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5 Top Anime Movies on DVD
TIME - USA
But in its feature-film form, anime (Japanese animation) boasts a graphic artistry as potent as Disney's or Pixar's--or Goya's or Bosch's. ...

Advanced Media Network : : : Anime Advanced | DS Advanced ...
RPGamer.com - USA
[07/31/2005] As you might expect from this week's title and my review, I've been spending a lot of time playing Makai Kingdom this week. ...

Anime is introduced to Navajo youth
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
FARMINGTON -- It may have been a career option that isn't discussed in high school but anime is coming to the Four Corners and to the youth of the Navajo ...


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'ArabNews' Covers Anime: "A Growing Sensation"
Animation Insider - Dix Hills,NY,USA
... an informative piece by contributor Razan Baker about how Japanese animation is not just a hot topic in North America, but how "anime" (Japanese animation) and ...


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Asian myth melds with anime and violence to create endless war
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... "We're selling the violence, the elements of modern media, that this is going to be like your favorite anime character," said Emery, 26. ...


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Japanese anime comes to Grimes
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... as Grimes is now home to The Right Stuf International, a multi-million dollar company that is a publisher and a distributor of the art form known as anime. ...


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ANIME EXPO 2005 : Welcome!
Rooms reserved at the Radisson are not eligible for Anime Expo 2005 event ...
Anime Expo and the AX and AX2005 logos are trademarks of The Society for the ...


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Advanced Media Network : : : Anime Advanced | DS Advanced ...
RPGamer.com - USA
There is under a month left to enter the contest. Are you going to just let it pass you by? This week, we've got a whole Earthbound theme going. ...

Universum draws plan for anime
Variety (subscription) - USA
BERLIN -- RTL Group's Munich-based distrib Universum has set up an anime division to handle its growing home entertainment catalog of animated product ...

Xbox Summit 2005: Bandai Announces Lineup
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USA
... year. The second title is a mixed media project made in a similar fashion to .hack meaning the there will be an anime and a game. ...


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Anime Network Continues to Build
Animation Insider - Dix Hills,NY,USA
The Anime Network, the first and only cable television channel dedicated entirely to Japanese animation, has recently announced that it has inked a grand total ...

Advanced Media Network : : : Anime Advanced | DS Advanced ...
RPGamer.com - USA
[07/24/2005] The theme of the week is once again severe internet problems. Luckily, my connection came back a few days ago, but ...

Samurai Champloo - Volume 3
MediaGab - USA
This is an excellent series that I think all anime fans will enjoy, in addition I think this is a particularily good series for someone who has only recently ...


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The Newest Stars of Japanese Anime, Made in America
New York Times - United States
WHEN American anime fans caught up with the teenage martial arts series "Tenjho Tenge" on DVD last month, they saw an athletic black teenager break-dance ...

‘Howl's' is an anime treat for audiences
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
Strange and beautiful, "Howl's Moving Castle" is the latest anime offering from Hayao Miyazaki, whose movies "Spirited Away" and "Princess Mononoke" have ...

AX: It was never for kids (Part 2)
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The surging popularity of anime in America is attracting more and more avid fans every year as evidenced by the growing crowds at Anime Expo. ...


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Steamboy - Director's Cut (DVD Gift Set)
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USA
Is this special-edition DVD full of hot air or will it lift your spirits? July 22, 2005 - I hate anime. Well, most of it anyway. ...


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ADV ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER 6 RELEASES
Active Anime (press release) - USA
HOUSTON, July 20, 2005--ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime in North America, is pleased to announce a new installment in the critically ...


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"Stellvia Foundation IV": The Lighter Side of Sci-Fi Anime Still ...
Toon Zone - Yonkers,NY,USA
By Karl Olson. The previous volume of Stellvia of the Universe concluded with our heroine, Shima Katase (known by her fellow spaceship ...

Mailbag: July 20, 2005
Planet Gamecube - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... games in Japan to little fanfare, but over the course of two years, they were able to turn it into a multimedia phenomenon thanks to the anime series, trading ...

