The MAS Monitor, October 1st, 2004

The MAS Monitor – Volume 11
October 1st, 2004

Newsletter main email – masnokaihoo@hotmail.com

Staff
- Jessi Silver – jessi@gonein60fps.net
- Peter – heath_darkness@hotmail.com
- Nastassja Riemermann
- Vu Dang
- Mark McPherson
- Setsuki Korinzu

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.:Table of Contents
- MAS News
- Features
    - Taichiro's Column
    - Ask Mark
    - Jessi's Rom Corner
- Reviews
    - Lupin III: First Contact
- Entertainment
    - Spectacle
    - Vu's Opinionettes
    - Weblinks
- Industry News
    - DVD Release Dates
-Comment on this Issue

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MAS News
By Jessi Silver

Last week’s karaoke night was a great success, so thanks for everyone who showed up and sang their heart out.

This Monday there’ll be a planning meeting in order to work things out for the annual MAS Halloween party, so anyone interested should show up to the Moos Tower coffee/lounge area at 8:00pm. Bring anything you want, but especially your suggestions.

As you can see, the Newsletter got a bit of a makeover. In spite of how I liked the html version of the Newsletter which was published two weeks ago, I succumbed to the fact that using blogger to publish will ultimately be a lot quicker, and I can keep much better track of the archives. Plus, this also gives you guys the ability to give instant feedback via the comment option. At the bottom of each post is a link to the comment page, and anyone can comment (even people who don’t have a blogger screen name). This will be extremely useful, both for feedback about improvements we can make, and for replies about contests when we have them eventually. So be sure to take advantage of that and tell me how you like this layout.

I’m still looking for MAS artists/writers for our creative talent feature. If you like to do artwork or write fiction, contact me at my email below and we’ll work out how to feature you in an upcoming issue.

I’m also still looking for contributors for the newsletter, so if you’ve got any articles burning a hole in your computer, or are dying to review the latest movie you’ve seen, send it my way. Email all submissions to jessi@gonein60fps.net, and I’ll be sure to include it in a future issue.

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Features
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Anime Conventions: A Comparison
By Taichiro Endo

Hi, this is Taichiro. Do you guys still remember me? For new members, I will introduce myself briefly. I am an international student from Japan. I have stayed in U.S about 1 year. Since fall semester of last year, I have been introducing aspects of Japanese Otaku culture to the members of the Manga Anime Society. I had presentations on MAS special days including last year’s Halloween Party, Valentines Party, etc, and also had serialized columns in the MAS Newsletter. This semester, I am planning to have 3 presentations and 6 columns. I hope you guys will like them.

In this column, I will talk about Anime Expo 2004 which was held in Anaheim CA, since I was able to attend this wonderful convention this summer. It was held from July 2nd to the 5th at the Anaheim Convention Center. I will first explain about Anime Expo, and then compare it with the largest Japanese convention, Comic Market. I will use both my personal point of view of my experiences and outside data for comparison.

Anime Expo is the biggest Anime Convention in the U.S. and was founded in 1992. It was first held in San Jose, CA by a Japanese company to show Japanese animation to an American audience, and the participants numbered only about 1700. However, the number of attendees each year rapidly increased, reaching nearly 20,000 this year. Volunteer staff at the first convention organized an NPO “Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation” to hold Anime Expo. Since this convention is now organized by the NPO, not by commercial companies, it can introduce Anime not for the purposes of advertisement, but for fans for fun!

Anime Expo has several kinds of shows, exhibitions and competitions; there are many 24-hour anime shows, a Cosplay competition, a Karaoke competition, panel discussions, workshops, talk shows, song shows, gaming rooms, art shows, a dance party, video game show, etc… Since most participants stayed in the Marriot Anaheim Hotel, the convention center was full of cosplayers; they changed their clothing in their room and came down to the venue directly.

