Welcome to the February - March 2005 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, California. Email the editor, LVBwhite (at) concourse (dot) net for info and directions. 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. (Please put Subject line something like "Attention Laurine", or it might get accidentally deleted with all the !@#$%&* spam.) Anime Sacramento showings are non-smoking, non-alcoholic and non-hentai, when kids are here. The house has plenty on-street parking in front. It's 5 minutes walk from a supermarket and from the Bus 1 route, 10-minute drive from A-1 Comics and diverse cuisine restaurants. There's no set program schedule; it's a social event. If you have allergies, this house has a cat.

Next meeting, will be on the third Saturday, March 19, from 1pm to 10pm. It will be combined with the Sacramento Anime screening (with anime programming provided by Ian) for March. Thank you kind folks who brought munchies in January. Thank you Chris, Ashley, and Greco for the new anime episodes. Some sodas, chips, and Japanese snacks are on hand. Bring munchies to share. The schedule for March isn't set. Dinner break is 7-8pm (or whenever). Any anime requests? Bring your favorite new anime DVDs to watch with us. I also have lots of Asian action movie DVDs. Forget Shige Sushi, but there's another Japanese sushi restaurant not too far away, at dead end of Cypress at Manzanita (east side).

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The Sacramento Pacific Rim Festival will be held in Old Sacramento on Sunday, May 22, with food, entertainment, and exhibits.

Miyazaki's HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE may get an American theatrical release this June. If that happens, would anyone be interested in seeing it as a group?

Buena Vista has already released Nausicaa, Porco Rosso, and The Cat Returns on DVD (three 2-disc sets, $30 each).

The Sacramento Anime & Manga Show is over, but the Sacramento Comic, Toy & Anime Show has been announced for Sunday, March 13, also at the Scottish Rite Center. And there will be another Sunrise Mall Anime & Manga Show on Saturday-Sunday, July 30-31, 2005, free admission, of course. If I get a free club table there, I'll be giving out more anime freebies and small Japanese posters for American films. At the Anime & Manga Show I bought a lovely art book, Tir na sorcha by Akemi Takada, at the Nikaku Animart table, and two nice FullMetal Alchemist bromides at the Anime-101 table. A couple of DMP yaoi titles were available at one table there. More info about their yaoi titles (such as, Only the Ring Finger Knows) is at http://dmpbooks.com/manga.

Handouts at the event include: Unwound (website - http://www.unwound.show) is a 60-minute webshow, 7 pm Pacific time Sunday, that reviews digitally-available anime series. It's hosted by Jesse Barredo & Michael Garcia. Tune your favorite MP3 player to Japan-A-Radio on Sunday nights by visiting http://www.japanaradio.com. Other handouts at the Sacramento Anime & Manga Show include: Toy Fusion Store Parking Lot Toy Show on Sunday, March 6, at 1908 El Camino Ave, Sacramento, just east of Business 80. // Henagi the Ninja Girl by Ben Seto - I guess it's a comicbook title from Black Sheep Comics (http://www.blacksheepcomics.com). // Ron Lim said he'll have a new sketchbook available at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

The usual Sacramento fan websites: Sacramento Anime (http://www.sacramentoanime.com) - Some of the Anime Sacramento newsletters are archived here, including the most recent ones. Thank you, Ian!

Anime Meetups: info on the monthly meetups in Sacramento (and elsewhere worldwide) can be found at http://anime.meetup.com. The Sacramento group has been meeting the 3rd Sunday of each month at Bella Bru, SE corner of the intersection of Arden and Fair Oaks Blvd.

Sacramento Anime Enthusiasts is currently in hiatus. It's been awhile since the club's current website has been updated - http://www.jeskola303.net/saneanime. Email "jeskola303 at yahoo.com".

Fantastic Frontiers (http://www.fantasticfrontiers.com) is the website for the regional Science Fiction club, with barbecues, meetings, Halloween party and other events. They're planning a "Star Struck" SF convention on July 9, 2005, at the Scottish Rite Temple Auditorium.

