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GOGAI! fig. 1: Kakurenbo's Sorincha looking cute and creepy / Kakurenbo © YAMATOWORKS / D.I.C. THIS ISSUE GOGAI! Ready or Not, Here I Come! | Halloween When CPM Attacks | A shocking photo Gogai! Gogai! Goes to Japan | We're Central Park Media's doesn't have to come once a year! Page 3 from Tokyo! A CPM Exclusive! Page 9 read all around the world! Page 16 Industry Fanzine & Literary Review Daisy | A short story about a girl who Kickin' Back With Soppy | Soppy kicks Exclusives! Discounts! Deals! | The likes to wear a black bath towel. Page 6 back and talks about fish. Page 11 Anime U Store is now online. Page 17 Editor: Peter Tatara His Boss: Newton Grant His Boss: John O'Donnell CPM@IGPX@iGAMES | Soppy gets his Mo-chan the BA Ninja | An interview Halloween with More Death | Don't you Special Thanks: Mike Lackey geek on and gets to catch IGPX. Page 7 with a real-life ninja at CPM. Page 12 forget. Seriously, don't you dare. Page 20 Henry Lai, Mo-chan, & Soppy [email protected] It Burns, Sempai, It Burns! | Spotlight From Tokyo With Love | Fads and hap- And much, much more in this month's centralparkmedia.com/animeu on the Delaware Anime Society. Page 8 penings from Tokyo Tower. Page 15 Gogai! Gogai! Gogai! Gogai! • October 2005 • Page 1 Boo! Did I scare you? (No, well, look out for the spider on your back!) By Peter Tatara With the number of people reading Go- gai! can and -- to to be confident for a Presidents and Demagogues, start a Gogai! being extra special. Central Park gai! Gogai!, I imagine that there was at moment -- will be. This month is the first fanart-producing factory. There could be Media has just released Kakurenbo: Hide least one unsuspecting reader who actu- time you're going to see what Gogai! a Descendants of Darkness boxset on & Seek, a spooky CG animation that's ally had a spider on his back. It was Gogai! looks like with content submitted the line! been screened and won awards across probably venomous, too. In fact, I from all you out there. Thank you to Asia, Europe, and North America. Also probably saved his life. You're welcome. everyone who responded to our polls With the bribery out of the way, let's try screened at conventions all summer long and thank you to everyone who sent in to get back on track. Yes, I know eve- to packed rooms and rave reviews, Ka- That is my convoluted way of welcoming words and artwork, too. While Gogai! rything'll be derailed in another page or kurenbo is a Halloween treat I don't you all to Gogai! Gogai!'s second issue. Gogai! is coming out of CPM, it belongs two, but let's try to maintain focus here. want anyone to miss. When CPM launched Gogai! Gogai! and to all of you. Please? Okay. When I was in college, my Anime U last month, I wasn't sure how it club always made a big deal out of Hal- Kakurenbo's convention premiere was at would do. Would she sink or would she If you've already sent stories or sketches, loween with cosplay contests, candy, Anime Expo -- and while not listed in the swim? Well, she's swimming. She's not huzzah and kudos. Your work is now special screenings, and general Hallow- program -- word of mouth brought over ready for the Olympics or anything, but being looked at by eyes all over not just een related hijinks. As such, Gogai! 500 fans to fill the room. Everyone left she's definitely managing at least the North America but the entire world. Gogai!'s making a big deal out of it, too. amazed. I did, too. AX was the first time doggy paddle. And, we're going to keep (Really. See page 16.) If you're still only All the articles this month have been I saw Kakurenbo. Gorgeous. Gothic. on swimming and swimming and swim- thinking about it, let me remind you that hand-selected to extract distilled, visceral Breathtaking. I was stunned, and I ming from here. each time you send something to Gogai! terror out of you. Every single page is want you to be, too. As such, Gogai! Go- Gogai! you're entered to win one of our fraught with fear. I caution you to keep gai! is going to give it some major love. As I said last time, September's issue was monthly prize packs. Plus, if you win the lights on if you're faint of heart. just a test. It was (in the Halloween and you're part of a club, your club takes Yeah, I'm not scared, either. There's an- Now, the introduction done, it's time for spirit) the skeleton of what Gogai! Go home a prize