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The AICN Anime Report...

By Scott Green

Anime Spotlight: Banner of the Stars volume 1: No Turning Back

Released by Bandai Entertainment

Banner of the Stars is the second anime series based on the sci-fi novels of Hiroyuki Morioka. Crest of the Stars introduced the Abh, a race bio-engineered, and culturally designed to live in space who had about conquered the human colonized territory. It also introduced Jinto, the son of the president of a human planet, who made a last minute deal with the Abh for his planet to become a vassal state. Jinto in turn became a Count, and was trained educated by the Abh. The first Abh he meets is Lafiel, an imperial princess. Jinto and Lafiel escaped the Abh patrol ship Gosoroth as it was destroyed in the first skirmish of a war between the United Mankind an the Abh empire.

Banner of the Stars begins several years after Crest. After brutalizing each other, the humans and Abh have entered into a cease-fire which neither side expects to last.

The Abh empire has used this time to militarize, dramatically increase the size of its fleet, and introducing new classes of ships. Among the torrent of inexperienced captains and crew who are implementing the untried strategies is an assault ship, captained by Lafiel with Jinto as a crew member.

Banners of the Stars continues Crest's tradition of exploring the human and Abh cultures on macro and micro levels.

On the macro level this volume introduces the leaders of the Abh campaign, as well as the young elite looking to set the new standards for the wars, and the empire. It highlights the universal differences between the priorities the Abh operate under, and those of the humans, and the differences in perspectives among the leading Abh. This is the front on which Banner of the Stars makes its most effective assault to capture the interest of the viewers. Many series handle characters interaction as well as Banner, and a number handle it better, but few present such an interesting, fully realized capture whose visible depth continues to grow as it is explored

On a micro level, it introduces the crew of Lafiel's ship, which appears to be the new supporting cast, which most notably includes a human veteran, and a young Abh woman with passive aggressive streak, and an attraction to Jinto (also the star of one of anime's funniest cat scenes). The volume also puts the two under command of the sister of a man that they killed in Crest, who initiates personal contact for motivations with unknown motives that don't seem like simple revenge.

Banner of the Stars is more of a navel epic than space opera; more Midway than Stars Wars. Of the anime that has been released in the US, Banner of the Stars looks to have the best fleet battles (Legend of Galactic Heroes edges it out overall, but that hasn't been released domestically. The technology of the series has been design to capture the tension of navel conflicts.

There is a strong logic to the combat, and political warfare. It's not hard-sci-fi, but it is water tight in that plays by the rules it sets. No secret weapons or reverse tachyon beams. It sets the parameters of an engagement, maps out the strategies (often literally), and determines the outcome. There are X factors, determination, rage, ruthlessness, desperation, but when the battle has concluded, the road to the results doesn't have any gaps.

The character interaction is likewise believable, and truthful, but the sacrifices for drama or story telling are more apparent. The characters are naive, and naturally mistake prone, but at times Jinto seems downright thick.

Geobreeders: Big Trouble at Tokyo Tower

Released by CMP Manga

Many reviews of Geobreeders aren't particularly convincing, mostly because the concept of a squad of chicks with guns who protect the world from domination seeking electronic cat spirits rings of a bottom of the barrel sound. It overcomes this encumbrance with a top comic version of big budget, summer movie action. Never has there been a comic with martial arts, gunplay, and chases packed this densely. It is a bit James Bond meets Gunsmith Cats, minus everything between Bond's opening stunt, its car chase, and its gunfights, and minus Gunsmith Cat's fetishism, and attempts at realism.

The first third of the "Big Trouble at Tokyo Tower" is a bit of the old "things go very wrong in the artic", with some gun play, chases, and explosions that would have all been very impressive if not for what came after it. The latter part is a non stop, jaws around the throat, skyscraper bound, free-for-all between the cat spirits, the heroes, their paramilitary competition, and an impressively ruthless group of government agents.

"Big Trouble at Tokyo Tower" the characters get about as much personality time as the average Bond villain henchperson, but most come across just as cool. The immediate eye-catchers include a brass knuckle street fight accountant, a white suit and fedora mouser packing gunslinger, and barely awake when not behind the wheel driver.

