After some delays, Nec Interchannel's Sentimental Graffiti 2 for Dreamcast will be released in Japan on July 25th.
Source: Anime Nation
Mononoke DVD: no firm release date, other than "before the end of the year," according to Mr. Eric Maehara, VP of Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment. He also could not give any details about the features or contents of the DVD. Team Ghiblink will continue to check with Buena Vista to bring you the release date and contents of the DVD when that information becomes available.
The club is hoping to get a big fan turnout this year. Series already booked to be screened include: Riding Bean, Transformers The Movie (Canadian release).
For Directions And More Informaiton:
Steven's Anime Club
Epoch is producing a new 3D N64 action Doraemon title, Doraemon 3: Futoshi Town SOS. The game will utilize the N64 microphone. There will be mnay mini spread throughout the game. Japanese release is set for July 28th with a retail of 6800 Yen.
Konami's upcoming Gameboy Color card battle game Yugioh Duel Monsters III will reportedly include over 10,000 types of cards in the game, among them will be cards from the Yugioh Official Card Game.
Imagineer has announced two new Hello Kitty related Gameboy Color title projects, "Hello Kitty's Sweet Adventure: To meet Mr. Daniel", and "Dear Daniel's Sweet Adventure: To look for Hello Kitty". Japanese release is set for both of these titles for June 10th, with a retail of 3980 Yen for each.
Anime USA is pleased to announce the date and location for its second year anime convention. The convention will be held at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn Westpark Hotel on September 8-10, 2000. It is located one block away from the Rosslyn Metro Station. Please note this is twice as large as the hotel that we had last year.
Holiday Inn Rosslyn Westpark Hotel at Key Bridge
1900 North Fort Myer Dr.
Arlington, VA 22209
1-800-368-3408, Special Code AUI
Hotel rates are $96 per room
You'll find everything that we had at last year's convention, but with twice the room. This is the only anime convention in Northern Virginia for the rest of the year!
*3 Video Rooms
*Fan Video Contest
*Costume Play
*Dance
*Dealers Room
*Karaoke
*Art Show & Auction
*Video Game Room
*Panels
For a limited time, pre-registration is $20. If you send us a valid hotel confirmation number with your payment, you can pre-register for only $15. You can also pre-register and pay on-line through our secure server with a credit card at http://www.anime-usa.com If you would like to mail your registration, please include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (optional) to:
Anime USA
7395-B Lee Highway
Falls Church, VA 22042
The UY DVD 1-5 set is in replication. We are no longer accepting orders for this set online (if you contact us directly, we might be able to squeeze you in, but no promises).
If you have already signed up, you will get an email within the next few days reconfirming your order. If you don't get one by Friday, April 28th, please contact us to check. The phone number is 1-800-24-ANIME or 1-910-251-1850; the email address is uydvdorders@animeigo.com.
Fumio Iida
A return guest, Mr. Iida has been the Animation Director for the
popular Wings of Honneamise as well as creator of "Yadamon".
Toshimichi Ohtsuki
President and CEO of the Gangis Corporation as well as the CEO of the
King Records Corporation, he is better known in the anime world playing
a big part in producing anime titles under Star Child, King Records'
anime arm. Mr. Ohtsuki produced popular animes such as the TV series
for "Blue Seed", "Sorcerer Hunters", "Neon Genesis
Evangelion", "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (His and Her
Circumstances)", "Steam Detectives", "Martian Successor
Nadesico", "Revolutionary Girl Utena", and "Love Hina". This is Mr.
Ohtsuki FIRST U.S. anime convention.
Mixx is translating and distributing the most definitive guides to the Sailor Senshi ever released in English. In full color, Meet Sailor Venus: LOVE combines rare screenshot outakes from the Japanese TV series / Movies with other high-quality illustrations and previously unpublished facts and data on Mina Aino / Sailor Venus, that has something to offer novice - the most knowledgable Sailor Moon fans.
