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Publisher EDITORIAL Claude J. Pelletier Reading Between The Lines ...... 6

Editor-in-chief Martin Ouellette WHAT'S GOING ON? Contributors ECHOES FROM THE NET AND OTHER NEWS ...... 7 DIC Entertainment, Sylvain Durand ANIME ...... 8 Miyako Graham, Josée Hardy MANGA ...... 10 Alan Mitsugi, Daniel Talbot Jr. James Standen Taylor, Soichiro Yuasa ANIME PRODUCTS ...... 12 NEW RELEASES ...... 13 Layout The Safe House Group

Cover SPOTLIGHT: EVANGELION Ghislain Barbe OVERVIEW ...... 18 STORY ...... 19 Illustrations CHARACTERS ...... 20 Ghislain Barbe, Normand Bilodeau MECHA FILES ...... 22 Photography TECHNOLOGY ...... 24 Miyako Graham WORLD ...... 26 SYNOPSES EPISODES #1-18 ...... 28 Translation Miyako Graham

Color Separation ANIME WORLD Artistat ANECDOTES FROM MS. AKEMI TAKADA ON MAKING PATLABOR ...... 32 FAVORABLE RECEPTION OF ANIME IN ASIA ...... 33 Printing Payette & Simms, Inc JAPANESE LANGUAGE: ADJECTIVES ...... 42

Special Thanks to Dream Pod 9 for their support and invaluable help REVIEWS Normand Bilodeau, Jean Carrières, Pierre Ouellette CD ...... 41 ANIME: PA'S PICK ...... 44 SUBSCRIPTION SampleANIME ...... file 45 One year (6 issues): $30 US, $32.10 Can (GST in- cluded, add PST if ordering from Quebec), or $45 US overseas. Make check or (preferably) money-order to: FEATURE: SAILOR MOON (PART 2) P R O T O C U L T U R E SYNOPSES EPISODE #32-65 ...... 34 MANGA ...... 38

¯:paKu]- ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ EPISODE LIST ...... 40 P.O. Box 1433, Station "B" Montréal, Qc., Canada, H3B 3L2 ANIME STORIES DISTRIBUTORS 3 X 3 EYES ...... 50 In Canada: Big Pictures Distributing ((416) 530- 0142), North West Game Trader ((519) 623-4832), Stratéjeux ((418) 822-2054), T.D. Imports ((403) VOICE OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTER ...... 51 252-2006).

In U.S.A.: Anime Crash ((212) 254-4670), Berkley PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #39. March/April 1996. The Anime & Manga magazine. Published bimonthly by Distributors ((510) 845-9851 or (310) 632-8448), PROTOCULTURE Enr, P.O. Box 1433, Station "B", Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3B 3L2. FAX: (514) 527-0347. E-mail: Books Nippan ((213) 891-9636 or (310) 604-9701), [email protected]. Web: http://www.odyssee.net/~flip Capital City ((608) 223-2000), Chessex ((610) 695- 0523), Compleat Strategist ((212) 685-3880), Dia- PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS is ©1996 by PROTOCULTURE ENR. The copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are mond ((410) 560-7100), Kinokuniya Book Store the property of their respective owners. PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS acknowledges the creators and copyrights holders of the materials mentioned or pictured herein, and does not seek to infringe on their rights. All rights to ((415) 567-7625), Liberty Hobby ((800) 654-6229), articles/artwork revert to their respective writers/artists upon publication. Contributors are responsible for their Nikaku Animart ((408) 971-2822), RPV ((714) 671- views which are not necessarily those of PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS. No part of this magazine can be reproduced 1270), Wargame West ((505) 242-1773). without permission from the publisher, except for review purposes.

