Otaku World - July 2009 - 2.4

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Macross Frontier Movie Scheduled for November 21 RINTAKI ANIME CLUB SOCIETY The theatrical film adaptation of the Macross Frontier television anime series will open in Japan on November 21 under the name Gekijō-ban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~ (Macross Frontier the Movie: The False Songstress). The Kadokawa Cineplex and Shochiku Multiplex theaters' websites both revealed the title and date, and the second issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Macross Ace magazine will announce the details on Friday. The teaser trailer for the film will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 27, which is the same day that ticket presales will begin.

The planned Fall opening date for a theatrical film remake of the Macross Frontier anime series was first revealed via an itasha (vehicle decorated with character art) mini-van outside the "Macross: The Super Dimension Space Launching Ceremony" event in February. However, creator Shoji Kawamori and the cast members Yuuichi Nakamura (Alto), Aya Endo (Sheryl), and Megumi Nakajima (Ranka) noted in the actual event that the new date and even the title of the project was subject to change at the time. The film will include new footage of Sheryl's concert and Nakajima's new song, "Sō Da Yo." The Macross Frontier television series marked the 25th anniversary of Studio Nue's classic science-fiction franchise that combines transforming robotic mecha , love triangles, and interplanetary war.

Animé Los Angeles 6 (2010) call for postcard art

Table of Contents Anime Los Angeles ……………………………2 Postcard Contest In the Spotlight………………………………….….3 Mixed Vegetables Dragonauts: The Resonance Trips/Conventions…………………………………4 Anime Los Angeles Information Nexus…………………………………5 Terminology - Samurai Anime Expo Highlights…………………………...6-7 A Report by a Non-Otaku Answers to Games.………………………………..8 Anime Scramble: Voice Actors

Who wants to design a postcard for Animé Los Angeles 6? The prize is a pound of See's Chocolates.

We're going to cram an entire progress report onto one side of a little postcard. What should we put on the other side? We've got full color printing capability. Bleed, even -- you can have color and stuff going right up to the edge.

Postcard Art Contest Rules 1. Deadline for Fall Postcard: (Pacific time) 11:59 pm Tuesday 1 September 2009.

2. Dimensions at 300 dpi: 1125x1725 or 1725x1125 pixels. Display thumbnail size, if you post your designs, should be 225x345 or 345x225 pixels (i.e., 60 dpi).

Design your art to be 3.75"x5.75" at 300 dpi, and allow for at least 1/8" along the edges where you won't have any text or anything vital to the design. It'll be 3.5"x5.5" once it's trimmed. So, don't have any text or logos within 40 pixels of the edge (1/8") and we should have no trouble trimming it.

3. You can e-mail the high-resolution version to animela2009 at postcardart dot info, or just publish a link to it on your server. Feel free to send it to us early, as we may have some requests for minor changes (putting the double R and double T in Marriott, adding the accent to Animé Los Angeles, that kind of thing).

Or if you are sending artwork made from traditional media, such as an inked or painted piece, please send them to:

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of See's chocolates, or something else if you're allergic or dieting. If you've used someone else's art in your composition, get their permission -- you'll be splitting the prize with them.

By contributing art to the postcard contest, you are granting the convention permission to use it for promotional purposes for no more than one year. Your art remains your property, you're just loaning it to us.

Don't use trademarked characters. People dressed up as recognizable characters are acceptable. You may include Animé Angeles's mascot Ala, and fan art of our artist goh's characters is usually allowed. Of course, your own original characters are welcome as well.

You may enter as many times as you like.

Please sign your art.

If you would like to be put on our mailing list, send us a note. Your info will be kept on a computer in California, and will only be used to send you Animé Los Angeles postcards.

Visit: www.animelosangeles.org For more information

Animé Los Angeles Postcards PO Box 17522 Anaheim CA 92817-7522 Prize for the one we use will be a 1-lb. box

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MIXED VEGETABLES Hanayu Ashitaba is the daughter of the celebrated Patisserie Ashitaba, but all she wants to do is be a sushi chef. Hayato Hyuga is the son of the prestigious Sushi Hyuga, and all he wants to do is be a pastry chef! It's love and leftovers in the Oikawa High School Cooking Department as these starcrossed gourmands do their best to reach their cuisine dreams!

