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Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ PROTOCULTURE ✾ PRESENTATION ........................................................................................................... 4 STAFF WHAT'S GOING ON? ANIME & MANGA NEWS .......................................................................................................... 5 Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] — Publisher / Manager VIDEO & MANGA RELEASES ................................................................................................... 6 Martin Ouellette [MO] — Editor-in-Chief PRODUCTS RELEASES .............................................................................................................. 8 Miyako Matsuda [MM] — Editor / Translator NEW RELEASES ..................................................................................................................... 10 MODEL NEWS ...................................................................................................................... 47 Contributors Aaron Dawe Kevin Lilliard, James S. Taylor REVIEWS Layout LIVE-ACTION ........................................................................................................................ 15 MODELS .............................................................................................................................. 46 The Safe House MANGA .............................................................................................................................. 54 Cover PA PICKS ............................................................................................................................. 55 Ghislain Barbe ANIME ................................................................................................................................. 56 Rurouni Kenshin © Nobuhiro Watsuki / Shueisha • ANIME CAPSULES .................................................................................................................. 58 Fuji TV • SPE Visual Works. Proofreading SPOTLIGHTS The Safe House, Dominique Durocher AURA BATTLER DUNBINE Synopses (Eps. 1-28) ....................................................................................................... 16 Color Separation & Linotronic RUROUNI KENSHIN (aka SAMURAI X) Typo Express, Inc. Overview ....................................................................................................................... 21 Printing New Character Files ......................................................................................................... 22 Payette & Simms, Inc. Synopses (Eps. 29-62) ..................................................................................................... 23 OVAs Overview .............................................................................................................. 36 Special Thanks to OVAs Character Files ....................................................................................................... 37 Sylvain Durand, Jean-François "Jeff" Fortier, GREAT TEACHER ONIZUKA (GTO) Junpei Kamada, Michael Liu, Nene Tamaki, Manga ........................................................................................................................... 39 Vince Wilson, Yui Yuasa TV Series ......................................................................................................................... 40 AnimeSample Series (Overview file & Synopses Eps. 1-11) ................................................................. 41 SUBSCRIPTION KARESHI KANOJO NO JIJO (aka KARE KANO): Overview & Synopses (Eps 1-14) ..................... 43 One year (6 issues): $30 US/Can (in Canada: add GST), or $45 US overseas. Send check/money- ANIME WORLD order to: Protoculture, P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Hunting For Anime & Manga In Japan .................................................................................. 48 Montreal, Qc., Canada, H3B 3L2. Convention Reports: Anime Week-End Atlanta, Neko-Con, Katsucon ...................................... 49 The Modern Japanese Music Database (Part 5) ...................................................................... 52 DISTRIBUTORS In Canada: Anime Universe ((905) 212-9719), Bay Of Art ((819) 795-3100), Snap! ((416) 588-4006). ANIME STORIES In U.S.A.: Anime Nation ((727) 796-7561), Berkley AMAZING NURSE NANAKO ................................................................................................... 60 Dist. (North: (510) 845-9851 or South: (310) 632- ANGEL LINKS ....................................................................................................................... 