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From: 7514P%NAVPGS.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Chris Swett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Sailor Moon tapes available
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:38:42 GMT
To: "Japanese animedia and other animation news." <ANIME-L%VTVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
 <VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>

<what is this Sailor Moon thing, anyhow?>

     Sailor Moon is a Bandai television series initially aimed at 14 year-old
girls. The main characters are Tsukino Usagi, Mizuno Ami and Hino Rei (true
through episode 21). Usagi is a ditzy blonde with looong ponytails and was the
first of the girls to become a "se-ra- fuku bishojo senshi", or sailor-suited
cute girl warrior (at this point the character designs/costumes began picking
up male fans). Ami and Rei joined the team in later episodes, I think episodes
7 and 9, respectively. Kino Makoto is supposed to join the group at episode 25.
     In episode 1 Usagi is given a brooch that can transform her into a super-
hero dedicated to fighting the forces of the "Dark Kingdom". Her costume is
an abbreviated, and I *do* mean abbreviated, version of her school uniform. Her
superhero name is Sailor Moon. Ami becomes Sailor Mercury and Rei becomes
Sailor Mars. Makoto will enter the series as Sailor Jupiter.
     The girls gain special attack powers that derive from the kanji that
spell the planet their name represents (their real names are spelled with
the same kanji, by no coincidence). Thus, Tsuki-no Usagi is Sailor Moon and
throws her crescent-shaped tiara (which glows and acts like a killer frisbee).
Sailor Mercury (Mizu-no Ami) can hurl bubbles of fog to confuse and disorient.
Sailor Mars (Hi-no Rei) throws fireballs. Sailor Jupiter (Ki-no Makoto) throws
a deadly whirwind of roses.
     The series is campy and parodies a lot of different series. The latest
episode has the team visiting an animation studio. I think most of its appeal
is in its humor and its cult-like following. Great anime it isn't. Great fun
it is.
                                    --- Chris
From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: rec.arts.anime: Anime Resources List
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:10:30 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division
To: rjn@FC.HP.COM

In article <BtwxyI.3Bt@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:

> > pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes:
> 
> >   - LaserDisk articles: Bob Niland maintains several articles on Laser Disks.
> >       (Just about anything you wanted to know.)  You can request it directly
> >       from him at rjn@hpfcrjn.fc.hp.com or via ftp at princeton.edu
> >       (128.112.128.1, directory pub/Video/Niland)


> Actually, "rjn@fc.hp.com" will do. 

Fixed.  Thanks!


> re: "Just about anything you wanted to know."
> 
> .about LD in general.  There is one article on Japanese import discs, but
> essentially nothing on anime.  Indeed, I don't even own any anime LDs (and
> won't until the Criterion `Akira' arrives).
 
Good point.  I didn't mean to imply you were an Anime LD guru.  I
changed it.


> In any case, here is the index.

I was reluctant to post your index because I didn't want to wind up
posting an out-of-date index.  If you send me revised versions, I'd be
happy to post it on a monthly basis to rec.arts.anime.  (Or, if you
follow the newsgroup, you can just post it after I post the FAQs).  I
certainly don't mind posting the LD article index for you.


Steve
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From: gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Can't get into Headcrash
Date: 30 Aug 92 17:37:53 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

>  Could anyone help me? Thanks in advance...
>
Use the ocf.berkeley.edu address, it works fine

ryan gavigan
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Conty III)
Subject: Re: "Gunhed",the Movie
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:51:52 GMT

In article <216*macedo@UFRJVMS1>, macedo%UFRJVMS1.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Sergio Ricardo F. Macedo) writes:
> 
> 	Was Gunhed, the movie, released in USA?

No.  Not on cinema or video.  You still could get it as an import.
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From: 7514P%NAVPGS.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Chris Swett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Dissing Oakland
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:53:16 GMT
To: "Japanese animedia and other animation news." <ANIME-L%VTVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
 <stanford.edu!agate!wang@uunet.uu.net>

<Oakland or San Jose?>

      Ok, I'll settle this. We should have Anime Expo '93 in Monterey. The
average noontime temperature for July 4th is about 68 degrees F, there's almost
no crime, there are lots of Japanese restaurants within walking distance of the
Hilton, there's an airport of sorts nearby, we have an aquarium... :)

