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AICN ANIME: A Huge Report This Week!!
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I’m so sorry. I lost last week’s column, and now we’ve got this giganticanormous behemoth for you to make up for it. Dig in!!
Manga Spotlight: Slayers: Super-Explosive Demon Story by Hajime Kanzaka and Skoko Yoshinaka
Released by CPM Manga
Swords and socery comedy has always been a bit of a
geek genre. It tends to combine Dungeons and Dragons
setting, Looney Toons sprinkled with a bit of sexual
humor, with a touch of seriousness that nearly always
builds to a battle with a would-be world destroying
demon overlord. Even though only rates slightly higher
than video game adapation on the respect latter, it’s
more than capable of delivering an entertaining story.
Slayers remains the first name in swords and sorcery
comedy. Other never quite measure up its madness,
sense of adventure, or it's giant spells but the
popularity is mainly due to its lead characters, Lina
Inverse, a diminutive sorceress with a love for
treasure, food, and a fiery temper, and her sidekick
Gourry Gabriev, an ace swordsman that tends to only use
his head for a place to keep his following blonde hair.
"Super-Explosive Demon Story" follows Lina and Gourry's
first meeting, as they try to make some money robbing
bandits, accepting guard jobs, and searching out
treasure. It's a fast moving trip full of quick
emotions, silliness, explosive spells, and moments of
intense action.
Though anime hasn't the original medium for Slayers,
its a series that is tailor made for anime. The
colors, spell effect, and voice work by Megumi
Hayashibara or Lisa Ortiz as Lina make the Slayers
anime a unique experience. After the anime, the manga
can only offer a reflection of the anime's energy. It
is a nice visit with familiar characters, but it isn't
the same.
This Week's Releases
Anime
Arjuna - Rebirth (Vol. 1)
Betterman - Seeds Of Death (Vol. 3)
Dragon Ball Z:Perfect Cell-Unstoppable
Grave Of The Fireflies (Collector's Edition)
Hyper Police - Episodes 5-8
Princess Nine - Grand Slam (Vol. 6)
Project Arms - The Claws That Catch (Vol. 1)
Sakura Wars Ova - Return Of The Spirit Warriors (Vol. 1)
Sherlock Hound Casefile 5
Steel Angel Kurumi - Fallen Angel (Vol. 4)
Yu Yu Hakusho - The Movie - Poltergeist Report
Yu Yu Yakusho Ghostfiles
Yu Yu Yakusho Ghostfiles:7 Ways To Die
Zoids - The Supersonic Battle (Vol. 4)
Manga
Bastard Vol 2 Tp
Big O Part 2 #4 (Of 4)
Dragonball Z Part 5 #10 (Of 10)
Medabots Part 4 #1 (Of 4)
Orochi Blood Vol 1 Gn
Project Arms Part 1 #2
Ranma 1/2 Part 11 #8 (Of 11)
Record Lodoss War Chronicles Heroic Knight Book 3
Shadow Star Shadows Of The Past Tp
Spirited Away Vol 1 Tp
Uzumaki Vol 3 Tp
A review of the first volume of Arjuna can be seen
Princess Nine volume 6 concludes the series about a
high school girl's baseball team competing against
boys' teams.
Grave of Fireflies is an anime classic about two young
refugee of a World War II fire bombing.
Uzumaki volume 3 conclude the Junji Ito's spectacular
horror series about a town haunted by the shape of the
spiral. The series is a must for fans of the creepy
and the grotesque.
Orochi Blood is classic manga horror story about a
perfect older sister, her inferior younger sister, and
a mysterious girl who ends up living with the two.
When picking up your manga, give Garlands of Moonlight
by Jai Sen and Rizky Wasisto Edi a look. Its a manga
inspired telling of Indonesian mythology and Dutch
colonization.
Where to Find English NewType
A press release has been sent about concerning the
availablity of the first issue of the English edition
of the premiere anime magazine NewType.
October 4, 2002-Newtype USA, the leading anime and
manga publication in the English-speaking world, today
announced a partial list of the North American
retailers that will carry the November 2002 premiere
issue of the magazine. Negotiations with additional
retailers were underway as of the date of this release.