Advanced Media Network : : : Anime Advanced | DS Advanced ...
RPGamer.com - USA
Well, I don't know what's up with today's title. I had some kind of circle theme in mind, but the puns and jokes just aren't coming to me. ...


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ANIME NETWORK INKS FIVE SVOD DEALS
Active Anime (press release) - USA
HOUSTON, July 19, 2005 -- Anime Network, the first cable channel in North America dedicated to anime, is pleased to announce five new carriage deals for its ...

"Bratz" Coming to 4Kids This Fall
Toon Zone - Yonkers,NY,USA
... Bratz will also join anime import Magical Doremi and new series GI Joe Sigma 6. Returning to 4Kids TV will be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, One Piece, and ...

Mailbag: July 19, 2005
Planet Gamecube - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Few anime-licensed games get released outside of Japan, and I can't think of a single multi-licensed anime game that has escaped those Eastern shores. ...

American Anime Localization Company Tries Torrents
Slashdot - USA
zalas writes "AnimeOnDVD reports that David Williams of ADV Films is testing out using BitTorrent as a distribution method. Currently ...


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'The Boondocks' Adult Swim Debut Scheduled
Animation Insider - Dix Hills,NY,USA
... Adult Swim's programming includes animated comedy and anime programming, including favorites like Family Guy and Futurama; original comedy hits Aqua Teen ...


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News: Download Pokémon Anime onto GBA
GameCube Europe - Netherlands
Nintendo are offering gamers a chance to download episodes of the Pokémon anime onto a blank GBA cart and watch it on their GBA or DS. ...


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Comic-Con video: Coming in costume
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
They want to be part of it. Hundreds come dressed as anything from Japanese anime characters to bikini-clad Princess Leias. "Comic ...


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KOTAKU JAPAN: Anime RPG Coming to PSP
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA
Anime. Role-playing games. ... These role-playing anime games were created in part with Production IG of "Ghost in the Shell" and "Kill Bill" fame. ...

And you thought no one else knew about Fullmetal Alchemist
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
Take Fullmetal Alchemist, the hit Japanese comic manga that turned into a 51-episode anime series which hit American television only a few months ago on ...


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An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla

An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla: "Honda reveals the Otaku Super Archetypal Meta-Narrative in Three E-Z pieces. Sounds academic and boring, but it’s not. Everyone is laughing, cracking jokes, and having a drink.

He begins with a 20 min reel of highlights from Taxi Driver.

Travis, God’s Lonely Man, is a textbook otaku. He’s terrible with women. After all, he takes Cybill Shepherd to a porno movie (but who among us hasn’t felt that urge from time to time?). She recoils in disgust, but her rejection only serves to turn Travis into a gun nut, collecting all the weapons he can like Virtual On gashapon toys. He becomes a masturbatory adolescent, devoting the solitary hours to regimes of push-ups, and tests of his own strength.

The next stop is a no-brainer: the infatuation with Jodie Foster is Loli-Con, pure and simple.

From here, Travis plays his own personal simulation game. The “you talkin’ to me” patter with the mirror is every bit as menacing as a post-Columbine game of Doom.

By the time Travis storms the fleabag hotel where the forces of evil are keeping innocent little Iris hostage, he has become kaizo ningen: a cyborg who can transform his hands into guns with a flip of wrist."

Why Japan's UN SC Seat Bid Failed - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: homesweethome
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:53 pm (GMT 9)
Topic Replies: 0

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050714a2.htm

Quote:
U.S. urges U.N. states to snub 'G-4' resolution

NEW YORK (Kyodo) The United States urged U.N. members Tuesday to oppose the framework resolution submitted by the "Group of Four" to expand the Security Council should it be brought to a vote.