                                   --- Chris

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Subject: Re: Have a BEST Anime music video contest!
From: grey@bugs.sfsu.edu (Herbert Leong)
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:49:41 PDT

In article <BtIxnM.GwA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>  writes:
> 	Sounds cool.  I've done:
> 
> 	"Cold War" | Styx | Kilroy was Here | Megazone 23
> 	"Finding my Way" | Rush | Rush | Ranma 1/2
> 	"When the Hammer Falls" | Sammy Hagar | Sammy Hagar | City Hunter
> 
> Admittedly, I don't use a Video Toaster like _some_ people out there  
(:-), but
> I try my best...
> 
> 				Dave Fleming
> 				daf31428@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
> 
> 
the Iczer-1 vidio by brad was done without a toaster.

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From: pac@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Purdue Animation Club )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Question about BGC's Mega-Tokyo
Summary: Nani??
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:20:39 GMT
Reply-To: pac@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Purdue Animation Club )
Organization: Purdue Animation Club headquarter, somewhere in Midwest



>>is that just nonsense).  Leon, Quincy, and Brian are also hardly oriental
>>names.  In fact, I can't think of a Japanese name in BGC, offhand.
>
>>(What's Linna's full name?  Linna Agechau?)
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Hahahahaha!!!!!  ( I believe you made this one up, right?)

Am I the only one who doesn't get this joke? I've been through two semesters
of Japanese, and we haven't come across that word yet. 

Anyone care to enlighten a poor club vice-president who's been out of touch for a summer?


CJ
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 28 Aug 1992 17:28:02 CDT
From: <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: they pelted us with rocks and garbage

In article <BtnK7E.4Cy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)
says:
>
>   We just had our "quad day" in which all the various UofI campus clubs
>had set up tables on the quad. We had newsletters, posters, magazines
>and other stuff that would help us get the word out to the mundane masses.
> Overall the reaction was pretty good except on a couple of occasions.
>Two groups of Japanese students stopped at our table, talked to themselves
>pointed at us laughed and walked on without saying anything to us.

You're Not The Only One...Well,Sort Of...Dep't: Back in the old days of the
C/FO Chicago,my buddy Juris was attending Roosevelt University here in
Chicago and thought that since quite a few Japanese students were living in
the dorms there, it'd be a hep idea to put up posters which advertised the
club in order to attract some of 'em. He put the balance of the posters up
near places where you'd find overseas students congregating (the dorms,the
international student department office,the English as a Second Language
office,etc.) and made the posters especially noticeable by marking "HEY!
ANIME FAN!" in katakana on the posters with fluorescent underliner markers.
He thought that this would attract a virtual army of transplanted _otaku_,
thereby swelling the Chicago chapter's ranks.

So how many do you think showed up?

Take a real good guess. If you guessed a number less than 1,you're correct.

Grooooooan.......

      ** 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 there. Nyaah.               **
From: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Question about BGC's Mega-Tokyo
Date: 2 Sep 1992 06:40:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle Ks. Jim)) says:

>In a previous article, wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) says:
>>In article <mumble> bn981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ryan Mathews) writes:
>>>(What's Linna's full name?  Linna Agechau?)
>>>
>>Yamazaki.  (BAD pun, Ryan, BAD pun...)
>
>Everyone keeps making comments about that name - could someone please
>explain it to those of us who aren't too up on character names?!?

Minna Agechau (I Give My All) is a hentai anime whose subtitled version
was overpromoted at AnimeCon '91 (I heard it was playing nearly
constantly).  The local press picked it up and starting printing that
anime was "porn for kids".

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: chedberg@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: Looking for Uncompress util!
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:45:49 GMT


	Can anyone tell me where nI can find the uncompress utility for
files with the extension .Z ? I would prefer it as a DOS prog, but unix 
will still be useful. Thanks much!
					-Chris Hedberg
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: raahb? (was Re: ANIME EXPO '93)
From: grey@babs.sfsu.edu (Herbert Leong)
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:11:57 PDT

In article <w97DqB1w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org>  writes:
> >michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards) writes:
> >
> > In that case if you have the expo there, I'll have to come :-)
> > 
> > Michael
> > [anime and brew two addictions in one sweep ;-)]
> 
> MICHAEL; I AM ALSO A HOME BREWED PERSON.  FOR ABOUT 17 YEARS NOW PLEASE 
> "E-MAIL" ME AND WE CAN GET TOGETHER ON SOME BREWING WHEN YOU COME OUT TO 
> A.E. 93      
>           .........GREG........
Well? what about it?  Let's have rec.arts.anime.homebrew!!!!! :)
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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: LP's new stock...
Keywords: if you cares...
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:44:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <Btq8HL.6K2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang) writes:

[about Laser Perceptions...]