Geobreeders is perfect pixie stick anime. It pushes some emotional button, there's a bit of T&A, but mostly its brilliant sugar rush action.

Anime Spotlight: Hyper-Combat Unit Dangaioh

Released by Manga Video

Dangaioh was a proto-OAV (direct to video release), igniting late seventies/early eighties transforming robots with a new edge to the action and animation. It's Voltron turned up a notched, with comparatively higher quality animation, and a bit more thrust. (Almost said "Voltron without the mice", but a cute soldier perching critter does make a number of appearances.) There's oldschool guys in battle robots designed by the guy who would go on to design some of the best (Shoji Kawamori of Macross Plus, and Escaflowne), with an at the time newschool guy with a group of girls dynamic (the Tenchi Muyu or Evangelion, dubbed "harem" by some fans).

The Dangaioh teams is constructed from four psychic youths, a boy, and three girls, who are brainwashed by a doctor, given transforming/combining robots, and trained to fight a galactic tyrant. There is enough story to provide plenty of battles, both of the fighting robots mecha, and American superhero ilks, as well as the touches that made old favorites so memorable, fleets of ultra-bizarre, marginally organic alien ships, boardroom meetings of grotesques villainous, generals lieutenants, and advisors, each with some strange protrusion or a head is an odd place.

Dangaioh was originally a three episode series in which each Dangaioh member rediscovers who they are, as they skirmish with their enemy in some mission connected to their past. This new DVD release presents episodes two, and three, with a recap of events of the first episode (the team is formed, and the backgrounds of two of the members are revealed). Given that the appeal of Dangaioh is strictly visual, the loss of an episode isn't really a factor in the enjoyment of the series. If you're on board for Dangaioh , you're there because you enjoy watching impressive mechanical entities change shape, blast, and rend each other, and people in tight suits lob bright colored beams or balls at each other.

Another property of the new DVD release is that it only features English language audio tracks. It is far from the worst English dub, but it is definitely a relic of a bygone era, and it will make you appreciate the quality that has become the standard today. There are no painfully annoying voices, and little vocal excess. The most outstanding quality is probably the creativity of the translation. The B movie bombast fits the story, and gives is a bit of camp, but it might go a "eat lead filthy ESPer scum", or "bleeding heart liberal" too far. Unfortunately the classic "Sidekick Wave" nee "Pyschic Wave" flub is gone.

The heat has died down on the 80's nostalgia kick, but Dangaioh is still a good match for fans looking for another taste of the Voltron/Robotech material that flooded American UHF tv in the eighties. Things fly and shoot and look cool, and it surprisingly hold up better than many of the series you remember loving as a youth (don't go back and try to rewatch Voltron).

This Week's Releases (Including Ghost in the Shell 2)

Anime

• Amazing Nurse Nanako Box Set
• Battle Skipper - The Movie
• Blue Gender 8
• Bounty Dog
• Dangaioh - Hyper-Combat Unit: The Ultimate Transformers
• Darkside Blues
• Demon City Shinjuku
• Garzey's Wing
• Hello Kitty's Paradise - Fun With Friends (Vol. 2)
• His And Her Circumstances (Vol. 3)
• Lupin The 3Rd - The World's Most Wanted (Tv Series, Vol. 1)
• Mahoromatic - Automatic Maiden - Combat Maid (Vol. 1)
• Nightwalker - Eternal Darkness
• Nightwalker - Midnight Detective
• Silent Service
• Wild Cardz
• X - Three (Tv Series, Vol. 3)

Manga

• Astro Boy Vol 11 Tp
• Bastard #14 Empress Part 4 (Of 4)
• Ceres Celestial Legend Vol 3 Suzumi Tp
• Ghost In The Shell 2 Man Machine Interface #1
• Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre Gn #4
• Mega Dragon & Tiger Gn #3
• Raijin Comics #8 (Mr
• Ranma 1/2 Part 11 #11 (Of 11)
• Rga Magazine #8
• Story Of Tao Gn #2

Also Robotech Sourcebook

Many of this week's anime releases are part of CPM's re-priced, re-release of 12 of their titles. See here for descriptions.