This is a pathetic joke. Most of this money that Japan 'donates' to the U.N. is not spent in famine relief efforts and fighting AIDS in Africa, even though that is what the P.R. people in Tokyo would like you to believe, and what they have printed in the newspapers. Most of what Japan donates is specifically targeted towards "Overseas Development Assistance" or ODA's (Third World Aid) which work in conjunction with the World Bank to finance Mega-development projects in poor (but resource rich) countries like Indonesia. The money goes into the few pockets of the already rich in these countries, Japanese companies get the contracts to do these Mega development schemes (good for Japanese companies like Mitsubishi, therefore good for Japan). Japan then has an inroad and the already pre-greased palms of corrupt officials for later plundering of the natural resources of said 'beneficiary' of this 'so called' development aid. The average folks of these countries are usually no better off for it and sometimes end up worse off since they have to suffer for the environmental impact of these mega projects. Japan doesn't 'give' money to anybody without heavy strings attached, and all these strings lead back to the real beneficiaries in Tokyo. Now it wants a seat on the U.N. Security council 'commensurate with it's financial status? Give me a break. The real reason it wants a seat on the security council is because it wants more say in how these funds are spent, which will ultimately mostly benefit Japan, and a few third world politicians Swiss bank accounts. Don't believe everything you read in the papers. The jig is up.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp#AidMoneyOftenTiedtoVarious Restrictive Conditions

Quote:
Aid Money Often Tied to Various Restrictive Conditions

As a condition for aid money, many donors apply conditions that tie the recipient to purchase products only from that donor. In a way this might seem fair and “balanced”, because the donor gets something out of the relationship as well, but on the other hand, for the poorer country, it can mean precious resources are used buying more expensive options, which could otherwise have been used in other situations. Furthermore, the recipient then has less control and decision-making on how aid money is spent.


This link may provide some useful stats if interested.

http://www.neda.gov.ph/progs_prj/oda/odamain.htm
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ADV ANNOUNCES AUGUST 23 RELEASES
Anime News Network - Canada
HOUSTON, July 13, 2005 --ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime in North America, is pleased to announce two very special DVD releases for ...

Square Enix Does a Little Magic
PSX2 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Anime fans, you best rejoice over this one, as Squenix (ahem... Square Enix) announced today it has sent Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse ...


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Chinese Restaurant Forces Japanese to Eat Humble Pie - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: kurohinge1
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:28 pm (GMT 9)
Topic Replies: 2

Humble pie on menu

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Japanese customers must apologise for their country's wartime occupation of China before getting a seat at a restaurant in the region formerly known as Manchuria, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports.

No Japanese had tried to enter the restaurant in the city of Jilin, north-eastern China, since it introduced the apology policy and hung a sign that says: "Japanese people barred from entry."

"We totally welcome those Japanese customers who can correctly view history," the manager was quoted as saying. "But as for those customers who still refuse to admit to history, we want to say we don't like them."

Reuters reports that staff at the Western-style restaurant were told to ask Japanese customers to give their views of Japan's 1931-45 occupation of parts of China, including the north-east, and to turn away those who did not apologise and share the owner's opinions, Kyodo said ...more



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All Part of the Service - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: Mulboyne
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:28 am (GMT 9)
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I started to highlight bits of this story but the whole piece is a highlight
Yomiuri: Cops, ex-cons spend wild night in Kawasaki
A Kanagawa prefectural police sergeant and three of his colleagues took two female prisoners out for a night on the town after their release, it was learned Thursday...According to investigators, the police sergeant met a 34-year-old female detainee in June last year, following her arrest on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law. When she asked him for his cell phone number, he gave it to her. The woman, together with a 45-year-old female detainee arrested on similar charges, were released after receiving suspended sentences. The 32-year-old woman called the sergeant, and they began regularly calling each other.
At the end of that month, the sergeant threw a party at a Korean barbecue restaurant in Kawasaki to celebrate the women's release. With the three colleagues in tow, the six cops and two women went on to a pub and karaoke bar, drinking and partying for about 10 hours. The 42-year-old and 39-year-old police sergeants received two polo shirts worth about 2,500 yen each from the two women as tokens of their gratitude for the kindness the men showed them in jail. Then, the two police sergeants went to an amusement park with the 34-year-old woman. One of the police sergeants told inspectors he had an intimate relationship with the woman. The two police sergeants stopped associating with her after their wives noticed...more...