My favorite comicbook store is still A-1 Comics, at the intersection of Madison & Manzanita. They sell manga, manhwa, HK graphic novels, and have a good supply of anime DVDs, especially now that they finally have someone on staff who is interested in that stuff. Their website is http://www.a-1comics.com. A-1's other branch, at 818 Sunrise Blvd (near Cirby Way), is even larger, but I haven't been out there yet. Another great thing about the Madison & Manzanita intersection is that it has 3 Chinese restaurants (Hings, Ah-Chop-Chop, and Happy Gourmet (vegetarian)), a Vietnamese noodle house, and the Thai Hut. Looks like Shige Sushi ain't gonna happen.

So much for the Miramax theatrical release of Infernal Affairs. It never reached Sacramento, and the Miramax official DVD was released in December 2004.

Northern California Conventions:

FanimeCon 2005 (http://www.fanime.com) will be held at the San Jose (Calif) McEnery Convention Center on May 27-30 (Memorial Day weekend), with 24-hour anime programming, dealers room, etc. Registration is $50 until some time in April. Check the website to register.

Star Struck SF convention at the Scottish Rite Temple near CSUS on July 9, 2005. For more info, go to http://geocities.com/fantasticfrontiers/

Recca Con '05 (http://www.reccacon.com) Recca Con '05, scheduled for Saturday, March 19 '05 at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, California. Admission $15.

For more info on the Kimi No Hanyo Anime Convention (Sierra College Rocklin Campus, Sept 9-11, 2005, off I-80 east of Roseville, Calif), check the website http://kimicon.scarletheavens.com. The convention is in the early planning stages.

News Of Northern California interest:

http://www.nikaku.com - Nikaku Animart - 615 North 6th Street, San Jose, CA 95112, (408) 971-2822. Recommended for their gift items from Japan, for their anime CDs, books, posters, etc., and the friendly staff. Visit them when you're in the San Jose Japantown area. Eat at the Kazoo. Take the historic walking tour. http://www.japantownsanjose.org Go shopping at Nichi Bei Bussan, open for over 100 years, now with a website, http://www.nbstore.com. I like their Asian t-shirt designs.

The Anime 101 store in Morgan Hill (south Santa Clara County) now has an official website: http://www.anime-101.com. Email is "shop (at) anime-101 (dot) com"

http://www.sacramentocomics.com - check the website for more info on the Collectors Shows in Northern California, such as the Sunrise Mall Anime & Manga Show in July.

Bay Area Animation Society website: http://www.dotsumi.org, with lots of anime news.

My stuff for sale: Japanese CDs: ULTRAMAN ACE double CD set ($7); SFX GRAFFITI-ULTRAMAN - 4 CDs for $12; SHADOW SKILL original music soundtrack double CD set, very nice music for $7. Also for sale are Roman Album-type publications, manga, laser disks. Please email ("Attn Laurine") me for titles, lvbwhite (at) concourse (dot) net

News of General Interest:

San Diego Comic-Con 2005 will be at the San Diego Convention Center on July 14-17. Registration is $50 until 20 April, $55 until 8 June, $65 at the door. More info at http://www.comic-con.org. (Going to this, even with the humongous crowds, is an addiction.)

Nippon in 2007 (http://www.nippon2007.org/eng/e_main.html) is the 2007 World Science Fiction Convention to be held at Pacifico Yokohama August 30 to Sept 3, 2007. Attending rate until 31 December is $160 (adult), $80 (child). Email info (at) nippon2007 (dot) org

A-Kon (http://www.a-kon.com) will be held June 3-5 at Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas, Texas. It's the oldest anime-con in America. Activities include cosplay, video premiers, sumo, panels, art show, j-pop dance, gaming.

Avatar the Last Airbender started playing on Nickelodeon with a one-hour episode at 7pm on Monday, Feb 21. Its regular time is 8pm on Friday nights.

A Monk's Tale #4 is now available from Konsequential Studios. Check their website at http://amonkstale.com for more info on their zine, issues #1-4, their Sketchbook Series, and t-shirts. I've dealt with these folks now at 2 cons, and they've been nice, happy to autograph their zines. Check 'em out. Buy their stuff.

Stone Bridge Press has a new book out - THE MIDNIGHT EYE GUIDE TO NEW JAPANESE FILM by Tom Mes & Jasper Sharp, forward by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), 380 pages,150+ photos, trade pb, $23. Another recent Stone Bridge Press book is CRUISING THE ANIME CITY: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo by Patrick Macias & Tomohiro Michiyama, 144 pages, 100+ color photos, trade pb, $17. Either check out the Stone Bridge website (http://www.stonebridge.com), email "sbp at stonebridge.com", or snailmail: Stone Bridge Press, PO Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707.

