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From: ramberg@futon.SFSU.EDU (James Ramberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Odds and Ends (1st post)
Keywords: first post
Date: 26 Dec 92 08:18:42 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <734@oscar.UUCP> loku@oscar.UUCP (lyndon oku) writes:
>
>
>  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.]
>
 I mentioned , in a previous post ( which might not have made it) that
Sazan 3x3 Eyes would be appealing to a general audience, especially if
the "Making of 3x3 Eyes"  segmeants were used as well.

>  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.
>
let me guess, is GENOM the tour sponsor .. :-) I Would love one,  along
with one of  those BGC Crisis sweatshirts seen in 2033 .

How's about a VISION tour shirt as well ??? ( her sponsor would
be Ho Bang (sp ?) Music Chips)

I was showing both 2032 & 2033 off to a friend today .. he got the biggest
kick out of Linna's bikini and Nene's knees :-)
[* I won't say what he liked about Priss ..:-)  *]
[ HJ e started off using the "C" word ... amazing how fast he stopped using it :-)]

He did like alot of other things about it too. I thought those comments
were neat in respond to the Knight Saber poll we had awhile back]
Oh, while I'm talking  about NeNe , let me tell you I spotted one of
the artwork books at Kinokunyia speeling her name as MeMe (* go figure*)
..
re: showing off anime at work:
Someone at work noticed a BGC gif on my SPARC background  and asked if 
it was RoboTech .. when I told him what it was he said
"what's the difference. They'll all the same"
Ah well .. more for US to appreciate ;-). BTW, I work for UC Berkeley.
(Not everyone is into it here :-))

One final comment: You've watched too much anime when you hit the repeat
one button every time you put in your BGC 4 CD..



Cheers and Happy New Year
 


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From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Subject: Re: r.a.a. widely known?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:20:08 GMT

danrama@wam.umd.edu (Daniel Bloomfield Ramagem) writes:
# Out of curiosity, has r.a.a. ever been mentioned in any anime-related
# magazines?  It's certainly a great resource for those with access
# to internet.

Not in the Japanese ones.  But the Compuserve anime forum (I think)
had been mentioned in Animage a few years ago when they had one of
their large polls.

I think r.a.a. has enough traffic that it doesn't need any more
publicity..  (unless we split r.a.a.)

p.s. I'm using lots of SPARC cycles to calulate the 1992 r.a.a.
total stats..  I'll post them sometime this week.
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From: currmann@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Curtis Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: English language in Japanese music
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:05:05 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.


   William Bennecke asks about the frequent appearance of English words in
anime soundtracks.  This question is so deep, it's shallow.  English words
appear EVERYWHERE in Japan and Japanese life.  The Japanese have to study it
for a couple of years in high school.  It's on signs on all of the streets and
in the subways.  English words creep into normal conversation, sometimes
unconsciously.  The question would be a whole lot more interesting if English
words DIDN'T show up AT ALL in anime soundtracks.
   Now, about the number of English words used in Canadian animation...

                   -- I leave you alone for a few minutes and what happens?
                      You end up on the menu.      -- Bugs Bunny

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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: update post for AA'93
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:31:06 GMT

In article <RATINOX.92Dec30205314@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>, Citizen Lemming <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu> writes:
> MAX> Does that mean people can just plug their VCR's into the system and
> MAX> tape all these animes?

Actually, no.  If you read the follow-ups, you know by now that USMC and
USR have given no such authorization until they are *certain* users can't
tap VCRs into the system.

> Put it this way. The Con's going to have around 1500 attendees, give or
> take a few hundred. Of these, maybe 10% (tops!) will actually be recording
> the CC programs. This "costs" the subbers/dubbers... 150 people times $30
> per tape... $4,500, which they chaulk up as advertising. Of the remaining
> attendees, let's say that 35% (a conservative estimate) will buy at least
> one tape from any one particular company. At $30 per tape that comes out
> to... 525 people times 30... $15,750. The gross profit comes out to
> $11,250. Not bad, is it. They're not losing anything.

