| ANIME SACRAMENTO NEWSLETTER, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER
2002 Welcome to the extra-long issue August-September 2002 Anime Sacramento Newsletter. Meetings of Anime Sacramento are bi-monthly, usually on the 2nd Saturday of the odd-numbered months, at the private residence of Laurine White, Sacramento, CA. I enjoy trading non-commercial Japanese-language anime (such as tv episodes), and do limited freebie-dupes of same. E-mail me about trading tapes and some stuff I have for sale. Anime Sacramento e-mail address is lvbwhite@concourse.net Next meeting will be Saturday, September 14, 2002, from 1pm to 11pm. Thank you kind folks who brought munchies in July. Chips, generic cookies and some sodas are on hand for next meeting. Dinner break is 7-8pm. I picked up some Hong Kong movie DVDs at San Diego Comic-con, so those are on the schedule. We will show Tezuka's METROPOLIS and "Spirited Away" (if someone brings it). If you have anime DVDs you want to see or for others to see, please bring them to the show. November meeting will be Nov 23, due to prior commitments. Subscriptions to this newsletter are available, 3 issues for $1.80, 6 issues for $3.60. Make checks payable to Laurine White or send unused postage stamps. If your subscription is expiring, ask to be added to the personal distribution list for the newsletter (it's not an attachment), just send me an email. Remember, if you change your email address, please let me know, so I can keep you on the distribution list. Also let me know if your email is set up to reject distribution list emails. DVD News: BLADE 2 will be out on DVD at the end of August. BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF will be out on DVD the 1st of October. BLADE 2 was filmed by fans of martial arts and anime. BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF is a martial arts fantasy. If there's interest, I'll run them at the next meeting that follows their release. Recommended anime shopping: Nikaku Animart, 615 North 6th Street, San Jose, CA 95112, (408) 971-2822, (website - www.nikaku.com) for anime CDs, LDs, books, posters, etc. Send a long SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) for their latest catalog. For Sale: I (Laurine White) have Japanese CDs for sale: RED - music soundtrack album from STEAM BOY DETECTIVE and BLUE, a drama album, same anime series, $10 for the set; ULTRAMAN ACE double CD set ($10); SFX GRAFFITI-ULTRAMAN - 4 CDs for $15; SHADOW SKILL original music soundtrack double CD set, very nice music for $10. I also have a non-commercial copy of DRAGONS FOREVER for $2. Is anyone interested in three robot model kits, Net Attacker Glitch, Scratch, and Net Defender E-Male? They are Skill Level 1, and I'll let them go for the cost of postage. Beast Wars Pokemon is a fanzine comicbook tribute to Transformers, 80-page story, 12 pages of Maximal and Predacon profiles, two variant covers. Available for $5 from (check payable to) Joe Eibe, 1119 Elm Street, Willows, CA 95988. The artwork is better than a lot of pro comicbooks I've read. More info available at www.snowcrest.net/fox/jag Convention News: Dragon Fest, November 17 at the Glendale (Calif) Civic Auditorium, 10am to 5pm, $15, with lots of guests like Benny the Jet Urquidez, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Gary Daniels, Al Leong, Cynthia Rothrock and many more. www.dragonfest.com, email info@dragonfist.com Cartoon Network News: Cartoon Network has further episodes of BIG O being animated in Japan now, to be aired early in 2003. Cartoon Network is also trying to persuade the producers of COWBOY BEBOP to make more episodes for broadcast on CN. Viz will be selling INU YASHA on DVD, starting this November. INU-YASHA starts airing on CN during Adult Swim, 11pm August 31. CN will also air the new GHOST IN THE SHELL: