Anime News Letter Season 3:
ANL Neo

Season 3, Issue 3

Staff
Sephiroth/Seanma - Editor and Overlord of the ANL
Lum/Enigma - Cute Anime/Anthro Chick
Purin/Bryoga - Pokemon Master/Reporter
Xellos - Webmaster/Local Linux Expert
Skuld - Goddess Second Class/Chief Engineer
Gema Saotoby - Resident Martial Artist/Panda
Cyber Kitty - Censor and Sailor Moon Reject

Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader,
      It is always sad to lose a friend. Except that all of us by now know that he isn’t actually dead. You never can keep a good pervert down, you know. Incidentally, Gema Saotoby has joined us. He is... um... kind of like Genma Saotome (Ranma 1/2) and Gema (Di Gi Charat). There is no better way to describe him, unfortunately. Someone recently asked about all the back-story in Season Two and why all of it was forgotten. We choose to blame MewTwo for all the plot holes. He erased all of our memories and deleted our backup files. In fact, Season Two ended a week before Season Three started but MewTwo deleted all your files related to his attempt at world domination and also erased your memory. Oh well.
Sincerely,
Sephiroth “God’s in his Heaven, you’ll visit him soon”

Review: Di Gi Charat (rated G)
Written by Sephiroth
Sephy: *****
      It’s just another day in the shopping district of Akihabara before Dejiko, Puchiko, and Gema crash into the neighborhood. Dejiko, like most girls, wants to become the best idol singer in all of Japan and nothing will stop her. That is, except money. It seems that they’re completely broke and have to end up working at Gamers with their odd dialects (adding -nyo, -nyu, or -gema at the end of their sentences). Soon enough, they encounter a cast of confusing characters including Rabi~en~Rose/Usada (Dejiko’s rival to become a singing idol), Minagawa (Usada’s secret admirer), Kimura (a student with no sense of style), and many more wacky characters.
      If this wasn’t the end of it, many of the characters dress up like animals. Dejiko and Puchiko are cat girls and Rabi~en~Rose is a bunny girl (and NO, this isn’t Clamp, so get that out of your mind). There isn’t any plot right off as this was originally just a commercial for the Gamers store (the episodes are three minutes long). However, after a summer, Christmas, and spring special matched with a prequel series (Di Gi Charat Panyo Panyo), a plot unfolds revealing hidden (and odd) secrets and bizarre adventures.
      Unfortunately, this series will probably never be released in America. The best anyone can hope for is to buy the fansubbed copies and there are ads at the end of this newsletter that can help you find one that carries it. Fox has bought the rights, but there is no progress in developing any sort of commercial release for the US (originally, Panyo Panyo was going to play on Fox Family until Disney bought that station). Yes, it is hard to find but it is well worth the time and effort.

Review: Miyuki-chan in Wonderland (rated R)
Written by Sephiroth
Sephy: ****
      One fine morning, Miyuki wakes up late for school. How late? Well, as late as that bunny girl on the skate board. And no- she doesn’t fall down any holes like THAT. If Lewis Carroll wasn’t messed up enough with the original Alice in Wonderland, Clamp certainly was twisted enough to make it into a very sexual romp as everyone Miyuki runs into wants to give her various “experiences.” This is NOT for any sort of small child. It’s funny as a joke anime, but the background music gets to you after awhile. Lum asked me if the girls made up for the annoying music which was greeted by a very fast nodding of the head and a few hundred yeses. This is one for you people who want hentai without sex and it’s funny as Hell if you’ve actually read Alice in Wonderland. They’ve even perverted a game of chess. I never knew chess could be quite like THAT.