Fullmetal Alchemist Linkage - Anime News - theOtaku.com

We've added a delightful six links to our Fullmetal Alchemist hub today. 100 potential sites were scanned and only the best made the final cut. Speaking of FMA, the new PS2 game was just released. Anyone buy it?

Google Maps Japan - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: emperor
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:03 am (GMT 9)
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Tokyo Map

Tokyo Satellite

I can see the emperors' house from here!!
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Ramen Revenge - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: Mike Oxlong
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:05 am (GMT 9)
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Revenge of the Chef

YEAR after year, as Yoshiro Haga’s wealth and fame increased, his old friend and mentor, Toshio Kawashima, could only look on in jealous fury.

Mr Haga’s business grew and expanded while his friend sweated unrecognised in his single shop. His face appeared on television and in magazines, while the older man laboured in obscurity. Yet the secret formula on which Mr Haga’s success was based had been given to him by Mr Kawashima. Finally the sense of resentment became too much.

On Tuesday, Tokyo police arrested Mr Kawashima for the kidnap and assault of the man acknowledged as the creator of some of Japan’s finest ramen, or noodle soup. Mr Kawashima is said to have told police: “I taught him everything he knows about making a good soup and running a business, but he never greeted or thanked me. So I thought I’d make him taste a bit of pain.”

By his account, he had teamed up with Mr Haga 15 years ago and shared with him his recipe for stock on the understanding that the two would go into business together. Then Mr Kawashima fell ill, and Mr Haga set up on his own. The shop, Aoba, quickly became a success. Most authoritative ramen critics rate it in their all-time top five, and the single Tokyo outlet eventually grew into a chain of 12.

Mr Kawashima, 57, set up his own shop, Akibaya, which achieved no such acclaim. “I taught him my recipe and management know-how, but he’s been acting as if everything was his idea in magazine interviews and so on,” he said after his arrest. “I haven’t received a word of thanks or apology.”

more at Times Online
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TOE FULL - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: gboothe
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:13 pm (GMT 9)
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Do any schools in countries other than the US even require TOEFL? A couple of years ago, we sent some people for study in the UK and the people I contacted about requirements at that time said that there were only three schools in the UK that used TOEFL and those were more or less, as a reference only, rather than a requirement for foreign students.

This was at the University level about four or five years ago. The British Counsel said they used their own tests in lieu of TOEFL and SAT tests.
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Library's anime draws teens
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... News. Library assistant Loren Zawodny facilitates the Anime Club, which Nathan Lindig (left) and Ashleigh Malone (right) attend. ...

Anime, manga fuel oddball 'otaku' biz boom
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
... Anime, video games and manga form the basis of the Moe Sangyo, but few enterprises can boast of the successes of the Boy's Love business. ...

ADV Announces August 23 Releases
Active Anime (press release) - USA
HOUSTON, July 13, 2005 - ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime in North America, is pleased to announce two very special DVD releases for ...

Fullmetal Alchemist 2 Game Released
Comic Book Bin - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... Exclusively for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Fullmetal Alchemist 2 follows the story of the anime series, which airs on Cartoon Network's ...

Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite
Anime News Network - Canada
... These are not just generic cosplay outfits, as are seen in most other anime dealing with cosplay; they represent major, identifiable characters from at least ...


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Planarity Flash Game - Screenhead

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A stark and simple Flash game with one stark and simple line of instruction :
"Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap." Seems more friendly than "abandon all hope ye who enter here", but the two could be used interchangeably. We're pretty sure there's an episode of Star Trek where Jordi defeats The Borg by making them play this game.


Planarity Flash Game
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Looking for My Leopard - Screenhead

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Rather Good brings you the expected level of odd glee in this Flash ditty about their lost, un-LoJack'd pet.

Looking for My Leopard


A few Good G-Men - Screenhead

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The famous courtroom climax from A Few Good Men, rendered using the Half-Life2 first-person shooter video game animation "Source engine" (with a little help from external 3d renders to smooth things out.) Tom Cruise has never seemed more grounded and believable.

