From: loku@oscar.UUCP (lyndon oku)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Odds and Ends (1st post)
Keywords: first post
Date: 24 Dec 92 21:46:58 GMT


  To Everyone:  Merry Christmas (and a Happy New Year)!

  To Animeigo (esp. Woodhead-sama):  Congratulations on the new family
addition!  Truly important events like that help to put our anime hobby
in perspective.  Also, I'm eagerly anticipating all of your LD releases
(hopefully, this background hiss controversy can be resolved quickly).
I'm also looking forward to the re-translation of BGC#8 (my favorite BGC
episode because of the pacing, the humor, and the lack of melodrama)...
a fan-subtitled version of this episode is what made me a fan of the
series.  I think that the wording of the fan-sub was just a little bit
funnier than your videotape release.  [Don't get me wrong, I love all
the rest of your translations!]  I would like the two-color subtitle
approach to keep some of those quick sentences on screen longer (esp. in
UY).

  Regarding:  Getting People to Take Anime Seriously:  I have to agree
with Conty that "Grave of the Fireflies" would be the perfect anime.
It's characters are engaging and believable.  Paradoxically, I would not
consider this a story for children even though it is about children.
[Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't won an award of some sort.]

  Random Questions:
    1)  Where can I get a "Priss and the Replicants World Tour" t-shirt?
I've seen these at both AnimeCon'91 and AnimeExpo'92 (as well as many
SanDiego ComicCons), but no one seems to know how to get them.  It has a
silhouette of the members on the front (with the band name) and a list
of fictional cities and years (e.g., Neo-Tokyo 2010) on the back.  Being
a big fan of "Blade Runner" when it first came out (and seeing every
version of it since then, I really want to get this t-shirt.

    2)  Has anyone seen (or heard of) the "1001 (2001?) Nights" anime?
I really enjoyed the lyric (yet apparently technically accurate) stories
that were printed a couple of years ago (translated from the manga).

    3)  What does it mean (in Japan) when you use your index finger
under an eye to pull it so that it's slightly larger?  I believe that
this is some form of "stink eye," but was wondering if someone could be
more exact.

    4)  Does anyone remember why someone (was it PUMA?) used to call
Nadia the "Evil Series" a few years ago.  I hadn't seen Nadia when I 
first heard the reference, but, now that I've seen it, I still don't
understand calling it "the Evil Series."  [Yeah, I've been reading r.a.a 
for a while now.]

    5)  Does anyone know where to find videos/LDs/whatever of a
live-action series called "Rainbow Man?"  The main character used a
(Buddhist/Shinto?) chant to change into a white outfit with a gold sun
on his forehead or one of seven other outfits (one was dirt-colored, 
another was tree-colored, etc.).  I remember seeing this as a child in
Hawaii ('70s?).  The bad guy was "Mister K (X?)" and he had a lot of 
female helpers who wore crosses and mini-skirts (vaguely anti-Western).

  Random Opinions:
    I don't like seeing all of the flames (subtle or not so subtle)
that have begun to really take over in the last year or so.  Although
I plan to go to both Anime America and Anime Expo this year (if I can
manage the time off), I refuse to ask Rumiko Takahashi (who I would
really love to meet) to come to the states until we have only a single
anime convention (next year, please?).  By the way, not all of the
flames I am talking about are related to the Anime convention mess.

					Until I make a decent .sig,
							Lyndon
						loku@oscar.hns.com
P.S.  Have a happy and safe holiday season!
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