Stand Alone Complex series (sequel to the movie), while Bandai Entertainment has American DVD rights. Cartoon Network starts running a new Transformers tv series in September. The 2nd story arc of YUYU HAKUSHO begins airing at the end of fall. CN is also trying to get hold of the COWBOY BEBOP movie, to run it after its theatrical release. News from San Diego Comic-con: If you're into fat, informative books about martial arts movies (HK, Japanese, USA), check out GREAT MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES: from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan and More, by Ric(hard) Meyers, published by Citadel Press 270+ pages, lots of photos, $22. Ric is currently writing descriptions of the classic Shaw Brothers movies that will be released on DVD soon, maybe as soon as October. For other Hong Kong movies on DVD, check out www.taiseng.com, www.martialartstheater.com and www.drunkenmaster.com. New Zines at Comic-con - SHONEN JUMP #0 free preview issues from Viz, with b&w manga DBZ, Naruto, YuYu Hakusho and One-Piece. You can subscribe for 12 monthly issues for $20. Contact VIZ, PO Box 77010, SF, CA 94107-9913 RAIJIN Comics #0 free preview issue from raijincomics.com. Zine includes manga and Fujin Magazine supplement with anime and otaku culture info. A one-year subscription includes 48 issues. Manga includes "Fist of the Blue Sky" by Hara Tetsuo, continuing the themes from "Fist of the North Star". Check the website for subscription info and contests that Raijin Comics is running. NEWTYPE USA Preview issue is gorgeous. It has 146 pages, lots of color art, anime info and some manga. A 12-issue subscription (1 year) for $89.95 from Subscriptions, Newtype USA, PO Box 631607, Houston TX 77253-9901, or check the website, www.newtype-usa.com Websites - SpeedRacer.com probably has the 52-episode DVD set, along with apparel, mugs, toys and more. Ninjai.com - site is about a character named Ninjai, has links to martial arts directories, t-shirts, downloads. robotech.com is the official Robotech source. www.rhino.com has Battle of the Planet videos & DVDs (Vols 3-4 due in October), Best of Anime and Card Captors CDs, and look for Gigantor episodes in November. www.awn.com (Animation World Network) has articles, news, reviews, forums, etc. www.sdaff.org (the 3rd San Diego Asian Film Festival, October 3-6 at Madstone Theaters, with Asian & American films, shorts and animation). www.shotopress.com (a small press) has a very nice half-size b&w graphic novel, GARLAND OF MOONLIGHT, written by Jai Sen, illustrated by Rizky Wasisto Edi, $4.59, a supernatural horror tale set in early 20th Century Indonesia. It is the first in the Malay Mysteries series of graphic novels. www.supertechnoarts.com (PO Box 472546, SF, CA 94147-2546) will release JOJO's BIZARRE ADVENTURE the first DVD in a 6-DVD set (with 13 episodes, including the original 6 OAVs and a new 7-episode prequel) this fall/winter. They are based on the Hirohiko Araki manga. Comics Buyers Guide news: The new (HeMan) Masters of the Universe movie ran on Cartoon Network August 16. The new cartoon series will air weekly, starting on August 30. The MVCreations HeMan comicbook begins in November; There's also a new Mattel toy line.// Max Allan Collins, writer of Road to Perdition story, will write 2 sequels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise, which will follow the adventures of the son, now grown up, "on his own road to revenge and redemption". There may also be a graphic novel, Tales from the Road to Perdition, with more detail of the 6-week journey of father and son on the "road to perdition". Remember that Road to Perdition is the "thematic cousin to Lone Wolf and Cub". Stan Winston (a film FX legend) has several comic books coming out from Image. One is REALM OF THE CLAW, from Image, with art by Philip Tan, set in an animal realm with no real humans, but with some real cool anthropomorphic cat gods. (They were giving out cat god posters in San Diego.)