A Few Good G-men [nailbiter]


Welcome to the House Of Fun - Screenhead

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A fairly large trove of video appearances, clips, promos, and a handful of MP3s (and midi files for some reason) featuring the early 80s English ska band Madness. Includes a peek at the new video for the new Shame and Scandal single.

Madness videos [MIs/downloads]

Not dissimilar to yesterday's Pixies stash.


White Bits - Screenhead

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A classic joke gets the short film treatment by Alex Jovy, with the mighty mighty (in the brick house sense of the term) Georgia Zaris providing the aforementioned white bits.

White Bits [atom films]

Director Alex Jovy has two other comedic shorts up at atom:
· Two's Company
· Holiday Romance.


Shutterbugs - Screenhead

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Azizs Ansari and Rob Huebel's (aka: Inconsiderate Cell
Phone Guy
) new short film made us laugh. Hard.

Shutterbugs (episode one) [Azizs is Bored]

Azizs is Bored

Also available at Channel 102


Esthero - We R In Need Of A Musical Revolution - Screenhead

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The Noble Jones - directed comeback of Esthero. Evidently Esthero is not amused with the shape of the current music culture's landscape, and she would like 2 dial things back 2 1984 when Prince's license plate approach 2 spelling things seemed fresh.
Esthero - We R In Need Of A Musical Revolution [`boards]


Never Get Out Of The Boat, Charlie - Screenhead

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In Dave Milloway, Matt Wood, and Stephanie Freese's comic strip Chocolypse Now, the grown up Golden Ticket kids are sent by Slugworth to the heart of darkness, Loompaland, to find Wonka. Ironically, Veruca Salt becomes the Courtney Love clone that the band Veruca Salt never quite managed to. A pretty fantastic comic strip parody of both Willy Wonka and Apocalypse Now.

Chocolypse Now [Likely Stories]
via the mighty Accordion Guy


Graphic Art Meets Fine Art - Anime News - theOtaku.com

Does comic book/anime style artwork belong in a fine arts gallery? There's one artist currently in Minnesota that not only thinks so, but proves the statement to the positive.

Kamichu 1 - Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

As one of the few series of the new season that I was actually looking forward to, Kamichu doesn’t disappoint. That being said, it seems to cater to a specific crowd - namely, those looking for a well-animated but deliberately paced slice-of-life show (a.k.a. “cute but kind of boring”, in Kabitzin’s words). Since [...]

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'Otaku Unite!' Anime Documentary Coming Soon
Animation Insider - Dix Hills,NY,USA
... Even if you already know a great deal about "manga" and "anime" cultures, and are simply looking to broaden your awareness of the two mediums, then the ...

ADV August 16 Releases
Anime News Network - Canada
HOUSTON, July 12, 2005 --ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime in North America, is pleased to announce six exciting titles set to hit the ...

eigoMANGA Makes Pact With The Devil!
Comic Book Bin - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... eigoMANGA is an underground phenomenon in Anime and Manga circles, and has its hands in a number of potential developments that rival that of larger ...

Miyazaki's latest anime is a winner
Syracuse Post Standard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... characters and story are compelling. The Japanese anime king does the same with "Howl's Moving Castle.". Although it clocks in at ...


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See-Saw sound clips Victor Entertainment Animatio... - Gunota Headlines

See-Saw sound clips Victor Entertainment Animation Network has RealAudio clips up of See-Saw's "Kimi Wa Boku Ni Niteiru" and "Seijaku Wa Headphone No Naka".

Gundam Seed 01 - Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Tension has been mounting between the Earth Alliance and PLANT, and a war has been dragging on. People living on Orb hope to stay neutral to avoid conflict, but soon their world will be thrown into chaos. ZAFT has a plan to infiltrate the Earth Alliance base on Orb in order to steal [...]

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SIF: SAMURAI CHAMPLOO MINIATURE FIGURE TWIN PACKS
Active Anime (press release) - USA
... "We at Yamato USA are extremely excited to continue our relationship with Geneon Entertainment and to be part of such a ground breaking anime which is ...

