Animejin News - 27th June 2000 This is the 152nd 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manga Enertainment Press release ================================ PERFECT BLUE - DVD RELEASE "A Smart, innovative and gut-wrenchingly disturbing film" TOTAL FILM **** "A striking Picture... scary, poignant and thoughtful" EMPIRE **** "A compellingly surreal mixture of pop phenomenon and slasher movie" TIME OUT Mima was a pop idol, worshiped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her ailing career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip slowly, that her life is not her own. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a mysterious figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from fiction in order to stay alive. The PERFECT BLUE DVD offers Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound, subtitled + dubbed versions of the feature, original theatrical trailer + picture gallery, cast and crew interviews + exclusive Japanese 'virtual radio' CDROM content. The PERFECT BLUE DVD will be available through all major retailers priced £17.99 from July 10, 2000. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anime on TV =========== The alert among you will have spotted that Channel 4 has started broadcasting the Fist of the North Star TV series as part of their 4Later segment on Sunday nights. Thirteen episodes are planned, more if it proves popular. There are also some other Manga Entertainment features being shown on U Direct films during July and August. Check out their web site at www.udirect.co.uk for details. =========================================================================== Current UK anime release schedule ================================= All of the following dates are subject to change. 10th July : Perfect Blue (MD), Rayearth vol. 1 (MT), Bubblegum Crisis 2040 vol. 2 (AT), Original Dirty Pair vol. 3 (AT), Oh My Goddess vol. 1 (VT), Kimagure Orange Road vol. 2 (VT) 7th August : Queen Emeraldas (AT), Street Fighter II V vol. 5 (AT), Martian Successor Nadesico vol. 1 (AT) Urusei Yatsura Movie 1 (VT), Urusei Yatsura OAV vol. 1 (VT) 14th August : Rayearth vol. 2 (MT), X (MB) 11th September: Yotoden 3 (AT), Bubblegum Crisis 2040 vol. 3 (AT), Original Dirty Pair vol. 4 (AT), Rayearth vol. 3 (MT) 9th October : Guyver 1-6 (MD), Martian Successor Nadesico vol. 2 (AT), City Hunter The Movie (AT), Dragon Half (AT,dub) 6th November : Bubblegum Crisis 2040 vol. 4 (AT), Original Dirty Pair vol. 5 (AT), Those Who Hunt Elves vol. 1 (AT), 13th November : Patlabor 1&2 (MD), Ninja Scroll (MD), Street Fighter Alpha (MT) 4th December : Samurai X vol. 1 (AT), Street Fighter II V vol. 6 (AT), Martian Successor Nadesico vol. 3 (AT) (A)=ADV Films, (M)=Manga Entertainment, (K)=Kiseki Films, (V)=MVM (T)=VHS tape, (D)=DVD, (B)=Both --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.