>     They also have Macross 2 on sale for $34.00... 
>      It is unfortunate that I am saving money for an Amiga 3000T with
> the AA chip and Video toaster as well as the Ranma LD set. :[ :[
>    
>                                                      -TKH '92

Sonething Laser Perceptions is notorious for:

If they have an anime on sale, and you make a mail or phone order for
it and you are unaware that it is on sale, they will charge you the
full retail price.

Steve
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From: hcy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (hon-chi.yu)
Subject: Re: Touch episode 20
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:05:33 GMT

In article <h.doi-touch-20.tv.1@minami.fan.club> doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
>Here is a synopsis of Touch episode 20.
>I'm doing this from the Touch TV anime manga volume 5,
>not from the actual TV episode.
> 
>Touch episode 20  "Dousuruno?  Tatsuya no yasashisa surechigai!"
>                  [What are you going to do?
>                   Tatsuya's kindness just missed!]
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>	Summary by Hitoshi Doi, 1992.08.27

   ...........................................................


>
>But Kazuya reached over and opened Tatsuya's cards.  Tatsuya had a
>straight.  Minami quickly said that Tatsuya should have won.  Then Kazuya
>stared at his brother and said, "Play seriously!"  But Tatsuya said that
>it didn't matter because it was just for fun.  Then Kazuya started
>shuffling the cards and said, "Then, a real serious game!  Let's bet..!"
>
>"What?" Tatsuya asked.
>
>"Minami!" Kazuya replied.  Then Kazuya continued, "The one who wins can
>make Minami his wife."
>
>Tatsuya and Kazuya stared at each other.  But Minami slapped the cards
>away from Kazuya's hands, and said, "I'm not a poker chip!"
>
>"I'm glad..  I was wondering what I would do if I had lost," Kazuya said

Thank you, Doi-san, (I hope I get the last name right ^_^) for translating
this excellent Touch episode.  The last line by Kazuya is one of the most
memorable moments in the Touch manga, IMO.
It's unfortunate that the 3 Touch films lost most of these memorable
moments from the manga.

>and got up.  Kazuya said good night and left the room to go to sleep.
>
>After Kazuya had left, Tatsuya told Minami that Kazuya was serious.
>Minami asked, "If you would have continued that game, would you have
>lost on purpose again?"  Before Tatsuya could answer, Minami got up to
>leave.  When she reached the door, Minami said, "I'm..  I'm serious too!
>Good night.."
>--

Another very good, not too explicit line by Minami that I like.
I am really glad that you have kept the good dialogue lines intact in doing
the synopsis.  Keep up the good work!
I wish I can get to watch the 100+ Touch TV episodes somedays. (I have only
gotten the chance to watch the first few TV episodes. :-( )

>Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering       doi@jrd.dec.com
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>Digital Equipment Corporation Japan         [from Japan: doi@dec-j.co.jp]


Hon Yu
From: gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: USMC schedule, January & February
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:36:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network



USMC's next couple of titles in the "queue"


Gall Force:Eternal Story  - October
Supergal
UY:Beautiful Dreamer      - November
Roots Search              - December
They Were 11              - January    (more "filler"? , these two titles are
					pretty unknown to me)
Rumik World:Fire Tripper  - February


Ryan Gavigan
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From: letom@tostada.engr.ucdavis.edu (Tom)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Nine Movie (was Re: Touch episode 20)
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:26:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.131636.14412@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> hcy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (hon-chi.yu) writes:
>
>Hmm...I agree with you about the fact that one cannot cram all those manga
>into 3 films.  However, I felt that all 3 films were a bit slow and they
>could have packed in more from the manga.  Have you seen the 3 Nine anime
>films?  They are excellent.  IMO, the Nine films are better than the Touch
>films.  I am quite surprise that nobody ever mentioned the Nine films in

I didn't think they were all that "slow" and rather enjoyed the pace of
the films.  Yes, they could have covered more, especially I think, the
Minami-Nitta "relationship".  I found that to be of great fun in the tv
shows (along with Tatsuya's "reactions" to them).  Of course, you can
_always_ say I wished they covered more, but nonethless a good job.