ADV LAUNCHES SAMURAI GUN AUGUST 16
Active Anime (press release) - USA
HOUSTON, Monday -- ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime in North America, is pleased to announce that the first volume in the Samurai Gun ...


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Kim wants to talk (what's he want for free this time?) - f * c k e d g a i j i n

Author: gboothe
Forum: F*cked News
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:04 pm (GMT 9)
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Does anyone hear a "you gotta gimme this, and gimme that coming?"
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July 10, 2005

North Koreans Agree to Resume Nuclear Talks
By JOEL BRINKLEY and DAVID E. SANGER

BEIJING, July 9 - After more than a year of stalemate, North Korea agreed Saturday evening to return to disarmament talks late this month and pledged to discuss eliminating its nuclear-weapons program, according to senior Bush administration officials.

The agreement was reached during a dinner meeting, with the Chinese as the hosts, that included Christopher Hill, a former American ambassador to South Korea who has recently become the lead United States negotiator to the talks, and Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea's deputy foreign minister, according to a senior administration official traveling here with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The official Korean Central News Agency also issued a statement from Pyongyang announcing the talks would resume.

While the North Koreans have pledged many times before to return to the six-party talks - the United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia also sit at the table - this is the first time they have actually set a date: the week of July 25.

The Chinese have offered to be the hosts of the discussions, and "all the parties have agreed," said a senior administration official traveling with Ms. Rice, who did not want to be identified because Ms. Rice had not yet made a formal announcement. Ms. Rice, who is beginning a four-nation tour of Asia, and Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese foreign minister, plan to announce the agreement on Sunday morning.

American officials were clearly trying to lower expectations. "Frankly," one of the administration officials said, "we just don't know" what will come of the talks, if they do take place as promised.

The long-awaited return to negotiations carries considerable diplomatic perils on all sides, and would take place just as three European nations are scheduled to conduct talks with Iran about giving up critical elements of its nuclear program.

American officials say North Korea's economic situation has continued to deteriorate, and they hope to use that as leverage in the coming talks. To increase the pressure, the Bush administration has put in place plans for a series of coercive actions - crackdowns on North Korean shipments of drugs, counterfeit currency and arms - that would probably be accelerated if the negotiations made no progress.

"We've made it clear they can't just come back and lecture us, like the last sessions," a senior administration official in Washington said. "Either they get on the path to disarmament, or we move to Plan B."

But President Bush's options are also limited, officials acknowledge. China has been unwilling to participate in any economic embargos. Military action to halt North Korea's declared efforts to build its nuclear arsenal has been ruled out as too risky, and virtually impossible while American forces are tied up in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bush has been resisting pressure from China and South Korea to improve an offer to the North Koreans he made in June 2004. To avoid failure at the talks, he may have to decide whether to make explicit concessions, including the promise of eventual normalization of relations with a nation that just two months ago he said was run by a "tyrant" who puts dissidents in "concentration camps."

In interviews in Washington in recent days, officials have said they fear three major stumbling blocks to an agreement. The first is the question of whether North Korea is willing to negotiate away all elements of its nuclear program. The Bush administration is still sharply divided over whether North Korea would fully cooperate. True disarmament would include turning over any existing nuclear weapons, dismantling the plutonium-manufacturing facilities it has acknowledged - centered at a huge nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of the capital - and leading inspectors to what the United States charges is a second, secret nuclear program.

That second program, American officials have charged, uses uranium technology provided by A. Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist who set up an illicit nuclear network and made more than a dozen trips to North Korea.

"He's said a lot about what he sold them," a former intelligence official said recently, "and the president isn't going to reach any agreement that doesn't involve turning over all of that, too." But North Korea, after initially seeming to acknowledge its uranium program when presented with the charges in 2002, has now denied its existence.

The second probable stumbling block is timing, American officials say. North Korea does not trust the United States to deliver on its promises if it gives up its nuclear program first. Mr. Bush has said publicly that he does not trust Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.

