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Protoculture Addicts # 64 Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ PROTOCULTURE ✾ PRESENTATION ........................................................................................................... 4 STAFF NEWS ANIME & MANGA NEWS ........................................................................................................ 5 Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] — Publisher / Manager ANIME & MANGA RELEASES ................................................................................................. 6 Martin Ouellette [MO] — Editor-in-Chief PRODUCTS RELEASES ............................................................................................................ 8 Miyako Matsuda [MM] — Editor / Translator NEW RELEASES ..................................................................................................................... 11 MODEL NEWS ...................................................................................................................... 50 Contributors Aaron & Keith Dawe, Kevin Lillard James S. Taylor, Mario Tessier REVIEWS LIVE-ACTION ........................................................................................................................ 15 Layout MODELS .............................................................................................................................. 50 The Safe House MANGA .............................................................................................................................. 51 Cover PA PICKS ............................................................................................................................. 52 ANIME ................................................................................................................................. 53 Cover art courtesy of Bandai Entertainment, Inc. Angel Links © Morning Star / Sunrise / ANIME CAPSULES .................................................................................................................. 56 WOWOW-TV / Bandai Entertainment Proofreading & Editing SPOTLIGHTS The Safe House, Dominique Durocher LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES: SALARYMAN KINTARO (Manga, TV Series Overview & Synopses) .......... 21 Aaron & Keith Dawe ANGEL LINKS (Overview, Character & Mecha Files, Synopses) ................................................ 25 CREST OF THE STAR .............................................................................................................. 28 Color Separation & Linotronic STREET FIGHTER ALPHA ......................................................................................................... 36 Typo Express, Inc. GATE KEEPERS (Overview, Character & Mecha Files, Synopses) ............................................... 38 ORDIAN (Overview, Character & Mecha Files, Synopses) ........................................................ 41 Printing Payette & Simms, Inc. ANIME WORLD Special Thanks to Fantasia 2000 (Part 3: More Japanese and Asian Movies!) ..................................................... 16 Jerry Chu (BEI), Pierre Corbeil (Fantasia), Julien Fonfrède Fantasia 2000: Anecdotes From Mr. Mitsuhisa Ishikawa .......................................................... 17 (Fantasia), Jean-François Fortier (DP9), Chad Kime (Pioneer), Mi-Jeong Lee (Fantasia), Michael Liu, Nikaku MontrealSample World Film Festival file(Part 2: More Japanese Movies Reviews) ........................................... 18 Animart, Danielle Opyt (Manga), Pierre Ouellette (DP9), Convention Reports: AWA, NanDesuKan, NekoKon .................................................................... 45 Mee-Lise Robinson (CPM), Nene Tamaki, Maki Terashima The Modern Japanese Music Database (Part 8) ...................................................................... 48 (I.G.-USA), Ken Wiatrik (ADV), Vincent Wilson, Nobu Yamamoto (BEI), Yui Yuasa ANIME STORIES A.D. POLICE ........................................................................................................................ 57 SUBSCRIPTION ANGEL'S EGG (TENSHI NO TAMAGO) ..................................................................................... 58 One year (6 issues): $30 US/Can (in Canada: add GST), or INU-YASHA (THE DOG DEVIL) ................................................................................................ 59 $45 US overseas. Send check/money-order to: Protoculture, LOVE HINA .......................................................................................................................... 60 P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Qc., Canada, H3B 3L2. SEIKAI NO SENKI (WAR FLAG OF THE STAR) ............................................................................ 61 DISTRIBUTORS LETTERS ................................................................................................................................. 