Contents - EX 4.2

Ah, the season of spring! While spring usually marks the arrival of flowers, in Japan, it also marks the first crop of this year's animated feature films. Series such as REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST! and CARD CAPTOR SAKURA all have film slated for release in the next several months. EX provides the scorecard of what's coming out and what to expect this spring season!

Can coming up with a title for a movie be that hard? Seems to Miramax with Mononoke Hime, it could be. Charles invites you to play "The Anime Name Game."

The usual round of questions and comments.

EX has taken you to the humongous Comic Market (Comiket) before, but this time we look at the machine that uns Comiket: The staff and the problems they run into while making sure a convention with a 200,000 person daily attendance runs smoothly. Also: EX stops by Katsucon, the east-coast anime convention.

Some shows used it well, some did not. But in 1995, Ghost in the Shell put computer-assisted animation on the map. Becoming an increasingly used tool by the anime industry, Scott Frazier takes a look at the different aspects of what is commonly referred to as CG in The Digital Animation Primer.

And from the home office in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Chad Kime presents... The Top Seven (By Seven).

Blue Submarine No. 6, Cowboy Bebop 1st Session, Gasaraki Vol. 1, Change! Getter Robo vol. 3, Legend Of Crystania, Magical Project S, Ninja Resurrection, Tenchi In Tokyo.

Weekly Jump, Shonen Sunday, Agapes, Mars, Wiseman, Blade Of The Immortal, Inu-Yasha, Shadow Lady, Tenchi Muyo!.

Bubble Gum Crisis 2040, Resident Evil 2, Nightwarriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, Pocket Monster Sound Anime Collection, Trigun: The 2nd Donut Happy Pack.

Dance! Dance! Dance!, Dancing Blade, Grandia, Sega Rally 2, Street Fighter Zero 3, Sonic Adventure.

EX's 3rd Anniversary - it's our party and we'll cry if we want to!

Copyright © 1999 Bepapas, Saitoh Chiho/Shogakukan, ShouKaku Committee, TV Tokyo. Copyright © 1999 La Fillet Revolutionaire Production Committee. Copyright © 1998 Ozawa Satoru/Bandai Visual, Toshiba EMI, GONZO. Trixie Turnpike © 1996-1998 Jay Fubler Harvey & Hans Raillard.