The third potential problem is verification. North Korea has never allowed inspectors to move freely, and threw out the International Atomic Energy Agency on New Year's Day 2003. A result is that American officials are uncertain where the North may be hiding elements of its program.

But South Korea has been pressing to make a deal, and its unification minister, Chung Dong Young, met last month with Kim Jong Il and offered him a package of new aid, including much-needed energy assistance, if North Korea returned to the talks and agreed to disarm, American officials have said.

The senior administration official in Beijing said Saturday that he believed that offer was important and helped bring about the agreement to resume talks. He added that the United States did not agree to any incentives beyond the offer made at the last six-party talks, in June 2004, though he called South Korea's offer "compatible with ours." That fits a previous American strategy of allowing its allies and China to offer more incentives, even while Mr. Bush refuses to budge with American concessions.

Over the last several months, North Korea set numerous conditions for returning to the talks, including turning them into regional disarmament negotiations. North Korea made that demand after it, on Feb. 10, declared for the first time that it was in possession of nuclear weapons, a statement American intelligence officials say they cannot confirm - but assume to be true.

The senior administration official said the North Koreans made no such demand on Saturday in return for restarting the negotiations.

Discussions on setting a date began last week when another North Korean official, Li Gun, held a meeting with Joseph E. DeTrani, a State Department official, and diplomats from Japan and South Korea, on the sidelines of an academic conference in New York. The United States had given Mr. Li a visa, clearly to encourage such a discussion.

There, the senior administration official said, Mr. Li told Mr. DeTrani that North Korea was ready to return to the negotiating table and wanted to set up a meeting to discuss the date and the scope of the talks. After that, Mr. Hill, who is assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, flew to Beijing for Saturday's dinner just before Ms. Rice's arrival.

The North, American officials said, was looking for face-saving ways to resume talks. So South Korea urged Mr. Bush and his aides to stop characterizing the North Korean leader as a "tyrant" or repeating Ms. Rice's phrase that the country was an "outpost of tyranny."

The enforced silence may have helped. The Korean Central News Agency, which speaks with the government's voice, said Saturday, "The U.S. side clarified its official stand to recognize" North Korea "as a sovereign state, not to invade it and hold bilateral talks within the framework of the six-party talks."

At the dinner in Beijing, the senior administration official said Mr. Hill, a veteran of the Balkans negotiations, promised that "everyone is equal; we will respect each other." On the plane to Beijing on Friday and Saturday, Ms. Rice reiterated a statement she has been making for months that she recognized North Korea as "a sovereign state." She did not repeat her "outpost of tyranny" characterization.

On Saturday, a senior South Korean official, speaking in Seoul, said, "The North Koreans said that they regard the United States' recognition of their sovereignty and reassurances that it won't invade or attack them as a withdrawal of the previous 'outpost of tyranny' remark."

The official added: "They recently received humanitarian assistance from South Korea, which was supplemented by the United States with 50,000 tons of food. It's not a big amount, but it was significant. These factors gave North Korea a certain amount of room to come forward."

At the same time as Washington offered tokens of respect, the senior Bush official said the administration also expected the North Koreans to dismantle all of their nuclear energy programs, even though they say some are intended to provide nuclear energy, not weapons. Allowing any nuclear development programs in place would leave a danger of proliferation, the official said.

The United States has ended its support of a program to build two nuclear power plants, designed to be unusable to produce weapons fuel, in North Korea that was part of a failed 1994 agreement between the North and the Clinton administration. The construction was halted two years ago, and the United States may suggest conventional power reactors instead. Mr. Bush has been criticized by Democrats and even some members of his own party who have said he has wasted time in the North Korea negotiations by refusing to negotiate directly, as the North Koreans had demanded. Mr. Hill's dinner meeting was the closest approximation of a direct negotiation to date, though former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had a brief discussion on the sides of a meeting with a North Korean official several years ago.

While Secretary Rice knew as she flew to Beijing that the dinner between Mr. Hill and Mr. Kim was planned, she was not at all certain that an agreement would be reached, the administration official said. Speaking to reporters on the flight, Ms. Rice said she was "prepared to hear what the Chinese are prepared to do" to persuade the North Koreans to return.