The commercial exhibition was huge, also. Numerous companies opened branch shops in the Exhibit Hall to sell and advertise their products. An interesting point is that this exhibition hall was one of the biggest highlights of Anime Expo 2004, though fans held this convention for fans. The existence of an “Exhibition-Only Ticket” showcased the presence of the Exhibit Hall. In fact, many participants just stopping-by visited this Hall only. The companies opening branch shops in the Exhibit Hall can generally be categorized in 4 types: Japanese Anime product companies, branches of Japanese companies in the U.S., American sales subsidiaries and American outlets.

A major example of Japanese Anime product companies in the Exhibition Hall was BANDAI VISUAL. This company brought its own products to the U.S. by itself instead of through its American sales subsidiary. Its products are always shown on a big screen for the purposes of advertising.

VIZ is a major example of a branch of a Japanese company in U.S. Many of you guys may know the name of this company since it has issued about 1/3 of the manga titles in the U.S. The American version of Shonen Jump is also issued by VIZ. This company was originally the branch of a Japanese publishing company called Shogakukan, which issues the 3rd highest-selling (1.17 million copied a week) comic magazine Shonen Sunday in Japan. Several years later, the publishing company Shueisha, which issues the 1st highest-selling (3 million copies a week) comic magazine Shonen Jump in Japan, bought 50% of VIZ’s stock. Now this company gets to issue the American version of both companies’ comics in the U.S.

Major examples of American sales subsidiaries are TOKYOPOP and ADV. TOKYOPOP mainly sells the comics of Kodansha, which issues the 2nd highest-selling (2.95 million copies a week) comics magazine Shonen Magazine in Japan, but not exclusively. ADV mainly sells the products of Kadokawa and its associated companies, which issues the anime magazine Newtype in Japan. ADV has the top anime distribution in the U.S.

Finally, we could find plenty of American outlets including akibaotaku.com. These companies import many Anime/Manga related products and sell them in their own stores.

From my point of view, this Company Exhibition Hall was the liveliest place at Anime Expo 2004. The cosplay competition was also a big and important event, but only lasted a few hours. The Exhibition Hall was open almost all day with a high concentration of participants. If this hall didn’t exist, Anime Expo would become much less popular. This fact is a little ironic, because Anime Expo is held by NPO for fans, not for companies.

However, a similar phenomenon also happened in Japan. Comic Market is the biggest Dojinshi convention in the world. It was founded in 1975 to sell and buy home-made Manga by fans, and was increased to such a large scale that about 510 thousand people attend this convention during its 3 days. The interesting point is that after the Comic Market put in company space in 1996, this space got to be in extremely high demand, sometimes more than the space for Dojinshi.

Although the objective of each convention is different (fan communication at Anime Expo as opposed to the selling and buying of Dojinshi in Comic Market), both of them are in danger of being conquered by companies. I’m not suggesting that this is a problem since this is a demand of fans, but it seems a bit ironic.

We can find more differences and similarities between the two conventions. Since the number of participants of Comic Market is too numerous, most of them cannot stay in hotels around the convention center. Participants cause traffic jams, and many of them wait outside of the convention center throughout the night. Can you imagine that 10 thousand people are waiting around the convention center throughout the night? It is one of the big problems of Comic Market.

What participants mostly do in each convention is also different. What they do in Comic Market is to stand in a queue and wait! In order to buy Dojinshi created by famous circles, sometimes people need to wait a few hours, in some cases this might be half of the day. Most Americans may think that that’s too boring, and it is boring actually, but many Japanese Otaku can and will wait to get what they want. Many people wait throughout the night around the convention center to be able to enter quickly when entrances are opened in order to line up as early as they can.

On the other hand, many participants also attend the cosplay promenade instead of queuing. In contrast to Anime Expo, Comic Market does not have a cosplay contest. Participants change their clothes and just walk around the convention center. Many people come to Comic Market in order to take pictures of cosplayers. At Anime Expo, cosplayers took pictures of each other, but at Comic Market, cameramen keep taking pictures and cosplayers keep having their pictures taken, in many cases.