BATTLE SQUARE NEO
*scene: Hot springs of Hokkaido*
Sephy: *in a hot spring with Lum, Gema, Xellos, and a bunch of snow monkeys* Today on battle square, MewTwo and B-ko are going to fight!
Skuld: Shouldn’t there be a reason behind why they’re fighting?
MewTwo: *teleports in wearing his armor* I want to prove that I am the strongest fighter wearing magnificent armor.
B-ko: *flies in wearing her Akagiyama 23* I will prove him wrong with my beautiful, sexy, and powerful Akagiyama 23! *geisha laugh*
Xellos: *shudders* This is worse than that time I went dubbed.
Cyber Kitty: *stepping out of sub space* ...don’t tempt me.
Xellos: *LARGE sweat drop*
Sephy: *sipping tea* I think this little kitten’s gone evil.
Purin: *teleports in* MewTwo is the worlds “strongest” pokemon. He was genetically created from the genes of several pokemon including Mew. His psychic attacks are enhanced and controlled by the armor that he is wearing.
Skuld: The specs on the Akagiyama 23 don’t give a lot of hope for MewTwo. It enhances B-ko’s fighting ability by more than 500%. The special weapons of the breath-taking M-line are the Akagiyama missiles which blow up everything and anything in their way.
Mr. Referee: This is an official submission armor battle. I, Mr. Referee, will referee! Armor fighters... Rooobattle!
MewTwo: *eyes glow blue behind the dark visor as a matching aura flares around him*
B-ko: *yells as she jump kicks MewTwo*
MewTwo: *is forced back a little ways before flinging B-ko into a spring*
Sephy: I’ve been seriously debating why it is that this Mr. Referee keeps showing up. I mean, we’re not exactly paying him or anything.
Lum: He is a little strange -d’tcha.
MewTwo: *uses shadow ball against B-ko, sending her flying into another hot spring* This battle is too easy.
B-ko: Don’t assume victory yet. Akagiyama Missiles! *shoots a flurry of missiles, blowing up all around MewTwo*
Purin: *watches the dust clear* It’ll take a lot more than that. *looks at a cake* Yum! Cake! *eats it*
MewTwo: *steps out of the settling dust* This is where it ends. *points his hand at B-ko and she levitates in the air and tosses her into the upper strata*
B-ko: Looks like Team Akagiyama’s blasting off agaiiiin! *ping*
MewTwo: How predictable.
Sephy: *notices something* HEY!!! You snow monkeys! GET AWAY FROM MY MONOLITH!!!!
Aipom: Never! *beats on a black monolith with a club*
Sephy: *jumps out of the hot spring* MewTwo! I choose you!
MewTwo: I’m not your pokemon.
Sephy: *tosses a master ball, captures MewTwo, and sets him free* Go!
MewTwo: Damn it. *starts tossing monkeys right and left*
Sephy: Monolith, are you all right?
Monol: *is a Monol from Monster Rancher* Mon! Monol nol mon!
Purin: You’re not a pokemon. You can actually speak.
Monol: Oh.
Yugi: Wall of Illusion! Attack!
Monol: Kid, if I WAS a wall, I couldn’t move. However... *falls on Yugi, crushing him*
Mr. Referee: Function ceased! The winner is... Team Monol and MewTwo!
Sephy: *gets back into the hot spring* This was just too weird. Why do things like this happen to me?
Xellos: *winks and poses*
Purin: Oh no... not again...
Xellos: Sore wa himitsu desu!
Sephy: *swings his Masamune at Xellos just to miss him as he goes into sub space*
Mr. Referee: Today in Battle Square, B-ko lost to MewTwo and MewTwo gained Akagiyama Missile. Yugi was crushed by Monol and Monol gained funky spiky hair.
Monol: *sporting the funky spiky hair* Now I’m stylin’!

Fansubs: Why They Are Good For America.
Written by Enigma
      I’m sure we have all heard “wow! Have you seen that new anime that’s been released?” Many anime fans reply “Yes I saw it a while ago. I got it fansubbed.” What are these fansubs? Why are they good for America? Well, being new to the anime scene myself, I think the fansubs are good because it allows the viewer a chance to see the real thing. Not some edited version that we all know America is good at doing *cough* Pokemon *cough*, but it also allows us anime fans to see things that have a snowflake’s chance in hell of getting shown here in the states. By us watching fansubs it makes the big companies go “OH! Would you look at that! Perhaps if we bought this we could make a lot of mula.” Thus encouraging the anime fans to go out and purchase the DVD or VHS to see the little bonuses and to see what is coming over. All in all, even though I make very little sense I guess I’m trying to say that without the fansubbers the big companies would continue to send us things like Sailor Moon or, in the other direction, Blood the Last Vampire (I like both to a point). Only because there is a demand for VERY cute or VERY bloody. Fansubs like Mahoromatic, Love Hina, etc. open the eyes of the American companies and so they buy it to bring over here. The circle will continue, so all I have for closing words are all you fansubbers, please keep up the good work as it is well received.

Closing: Hot Springs
Saotoby: This was a great issue -gema.
Sephy: *blinks* You haven’t said anything until just now -nyo.
Lum: You need to speak more -d’tcha.
Purin: I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! I’ll have Bahumat correct you! *summons him*
Bahumat: *in Chibi form* I’ll hurt all of you!
Xellos: *drop kicks chibi-Bahumat* ...
Filia: Xellos! That wasn’t nice! Come over here and mow the lawn now.
Xellos: *sweat drops*
Sephy: Nyo nyo nyo... Xellos is in trouble -nyo.
Purin: Dang it! Carbunkle! *summons the bunny esper*
Carbunkle: What is this nyo?
Sephy: Nyo is nyo -nyo.
Purin: Carbunkle, just destroy them.
Carbunkle: But I’m too cuuuute! *turns ultra-cute*
Lum: Awww... -d’tcha. *hugs the bunny-bunny*
MewTwo: Maybe it’s better if everyone forgets about this.
Saotoby: Hiryu Shoten Ha! *blasts MewTwo*
MewTwo: Ow... okay, maybe not.
Sephy: I honestly only hired him because he’s been the longest lasting subscriber. Ever since the days when I was the chef and we had that moronic editor.
Mr. Referee: *still talking in his loud referee voice* I would be willing to bet 100 yen on Nuku Nuku in an official submission robattle between her and Mahoromatic!
Sephy: *sips tea* Sounds good enough to me.
Saotoby: Sephiroth, why aren’t you in a bathing suit like the rest of us? I mean, your trench coat couldn’t be that water resistant.
Sephy: ...
Saotoby: Well?
Sephy: I forgot mine back at home.
Lum: *glomps Sephy* You’re very silly, darling -d’tcha.

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A good fansub provider

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