Protoculture Addicts #70: March / April 2002
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Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ PROTOCULTURE ✾ PRESENTATION ........................................................................................................... 4 STAFF NEWS ANIME & MANGA NEWS: Japan / North America ............................................................... 5, 10 Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] — Publisher / Manager ANIME RELEASES (VHS / DVD) & PRODUCTS (Live-Action, Soundtracks, etc.) .............................. 6 Martin Ouellette [MO] — Editor MANGA RELEASES ................................................................................................................ 7 Miyako Matsuda [MM] — Editor / Translator NEW RELEASES ..................................................................................................................... 11 Contributing Editors Aaron K. Dawe, Asaka Dawe, Keith Dawe REVIEWS Kevin Lillard, Gerry Poulos, James S. Taylor MANGA .............................................................................................................................. 39 MODELS .............................................................................................................................. 40 Layout ANIME ................................................................................................................................. 54 The Safe House Cover SPOTLIGHTS Heavy Gear Animated Series & CG artwork ©2000-2001 HEAVY GEAR Adelaide Production, Inc. Heavy Gear © & ™ Dream Pod Overview ....................................................................................................................... 15 9, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Characters ...................................................................................................................... 16 Proofreading & Editing Mecha ............................................................................................................................ 18 The Safe House, Dominique Durocher Synopses ........................................................................................................................ 20 Aaron & Keith Dawe SPRIGGAN Spriggan Goes To The Big Screen ...................................................................................... 24 Color Separation & Linotronic ADV's Matt Greenfield Interview ....................................................................................... 28 Typo Express, Inc. Characters, Production Information, Review ...................................................................... 30 FOOLY COOLY (FLCL) Printing Synopses, Production Information, Characters, Review ....................................................... 32 Payette & Simms, Inc. Special Thanks ANIME WORLD Kristien Brada (TokyoPop), Jerry Chu (BEI), Pierre Corbeil (Fantasia), Jean-François Fortier (DP9), Danielle Big Apple Anime Fest (BAAF, Part 2): Anecdotes From Yuji Moriyama ........................................... 42 Garnier (Manga), Corey Henson (ADV), Chad Kime MontrealSample World Film Festival file (MWFF, Part 3): More Movie Reviews! ................................................ 43 (Pioneer), Michael Liu, Toshi Makiya (CD Japan), Nikaku Fantasia (Part 4): Even More Movie Reviews! ............................................................................. 46 Animart, John O'Donnell (CPM), Pierre Ouellette (DP9), Convention Reports: Nan Desu Kan, Anime Weekend Atlanta, NekoCon ....................................... 50 Mee-Lise Robinson (CPM), Ardith Santiago (Digital The Modern Japanese Music Database (Part 14) .................................................................... 53 Manga), Maki Terashima-Furuta (Production I.G.), Vincent Wilson, Nobu Yamamoto (BEI) ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ANIME STORIES SUBSCRIPTION AH! 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TALES OF ETERNIA (Overview, Character & Synopses) ............................................................. 68 DISTRIBUTORS KAZE MAKASE TSUKI KAGE RAN ............................................................................................ 70 In Canada: Anime Universe ((905) 212-9719), Snap! ((416) 588- Protoculture Addicts #70: March / April 2002. The Anime & Manga magazine. Published 4006), Vidéos De Répertoire ((514) 596-2606). In U.S.A.: Anime bimonthly by Protoculture Enr., P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3B 3L2. Nation ((727) 796-7561), Complete Strategist ((212) 685-3880), E-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.protoculture-mag.com Diamond ((410) 560-7100), FM International ((608) 271-7922), Protoculture Addicts is ©2002 by Protoculture Enr. The copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are the HKT ((914) 296-1236), Kinokuniya (NY: property of their respective owners. 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Legal deposit at the National Library of Quebec & National Library of Canada Printed in Canada ISSN 0835-9563 4 PRESENTATION ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ DVD Releases And 3D CG Anime In 2002! Well, Spring 2002 is here and our world is still very uncertain, especially with all the strange cases stirred up by the war against terrorism (cases such as American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, CREDITS Wall Street Journal’s reporter Daniel Pearl’s murder, etc.), and yet, the Japanese anime industry is producing many great ARTICLES: Ah! My Goddess © Kosuke Fujishima / Kodansha. ©2000 titles to cheer up the fans! One great thing I noticed is that so many DVDs are made to sell old and new titles! Old and Ah! My Goddess Partnership. Package design ©2001 Pioneer En- tertainment (USA) Inc. Angelic Layer © Clamp • Angelic Layer pro- new, you may ask? Yes, right now in Japan, the DVD market is filled with “Box Set” packages of old anime shows from duction Committee • TV Tokyo. FLCL ©1999 Gainax / KGI. Gene the 1970-80’s (such as Dunbine, Dragonar, etc.). Newcomer anime fans and young viewers (particularly teens) do not Shaft © 2001 Satellite Studio • Shaft Project • Bandai Visual • Dentsu. Heavy Gear Animated Series & CG artwork ©2000-2001 Adelaide really know those titles (some of them were not even born when those shows were made...), therefore these new fans Production, Inc. Heavy Gear © & ™ Dream Pod 9, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Initial D The Movie © Hideaki Shigeno / Kodansha • ToMax can more easily buy old anime shows and enjoy those classics. And I am sure that American releasers will follow this • OB Planning. Kaze Makase Tsuki Kage Ran © Akitaro Daichi • trend! Also, anime shows that were very popular in the 1960-70’s, such as Cyborg 009 (whose new version just came Madhouse / Bandai Visual. Sadamitsu The Destroyer © 2001 Masahiko Nakadaira • Shueisha / SME Visual Works. Spriggan out in 2001), are coming back as new, updated shows. Instead of hoping to see these old shows as re-runs on TV, fans ©1998 Hiroshi Takashige • Ryoji Minagawa / Shogakukan • Bandai can just go to the store, buy the DVD and enjoy the shows as they were meant to be seen. Anime shows, just like movie Visual • TBS • Toho. Tales of Eternia © Mutsumi Inomata / Namco. REVIEWS: Adventures of Mini-Goddesses © Kosuke Fujishima / classics, can teach younger viewers about history and even, maybe, watch them with their parents. How about Aim At Kodansha • Pony Canyon Inc. All Rights Reserved. Package Design The Ace!, Tomorrow’s Joe , The Rose Of Versailles, all of them Directed by Osamu Dezaki? Yes, time surely flies and I © 2001 Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc. Akira (Anime) ©1987 Akira Committee. Licensed by Kodansha. (Manga Version) © 1988 MASH- cannot believe that Urusei Yatsura was first broadcast in 1981 (21 years ago already!)!. Also, I highly recommend ROOM Co., Ltd. English Version © 2000 Dark Horse Comics. Aquarium © 1990 Tomoko Taniguchi. English Version © 2000 Cen- Sherlock Hound from Pioneer (in English) to younger viewers so that they can discover the past works of Hayao tral Park Media Co. Blade Of The Immortal © 1999 Hiroaki