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      Parental Advisory:  Extreme violence (blood, gore, torture, and   
   Alucard doing really scary stuff), swear words up the wazoo (bleeped   
   out on TV, mostly), and lots of sexual tension.   
      [Entry by Dot Warner]   
      
      HERE IS GREENWOOD:  Hasakawa has the worst luck:  He's late for his   
   high school entry exams, then he's late for high school, and his older   
   brother has married the woman of his dreams.  As he heads to school,   
   he figures things are looking up, until he finds out he's been put in   
   "GreenWood", the dorm notorious for its weird residents.  Having a   
   roommate who looks like a girl is the *least* of his problems ...   
      [Entry by Catherine Johnson]   
      
      HEROIC LEGEND OF ARISLAN:  see ARSLAN SENKI   
      
      HIKARU NO GO:  Hikaru was your typical hot-blooded youth who had no   
   interest in Go until he met Sai, a go-obsessed spirit who died before he   
   could achieve his fondest wish: to play the "hand of god", the perfect   
   move.  After being possessed by Sai, Hikaru begins taking interest in   
   this strange "old man's game" (as well as gaining the rivalry of Touya   
   Akira, another go prodigy), and discovers that he's surprisingly gifted,   
   even without Sai's help.  Basically, it's go as a sports anime, a   
   premise that works surprisingly well, understandable even for people who   
   don't play the game.  The series contains 75 episodes and a handful of   
   specials.   
      [Entry by Dot Warner]   
      
      HUMANOID:  Fairly retro feel here in a story about the creation of   
   a scientific genius, referred to as a "humanoid".  The planet on which   
   this happens is also the resting place of other and greater   
   technology, power which the planetary governor wouldn't mind getting   
   his hands on.  The story seems to revolve around the development of   
   the humanoid, some of which is voluntary, indeed resonant of KEY THE   
   METAL IDOL, and around the deeds of the governor as he realises his   
   folly...   
      [Entry by Chika]   
      
      HYPER POLICE:  It is the distant future, normal humans are considered   
   an endangered species.  It is the time of the monsters/half-breeds.   
   This is the story of a 6-year old cat-girl by the name of Natsuki   
   Sasahara.  She works as a bounty hunter with various other monsters.   
   However, the company that she works for is having financial troubles,   
   one of her co-workers has a crush on her, one is trying to eat her, and   
   those are just her partners...  Can she survive when times are tough?   
   Can she get her own Bounty Hunter license?  And ... can she find a pair   
   of undies that she doesn't have to cut out a portion for her tail?   
      [Entry by Bill Martin]   
      
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      I CAN HEAR THE SEA:  A snotty Tokyo girl moves to a provincial sea   
   town, there she clashes with her new classmates in high school.  Told   
   from the perspective of one of the local boys who is first appalled by   
   her, but later befriends her when he finds out about the divorce of   
   her parents and helps her cope with her family problems.  A sweet,   
   subdued story about growing up to be an adult and about first love   
   with some interesting insights into everyday life of Japanese school   
   and college students.   
      [Entry by Hanno Mueller]   
      
      ICZER-1:  An ongoing battle between races with planet-trashing   
   abilities comes to Earth.  Humans suddenly start turning into weird,   
   bloodthirsty monsters without warning.  Into this havoc comes Iczer-1, a   
   girl (well, she looks like one, anyway), and she enlists the unwilling   
   help of a young human girl called Nagisa to help pilot the big   
   Iczer-Robo mecha.  The story behind this is a bit convoluted and   
   difficult to explain without introducing spoilers, but there is a link   
   between Iczer-1 and her enemies, and there is a bigger menace waiting in   
   the wings.  A later series, ICZER-3, is based on this series.   
      [Was available from US Renditions when US Renditions was still in   
   operation; currently licenced by Media Blasters.]   
      [Entry by Chika]   
      