STRAY DOGS AND LONE WOLVES: The Samurai Film Handbook will be published by Stone Bridge Press in May. More info on this book can be found at the author's website: http://cyberpat.com/book.html. The site has links to Japanese culture, history, language, films, photos from classic samurai films, and vendor list. This and other Stone Bridge books, ANIME COMPANION 2 and JROCK, INC, will be available thru Diamond Previews and other outlets in May.

Email from http://www.thejapaneseconnection.com - which offers your name on a hanko (hand-carved signature seal), digital hanko images, and calligraphy. Email is

"Tomaru (at) thejapaneseconnection (dot) com"

Robin Shou's RED TROUSERS movie is now scheduled for a DVD release on March 15th. See http://www.taiseng.com. Also, The Discovery Channel may show the film.

http://anime-tourist.com News - The Studio Ironcat website regrets to announce that it is now out of business (http://www.ironcat.com). You can email any questions to "ironcatnew (at) aol (dot) com" // ShoPro Entertainment (with connections to Shueisha, Inc. and Shogakukan Production Co. in Japan) and VIZ are planning a merger this spring to form a new entertainment company with headquarters in San Francisco.

http://www.monkeypeaches.com News - Filming on MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA has finally been completed. Worldwide release is scheduled for December 2005. In Japan the movie will be released under the title SAYURI. // The Jet Li movie, UNLEASHED (aka Danny the Dog) will be released on April 8. The movie also stars Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins. // The Stephen Chiau movie, KUNG FU HUSTLE, is supposed to get an American theatrical release in March 2005. Official U.S. website is http://www.sonyclassics.com/kungfuhustle/index.php

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com News: Dark Horse & Digital Manga will start releasing the Vampire Hunter D series of novels in early April. Volume 1 (of 17) has a cover price of $8.95 and 8 illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. The D series is written by Hideyuki Kikuchi. // AnimEigo has 3 more classic splatter samurai films it will release on DVD: DEMON SPIES and SAMURAI HUNTERS 1 and 2. // Walt Disney Pictures is interested in making a live action Kiki's Delivery Service. Jeff Stockwell will write the screenplay. The source of KiKi's Delivery Service is a series of books by Eiko Kadano. // The Tokyo Mew Mew series will be on the Fox line-up Saturday morning shows this fall. // The Kikaida tv series will start running on tv in the Bay Area in April. // Hayao Miyazaki wants to make three more films.

http://www.henshinonline.com News - Tsuburaya Productions is working on a new UltraMan film, to be titled ULTRAMAN: THE NEXT. FX will be both CGI and traditional.

http://www.aintitcool.com News - Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy movie will get a theatrical release in major American cities (does that include Sacramento?) on March 18. Voice actors for the anime release include Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina and Anna Paquin. Running time is 106 minutes. // Chow Yun-Fat will play someone named "Rellik", a bounty hunter after zombies, in a movie called "The Wretched".

http://www.animenewsservice.com News - Funimation has announced on its website that several FullMetal Alchemist t-shirts are now available at Hot Topic. Funimation released the Lupin III movie, DEAD OR ALIVE, on DVD on February 22. Their Lupin III website is http://www.lupinthethird.com. Other Funimation announcements can be found at the website http://newsletter.funimation.com // Funimation has been bought by Navarre Corporation, which deals in software and home entertainment. // Shochiku plans to release movies for Gundam (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Heir to the Stars), FullMetal Alchemist, Prince of Tennis (The First Game), XXXHolic, Tetsujin 28 (live action) this year. It also plans to release a live action GeGeGe no Kitaro movie next year that will be different from the manga and anime series. // A newly-discovered cancer-causing gene has been named Pokemon (POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor) by scientists at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. // TokyoPop has announced that the Initial-D will be coming to tv in May. // TMS (Tales of the Galaxy Rangers) is producing a new 52-episode series of Glass No Kamen that starts playing in Japan on April 5. // A new Fist of the North Star movie, Hokuto No Ken: Raoh Gaiden Junai-Hen, will be released in 2006. This is the first of 3 new North Star movies and 2 OAVs to be released over 3 years. // Hiroyuki Nasu, director of the Cowboy Bebop movie and the recent live action DevilMan movie, died of liver cancer on Feb 27. He was 53 years old.