DRAGONAUT: THE RESONANCE Plot Summary: In order to avoid Earth's impending destruction from an asteroid, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates dragons after finding a dragon egg under the ocean.

However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures appear on Earth. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes a dragon pilot, otherwise known as a "Dragonaut". Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him.

As they delve deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship.

Spoken Languages: Japanese, English subtitles.

Available in library.

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Anime Film Festival May 14 - July 23, 2009 Seven films, five nights, and lots of fun! Enjoy early Japanese cartoons such as Momotaro’s Sky Adventure (1931) by Yasuji Murata and The Animal Village in Trouble by Sanae Yamamoto along with popular films including Samurai X and Gundam Wing: The Movie.

Kin-Yoobi Con 2009 August 8, 2009 Chabot College, Hayward, CA

As of July 2009 we have 8 open slots for the trip to Anime Los Angeles Convention. Total Cost for transportation, hotel and registration will be: $200.00 If you would like to go and be put on the list, please contact us A.S.A.P. and we will get you on the list. Please remember that there only 8 seats, if you do not pay your deposit then your seat will NOT be guaranteed.

A deposit of $100.00 which will cover the cost of registration and partial hotel fees will be due on December 1, 2009. You can pay via paypal rintaki.animeclub@yahoo.com - or check payable to: Rintaki Anime Club Society.

The club will not provide snacks or meals during this convention, unless 5 or more members request it. Thank you.

Saturday & Sunday August 29 & 30, 2009 Radisson Hotel 500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento CA 95815 Pacific Media Expo 2009 Veterans' Day Holiday Weekend November 6 to 8, 2009 Hilton Los Angeles Airport Anime Los Angeles 2010 January 8-10, 2010 Marriot, Los Angeles

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Departure Location Date/Time: Merced, CA - January 7, 2010 @ 8:00am Departure Location Date/Time: Los Angeles, CA - January 10, 2010 @ 1:00pm Hi, I’m Rinaka, the new mascot for the Rintaki Anime Club Society. I will be on all of the products, merchandise, and letters from the club from now on. I hope we get along well. Thanks, nice to meet everyone!

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Samurai (侍?) is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai." According to Wilson, an early reference to the word Samurai appears in the Kokin Wakashū (905-914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the tenth century.

By the end of the 12th century, samurai became synonymous with bushi (武士) almost entirely and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class.

The samurai followed a set of written rules called the Bushidō . Samurai teachings can still be found today in modern day society with the martial art Kendo, meaning the way of the sword.

A ronin (浪人 rōnin?) was a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185– 1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless from the ruin or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege.

Etymology The word rōnin literally means "wave man".

The term originated in the Nara and Heian periods, when it referred to a serf who had fled or deserted his master's land. It then came to be used for a samurai who had lost his master.

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Status According to the Bushido Shoshinshu (the Code of the Samurai), a samurai was supposed to commit oibara seppuku (also "hara kiri" – ritual suicide) upon the loss of his master. One who chose not to honor the code was "on his own" and was meant to suffer great shame. The undesirability of ronin status was mainly a discrimination imposed by other samurai and by the daimyo (the feudal lords).

Like regular samurai, ronin wore their two swords. Ronin used a variety of other weapons too. Some ronin, usually if they lacked money, would carry a bō (staff around 5 to 6 ft) or jō (smaller staff or walking stick around 3 to 5 ft) or they would use a yumi (bow). Most weapons would reflect on what ryu or bujutsu school they came from if they were students.

During the Edo period, with the shogunate's rigid class system and laws, the number of ronin greatly increased. Confiscation of fiefs during the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu resulted in an especially large increase of ronin. During previous ages, samurai were easily able to move between masters and even between occupations. They would also marry between classes. However, during the Edo period, samurai were restricted, and were above all forbidden to become employed by another master without their previous master's permission. Also, low-level samurai, often poor and without choice, were forced to quit or escape their master.

