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   movie better.  All three movies are available from Geneon.   - Rob   
   Kelk]   
      
      TENCHI UNIVERSE:  see TENCHI MUYO TV.   
      
      TENKU NO SHIRO LAPUTA:  see LAPUTA, CASTLE IN THE SKY   
      
      TETSUWAN ATOMU:  see ASTRO BOY   
      
      THOSE OBNOXIOUS ALIENS:  see URUSEI YATSURA   
      
      TIME STRANGER:  An involving variation on THE TERMINATOR, with   
   slight nods of the head towards TIME BANDITS.  The animation is very   
   good and the story, complex.  Feudal Japan is depicted nicely and in   
   detail, as is the far future.  Great plot complications throughout.   
      
      TINY SNOW FAIRY SUGAR:  The weather is something that happens, not   
   something that's created, right?  But Did you know that fairies can   
   create the very weather itself?   
      In the picturesque town of Muhlenburg lives an 11 year old girl   
   named Saga.  An organized, efficient, "make a decision and go!" kind   
   of girl, Saga is very embodiment of industrious, whose only character   
   flaw is an impatient temper.  She's not the type to be superstitious.   
      But Saga can see fairies.  As a child, Saga looked  to a sky while   
   lying in a snow bank, and saw a beautiful fairy flying away on a trail   
   of falling snow.   
      Still, childhood memories are easily dismissed as figments of the   
   imagination, so it's no surprise when Saga dismisses the fairy she finds   
   while running her errands, as a mere illusion.  After all, fairies are   
   lovely, beautiful creatures, not hyperactive, selfish, lazy,   
   waffle-eating, 3-inch-tall toddlers.   
       But this one is!  Her name is Sugar, and she's come to the human   
   world to find her "twinkle" and become a great Snow Fairy, just like her   
   mother.   
       With an appropriately whismical soundtrack and characters designed   
   by the Queen of Cute, Koge Donbo, TINY SNOW FAIRY SUGAR is best   
   described as an heartwarming animated fairytale.   
      [Entry by Abraham Evangelista]   
      
      TO HEART:  A 13 episode slice of life drama about a group of   
   17-year-old high-school students.  The nail-biting climax of episode   
   one concerns whether or not Akari, a total sweetie with cherry-red   
   hair, will get to sit next to the boy she likes, and the rest of the   
   series pretty much follows on at the same tempo.  Akari's squeeze is   
   the sleepy-headed but kind-hearted Hiroyuki, whose ever-helpful nature   
   causes him to acquire new female friends in each episode.  The genius   
   of this charming series is how its focus on the events of everyday   
   life manages to elevate them to a level of importance that supplants   
   any need for magical superheroes or quests to save the world.  Having   
   said that, many of the girls that Hiroyuki befriends have intriguing   
   quirks:  e.g. Serika practices black magic, Kotone is a psychic who   
   only makes unlucky predictions, and Multi is an incompetent android   
   sent to the school for field trials.   
      Rather remarkably for a TV series that is bordering on shoujo, TO   
   HEART actually started life as a Hentai dating sim.  As well as the 13   
   episodes, there are 6 little "omake" (extras) which were originally   
   broadcast with some of the episodes.  They use super-deformed versions   
   of the characters and are mostly even more low key than the main   
   episodes.   
      [Entry by Shez]   
      
      TONARI NO TOTORO:  see MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO   
      
      TRIGUN:  A sci-fi western comedy (mostly) focusing around the   
   world's most unlikely criminal, Vash the Stampede.  The man is   
   apparently so dangerous that he's worth 60,000,000,000$$ ("double   
   dollars"), but whenever anyone catches up to him in hopes of snagging   
   the reward, they're always thwarted:  sometimes by his skill with a   
   gun, but mostly by his inherent goofiness.  However, Vash does have a   
   dark past, so mysterious that even he himself doesn't know what it is!   
   All in all, a fairly lighthearted show with some serious themes, but a   
   hilarious watch.  (Geneon)   
      [Entry by KireiSarah]   
      
      TSUKIKAGE RAN (a.k.a. KAZEMAKASE TSUKIKAGE RAN, CARRIED BY THE WIND):   
   Ran, a female samurai, is a self-described "beautiful female drifter"   
   wandering through feudal Japan, carried only by the ever-changing wind   
   and her eternal thirst for sake.  Generally accompanying her is Miao   
   (Meow), a wandering martial artist from China characterised mostly by   
   happy-go-luckiness, a good heart, and an utter, frightening lack of   
   anything resembling forethought or intelligence.  Together the two,   
   rather more frequently than Ran would like, get embroiled in resolving   
   problems of local corruption or crime.  An episodic light-hearted parody   
   of Japanese "wandering samurai and his sidekick" shows, high points   
   being likable characters and spectacular fight scenes.  13 episodes,   
   available now from Bandai.   
      [Entry by Blade]   
      
      TSUKUYOMI MOON PHASE:  Kohei is a young man from a family of powerful   
   spiritualists who happens to not have any of the powers of his   
   relatives, other than an ability to take photographs of supernatural   
   occurrences and a tendency to not be affected by many aspects of magic.   
   Kohei's life begins to change when while on an assignment to photograph   
   an old haunted castle in Germany he meets a pretty young girl named   
   Hazuki who happens to be a vampire who has been trapped in the castle.   
   Kohei helps Hazuki to break free, and becomes involved in Hazuki's   
   search for her mother who disappeared years before.  But powerful forces   
   in the shadowy world of vampires want Hazuki back, and Kohei finds   
   himself in the role of protecting Hazuki while trying to come to an   
   understanding of their odd mutual attraction.  With a brilliant and   
   witty script that is matched by aggressively edgy animation, masterful   
   swings between French bedroom farce-style humor and gothic horror, a   
   compelling sound track and very likable characters, Tsukuyomi is a   
   totally enjoyable fantasy.   
      [Entry by Dave Baranyi]   
      
      THE TWELVE KINGDOMS:  see JUUNI KOKKI   
      
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      URUSEI YATSURA:  The title translates as something like THOSE   
   OBNOXIOUS ALIENS, though the title itself is actually a pun in Japanese.   
   This was the series that broke Rumiko Takahashi onto the manga and anime   
   scene, first in Japan, then around the world.  Ataru Moroboshi is this   
   planet's unluckiest person, so it was a foregone conclusion that he   
   would be the target of a contest, the outcome deciding the future of the   
   world.  When Moroboshi wins unexpectedly, his cry of "Now I can be   
   married!" is misinterpreted by his "Oni" opponent, a rather nubile young   
   thing called Lum.  Now Lum believes herself to be married to her   
   "darling", much to the disgust of most of the male population of   
   Tomobiki-cho.  A full compliment of characters conspire to make life   
   interesting for the happy couple, as well as copious numbers of special   
   and repetitive guests in this long-running series which includes six   
   movies, several OAV's and more than 200 TV episodes.   
      Originally released as a subtitled-only series by AnimEigo, though a   
   dub version was attempted - that was aborted after only two episodes due   
   to unfavourable feedback from fans.   
      [Entry by Chika]   
      
      UTENA (a.k.a. SHOUJO KAKUMEI UTENA, REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA):  You   
   could go off roses!  A different twist on the magical girl series in   
   that the subject here makes no attempt to transform into anything   
   except by the fact that as a very young girl, grieving her parents'   
   death, she encounters a "prince" who comforts her and tells her that   
   they are destined to meet again, giving her a ring.  She vows to grow   
   up as noble as this prince, but takes it too literally, shunning the   
      
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