Three months after it was solicited to be released, the first issue of the Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface will be in stores. Given Studio Proteus' (the series' translators) notorious perfectionism, it is very likely worth the wait.

See next week's column for a review of Mahoromatic, Gainax's (Evanglion, FLCL) story of a boy, a robot who only has 398 days to live, and wants to be his maid.

Giant Robot Week On Cartoon Network

From the Press Release:

Giant Robot Week Takes Over Toonami Showcase of Animé Featuring Giant Robots Begins Monday, Feb. 24 from 4-5 p.m. (ET, PT)

It's a battle of giant metal machines during Toonami's first Giant Robot Week, Monday, Feb. 24 - Friday, Feb. 28 from 4-5 p.m. (ET, PT) each day. The weeklong special event presents some of the best action/animé series ever created starring huge fighting machines. Giant Robot Week comes to a smashing conclusion with a special presentation of the acclaimed animated feature The Iron Giant on Friday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. (ET, PT).

"Giant robot" series have been a staple of animé since its beginnings, and Cartoon Network pulled out all of the stops in search of the best examples of this genre ever with series such as Dai-Guard and Nadesico, which have never before been seen on TV in the U.S., as well as Evangelion and Robotech. Giant Robot Week also will include segments from the classic series Gigantor along with Cartoon Network's first original "giant robot" short, Lowbrow.

Evangelion - A deadly war is waged between the mysterious aliens, the Angels and mankind's last hope, the Evangelions. The giant bio-mechanical Evangelions are the only forces that can withstand the Angels' defense fields long enough to attack the massive invaders. (Monday, Feb. 24 and Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 4:30 p.m. (ET, PT))

Dai-Guard - Giant invaders have attacked the earth and the only force strong enough to defend the planet is a giant robot, Dai-Guard. The only problem is that the robot is defective. A young team of workers must stop the aliens, while concealing the defects in their robot. (Thursday, Feb. 27 and Friday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. (ET, PT))

Nadesico - The planet is under attack and the space fleets are powerless to stop the invasion. An inexperienced crew consisting of a cook, the General's ditsy daughter, geeks and misfits are sent into space to save Earth. (Monday, Feb. 24 - Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. (ET, PT))

Robotech - Robotech Defense Force, led by Captain Glova and his cadets, is the only hope for survival after giant alien spaceships invade Earth. (Wednesday, Feb. 26 - Friday, Feb. 28, at 4:30 p.m. (ET, PT))

Cowboy Bebop Movie Changes

Yahoo's movie database is listing that the domestic distributor of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie has changed from Columbia Tristar to Samuel Goldwyn Films, with speculation that Tristar will still handle the home video release. The full listing can be seen at here

Howl's Moving Castle Details

Anime News Service reports that Hayao Miyazaki's latest project, Howl's Castle is currently schedule for completion in Spring 2004. Movie is based on a British children book by Diana Wynne Jones which is a love story centered on Sophie, an 18 year old in an elderly woman's body, and a magician named Howl. The film is set in a fantasy world with elements of science, and is reportedly a war drama.

Miyazaki is currently at work on designs, while Studio Ghibli is testing 3D graphic technology, presumably for use in the film.

Dragonball GT Release Scheduled

FUNimation has announced released date for the first four volume of Dragon Ball GT, the third and final Dragon ball anime series, and the only one without direct involvement from creator Akira Toriyama.

The first two volumes "Baby: Affliction", and "Baby: Incubation" will be released on April 15, "Baby: Creation", and " Baby: Proliferation" will be released on May 20th.

New TOKYOPOP Manga Titles

TOKYOPOP has announced the upcoming release of a number of titles including the already mentioned Battle Royale, Happy Mania, Tokyo Mew Mew.

Anime Related Titles:

Tokyopop has licensed the following Manga titles: NieA_7, Petshop of Horrors, Brigadoon, Saber Marionette J, Scryed and Brain Powerd

Yaoi Titles: Gravitation and Fake

Erica Sakurazawa manga: Angel Nest, Rule of Love, Between the Sheets, The Aromatic Bitters and Nothing But Loving You

Other Manga: Baby Birth, Wild Act

Korean... Demon Diary and Under The Glass Moon.