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Anime Expo LOS ANGELES, CA – July 5, 2009 – Once again, Anime Expo® dominates all other anime and manga conventions and holds the title of nation's largest anime and manga event with over 44,000 unique attendees flowing into the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend the nation's largest anime and manga convention, Anime Expo® 2009, from July 2 – July 5, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

More information can be found at www.anime-expo.org .

The SPJA Charity Auction has also generated just under $30,000.00 (U.S.) in proceeds to be donated to benefit the adolescent patients of Children's Hospital Orange County (CHOC).

Mark your calendars!

Anime Expo® will return next year to the Los Angeles Convention Center and be held on July 1 through July 4, 2010.

AX 2009 A Report by a Non-Otaku

By Tony P Where to begin? Well I won’t bother informing you about the events, you can look that up on the schedule on the website. So…..I will just tell you what I did and what my impression was. When I arrived Friday midmorning I was really excited. It was my first time attending any type of anime convention and had really wanted to go to one for many years. I had an idea of what to expect and at the same time was not sure what to expect. When I first arrived I was totally overwhelmed with the abundant number of Cosplayers. They were everywhere; and ready and willing to pose for a picture at the request of anyone who asked. So for the first couple of hours I walked around the entire convention center taking pictures of anyone and everyone. I later learned that it’s best to just hang-out in the main lobby. There were professional photographers there with small areas and set ups for Cosplayers to have their picture taken. So, that’s where I hung out to take some great pictures of some really amazing costumes.

After an exciting few hours of taking pictures I then decided to attend a few workshops. One of them was a workshop on Photo Shop coloring. There a few speakers reviewed with the audience some tips and tricks to fully utilizing their photo shop software. They also spoke on how this type of software is continuously changing and adapting to the needs and wants of the industry as well as giving the artist and writers a more powerful medium to bring to truly bring to life what they envision the anime and art they want to present to the world.

The next workshop I attended was a dance class……..I learned to do the Para Para and competed in then competed in a Para Para contest. But there was also a lecture on it as well…..who knew the Para Para actually has a history that it is based on. As the speaker 9indicated there are a lot of different historical aspects to it that I won’t get into the details of, but they can easily be researched on-line. By the way, I totally suck at the Para Para so I did not

win the contest.

The next thing I went to check out was the workshop on Metal etching for Cosplay and Model kits. This was something I was really interested in since I was at one time an avid builder of model kits, especially since at the time I had no training or reverences for model building. It was all years of trial and error for me, but I still think I did really well in the end all things considered. I was really intrigued at the techniques and tools that are currently used, and the demonstrators made it all seem so simple to do. The most impressive technique I saw was how to make an etching design look like it was sand blasted into the metal.

There were no special tools or techniques it turns out all you need is a specially made type of “sticker” or rub on “decal” all you do is cut out the shape or design or in some cases its already premade, then just simply apply.

The next event was the highlight of the day for me. I went to a concert. I was just simply walking down the hall when I was handed a ticket….they were just giving them away. I did not even know what it was for, and decided what the heck I’ll just go and check it out. It was the best decision on a whim I have made in recent memory. I got to see “Morning Musume”. Live. In Concert. It was great. For those who do not know Morning Musume is an all girl band made of 9 performers. They had a great program of songs that ranged from J-Pop, BubblegumPop, Hard Rock, and Ballads. They saved the best for last. It was actually a compilation of many different songs and styles that flowed seamlessly from one to the other. I had a great time.