Inside:
The Secret Origin Of Sailor Venus
Sailor Venus Transformation Gallery
Sailor Venus Episode Best 5
And Many Other Sections
Meet Sailor Venus: LOVE | $12.95 | 96 pages | On Sale Now
On Sale Now! | $2.95 | 50 Pages B&W
Nintendo's N64 console accounts for 46% of all console sales in U.S. for March (PSX 43%) (Dreamcast 11%), the good numbers for Nintendo are attributed to the release and sales of Pokemon Stadium.
Sega Toys is working on a new Dreamcast Doreamon game with a scheduled Japanese release scheduled for fall.
Bandai Entertainment's anime hit of the year, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing,
is piloting on YTV (Canada) Monday, April 24, beginning at 5:30pm. Check
YTV's online YTV Guide for exact time in your area. After the show,
visit their website and fill out their poll to register your opinion
of the series!
www.ytv.com
- Cartoon Network's Saturday Rising Sun Block
Check out the new Rising Sun block on Cartoon Network every Saturday. See local listings for exact schedule and times. Now you can catch Gundam Wing on the weekend!
- Gundam Wing Launches on Home Video
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing DVDs have been given final approval for simultaneous VHS/DVD release on May 16, 2000! There will be an edited VHS (English Dub), uncut VHS (English Dub), and uncut DVD (Subtitled and Dubbed). Home video releases will contain the original Japanese OP/EDs!
The first production run of both DVD and VHS releases feature a special, limited-edition 3D card on the cover to commemorate the event.
Gundam Wing: Shooting Stars Vol 1 (VHS) 4ep 100min English Dub $14.98 Gundam Wing: Operation 1 (DVD) 5ep 125min Bilingual (Japanese & English) $24.98
-Fan Info and Anime Community
www.animevillage.com
-Company Information and Retailer Support
www.bandai-ent.com
-Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes
A new Gundam game for the Sega Dreamcast platform, featuring:
o Realistic Mobile Suit animation
o 3D battle simulation
o Jump jet action with zoom-in weapon features
o Mission based gameplay
o Movie-like soundtrack
APRIL 2000
Look for the official Gundam Side Story 0079: RFTA website later
this month on GundamOfficial.com!
www.gundamofficial.com
www.michaelwilliams.com/beverlycinema/index.html
Comic / Video Releases:
SECRET COMICS JAPAN
various artists; edited by Chikao Shiratori & Hyoe Narita
b&w, 200 pages
$19.95 USA/$29.95 CAN
SHIPS 8/4
All-new underground comics from Japan, produced in the '80s and '90s
by the latest generation of taboo-breaking manga artists! This
anthology features the newest young alternative manga artists, as
selected by Chikao Shiratori, PULP columnist and the former editor of
underground manga magazine GARO. Working with extremely different
styles, the artists in SECRET COMICS JAPAN share a personal vision,
surreal subject matter, and a total disregard for the merchandising
and melodrama than dominates mainstream manga. Includes work by
Usamaru Furuya (as seen in JAPAN EDGE),Santa Inoue, Hironori Kikuchi,
Junko Mizuno, and many other artists.
Night Warriors VHS box set (shipping 5/23/00) $59.98
The Folloing List At $29.98:
Please Save My Earth (6 episodes)
Key The Metal Idol Vol. 1 7/25 (Eps. #1-7)
Key The Metal Idol Vol. 2 8/22 (Eps. #8-13)
Key The Metal Idol Vol. 3 9/26 (Eps. #14&15)
Fatal Fury OAV 10/24 (2 OAV eps.)