"There's been an absolute storm of excitement around
the magazine launch, including quite a bit of curiosity
and concern from readers wondering where they'll be
able to get the magazine," said Newtype USA Business
Manager Heather Swan. "Some of the information
disseminated hasn't been quite accurate; we're hoping
to clear up some of the confusion."
Swan added, "Subscription is, of course, the best way
to ensure that readers receive Newtype USA hot off the
press." Subscriptions are available through
www.newtype-usa.com, at $89.95 (USD) per year (12
months). This price represents a 25% discount off the
cover price.
Major Chain Retailers (to date): Suncoast Sam Goody
Barnes & Noble Borders Media Play Waldenbooks Fry's
Tower Gordon & Gotch Canada (Chapters/Coles Books)
Independent stores: Newtype USA will also be available
at independent anime, comic and specialty stores across
the country. "If your local anime or comic store
doesn't carry Newtype USA, ask them to order it!" said
Swan. "It's the only way they'll know that you want
it."
Through the Newtype USA website Single issues and back
issues will be available for purchase through
http://www.newtype-usa.com.
Diamond Distributors: Extensive discussion in fan
forums and on chatboards has centered around whether
Newtype USA will be available through Diamond
Distributors (publisher of Diamond Previews).
More Tezuka Manga in English
Anime News
Service has commented that
who translates Dark Horse Comic's manga releases,
include Osamu Tezuka's classic Astro Boy has updated
their FAQ:
Since you've decided to release Astroboy, is there any
chance you're interested in releasing other Tezuka
manga like Jungle Emperor Leo (AKA Kimba)?
Toren Smith:
We're looking at other Tezuka works, including Jungle
Taitei, but there are some problems with that
series...the portrayal of the African natives is likely
to upset "certain people." It's silly because the white
hunters are presented in an even more negative manner,
but...
It's likely the next work we do will be Metropolis.
Anime Web Sites
Bandai has launched an English Arjuna web site for
Arjuna at
and information on the Arjuna series release including
- story/episode synopsis, character biography, story
background information, behind the scenes look, staff
biography, multimedia features, interviews, and home
video release information.
Arjuna is created and directed by famed animator, Shoji
Kawamori, best known for his role in the creation of
the anime classic, Macross (Broadcast in North America
as Robotech), Macross Plus, the Escaflowne series.
Arjuna also features music composed by Yoko Kanno, best
known for Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, and Escaflowne.
TOKYOPOP has posted a site for the upcoming release of
the Lupin III manga at
following the adventure of Lupin III, the not quite
sauve gettleman thief, his somber gunman partner,
samurai associate, feme fatale competition/love
interest, and the international police officer obsessed
with tracking him name.
Japanese Sites:
Bandai has opened at Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone
Complex site at
Big West has opened its Macross Zero site at
The Naruto anime page is at
ninja clan, as he trains to become its greatest ninja.
The manga series it is adapted from will be features in
the English edition of Shounen Jump. Its building
nature, and intracate construction of the fictitious
ninja culture, relationships, and methedology has made
the series a popular feature in the Japanese Shounen
Jump.
The live action adaptation of the women police
comedy/drama You're Under Arrest has its own web page
here.
TV Tokyo's Pecola page is at
The Piano page has opened at
Fujishima Kosuke.
The web site for Hand Maid May, the follow-up or
tangent to Hand Maid May has opened at
According to
(direct to video series) involving an aspiring film
director who lives in the warehouse of an adult video
company, and a Cyber Doll mini robot woman.
The site for the romantic comedy I''s is up at
Anime Game News
From The Magic
Box
Bandai has announced a new Playstatin One game based on
Rumiko Takahashi fairy tale/horror Inu Yasha. The Inu
Yasha: Sengoku Battle fighting will feature
transforming characters. It can be seen at
Bandai is also working a new GameCube cel-shaded
fighting + promotion simulation game based on Shaman
King, see
fighing game based on One Piece can be seen
Both Shaman King, and One Piece will be appearing in
the English version of Shounen Jump.
One Piece follows an amazingly odd crew of pirates, as
their captain, Monkey D. Luffey seems become the king
of pirate.
Shaman King follows a young boy with the almost
forgotten ability to talk to spirits as he battle other
shaman to earn the title of kind.
