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   saw this on the ads for the English Area 88 DVD.   
      
   "based on the Nintendo game UN Squardon!"   
      
   talked about wrong info on purpose because they think the new fans will   
   never know about the old series and manga, another example of   
   preconceved notion of fans are dumb and ignorant.   
      
   my local kino got a shipment of a dozen each Tenjoh Tenge's Aya and Maya   
   figuremate dolls. both were sold out within a week after being on   
   display. ($20)  I did not buy one, since I rather be looking for   
   Negima's Gu Fei instead.  by comparsion, FMA's Red is doing rather   
   poorly.  I also had seen the 2 versions of Aya and Maya from NT 06/05,   
   (regular, non adjustable non figuremate action.) for $24 in hobby shops.   
      
   guess we know what sells between pretty girls and armored guy.   
      
   NT 07/05 confirms that Nagano did make some mecha design for the Z   
   Gundam movie, there is a 2 pages poster w/ 4 different mecha, on the   
   first glance, only 2 thoughts, one, this is Gundam?  (I thought it is   
   FSS.)  two, you need to take 9 months off to do just that!?   
      
   one word critic. "ugly".   
      
   animenation news mentions that they are going ahead with the screen   
   adaption of Monster as a Hollywood movie, with "possibility of a sequel."   
      
   I have many comments about that one statement, none are fit to be   
   printed on public forum.   
      
   manganews mentions that Viz will first published monster. after it is   
   finished then doing 20cbs, "out of respect for the wish of the author."   
   this coming out of a blog of a guy attending comic Canada talking to a   
   Viz rep, so I treat it under the "rumor" section.   
      
   so they do have right to Urasawa titles, and all they can think of are   
   Inu Yasha.   
      
   I saw the Touch live movie trailer on apple.com.jp, and the girl who   
   play Minami is quite... cute?   
      
   finally, there is a Japanese female pink panther drawing based on the   
   likeness of the singer Namie Amuro, if anyone got a link for that   
   picture I would very much appreciate it.   
      
   quick browse in bookstore   
      
   Negima #10 good   
   (tempted to give it a "very good" before I get a hold of myself.)   
   Air Gear #10 good   
   (how does this thing get away from being on a shonen mag?!)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)