime of 1992 is Gundam 0083 the Movie
"Jion no Zankou". The editing job was awful and many important parts
were removed. But what made me real angry was HORRIBLE job they did
with background musics. They just kept using few BGM tracks OVER and OVER
even when the music didn't match the scene at all. 

In my opinion, the only reason they came up with this abomination
is to make quick and easy money for Shouchiku (movie distributor)
and Bandai. SIGH.

DON'T BUY the LD unless you have to get every Gundam 0083 related
product.


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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Sight & Sound #?
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:11:41 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division
To: urban@yoda.fsl.noaa.gov

In article <1993Jan10.194623.10127@fsl.noaa.gov> urban@yoda.fsl.noaa.gov (Art Urban) writes:

> Could somebody please e-mail the phone number for ordering from Sight &
> Sound?
> 
> The discussion was interesting, but nobody provided a number...
> 
> -- 

Sight & Sound
27 Jones Street
Waltham, MA 02154	
Phone: 1-617-894-8633		

Happy Hunting!

Steve
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Cyborg 009
From: ramberg@futon.SFSU.EDU (James Ramberg)
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:54:46 PST
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <0h82sl#@rpi.edu> tsait@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Theodore Leonard Tsai) writes:
>IN a fit of nostalgia, I rented the butchered and dubbed tape _Defenders
>of the Vortex_.  Just wondering if anybody knows more about the show
>(Cyborg 009, not the American dub), 

Talk about Nostaglia .. I watched that on Channel 47 in NYC in the late
70's/early 80's ( along with 999 and Harlock amongst other things)

It was a pretty cool shows by those standards
(i.e. early 80's) 


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From: z_coolidgeas@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: re: Mikimoto Book
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:01:23 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

The book I believe is running around the $30 range, and is softbound with a
dustjacket.  I wish I had money.  I really do.
 
jaa ne,
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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: 1992 ANIME FAVORITES POLL reminder (1 of 5
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:12:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <2B52014C.9043@ics.uci.edu> rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang) writes:
> But if you
> really want to punish yourself, go watch some FHE stuff like Clash of
> the Bionoids and Revenge of the Space Pirate.  Ooooo, it hurts just to
> remember watching those.


Heh. I remember when we showed "Vengeance of the Space Pirate" at a
Rutgers Anime meeting.  I hadn't seen it before but heard it wasn't
that bad.  It was.  It made the episode of Zillion we showed after,
look great in comparison! 

Steve
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: jly33321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John L.Yoon )
Subject: Re: Gall Force
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:20:11 GMT

albertw@netcom.com (The Email Otaku) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.101023.14694@netcom.com> jeffl@netcom.com (Jeff Liebgold) writes:
>>
>>I just finished watching Gall Force: Eternal Story a couple times... GREAT
>>story/movie/anime... sad ending (sniff). Now I have a couple questions...
>>according to my catalog of LDs at LaserPerceptions, there are two sequels to
>>this movie. Are they out subbed? Are they as good? worth watching?

>Yes, there are two more parts to the original Gall force series.  They
>haven't been subbed yet.  I thought they were well done...compared to the
>Gall Force Earth Chapters.  And any anime is worth watching at least
>once...you'll never know if you like it or not. ^_^


as for Gall Force there is: 
Gall Force I-III (part two is my fav)
Rhea Gall Force: Earth Chapter (I think that there's 3 parts, Exodus (part I)  
                                is pretty good)
Gall Force New Century (the current series, really bad)
Gall Force: Ladies Live (they sing! they giggle! they have no brains!) ;)

<this is from memory, I probably skipped something>

>>Also, any speculation as to why the characters reappear at the VERY ending
>>milling about earth? Just the animators messing around?
>>

In Destruction, Nebulato (or whatever the name of the original Catty was) 
makes some comments about the endless cycles of history, what happened once
will eventually happen again (or something like that) thus leaving open the
possibility for endless sequels with the original characters popping back
with different names. :)  

SPOILER: Scramble Wars 
won't give any details, but think about the possibilities with all of these
identical characters...
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From: scotth@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Ayukawa or Madoka? (**some spoilers**)?
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:01:11 GMT
	<SCOTTH.93Jan6212813@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com> <43239@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA


>>>>> In article <43239@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:

rnlee> In article <SCOTTH.93Jan6212813@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com> scotth@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) writes:
>an Idol" OAVs is most faithful to the manga. "Hawaiian Suspense", on
>the other hand was a real hack-n-slash job on stories in the manga. Of
>course, to do it right would have required first doing an OAV on
>Sayuri (and "Hawaiian Suspense" would end up being a 2-parter, also).
>A Sayuri ep would certainly be one of the top "H" eps, too...