Legal deposit at the National Library of Quebec Printed in Canada Overseas: Chris Harvey Games (U.K.), Esdevium Legal deposit at the National Library of Canada ISSN 0835-9563 (U.K.), Jedko (Australia), Stratelibri (Italy), Welt der Spiele (Germany). 6 EDITORIAL ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Reading Between The Lines CREDITS

Anime is really great! It is very good to see that after nearly ten years of my life spent enjoying it and 3X3 EYES SEIMAS DENSETSU © Yuzo trying to promote it, it has evolve a lot, enough to become quite popular. Also, this year is bringing a Takada/ Kodansha / Bandai Visual / King Records. lot of very good titles. Anime is not great only because of its popularity or its quality. Neither because it has become my (quite lean) livelihood. Not only because I am in love with the Japanese culture and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION © GAINAX/ Project EVA. / TV Tokyo / NAS. that it is bringing some animation to my life too. No, it is great because it is an excellent medium of communication. That is what brought me to anime in the first place: it is a great medium to tell HYPERNAUTS © 1996 Greengrass Produc- science-fiction story (you can really show what is happening in a story, and the special effects don’t tions Inc. Produced by Hypernauts Produc- tion Company Inc. cost millions). And that is what is keeping me interested: it is a wonderful medium to tell story about human nature, to warn us (or the younger generation) about the multiple danger of our civilization, or PATLABOR © Headgear.

to simply carry moral and social messages. Getting educated while getting entertained. We cannot RANMA 1/2 © 1995 Rumiko Takahashi / avoid it, education or knowledge is the key to success, even to survival. War, racism, violence, medi- Shogakukan, Inc. / Kitty Fuji TV. Exclusively ocrity are caused by ignorance. Because of its nature, animation is a great educating tool. It crosses licenced throughout the United States and Canada by Viz Communications, Inc. All rights most cultural barriers. I just wish it would be more used in that way (if only people would stop reserved. thinking about anime as either kiddish or too violent). SAILOR MOON © Naoko Takeuchi / Kodansha Of course, not all animation bear a message. Some are just plain entertainment (and not always of / Toei Animation. English version produced good taste). However, many more anime than we could imagine are telling more than their story. We by DIC Entertainment and Kaleidoscope En- tertainment. French comic version published just have to think about the ecological message of NAUSICAA or the peace and anti-nuclear message by Glénat. MOONFIGHT! dojinshi published of BAREFOOT GEN. Most of Miyazaki's movies have messages. Many anime plead for peace, social by Comic Box / Poe Back. justice, etc., some have an historical contents (GREAT CONQUEST, TALE OF GENJI), but most just SLAM DUNK © Sueisha / Toei Animation. illustrate a philosophical reflection (like in Mamoru Oshii movies), a dark side of humanity (AKIRA), or a possible dark future to make us think. Not all messages are positive. However, anime are as Illustrations from: many window opened on the realities of our world. I still can appreaciate an anime for the beauty of Sample file ADVANCE COMICS 87 (96-3), 88 (96-4). its art, the entertaining quality of its story, but I’d rather watch an anime that is telling me more. AKEMI TAKADA : MOBILE POLICE PATLABOR This issue is offering you a feature on one of the latest and hot TV series by Gainax: NEON GENESIS “PULSATION” Dragon Magazine Special (Fujimishobo, 1990, 120 pages): 26-27, 43. EVANGELION (which is telling us that man should not play God!), along with the second part of the ANIMAGE 194 (94-8): 36. ANIME ARCHIVES/ SAILOR MOON episode guide, an anime story on the new 3X3 EYES, a Japanese Language Seminar MEGA-MANGA (ADVANCE COMICS #87 Sup- ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ on Adjectives, two anime world articles by Miyako Graham, and lots of news & reviews. I hope you plement) Vol.3. B-CLUB 122: 98. EVA MANI- will enjoy it. ACS DESIGN BOOK (70 one-sided pages). NEON GENESIS EVANGELION FILM BOOK Finally, I want to introduce you to our Web Page. It Vol. 1, 2 & 3 (Kadokawa Shoten, 84 pages each). NERV FILE NEWTYPE SUPPLEMENT is nothing fancy and it is still in construction, but (95-11, 36 pages). NEWTYPE (95-11): 84; you will find there some useful information about (95-12): 6-7; (96-1): 6; (96-2): 19. the magazine: MOONFIGHT! #1 (Comic Box / Poe Back 1993, 168 B&W pages): 157. PREVIEWS http://www.odyssee.net/~flip VOL. VI, #1 & 2. SAILOR MOON #2 French version (© 1995, Editions Glénat): 150, Back See you there! Cover.