Joel Brinkley reported from Beijing for this article, and David E. Sanger from Vermont. Norimitsu Onishi contributed reporting from Tokyo.



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Continuing on from last episode, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasame run into Arashi, who has now become a flesh conglomerate with Spiderboy and Crab Pincher Guy. Arashi proved to be a tough customer to handle as he holds off Naruto’s Kage Bushin attacks and manages to encapsulate Naruto in a box of Chakra using the [...]

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"A durable new drug that prevents HIV from entering human cells and causes almost no side effects has been developed by a team of researchers at Kumamoto University.

The new drug, code named AK602, was reported by the research team's leader, Hiroaki Mitsuya, at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Kobe on Tuesday.

The drug's main feature is that it shuts out the AIDS virus at the point when it tries to intrude into a human cell.
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''Rice Paddy Art'' in Aomori
Kyodo News - Photos, Jul. 8, 2005; AOMORI, Japan ...Inakadate in Aomori Prefecture bear Ukiyoe works by painters Sharaku (L) and Utamaro. Local rice farmers created the Ukiyoe works by growing different color rice plants. They can be seen until mid-August.

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Mahou Sensei Negima 17 - Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Continuing on from last time, Yue continues to scheme in order to help Nodoka confess to Negi. Of course, Yue is still feeling conflicted about how she feels about Negi, and it’s pretty awkward as Yue and Nodoka are both staring at books about onions… In perhaps a subconscious effort to live vicariously [...]

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I read that female Wookiees have six breasts so guess I'll have to check it out.

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So... What the hell does the initial "D" stand for?

A Hong Kong rebuke to Hollywood
Movie based on Japanese comic is local Chinese favorite

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Darth Vader, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are feeling the heat at the box office fr0m an unusual rival in Asia -- a movie based on a Japanese comic book, directed by Hong Kongers and starring a Taiwanese pop star making his debut in the movies.
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The Meaning of Otaku - Anime News - theOtaku.com

AnimeNation's "Ask John" column has a very extensive article on the appropriateness of calling oneself an "otaku." In the end, John says it's positively fine--he likens it to a Star Trek fan calling themselves a "Trekkie."

Bleach 36 - Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Just when Ichigo and the gang thought it was safe to approach the Shrine of Penitence, down comes a huge spirit force that engulfs the air around them and drags down their movements. Ichigo senses the grave danger in the spirit force and tells Ganju and Hanatarou to run away with him, but Hanatarou’s [...]

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Baseball legend Cromartie sues moviemaker

Baseball legend Cromartie sues moviemaker
"Warren Cromartie, a former Montreal Expos outfielder and legend in Japanese baseball circles because of his successful stint with the Yomiuri Giants, has filed an injunction to prevent screening of a film he says slurs his name.

Cromartie filed the injunction with the Tokyo District Court, asking it to order distributor Media Suits to halt screening of the movie 'Sakigake! Kuromati Koko The Movie. (Pioneer! Cromartie High School, The Movie).' Kuromati is the Japanese pronunciation of Cromartie's name.

'Cromartie High School students smoke, fight with students from other schools and are depicted as ruffians. Having continued to work toward the wholesome development of youth, even after retirement, the poor image presented causes extreme mental duress,' the injunction filed by the baseball star said.

The controversial movie is the film adaptation of 'Sakigake, Kuromati Koko (Pioneer, Cromartie High School),' a manga that has been running in the weekly Shonen Magazine since 2000. The manga tells the story of students at Cromartie High School, a public high school in Tokyo. The movie was due to hit screens in July.

Cromartie sandwiched stints in Major League Baseball with a highly successful period playing for the Central League's Yomiuri Giants from 1984 to 1990. He was a hugely popular figure and continued to appear in commercials on Japanese TV following his retirement.

Cromartie, 51, is now the manager of the Japan Samurai Bears, a team with an all-Japanese roster that plays in the independent Golden Baseball League in the United States. (Mainichi)

June 30, 2005"