It's amazing what some people will come up with to rationalize their
illegal (AND IMMORAL) behavior...
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From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: You know you watched too much when ....
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 15:30:27 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia


In article <Ne44VB3w164w@kryton.UUCP> mengei@kryton.UUCP writes:
 > >    No, you know you've watched too much anime when you didn't realize
 > > you couldn't understand the dialog in the film until after it was over.
 >  
 > Know what you mean.

You know you've read too many anime magazines and books when you start
reading "western" magazines from the wrong end and don't notice until
half-way through (Yes, it HAS happened to me on more than one
occasion).

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From: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: GUNDAM: CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK:  So, what's the big deal?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:38:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
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In a previous article, conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) says:

>So, what's the big deal about this, supposedly one of the best pieces of
>Gundam fiction out there?

Well, I'll add my article to the slew that will undoubtedly follow.

CCA isn't my favorite piece of Gundam anime, that would be 0080.  But CCA
is definitely way up there on my list.  It was actually the first Gundam
I ever saw, which may have something to do with it, but I can also give
specific reasons.

-- The animation is probably the best of any Gundam feature yet produced.
The battle scenes are "kick-ass", for lack of a better phrase.  I especially
like the tricks the Nu Gundam is able to do with the "funnels" it launches
from its back.

-- I like the soundtrack.  Can't really get to specific as too why; I just
thought it was well-done.

-- As for the story: I have to give the writer credit for having the guts
to create a completely unsympathetic character.  Quess is a spoiled,
annoying, little shit and she's supposed to be that way.  In a very real
sense, she's more the villain that Char is, even moreso since the viewer
seems to be the only one who can tell what she really is.  Char uses the
girl like a tool, all while she believes she's using him.
	I also like CCA because it explores the characters of Char and Amuro
and brings their struggle to a dramatic conclusion.  The story ended the
only way it could end, in mutual death.  (Sorry, Sea Wasp. :-) )

CCA does have its flaws.  Tomino's socio-babble gets a little pompous from
time to time.  Amuro and Char arguing sociology and politics as they fight
to the death seemed a little odd the first time I watched it.  Since the
mobile suits seem to be of all shapes, sizes, and colors, it's hard to tell
which side is which in some of the battle scenes.  When Char's rival for
Quess' affections is blown up, the event happens so suddenly that I often
miss it and have to rewind the tape.

Still, like I said, this movie is definitely one of my favorites.

			---------- Ryan Mathews
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From: ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha)
Subject: Re: Popularity of anime soundtracks (was Re: Kevin-styl
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 21:11:49 GMT

In article <725186972snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au> michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec18.112554.10519@pegasus.com> ranma@pegasus.com writes:
> > >I rarely listen to American pop music but I always find myself
> > >listening to Japanese pop music...
> > >
> >         My friends at work think I'm wacko now after they found 7 of my
> > 10 discs in my CD Changer to be (oh my!) ANIME CD's!!
>
>I managed to "sneak" a little anime music into work when we were so
>bored from programming all day. Just to relieve us, I brought in a
>radio tape-deck and played Iczer-1 and Megazone 23 II. :)

	I'd better transplant some of the tapes at work with Anime
compilation music and brainwash them all..  I'll have them yelling
"A-yu-ka-wa.." in their sleep in no time!


>I'm actually getting some workmates interested in anime. HA!
>
>What I do worry about is that in under a month, my anime CD collection
>has doubled to over 24... <sigh>

	I know what you mean...  <double sigh> but I really have no
qualms about buying CDs (even at $32 each), since I can listen to music
in my car, and at home ALL THE TIME.  I can't really watch an LD more
than 2 or 3 times in a month before I really start acting like the
characters in the LD (meaning I am going insane).
	While we're on the topic, do they still sell Orange Road CD
boxed set?  
>
>P.S. To whoever said in Steve Pearl's CD list that Megumi Hayashibara
>can't sing, GO WASH YOUR EARS! :) I just got her CD, and it's great.
>And any singer that can carry off HI-MI-KO like she can can DEFINITELY
>SING! :) [Ditto for Oomori Kinuko, her SILK CD is great. Whoever made
>these statements must not be a true seiyuu/idol fan.]