Ranma 1/2 TV Series Vol. 1 10/31 (Eps. #1-5)
Ranma 1/2 TV Series Vol. 2 11/28 (Eps. #6-9)
Ranma 1/2 TV Series Vol. 12/26 (Eps. #10-13)
Ranma 1/2 TV Series Vol. 4 1/30/01
(Eps. #14-18)
Source: Asahi Shimbun
Sega of Japan has a Dreamcast Love Hina love/dating-adventure game in production. Release in Japan is set for summer
Nintendo will market a Sakura Taisen handheld mini-game, Pocket Sakura, in Japan this summer. Players wil be able to exchange info with the Gameboy Color Sakura Taisen game via the link cable. Japanese release is June 29th.
3 X 3 EYES: IMMORTALS VIDEOS
Yakumo was a regular guy who went to high school and worked nights in a transvestite bar, when a
strange young girl, Pai,
comes looking for him with a letter and his father's skull. Suddenly, his eyes are opened to a
secret world of monsters and
sorcery hidden just beneath the surface of modern society as Yakumo is devoured by this strange
world and his heart captured
by the innocent girl who is much more than she initially appears! Yakumo's life, at least, what's
left of it, will never be the
same. Catch the first four episodes of this classic horror anime, originally released by
Streamline/Orion Pictures. Pioneer has
re-mastered the English versions and for the first time ever, makes the subtitled version available;
both in a two-tape format
with gatefold slip-sleeve packaging. (8682)
MATURE AUDIENCES
DUBBED (71278)-VHS SRP: $34.98
SUBTITLED (71279)-VHS SRP: $34.98
PANDA! GO PANDA! VIDEO & DVD
Created by Hayao Miyazaki (Totoro, Princess Mononoke), and directed by Isao Takahata (Grave of the
Fireflies, Pompoko).
Mimiko lives with her grandmother in a beautiful small town. When her grandmother has to leave town
for a while, Mimiko is
left home alone, but Mimiko doesn't mind because it is an adventure! Despite the worries of the
local bicycle-riding police
force, Mimiko gets along just fine - especially after she meets Papa-Panda and his child, Panny!
Together, Mimiko and her
new Panda family experience silly and fun adventures as they run from the zoo-keepers and play with
escaped tigers from the
zoo in these two charming short features that were theatrically released in the spring and winter of
1973. An experience that the
whole family can enjoy!
DUBBED (71174)-VHS SRP: $14.98
DUBBED (10521)-DVD SRP: $24.
AMAZING NURSE NANAKO VOLUME 1: "DOCTOR IS OUT" VIDEOS & DVD
The most powerful weapon of the 21st century! Or not. "I, Dr. Kyoji Ogami, the world's leading
bio-engineering scientist, am
about to achieve my greatest triumph when I transplant my Nurse's brain into the body of my ultimate
cybernetic combat
robot, the Venus 2000! But first, I must deal with Nanako's resistance to my grand designs and a
global conspiracy of the
world's superpowers. Do they want to get me because they fear my brilliant intellect, or could it be
Nanako that they are after?
What could they possibly want with a brainless girl like her? Or rather, a soon-to-be-brainless
girl, once my revolutionary
operation is complete!" (8682)
MATURE AUDIENCES
DUBBED (71169)-VHS SRP: $24.98
SUBTITLED (71235)-VHS SRP: $29.98
DVD (10437) SRP: $29.95
VIRTUACALL 2 VOLUME 1 VIDEO/SUBTITLED
SEE PREVIEWS ADULT FOR MORE INFORMATION. (76/VHSVC001S) (CAUT: 3) NOTE: Not available in Canada,
Hong Kong, or the U.K.
ADULT MATERIAL
VHS SRP: $29.95
KEY THE METAL IDOL VOLUME 1 DVD
Wanted: 30,000 people to give their love to a girl made of metal! Created by a kindly old scientist,
Key is an android who has
been growing up, but only when the doctor exchanges her artificial body for an older one. When her
creator dies, Key is
trapped in the body of a teenage girl who will never age or die, and even though she doesn't really
understand how to act
human, it is her most treasured dream to become a real girl. Key pins all of her hopes on her
creator's last message, which
suggests that to become human, she must win the love of 30,000 people. Will you become one of Key's
30,000 friends?
