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TT HH EE AA NN II MM EE && MM AA NN GG AA MM AA GG AA ZZ II NN EE Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ P r o t o c u l t u r e A d d i c t s # 8 2 January / February 2005. Published by Protoculture, P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Qc, , H3B 3L2. ANIME VOICES Presentation ...... 4 E d i t o r i a l S t a f f Christopher Macdonald [CM] – Publisher Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] – Editor-in-chief NEWS [email protected] ANIME RELEASES (VHS / R1 DVD) ...... 5 Miyako Matsuda [MM] – Editor / Translator RELEASES ...... 7 Julia Struthers-Jobin – Editor ANIME & MANGA NEWS: ...... 8 ANIME & MANGA NEWS: & International ...... 10 C o n t r i b u t i n g E d i t o r s NEW RELEASES ...... 12 Sean Broestl, Liann Cooper [LC], Aaron Dawe [AD], Bamboo Dong [BD], Kevin Lillard, Jonathan Mays [JM], Martin Ouellette [MO], James S. Taylor REVIEWS ANIME PICKS ...... 17 A d v e r t i s i n g & B u s i n e s s I s s u e s BOOKS ...... 19 Christopher Macdonald ([email protected]) LIVE-ACTION ...... 20 P r i n t i n g RELATED PRODUCTS (J-Rock Music CDs, Anime CD ) ...... 22 Payette & Simms (St-Lambert, Qc) MANGA ...... 24 MODELS ...... 27 C o v e r ANIME ...... 56 Cover used with the permission of Geneon Entertainment. Appleseed ©2004 Shirow Masamune / Seishinsha • Applessed Film Partners. SPOTLIGHTS S p e c i a l T h a n k s CHAMPLOO To Jerry Chu, Danielle Garnier, Lance Heiskell, Chad Kime and Overview ...... 28 Mee-Lise Robinson for their support. And to Kyle Chang, Profiles & Short Synopses ...... 29 Simon Cossette, Aaron & Keith Dawe, Nasser Syed for their help in producing this issue. Overview ...... 30 Character Profiles ...... 31 S U B S C R I P T I O N Short Synopses ...... 32 One Year (6 issues): $30 US/Can (in Canada add $2.10 GST; in Quebec add $4.41 GST & PST) or $45 US overseas. Send APPLESSEED check or money-order to: Protoculture, P.O.B. 1433, Stn B, The Work Of ...... 34 Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3B 3L2. Payment by credit cards & OverviewSample ...... file .... 35 PayPal available from the web site: www.protoculture- Character Profiles ...... 36 mag.com/PA/PASub.htm. D I S T R I B U T I O N In Canada: Cosmix ((514) 744-9494), Disticor ((905) 619-6565, ANIME WORLD www.disticor.com), Marché Clandestin ((514) 282-3930), Middle- Interview: Ichiro Okouchi ...... 43

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After all, we’re very happy with the online format for ANN. Even newspapers are only printed once a day, whereas ARTICLES: Appleseed ©2004 Shirow Masamune / Seishinsha • Appleseed we can and do update multiple times a day. But there’s still something to be said for paper; you can sit in bed and Film Partners. Fujin Monogatari © 2004 Production Committee. Otogi Zoushi © 2004 Production I.G. / VAP / NTV. Re: Cutie Honey © Go read a magazine, take it with you to the café and sip coffee while reading, read it in the subway on the way to Nagai / . © Laterna • Toei Video • • Towani. Samurai 7 © 2004 Kurosawa / Mico • GDH • . © work, and so on… Sure, technically you can do all this with digital devices, but the reading space available on a / Shimoigusa Champloos. Scrapped Princess © 2003 Sute Pri PDA is rather limited, and compared to a magazine, a laptop is big and bulky. Who wants to take out a laptop to Production Committee. Soukyuu no Fafner © • Tatsumiyajima. REVIEWS: 2009 Lost Memories ©2002 Tube Entertainment. read on the subway? Regardless of what certain digerati would have you believe, paper media still has the upper Enishi © 2003 Kou Fumizuki • Hakusensha / AIAO Project. Tales hand over digital media in a few areas, and it will be a while yet before digital media is portable, ergonomic, and ©2002-2004 Wonderfarm / Angel Tales Project. Arcade Gamer Fubuki © 2001-2003 Mine Yoshizaki • , Inc. / Arcade Gamer Fubuki economic enough to completely replace paper. Committee. © • Mediaworks / Azumanga Diaoh Committee. BASToF Syndrome ©2001 KBS • Dongwoo. Packaging So this is why we wanted to one day have a magazine counterpart to Anime News Network. ©2004 A.D. Vision, Inc. Birth © Victor Entertainment. Packaging ©2004 A.D. Vision, Inc. Herlock © / Kobunsha • VAP • NTV. © 2002 VAP • NTV. ©2003 Gospel. Packaging ©2004 Flash forward to the of 2003, and I was speaking with Claude J. Pelletier at the Fantasia Film Festival. A.D. Vision, Inc. 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