	Who?

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From: 7514P%NAVPGS.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Chris Swett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Monkey Punch confirms
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:18:33 GMT
To: Multiple recipients of list ANIME-L <ANIME-L%VTVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
 <ucivax!bonnie.ics.uci.edu!rang@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>

<guests at Anime America>

    So far we have had three guest changes. Go Nagai confirmed and 12 hours
later had to unconfirm. We got that info out as quickly as possible. I have
spoken to him for a total of about 9 hours since then and had dinner with him
twice. He is *really* sorry he can't make it this year and said he would love
to come in '94. That's it in a nutshell.

    Trish quit both Con staffs on December 6th, so we took her off the guest
list. Matt was taken off the guest list a few days later. Whether or not
they'll show up as press is anybody's guess. Neither she nor Matt asked to be
taken off. It was just assumed. I asked James to give Toshi a call this
weekend to get the official info.

    Would you like to see more American comic artists? I've talked to Jason
Waltrip (Robotech Sentinels, Metal Bikini) about coming. I should probably
call him again this week. When we initially announced a lot of Americans
I got an earfull. Also, we're not listing the attending American industry
professionals as guests, which has been done in past years.

    As for Con memberships, we don't have a whole hell of a lot of them. The
Treasurer is in Japan right now, so I can't give you an exact figure. As we
have only had useful publicity out for about a month and a half, we aren't
doing too badly. I'm pretty sure Expo has more memberships because they got
a lot at Expo '92 and a bunch more at San Diego ComiCon. As these things go,
most pre-reg memberships roll in the day before a price deadline. Our first
price increase is 15 January.

    After meeting Monkey Punch and touring his studio, I can see why he's one
of your heroes. Not only is he a fabulous artist (he's currently working
on a manga adaptation of the Arabian Nights and it's *tremendously* detailed
artwork) but he's a really fun guy to be around. I'd wager that he's the life
of any party he's invited to. The AnAm BoD chatted with him at his studio for
five straight hours. He's also a Macintosh dude, so he instantly earned my
respect. (^_^)

                                   --- Chris
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From: albertw@netcom.com (The Email Otaku)
Subject: Re: Ranma...
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:27:54 GMT

In article <9301010319.aa19818@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> dlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>Hmmm...seems my original post just zipped by everyone(or is it that no one wantsto read my posts??), but anyway, my question is that was Ranma ever released
>in the US on VHS and LD(the first two episodes).  I say an old add in the
>april-may 1992 protoculture addicts about Ranma episodes on sale.  Was this
>ever true?
>

The only Ranma that has made it to video have been two OAVS (on one LD) and
the two Ranma movies.  Oh, yeah, there was a "member's only" Ranma LD from
Kitty release recently, but only Kitty members could get their paws on that
one.

As of yet, none of the TV episodes have made it onto video...but Kitty
will probably wait awhile and and then release the box set.  Can I just buy
the episodes with Ukyou in them? ^_^;

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From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: (WS)  Bad Dream Demon & Sandman question
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:57:56 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
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Keywords: Sandman, Urusei Yatsura, Beautiful Dreamer, Bad Dream Demon

Hello, folks!
 
Here's one for the Sandman readers out there:
 
Is the Bad Dream Demon (_Urusei Yatsura II: Beautiful Dreamer_) really the _Sandman_ or one of the _Sandman's_ mischievious minions?

Replies to the board, thanx.
 
Widya Santoso
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From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: AnimeUK #4 comments
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:10:36 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
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michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) writes:

>In article <tal691.724901372@huxley> tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au writes:
> > >       UK's Channel 4 is negotiating to show more Miyazaki films (were they
> > >       the ones who broadcast Laputa a few years back?), and speculation
> > >       is Kiki's Delivery Service will be shown over the X-mas holidays.
> >  
> > It was the BBC, to my knowledge.

>Channel 4, Kiki has been confirmed. But then, I'd prefer the sub any
>day.