I, then took a little break to rest, have a little something to eat, and get my hearing back. I then went to check out the premiere of “Evangelion 1.01 You Are (Not) Alone”. I did not know what to expect or what it was about since I did not do any research on it at all. I was expecting some kind of side story that was not in the original series. I was wrong. It turns out that the new Eva movies, of which there will be 4 in total, Continued on Page 7

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Anime Expo 2009 Pics is just another version of the original series. I was disappointed. I was hoping for a new story at the very least, but it’s just all 26 episodes crammed into a shorter length of time, so there are a lot of scenes that were removed making it looked like you are watching the series in fast forward or just skipping to the good parts. But, I was impressed with the way they remade the series by incorporating a few new scenes replacing a lot of scenes using digital technology that really brought justice to what the creators probably had in mind and surprisingly they gave “Rei” a lot more dialogue. In some Q&A with a producer he indicated that a lot of the changes that were made were to present a darker gloomier version of the series and that a lot of the changes that were made were mainly removing or replacing dialogue, back ground music, and scenes that were comical in nature. After that my first day at the AX 2009 ended.

enamored by the works the artist presented.

After spending sometime there I took a short break and had some brunch.

Then I went to the video room that was presenting “Lucky Star”. It was another anime series that I really wanted to see. What was even better was that before the viewing members of the audience were invited to step up front and do the opening dance. I will say that the pom-pom’s they handed me were really cheap and virtually fell apart in my hands and that my years in the sport of fencing allowed me to have the highest kick….and that’s all I will say. I really enjoyed watching “Lucky Star”. I won’t give any of the details away but I am patiently waiting for the series to be completed so I can get the box set.

And with that my second day at the AX 2009 ended. For my first time at and Anime Expo of any kind I had a lot of fun. I will need the rest of the weekend to recover however. Let’s see what adventures there will be for the NonOtaku anime lover next year.

Day 2 I arrived first thing in the morning and had already decided that I was going to do what I really wanted.

Watch some anime. At the time there was nothing playing that I wanted to see so I attended the Origami Workshop. There I continued to develop my paper folding skill. Then I went to go see an anime I have wanted to see, “Freedom”. It was canceled. I was bummed. So to kill some time till the next one I wanted to watch I spent it in the lobby again taking pictures of Cosplayers. I later went to spend some time at the vendor’s area. There I walked around seeing some of the usual items such as DVD’s, figures, wall scrolls, gig bags, etc, etc, etc. to tell the truth noting I have not seen before. I was bummed that I did not find the box set for “Wall Flower” it was the only thing I was really looking for. However there was an entire area where artists of all kinds that displayed and sold their works. I was totally

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Anime Scramble Voice Actors

Solution 1. LtiunarhciisC is Luci Christian.

2. iacVoinMgng is Vic Mignogna.

3. iPtranoshCt is Chris Patton.

4. geAGerysr is Greg Ayres.

5. riRoahcrawtdyHh is Richard Hayworth.

6. BenrHdtnua is Bredan Hunt.

7. iralgaHyaH is Hilary Haag.

8. edavaiDKy is David Kaye.

9. BmroarnmDndiu is Brian Drummond.

10. MatilHlt is Matt Hill.

11. SnactVimne is Sam Vincent.

12. CievaaSrrgae is Carrie Savage.

13. oJutCiksno is Justin Cook.

14. acRonliiMa is Monica Rial.

15. AslnitKhloei is Allison Keith.

16. edAiaLeamnnnW is Amanda Winn Lee. 17. ceeirpSSkpen is Spike Spencer.

18. atyGrnfTfani is Tiffany Grant.

19. rDeoMhrelnztdyoe is Dorothy Melendrez.

20. gLnaeLx is Lex Lang.

21. enWeeLede is Wendee Lee. 22. eCnmiFierasprn is Crispin Freeman.

23. eaalnJnA is Jane Alan.

24. neannrvaehSJWo is Shannon J Weaver.

25. aviaebscRDce is Rebecca Davis.

Cover Art: Dragonaut The Resonance Original Artwork: Dragonaut Project © Funimation 2009 Source: Animepaper.net Page 3 Mixed Vegetables Vol. 1 Cover Original Artwork: Ayumi Komura © Viz Media 2008 Dragonaut (Left, Center, Right) Original Artwork: Dragonaut Project © Funimation 2009 Source: Animepaper.net Page 4 Rinaka (Bottom) Original Artwork: Autumn Lorne (character) © Kimberly Johnson 2009 Page 7 Anime Expo 2009 Pictures Photographer: Tony Perez

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Please contact the President or Vice President for more details.

Thanks.

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