// Battle of the Planets Top Cow Comics fan club starts in October with 2 levels, Premiere Fan Club for $30 and Deluxe Fan Club for $50, including Battle of the Planets #1/2, fan club lithograph, quarterly newsletter, and other stuff. Dynamic Forces is running the fan club. For more info, wait until October or check out www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/botpfanclub.html Rightstuf (www.rightstuf.com) News: The new Fox Saturday morning line-up (the "Fox Box") will include Ultraman Tiga (live action), Ultimate Muscle (aka Kinnikuman), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stargate Infinity, and more. www.comicsone.com: Still has the neat swords and letter openers from Storm Riders for sale, check the website for info. Also Comicsone will publish CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON graphic novel #1, $14, full color, starting in November. www.zentertainment.com: The rights for a Transformers movie (possibly live action) have been sold. www.animefringe.com News: TokyoPop has hopes the dubbed INITIAL D will run on network tv.// A new Gundam series, MS GUNDAM SEED, will start airing on Japanese tv in October. The two leads will be 16 years old, and there will be 10 different Gundam types. PlayStation 2 will have games from the series. www.aint-it-cool-news.com News: There's a special premiere of SPIRITED AWAY at the Egyptian Theater in L.A. on September 10, with Hayao Miyazaki in attendance. The soundtrack will be available on Amazon on September 10 as well. Miyazaki will direct HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. www.anime-tourist.com News: Dragon Ball GT will run on Cartoon Network, after Dragon Ball Z has ended. Diamond - Diamond just started a new division, Diamond Book Distributors, to get graphic novels, anime, gaming and other merchandise to retail bookstores (news from LOCUS Magazine for August). PREVIEWS (diamondcomics.com) July 2002 for delivery in September '02 (except as noted). Comics - Dark Horse - ASTRO BOY Vol.8 by Osamu Tezuka (October), 200 pg, b&w, $10; SHADOW STAR: Shadows of the Past, by Mohiro Kitoh (October), 144 pg, b&w, $14, an awkward teenager bonds with an ET shapeshifter; SUPER MANGA BLAST #25, including "Appleseed Hypernote" by Masamune Shirow, 128 pg, b&w, $6. Vertigo - FIGHT FOR TOMORROW #1 (of 6) by Brian Wood, art by Denys Cowan, 32 pg, color, $2.50, a boy raised to fight in competition in the NYC underworld looks for a missing nurse with the aid of a Buddhist girl (influenced by HK action flix); VERTIGO POP: TOKYO #3 (of 4), 32 pg, color, $2.95, anarchy in Tokyo. Wildstorm - BLACK SUN #1 (of 6), written by Andreyko, art by Trevor Scott, 40 pg, color, HK detective Maggie Sun, with the aid of a black pearl, battles an ancient demon; THUNDERCATS #2 (of 5), 32 pg, color, $2.95. Wildstorm is releasing THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN in a $15 trade edition. LEAGUE, by Alan Moore (WATCHMEN), is now being turned into a movie. Image - BATTLE OF THE PLANETS #3, 32 pg, color, $3. Marvel - SHANG-CHI: MASTER OF KUNG FU #1 (of 4) by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy; WOLVERINE: NETSUKE #1 (of 4) by George Pratt, Wolverine goes samurai, 32 pg, color, $3. Antarctic - HOW TO DRAW MANGA Vol 1 trade edition, 192 pg, b&w, $18.95. Comicsone - BRIDE OF DEIMOS #1 by Yuuho Ashibe, 200 pg, b&w, $9.95, a demon finds a high school girl who looks just like his beloved sister; STORM RIDERS #6 by Wing Shing Ma, 120 pg, color, $14; SAINT LEGEND #1 by Andy Seto, 120 pg, color, $14, an immortal has to stop people, under an evil influence, from destroying Buddhist temples; KING OF FIGHTERS 2000 by Andy Seto, 120 