Sorry, I meant the BBC who broadcast Laputa, not the other Miyazaki films.
I'm going to be posting r.a.tv.uk to find out when they were/are going to
be broadcast.

> > >Very top notch work and well worth the cover price.  
> >  
> > BTW, how much is it over there?  It costs about US$16 in Australia.

>In Sydney, maybe. In Perth you can grab it for under A$8 (US$6). You
>are getting majorly ripped off there.

> > Those shops who order directly from the UK to get their copies of 2000AD
> > are more likely to get it not long after the street dates.  Shop around.

>Ah, you're paying a premium for getting it airmail. It shouldn't double
>the price, though.

Gosh, I'll never understand exchange rates.  I just pay credit card bills.
You're right the exchange should have gone downwards not up.  It cost me
A$12, thus US$8.  Yes, my shop orders directly from Titan Distributors.
That's how I got my copy of _Manga_, the programme book for the Japan
Festival manga exhibition in the UK a couple of years ago.

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From: dhiga@aludra.usc.edu (Darold Higa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: KOR movie
Date: 27 Dec 1992 02:50:53 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Hmmm..."psycho Hikaru"?  I dunno about that.  I've acted like that before.
It's easy to get swept up in th passion and emotion of the moment and act
in a way that you would never act under "normal" circumstances.  Break-ups are
never easy, and often you feel like events are dragging you along for the ride.
I remember (which is a hard thing to do) listening to myself when I went 
through a "break-up" recently.  I said and did things without thinking.  Only
afterwards had I realized what I had done.

Considering how open Hikaru is with her emotions (as I suspect I am), its easy
to see her reacting the way she did.

I dunno.  Everyone deals with things like this differently.  I personally think
that this is almost TOO realistic.  Hit pretty close to home with me.  The 
movie soundtrack is still too depressing for me to listen to it.

Darold "Godai" Higa of Ikkoku-kan
(looking for solutions to life's problems in anime...does that mean blowing 
things up?)
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From: ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha)
Subject: Re: Ayukawa or Madoka? (**some spoilers**)?
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:04:13 GMT

In article <1hgc11INNo46@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>In article <1992Dec25.132940.4830@pegasus.com> ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha) writes:
>>	My question is:  Why does Kyosuke STILL call Madoka by her last name
>>even after knowing her (and knowing her quite well) for over 2 years?  I
>>can't accept it as being a cultural formality, since they have become like
>>best friends over their few years together.
>
>I call my friend of 8 years, David Wood, Woody most of the time, sometimes
>D.J. Wood. (His middle initial IS 'J') We still refer to an old friend from
>high school as Eaton, his last name. Dave calls me Bik, short for Bikowicz,
>my last name... It really doesn't seem that uncommon for me... but that again
>I'm weird...

	I do that all the time with certain friends at school.  I call this
guy I've known from High School by his last name all the time.  It's become
totally natural.

	At the end of the KOR movie, Kyosuke still calls Madoka by her
last name (he says "Ayukawa and I passed our mock exams") which is strange
since they dumped on Hikaru like that so they could be together.. 
I sure thought they were a couple by the end of the movie, but he was
still calling her "Ayukawa."
	This leads me to suspect that it is not really due to cultural
constraints, but due to 'habit'..  I'm not sure of course, but if I'm
right, then Animeigo is wrong.

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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: B.N.J.A.F.C.
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:54:50 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <92364.103823IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET> IADHRH@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:

> I just came into the possession of a Books Nippan flyer that describes
> their Books Nippan Japanese Animation Fan Club.
> 
> For someone who plans to purchase videos distributed by them (US Renditions:
> Gunbuster, Macross II, Guyver, Orguss, etc) it sounds like a good deal.
> The $12 membership fee is quickly compensated with the purchase of just
> three tapes at the member price.
> 
> Any current members out there who would like to comment on BNJAFC and help
> out an anime newby ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> - Hank

I've had some problems with their mail order outfit inthe past and
can't recommend them over such dealers as Nikaku.  But, being a member
is real useful if you frequent their retail stores.  (I go to the one
in NYC)

Steve
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