Though many special events are held at Anime Expo, Comic Market does not have any official shows, workshops, parties or competitions. They are sometimes held only in the booths of some companies.

These are some main differences and similarities of Anime Expo and Comic Market. In summary, Anime Expo is held to have communication with anime fans, and have a fun time through Anime. In contrast, Japanese Otaku come to Comic Market to queue and buy what they want. Though some other Japanese conventions attach more weight to communication, they are still "queue-and-buy"-based conventions. I cannot say which is better because the origin and objective of each convention is completely different. I can have a fun time at Anime Expo, and I can receive great contentment at Comic Market in return for physical fatigue.

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Ask Mark
By Mark McPherson

If you’d like Mark to answer any anime-related questions, feel free to email them to: anime_expert88@hotmail.com

"Tell us about the 1990 Grimm’s Fairy Tales anime."
-Setsuki

This particular anime series started in the late-80’s, animated by Nippon and lasted 47 episodes (or 2 seasons). Each episode would have a different fairy tale and sometimes it would take a few episodes to tell each story. Puss and Boots was separated into two parts, Snow White into four parts (if you don’t count Snow White and Red Rose), Frog Prince into two parts and Cinderella into two parts. However, most of these fairy tales have had their own anime.

“Puss in Boots” was an 80 minute anime film back in 1969 with Hayao Miyazaki being one of the animators no less. Since it was animated with Toei, it was released into the US Saturday morning kid market along with Toei’s other anime films, “Jack and the Witch” and “Treasure Island”. It later went on to two more movies through the 70’s (“Three Musketeers in Boots” and “Puss and Boots: Around the World in 80 Days”) and a 26 episode TV show in the early 90’s which featured cameos by Dracula, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. “Snow White” was later made into a 52 episode TV series in 94 animated by Tatsunoko Studios. There is also a new Snow White story in a series called “Pretear” which is setup a bit more like Utena, but I won’t delve any deeper into that. “Cinderella” was a 26 episode TV series also animated by Tatsunoko in 96, but this time, instead of trying to stretch the original plot, there are a few more elements added to the story such as pirates and Cinderella and her prince disguising themselves in order to meet each other. Of course, the series has the traditional ending to the fairy tale. There have also been erotic versions of the story in anime such as “Adult Fairy Tales” and “Cinderella Express”.

There was also another fairy tale anime being released the same time as “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” called “Video Picture Book”. It was 50 episodes with each episode being 12 minutes in length. In addition to taking stories from Grimm, the series also featured fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables, Tales of Hans Christian Anderson and Arabian Nights. Of course, all these fairy tales also have their own anime series/movies, but I won’t list all of them. Getting back to “Grimms’ Fairy Tales”, the series was broadcasted on Nickelodeon under the title “Grimm Masterpiece Theater”. The show was directed by Kerrigan Mahan (voice actor for most of Streamline’s anime dubs) and Tom Wyner (now an ADR script writer for “GTO” and voice actor on “Wolf’s Rain” and “Kaze no Yojimbo”). I forgot their names, but the series voice talent featured the same actress who does the voice of Misty on “PokeMon” played the role of Briar Rose and the actor who did the voice of one of the Red Dragon elders in “Cowboy Bebop” did some of the other voices. It’s been a long time since I saw the show, but I can still remember some of the credits and the voices. Here is a list of all the episodes:

1. The Brementown Musicians
2. Hansel and Gretel
3. The Frog Prince (first half)
4. The Frog Prince (second half)
5. Red-Riding Hood
6. The Golden Goose
7. Puss 'n Boots (first half)
8. Puss 'n Boots (second half)
9. Snow White and Rose Red
10. Snow White (1/4)
11. Snow White (2/4)
12. Snow White (3/4)
13. Snow White (4/4)
14. The Six Who Went Far
15. The Water of Life
16. Bluebeard
17. Jorinde and Joringel
18. Rose-Bud
19. Old Sultan
20. King Grizzle Beard
21. The Demon and the Great Demon King
22. The Shoes that won't stop dancing
23. Cinderella (first half)
24. Cinderella (second half)
25. The Crystal Ball
26. The Wedding of Miss Fox
27. Story of a Summer Garden and a Winter Garden
28. Donkey Cabbage
29. Rapunzel
30. The Old Woman in the Forest
31. The Grave Mound
32. The Wolf and the Fox
33. Mother Holle
34. The Six Swans
35. The Thousand Animal Hides
36. Brother and Sister
37. The Four Skillful Brothers
38. The Monster in the Glass Jar
39. The Iron Stove
40. The Man Wearing a Bearskin
41. The Hare and the Hedgehog
42. Iron Hands
43. The Brave Little Tailor
44. The Wren and the Bear
45. The Fairy's Name (Rumplestiltskin)
46. The Witch in the Water
47. Death's Godfather
-Mark

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Jessi’s Retro Rom Corner
By Jessi Silver

If you know me, you know that I’m a big fan of retro gaming. Even today, I love to bust out my NES and play a few rounds of the original Tetris or Super Mario Brothers. Within the past year, I came into an extensive collection of NES Roms; “rips” of video games that you can play on your computer using a program called an emulator. Now I’d like to start sharing my favorites with you.



I played a rom the other day which is based on the show known in the US as “Samurai Pizza Cats”, known in Japan as “Kyatto Ninden Teyande”. The rom itself comes with 10 options. I thought at first that they were ten different games, but they’re really just save points to the different levels. If you’re lazy, you can skip to any level you want, but I played the game all the way through.

The game is entirely in Japanese, but don’t let that stop you from trying it out even if you have no background in the language. There are cut scenes in between each level, and you can pretty much figure out what’s going on from there. The basic premise: there’s some baddy making things crappy for the Cats, so you have to go and stop him. I believe someone may have been kidnapped in all of this, but I didn’t pay too much attention.



At the beginning of each level, you can pick from one of the three main characters: Yattaro, a white-armored cat who fights with a sword, Sukashi, a blue-armored cat who fights with what looks like a parasol, and Pururon, a pink-armored female cat who fights by clawing the living bejeezus out of any enemy she encounters. There’s nothing too different about any of them, so I suppose you can choose purely from personal preference; I found myself using the white guy just because he was quicker with his sword and seemed to have a longer reach.



The game itself is just your basic NES platformer. Enemies come at you, you slash at them and they die. You also collect items. Hearts refill your life, and other items refill your magic powers (Ninpo) and your “help” bar. There are alternate routes that you can take through almost any level, so it’s mildly fun just to try out different routes. You’re given the option of switching to four different “helper” cats, each with his own special power. There’s one guy who bashes through rocks, another who has a flying machine you can use to reach high places, and another guy with a drill. I never did manage to figure out what the fourth guy’s power was, but I’m sure it’s something extremely awesome that I just somehow managed to miss.



The graphics are pretty okay-ish; I mean, we’re talking about NES here so it’s nothing spectacular, but I liked the graphical style and I recognized that it was from the Pizza Cats cartoon even without connecting the Japanese title with the American one.

Anyway, if you’ve got some free time, go ahead and try the game out:

An NES emulator (Nester, my personal favorite) can be downloaded here

The rom can be downloaded here

Stay tuned next time for more walks through the land of NES obscurity (and possibly something else that’s fun to play).

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Reviews
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Lupin the Third: First Contact (Episode 0)
Reviewed by Mark McPherson
Length: 90 minutes
Year Created: 2001.
Content: Contains mild violence, brief nudity and adult situations.

While Lupin’s TV specials continue to chug along, younger fans or those new to the Lupin franchise are beginning to have questions. Why did Jigen and Goemon join Lupin in his heists? Why is Zenigata so determined to catch Lupin? What does Fujiko see in Lupin anyway? So, without the hassle of going back to the original 1971 series, we are treated to an updated TV special of how all these characters came together.