pg, color, $14, based on the fighting game; LEGENDARY COUPLE #1 by Louis Cha & Tony Wang, 120 pg, color, $14, Louis Cha - need I say more? MEGA DRAGON & TIGER KUNG FU ACTION #1 by Tony Wang, 120 pg, color, $14, SF and martial arts (actually, the plot sounds like Hokuto No Ken). CPM graphic novels - SLAYERS SPECIAL BOOK 1: Touch of Evil, 192 pg, b&w, $16; FRONTIER LINE Vol 1 by Yoshihisa Tagami ( Grey: Digital Target), 240 pg, b&w, $16, civil war has broken out, and the only way to survive is to use the mechas left by a vanished race; RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight #1, 176 pg, b&w, $16. Curtis (www.curtiscomic.com) Comics - a bunch of Korean manga, all 32 pg, b&w, $2.95. For more info, check their website. Dreamwave - ARKANIUM #1, 32 pg, color, $2.95. a mercenary and a Chinese statesman must stop the Children of the Damned from unleashing the power of the Arkanium scrolls; FATE OF THE BLADE #2 by Sarracini & Yamen, 32 pg, color, $2.95. Humanoids - MORGANA Bk 1: Heaven's Gate by Luca Enoch & Mario Alberti, 56 pg, color, $16, the beautiful warrior Morgana is the Sieth Clan's only hope against evil from the stars. Ironcat - YOU & ME Vol 1 #3, 32 pg, b&w, $2.95, VAMPIRE YUI Vol 2, 216 pg, b&w, $18; HYPER DOLLS Vol 2, 208 pg, b&w, $16. Nice One - GET CARTER! THE LAST DRAGON SCOUT #2, 28 pg, color, $2.95, the blind master of the flying guillotine joins the chase to save the family name. Radio - FURRLOUGH #117, 32 pg, b&w, $3; MANGAPHILE #17, 48 pg, b&w, $4. Shanda Fantasy Arts (another furry publisher) - KATMANDU ANNUAL #4, 48 pg, b&w, $5; EXTINCTIONERS Vol 2 #12, 48 pg, b&w, $5. Tokyopop - CHOBITS Vol 3 by CLAMP, 192 pg, b&w, $10; WISH Vol 2 by CLAMP, 192 pg, b&w, $10; ART OF MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH Vol 2 ART BOOK by CLAMP, 100 pg, color, $20; INITIAL D Vol 1 by Shuichi Shigeno, 200 pg, b&w, $10. Viz (but on because it's) BATTLE ANGEL ALITA: Last Order Pt.1 #1 by Yokito Kishiro, 48 pg, b&w, $2.95, Alita finds herself in the floating sky-city. Zines - G-FAN #59 with 1st pix from Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla, 84 pg, $4.95. ORIENTAL FILM REVIEW #3, 58 pg, $8. PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #73, 72 pg, $4.95. Books - KIDS DRAW ANIME by Christopher Hart, focusing on shojo and shonen styles, 64 pg, $11. THE ART OF JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER (beautiful color art of Goddess Dawn and others), 192 pg, color, $70 (listed here for the Dawn fans). Misc. - Blade of the Immortal 4 different stickers, $1.99 each (October). Shirow Intron Depot coaster set, color art, set of 4, $13 (November). Battle of the Planets Perfect Trading Card Binder ($20, but you have to buy your own cards) and Limited Edition Preview Book ($5). T-shirts - Lone Wolf & Cub: full moon (black shirt) & Ogami & Daigoro (tan shirt), M-X $18, XXL $20. Niea_7 on black, L-XL $17. Underdog (because he was a fave of mine) on white, L-XL $17. Transformers Autobot light blue logo t-shirt, L-XL, $17. Action Figures - Shang-Chi 8" bust, from the waist up, with arms and hands in kung fu pose, $90. Crouching Tiger action figures, now $7 each. Anime wall scrolls - Hellsing - 3 different (Cross, Arucard, Arucard & Sight) $18 each. Love Hina - 3 different, $18 each. Videos/DVDs - Bandai - ARJUNA Vol 1 DVD $30
(from the creators of Macross & Cowboy Bebop). Anime Works - BERSERK
Vol 3 (#10-13, 100 min) dub/sub $25, DVD $30; COSMO WARRIOR ZERO Vol 2
(100 min) dub $20, DVD $25, Zero searches for Capt. Harlock; YS Vol 1
Bk 1 (#1-4, 100 min) video $25, DVD $30. ADV - DAI-GUARD Vol 1: Hostile
Territory DVD (125 min) $30; DRAGON HALF DVD (50 min) $15; KIMERA dvd
(45 min) $20; ZONE OF ENDERS Vol 1: Idolo DVD (55 min) $25. Funimation
- LUPIN III: Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (85 min) video $25, DVD $30.
