======== Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.info Subject: [APG]: Anime Pocket Guide (02/17) From: Alan Takahashi Date: 11 May 1997 21:36:59 -0400 Anime Pocket Guide by: Alan Takahashi Last Updated: March 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Area 88 (TV,FILM) gDR tA88 Cast: tA88 Shin Kazama ............................. Kaneto Shiozawa vShK5 tA88 Ryouko .................................. Sakiko Tamagawa vTaS3 tA88 Mickey Simon ............................... Kei Tomiyama vToK3 tA88 Satori Kanzaki ......................... Yoshito Yasuhara vYaY7 tA88 Buxie ................................... Toshio Furukawa vFuT1 tA88 Boris ...................................... Tessho Genda vGeT tA88 Campbell ................................. Masashi Hirose vHiM5 tA88 Charlie ..................................... Makio Inoue vInM1 tA88 Gregg ................................... Takumi Kamiyama vKaT0 tA88 McCoy ..................................... Iemasa Kayumi vKaI tA88 Ryouko's father ......................... Mikio Terashima vTeM2 tA88 Satoru Kanzaki (young) .................... Mayumi Tanaka vTaM2 tA88 Escape Killer #1 .......................... Shigeru Chiba vChS tA88 Yasuda (Part III) .................... Yoshiko Sakakibara vSaY1 tA88 Guen Van Chom ............................ Chikao Ohtsuka vOhC tA88 Description: tA88 Shin Kazama has a bright future. He is an up and coming pilot tA88 for Yamato Air Lines and has a relationship with the boss's tA88 daughter and, perhaps, is destined to head the airline someday. tA88 All this changes when his friend Kanzaki gets him drunk, and he tA88 signs a paper which enlists him in the Aslam Foreign Legion. tA88 There are 3 ways to get out: to get enough kills to buy your way tA88 out; to survive until your term is up; or escape. This is a tA88 gritty, action-oriented series with accurate depictions of tA88 military aircraft and associated hardware. Note that the movies tA88 are edited compilations from the TV series. tA88 US Release by: US Manga Corps (subtitled) tA88 Rating: [1 2 3 ] tA88 Title: Aura Battler Dunbine (TV,OAVs) gGR tABD Cast: tABD Marvel Frozen .................................. Mika Doi vDoM tABD Barn Bonnings ................................ Sho Hayami vHaS tABD Chum Huau ................................ Maria Kawamura vKaM4 tABD Shou Zama .............................. Shigeru Nakahara vNaS0 tABD Kean Keats .................................. Yumi Takada vTaY0 tABD Shiela Labarna ........................... Miki Takahashi vTaM0 tABD Lemul Zilfied .......................... Yoshino Takamori vTaY1 tABD Silky Mau ................................ Keiko Yokozawa vYoK0 tABD Elfino .................................. Michie Tomizawa vToM1 tABD Musy Poe ..................................... Mari Yokoo vYoM0 tABD man A .................................... Masami Kikuchi vKiM0 tABD Narrator ................................. Norio Wakamoto vWaN0 tABD Description: tABD Byston Well is a world where people go when they die. It is tABD normally unreachable from Earth for it exists between sea and tABD land. Only those who can open the Aura Road can pass through. tABD Dwellers of Sea called the A-Fellario are able to open the Aura tABD Road, and one of them named Silky Mau is forced to do it to tABD snatch a young motocross racer named Sho Zama. Sho finds himself tABD in Byston Well and his role is to pilot an Aura Battler. The tABD Aura Battler is a giant robot warrior of immense power that can tABD only be piloted by one with a strong Aura. All people brought tABD from Earth have that Aura, but Sho's is exceptionally strong. tABD His new master is Drake Luft, but Sho soon finds that Drake's tABD motives are more complex than he realizes... tABD Rating: [1 2 3 ] tABD Title: AD Police (OAVs) gSF tADP Cast: tADP Leon McNichol ........................... Toshio Furukawa vFuT1 tADP Gina Marceau ............................. Youko Matsuoka vMaY5 tADP Vanessa Buck .............................. Emi Shinohara vShE tADP Hyde Kashew ............................. Kiyonobu Suzuki vSuK3 tADP Phantom Lady (File 1) ................... Youko Asagami vAsY1 tADP Caroline Evans (File 2) ........................ Mika Doi vDoM tADP Youko Takagi (File 3) ................. Sakiko Tamagawa vTaS3 tADP Description: (by Tom Jewell) tADP This is an OAV series concentrating on the AD Police first seen tADP in "Bubble Gum Crisis", a few years before the first appearance tADP of the Knight Sabers. The stories have the AD Police dealing tADP with more mundane crimes and more thought provoking conflicts. tADP A common character with "Bubble Gum Crisis" is a young Leon tADP McNichol. tADP File 1: Leon is fighting against a prostitute Booma. Severely tADP injured, he defeats it. The Booma returns to his life when tADP its parts are reused and she (it?) begins killing her tADP clients. tADP File 2: This is a "what makes us human" story when a series of tADP "Jack the Ripper" style slayings take place. tADP File 3: A story dealing with our own humanity as a police tADP officer is turned into a 'Robocop' type of Booma...replacing tADP everything except his brain and tongue. tADP tADP NOTE: Rating is by contributor. tADP US Release by: AnimEigo (subtitled and dubbed) tADP UK Release by: Manga Video (dubbed) tADP Rating: [1 2 3 4 5] tADP Title: Genji Tsuushin Agedama (TV) gKI tAGE Cast: tAGE Agedama ................................... Nozomu Sasaki vSaN2 tAGE Ibuki .................................. Kotono Mitsuishi vMiK1 tAGE Wapuro (Word Processor) ................. Kumiko Watanabe vWaK tAGE Satoh ................................ Toshiyuki Morikawa vMoT1 tAGE Kodama ...................................... Ikue Ohtani vOhI tAGE Yuri Shiratori ........................... Yuri Shiratori vShY3 tAGE Tanaka/Suzuki ............................. Wataru Takagi vTaW tAGE Rei Kuki ................................ Sakiko Tamagawa vTaS3 tAGE Hitomi Kirara ........................... Wakana Yamazaki vYaW tAGE girl (ep #4) ........................... Yuri Shiratori vShY3 tAGE PC Rou .................................... Kouzou Shioya vShK4 tAGE principal .............................. Junichi Sugahara vSuJ tAGE Kuki Raizou (Nottoridamus XI) .......... Junpei Takiguchi vTaJ1 tAGE Okame ...................................... Masako Miura vMiM0 tAGE Hotaru ..................................... Masako Miura vMiM0 tAGE Description: tAGE Agedama is a small boy going to elementary school and having the tAGE usual problems for a boy of his age. He is also secretly a tAGE superhero-in-training (called "Agedaman"). Along with Wapuro, tAGE his floating computer companion, he fights against a criminal tAGE organization who can turn humans into monsters of various types. tAGE This is *not* a series to be taken seriously...they extensively tAGE parody the superhero genre as well as other anime including tAGE "Lupin III: Cagliostro Castle" (many scenes from the movie were tAGE followed almost exactly!) and "Sailor Moon" (Ibuki-chan turned tAGE into a 'bishoujo senshi'). Besides, where else can you find tAGE adversaries like a word processor (Wapuro) vs. a PC (PC-ro)? :-) tAGE Rating: [1 2 ] tAGE Title: Akira (FILM) gSF tAKI Cast: tAKI Kaneda ..................................... Mitsuo Iwata vIwM tAKI Tetsuo .................................... Nozomu Sasaki vSaN2 tAKI The Colonel ................................ Taroh Ishida vIsT0 tAKI Kai ....................................... Takeshi Kusao vKuT3 tAKI Kei ......................................... Mami Koyama vKoM5 tAKI Kaori .................................. Yuriko Fuchizaki vFuY0 tAKI Store owner ............................. Yousuke Akimoto vAkY tAKI Watanabe ................................... Taro Arakawa vArT tAKI Yamagata ................................. Masaaki Ohkura vOhM0 tAKI Armi ...................................... Kazumi Tanaka vTaK5 tAKI girl C ........................................ Yuka Ohno vOhY0 tAKI Description: tAKI Neo-Tokyo is gearing up for the Olympics which will be held tAKI there. These events mean little to Kaneda and his motorcycle tAKI gang. Their goal in life is to have a good time, without tAKI getting into any *real* trouble. However, trouble finds them tAKI as one of the bikers, Tetsuo, 'runs into' a psychic kid and is tAKI taken away. Kaneda finds that this is all linked to a dark tAKI mysterious secret called 'Akira'. The plot is somewhat tAKI confusing, but this is one of the most technically impressive tAKI anime movies to date. tAKI NOTE: The "Akira Production Report" is a 'Making of...' video tAKI that shows some behind-the-scenes stuff of the "Akira" tAKI movie. tAKI US Release by: Streamline Pictures (subtitled and dubbed) tAKI UK Release by: Manga Video (subtitled and dubbed) tAKI Rating: [1 2 3 ] -- but not for weak stomachs :-) tAKI Title: Project A-ko (FILM, OAVs) gCO tAKO Title: A-Ko the Versus (OAVs) gCO tAKO Cast: tAKO A-Ko Magami ................................... Miki Itou vItM0 tAKO B-Ko Daitokuji ............................ Emi Shinohara vShE tAKO C-Ko Kotobuki ........................... Michie Tomizawa vToM1 tAKO Ume .................................. Megumi Hayashibara vHaM1 tAKO Ine .................................... Yoshino Takamori vTaY1 tAKO Mari ...................................... Daisuke Gohri vGoD tAKO Captain Napolipolita ..................... Shuuichi Ikeda vIkS0 tAKO Spy-D ...................................... Tessho Genda vGeT tAKO Kei-kun .................................... Tessho Genda vGeT tAKO Defense Minister ............................. Tamio Ohki vOhT0 tAKO B-Ko's father ......................... Yoshitada Ohtsuka vOhY2 tAKO Kei's mother (Part 4) ..................... Reiko Mutoh vMuR tAKO Asa (Part 4) ...................... Youko Ogai vOgY0 tAKO Raiza Chichi (A-Ko the Vs) .............. Saeko Shimazu vShS2 tAKO C-ko's father (A-Ko the Vs) ................. Osamu Saka vSaO tAKO Maruten (A-Ko the Vs) ............. Masami Kikuchi vKiM0 tAKO Gail (A-Ko the Vs) ................. Sho Hayami vHaS tAKO Gail (little) (A-Ko the Vs) ............ Minami Takayama vTaM1 tAKO C-ko's servant (A-Ko the Vs) ............ Minami Takayama vTaM1 tAKO Grash .................................. Hiroshi Takemura vTaH2 tAKO Description: tAKO Take a school classroom. Add one poetry spouting teacher. Add tAKO a brilliant student (B-Ko). Add two new students, one who can tAKO destroy whole armies with her strength and another who can tAKO destroy whole armies with her crying and cooking. Now, create tAKO a rivalry between A-Ko and B-ko over getting to be C-Ko's friend.tAKO Add an invading alien force and you've got a parody taking aim tAKO at many anime cliches. Overall, it was very funny, though some tAKO parts were better than others. "A-Ko the Versus" placed A-Ko and tAKO B-Ko as bounty hunters trying to rescue C-Ko. tAKO tAKO Note on rating: This series would probably rate higher except it tAKO relies heavily on anime parody. This should not be the first tAKO anime for a new fan to watch. Wait until you've seen a good tAKO cross section of anime before going to this one. It'll be a tAKO lot funnier that way... tAKO Release Info: tAKO FILM: tAKO Project A-ko tAKO OAV Series: tAKO Part 2 - "Project A-ko: Plot of Daitokuji" tAKO Part 3 - "Project A-ko: Cinderella Rhapsody" tAKO Part 4 - "Project A-ko Final" tAKO OAV Series: tAKO A-ko the Versus: Gray Side tAKO A-ko the Versus: Blue Side tAKO US Release by: US Manga Corps (subtitled and dubbed) tAKO UK Release by: Manga Video (dubbed) tAKO Rating: [1 2 3 ] tAKO Title: Oh My Goddess! (OAVs) gCO tAMG aka: Aa! Megami-sama tAMG aut: Kosuke Fujishima ( ) tAMG Cast: tAMG Keiichi Morisato ......................... Masami Kikuchi vKiM0 tAMG Belldandy (a goddess) ...................... Kikuko Inoue vInK1 tAMG Skuld (a goddess) ...................... Aya Hisakawa vHiA1 tAMG Urd (a goddess) ........................ Yumi Touma vToY tAMG Megumi Morisato ........................ Yuriko Fuchizaki vFuY0 tAMG Sayoko Mishima .............................. Junko Asami vAsJ tAMG Sora Hasegawa ............................... Ikue Ohtani vOhI tAMG Ootaki ................................... Issei Futamata vFuI tAMG Aoshima .................................... Nobuo Tobita vToN tAMG Tamiya .................................. Kiyoyuki Yanada vYaK5 tAMG young Keiichi .............................. Megumi Ogata vOgM tAMG young Belldandy .............................. Yumi Touma vToY tAMG announcer (Part 3) ........................... Miki Itou vItM0 tAMG store girl (Part 5) ......................... Junko Asami vAsJ tAMG Description: (by Hitoshi Doi) tAMG One day, Keiichi, a student at Nekomi Institute of Technology tAMG (or NIT) was in his dorm because his sempai told him to wait for tAMG a phone call. While waiting, he got hungry, so Keiichi called tAMG out for some food. He dialed the wrong number and got the tAMG "Goddess Helpers" office instead. A young cute goddess named tAMG Belldandy appeared out of the mirror and said "Our job is to tAMG help people who are in trouble, like you. I can