Konami is developing a Playstation2 game based on the
manga, and soon to be anime series GetBackers. The game
is mission based, up to 2 players can cooperate in
battle simultaneously, you can use a variety of union
techniques and shaft techniques to attack the
opponents. Screen shots can be seen at
Get Backers follows the enterprises of two lower class
youths who open a business retrieving stolen property
rather than conforming to work-a-day dictates.
Possible New AD Vision Licenses
AnimeNation
reports The September 23, 2002 issue of Video Business
Magazine spotlights AD Vision's 10th Anniversary. The
magazine includes 20 "birthday card" ads acknowledging
AD Vision's anniversary from American and Japanese
companies including TBS, Kodansha, Toho, Sunrise, Comix
Wave, Media Factory, and many others. Images used in
the ads include AD Vision licensed titles such as
Sailormoon, Powerstone, You're Under Arrest, Sakura
Tsushin, Mamono Hunter Yohko, and Rahxephon. The Gonzo
Studios ad congratulating AD Vision includes images
from Kaleido Star (an acknowledged AD Vision license)
and Chojushin Gravion. The KSS ad uses images from
Happy Lesson.
Anime Ratings Successes
Kids' WB's anime centric Saturday morning lineup
including Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon is the #1 Saturday
morning cartoon schedule.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is #1 and #2 in the ratings, while Pokémon:
Master Quest is #1, #2 and #4 in the ratings, and other
shows come in just about every other top 10 position
imaginable. There are a multitude of different
demographics used to rate children’s programming, many
of them overlapping, such as "Boys 2-11" , "Boys 6-11", "Kids 6-11" , "Girls 2-11".
ADV Hello Kitty Release
ADV Films today announced a street date of November 26,
2002 for Hello Kitty's Paradise: Pretty Kitty, the
first of four volumes of the animated children's series
Hello Kitty's Paradise. The title is available on VHS,
and on child-friendly plug-and-play DVD.
Hello Kitty's Paradise is another successful part of
the Sanrio Company's wildly popular Hello Kitty(r)
franchise, built around the adorable, instantly
recognizable kitten character. The title centers around
the adventures of legendary Sanrio character Hello
Kitty(r), her best friend Mimmy(tm) and their friends
from school. Hello Kitty's Paradise is a joyful take on
childhood adventures, with a healthy smattering of
educational content about such important skills as
sharing, having good table manners, writing letters and
being polite.
New Interviews at Galaxy Anime
Galaxy Anime
is hosting Real Audio interviews with TOKYOPOP
president John Parker, Dave Merrill of Anime Weekend
Atlanta, Senior Editor at Dark Horse Chris Warner, and
Manga Entertainment's Keith Burgess.
Gundam Motorcycle Helmet
Bandai will be releasing a Gundam motorcycle helmet in Japan for 29,880 yen (US$250). It can be seen at
Japanese Manga Publisher Arrested
Comicon reports
Japanese authorities have arrested a prominent manga
publishing president, an artist and one other for
selling comics containing indecent images. The comic,
titled "Mitsushitsu", was aimed at adults and labeled
'adults only'. The incident is reportedly the first
such arrest within the huge mainstream comics market in
Japan.
MAINICHI SHIMBUN is reporting: "Motonori Kishi, 53, the
president of the Shobunkan publishing company, was
arrested by Metropolitan police on suspicion of selling
obscene material, along with 34-year-old comic artist
Yuji Suwa, and one other person whose name was not
released. It is reportedly the first time that people
have been arrested in connection with comics aimed at
the general market."
MAINICHI SHIMBUN said: "Police said the trio sold
20,491 copies of the comic book "Mitsushitsu" to 16
book distributors and other firms between April 13 and
15 for a total of about 11.75 million yen. Matsubunkan
officials expressed disappointment at the arrests. "
'Mitsushitsu' was aimed at adults, and we put labels on
the comics so that the bookstores and the readers could
distinguish that they were aimed at adults. Comics from
other companies whose sections haven't been revised are
sold, and we can't understand the arrests," officials
said."
Spirited Away Box Office
Spirited Way earned an addition $600,000 last weekend
for a total of $1.8 million in the US.