Available for the first time on DVD! (8682/10433)
DVD, FC SRP: $29.98
TENCHI UNIVERSE: ON EARTH 2 DVD
The uncut version of the Tenchi Muyo series airing on the Cartoon Network's Toonami block starting
in June! Meet Galaxy
Police Officer Kiyone as she comes to grips with her ditzy partner, being stranded on Earth, and
associating with wanted
felons. Can she survive both life on this backwater planet called Earth as well as the mayhem
surrounding Tenchi's life without
losing her mind?
Contains Episodes 5-7. (8682/10462)
DVD, FC SRP: $29.98
Others:
Blue Submarine No. 6: Vol. 3 Hearts - DVD
Cowboy Bebop: Session 5 - DVD
Demon Beast Invasion Parts 1 & 2 - DVD
Jubei Chan: Vol.1 A Legend Reborn - DVD
Nazca: Vol. 4 Eternal Power - DVD
Pokemon: Vol. 19 Our Hero Meowth - DVD
Pokemon: Vol. 20 The Final Badge - DVD
Ruroni Kenshin: Vol. 1 Legendary Swordsman - DVD
Trigun: Vol. 3 Wolfwood - DVD
Vision Of Escalflowne: Vol. 1 Dragons & Destiny - DVD
Vision Of Escalflowne: Vol. 2 Betrayal & Trust - DVD
Anime Expo is very proud to announce Mr. Keiji Gotoh as a Guest of Honor. Mr. Gotoh work is well-known to American anime fans, as he has served as the character designer on THOSE WHO HUNT ELVES (I and II), BAKURETSU HUNTER (aka SORCERER HUNTERS), HYPER POLICE, and of course the MARTIAN SUCCESSOR NADESICO television series and movie.
He was also the character designer for the DOUBLE CAST PlayStation game. Mr. Gotoh has worked in the anime industry since the mid-1980's and has become one of the most sought-after designers and illustrators in the industry. His most recent work is as character designer for the television series GATEKEEPERS.
#1 Pokemon (last week: 1; 35 weeks in the Top 50)
#2 Dragonball (2;35)
#11 Gundam Wing (12;6)
#20 Final Fantasy (19;33)
#33 Sailor Moon (25;18)
Bandai has reportedly canceled plans to release Macross VF-X2 for the PSX in North America.
Konami has scheduled a Japanese release of July 13 for it's Yugioh Duel Monsters III Holy War God title for GameBoy Color. The retail price will be 4500 Yen.
www.sinthemovie.com/main/news/news.html
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Kareshi kanojo no jijo Op.5 6279
Mach GO GO GO DVD-BOX 1st. I eg (First Limited Edition) 29400
4/5
Houshin Engi Vol. 6 6930
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi DVD-4 6090
4/7
Danguiser (Choushinki Dangaiza) Vol. 3 6090
Unkai no meikyu Zegai 1 + 2 4935
Kyohaku - Owaranai ashita- THE ANIMATION STAGE 2 7140
Dokyusei 2 D-5 4935
YU-NO D-1 4935
Kigurumi sentai Kiltian D-1 4935
4/12
BLUE GENDER Vol. 7 5250
4/14
Endless Serenade 7140
4/19
DVD Urusei Yatsura: (Theatrical Feature) Remember My Love 6090
Nihon Animation 25th Anniversary: Collector's Edition - Natsukashi no Kids' Anime History (History of Anime produced by Nihon/Nippon Animation) 4935
POPOLOCROIS Vol. 4 5775
POPOLOCROIS Vol. 5 5775
POPOLOCROIS Vol. 6 5775
WILD ARMS Twilight Venom Vol. 4 6300
4/21
BETTERMAN VOL. 9 6090
TRIGUN D-7 7140
Terrestrial Defense Corp. DAI-GUARD Vol. 4 6090
Karakuri-soushi Ayatsuri Sakon 3 8190
