From: moakler@remus.rutgers.edu (bam!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: What I think about a lot of things.
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:09:14 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

ACPS7035@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca (Sean Edward Blenkhorn) writes:


>-The artwork and storyboarding in Kyuketski Miyu is held in high regard on
> my list of animation favourites.  I really wish that Kakinouchi Narumi would
> give us Miyu fans something new soon.

	I don't know if I'm stating the obvious or not, but have you
seen the Miyu manga volume that Kakinouchi Narumi did in '89? It was a
collection of new short stories totally independent of the OAVs. She
also did a companion volume involving new characters called Vampire
Yui, a protege of sorts to Miyu. Yui is too nice and unsure of herself
to be the morally ambiguous (and therefore more interesting!)
character that Miyu is though. Miyu is a more sinister in the manga
than she is in the videos and there are also a lot of touches of
bishojo lesbian as well. On a related note, I heard somewhere that Ms.
Kakinouchi is married to Toshihiro Hirano. Is this true, or do they
just work together a lot?

>-All of Rumiko Takahashi's works are well loved by her many fans out there,
> one of them being me (of course).  Urusei Yatsura, One Pound Gospel, Maison
> Ikkoku, and the most recent, Ranma Nibunnoichi.  One Pound Gospel and Ningyo
> no Mori are her single production OAV's that impressed me very much, esp.
> Mermaid Forest.

	I guess you didn't like Fire Tripper SuperGal and Laughing
Target,eh?  Ningyo no Mori was what Laughing Target should have
been,even though the LT manga was pretty predictable. However, that
slasher movie ending in the video where Asuza just keeps getting up
after being killed is a travesty. SuperGal wasn't that great (mostly
because of the animation), but managed to stretch out what was a  very
short Rumic World story with a lot of good sight gags.

>-Although I think I mentioned earlier on that Kimagure Orange Road was my
> favourite in terms of television series, please allow me to do so once again.
> I just wish that there was some SD version artworks of KOR on the market.
	
	I don't think SD KOR would really work too well. SDs work with
shows that take themselves absolutely seriously (Gundam, Gallforce,
GunBuster)  so they're that much funnier when everything about them is
skewered. One of the things that I would like to see SDed is BGC. Not
because I'm such a great fan of the series, but because there's so
much potential in parodying it. (Besides, I wanna see how they would
do a "cute" Buma.)


>-In the manga field, Masamune Shirow's Appleseed and Toshihiro Hirano's
> Tattakae Iczer 1 are well liked by me (mildly put).

	Unfortunately, trying to read Applessed in Japanese is about
as confusing as trying to translate Japanese legal documents.
>-The opening of the Bubblegum Crash OAV's, very interesting.  I also liked
> some of the other Bubblegum Crisis OAV's.  The dark 'Blade Runner' like feel
> of the world created by Kenichi Sonoda is what I truely love.  The animation
> producers even gave credit to the movie Blade Runner as their source of
> inspiration.

	Yes, and it would have been a much better OAV series if they
had focussed more on the Blade Runner-type world and less on the
Genom-killed-my-friend/family-and-now-they-must-pay-plots (not to
mention Mackie's sister fetish.)


>     /     /|\     \        AND GOD SAID...             -LATER-
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> /_____/____|____\_____\      
>     / \    |    / \          
>   /     \  |  /     \        
> /         \|/         \    AND THERE WAS LIGHT!       The Dragon

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