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   psychic troubleshooter that hires himself out to solve problems and   
   looks like he could be the child of Lina and Gourry, and his ship the   
   Swordbreaker, which is one of the lost ships belonging to a highly   
   advanced lost civilization.  Joining him is Canal, the holographic   
   image which the ship projects to communicate, and Millie, a dead shot   
   who blows up kitchens cooking and wants to become the best something   
   or other in the Universe (exactly what changes with every episode).   
   Despite some not so great animation, those fuzzy dots that move around   
   are not because of a bad TV, the series is an enjoyable comedy done in   
   SLAYERS fashion, and although it doesn't quite live up to its parent   
   anime it's the closest thing out there to a fourth season of SLAYERS   
   right now.  Available from ADV Films.   
      [Entry by "Sultan Of Swing"]   
      
      LOUIE THE RUNE SOLDIER:  see RUNE SOLDIER   
      
      LOVE YOU BABY:  see AISHITERU ZE BEIBE   
      
      LOVE HINA:  Keitaro Urashima, a 20 year old "ronin" (student who   
   has failed his university entrance exams) gets a job as the caretaker   
   at his grandmother's old hot springs inn.  What he doesn't know is   
   that she has turned it into a girls-only dorm.  The girls aren't   
   pleased at first to have him there, but eventually accept him, and   
   Keitaro starts to fall in love with one of the girls, named Naru.  But   
   Keitaro is haunted by the vague memories of having promised, when he   
   was young, to go to Tokyo U with a girl whose name he has since   
   forgotten.   
      What develops is a romantic comedy, with a fair amount of surreal   
   humor, and a number of fun, memorable characters.  This was a big, big   
   hit in Japan.  Non-Japanese fans of the manga version tend to have   
   real problems with the anime version since it varies a lot from the   
   manga.  I saw the anime first, then read the manga, and tend to like   
   the anime more.   
      Available from Bandai in North America, or Madman in Australia.   
      [Entry by Anthony D. Baranyi]   
      
      LUPIN III:  Gentleman (err, mostly) thief, international man of   
   mystery, exquisite lover (but only in his dreams), Lupin III decides to   
   make a career out of flashy crimes and ridiculous car chases.  The   
   grandson of the infamous Arsene Lupin (without LeBlanc's consent,   
   unfortunately, leading to a bit of a tiff in which the English   
   translations temporarily went under the title of "Rupan"), Lupin travels   
   the world in search of the next big score while being hounded by   
   Inspector Zenigata of Interpol.  His companions are the sharp-shooting   
   Jigen, the noble Goemon, and the occasionally back-stabbing Fujiko, whom   
   Lupin never quite manages to score with.  The quality of the TV series   
   is rather subpar; the OAVs and films are better, but most of them have   
   aged pretty poorly.  Personally, I find it a fun throwback to the 70's   
   "mod" style.   
      Parental Advisories:  Moderate violence (for comedic effect), implied   
   adult situations, and lots of (interrupted) Fujiko beddings   
      [Entry by Dot Warner]   
      
      
   (continued in Part 4)   
      
   --   
   Rob Kelk  robkelk -at- gmail -dot- com   
     "I'm *not* a kid!  Nyyyeaaah!"  - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)   
   "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of   
    childishness and the desire to be very grown-up."    - C.S. Lewis, 1947   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)