62 In Canada: Anime Universe ((905) 212-9719), Snap! ((416) 588- 4006). In U.S.A.: Anime Nation ((727) 796-7561), Berkley Dist. (North: (510) 845-9851 or South: (310) 632-8448), Complete PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #64. January / February 2001. The Anime & Manga magazine. Published bimonthly Strategist ((212) 685-3880), Diamond ((410) 560-7100), FM In- by PROTOCULTURE Enr., P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3B 3L2. FAX: (514) 527-0347. ternational ((608) 271-7922), HKT ((914) E-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.protoculture.qc.ca/PA. 296-1236), Kinokuniya (NY: (212) PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS is ©2001 by Protoculture Enr. The copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are the 765-7766, SF: (415) 567-7625, property of their respective owners. PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS acknowledges the creators and copyrights holders of the Seattle: (206) 587-2477), materials mentioned or pictured herein, and does not seek to infringe on their rights. All rights to articles/artwork revert Mangamania ((800) 626-4277), to their respective writers/artists upon publication. Contributors are responsible for their views which are not Nikaku Animart ((408) 971- necessarily those of PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS. No part of this magazine can be reproduced without permission from 2822), Planet Anime ((713) 523- the publisher — except for review purposes. Spoiler Warning: This magazine contains important plot details about 7122), RPV ((714) 671-1270). several Japanese animation. Reader discretion is advised. In England: Esdevium (011 44 125226116). Legal deposit at the National Library of Quebec & National Library of Canada Printed in Canada ISSN 0835-9563 4 PRESENTATION ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ The Mainstream Anime Culture and the 21st Century. First of all, Happy New Year 2001 to you all from the staff Protoculture Addicts Magazine! And we are now officially living in the 21st Century! Right now, Japanimation is CREDITS really literally spreading all over the world very rapidly (with the exception, maybe, of the Islamic Middle East), Agent Aika © Studio Fantasia/ Bandai Visual. English Version © Central Park Media, Co. Amazing Nurse Nanako © 1999 GENCO/ thanks to the Internet, and it has surely become a part of the mainstream entertainment pop culture. Japan has Pioneer, LDC. Angel Link © Morning Star/ Sunrise/ WOWOW-TV/ Bandai Entertainment. Angel’s Egg/Tenshi No Tamago © Mamoru many great cinema directors, actors, singers, etc., but they are not as popular as Pikachu, because anime, the Oshii/ Ten Production/ Tokuma Shoten/ Tokuma Japan Communica- moving drawn pictures, charms almost all citizens of this planet! tions. Blood: The Last Vampire © 2000 Production I.G./ SVW/ SCE/ IG Plus/ IPA. Cowboy Bebop © 1998 Sunrise. English Version © 1999 AnimeVillage.com. Crest Of The Star/Seikai No Monshou © It has been 40 years since anime showed up in Japan (the first TV anime, Astroboy, arrived in 1963) and the Hiroyuki Morioka/ Hayakawa Shoten/ Sunrise. Demon Warrior Koji anime culture keeps rising and rising without any apparent decline. So, the question is, “What kind of anime work © 1999 Toshio Maeda/ Sepia Corporation. English Version © 2000 A18 Co. Dr. Akagi © 1998 Imamura Productions/ TOEI/ Tohoku will be popular in the 21st Century?” Anime, as well as cinema, is the true reflection of our time. Shinsha/ Kadokawa Shoten. English Version © Kino Video. Dual! © 1999 AIC/ Pioneer LDC, Inc. English Version © Pioneer Entertain- In this issue, PA#64, we are introducing you to many high-quality new anime shows like Ordian, Gatekeepers, ment (U.S.A) L.P. Fushigi Yügi OVA #1 © 1996 Yu Watase/ Shogakukan/ Bandai Visual/ Studio Pierrot/ MOVIC. English Version Angel Links and Crest Of The Stars. Compared to the heroes & heroines of the past (who used to be goody-goody © 2000 Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. Fushigi Yügi © 1995 Yu characters who fight against the evil forces), all the characters in those shows are now portrayed as humans who Watase / Shogakukan • TV Tokyo • Studio Pierrot. All Rights Re- served. Licensed by Fuji Creative Corporation. English Version pack- can make mistakes and have “Dark Sides”. Ruriko, one of the main characters of Gatekeepers, is most human, aging © Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. Gasaraki © Sunrise. Eng- lish Version © 2000 A.D. Vision, Inc. GateKeepers © GONZO/ for she gets used by an evil doctor, who takes advantage of her dark side and weak personality. Those shows tell Kadokawa Shoten/ GK Project. Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Movie us that we, Humans, are the source of evil, because we have destroyed a large part of Earth’s nature. Also, many Version) © Sotsu Agency/ Sunrise, Inc.
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