Nine - One reason I think ppl don't talk about it much, is because it just
isn't well known (duh...I guess *grin*)  But I don't recall being on
tv, whereas Touch had 100 or so episodes (I dunno...it sure felt like
a lot of episodes over a long period of time).  I haven't seen the latter
two movies though, but I did see the first, and I love it as well.

I liked the whole Nine-Miyuki-Touch "series".  I suppose one could toss
KOR onto the end of that, although KOR was a bit more comedic than the
previous three (although still an obviusly recognizable theme relates
all three/four).  KOR started around the end of Touch, didn't it?  I
don't remember...too long ago, and I'm getting old *smile*

Incidentally, anyone know where I can get Nine/Miyuki (and I asked
about Touch in a previuos posting)?  In "American" format on vhs tape
in Japanese (no sub/dub)?  If so, I'd greatly appreciate a note dropped
into my mailbox.  Thank you


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From: lamont@cup.hp.com (LaMont Jones)
Subject: Re: ANIME EXPO '93
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:07:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1lj PL5

Albert Sze-Wei Wang (wang@ocf.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: 
: My opinion of the hotel situation is as follows.  If the Oakland Convention
: Center is going to give us everything for less, then we should immediately
: consider the Convention Center.  They have more space than ANY hotel can
: ever give us and are giving us really good rates on them.  I would rather
: have more space and make the guests happier and be near a Bart line than
: to put the convention in a hotel away from everything except those who
: have cars and at greater cost and less room.

There is a transit bus that runs from the Fremont BART station to Great
America, a stones throw from the Santa Clara Convention Center.  Not perfect,
but pretty close to the same thing as being next to a BART station.

lamont
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From: albertw@netcom.com (Albert Wong)
Subject: Re: Gundam 0083 Episode 12 (SPOILERS)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 21:30:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <37629@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim) writes:
>
>(3) Although the colony passed Critical Intercept Point (or Defense
>Limit), Solar (Ray) System is good enough to destroy it with a shot.
>Solar Ray System is what Giren used to blast away the half of Feddie
>fleet and his own father in original Gundam. Time to review the
>original Gundam. (^_^)

Hmm?  The Feddie thing with the mirrors is the Solar System Project, isn'
it?  The Feds roasted Solomon with it during the One Year War.  It's
different from Giren Zabi's Colony laser thingy.  Could the Gundam
Otakaking be slipping in his old age? ^_^
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From: jferrara@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (J 'have a jet ski' Ferrara)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:47:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Aug30.194731.8741
Organization: Nah, who needs it.

In article <715178023snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au> michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) 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."
>
>Speaking from the perspective of one living in a country probably as
>Mac-rare as Japan, is there a way to use one of these CD-ROM's on a
>PC??
>

The CD uses the ISO 9660 format, which you can read with a PC. It also
contains PC software for viewing the still images. 

As faw as the quicktime movies go, you're stuck, but the 'movies' are 
really, really, short (I think most are about 5 seconds long) and aren't
really worth the effort it takes to select the open and play commands.

The disc also contains a few scripts. (I don't remeber which ones though)

J "How far? No problem." Ferrara
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From: michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: To Purchase a LD player, or not to???
Keywords: LD Purchase Buy Well???
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:30:20 GMT
Organization: Network Solutions Group / GEC Alsthom, Sydney

In article <Aug.29.19.11.16.1992.18721@remus.rutgers.edu> 
pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes:
> In article <1992Aug28.230026.20006@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> 
> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Conty III) writes:
>> 
>> Now this brings an interesting problem.  If the Japanese go ahead and adopt
>> a different system than the US, we'll have the obvious problem that any
>> HDTV anime releases will be incompatible with the US systems!!
>
> And then we'll know how our friends down under feel!

Beat me to it :-)

Michael
[I spent about A$3000 setting up my system to cope with NTSC 
(bit overkill really)]
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Conty III)
Subject: News items on AKIRA and DOMINION laserdiscs
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:46:03 GMT


- The AKIRA LD set from Criterion is late.  There is a rumor in
  rec.video.releases that the release date was pushed back to
  October 21.

- According to Sight & Sound, the street date for the DOMINION: TANK
  POLICE boxed set from Image is "this coming Thursday or Friday"
  (September 3 or 4).
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