Manga Ent - FIST OF THE NORTH STAR Vol 1-2 DVDs (90 min each) $30 each.
Pioneer - GREAT DANGAION (100 min) dub $20, DVD $25; X TV series Vol 1
DVD (95 min) $30; VANDREAD 2nd Stage Vol 1 DVD (100 min) $30. CDs - ARMITAGE
Dual Matrix ST 2-CD set $21. Ironcat - THE VAMPIRE DAHLIA #1 by Narumi Kakinouchi, 200 pg, b&w, $17; NEW VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU #2, 216 pg, b&w, $18. Radio Comix - FURRLOUGH #118, b&w, 32 pg, $3; SAIKO & LAVENDER SPOOKTACULAR SPECIAL #1 by Michael Vega & Diana X, b&w, 32 pg, $3. Shanda - FURRY NINJA HIGH SCHOOL #2 (of 2), b&w&red, 24 pg, $2.95. TokyoPop - COWBOY BEBOP Vol 1 by Yutaka Nanten, 184 pg, b&w, $10; ANGELIC LAYER Vol 3 (of 7) by CLAMP, 192 pg, b&w, $10; INITIAL D Vol 4, 208 pg, b&w, $10; MARMALADE BOY Vol 4, 192 pg, b&w, $10; LOVE HINA Vol 7, 184 pg, b&w, $10; GUNDAM WING: Last Outpost #4 (of 12), b&w, 48 pg, $3; GUNDAM TECHNICAL MANUAL Vol 6: G-Gundam, 92 pg, b&w, $13; ART OF CARD CAPTOR SAKURA Vol 3 by CLAMP, 128 pg, $20. Books: ANIME EXPLOSION: The What Why and Wow, by Patrick Drazen, 320 pg, b&w, $19. HONG KONG COMICS by Wendy Siuyi Wong, 208 pg, color, $25. JAPANESE COMICKERS from Design Exchange, a look at 12 promising manga artists, 128 pg, color, $25. MECHA MANIA by Chris Hart, how to draw mecha, 128 pg, color, $20. T-shirts - Thundercats black t-shirt with
logo, L-XL $17, XXL $18; Thundercats 3-heads t-shirt, L-XL 417. Calendar
- Masamune Shirow 2003 calendar from Dark Horse (ships in November), $20.
Action Figures - Battle of the Planets "Mark", 6" figure
sculpted by Gabriel Marquez, $11. Vampire Hunter D mini-bust. 7",
$40. Wall Scrolls - 4 different 31"x43" Cowboy Bebop wall scrolls,
$18 each. Gaming - CALL OF CTHULHU: Secrets of Japan, sourcebook for a
Lovecraftian Japan, $28. Videos/DVDs - Manga Entertainment - EVA Movie:
End of EVA, 90 minutes, dub $20, sub $25, DVD $30. Bandai - G-Gundam 3-DVD
box set (November), $50. CPM - GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES DVD, 88 min, $30.
US Manga Corps - HARMAGEDDON DVD, $30. Image - HYPER POLICE episodes 1-4
DVD, $20. SAKURA WARS OAV Vol 1, 90 min, DVD $25. ADV - DAIMAJIN DVD,
all 3 classic Majin movies, 270 min, $25. |