The story starts off with Jigen agreeing to tell a reporter the story of how he met Lupin. The setting is New York where Jigen is working as a hired gun for the Galves family mafia. He encounters Lupin in disguise trying to steal the Galves treasure, impenetrable steel that contains a scroll for making a special sword (this is how Goemon gets tied in later). Lupin escapes once the rest of Galves’ men enter the room, but Jigen is impressed by how Lupin was able to skillfully evade Jigen’s expert shots. After a crazy car chase, Lupin’s friend, Brad, states that he intends to steal the treasure since Lupin failed. Brad fails miserably, but is able to hand the treasure over to Lupin before he dies. This leads Lupin to meet Brad’s girlfriend, Fujiko, who Lupin discovers is very cold-hearted. However, Fujiko decides to work with Lupin to open the steel scroll holder that contains the scrolls for the ultimate steel. During this time, Zenigata heads to New York to catch Fujiko initially, but later becomes infatuated with Lupin. Though he mostly gets in the way of the NYPD, he teams up with an older detective to track down Fujiko. Lupin finally decides that the only way to open the scroll is to cut it open with the legendary steel made from the formula in the scroll. As with most of his heists, Lupin makes a declaration to steal this sword from the Dalheid Trade Center at 9pm. During the heist, Zenigata learns first-hand just how well Lupin does with disguises. After his success with stealing the treasure, Jigen shows up for a duel with Lupin, no sooner than the Galves mafia shows up to capture both of them and they have Fujiko hostage. It is at this time Goemon enters to swipe the sword and save all their butts. Of course, now Jigen wants a duel with Goemon, but not before Lupin tries to steal the sword back and gets into a chase with Goemon until he eventually slices open the scroll holder. After that, it’s an all-out brawl between Lupin’s new gang and the Galves family.

Some might be thinking this is how all the members of Lupin’s gang originally met. This is both true and false. The movie does give an explanation why Jigen and Fujiko joined up since they have been with Lupin from the beginning, but Goemon’s recruitment is a bit distorted. In the original 1971 series, Goemon first met Lupin through his crazy master who wanted him dead and he didn’t actually become Lupin’s friend until an episode involving stealing scrolls to make an ancient sword. There are similar events in First Contact that resemble Goemon’s first encounters with Lupin such as the chase scene through traffic which is pretty much a frame-by-frame reproduction of Goemon and Lupin’s first battle in the original series. Of course, some of the classic Lupin stunts are here such as driving half a car, using dummies for diversions and emptying an entire room out the window to get rid of cops and mobsters. Also, since the movie takes place in New York, you can expect some wild English from the Japanese voice actors including “Oh My God” and “Jesus”. There is an interesting scene in which Zenigata is asking for hamburgers and the vender cannot understand him since he pronounces it “hambargar”.

The animation for this particular Lupin special is excellent. New York is very detailed, the buildings look fantastic and the buildings with English names on them are spelled with no mispronunciation. My only problem is with the character designs. The designs of Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko and Zenigata are all well done, but some of the other characters, such as Brad, look too modernized and feel too distant from the Monkey Punch style. The animation is accompanied by an excellent jazz soundtrack. The Japanese voice actors, while they don’t hold a candle compared to the original voices, do a good job of getting in character. Lupin sounds very sly and funny while Zenigata is just as bumbling. If you’re an avid Lupin watcher, you know that Fujiko’s appearance changes all too often. For First Contact, she has the classic long brown hair and motorcycle suit, but when we snap back to the present at the end, she is the more modernized Fujiko with blonde hair and tight leather. Thankfully, there have been no other changes to the rest of the cast.

While this cunning caper doesn’t quite feel like Episode 0, it does make for one heck of a great Lupin film. Unless you absolutely hate Monkey Punch, there is nothing wrong with this film. All the characters are properly introduced and they all get enough screen time for you to get to know them and the action is consistent with the story. I only wish all Lupin TV specials could be as skillfully crafted as this First Contact. If there is one movie that can convince you to watch Lupin the Third, First Contact makes an excellent intro into the wild adventures of Lupin.