      ICZER-3:  Earth has been taken over by Big Gold's daughter (see   
   ICZER-1) and Iczer-1 is in no fit state to do anything about it.  All   
   there is left is Iczer-1's little sister, Iczer-3, but she is very   
   much a rookie.  Just as well that Nagisa is waiting aboard the only   
   remaining Earth ship, sitting waiting on the moon along with its crew.   
   The story is very similar to ICZER-1 except that there isn't quite so   
   much body-snatching; each episode seeing the crew and Iczer-3 battle   
   each of the baddies (mostly rejects from the Negaverse!!!).  Iczer-1   
   and Iczer-2 both emerge at the end, by the way.  Iczer-3 is available   
   subbed from USMC.   
      [Entry by Chika]   
      
      I'M GONNA BE AN ANGEL:  see TENSHI NI NARUMON   
      
      INU-YASHA:  Hundreds of years ago in Feudal Japan, during the   
   Sengoku Jidai (or Warring States Era), there was a half-demon,   
   half-human hybrid named Inu-Yasha.  He sought to capture the Shikon no   
   Tama (or Jewel of Four Souls) for himself, but Kikyo, the priestess   
   who had guarded the jewel, sealed him away with a sacred arrow.  On   
   her deathbed, she was cremated along with the Jewel ... but the story   
   does not end there.  In the modern age of the present day, Kagome   
   Higurashi, a seemingly ordinary girl, is thrust back into the Sengoku   
   Jidai by a magical well, and must now protect the mysteriously   
   reappeared Shikon no Tama from the fearsome demons and ogres that   
   wander across the land.  But can she rely on Inu-Yasha, the   
   resurrected half-demon, to help her defend this enigmatic jewel?  A   
   gothic horror/adventure series, with romantic comedy elements, from   
   Rumiko Takahashi (creator of RANMA 1/2 and MAISON IKKOKU).  Licenced   
   by Viz.   
      [Entry by Nicholas A. Jalowick]   
      
      IRIA (a.k.a. ZEIRAM, THE ANIMATION):  Set in a future time Iria is   
   a bounty hunter in training.  She, her brother Gren and their boss Bob   
   are hired to for a rescue mission when the most dangerous lifeform in   
   the galaxy Zeiram shows up as part of the cargo.  Escaping to the   
   planet Taowajan with no idea on the fate of Gren or Bob, Iria must   
   deal with the authorities idea of urban renewal which is to allow   
   Zeiram to run loose in a city slum.  Later on all records of the   
   rescue mission have vanished and Iria must contend with a conspiracy   
   that wants to silence her before she can find out what their plans for   
   Zeiram are.  (6 episode series on VHS and DVD by US Manga)   
      [Entry by Bruce Grubb]   
      
      IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLOR:  Through a series of coincidences (or   
   are they?), Justy Tylor (aged 20) becomes captain of the Battle   
   Cruiser Soyokaze, which is full of misfits and rejects.  His   
   easy-going, do-your-own-thing manner annoys and confuses friend and   
   foe alike, and his amazing successes keep people wondering:  Is he   
   incredibly lucky or incredibly clever?   
      Available from The Right Stuf International.   
      [Entry by Catherine Johnson]   
      
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      JOURNEY TO THE WEST:  see GENSOMADEN SAIYUKI   
      
      JUBEI NIMPUUCHO:  see NINJA SCROLL   
      
      JUNGLE TAITEI:  see KIMBA THE WHITE LION   
      
      JUNGLE WA ITSUMO HARE NOCHI GUU:  Pure madness in a jungle that seems   
   to have escaped from a Salvador Dali painting.  Ten-year-old Hare's   
   quiet life in the Jungle with his mother Weda is turned into a comic   
   inferno one day when Weda brings home "cute" little Guu, a girl who   
   appears to be around Hare's age.  But Guu turns out to be an   
   inexplicable being - unimaginably powerful and yet a cynical trickster   
   who seems to be there specifically to turn Hare's life into a living   
   damnation.  HARE NOCHI GUU is a brilliantly witty series with   
   astoundingly imaginative writing that at its core is based upon some   
      
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