South China Morning Post News (http://photo.scmp.com/index.php): Hong Kong actress and singer Anita Mui will be added to the celebrities in wax at Madame Toussauds on The Peak (Hong Kong). Actor Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing's wax figure is already there. Both of them are missed by their fans.

http://www.drmasterbooks.com has replaced the ComicsOne website, which is no more. ComicsOne had financial difficulties, and was offering many of its manga, manhwa and Hong Kong graphic novels for half-price sale. It has now been taken over by its parent company, DrMaster (a Taiwanese software company), which will continue to publish titles. Check the DRMaster website for a list of current and future manga and manhwa titles.

If you're interested in Chinese novels from which HK sword films have been made, Oxford University Press has finally published THE BOOK & THE SWORD "a martial arts novel" by Louis Cha, translation by Graham Earnshaw. One plotline is that the Chien Lung emperor wasn't really a Manchu but secretly was of Chinese parentage. Louis Cha (Jin Yong) wrote novels that were the basis for many HK sword films. Other Louis Cha novels translated into English include THE DEER AND THE CAULDRON (in 3 parts), FOX VOLANT OF THE SNOWY MOUNTAIN, THE LEGENDARY COUPLE (graphic novel series published by ComicsOne), RETURN OF THE CONDOR HEROES (18-volume graphic novel series published by Asiapac. Some of the titles are available on Amazon.

http://movieweb.com News - the John Woo movie, SPY HUNTER, starring The Rock, will be released in 2006. In the movie, based on a video game, The Rock plays a former F-15 pilot who joins a government agency trying to take down an international group bent on world domination.

What follows is just a small selection of the Diamond anime-related offerings.

Diamond PREVIEWS (http://www.diamondcomics.com) January 2005 for March 2005 delivery (except as noted). Comics - Dark Horse - MANGA DARKCHYLDE #2 (of 5) by Oates & Queen, color, 32 pg, $2.99; SAMURAI: Heaven and Earth #4 (of 5) by Ron Marz & Luke Ross, color, 32 pg, $2.99; CLUB 9 Vol.3 by Makoto Kobayashi, (April) b&w, 192 pg, $15.95; BERSERK Vol.7 by Kentaro Miura (April) 232 pg, b&w, $13.95; SUPER MANGA BLAST #50, celebrates with a fan art contest, b&w, 128 pg, $5.99. DC CMX - all are $9.95, b&w, THE DEVIL DOES EXIST Vol.1 by Takanashi Mitsuba, 192 pg, $b&w; MONSTER COLLECTION Vol.1, art by Itoh Sei, 174 pg, b&w; SWORD OF THE DARK ONES Vol.1 by Tsukasa & Kentaro, 204 pg, b&w. ADV - all are digest-size - CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL Vol.1 (of 9) by Eiji Nonaka, 168 pg, $10.99; BY THE SWORD Vol.1 (of 2) by Sanami Matoh, 192 pg, $9.99; GUNSLINGER GIRL Vol.2 (of 3) by Yu Aida, 178 pg, $9.99; KID'S JOKER Vol.1 (of 6) by Maki Fujita, 200 pg, $9.99; CHRONO CRUSADE Vol.4 (of 6) by Daisuke Moriyama, 182 pg, $9.99; KYRIE Vol.1 (of 2) by Mugita Sukimura, 208 pg, $9.99; NOODLE FIGHTER MIKI Vol.1 (of 6) by Jun Satogawa, 200 pg, $9.99. Antarctic - HOW TO DRAW CHIBI DEFORMED TECHNIQUES, 144 pg, b&w, $19.95; HOW TO DRAW MANGA: Next Generation #3, 32 pg, b&w, $4.95.