61 8448), Complete Strategist ((212) 685-3880), Dia- mond ((410) 560-7100), FM International ((608) 271-7922), HKT ((914) 296-1236), Kinokuniya (NY: PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #61. June / July 2000. The Anime & Manga magazine. Published bimonthly by (212) 765-7766, SF: (415) 567-7625, Seattle: (206) PROTOCULTURE Enr., P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3B 3L2. FAX: (514) 527-0347. 587-2477), Mangamania E-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.protoculture.ca. ((800) 626-4277), Nikaku PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS is ©2000 by Protoculture Enr. The copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their Animart ((408) 971-2822), respective owners. PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS acknowledges the creators and copyrights holders of the materials mentioned or Planet Anime ((713) 523- pictured herein, and does not seek to infringe on their rights. All rights to articles/artwork revert to their respective writers/artists upon 7122), RPV ((714) 671- publication. Contributors are responsible for their views which are not necessarily those of PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS. No part of this 1270). In England: Esdevium magazine can be reproduced without permission from the publisher — except for review purposes. Spoiler Warning: This magazine (011 44 125226116). contains important plot details about several Japanese animation. Reader discretion is advised. Legal deposit at the National Library of Quebec & National Library of Canada Printed in Canada ISSN 0835-9563 4 PRESENTATION ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ GTO, Education and Individual Responsibility — We would like to introduce you to GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka), an anime and manga series which is probably quite different from anything you’ve seen or read in the past. GTO is, of CREDITS course, a popular anime and live-action TV series that became a superhit in Japan, but beneath the funny looks, it can Amazing Nurse Nanako © 1999 GENCO/ Pioneer LDC. Angel Link © Morning Star/ Sunrise/ WOWOW-TV/ Bandai Entertainment. Aura offer us much deeper thoughts about “what” the education really is. As you know, compared to other industrial nations, Battler Dunbine © 1983 Sunrise/ Sotsu Agency. Models by Bandai Co., Ltd. Battle Angel © 1993 Yukito Kishiro/ Business Jump/ Japan has this reputation of safe country, where most citizens are very civil and where the crime rate is quite low. I Shueisha/ KSS, Inc./ MOVIC. DVD © 1999 A.D. Vision, Inc. English suppose Japanese people can be very proud of this. But, then, why is bullying taking place so often? Some students Version © 1999 A.D. Vision, Inc. Battle Athletes Victory © 1998 AIC/ PC/ Pioneer LDC/ TV Tokyo/ SOFTX/ Mannensha/ AEON. Eng- even bully their teachers! Due to today’s computer information age, some students have more technological knowledge lish Version © 1999 Pioneer (USA) L.P. Chinese Ghost Story Ani- mated © 1997 Film Workshop. English Version © 1999 Viz Com- than their own teachers, but does this mean they can bully their teachers? Since March 1948, Japanese Education Law, munications, Inc. Cowboy Bebop © 1998 Sunrise. English Version article #11, publicly prohibited any teacher to inflict corporal and physical punishment on students, but how about © 1999 AnimeVillage.com. Devilman OVA © 1987/ 1995 Dynamic Planning/ Kodansha/ Bandai Visual. English Version © 2000 Manga students? To be a teacher is quite hard (lots of responsibilities and hours of work) and it is really NOT a remunerative Entertainment, Inc. Eat-Man ‘98 © Yoshitomi Akihito/ Mediaworks/ Project Eat-Man ‘98. English Version © 1999 AnimeVillage.com. El occupation (even in the USA). With such a low salary, why would anyone want to deal with nasty kids? Hazard: The Alternative World © 1998 AIC/ PIONEER LDC, Inc./ TV Tokyo. English Version © 1999 Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. Then, meet Onizuka!! You’ll start feeling totally different and you’d wish you had a teacher like Onizuka who teaches us Four Play © 1998 Yokih/ Wani Magazine/ TDK CORE. English Ver- sion © 2000 A18 Co. Goku: Midnight Eye © 1985 Terasawa Pro- (in his own way) virtue, merit or even simple goodness. Why is it so difficult to be good and happy? Japan (as well as the duction Co., Ltd./ Scholar Publishing, Inc./ TOEI Video Co., Ltd. Eng- USA) might be a country producing well-educated (academically speaking) people, but when those people have no lish Version © 2000 Urban Vision Entertainment. Great Teacher Onizuka manga © T. Fujisawa/ Kodansha. Green Legend Ran © virtue, they’re not complete as humans. Even if someone is not an elite, like Onizuka (who was a juvenile delinquent 1998 AIC/ Pioneer LDC, Inc/ Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. Haunted Junction © Media Works/ Haunted Project. English Ver- himself) life is more meaningful when someone has virtues. Human relationship between teachers and students is sion © 1999 AnimeVillage.com. Jubei-Chan © 1999 Akitaro Daichi/ extremely