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Found an old post from Hitoshi Doi back in 1991...

Article 13824 of rec.arts.anime:
From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Animedia-November 1991 [part 2]
Date: 28 Oct 91 00:01:54 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center

Video Journal
Shurato OVA 1
(on sale now, 30 min, 5800 yen)

Pat Labor S-10 Sononaha Amnesia
(on sale now, 30 min, 4800 yen)
Ohta was walking around the streets by himself. He had lost his memory.
He couldn't remember his name or his job. He runs into a criminal that
he had dealt with earlier. Ohta guesses that he was once a policeman,
but he still doesn't regain his memory.
Just then an explosion occurs in front of Ohta. He jumps into a labor
to try to help out the workers who were trapped inside the flames.
As Ohta was being carried into the hospital, something occurred at
Shinshi's apartment. When Shinshi's wife Tamiko came back from a trip,
she discovers that her husband and the other members of the daini shotai
were lying all over the floor with blood all over them.

Izumo 2
(on sale 10/21, 45 min, 9800 yen)
Sanae goes off on a trip by herself because Izumo was only thinking
about himself and Iyo was teasing her. But Sanae gets caught by Asuka.
Asuka tries to use the power of Naaga (to which Sanae is the key) to
his advantage.
Izumo will have to fight against a dragon with the help of Iyo and
Sanae's magic powers.
voice actors: Izumo - Seki Toshihiko, Sanae - Shimazu Saeko,
Iyo - Hayashibara Megumi

Gundam 0083 vol 4
(on sale now, 30 min, 4800 yen)
After successfully stealing the Gundam, Gato tries to return to the
Dellars base. Gato runs into Shima who joins them. But Gato was not
happy with Shima's attitude because Shima enjoyed fighting too much.
Kou goes out into space to fight. But since he lacked experience
and his Gundam was very beaten up, he did not stand a chance.

Spin off OAV's
There has been an increasing amount of spin off OAV's. Many examples:
Gundam 0080, Gundam 0083, Samurai Troopers, Shurato, Borgman, Votoms,
Dancougar, Dirty Pair, Layzner, Zillion, Orange Road, Minky Momo...
The different types of spin offs are: ones that are continued from the
TV series, ones that tell the roots of the main characters, ones that
are "final stories", ones that fit sometime in the middle of the TV
series timelines, and ones that are with totally different characters
but are in a similar universe.
The numbers of spin offs per year are shown in a graph.
1987 5
1988 20 [I don't know if I estimated all of
1989 40 the numbers correctly. The graph
1990 37 was pretty rough. - H.Doi]
1991 41 (until September)

Macross II
(from Bandai, volume 1 will go on sale next March)
Macross will come out in a 6 volume OVA series.
In a world of several 10's of years after the original TV series,
people were living in peace around Macross, which couldn't move any
more. Into this world, the Maldook [sp?] forces come and attack.
The Maldook forces get stimulated by songs. Minmei and Hikaru
do not make any appearances.
The main characters are:
Kanzaki Hibiki (male), a journalist.
Silvie (female), a beautiful ace pilot.
Ishutal (female), a singer on the Maldook vessel.

Advertisements
Mahouno Yousei Perusha Perfect Memorial on TV
(on sale 1992.03.21) 72,100 yen, no cut, 48 episodes, 12 LD set
must reserve by 1992.01.16
VPKY-71077, color, mono, CLV, 1140 min, 48 episodes, 12 LDs

The Guyver Act II-1
(video on sale 10/24, LD on sale 11/21)
BVS-501, color, 55 min, stereo, hifi, 13184 yen
BVAL-501, color, 55 min, digital stereo, CAV, 6000 yen

Kokoha Greenwood I
(video on sale 11/22)
VIVF-10046, color, stereo hifi, 30 min, 3800 yen

Kokoha Greenwood II
(video on sale 1992/02/28)
VIVF-10047, color, stereo hifi, 30 min, 5800 yen

Arslan Senki
(video on sale 12/21, LD on sale 1992/02/22)
VHS: SRVW1457, Beta: SRUW4457, LD: SRLW1457
color, 57 min, stereo

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Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan doi@decvax.dec.com
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