Pros: Great story; thrilling plot; good character development; great animation with a smooth jazz track to boot; a great watch for both new and old fans alike.

Cons: The Monkey Punch style may not be everyone’s favorite cup of tea.

Grade: A

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Spectacle
By Vu Dang

Sam Lords had done it. He had become a semi-finalist on the new television reality series Top Comic. It was his moment; his time to shine and show America what he was made of. He got up in front of the judges.

“Good evening ladies and gentlemen,” Sam said. “You know, friends always tell me I’m a pretty funny guy, so that’s why I’m here. Anyway, how are y’all doing--”

“Just get on with it,” the judge said.

Sam cleared his throat. “So I was coming in to have Lasik, right? And the doctor said, ‘that’ll be $400.00 per eye,’ and I gave him $1,600.00 but he just sort of looked at me funny. I said, ‘what, can’t you see I have four eyes?’”

Silence.

“See, I used to wear glasses,” Sam said. “But I guess you can’t tell because of the surgery.”

“We get it. It’s just not funny,” said Bob, one of the judges.

Sam’s throat suddenly felt tight. “All right. Okay. How about this. I was in a traffic jam the other day, and it was so bad, let me tell ya, people were taking rides from hitchhikers!”

All he saw on the audience’s face was puzzlement. The microphone suddenly felt slippery in his grip. “Okay, okay, so you ever walk into an airport turnstile the wrong way? Well, I saw the plane from Bangkok had arrived--” Lord love it, his eyeballs were getting tingly. “--at gate 12A and, and oh my god! My eyeballs!” Sam grasped his face. They were gone. “Holy shirts! My eyeballs popped out of my head! Oh my god!”

“Listen, man,” Bob said, “You’re not funny. Just accept it and go.”

Sam got down on the floor to search for them. “It’s the doctor! That goddamn doctor must have hated my ‘four eyes’ joke.”

“We all do,” another judge said.

“But that’s no reason to--Jesus Christ; can’t you see I’m blind?”

The audience started clapping. Sam faced the darkness above him and screamed. “Why? Why!”

The guards led him off stage. One of them stopped to pick up his eyeballs for later reattachment.

“Everybody a big round of applause for Sam Lords!”

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Vu Dang’s Opinionettes
By Vu Dang

Opinionette #1:
So I saw this commercial after Jeopardy. This old guy and his wife were jogging and she says, “We worry about our cholesterol.” Then the guy says, “So we take our leak every day.” I was like, “‘Our leak?’ How does taking your leak lower cholesterol?”
Then they showed the box of Garlique. And I said, “Oh! ‘We take Garlique every day.’”
A moment later, I thought, joke’s on them. They have to worry about high cholesterol.

Opinionette #2:
Who’s all seen this before:
Guy asks, “Hey, what’s this anime about?”
Girl says, “Get this, it’s got a ninja, a rocket ship, and a goat that pees rainbows.”
Girl pauses for laughter. Nobody laughs. She pauses some more. Pauses. Keep pausing. Pause forever. That’s right, because it’s not funny and it’s a gross oversimplification of the anime being asked about.
That was how I got duped into voting for Niea_7 a couple of summers ago. Someone said: “It’s an anime about an alien who lives in a bath house by this one dude.” After watching the series, I said, “Hey, this is more like, totally unfunny anime about evil alien bitch who annoys the hell out of student girl in a quaint small town setting.” I suppose this year, because of summer previewing, the problem isn’t as bad. Though I’m sure during one of the sessions, someone has said something like, “The first ten episodes are kinda slow, but trust me. Later on in the series there’s a giant robot cow.”

Opinionette #3:
I saw this public service ad that said, “Kids who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, or abuse drugs.” I walked off the bus thinking, maybe it’s time I took out that loan for the Mercedes Benz, because people with expensive cars are more likely to be rich. It amazes me how often correlation is taken as causation--just the sort of thing you’d give to a parent who has no clue how to raise their kids and needs quick answers to what is really a deep-seated problem. I commend the public service ads-- they’re the only form of drug prevention out there besides Awareness Day at your high school, D.A.R.E., and TV--but really, we can do better.