pack, too. That's right, club other reason for this month's Gogai! the horror to begin! Gogai! Gogai! • October 2005 • Page 2 I played hide & seek a lot growing up. trix, Morita decided to leave to start his I Come! Ready or Not, Here The way I played it, one kid would close own studio to create a CG project with their eyes and count to ten while every- the feel and soul of a traditional 2D ani- one else hurried away and hid as best mation. Kakurenbo is that project. they could. It was then up to the kid counting to search for everyone else. While the first work from a new studio This is probably similar to how you and amazingly animated by only a played hide & seek, too; however, I've handful of artists, Kakurenbo's at- got to tell you, we've all been playing tracted some of the biggest names in hide & seek wrong. voice acting in both the North America and Japan -- led by Junko Takeuchi The correct way to play the game is pretty (Naruto) in Japan and Michael Sinter- ( D.I.C. similar to the way I played, except for niklaas (Alien 9, Fullmetal Alchemist) In the game of Otokoyo, / one minor difference -- blood-thirsty, over here. children will disappear) children-eating demons. This, Gogai! Gogai! readers, is the plot to CPM's new- Further, Kakurenbo's been screened at est title, Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek, and festivals around the world, including the YAMATOWORKS this is where Tatara gushes and gushes Planet Cinema Festival, Japan Media © and gushes about it. Arts Festival, and Tokyo International Fantasy Film Festival in Japan, the Kakurenbo Kakurenbo is the first film from the inde- Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and / pendent, art house Japanese CG studio Cineasia in Europe, and the Fantasia In- Inmu 's YAMATOWORKS. Have you heard about ternational Film Festival and Waterloo them? If not, you've heard about YAMA- Festival for Animated Cinema in North TOWORKS's founder -- Syuhei Morita. America, pulling awards including Best- Kakurenbo of No? Well, you've seen his work. Steam- Short Film at Fantasia and Exemplary sketch boy. The Animatrix. Ah, that sounds fa- Production Awards at the Japan Media A miliar. Formerly a member of the ac- Arts Festival and Tokyo Anime Fair. 2: claimed Studio 4C, one of the teams re- fig. sponsible for Steamboy and The Anima- So, it's got a nice resume, but is it good? By Peter Tatara Gogai! Gogai! • October 2005 • Page 3 D.I.C. / (Fan Responses to the Kakurenbo Comic-Con Screening) YAMATOWORKS © OMFG K4kur3nb0 r0x! Yes! CPM previewed Kakurenbo at "I was on the edge of my seat going "An excellent short version of a modern Kakurenbo / Anime Expo, Comic-Con, Otakon, Anime "Yes, this is great!" To me, I'd say it was fable. It's beautiful, it's short, it's suc- Evolution, and CN Anime, and every time, right up there with Miyazaki. I'd say it cinct. It's something when you watch it kewl is everyone we've shown Kakurenbo to has was up there with Mononoke in terms of over and over again you'll get more and been blown away. And we've got the style." - Alicia Miller more meaning out of it. I would defi- quotes to prove it. After our 2005 San nitely recommend it and spread it Liver-Taker 's Diego Comic-Con screening, we asked the "I honestly didn't know if it was all 3D around and say "People you gotta audience what they thought. These are or not." - Spencer Vincent watch this." It's an excellent example of Kakurenbo their stories... the storytelling that's out there in Japa- 3: "It was very good, very unique, very nese animation." - Michelle A. Manke fig. "It's impressive when you realize that a creepy and suspenseful. It actually re- team of like five guys were able to create minded me of Akira in the sense that you "I thought it was amazingly well done, this and it's in the same league as Ghost watch it once and you'll say "It's really just beautifully created, and the story in the Shell 2. In anime, there are these cool," but if you watch it again you'll get was just really well written." - Don Dean long epic films and sci-fi series, then you more and more out of it." - Brian Dalton have Kakurenbo, which is a very nice one- "I really enjoyed it. It scared me. I'm not shot dark short story." - Jon Anderson "The animation was very well done. I really a big horror or suspense person, liked the blend of modern desolation -- and it freaked me out." - Aaron Worley "I think it was great.