Here's how TOKYOPOP describes Erica Sakurazawa's works: Welcome to Sex and the City, manga-style, in this sophisticated chick-lit series from acclaimed manga-ka Erica Sakurazawa.

TOKYOPOP is proud to publish for the first time in English 6 of Sakurazawa-sensei's most compelling and provocative works. These fairy tales for adults are lovingly drawn and feature elements of magic and mystery, as well as some gritty realism drawn from daily metropolitan life in our times.

Brain Powerd was Gundam creator Tomino Yoshiyuki's answer to Evangelion. An interesting feature that may help the manga is elegant mechanical design by Five Star Stories' Nagano Mamoru.

Brigadoon adapts the Hideyuki Kurata (Battle Atheletes) anime series about a happy but poor girl in a story moderately based on the folktale of a city that appears once a century, and 60's-70's Japan.

NieA_7 is a social comedy from Serial Experiements Lain character designer Yoshitoshi ABe. The series follows a poor student, the under class space alien living in her closet, and a cast of assuming support characters.

ADV WebSites

ADV has opened websites for RahXephon and Noir (which existed in a limited capacity before).

Marvel Announces Manga Influenced Comics.

Marvel has announced five new comic series in a manga influenced Tsuami line, marketed towards an all age audience, including teens and girls. "Namor," "Sentinel," "Human Torch," "Mystique" and "Runaways" will be edited by C.B. Cebulski, a domestic manga regular, known for his work by CPM Manga, and Fanboy Inc.

The first issues of the series will be released in April, starting with a 25 cent issue of Namor, which is written by Marvel president Bill Jemas, and independent favorite Andi Watson (Geisha, Breakfast After Noon , Slow News Day) with art by Mizuki Sakakibara.

Other titles include boy with giant robot "Senitel", which writer Sean McKeever says will attempt to capture "Peach Girl"'s universal enjoyability, "Venom", the anti-Spider-Man villan in a The Thing big budget horror movie vein, Human Torch written by Karl Kesel, art and covers by Skottie Young, Mystique written by Brian Vaughan, art by Jorge Lucas, covers by Joseph Michael Linsner, and Runaways by Brian Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, covers by Jo Chen

New Galaxy Anime

The new Galaxy Anime features interviews with C.B. Cebulski of Marvel talks to us about bringing Japanese artists to work on mainstream comic, and Steve Bennett about Studio Ironcat.

Returning Websites

The Animaxis website has returned after several months of down time.

One time definitive anime portal Anime Web Turnpike has re-opened link submission.

DaizenshuuEX, one of the top DragonBall site has likewise returned after over a year offline.

Raijin Goes Newstand

Gutsoon! has entered into a distribution deal with Ingram,one of America's largest magazine distributors, to bring their weekly manga anthology Raijin to book stores.

"Retailers, specifically Borders and Hastings, are taking a greater interest in comics as a profitable and successful category. Raijin Comics is the perfect fit for us, and we look forward to a long, and profitable partnership with Gutsoon! Entertainment."

Tenchi Price Reduction

Pioneer has announced a $5.00 price reduction on the four volume release of the Tenchi Muyo OAV.

Wizard Anime Mag Does Bi-Monthly

Anime Invasion, from comic book magazine publisher will go from a quarterly to a bi-monthly format, and be re-named "Wizard Anime Insider".

Anime Insider #6 will be shipped with two covers, the first featuring Lupin III and the second featuring Yu-Gi-Oh! The issue will go on sale February 19th at comic book specialty stores and on March 3rd at newsstands everywhere.

Blue Submarine No. 6

Bandai has announced that the hit CGI adventure Blue Submarine No. 6, previously release in four one episode DVD for contractual reasons, will be re-released in one special edition with. The 2-3 disc set will include the episodes, interview, and Studio Gonzo extras.

Next Gundam Series on Cartoon Network Announced Anime News Network reports, although official word from Bandai Entertainment's Jerry Chu is "No comment," signs suggest that the next Gundam series to be broadcast on the Cartoon Network will be the 1993 Ganbare! SD Gundam TV series. The "SD" which stands for "Super Deformed" will altered for American release as the show's title, "Superior Defender."

