Sample file CONTENTS 3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ P r o t o c u l t u r e A d d i c t s # 8 5 August / September 2005. Published by Protoculture, P.O. Box 1433, Station B, Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3B 3L2. ANIME VOICES Editorial .................................................................................................................................. 4 E d i t o r i a l S t a f f Letters ................................................................................................................................... 78 Christopher Macdonald [CM] – Publisher Claude J. Pelletier [CJP] – Editor-in-chief [email protected] NEWS Miyako Matsuda [MM] – Contributing Editor / Translator ANIME RELEASES (R1 DVD / UMD / VHS) ..................................................................................... 5 Julia Struthers-Jobin – Editor ANIME-RELATED PRODUCTS RELEASES & New Anime Licenses ...................................................... 9 MANGA RELEASES & New Manga Licenses ............................................................................... 10 C o n t r i b u t o r s ANIME & MANGA NEWS: North America .................................................................................. 12 Sean Broestl [SB], Bamboo Dong [BD], Paul Fargo, ANIME & MANGA NEWS: Japan & International ........................................................................ 14 Kevin Lillard, Therron Martin [TLM], Jonathan Mays [JM], ANIME & MANGA NEWS: New Anime In Japan ......................................................................... 16 Carlo Santos [CS], Kira Shepherd, James S. Taylor 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 REVIEWS Christopher Macdonald ([email protected]) TOYS ...................................................................................................................................... 28 P r i n t i n g LIVE-ACTION ............................................................................................................................ 32 Payette & Simms (St-Lambert, Qc) MANGA .................................................................................................................................. 34 RELATED PRODUCTS (Anime CD Soundtracks, Animation DVDs) ................................................... 36 C o v e r BOOKS ................................................................................................................................... 38 Cover used with the permission of ADV Films. The Place ANIME ..................................................................................................................................... 72 Promised In Our Early Days © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave. S p e c i a l T h a n k s To Jerry Chu, Danielle Garnier, Lance Heiskell, Chad Kime SPOTLIGHTS and Mee-Lise Robinson for their support. And to Kyle Chang, THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS ............................................................................ 17 George Phillips for their help in producing this issue. CLAMP UnCLAMPing The Past ........................................................................................................... 21 S U B S C R I P T I O N Traveling Through Time: A Quickie Guide To CLAMP’s Projects ................................................. 22 One Year (6 issues): $30 US/Can (in Canada add $2.10 GST; Tsubasa Chronicle (Overview, Character Profiles, Short Synopses) ........................................... 23 in Quebec add $4.41 GST & PST) or $45 US overseas. Send CARS & ANIME ....................................................................................................................... 26 check or money-order to: Protoculture, P.O.B. 1433, Stn B, Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3B 3L2. Payment by credit cards & FANTASTIC CHILDREN PayPal available from the web site: www.protoculture.ca/PA/ Overview ........................................................................................................................... 29 PASub.htm. CharacterSample Profiles ............................................................................................................. file .... 30 D I S T R I B U T I O N Short Synopses .................................................................................................................... 31 In Canada: Cosmix ((514) 744-9494), Disticor ((905) 619- 6565, www.disticor.com), Marché Clandestin ((514) 282- 3930), Middleman Media ((416) 203-2926), Snap! ((416) ANIME WORLD 588-4006). In U.S.A.: Anime Nation ((727) 796-7561), 41 J-Pop Artists You Need To Know ........................................................................................... 43 Complete Strategist ((212) 685-3880), Diamond ((410) 560- ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ BoogiePop Before Phantom ..................................................................................................... 46 7100, www.diamondcomics.com), FM International ((608) Harems In Anime: How To Make Your Own Harem ................................................................... 48 271-7922), Kinokuniya (NY: (212) 765-7766, SF: (415) 567- 7625, Seattle: (206) 587-2477), Nikaku Animart ((408) 971- Crashing Japan: Satsuki & Mei’s House / Suginami Anime Museum .............................................. 50 2822), Right Stuf ((515) 252-6116), RPV ((714) 671-1270), Convention Reports: Sakura Con, Anime Boston, Anime Central ................................................. 52 Tower Records (www.towerrecords.com). In England: Anecdotes From: Daisuke Moriyama / Yoko Ishida ..................................................................... 54 Esdevium (011 44 125226116). Protoculture Addicts is ©1987-2005 by Protoculture. • The copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are the ANIME STORIES property of their respective owners. Protoculture Addicts Air ........................................................................................................................................... 57 acknowledges the creators and copyrights holders of the Beck ....................................................................................................................................... 60 materials mentioned or pictured herein, and does not seek Portrait Of The Petite Cossette ................................................................................................... 63 to infringe on their rights. • All rights to articles/artwork Gakuen Alice .......................................................................................................................... 64 revert to their respective writers/artists upon publication. • Contributors are responsible for their views which are not Ghost Talker’s Daydream ......................................................................................................... 66 necessarily those of Protoculture Addicts. • No part of this Gunbuster 2 ............................................................................................................................ 67 magazine can be reproduced without permission from the Meine Liebe ............................................................................................................................ 68 publisher, except for review purposes • Spoilers Warning: Tsukuyomi – Moon Phase ......................................................................................................... 70 This magazine contains important plot details about several Japanese animation. Readers discretion is advised. • Legal deposit at the National Library of Quebec & National Library of Canada • Printed in Canada • ISSN 0835-9563. MORE ON: WWW.PROTOCULTURE-MAG.COM 4 EDITORIAL ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Recently, Home Media Retailing magazine published an article titled “Anime Taking Some Punches” in their July 17th issue. The article quotes several industry representatives who made statements CREDITS ARTICLES: Air © Visual Arts / Key / Yoku-jin Densho Group. on how not everything is perfect for the industry right now. Beck © Harold Sakuishi • Kodansha / 2004 Beck Production Committee. Boogiepop & Others ©2000 Kouhei Kadono / MediaWorks / Hakuho-do / Toei Video. Packaging ©2005 The Even earlier this year, several publications, including Anime News Network, ran articles saying that Right Stuf International. Fantastic Children ©2004 Takashi Nakamura / Nippon Animation • FC Production Committee. in 2004, for the first time ever, total North American sales of anime on home video (VHS and DVD) Gakuen Alice © Tachibana Higuchi / Hakusuisha / The Alice Academy Production Committee. Ghost Talker’s Daydream © were less than the previous year. Saki Okuse • Sakichi Meguro • Kadokawa Shoten / Bandai Visual. All Rights Reserved. Le Portrait de Petite Cossette ©2004 Cossette House / Aniplex. Meine Liebe ©2004-2005 Konami / “Meine Liebe” Production Committee • Hakusuisha. The Place Now, with all of that flying around, one has to ask: is the anime industry on its dying legs? With Promise In Our Early Days © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave. Top wo Nerae! 2 © 2004 GAINAX / TOP 2 Committee. Tsubasa the way all of the signs are pointing, could this be the beginning of the end? Turns out, not by Chronicle © CLAMP / Kodansha • NHK • NEP21. Tsukuyomi – Moon Phase ©2004 Keitaro Arima / Wani Books • Victor a long shot. Entertainment. REVIEWS: Appleseed © 2004 Shirow Masamune / Seishinsha Appleseed Film Partners. Aquarian Age: The Movie ©2004 The companies acknowledge that the market is changing, and that certain