grant you one tAMG wish, no matter what it is..." Keiichi said "I want you to stay tAMG forever". The wish was approved. Unfortunately, Keiichi lives in tAMG a men-only dorm, so he got thrown out when his sempai returned. tAMG Keiichi's friends didn't let him in either, so he and Belldandy tAMG finally settled in an old temple... tAMG NOTE: This series is commonly known as "Ah! My Goddess", but the tAMG English title is as shown above. Confirmed with the manga's tAMG author by Robert Woodhead of AnimEigo. tAMG Release Info: tAMG Originally planned for 4 parts, this became a 5 part OAV series tAMG due to its popularity: tAMG Part 1 - "Moonlight and Cherry Blossums" tAMG Part 2 - "Midsummer Night's Dream" tAMG Part 3 - "Burning Hearts on the Road" tAMG Part 4 - "Evergreen Holy Night" tAMG Part 5 - "For the Love of Goddess" tAMG US Release by: AnimEigo (subtitled) tAMG UK Release by: Anime Projects Limited (subtitled) tAMG Rating: RECOMMENDED tAMG Title: We Love Animation! (TV) gMI tANI aka: Anime Daisuki! tANI Cast: tANI {Not Applicable} tANI Description: tANI This is a TV special which comes on twice a year. For one week, tANI various OAVs and movies are shown on TV via this program. Among tANI the features that have been shown are well-known ones such as tANI "Patlabor OAV #7", "Orange Road: White Lovers", "Lupin III: The tANI Legendary Gold of Babylon", "3x3 Eyes", "Dominion" and all of tANI "Project A-Ko". Less well known features include "Anpan-Man", tANI "Fuma no Kojiro", "Cleopatra DC", "Kenya" and "Midoriyama High tANI School". This is a great way to sample different anime that you tANI have never seen before. Also, the "We Love Animation" credits tANI are not to be missed...a different one for each series. This tANI was the first place that I ever saw an "Animate" gift card... :-)tANI Rating: [1 2 3 4 ] tANI Title: Appleseed (OAV) gSF tAPP aut: Masamune Shirow ( US:Eclipse Intl.) tAPP Cast: tAPP Deunan ................................... Masako Katsuki vKaM3 tAPP Hitomi ...................................... Mayumi Shoh vShM3 tAPP Athena ................................... Toshiko Sawada vSaT4 tAPP Nike .................................... Kumiko Takizawa vTaK3 tAPP Nereus ....................................... Tamio Ohki vOhT0 tAPP Fleia .......................................... Mika Doi vDoM tAPP Calon ................................... Toshio Furukawa vFuT1 tAPP Yoshi ..................................... Yuuji Mitsuya vMiY3 tAPP Description: tAPP In the futuristic metropolis of Olympus, a terrorist action is tAPP taking place. Handling the situation is ESWAT, a special branch tAPP of the Olympus Police Dept. Through the tense situation, ESWAT tAPP prepares to neutralize the terrorists. Finally, ESWAT strikes tAPP and kill or capture all but one of the terrorists. Along the tAPP way, we're introduced to two ESWAT members: Deunan Nut and tAPP Briareos Hecatonchires. They are 2 outsiders who joined ESWAT tAPP for lack of anywhere else to go. The OAV tells a story of a tAPP terrorist plot to take over Gaia...the central computer running tAPP Olympus. The plot involves a disillusioned ESWAT officer and tAPP the terrorist who got away and Hitomi, Deunan's bioroid friend tAPP who is used as a pawn to gain access to Gaia. tAPP tAPP NOTE: The OAV is based on the manga "Appleseed" by Matsumune tAPP Shirow. The manga is full of rich character development and tAPP background. Unfortunately, none of this was shown in the OAV. tAPP We got a simple police vs. terrorist story filled with lots of tAPP action, but was pretty pointless. It was interesting to see tAPP how many English words were misspelled, though... :-) tAPP US Release by: Manga Entertainment (dubbed) tAPP UK Release by: Manga Video (dubbed) tAPP Rating: [ ] tAPP Title: Arion (FILM) gFA tARI Cast: tARI Arion .................................. Shigeru Nakahara vNaS0 tARI Seneca .................................... Mayumi Tanaka vTaM2 tARI Lesfeena ................................. Miki Takahashi vTaM0 tARI Hades .................................... Chikao Ohtsuka vOhC tARI Poseidon .............................. Kiyoshi Kobayashi vKoK2 tARI Apollon ................................ Hirotaka Suzuoki vSuH tARI Athena ................................... Masako Katsuki vKaM3 tARI Hercules .................................. Daisuke Gohri vGoD tARI Prometheus .............................. Hideyuki Tanaka vTaH3 tARI Demeter ..................................... Reiko Mutoh vMuR tARI Lykaon .................................... Ichirou Nagai vNaI tARI Pio ......................................... Takako Ohta vOhT2 tARI young Arion ................................ Kazue Komiya vKoK3 tARI Description: tARI In Thrace, Arion is taken from his mother Demeter by the god tARI Hades. In the Underworld, Arion is trained to be a warrior. His tARI training is driven by revenge: Arion was told that his mother's tARI blindness was caused by Zeus and Zeus' death will remove the tARI curse. Finally, Arion and Geedo (a huge ape-like creature who tARI had become Arion's friend and companion) left the Underworld to tARI find Zeus. Seneca, a small thief, makes off with Arion's sword tARI and this leads Arion to his first encounter with the forces of tARI Zeus, commanded by his daughter Athena. Arion is captured but tARI is later set free by Lesfeena, Athena's mute serving girl. As tARI Arion rejoins Geedo and Seneca (and worries about Lesfeena), the tARI forces of Zeus and Poseidon face each other in battle. In the tARI background sits the scheming Hades, and the calm Apollon who tARI seems to have plans of his own. The setting of this movie was tARI based on Greek Mythology and the story is of epic stature. The tARI complex plot takes a while to unravel, but the storytelling is tARI excellent. tARI Rating: [1 2 3 4 5] tARI Title: Armitage III (FILM,OAVs) gSF tARM Cast: tARM Armitage ................................ Hiroko Kasahara vKaH2 tARM Chris Brown ........................... Nobutoshi Hayashi vHaN tARM Lavinia Waitley .......................... Junko Hagimori vHaJ tARM Eddie Burroughs ....................... Hirohiko Kakegawa vKaH0 tARM Rosalind Horhes .......................... Yuko Kobayashi vKoY0 tARM Dankroad .................................. Ryuusei Nakao vNaR2 tARM Julian Moore ............................... Megumi Ogata vOgM tARM Larry Randolph ........................... Masaharu Satou vSaM2 tARM Lowell Guntz .............................. Wataru Takagi vTaW tARM Eugene H Allen .......................... Hideyuki Tanaka vTaH3 tARM Description: tARM Welcome to a near-future Mars. A place where public sentiment is tARM generally against robots. A place where an arriving celebrity tARM singer is murdered...then her body turns out to be a robot. tARM What's worse is that her robot body is an unknown and extremely tARM advanced type. A detective from Earth is thrust into this mess tARM and is teamed with a Martian detective named Armitage. Together,tARM they will discover information about the Type III robots and try tARM to solve the mystery of who is murdering them. But what does it tARM mean to murder a robot? And Armitage...there are a few secrets tARM she is hiding as well. This is a gritty action/mystery piece tARM that explores the question of whether a robot can be human. tARM Release Info: tARM 4 part OAV. tARM 1 theatrical release dubbed in English. (Further info on this tARM is welcome). tARM US Release by: Pioneer Video (subtitled and dubbed) tARM Rating: [1 2 3 ] tARM Title: Assemble Insert (OAVs) gCO tASI Cast: tASI Maron Namikaze .......................... Hiroko Kasahara vKaH2 tASI Kagairi Sonoba ........................... Maria Kawamura vKaM4 tASI Ryouhei Shimokabe ......................... Ichirou Nagai vNaI tASI Yoshiko .................................... Kikuko Inoue vInK1 tASI Dr. Demon ................................ Chikao Ohtsuka vOhC tASI Okami .......................................... Ai Satou vSaA1 tASI Hattori .................................. Norio Wakamoto vWaN0 tASI subordinate .............................. Issei Futamata vFuI tASI Description: tASI The "Demon Seed" organization is robbing lots of banks and tASI jewelry stores. The police can't catch them and worse, they tASI cause a lot of civilian damage while trying. The solution? Hold tASI an audition for the new "Anti-Demon Seed" heroine who can also tASI become a music idol. This way, the public won't become so tASI upset at the civilian damage that's going to happen anyway. tASI Cute, sweet 8th grader Maron Namikaze wins this slot due to her tASI enormous strength. This OAV series parodies both the superhero tASI genre and idol girls. Pretty funny. tASI Rating: [1 2 3 ] tASI