Excel Saga (Road to Excel Saga) 3 6090
MASTER KEATON File 11 6090
Boogiepop Phantom evolution 2 6090
4/25
Shin Hakkenden Vol. 9 5565
Tenshi ni Narumon! Vol. 9 (Last) 6300
Eden's Bowy Episode 9 (Last) 6300
Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) Gokakenran Episode 3 6090
PSYBUSTER 7 5250
CARD CAPTOR SAKURA Vol. 8 7140
CARD CAPTOR SAKURA Vol. 17 7140
Minky Momo DVD Memorial Box Part-2 31290
Turn A Gundam 5 8190
Stellar Buster Mito (The Adventures of Space Pirate Mito) 2 Queens Vol. 4
5250
THE Big O 2 5250
Sorcerous stabber Orphen Revenge 1 5250
Slayars Special DVD Collection 6300
OVA Maho Tsukai-Tai! DVD Collection Vol. 1 6300
Megami Kouhosei Vol. 1 6300
TAIHO SHICHAUZO (YOU'RE UNDER ARRESET) TV Vol. 1 5250
Patlabor Early Days (OVA) 1 5040
Patlabor Early Days (OVA) 2 5040
MELTYLANCER The Animation CODE:006 [Hoshi no kanatae...] (Last) 6090
Vampire Miyu Integral 8 5040
Vampire Miyu Integral 9 5040
Pia Carrot 2DX ORDER. 3 6090
Ninpu Kamui Gaiden (Legend of Kamui - Anecdotes) Vol. 7 5250
Gigantor (Tetsujin 28go) Vol. 9 5250
Gigantor (Tetsujin 28go) Vol. 10 5250
Yusei Shonen Papy Vol. 4 5250
Yusei Shonen Papy Vol. 5 5250
Macross FLASH BACK 2012 6090
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OH! Super MILK Chan 1 3990
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Magical Girl PRETTY SAMMY TV 8-10 6090
Magical Girl PRETTY SAMMY TV 11-13 6090
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Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko: Mission 8 5880
DiGiCharat Vol. 2 4935
Furi Kuri 1 2835
Jibaku kun 5 6930
GREGORY HORROR SHOW Vol. 2 6090
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Danguiser III (Choushinki Dangaiza) Vol. 3 6090
Idol project 1+2 4935
Doukyusei 2 11+12 7140
YU-NO 3+4 4935
OMISHI MAGICAL THEATER: RISKY & SAFETY 3 6090
4/5
Houshin Engi Vol. 6 6930
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi DVD-4 6090
4/12
BLUE GENDER Vol. 7 5250
4/20
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS TOKYO 2040 ACTION 11 6090
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BETTERMAN VOL. 9 6090
Battle Fever J Vol. 6 9450
Kamikaze kaito Jeanne Vol. 7 5775
MASTER KEATON File 11 8190
Boogiepop Phantom evolution 2 6090
PSYBUSTER 7 5250
Sorcerous stabber Orphen Revenge 1 5250
Tenshi ni Narumon! Vol. 9 (Last) 6300
Eden's Bowy Episode 9 (Last) 6300
Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) Gokakenran Episode 3 6090
CARD CAPTOR SAKURA Vol. 17 7140
Turn A Gundam 5 8190
Stellar Buster Mito (The Adventures of Space Pirate Mito) 2 Queens Vol. 4
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THE Big O 2 5250
MELTYLANCER The Animation CODE:006 [Hoshi no kanatae...] (Last) 6090
Pia Carrot 2DX ORDER. 3 7140
Ima Sokoniiru Boku Vol. 5 5775
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BLUE GENDER Vol. 8 5250
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Danguiser III (Choushinki Dangaiza) Vol. 3 6090
OMISHI MAGICAL THEATER: RISKY & SAFETY 3 6090
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