Opinionette #4:
I see this happening all the time: this guy on the bus has to get off on the next stop, but instead of pulling on the rope right away, he times it. His hand hovers over the rope for about three minutes, then about a block from the stop, he tugs, then breathes a sigh of relief, because had he pulled at the wrong time, the bus driver skips over the next stop and drives to Montana. Why do people do this? Why the poor faith in the bus driver’s short term memory?

And then I realized, one fine day, the reason why. A passenger tugged on the rope and four people, including me, needed to get off at the next stop. The bus driver came to the stop to tell the people waiting there to get on the bus right behind us, and then closed the door without letting anyone out. Boy did we raise our voices then!

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Weblinks of the Week
By Jessi Silver

Since school’s been in session for almost a month now, and I’m sure most of you would really appreciate something to take your mind off of your impending midterms, I’ve got some funny links this week to try and lighten your spirits (or at least distract you).

The first link is for those of you who remember the old computer game, Duke Nukem 3d. It’s a page full of bloopers Duke’s voice actor recorded. Be sure to listen for the Simpsons voices he does, they’re great:

Duke’s Blunders

The second link is for those of you who feel like you need some games to help you take a break from your homework. At the Popcap.com website, you can play all sorts of java games for free (though a few games require a small one-time install so you can play them properly).

Popcap

Lastly, I’m sure you’ve all encountered instances of really bad English, and luckily there’s a website devoted to just that! Check out the extensive archives of poor grammar, spelling and just plain weirdness at Engrish.com

Engrish.com

That’s all for this week, stay entertained everyone!

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Industry News
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Anime DVD release dates for the next two weeks, brought to you by our friends at www.animeondvd.com.

10-05-2004

Inu Yasha Vol. #22 (of 0) Viz, LLC.
Knights of the Zodiac Vol. #07 (of 10) ADV Films
Tenchi Muyo GXP Vol. #6 (of 0) FUNimation Productions
Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum the Forever (of 6) AnimEigo
Wedding Peach Vol. #06 (also w/box) (of 10) ADV Films
Yu Yu Hakusho Vol. #26: Born Anew (of 0) FUNimation Productions

10-12-2004

Aura Battler Dunbine Vol. #09 (of 12) ADV Films
Azumanga Daioh Vol. #5 (of 6) ADV Films
Banner of the Stars II Complete Collection (of 1) Bandai Entertainment
Case Closed: Case 04 Vol. #02: The Desperate Truth (of 5) FUNimation Productions
eX-Driver The Movie (of 0) Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc.
Fighting Spirit Vol. #02 (of 0) Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc.
Gokusen Vol. #1 (also w/premium) (of 3) Media Blasters
GTO Box Set 2 (of 2) TOKYOPOP
Gundam SEED Vol. #02 (of 10) Bandai Entertainment
Gundam SEED Vol. #03 (of 10) Bandai Entertainment
Kaze No Yojimbo Vol. #4 (of 6) Bandai Entertainment
Last Exile Vol. #6 (of 7) Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc. 75
Lupin the 3rd TV Vol. #08: Sweet Betrayals (of 10) Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc.
Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat Vol. #4 (of 4) ADV Films
Peacemaker Vol. #1 (also w/box) (of 7) ADV Films
Rave Master Vol. #01 (of 13) TOKYOPOP
Superior Defender Gundam Force Vol. #05 (of 0) Bandai Entertainment
Superior Defender Gundam Force Vol. #06 (of 0) Bandai Entertainment
Swallowtail Inn (of 1) Kitty Media
Tsukihime, Lunar Legend Vol. #1 (also w/box) (of 3) Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc.
Wolf's Rain Vol. #3 (of 6) Bandai Entertainment
Zentrix Collection 1 (of 2) Bandai Entertainment


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