Superior Defender is the next BIG thing when it comes to robots! This action packed and humorous story features robots - the Mobile, Knight and Musha Defenders - from three different worlds who join together to fight the enemy known as the Dark Axis. The new toy line will consist of snap-together action figures with various skill levels, 5-inch action figures, 1.5-inch figures, deluxe vehicles and playsets. The Superior Defender television series will also debut in Fall 2003 on Cartoon Network.

The images of upcoming domestic release "Superior Defender" toys published by Raving Toy Maniac leaves little question that Superior Defender is, in fact, SD Gundam.

Shonen Jump Editor in Chief Dies

Takahashi Toshimasa, the current editor in chief of Shonen Jump, passed away on January 24th at 3pm at age 44. He collapsed unexpectedly during the announcement of a new One Piece Kodansha, Random House Partner

The AP Wire reports Kodansha, publisher of many popular manga series has signed a deal with Random House Inc., one of the world's largest publishers, to form a new joint venture called Random House Kodansha.

Random House Kodansha will be a Tokyo-based company that will publish Japanese translations of International fiction and Non-fiction. Although no immediate plans for International and North American translations of Kodansha material has been publicly discussed just yet, they did explain that Kodansha will be taking advantage of Random House's international distribution network.

Shonen Jump Tops In Pre-Orders

Shonen Jump, the manga anthology for young males hit number 164 in Diamond Comics top 300 list (which does not include re-orders or book store sales), the top manga entry in the list.

Adult Swim Ratings Soar

ICV2 reports The January debut of the Cartoon Network's Sunday to Thursday late night Adult Swim block (11pm to 2am) roared out of the blocks to score double and triple digit gains in ratings among its target demographic group in its first week. According to the network's press release, the block's performance was so strong that the Cartoon Network actually ranked number one among ad-supported cable skeins for delivery of males 18-34 during the Monday to Thursday 11pm to 2am time period. Ratings among adults from 18-34 jumped 67% compared with a year ago, while ratings for men 18-34 were up 100%.

Ratings for the new Adult Swim are important for pop culture retailers because anime series make up two thirds of the block, though not all the shows in the block are from Japan (Futurama has done very well). But the performance of the four anime series in the block, Lupin III, Inu-Yasha, Yu-Yu Hakusho, and Cowboy Bebop, has also been very strong and with manga (Yu-Yu is in Shonen Jump) and DVDs available for all four series (along with toys and a variety of other merchandise), the success of the Adult Swim is good news for pop culture retailers who deal in anime and manga.

Upcoming Anime Releases:

Date from Anime on DVD

ADV:

• Casshan: Robot Hunter Vol. #1 - 100 minutes - $24.98 - 05/13/2003
• Casshan: Robot Hunter Vol. #2 - 100 minutes - $24.98 - 06/24/2003
• City Hunter: Bay City Wars & Million Dollar Conspiracy - 90 minutes - $29.98 - 06/03/2003
• Crying Freeman Vol. #2 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 05/06/2003
• Crying Freeman Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/17/2003
• Dai-Guard Vol. #6 - 125 minutes - $29.98 - 05/27/2003
• Devil Lady Vol. #4 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 05/13/2003
• Devil Lady Vol. #5 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/24/2003
• Dirty Pair Flash Collection - 400 minutes - $39.98 - 04/15/2003
• Eden's Bowy Vol. #1 (also w/box) - 125 minutes - $29.98/39.98 - 06/03/2003
• Full Metal Panic Vol. #1 (also w/box) - 100 minutes - $29.98/44.98 - 06/10/2003
• Goemon Vol. #1: Legend Of Mystical Ninja (also w/box) - 100 minutes - $29.98/39.98 - 05/20/2003
• Mazinkaiser Vol. #1 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 05/13/2003
• Mazinkaiser Vol. #2 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/24/2003
• Neoranga Vol. #3 - 120 minutes - $29.98 - 05/27/2003
• Noir Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 05/13/2003
• Noir Vol. #4 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/24/2003
• Orphen: The Collection - 600 minutes - $89.98 - 04/22/2003
• RahXephon Vol. #2 - 125 minutes - $29.98 - 05/06/2003
• RahXephon Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/17/2003
• Rune Soldier Vol. #2 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/03/2003
• Saiyuki Vol. #1 (also w/box) - 125 minutes - $29.98 - 04/29/2003
• Saiyuki Vol. #2 - 125 minutes - $29.98 - 06/10/2003
• Southern Cross Box Set - 575 minutes - $99.98 - 05/20/2003
• Spectral Force - 50 minutes - $29.98 - 06/03/2003
• Steam Detectives Vol. #1 - 125 minutes - $29.98/39.98 - 06/17/2003
• Suikoden - 50 minutes - $19.98 - 06/24/2003
• Super Gals Vol. #1 (also w/box) - 125 minutes - $29.98/39.98 - 06/24/2003
• Ushio & Tora: Complete Collection - 275 minutes - $39.98 - 05/13/2003
• Voices of a Distant Star - 30 minutes - $19.98 - 06/10/2003
• Wild Arms Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 04/29/2003
• Zone of Enders Dolores i Vol. #4: The Enemy Within - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 05/06/2003

