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Japanese Animation [message #111784] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:22 Go to next message
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Salutations ( and other forms of greeting ) !

You'll have to forgive me (that is, I hope you will) for posting this on
so many boards, but I thought a wider dispersion might bring some 
useful replies.

I'd like to know if anyone out there has an interest in Japanese animation
especially the histories, books, memorabilia, videos, etc. of

	1 ) the YAMATO series films and TV serials
		    (both the Japanese originals and the American
	     	cloned 'Star Blazers')
	2 ) the GALAXY EXPRESS 999 TV serials
	3 ) the 'MY YOUTH IN ARCADIA' serials and/or films
	4 ) older Japanses animation, such as SPEED RACER.

The quality of the artwork of these productions is outstanding, and this
opinion can be supported by (almost) anyone who has viewed these productions.
CREATION (c) conventions often invite dealers in Japanese science fiction
animation to their events, but their selecton of memorabilia has only
recently improved, and the amount of video they have available is
nearly nil !  

Any info you can spare will be GREATLY appreciated !  Let me know I'm
not completely alone out here..........................*


				"Can you read Japanese ?"
				"With artwork like this, does it
					really matter ???"

				JOhn JOhnston, YAMATO Flight Crew
				@ Saint Joseph's University,
				  Philadelphia, Pa.

P.S.  IF you want to post replies to the net for the benefit of everyone
	    interested, post them in 'net.comics' or 'net.sf-lovers'; we'll
	    stop posting replies to whichever of these two nets thinks this kind
	    of info isn't proper for that group !  Thanx again !

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Re: Japanese Animation [message #113632 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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From: jts (Jim Sasaki)

[color=blue]>  I'd like to know if anyone out there has an interest in Japanese animation[/color]
[color=blue]>  especially the histories, books, memorabilia, videos, etc. of[/color]
[color=blue]>  [/color]
[color=blue]>   1 ) the YAMATO series films and TV serials (both the Japanese originals[/color]
[color=blue]>       and the American cloned 'Star Blazers')[/color]
[color=blue]> [/color]
[color=blue]>   .... [edited][/color]

I have a softcover comic book, titled "Star Blazers", volume 1.  It sounds
like the sort of thing you'd be interested in.  I bought it in a grubby store
in Chicago (my home town), but on the inside cover, it gives their
distributor's address and phone number:

    Nippon Shuppan Hanbai USA, Inc
    (Books Nippon)
    532 W. Sixth Street
    Los Angeles CA 90014

    213/687-7400

Maybe they deliver.  Good luck.

    -- Jim Sasaki (jts@cornell.{ARPA|UUCP}, {ihnp4|vax135|...}!cornell!jts)
Re: Japanese Animation [message #113642 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There are in fact three volumes of _Star Blazers_.  They are a book form
of the American recut of the Japanese TV series _Space Cruiser Yamato_.
The book consists of frame blowups with word balloons added.  The show is
on some of the syndicated TV stations in the US.  In addition to the TV
series in Japan there are four feature length animated films.

				John R Blaker
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re: Japanese animation [message #113646 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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[color=blue]>  From:	cornell!jts	(Jim Sasaki)[/color]

[color=teal]>>  I'd like to know if anyone out there has an interest in Japanese animation[/color]
[color=teal]>>  especially the histories, books, memorabilia, videos, etc. of[/color]
[color=teal]>>  [/color]
[color=teal]>>   1 ) the YAMATO series films and TV serials (both the Japanese originals[/color]
[color=teal]>>       and the American cloned 'Star Blazers')[/color]
[color=teal]>> [/color]
[color=teal]>>  .... [edited][/color]
[color=blue]> [/color]
[color=blue]>  I have a softcover comic book, titled "Star Blazers", volume 1.  It sounds[/color]
[color=blue]>  like the sort of thing you'd be interested in.  I bought it in a grubby store[/color]
[color=blue]>  in Chicago (my home town), but on the inside cover, it gives their[/color]
[color=blue]>  distributor's address and phone number:[/color]
[color=blue]> [/color]
[color=blue]>     Nippon Shuppan Hanbai USA, Inc[/color]
[color=blue]>     (Books Nippon)[/color]
[color=blue]>     532 W. Sixth Street[/color]
[color=blue]>     Los Angeles CA 90014[/color]
[color=blue]> [/color]
[color=blue]>     213/687-7400[/color]

So far, there are *three* volumes such as you describe (with one more to go
to finish the first serial). I picked up my copies at my regular comics shop.
Most big comics shops should carry them, as well as a ton of other Japanese
graphic albums of YAMATO and related material (in Japanese, of course). The
albums from Books Nippon have the advantage that they're in English. They are
definitely worth getting.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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re: Japanese animation [message #113662 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was up in Toronto recently.  The Silver Snail comic shop
on Queen Street has a lot of Japanese-language animation books
(Capt. Harlock, etc.) as well as plastic robot kits and so on.