Anime Works - DEATH TRANCE Vol.1 by Kana Takeuchi, 152 pg, b&w, $9.99; GUNPARADE MARCH ANIME Vol.1, 192 pg, b&w, $9.99. Be Beautiful - FINDER Vol.1: Target in the Finder, 192 pg, b&w, $15.99 (adult content). CPM - ANGEL SHOP Vol.1 by Sook Ji Hwang, 200 pg, b&w, $9.99; HARD BOILED ANGEL: Angel Detective vol.1 by Hyun Se Lee, 344 pg, b&w, $9.99 (mature themes); KUNG FU JUNGLE BOY Vol.1 by Jae Kyung Uhm & Choong Ho Lee, 192 pg, b&w, $9.99. Del Rey - GUNDAM SEED Vol.4, 200 pg, b&w, $10.95; OTHELLO Vol.3 by Satomi Ikezawa, 200 pg, b&w, $10.95 (mature themes); WALLFLOWER Vol.3 by Yamatonadeshico Shichihenge, 200 pg, b&w, $10.95 (mature themes). Devils Due - G.I.JOE: Arashikage Showdown by Blaylock & Tamai, 128 pg, b&w, $10.95, wall-to-wall ninja action. DRMaster (replaces Comicsone)- INFINITE RYVIUS Vol.2 by Shinsuke Kurihashi, 200 pg, b&w, $9.95; JUNK FORCE Vol.1 by Hideki Kakinuma, 200 pg, b&w, &.95; PRETTY MANIACS Vol.1 by Shinsuke Kurihashi, 200 pg, b&w, $9.95; TORI KORO Vol.1 by Hideki Kakinuma, 200 pg, b&w, $9.95. HK - CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON Volumes 1-4 Expanded Editions, 128 pg, color, $13.95 each. Infinity - TRAVELER OF THE MOON Vol.1 (of 3) by Na Hyeon Lee, 192 pg, b&w, $9.95.

Ironcat - DRAGON WARS Vol.1, b&w, $17.95. Radio Comix (furry titles) - FURRLOUGH #147, 32 pg, b&w, $3.50. Shanda (furry titles) - SHANDA THE PANDA #43, b&w, $4.99 (mature themes). Speakeasy (http://www.speakeasycomics.com) - Yoshitaka Amano's HERO #1, written by Jessie Horsting, art by Amano, color, 96 pg, $9.99. TokyoPop - SOKORA REFUGEES Vol.1 by Segamu & DeJesus, $9.99; CLAMP NO KISEKI art book Vol.1 by CLAMP, color, 32 pg, $29.99; IN DREAM WORLD Vol.1 by Yoon Jae Hoo, 192 pg, $9.99; RG VEDA Vol.1 by CLAMP, 192 pg, $9.99; VISITOR Vol.1 by No Yee-Jung, 192 pg, $9.99. Zines - GIANT ROBOT #36, Asian & Asian-American pop culture, 88 pg, b&w, $4.95. NEO Magazine #4 & 5, British zine dedicated to anime, vidogames & all things Japanese, 100 pg, b&w, each $6.50. PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #83, $4.95. Books - MANGA SECRETS (by Lea Hernandez) and MANGA MONSTER MADNESS (by David Okum), $19.995 each, from Impact Books (http://www.impact-books.com). T-shirts - "I'm Ninja" on 100% black cotton, M-XL, $18 (but remember, a real ninja would never publicize it; only a fake ninja would wear this shirt). Plush - Fruits Basket - Momiji Rabbit, $12. InuYasha Sango Plush - $12. YuYu Hakusho Kurama, $12. Poster - KILL BILL #2 bride with katana, $5. Beach Towel - Trigun - Wolfwood & Vash, $18. Games - FENG SHUI RPG: Glimpse of the Abyss hardback, $29.95 (Atlas Games). ADVANCED D20 MAGIC, $29.95 (Guardians of Order). MUNCHKIN FU 2: Monky Business, $16.95 (Steve Jackson).

