Animejin News - 27th March 2000 This is the 141st irregular bulletin comprising the latest news section from Animejin, an independent, non-profit website dedicated to anime in the UK. Please visit us at http://www.animejin.org.uk. All feedback welcome. To receive Animejin News by e-mail, send a BLANK e-mail to subscribe@animejin.org.uk. To unsubscribe, send a BLANK e-mail to remove@animejin.org.uk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sailor Moon and Digimon come to UK TV ===================================== Starting on 1st April, the cable and satellite channel Fox Kids will be starting two new anime series - Digimon and Sailor Moon. Digimon is another show riding on the sucess of Pokemon, about the adventures of seven children stranded in a world populated by digital monsters. Sailor Moon is a classic 'magical girl' anime, that spearheads Fox Kids' attempt to woo a female audience. Sailor Moon will be broadcast at 8:20am and 4:30pm and Digimon at 8:45, every day from 1st April on Fox Kids. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MVM Press release ================= KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD vol. 1 DEALER CAT. NO. TITLE CERT. PRICE RRP R/DATE MV1008 Kimagure Orange Road vol. 1 TBC 8.84 12.99 08/05/00 Barcode: 5028157202943 Running time: 52 mins Subtitled - Kyosuke's a high-school kid with psychic powers and a big problem. Two beautiful girls are chasing him and he can't decide which one to fall for. His special powers make the situation worse not better! - Major advertising campaign in 'Manga Max', 'Dreamwatch', 'StarLog' and 'Comics International' backed up by huge anime fan mail out and Anime web site promotions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MVM news ======== MVM were proudly handing out mockups of their video sleeve for Kimagure Orange Road vol. 1 at Minamicon 6, which included a list of forthcoming releases. The list was 'Kimagure Orange Road' (OAVs and movie), 'Oh! My Goddess', 'Spirit of Wonder', 'Urusei Yatsura' (OAVs and movies) and 'You're Under Arrest'. =========================================================================== Current UK anime release schedule ================================= All of the following dates are subject to change. 3rd April : Street Fighter II V Vol. 4 (AT), Sakura Wars Vol. 2 (AT) 1st May : Bubblegum Crisis 2040 Vol. 1 (AT), Original Dirty Pair Vol. 2 (AT) 8th May : Kimagure Orange Road vol. 1 (VT), Perfect Blue (MD) 5th June : Dirty Pair Flash Mission 3 Vol. 2 (AT), Takegami 3 (AT) 12th June : X (MB) 10th July : Street Fighter Alpha (MT), Ninja Scroll (MD) 11th September: Evangelion Movie (MB) (A)=ADV Films, (M)=Manga Entertainment, (K)=Kiseki Films, (V)=MVM (T)=VHS tape, (D)=DVD, (B)=Both ---------------------------------------------------------------------------