Next Region 2 Ghibli DVD Release
Ghibli's Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko is set for a
12/18/2002. Past releases suggest the DVD will feature
English subtitles. The film, which is by Isao Takahata
rather than Ghibli's more internationally famous Hayao
Miyazaki follows a group of shape shifting racoon-like
tanuki.
Upcoming Releases
Bandai will be releasing the first volume of Argento
Soma with and without a box to hold the entire series.
Argento Soma is more mature than average sci-fi alien
invasion/revenge story from Studio Sunrise (of Gundam
fame) and Kazuyoshi Katayama (Big O, Giant Robo).
CPM will be releasing the fourth volume of the surreal
sword fight filled high school drama Revolutionary Girl
Utena, entitled Impatience & Longing on Junary 14th.
The third volume of Hyper Police will be releasing on
December 17th.
Hyper Police is a police action comedy about a post
apocalyptic world where humans live and work side by
side with were-creatures, demons, and other
mythological people.
Studio Nue's Copyright of Macross Upheld
The Kyoto Shimbun reports that Tatsunoko's recent
appeal in the Macross rights case has been dismissed by
the Tokyo High Court.
New Film From Otomo Katsuhiro
movie Steam Boy, scheduled for release in the Autumn of
2003, will cost 2 thousand million yen, comprise 1,850
cuts and 180,000 cels. By that time, the movie will
have taken eight years to produce since the initial
planning commenced in 1995, with changes and problems
with investment and sponsorship etc. The story is set
in a post-Industrial Revolution 19th century England,
where young inventor Rei (Ray?) is sent a mysterious
metal ball from this grandfather in the US. His
grandfather tells him that the ball, which is a new
form of energy that could power an entire nation, must
be guarded against the forces of evil.
No Naruto or Shaman King in First Shounen Jump
Viz has announced that the first issue of the English
Shonen Jump has increased in size to 288 in order make
room for material, including an interview with Dragon
Ball creator Akira Toriyama, but Naruto and Shaman King
will not appear until issues 2 and 3 respectively.
December Manga Releases
The following manga (comics) be released in the
December time frame. For a full list, or to pre-order
them visit
comic shop.
Comicsone.Com
BRIDE OF DEIMOS #4 by Etsuko Ikeda and Yuuho Ashibe
Will Deimos ever leave Minako to live her own normal
life or is she forced to watch as all of her friends
and loved ones die a horrific death. This is the
punishment Minako must endure for becoming the Bride of
Deimos. In the first chapter of this book, Minako is
transported back to the time of the Gods and through
the eyes of Venus; she serves as witness to a couple's
betrayal. And where adulterous deities travel, chaos is
sure to follow. A severed hand, a ghost looking for
love and a tragic tale of murder are awaiting Minako
and her teacher when they are forced to seek shelter at
an old mansion, in Chapter 2. What do the death of one
fellow student and the arrival of a bloodthirsty
newcomer have in common? Minako aims to find out. 200
pp.
Crayon Shinchan (gn) 2
(Yoshito Usui) The adventures of that mischievous five
year old continue. Follow Shinchan as he discovers new
things, fights with his mother, and causes mayhem at
Action Kindergarten. Watch as he helps his mom cook,
clean, and shop. Will Shinchan ever act like a normal
five year old kid? Or will his parents realize normal
is not in his vocabulary? 200 pp.
Other graphic novel releases include cooking tournament
Iron Wok Jan 2, and aereal combat adventure Red
Prowling Devil 2.
ComicsOne's kung fu comics releases include Heaven
Sword & Dragon Sabre 5, Storm Riders 9, Story of Tao
2, and Weapon of the Gods 5.
CPM MANGA
Central Park Media will be releasing a collection of
Jerry Robinson's Astra, a manga adapation of a
previously unpublished story by the gold age Batman
writer. Astra is a beautiful, interstellar princess who
has never seen a man, since her Amazonian race only
bears females. Now their supply of seed is running out,
and Astra must find a male savior.
They will also be re-releasing Dark Angel Vol. 4:
Legend of Sacred Beast and Geobreeders Book 4:
Unfriendly Skies.
Dark Horse Comics
Collected editions being released include 3X3 Eyes: Key
to the Sacred Land, and Astro Boy Vol. 11.