Saiyuki is a bishonen (beautiful male) adaptation of the often used source material, the Journey to the West Legend. The 50 episode epic from Studio Pierrot is set in a world of magic and science where a priest and his companions are sent west to learn what has caused a formerly peaceful goblin race to go crazy.

Suikoden is based on the same legend as the popular video game series, but the two are not otherwise connected.

Full Metal Panic is a student/soldier comedy/action series following a 16 year old trained as a guerilla fighter and an emotional, fun loving girl who has secretly been experimented upon.

Steam Detectives adapts Kia Asamiya's steam-tech, giant robot mystery adventure.

Central Park Media will be releasing the following titles in April.

• Big Wars $19.99
• Tokyo Babylon $19.99
• DNA2: Turbulence $29.99

FUNimation

• Dragon Ball GT Vol. #01: Baby: Afflication April 15
• Dragon Ball GT Vol. #02: Baby: Incubation April 15
• Dragon Ball GT Vol. #03: Baby: Creation May 20
• Dragon Ball GT Vol. #04: Baby: Proliferation May 20
• Dragonball Z World Tournament Box Set April 22
• Dragon Ball Feature 1: The Path to Power April 29
• YuGiOh Vol. #09: Shining Friendship May 6
• YuGiOh Vol. #10: The Night Before May 6
• Yu Yu Hakusho Vol. #13: Genkai's Test May 27
• Yu Yu Hakusho Vol. #14: No Return May 27
• Fruits Basket Vol. #4 May 27
• Lupin the Third: Voyager to Danger May 20

Pioneer

• Mahoromatic Vol. #3: A Warriors Fate - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 05/27/2003
• X Vol. #5 - 75 minutes - $29.99 - 05/27/2003
• Gatekeepers 21 Vol. #2 - 90 minutes - $29.99 - 06/10/2003
• Sugar Vol. #2 - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 06/10/2003
• Master Keaton Vol. #1 has been bumped from its original 03/18/2003 street date and now will be out on 06/10/2003.

TOKYOPOP

• Brigadoon Vol. #1 - 125 minutes - $29.99 - 05/13/2003
• Brigadoon Vol. #2 - 125 minutes - $29.99 - 07/15/2003
• Brigadoon Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 09/16/2003
• Brigadoon Vol. #4 - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 11/11/2003
• Brigadoon Vol. #5 - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 01/13/2004
• Brigadoon Vol. #6 - 100 minutes - $29.99 - 03/16/2004

TOKYOPOP has announced that the long delayed concluding volumes 6-8 of St. Tail will be released on May 13th in a 3 disc boxed set retailing for $69.99. Volumes 6-8 will, in fact, be released a year after St. Tail DVD volume 5.

Amusing Warning

The comics columns Pipeline points out that below its mature audience warning, the weekly manga (comic) anthology Raijin

"WARNING: Please be careful when reading this product. May cause paper cuts."