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GOGAI! fig. 1: Outlanders © Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. / Victor Entertainment Inc. THIS ISSUE GOGAI! Happy Year of the Scopedog | His name I Love New York (Comic-Con) | CPM's Exclusives! Discounts! Deals! | Janu- Central Park Media's is Spot! Page 2 attending and bringing friends! Page 8 ary's specials! Page 14 Industry Fanzine & Literary Review CPM Pre-Order Extravaganza | Three Essential Nihongo | The ABCs and 123s Yaoi Hotline | A comic from Shannon exclusives going on now! Page 3 of Japanese! Page 10 Fay of Anime Palooza! Page 15 Editor: Peter Tatara His Boss: Newton Grant His Boss: John O'Donnell The Dawn Rises in the East | Lucky! It Burns, Sempai, It Burns | Spotlight on Free Swag | Did you win? Did you? Did Special Thanks: Mike Lackey, Fun! Joy! Page 4 the Anime Club of VCU! Page 11 you? Did you? Page 16 Henry Lai, & Masumi O'Donnell [email protected] Year of the Scopedog, Continued| New And the Dubs Have It | See the show And much, much more in this month's centralparkmedia.com/animeu rules for the New Year! Page 7 that fans cast! Page 13 Gogai! Gogai! Gogai! Gogai! • January 2006 • Page 1 dr Don what Happy Year of the Scopedog! (His name is Spot) By Peter Tatara While I'm sure I'm not the first, second, dream. It's easy to have a fantasy. The Don't think that once you hit college, what you did right (and what you third, or three-hundredth person to wish stumbling block here is in the turning of you're on easy street. Everything you've didn't). So, in the spirit of the New Year, you this, on behalf of all of CPM, Happy that fantasy into a reality. So, how's one ever learned has been to help prepare I want to urge you all to look ahead and New Year! Have you made a resolution do this? There's no easy answer. In- you to be an adult. Growing up isn't decide where you want to be tomorrow, yet? Has it come true? Not yet? Well, stead, once you fix your eyes on a reso- something that ends at sixth grade, the day after tomorrow, and the year af- you've got to get crackin'. lution, you've got to make it happen eight grade, at the end of high school, or ter tomorrow. Start planning now and step by step. Sometimes, the road can be even the end of college. Nope, if you're follow your map. This attitude's been Every January 1, Americans set their long, but those long roads are the ones doing it right, you're going to keep called a lot of things. Rugged Individu- sights on doing (or not doing) some- most worth it. growing up every hour of every day. alism is one. Self Determinism is an- thing that'll make them better people be- other. Its name changes throughout the fore the year is through. Some give up So, are you gonna give it a shot? Build Once you leave school, your lessons ages, but its result doesn't. It works. chocolate. Some give up cola. Some vow that fantasy brick by brick? Write the don't come from textbooks and aren't It's proven again and again. to exercise every day. Some pledge to novel line by line? It'll take time, but graded by quizzes. Rather, you've got to write a novel. you'll have created something from the adapt to and adopt from the world So, look out, will you, and see the person ether. Ganbatte! around you to get an A. you want to be, see the job you want to More often than not, though, come De- have, and see the life you want to live. cember 31, we're eating chocolate and Okay, what's up with this New Year's Why is it that so many animations deal Now, step up, step forward, and take drinking cola from our sofa as our novel pep talk? Odds are the majority of the with the topic of growing up and turning that first step toward revolutionizing hangs at an impressive one sentence in people reading this are young, probably into an adult? Because it's a mysterious, your world. (And if any of you see your- length. What's this mean? We should all still in school. (For those of you who've magical thing that you're often not selves as interns at CPM, shoot me an e- set our sights lower with our resolu- since graduated, this still applies to aware of as it's happening, but once mail at [email protected], and tions? No. The opposite. Everyone can you.) You're growing up right now. you're old and grey, you look back at I'll see what I can do.) Gogai! Gogai! • January 2006 • Page 2 CPM Pre-Order Extravaganza! CPM Pre-Order Extravaganza! By Peter Tatara (Three exclusives going on now only from CPM) Have a little extra money in your pocket Armored Trooper VOTOMS after the holidays? Wallet weighing you In the mood for some hot-blooded down? Well, for reasons only altruistic, mecha action? CPM's got just the pre- CPM's here to help. scription with all 52 episodes of Armored fig. Trooper VOTOMS. 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By Peter Tatara J-Pop duo Puffy Ami Yumi were ap- The second floor basement of an office Kirin Brewery Company is a Japanese al- The penguins at Hokkaido's Asahiyama pointed Goodwill Ambassadors to the building in the Otemachi district of Tokyo coholic beverage maker responsible for Zoo are fat. I'll pause for a moment so United States this month to encourage was converted into an artificial rice the Kirin and Kirin Ichiban lines of beers. you can plant this image in your mind. tourism in Japan. Ami Onuki and Yumi paddy by the company Pasona. A lot of Gemini Science Inc. is an American divi- Good? The zoo's fifteen penguins have Yoshimura received an official plaque people, including Japan's Internal Af- sion of Kirin that's developed an influ- put on too many pounds this year, so to from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, fairs and Communications Minister enza antibody that seems to be a magic get them back in shape, they're being and Transportation. Follow the address Heizo Takenaka, are very interested in bullet killing various forms of the flu in- made to make two 500 yard marches a below for a picture. You should look at the results. cluding the dastardly H5N1 strain of the day. While it shouldn't need to be said, it. You really should. avian flu. Asahiyama Zoo's fat penguin mara- While Pasona seems to have launched thons draw quite a crowd. Ami and Yumi look like they really don't the computer-controlled rice paddy sim- Wait. Why is Kirin in the antibody busi- care about the whole thing, but Land, In- ply as a stunt to get people interested in ness? Curiously enough, if the penguins grew frastructure, and Transportation Minis- agriculture, if harnessed, this could be a too fat during the summer, the zoo ter Kazuo Kitagaw is smiling like this is solution to agricultural land issues. If cit- Actually, after some research, I learned wouldn't know what to do as if the birds the happiest day of his life. Alternatively, ies are built down and rice paddies Kirin has holdings in the pharmaceutical, were made to make these marches in it looks like he's grinning ear to ear be- planted below ground, fed from a man- agribio, engineering, information serv- ground not covered in soft snow, their cause he concocted a plan to give his fa- made sun, the country's agricultural ices, and food services fields. Let's hope little penguin feet would get all torn up. vorite music group a title just so he could landscape will completely change.