In 3x3 Eyes Pai, the beautiful 300-year-old amnesiac
mystic, and her companion, Tokyo student Yakumo Fujii,
search China for ancient relics to provide clues to the
location of Pai's hidden Tibetan homeland, where Pai's
memories can be restored. But the two are not the only
ones in search of these objects. Both the dashing
relic-hunter Jake McDonald and the nefarious Choukai,
are trying to get their mitts on a certain mystic
incense burner
Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface continues
will it's third issue.
Indivual issues include Blade of the Immortal 74:Fall
Frost part 2 of 6, Cannon God Exaxxion 12, and Oh My
Goddess! 93: Traveler part 3 of 5.
The Super Manga Blast! 28 anthology will feature
another chapter is Masamune Shirow's Appleseed
Hypernotes.
Dark Horse Comics will also be releasing a series of Oh
My Goddess T-shirts.
Gutsoon! Entertainment
Gutsoon! will be releasing the first four issues of
their weekly manga anthology Raijin, and the anime and
manga news magazine Fujin.
Raijin Comics #1-4 (Set) - B&W. Features Hara Tetsuo's
Fist Of The Blue Sky (Prequel To Fist Of The North
Star); The Gritty Underworld Of Tokyo Meets Hojo
Tsukasa's City Hunter; The Sexy Antics Of Niwano
Makoto's Bomber Girl; And The American Debut Of Slam
Dunk, By Inoue Takehito. Plus, Itagake Keisuke's Baki
The Grappler, The Story Of A Mysterious Young Fighter
Who Enters The World Of Underground And Championship
Martial Arts Fighting With A Bang; Tsugihara Ryuji &
Hidaka Yoshiki's The First President Of Japan. When
Japan Elects Its First President In History, The
Political Climate Of Asia Becomes Full Of Turmoil And
Intrigue. Also, Japan's Latest Magical Girl Super-Hit:
Sakurano Minene's Guardian Angel Getten!; Ono Yoichiro
& Ueno Jiro's Revenge Of The Mouflo. In The Skies Over
Tokyo, A Typical Passenger Flight Turns Into A
Political Flashpoint When Terrorists Take Over The
Plane. And Sakurano Minene's Guardian Angel Getten.
Printed in right-to-left format. Squarebound. 214 pp.
each. MR.
Ironcat
Ironcat will be started the Amerimanga anthology, a
compilation of four manga-style comics by American
artists.
Amerimanga Vol. 1 1 [Special
Megatokyo Chapter Zero: Relax, We Understand J00!
collects comic strips and extra from the popular
manga-stytle web comic.
Other collections include Vampire Princess Miyu Vol. 4.
Individual issues include Vampire Yui Vol. 5 4 and You
& Me V. 1 #6.
Marvel Comics
Uncanny X-men 416 will be the first issue illustrated
by manga created Kia Asamiya.
TOKYOPOP
TOKYOPOP will be releasing the first volume of the
Akira Cinemanga, a comic make from screen captures from
the Akira anime.
The first volume of the highly anticipated Kara Kano
will be released this January. Yukino is the perfect
student and she'll do anything and everything to be the
top student in her school. A threat emerges in
Soiichiro, a good-natured boy driven to succeed. They
struggle and find respect for one another, and maybe,
after the dust clears, something more.
The other new series begin with the first collextion of
Gundam Wing: Last Outpost.Z agents enlist the remote
asteroid colony of MO-V in the battle for independence.
Now the colony is lending resources to OZ, and is under
attack by the Stardust Knights.
Series that will be concluding include the 7th volume
of volume of the exotic Korean manga Island, swords and
sorcery comedy Sorcerer Hunters ends with its 13th
volume.
Other collections include volume 4 of CLAMP's take on
the collectable game genre Angelic Layer, volume 8 of
GTO, the story of a former deliquent turned teacher,
volume 5 of the street racing Initial D, volume 8 of
the sex comedy Love Hina, shojo series Mars and Peach
Girl hits volume 8, undead vengance western reaches
volume 4, and the manga take on Norse myths Ragnorok
reaches volume 5.
