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   loneliness due to her divorced parents' failure to contact her in years;   
   and the fact that she's the reincarnation of Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc).   
   Sadly, Maron's adventures seem to have nothing in common with those of   
   her namesake, except that both are on missions from God.  Egged on by   
   the diminutive angel Fin that only she can see or hear, Maron must steal   
   and destroy art treasures that have become possessed by demons.  Her   
   missions are hampered by a detective's daughter who is determined to   
   capture Kaitou Jeanne, and by masked rival Sindbad.  The bishoujo   
   character styling is very SAILOR MOONish, whilst the storyline is   
   CARDCAPTOR SAKURA with added cops'n'robbers.  Although the episode plots   
   are feeble and cartoonish, the central character Maron is engaging and   
   just deep enough to make you want to see "just one more" episode.   
      Originally fansubbed by Sachi, a new high-quality digisub using the   
   same scripts is now also doing the rounds.   
      [Entry by Shez]   
      
      KARESHI KANOJO NO JIJYO (a.k.a. KAREKANO; HIS AND HER   
   CIRCUMSTANCES): Yukino Miyazawa is an intelligent and popular student   
   who craves the attention this gives her, and she works hard to keep   
   the impressions she makes in all her classmates' minds.  However, on   
   the day of her high school entrance ceremonies, she finds that the   
   position of incoming class representative that she wanted so much has   
   been taken by a boy named Arimi Souichiro.  While this enrages her,   
   she eventually finds herself drawn closer to him, and he to her.  When   
   their popular masks finally slip in front of each other, they find   
   that they have fallen in love.   
      This romantic drama was Gainax's first TV series after the   
   legendary NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, and carries over some of its   
   experimental tendencies, only this time to more comic effect; they   
   carried that over and built on it in future series such as FLCL and   
   ABENOBASHI MAHOU SHOUTENGAI.  Based on the popular shoujo manga by   
   Masami Tsuda, and, whilst a quality series, the anime has a   
   frustrating non-ending, since the manga is still running in the   
   monthly LaLa at the time of writing.   
      Licenced by Right Stuf.   
      [Entry by David Watson]   
      
      KAZEMAKASE TSUKIKAGE RAN:  See TSUKIKAGE RAN   
      
      KEY THE METAL IDOL:  Tokiko "Key" Mima is a strange, pale, waifish   
   little girl who claims to be an android.  Raised by a scientist in a   
   small town, she is forced to strike out on her own when he dies.  His   
   dying words to her are a puzzling "In order to make yourself a real   
   girl, you must make 30,000 friends."  But things only get stranger   
   from there.  Who is the evil Ajo and his henchman "D"?  Why are they   
   interested in Key?  Is Key really an android?  Decent art and   
   animation.  Subbed and dubbed.  13 episodes.  From Viz.   
      [Entry by Ben Cantrick]   
      
      KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (a.k.a. MAJO-NO TAKKYUBIN):  Kiki, the   
   thirteen-year-old daughter of a witch and a mortal man, strikes out to a   
   new city to live on her own.  Despite having no skills other than   
   flying, Kiki manages to hold her own, discovers some secrets to   
   happiness, and falls in love for the first time. A sweet, delightful   
   coming-of-age tale full of Miyazaki's classic storytelling techniques,   
   such as the sweeping visuals of Kiki's aerial scenes and the subtle   
   plays of light and dark as the mood of the film reflects Kiki's   
   blossoming maturity.  Like most other Studio Ghibli films, this is just   
   about the most family friendly anime you can get.   
      KIKI is available in the US from Disney/Buena Vista.   
      [Entry by Dot Warner]   
      
      KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD:  A tale of a "love triangle", the male   
   protagonist middle school student Kasuga Kyosuke falls in love with   
   Ayakawa Madoka from the moment he meets her but her best friend Hyama   
   Hikaru (2 years younger) falls in love with him when she see what she   
   believes to be an unaided athletic feat.  But the Kasuga family hides a   
   secret, that the children Kyosuke & the twins Manami and Kurumi whose   
   mother died have PSI powers.  Kyosuke gets into a lot of trouble with   
   Ayakawa mostly using his powers to keep others happy.  The action of the   
   series revolves around Kyosuke concealing his love for Ayakawa from not   
   only Hikaru but the classmates, Ayakawa's behavior ("kimagure" means   
   "whimsical") and her old street gang pals, and of course Kyosuke's   
   fantasies.  The twins help to stir things up as well, and Kasuga Takashi   
   (the PSI unpowered dad) is a photographer which leads to some very   
   interesting episodes.  Studying by the characters helps the story along,   
   as do the grandparents.   
      This series ran to 48 TV episodes with 8 OVAs and 2 movies,   
   subtitled.  The second movie is from the original author of the manga on   
   which the whole series is based, Masumoto Izumi.  During the series,   
   reference is made to Ayakawa's musical ability and in the final movie   
   she is a fully developed composer.  The music used in the series is   
   somewhat ambigous but suits the amine very well.   
      Available from AnimEigo.   
      [Entry by bobbie sellers]   
      
      KIMBA THE WHITE LION:  Another old US import from the pen of Osamu   
   Tezuka originally titled JUNGLE TAITEI (Emperor).  Note any similarity   
   to Disney's "Lion King"?   
      
      KINO'S JOURNEY:  A quietly nihilistic series that makes for a nice   
   contrast with the large number of colourful and perky series out there,   
   KINO'S JOURNEY tells the story of a young wanderer and a robotic   
   motorcycle who journey through various countries, staying no more than   
   three days at a time.  Many of the countries and individuals encountered   
   either engage in self-destructive behaviour or have ugly aspirations.   
   Kino, while largely a moral agent, at times skirts the line of amorality   
   in just drifting through these situations.   
      This is a fascinating series with solid storytelling that's chock   
   full of black humour, irony, surrealism and cynicism.  Despite the   
   general downbeat nature of this series, there's a undercurrent of   
   happiness to it (not a little of which is embodied in the very laid-back   
   Kino).   
      Available in North America from ADV Films.   
      [Entry by Michael Lo]   
      
      KISHIN HEIDAN (a.k.a. KISHIN CORPS or GEO-ARMOR):  An interesting   
   admixture of World War II, an Alien invasion, and the giant robots   
   captured alien technology makes possible.  Fast-paced adventure,   
   available from Geneon dubbed or subtitled.   
      
      KODOMO NO OMOCHA (aka KODOCHA; CHILD'S TOY):  Sana Kurata is a   
   child actress renowned for her hyperactivity and her role on the TV   
   show of the title (yes, a show within a show; cute, innit?), and is   
   the adopted daughter of the eccentric author Mariko Kurata.  Despite   
   her stardom, she still goes to a non-exclusive school, in which her   
   class is terrorized by a bully named Akito Hayama, a cold and quiet   
   boy who manages to rally the other boys around him and make the class   
   hell for the teacher.  When Sana decides enough is enough and stands   
   up to him to try to get him to stop, she discovers just how troubled   
   he and his life actually are, and eventually goes from enemy to   
   friend ... or is it even more?   
      Zany comedy and very touching drama exist side by side in KODOCHA's   
   shoujo frame, and it still manages to work very well.  While the TV   
   series still hasn't been announced as licensed yet (and it's hard to   
   say if it ever will, since it's over 100 episodes long and its pace   
   and puns make it difficult to translate), TOKYOPOP is now releasing   
   Miho Obana's manga under the name KODOCHA.   
      [Entry by David Watson]   
      
      
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