DVDs - ADV Reduced Prices ($18 each - Arc the Lad Vol.1, Eden's Bowy Vol.1, Neo Ranga Vol.1, Steam Detectives Vol.1; Wild Arms Vol.1). Geneon - AIR MASTER Vol.1 & 2, 100 min. each, $25 each; ULTRAMANIAC Vol.1: Magical Girl, 100 min (April)$25. ADV - A TREE OF PALME Vol.1, 130 min, $30; CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL Vol.1, $30; GRAVION ZWEI Vol.1, $30; SAMURAI SHODOWN Vol.1, 80 min, $15. Buena Vista (Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli)- THE CAT RETURNS ($30), NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND, $30, PORCO ROSSO, $30. AnimeWorks - MIDORI NO HIBI Vol.1, 125 min, $30; OTOGI ZOSHI Vol.1: Legend of the Magatama (February, mature themes) $30. Live Action - SAMURAI ASSASSIN starring Toshiro Mifune, 122 min, $30 (AnimEigo). SHINOBI Vol.3, 80 min. $20 (ADV). CDs - APPLESEED OST 2-disc, $17 (Tofu Records). Geneon - AZUMANGA DAIOH Vol.1 OST (original sound track) $15, BEST OF BASTARD OST $15, DAPHNE OF THE BRILLIANT BLUE OST $15, DESCENDANTS OF DARKNESS OST $15, HANAUKYO MAID TEAM LA VERITA OST $15, RAHXEPHON Vol.2 OST $15.

Diamond PREVIEWS February 2005 for April '05 (except as noted). Comics - Dark Horse - VAMPIRE HUNTER D #1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi & Yoshitaka Amano, b&w, $8.95, 300 pg (May); KING OF WOLVES by Buronson & Kentaro Miura, b&w, 200 pg, $12.95 (May). SAMURAI: Heaven & Earth #5 (of 5) by Ron Marz, Luke Ross, Jason Keith, color, 32 pg, $2.99. DC CMX - (each is $9.99, b&w) TENRYU: The Dragon Cycle Vol.1 by Matoh Sanami, 200 pg, b&w; MADARA Vol.3 by Sho-u Tajima & Eiji Otsuka; LAND OF THE BLINDFOLDED Vol.3 by Tsukuba Sakura, 200 pg; FROM EROICA WITH LOVE Vol.3, 224 pg. ADV - MUBURAHO Vol.1 by Miki Miyashita, 168 pg, $9.99; GATE Vol.1 by Hirotaka Kisaragi, 176 pg, $9.99 ("Hey ladies - it's cute boys with magical powers" [ed. comment "bleah!"]); DARK WATER Vol.1 by Koji Suzuki, 144 pg, $9.99; MORE STARLIGHT TO YOUR HEART Vol.2 by Hiro Matsuba, 208 pg, $9.99; VAIZARD Vol.1 by Michihiro Yoshida, 184 pg, $9.99; RAY 2 by Akihito Yoshifumi, 184 pg, $9.99.

Anime Works - APOCALYPSE ZERO Vol.2 by Takayuki Yamaguchi, 200 pg, b&w, $9.99, mature themes; BARON GONG BATTLE Vol.2 by Masayuki Taguchi, 192 pg, b&w, $9.99, mature themes. Antarctic - DRAGON ARMS Stand Alone Special BY David Hutchison, 32 pg, b&w, $2.99; HOW TO DRAW MANGA: Next Generation #4, 32 pg, b&w, $4.95; ASSEMBLY Pocket Manga Vol.1 by Sherard Jackson, 142 pg, b&w, $9.99; JUNCTION #17 Pocket Manga by David Hutchison, 142 pg, b&w, $9.99. Broccoli - DI GI CHARAT THEATER: Dejikos Adventure #1, 180 pg, b&w, $9.99; DI GI CHARAT THEATER: Leave It To Piyoko Vol.1 by Hina, 180 pg, b&w, $9.99; UNTIL THE FULL MOON Manga #2 by Sanami Matoh, 180 pg, b&w, $9.99. CPM - MASCA Vol.2 by Young Hee Kim, 192 pg, b&w, $9.99; PRINCESS Vol.1 by Seung Won Han, 200 pg, b&w, $9.99. Del Rey - GENSHIKEN Vol.1 by Kia Shimoku, 200 pg, b&w, $10.95; NODAME CANTIABILE Vol.1 by Tomoko Ninomiya, 200 pg, b&w, $10.95. DR Master (replaces Comicsone) - COSPLAY KOROMO CHAN Vol.1 by Mook, 160 pg, b&w, $9.95; KING OF FIGHTERS 2003 Vol.1 by Wing Yan & King Tung, 120 pg, color, $13.95. HK - CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON by Andy Seto, 128 pg, color, $13.95. Infinity - FIGHTING GUIDANCE Vol.1 by Jeon Geuk-jin & Eom Hye-jin, 200 pg, b&w, $9.95; HURRAH SAILOR Vol.1 (of 2) by Katsuwo Nakane, 210 pg, b&w, $9.95; ZIPPY ZIGGY Vol.1 by Kim Eun-jeong & Hwang Seung-man, 184 pg, b&w, $9.95.

