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From: johnston@sjuvax.UUCP (John Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Re: Animation review and follies
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 22:33:04 EDT
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[ EAT THIS ONE TOO, ZENTRAEDEI SCUM !]

PLEASE NOTE : I am posting this to the net only because
personal mail sent out of St. Joseph's University seems to
be made of rubber - it never reaches its destination,
but instead bounces back to sender.

To Bill Flanagan, with most grateful acknowledgement to Jay Parks 
and to Mary Anne Espenshade (I hope I spelled that right !), whom
I contacted last semester on this subject, and who I am
very happy to now know her net address after kicking myself
for months for not copying it down in the first place :


It's great to see some intelligent commentary on Japanese Animation
out there !!!  I've been a big fan of a fairly wide variety of
Japanese anime productions for a little over a year now, and
I've managed to amass a fairly sizeable collection (about 50 or 60
hours worth) of productions in the original Japanese.

It all boils down to one major point : you can't get quality like
this in the states.  It would cost too much and take too much time.
Heck, look at Disney....their 'Black Couldron' is fantastic,
but it took seven years and a few million dollars to produce !
While in Japan, excellent quality production for, of all things,
WEEKLY TELEVISION, is commonplace and expected by a critical,
mostly ADULT audience.

Here in Philadelphia, we're still waiting for ROBOTECH, which
is supposed to premier on a new UHF station in the area sometime
in October, but I have a copy of the main titles, and they combine
the three series' main titles beautifully, and Ulpio Minucci's
soundtrack is the most mature I've ever heard for what might be
regarded as as 'kiddie' program (though, I'm sure you'll agree,
ROBOTECH is as far from being strictly a kids show as was
Filmation's strong effort a few years back with the Star Trek
animated series).

If you want to talk on anything, PLEASE let me know.
Thanx for a bright spot in an otherwise uninteresting day !

P.S.  Have you heard that Harmony Gold is vying for the rights to
adapt 'My Youth In Aracdia' and a select number of episodes
from the series 'Queen Millenia' ?  The speculative title for this
combined series would be called 'Captain Harlock and The Queen of 
a Thousand Years'.  The series would be sold to stations as part
of Robotech's contract, so Harmony Gold hopes to have a different
episode of one of the five series on every weekday for a full year !!!

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The MACROSS, an alien battlefortress, is earth's only hope against the
deadly menace of the Zentraedi invasion forces.  A brave crew of cadets
and the desperate residents of the destroyed Macross City battle to
keep earth alive. ----- ROBOTECH : THE MACROSS SAGA Begins.

John Johnston
St. Joseph's University       
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Philadelphia, Pa.

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