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   gets to use it more often than he does) in battle against their   
   arch-enemy - but is the arch-enemy evil, or just misunderstood?   
   Starts as a comedy, but becomes more serious near the end.  A six-OAV   
   series available from Geneon.   
      [Entry by Rob Kelk]   
      
      MONONOKE-HIME: see PRINCESS MONONOKE   
      
      MONSTER RANCHER:  Another POKEMON-motivated "monster" kids show.   
   Energetic young kid Genki is transported to a world populated by   
   humans and intelligent monsters, where he joins Holly, a young girl   
   with a mysterious pendant, and a small band of monsters on their quest   
   to stop Mu by finding the Phoenix, the only monster capable of   
   fighting him.   
      English dubbed episodes televised, and available on video from ADV.   
      [Entry by "Royal Orange"]   
      
      MOSQUITON:  see MASTER OF MOSQUITON   
      
      MS TEAM 08:  see GUNDAM   
      
      MY DAYS WITH MIDORI:  see MIDORI NO HIBI   
      
      MY DEAR MARIE (a.k.a. METAL ANGEL MARIE):  Brilliant, nerdy Hiroshi   
   creates an android replica of his dream girl, but finds things a   
   little trickier than he'd planned when she turns out to have   
   self-determination.  Some may be turned off by the iffy nature of the   
   sexual subtext (Android Marie has a definite 'thing' for her creator,   
   despite him insisting on being her 'brother') but others may be   
   intrigued by Marie's attempts to deal with her origins and her   
   feelings.  Three OAVs, released on a single tape from ADV Films.  The   
   third OAV is especially hilarious for all the references the sharp-   
   eyed can spot to other famous anime.   
      [Entry by Antaeus Feldspar]   
      
      MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (a.k.a. TONARI NO TOTORO):  Two girls move out   
   to the country with their father (their mother is in the hospital).   
   They discover the joys of nature and the power of family thanks to   
   some unusual new woodland friends.  Was available dubbed from FOX Video;   
   now licenced by Disney.   
      [Entry by Catherine Johnson]   
      
      MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD:  It is the sixteenth century.  From all   
   over Europe great ships sail west to conquer the New World.  The   
   Americas.  The men, eager to seek their fortune, to find new adventure   
   in new lands.  They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown   
   countries.  To find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes.   
   They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to El   
   Dorado and the Mysterious Cities of Gold.  (opening theme)   
      So begins the story of 12 year old Esteban, his new friends Zia and   
   Tao, and the older sometimes ally/sometimes enemy Mendoza with his   
   sidekicks Pedro and Sancho.  A story of action, adventure, intrigue,   
   mystery, trust, betrayal, discovery, prophecy, mysticism, and strange   
   powers.  Not to mention a little science fiction.   
      Esteban is lured to the Americas where he is shipwrecked.  The rest   
   of the story is how he is caught up in navigating his way around the   
   conquistadors and the various native tribes throughout Central and   
   northern South America, searching for his origins and the cities of   
   gold.  They are caught several times, but manage to escape to   
   eventually find the four cities of gold.   
      Included all through the adventures are mini-history lessons.   
   Nothing overt, but if you have a smidgen of knowledge of the area it   
   deepens enjoyment of the story.  Our intrepid heroes contact the Inca   
   at Machu Picchu, the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), the Maya at   
   Central America, an Amazon tribe, and other lost civilizations all   
   while trying to stay one step ahead of the conquistadors.   
      A 1980's anime serial aimed for a 'tween audience, although the   
   story and subplots make it interesting for an older audience and   
   overcomes the dated animation.   
      The last time I saw this on the shelves it was in the year 2000 on   
   VHS.  I have no idea whether or not it's been released on DVD or what   
   distributor.  My copies are the dubbed version that I recorded from   
   Nickelodeon in 1986-87 on BETA.   
      [Entry by D.Eric Wilson]   
      
      MYSTERIOUS PLAY:  see FUSHIGI YUUGI   
      
      THE MYSTERIOUS THIEF SAINT TAIL:  see SAINT TAIL   
      
      MYTHICAL DETECTIVE LOKI:  see MATANTEI LOKI RAGNAROK   
      
   N   
      
      NADESICO:  see MARTIAN SUCCESSOR NADESICO   
      
      NADIA (a.k.a. SECRET OF BLUE WATER):  Set in 1889 and extremely   
   loosely based on Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, NADIA   
   tells the story of Nadia, a girl who's trying to find out about her   
   past, Jean, a boy who wants to build a flying machine, and the Blue   
   Water, a mysterious gem of Nadia's with strange powers.  Their world   
   is home to two shadowy groups in conflict:  Neo-Atlantis, who want to   
   rule the world, and the crew of the submarine Nautilus, who have sworn   
   to oppose Neo-Atlantis.  These two plots are not unconnected ...   
      ADV has translated this 39-episode TV series and the sequel movie   
   (which is not as well received as the original).   
      [Entry by Rob Kelk]   
      
      NANAKA 6/17:  17 year old Kirisato Nanaka is a somber, serious   
   student who is so obsessed with becoming an adult that she's alienated   
   all of her classmates, including her childhood friend (and would-be   
   romantic interest) Nagihara Nenji.  When Nenji gets angry enough to tell   
   her he never wants to see her again, she faints and falls down a flight   
   of stairs.  When she wakes up, she has no memories after age 6, and she   
   believes that she, Nenji and her father have been affected by magic from   
   her favorite "magical girl" anime, "Magical Domikal".  Nenji and   
   Nanaka's father agree to keep her amnesia a secret, but her romantic   
   rival finds out, and (even though she tries not to be) is touched by the   
   sweet-natured, friendly, and innocent "6 year old" Nanaka.  Nanaka's new   
   attitude and behaviour puzzles her classmates, but she wins them over   
   while she tries to fit in as an "adult".  But what happens when her 17   
   year old memories start to come back?  Can she win over her new romantic   
   rival, her 17 year old self?   
      [Entry by Captain Nerd]   
      
      NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND:  A thousand years after the fall   
   of technological civilization, the people of the Valley of the Wind make   
   their homes in their sheltered valley, near an area where no human can   
   live unprotected.  When the Valley of the Wind is caught between two   
   warring powers, Princess Nausicaa is forced to set aside her pacifism   
   and act to save her people from both sides while discovering one of the   
   greatest secrets of her world.   
      NAUSICAA was based on Hayao Miyazaki's manga of the same name, and   
   directed by Miyazaki in the middle of the manga's run.  Technically,   
   this is not a Studio Ghibli film; the success of Nausicaa provided the   
   money to found Studio Ghibli and the credibility to get Studio Ghibli   
   movies into theaters in Japan.   
      A poorly-received edited translation, WARRIORS OF THE WIND, was   
   released some years ago but is no longer available.  (The edits made to   
   NAUSICAA to create WARRIORS OF THE WIND are the direct cause of   
   Miyazaki's insistence of a "no cuts" clause in North American   
   distribution contracts of his movies.)  Disney has released a newer   
   English translation of NAUSICAA.   
      [Entry by Rob Kelk]   
      
      NEKO TARUTO:  see MAHOU SHOUJO NEKO TARUTO   
      
      NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (a.k.a. SHIN SEIKI EVANGELION):  Fifteen   
   years after the Second Impact that wiped out half of humanity, Ikari   
   Shinji is recruited by his father to fight alongside Ayanami Rei and   
   Asuka Langley Soryu to save mankind from the invading mechanical   
   Angels.  This psychological drama amongst a cast of flawed characters   
   filled with intrigue, deception, and carnage has two vastly different   
      
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