Kandora - BARBAROSSA & THE LOST CORSAIRS #2 by Brian Augustyn & HS Park, 40 pg, color, $3.50; JADE FIRE #1 by Brian augustyn & HS Park, 40 pg, color, $3.50. Last Gasp - BAREFOOT GEN Vol.3 & 4 by Keiji Nakazawa, each 284 pg, b&w, $14.95. Radio - FURRLOUGH FINEST Vol.2, 64 pg, b&w, $5.99. Shanda - KATMANDU ANNUAL #5, 40 pg, b&w, $4.99, mature themes. TokyoPop - HEAVEN ABOVE HEAVEN Vol.1 by Jeon Joong-Won & Hyun Kang-Suk, 192 pg, $9.99; iD_eNTITY Vol.1 by Kim Yoon-Kyong & Son Hee-Joon, 192 pg, $9.99; SHAOLIN SISTERS; Reborn Vol.1 by Toshiki Hirano & Narumi Kakinouchi, 192 pg, $9.99; BOYS BE Vol.4 by Masahiro Itabashi & Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, 192 pg, $9.99. Zines - Wizard ANIME INSIDER #21 with Ghost in the Shell Season 2, $4.99. Beckett ANIME COLLECTOR #69, 88 pg, color, $6.99. NEO Magazine #6, UK zine, 84 pg, color, $6.50, Asian pulp culture.

Books - MORE ANIME POSTER ART, 112 PG, COLOR, $19.95, Cocoro Books. THE RUROUNI KENSHIN COMPANION, 192 pg, b&w, $12. and the usual blah blah blah KIDS DRAW MANGA SHOUJO by Chris Hart, 64 pg, $10.95; SHOUJO MANGA TECHNIQUES; Drawing Basics by Hirono Tsubasa & Nene Kotobuki, 160 pg, b&w, $19.95; SHOUJO MANGA TECHNIQUES: Writing Stories by Mako Itsuki, 160 pg, b&w, $19.95; XTREME ART: Draw Manga Monsters by Chris Hart, 64 pg, color, $6.95; LET'S DRAW MANGA SHOUJO CHARACTERS by Akaro, 138 pg, b&w, $19.95. RGK: THE ART OF ROY G. KRENKEL hardcover, 132 pg, $35 (listed because I loved his cover art for ERB, OAK and other pulp authors). Imports - THE ART OF HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, 256 pg, color, $55. THIS IS ANIMATION: HOWLS' MOVING CASTLE, 50 pg, color, $18. T-Shirts - Azumanga Daioh, cotton, white, LG-XL, $20. Toys - Suikoden mini-figures, 4" high, $7 each. Go Nagai World Villains, 7" high, $20 each. Plush - Nyarlethotep the Crawling Chaos, $20. Wall Scrolls - Heat Guy J, 31x43, $18. Misc. - Trigun Vash bath mat, $19. DVDs - Hirameki - Animeplay: Ishika & Honori Interactive DVD, $30 (March). AnimeWorks - GIANT ROBO: GINREI, 90 MIN, $25; SADAMITSU THE DESTROYER, 250 min, $30, mature themes. Geneon - MADLAX Vol.1, 100 min, $30, mature themes. Bandai - SCRAPPED PRINCESS Vol.1, 100 min, $30. Live Action DVDs (mature themes)- CURSED, 80 MIN, $30 (Tokyo Shock). JAPANESE HELL, 101 min, $30 (Tokyo Shock). LADY BATTLE COP, 90 min, $15 (ADV). DAIMAJIN Vol.2: Wrath of Daimajin, 90 min. $20 (ADV - "mature themes" for this kiddy fare from the 1960s??!!). CDs - (Geneon $15 each) NOIR Vol.1 OST. THE PILLOWS: Good Dreams. TENJHO TENGE Vol.1 Great Disc OST. YOKO ISHIDA: All of Me.

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End of Anime Sacramento Newsletter for March 2005