Viz Communications
Individual issues include All-New Tenchi Muyô! Part 2
#3 (of 4), Bastard!! #13: part 3, Big O Part 3 #2 [Of
4], Ceres, Celestial Legend Part 4 #3 [Of 4], Dragon
Ball Part 5 #7 - [Of 7], Inu-Yasha Part 7 #5 - [Of 8]
and Project Arms Part 1 #4 - [Of 16], Ranma 1/2 Part 11
#10 - [Of 11], Silent Möbius Part 12: Hell #1 and
Vagabond #14.
Collections include Dragon Ball V. 10, Hamtaro: Let's
Play! V. 2 Tpb, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 V. 8, Pokémon
Adventures V. 7: Pokémon Elite Tpb, X/1999 V. 9:
Requiem Tpb, Vagabond V. 4 Tpb, and Video Girl Ai V. 5:
Spinoff Tpb, and Zoids: Chaotic Century V. 11 Tpb.
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As is SLAYERS. That new Otomo project sounds pretty cool as well. Anyway...not much else to say, really.
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Jesus Christ, talk about double standard! There are literally gazillions of porn manga books on the market called hentai doujinshi - parodies of video game characters and anime TV/movie characters (Street Fighter, SNK, Megaman, Biohazard [Resident Evil], Pokemon, Digimon, Card Captor Sakura, Neon Genesis E., Final Fantasy, etc etc). Check out eBay under "hentai doujinshi" and see what I mean. Find Final Phantasy on the Net if you can - Hentai Dome at Adult Bouncer have dozens of hentai doujinshi scans and Final Phantasy is one of the most obscene hentai dojin with minimal censorship. Japanese censorship law - blurring, pixeling, white-out and black block - is mandatory as put forth by U.S. authorities after WWII surrender, yet it's easy to get around the law - thrown in as many perversions as possible with minimal censorship without getting in trouble, like squirting semen/vagina and bukkake. Extreme examples of hentai doujinshi is obscene at the highest level and yet I was not certainly offended, except the artists' fetish fantasies tend to go too far with bloody S&M, rape and pedophilia (kiddie porn in Japan is still legal as long as it's censored -- and don't involve real living breathing humans, only drawn manga style like Anal Angels and Biohazard 2: Tofu). Japanese manga artists are some of the best because they work hard, focusing on the details in almost-perfect methods of pencilling, inking, screentoning and colorizing. Hentai doujinshi is the testimony to the power of erotic comic books as the medium - beautifully drawn and inked, yet reprehensibly perverted. Japanese authorities who arrested the persons on obscenity charge have their heads up their asses, as this is strictly an isolated case. Don't expect hentai doujinshi/manga production and distribution to cease any time soon because it's always popular in demand for salivating young men and lonely salarymen.
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Oct 09, 2002 4:26:53 PM CDT
Good thing there was no column last week... I had nothing to tal
by kiyone
Not that much to say this week either, other than that I saw SPIRITED AWAY on Friday, and it is the least disappointing heavily-hyped anime I have ever seen... One thing I really liked was that it was actually "fun"; too many of the critically acclaimed that get theatrical releases are so serious that I choke on the gravitas. It's not the "be-all-and-end-all" of anime, but I don't think there is any such thing, and it makes #4 on my list of MY all time favourite Ghibli films: #1) KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE, #2) WHISPER OF THE HEART, #3) MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, #4) SPIRITED AWAY, #5) either LAPUTA or PORCO ROSSO (to tell the truth, before Friday, I only had a top 3 Ghibli films list, but I didn't like SPIRITED AWAY quite as much as the ones in the top 3, and a Top 4 list doesn't sound right, and, also, yes, I have seen GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, and, no, it's not on my list; deal with it). I liked it about the same as LILO & STITCH (Waaa! No commentary track for the LILO & STITCH DVD and there won't be a double-disk set like for ATLANTIS or THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE), which was also a wonderful film, but in a different way.
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Oct 09, 2002 8:35:51 PM CDT
Surely committing kiddie porn act is different from Hentai
by theburgerking
Acting on something and simply watching porn is something altogether different. The manga artist clearly had the balls (LOL) to do what he did. It's not a double standard. You don't see millions of such incidents happening DAILY when there is such a huge industry for porn in this world.
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Go see it!! Support this movie and get it into more theaters!!!BTW, Not counting pokemon, does anyone know which anime made the most money in us theaters? Im pretty sure its either akira or spirited away.