I should have said "...first do an OAV introducing Sayuri..."
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^

rnlee> Who's Sayuri?

One answer is: a girl who makes Hikaru at her most aggressive and
forward lookrather reserved. Kind of like Yagami from Maisson Ikkoku.

My japanese isn't good enough to be sure this is correct, but
basically she is a flirtatious girl who goal appears to be to see how
many of the guys in the school she can dump. Her modus operandi seems
to be to flirt with the guys until they start chasing her, then snub
them. She runs into a brick wall with Kyosuke, who just treats her
like another friend. As the stories go on, it's hard to tell whether
she really likes Kyosuke, or just can't stand finding a guy who can
resist her...

Anyway, the stories that 'Hawaiian Suspense' was based on have Hikaru
gone on a vacation with her parents, and Madoka going to Hawaii for
her other sister's wedding, leaving Kyosuke at rather loose ends,
since he doesn't have enough money to follow. He runs into Sayuri in a
cheap eating place. He's so down that he gives Sayuri what turns out
to be the winning ticket in the raffle the eating place is running.
First place is a trip for two to Hawaii. So she takes Kyosuke along
(after arranging for separate rooms). He thought that Sayuri had
stopped chasing him (he went along to be near Madoka if he could find
her), but Sayuri had different plans. Of course, they run into Madoka
on the way to the Hotel, and Kyosuke has some explaining to do. Sayuri
quickly discovers that she really has no chance, and then disappears
under apparently suspicious circumstances, appearing that she had been
kidnapped. Madoka and Kyosuke end up having an adventure superficially
like the OAV, but everything turns out to have been caused by
misunderstandings coupled with a mysterious wrong number.

=-=-=-=
From: tdinh@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Ota-kun)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: love triangles in Anime
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:11:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <11092@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> 7514P%NAVPGS.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Chris Swett) writes:
>     This is probably the single most popular plot device in anime and
>manga. I'd be hard pressed to list a popular anime show that *doesn't*
>have a love triangle somewhere in the plot. They probably exist but they
>aren't among the ones we usually collect over here.

Speaking of love triangles, does anybody know which show or series
started all of this? The obvious choice for me would be Macross...

					Thien

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From: bbs.lar@tsoft.net (Larry Greenfield)
Subject: Re: Animeigo (should) release KOR tv series LDs!!
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:35:16 GMT

  This post concerns the Kimagure Orange Road Memory Box Set (a LaserDisc 
box set).  PLEASE help me if you can, and send replies as EMAIL unless 
you can't (then in that case, post public, but try to keep it in email). 
Thank you!  
 
**NOW**: to someone (ANYONE) in Japan or who does business with Toho: 
please read and help if you can!

  
   I wrote a letter to Toho Japan a long time ago asking nicely if they
were aware of the KOR Box Set rotting problem.I got no reply (yes, I sent
it to the right place, even to the right name, a Mr. Hirai at the Video 
Software division).   No reply.
  So I wrote again a few months ago. Obvioulsy they've chosen to take a 
shoddy approach to customer service. No reply. both my letters were 
written nicely, asking them if they were aware of the rotting problem, 
and asking if they had plans to re-press the Box set.  No reply, and 
months have gone by. 
  I might add that originally, I wrote this letter to Pioneer Japan, and 
got a reply within about 2 weeks, a very nice letter, telling me to write 
to Toho (since it WAS their discs, after all), and even the person I 
should write to (with address, etc. I verified the address with what two 
separate posters here sent me in email as well). 
   So obviously Toho is certainly not acting like a decent company.

  ** I'd be very interested if anyone there in Japan who does business 
with Toho, or knows employees of Toho might pass this along, and see if 
they can get an answer why two well-written nice letters to Toho have 
been unanswered after all this time. Again, they were addressed to Mr. 
Hirai of the Video Software division. It's kind of mad when a product 
goes bad, and when a company (especially a Japaese giant, like Toho, when 
Japanese companies are known for their customer service and attention to 
the customer) ignore you and throw away your letters.  *PLEASE** if 
anyone can relay this message to ANYONE at Toho, I'd be interested in 
hearing their reply. Perhaps there is someone else I can write to at Toho 
just to get an answer to my question!!!
:::::Larry:::::

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Larry Greenfield (bbs.lar@tsoft.net)