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Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ P r o t o c u l t u r e A d d i c t s # 8 5 August / September 2005. Published by Protoculture, P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Qc, , H3B 3L2. VOICES Editorial ...... 4 E d i t o r i a l S t a f Letters ...... 78 Christopher Macdonald [CM] – Publisher Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] – Editor-in-chief [email protected] NEWS Miyako Matsuda [MM] – Contributing Editor / Translator ANIME RELEASES (R1 DVD / UMD / VHS) ...... 5 Julia Struthers-Jobin – Editor ANIME-RELATED PRODUCTS RELEASES & New Anime Licenses ...... 9 RELEASES & New Manga Licenses ...... 10 C o n t r i b u t o r s ANIME & MANGA NEWS: ...... 12 Sean Broestl [SB], Bamboo Dong [BD], Paul Fargo, ANIME & MANGA NEWS: & International ...... 14 Kevin Lillard, Therron Martin [TLM], Jonathan Mays [JM], ANIME & MANGA NEWS: New Anime In Japan ...... 16 Carlo Santos [CS], Kira Shepherd, James S. Taylor A d v e r t i s i n g & B u s i n e s s I s s u e s REVIEWS Christopher Macdonald ([email protected]) TOYS ...... 28 P r i n t i n g LIVE-ACTION ...... 32 Payette & Simms (St-Lambert, Qc) MANGA ...... 34 RELATED PRODUCTS (Anime CD Soundtracks, Animation ) ...... 36 C o v e r BOOKS ...... 38 Cover used with the permission of ADV . The Place ANIME ...... 72 Promised In Our Early © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave. S p e c i a l T h a n k s To Jerry Chu, Danielle Garnier, Lance Heiskell, Chad Kime SPOTLIGHTS and Mee-Lise Robinson for their support. And to Kyle Chang, THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS ...... 17 George Phillips for their help in producing this issue. UnCLAMPing The Past ...... 21 S U B S C R I P T I O N Traveling Through Time: A Quickie Guide To CLAMP’s Projects ...... 22 Year (6 issues): $30 US/Can (in Canada add $2.10 GST; Tsubasa Chronicle (Overview, Profiles, Short Synopses) ...... 23 in Quebec add $4.41 GST & PST) or $45 US overseas. Send CARS & ANIME ...... 26 check or money-order to: Protoculture, P.O.B. 1433, Stn B, Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3B 3L2. Payment by credit cards & FANTASTIC CHILDREN PayPal available from the web site: www.protoculture.ca/PA/ Overview ...... 29 PASub.htm. CharacterSample Profiles ...... file .... 30 D I S T R I B U T I O N Short Synopses ...... 31 In Canada: Cosmix ((514) 744-9494), Disticor ((905) 619- 6565, www.disticor.com), Marché Clandestin ((514) 282- 3930), Middleman Media ((416) 203-2926), Snap! ((416) ANIME WORLD 588-4006). In U.S.A.: Anime Nation ((727) 796-7561), 41 J-Pop Artists You Need To Know ...... 43

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Recently, Home Media Retailing magazine published an article titled “Anime Taking Some Punches” in their July 17th issue. The article quotes several industry representatives who made statements CREDITS ARTICLES: Air © Visual Arts / Key / Yoku- Densho Group. on how not everything is perfect for the industry right now. Beck © • / 2004 Beck Production Committee. Boogiepop & Others ©2000 Kouhei Kadono / MediaWorks / Hakuho-do / Toei Video. Packaging ©2005 The Even earlier this year, several publications, including Anime News Network, ran articles saying that Right Stuf International. Fantastic Children ©2004 Takashi Nakamura / • FC Production Committee. in 2004, for the first time ever, total North American sales of anime on home video (VHS and DVD) Gakuen Alice © Tachibana Higuchi / Hakusuisha / The Alice Academy Production Committee. Ghost Talker’s Daydream © were less than the previous year. Okuse • Sakichi Meguro • / Visual. All Rights Reserved. Le Portrait de Petite Cossette ©2004 Cossette House / . Meine Liebe ©2004-2005 / “Meine Liebe” Production Committee • Hakusuisha. The Place Now, with all of that flying around, one has to ask: is the anime industry on its dying legs? With Promise In Our Early Days © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave. Top wo Nerae! 2 © 2004 / TOP 2 Committee. Tsubasa the way all of the signs are pointing, could this be the beginning of the end? Turns out, not by Chronicle © CLAMP / Kodansha • NHK • NEP21. Tsukuyomi – Moon Phase ©2004 Keitaro Arima / Wani Books • Victor a long shot. Entertainment. REVIEWS: © 2004 Shirow Masamune / Seishinsha Appleseed Partners. Aquarian Age: The Movie ©2004 The companies acknowledge that the market is changing, and that certain changes are going to be Co., Ltd. © Kaoru Shintani / MF • 88 Committee. © Itagaki Keisuke, Free-Will, made, but that’s about it. Productions. Beck © Harold Sakuishi / Kodansha Ltd • . © 1993, 2000 Tezuka Production/Black Jack Committee. Burn Up Scramble © 2004 AIC / ”BURN UP Some people have suggested that shelf space is a part of the problem. However, you’d think SCRAMBLE” Committee All Rights Reserved. © 2003 GOSPEL. © Eiji Nonaka / that if that were the case, companies would have scaled back their releases by now. Oddly enough Kodansha, TV , CPTA, A.D. Vision. D.I.C.E. © Bandai Entertainment Inc, . DearS © Peach Pit, Media Works / though, in the first months of 2005, the companies have put out roughly 100 more DVDs TeaM DearS, , Geneon Entertainment. © 2002-2004 Ken-ichi Sakura / • TV Tokyo • NAS • BV. than they did during the same period in 2004. The big four companies (Geneon, FUNimation, ADV Fafner © Xebec• Tatsumiyajima Yakuba. Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu © Gato Shoji / Shikidoji/Jindai High School Student Committe, A.D. Vision Inc, Fuji TV. © Films and Bandai Entertainment) each put out either approximately the same number of releases, / Square , MBS, ANX, , 2004, FUNimation. Fushigi Yûgi © 1995 / - or more. TV Tokyo - Studio . Gad Guard © Yoshitsune Izuna • • Hiroshi Nishikiori / Team Gadguard. Galaxy Z © Broccoli, Bandai Visual, TVO, Bandai Entertainment. ©Hiroya Oku/ This could mean one of two things: the analysts at Bandai, ADV, Funimation and Geneon are a Shujueisha Gantz Partners. Gatchaman ©Tatsunoko Productions. © Shimoku Kio, Kodansha / GENSHIKEN bunch of idiots who are just going to continue flooding the market. Or… the anime industry really Partnership, , Kids Station, , Toshiba Entertainment, AnimeWorks. : Stand Alone isn’t in dire straights. Complex © 2004-2005 Shirow Masamune-Production I.G./ Kodansha. All Rights Reserved. ©2003 Ishimori-Pro/ Gilgamesh Committee. English version ©2005 A.D. Vision Inc. Reduced sales in 2004 were a bit of an eye opener for the anime companies, and they’ve learned © Kaneda Mario , Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd, “Girls Bravo” Production Committee, Geneon Entertainment. their lesson. The market place for anime is still growing. Every month more and more people are Hanuakyo Maid Team: La Verite © Morishige Akita Shoten / Sample file Hanaukyo Maid Staff. Hoop Days © Yagami Hiroki / K-TM-OB, TV Tokyo, Bandai Entertainment. Human Crossing © Shogakukan being exposed to anime, and these people are all potential customers. Companies just have to Productions Co., Ltd. · A.C.G.T. · TV Tokyo / Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. © Yuji Shoizaki • Wani Books / Ikki Tousen provide them with the right shows to buy. Retail stores are also learning to be more careful. They Partners. Jubei-Chan 2 © Akitaroh Daichi, Mad House/J2 Project, Geneon Entertainment. Kaze no Yojimbo © Kurosawa only have so much shelf space, so they’re going to start stocking the titles that sell. Production/Sammy, Dentsu, Studio Pierrot, NTV, Bandai Entertainment. © Motoi Yoshida Kodansha / Koikaze Partnership. Kyo Kara Maoh © Tomo Takabayashi, Kadokawa

What does this mean for you and I as fans? Well, if you walk into your local Borders, you might ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Shoten / NHK, Sogovision, Geneon. Melody of Oblivion © GJK / The Melody of Oblivion Project, J.C. Staff, Geneon Entertainment. actually see fewer titles on the shelves. Instead of a couple copies of each title released that week, My Beautiful Girl Mari © 2002 I Picture. Piano © Animate Film / Pioneer LDC / Kids Station. Requiem From The Darkness © they’ll have more copies of the really popular titles. They might not even stock the less popular Natsuhiko Kyogoku • TMS. Champloo © / Shimoigusa Champloos. © Ichiro Sakaki, titles. Scrapped Princess Production Group, Bones, Bandai Entertainment. Shingu © Sato Tatsuo / / Team Muryou. Packaging & ©2005 The Right Stuf International. All Rights Reserved. Star Ocean EX © 2001 tri-Ace Inc. - MAYUMI In some cases, anime companies are going to slow down their releases of the less mainstream AZUMA / - TV TOKYO – SOP All Rights Reserved. © XEBEC FOUNDATION II TX. © Wataru titles. Some titles with a small but devoted following might only be available as collections, only Yoshizumi / Shueisha, ULUMANI Project, Geneon Entertainment. Wandaba Style ©2002 WonderFarm / Wandaba Style Project. online, or might just take much longer to get released. And yes, unfortunately, they might not even The Negociator © Shinji Makari • Shu Akana / Kodansha • Yugo Production Committee. — All products mentioned or get licensed. As one brand manager I spoke to put it, “We might personally love a show, but we illustrated in this magazine remain property of their respective owners. They are used here solely for education, promotion have to look at the numbers and if the show doesn’t look like it’ll sell enough, we’ll pass on it.” or review purposes. ILLUSTRATIONS: #313: 30; #314: 68; #315: 60; #316: 191; #317: 30-33; #319: 88-89; #320: 187; #321: 199; #322: So while the industry has taken a few punches, regardless of what you might have read in other 31. Vol. 1: back cover (Glénat). #1404: 39. 04-1998: 49. Tatsunoko Pro Anime Super publications, or heard online, the anime industry, thankfully, is here to stay. Data File (Tatsumi, 1998): 36, 129. You’re Under Arrest Vol. 4: 151; Vol. 5: 39 (Manga Player). — All other illustrations come from promotional artwork, cover art or directly from Christopher Macdonald the animation. They remain the property of their respective owners. Most copyright notices can be found at the bottom Publisher -- Protoculture Addicts of each page. 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