All other illustrations cames from promo- tional artwork, cover art, or directly from the animation. They remain the property of Claude J. Pelletier their respective owner. [email protected] ECHOES FROM THE NET & OTHER NEWS 7 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ANIME FX According to a post on rec.art.anime.info by Peter Evans (AFX collaborator): “Due to a dispute between the editorial staff of ANIME FX [Helen McCarthy, Peter Goll, Steve Kyte] and the non-bill-paying publishers of the magazine, Ashdown Publishing [David King], the magazine will be suspended as of issue 12. (...) Ashdown [might] continue publishing the magazine, with new staff (...)”. It’s really too bad. AFX was the best magazine (by the quality of its look and in-depth contents) BECAUSE if its great staff.

BRIAN DALEY Brian Daley, 48, Fantasy and Science Fiction writer, died February 18 from pancreatic cancer in his home in Arnorld, Maryland. First known for his techno-fantasy novel, The Doomfarers of Caramonde (1977-79), he wrote several Star Wars novels and radio scripts (1979-82), and the novel adaptation of the movie Tron (1982). He is best known from the anime fans for having wrote, under the name Jack McKinney (with James Luceno), several Robotech novels, as well as the Black Hole Travel Agency series. He will be sorely missed.

GAME ON! Viz Comics will will launch a new “magazine of electronic manga gam- ing” this May. If will offer up-to-date game reviews (covering all plat- forms), hard-to-get import news directly from Japan, sizzling hot gam- ing tips, and something no other gaming magazine in English has: DREAMLAND JAPAN GAMING MANGA! First issue will feature a focus on the STREET The long-awaited sequel to Frederik L. Schodt’s 1983 FIGHTER saga, article on TOSHINDEN II and TEKKEN II, plus SUPER MANGA! MANGA! THE WORLD OF JAPANESE COM- STREET FIGHTER II: CAMMY and SAMURAI SHODOWN manga. ($4.95 ICS will be published in June by Stone Bridge Press... US/$6.50 CAN). DREAMLAND JAPAN: WRITINGS ON MODERN MANGA is the product of observing and writing about MANGA & MOVIE ORIGINAL STORY COMPETITION the manga industry in Japan over the last twelve years. The Second Manga & Movie Original Story Competition invites the young manga-nurtured generations to enter Designed in a sort of “Whiteman’s sampler” of com- their original manga in this now international competition. Well-written entries selected by the International Jury mentary and criticism, it can be read in small morsels, Committee will be awarded prizes (Grand Prix of $30,000). Some of them will be serialized in the manga magazines or at one sitting. It’s a personal and provocative collec- published by Kodansha. Three of the award-winning stories will also be selected to be scenarized and made into tion of short illustrated essays, with chapters on is- animation (in Japan) and in movies (overseas — with a budget of approx.Sample two million $US). The file entry deadline is sues in modern manga, manga magazines, artists and September 15 1996. For entry guidelines or further information, please fax Mr. Akira Murayama (Executive Pro- their works, Osamu Tezuka, manga and other media, ducer of the Committee): The Second Manga & Movie Original Story Competition Committee, Genma Bldg. 3F 4-7, and manga in the English-speaking world. F. L. Schodt, Takabashi, Kouto-ku, Tokyo 135, Japan. Tel: 81.3.5600.2877. Fax: 81.3.3846.4396. E-mail: [email protected]. Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Stone Bridge Press. June 1996, 304 pg (8 color pg), $14.95. For further information and advance orders contact: FANT-ASIA ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Montreal will have its own Asian Movie Festival at the Imperial Theatre (the best in town) and with the support of the Stone Bridge Press, P.O. Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707. Montreal International Film Festival. It will be held from May 31 to June 30 and the program will be made of Tel: (800) 947-7271. Fax: (510) 524-8711. E-mail: Japanese animations, of Tokosatsu (movies with “Special Photography”) and of Honk Kong action movies. It will be [email protected]. Web: http://www.stonebridge.com an event not to be missed!

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