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Oct 10, 2002 2:21:20 AM CDT
Anime Box Office eturns in U.S./Canadian theatres (excluding POK
by kiyone
(All according to the "Box Office and Business" page for each listing at imdb.com... sites like Boxofficeguru.com or Boxofficemojo.com ignore a lot of the anime releases not from major studios.) AKIRA: $439,162; JIN-ROH $94,591 (N.B. incomplete data... it wasn't tracked past the 9th of September, 2001 and I saw it at my local art-house cinema in January 2002); ESCAFLOWNE (unknown); METROPOLIS $673,414; PRINCESS MONONOKE $2.298m... The big money when it comes to anime is on DVD/VHS, not in the theatres I'm afraid.
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Umm, regarding what somebody said about how the Pokemon stories the same stuff over and over again ? Yes, but so are the Godzilla and Jason movies along with the Scooby Doo and Dragonball cartoons. All those things have the same thing happen again and again but fans of those series don't mind since the characters are beloved as well as the whole idea behind it. Plus the plot of Pokemon is different if you've read the Pokemon Adventures manga or the Toshiro Ono manga. The first manga features Ash, Gary, and a new girl fighting Team Rocket, plus the Elite 4. As for the Ono manga, some of the mature content of the manga had to be edited for American release. As for Spirited Away, I wish I see it at a movie theater but it's nowhere close to me to see it. Shame, since I've found Kiki, Totoro, and Monokoe all excellent work by Miyazaki and would have enjoyed the experience. Guess I'll have to see it on video and DVD. As for Yu-Gi-Oh, it's not bad and I'd prefer to see it un-edited. It's originally said to be more adult instead of the kiddie version 4KIDS does. Well, thanks AICN for another good anime report. I hope next time that there's news about the new Bubblegum Crisis series, Tokyo 2041. I loved the Tokyo 2040 series and I'm jumpin' crazy for more info on the new show!
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Oct 10, 2002 7:55:27 PM CDT
Pardon me, BoxOfficeMojo.com just did a comparison article of th
by kiyone
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/anime.htm
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Straight "Pardon me" sounds like I'm being rude (and no one's ever rude on Talkbacks).
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I've had this arguement a NUMBER of times with a NUMBER of people. It seems that people seem to focus on the negative aspects of this form of expression and entertainment.
I'm most DEFINATELY an OTAKU. And I'm probably the only otaku that's PROUD to say it. Laugh all you want. Make all the jokes about me being the lonley, bored, perverted man-boy who lives in the attic.
Then realize that one out of every 10 people in this country are JUST LIKE ME. In one form or another, they're anime fans.
Not to mention we are involved with SEVERAL other generes out there, especially involving sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and gaming. We also are the more sociable type of fan. I know there are a few of us who are perverted sacks of manure which deserve to have their genitalia cut off with a rusty box-cutter. I'm DEFINATELY not one of them.
The type of porn that floats over here to the states on a regular basis disturbs and sickens me. Then when US fans get labeled "perverts" by the general public... That really gets me mad.
Look at all the calssic titles out there. Look at all the popular titles on television today. Look around at all the legitimate manga. Then tell me, is this genere porn?
If you say yes, you deserve a knuckle sandwich. Maybe that'll jar your brain cells out of dormancy.
Wake up and smell the coffee folks. Reality is passing you by, and there ain't another bus you can catch to get there.
There's my rant for the day.
Oh, I forgot the password to my usual user name. I'm normally ZoneZero.
Don't let the name fool you, I'm still the Troll Slayer. -
You guys won't be seeing Sailor MPLS anytime soon, for I am forever, Zone Zero.
Now, just a little something to keep things on topic:
I'm still hating the fact that Anime doesn't get respect here in the US as a LEGITIMATE art form. Miyazaki's (sp?) style and form are bar none, yet Di$ney, who's both jealous and greedy, still sit on some of his work. Keeping companies who WANT to make the material box-office boffo away from it. Di$ney just puts it out on a limited "test release" in certain select theatres, then dosen't put ads out there to let people know it's out. THEN they say due to a lack of interest, we're putting it straight to video.
@$$holes. To quote OneBadUncleF**ka: "F**k them, F**k them up the A**!"
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