Mike Ciaraldi
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Re: Japanese Animation [message #113663 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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John Johnston writes:
[color=blue]>  I'd like to know if anyone out there has an interest in Japanese[/color]
[color=blue]>  animation especially the histories, books, memorabilia, videos, etc. of[/color]

[color=blue]> 	1 ) the YAMATO series films and TV serials[/color]
[color=blue]> 	    (both the Japanese originals and the American[/color]
[color=blue]> 	     	cloned 'Star Blazers')[/color]
[color=blue]> 	2 ) the GALAXY EXPRESS 999 TV serials[/color]
[color=blue]> 	3 ) the 'MY YOUTH IN ARCADIA' serials and/or films[/color]
[color=blue]> 	4 ) older Japanses animation, such as SPEED RACER.[/color]
[color=blue]>  . . .[/color]
[color=blue]>  Any info you can spare will be GREATLY appreciated !  Let me know I'm[/color]
[color=blue]>  not completely alone out here..........................*[/color]

You are not alone John and hopefully other people will join this
discussion, too.  I'm cutting back the newsgroups posted to, to just
net.tv and net.comics (net.sf-lovers tends to get upset about tv/movie
related discussions).  Almost all Japanese animated series are either
based on manga (Japanese comic books) or are printed in comic form after
the fact either as anime comics (using frame reproductions like a
photo-novel) or as adaptations, so the net.comics folks may be interested.

The best way to find out about these shows is to join the Cartoon/Fantasy
Organization or C/FO.  The national club newsletter is terrific and there
are lots of local chapters that have monthly meetings and put out their
own newsletters.  Some members trade tapes with fans in Japan.  There
are more and more dealers turning up at conventions with books, posters,
and models but not much gets shown on video programs unless a local
C/FO or Star Blazers Fan Club chapter organizes it.  C/FO MidAtlantic
organized a Japanese animation video room at ConStellation, the 1983
World Con, and there was a lot shown at last year's World Con since
there are a lot of C/FO chapters in California.  The Star Blazers Fan
Club usually runs the video room at Lunacon in New York.

Some of my favorites are Yamato (of course), Urashiman, Macross (a nice English
version of this is coming out on tape, just ignore the horrid theme song they
added), Captain Harlock, Dunbine, Orguss, Catseye, Gatchaman, Lupin III,
Mospeada, Mobile Suit Gundam and ... I had better stop there before I fill up
the page.  I remember enjoying Speed Racer and Marine Boy when I was little,
but they don't look so good compared to the excellent productions coming
out now.  The increase in quality is particularly visible over the course
of the Yamato series - the first series, from 1974, looks good compared
to American tv animation even today, but each production gets better up to
the movie Final Yamato, from 1983, which has an unbearably stupid plot but
beautiful art work.

[color=blue]> 				"Can you read Japanese ?"[/color]
I'm learning, using manga and books about animated series.
[color=blue]> 				"With artwork like this, does it[/color]
[color=blue]> 					really matter ???"[/color]
Quite true!

Further comments and questions welcome!

				Mary Anne Espenshade
				...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae
Re: Japanese Animation [message #113665 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In article <831@sjuvax.UUCP> 0607jj04@sjuvax.UUCP (johnston) writes:

[color=blue]> The quality of the artwork of these productions is outstanding, and this[/color]
[color=blue]> opinion can be supported by (almost) anyone who has viewed these productions.[/color]
[color=blue]> CREATION (c) conventions often invite dealers in Japanese science fiction[/color]
[color=blue]> animation to their events, but their selecton of memorabilia has only[/color]
[color=blue]> recently improved, and the amount of video they have available is[/color]
[color=blue]> nearly nil !  [/color]

   If you're really interested in excellent Japanese animation try watching
*Mighty Orbots* on ABC Saturday mornings at 8:00am.  Although distributed by
MGM and appearing to have been animated for America (the lipsync definitely 
seems to be for english words) it was animated by Japanese artists.  It beats
*Star Blazers* and *Galaxy 999* hollow.  The stories themselves are better 
than your usual saturday morning stuff.  One word of caution, the episodes
at the beginning of the season are of slightly higher quality than those
towards the end.
Japanese Animation [message #113670 is a reply to message #111784] Tue, 17 September 2013 14:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Is there a place that carries the various models and toys that
are based on animated Japanese shows?  If it's in the San Francisco
area or mail order, it's close enough for me.

Thanks,
	Gary
(hplabs,allegra,ihnp4)oliveb!olivee!gnome
Re: Japanese Animation [message #114962 is a reply to message #111784] Wed, 18 September 2013 15:42 Go to previous message
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Summary:  Orbots are okay, but Lupin is better.



[color=blue]>    If you're really interested in excellent Japanese animation try watching[/color]
[color=blue]> *Mighty Orbots* on ABC Saturday mornings at 8:00am. . . .  The stories[/color]
[color=blue]> themselves are better than your usual saturday morning stuff.  One word[/color]
[color=blue]> of caution, the episodes at the beginning of the season are of slightly[/color]
[color=blue]> higher quality than those towards the end.[/color]

Gee, I must have seen late season stuff.

Let's be fair.  MIGHTY ORBOTS mostly seems like a take off on VOTRON,
with a good taste of . . . oh, felgercarb, that DC comic from the 60s,
with a buch of robots, each made of a different metal (e.g., tin, gold,
iron, etc.)  The robots are not to be taken 100% seriously, and I
assume, neither is the series.  Even if you did take it seriously (a
bad move for Saturday at eight in the morning), it wouldn't be too bad,
compared to its competition.

You want to talk *GOOD* Japanese animation?  In a word, LUPIN.  In two
words, "Lupin III", a Frence third generation thief.  He has a couple of
sidekicks, a Chicago hit man and a Japanese samuri, who were sent to kill
him and decided to join him instead.  More action than STAR WARS, more
adventure then James Bond, not quite as many laughs as Bugs Bunny.

Outside of SF cons, the only time I've seen Lupin is in the laser video
game "Cliffhanger".  This is made of scenes from two Lupin movies:
CASTLE CAGLIOSTRO (which is subtitled), and some other one (the one with
the helicopter in the sewer, which is dubbed).  Check out the "L" on
"Cliff's" belt buckle.
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