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The World of Magic Knight Rayearth: TV Series Season One and Two $39.53 Step into a world where willpower determines everything and your beliefs become magic. Join three girls from Tokyo as they are given a quest unlike anything they have encountered in school. Hikaru Umi and Fuu must master their own hearts in order to fight against evil and save the alternate world Cephiro!System Requirements:Run Time: 1312 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM …

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Fullmetal Alchemist Anime Profiles $12.98 Fullmetal Alchemist began as a manga series in Japan and quickly exploded into a world-wide anime hit. Devoted exclusively to the splashy, kinetic cartoon series, this anime profile collection features actual cel artwork along with extensive character biographies and an episode guide. There’s even a cool poster included for your wall. You’ve seen the cartoon show on TV. Now it’s time to get your hands on this comprehensive anime profile guide!

Anime Classics Zettai! $15.48 From Stone Bridge Press, award-winning publishers of The Anime Encyclopedia, Hayao Miyazaki, and The Astro Boy Essays, comes a must-have guide to 100 essential Japanese animation films, TV series, and made-for-video series, from 1950s classics to the latest Cartoon Network hits.Looking for something specific? Eight unique icons make reviews easy to browse. From Akira to Naruto, Pokemon to Sailor Moon, anime veterans Brian Camp and Julie Davis present over 100 black & white images alongside summaries, style notes, rare facts, viewer-discretion guides, and critical comments on films that fans absolutelyâ??zettai!â??must see.Julie Davis is the former editor-in-chief of Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly. A writer and editor in San Francisco, Davis has translated manga for Viz (now Viz Media) and has contributed to Otaku USA and Manga: The Complete Guide. Brian Camp, program manager at CUNY-TV in New York, was a regular contributor to Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly, and has taught a course on anime at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Camp has also contributed to Animation World, Film Library Quarterly, the Motion Picture Guide, and the New York Daily News.

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Essence of Anime-Perfect Blue $12.99 Pop idol singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career after she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. But when she accepts a role in a sexually charged murder mystery TV series, someone is not happy with her decision. Mima’s life begins to change as she is threatened with disturbing phone calls, faxes and e-mails from a mysterious source. She also discovers alarming web sites describing intimate details and pictures of her new public persona. As she descends into a dangerous state of paranoia, helpless and afraid, some of her associates are now murdered by the enigmatic stalker. Reality and delusion merge into a terrifying world as Mima’s innocence is lost and her dreams become nightmares. Will she be next?

The Anime Encyclopedia $22.48 Bigger and better! Our first edition rocked the anime world with its in-depth entries on anime famous and obscure and its superb index/film finder. Now this fantastic book is 40 percent larger-with all-new entries on hundreds of anime released after 2001, updates on older entries, and over fifty thousand words on anime creators (like Tezuka and Otomo) and genres ("Early Anime," "Science Fiction and Robots," etc.). An absolute must-have for every anime shelf! "If I only had space on my overcrowded shelf for one book on anime, this would be it. If I had no space on my shelf I’d select two books at random and drop them into the bin, just to make room– it’s that indispensable."– Paul Jacques, Anime on DVD "While you may not agree with their opinons on a given anime, they are informative and entertaining, especially when skewering a really bad anime." — Frames Per Second

Anime Mania $4.48 There’s no doubt about it: Japanese animation is hot. Television shows, films, and videos featuring the anime style of animation are wildly popular. Japanese animation is like a comic book come to life, retaining all its power but in moving form. It has a very different style from traditional western animation, incorporating heavy shading, dramatic camera angles, and beautifully rendered special effects-especially the fantastic anime depictions of ocean waves, storms, smoke, and explosions. Easier to draw than its western counterpart, anime is more limited and simpler in its execution. In Japanese anime the characters move, but their movements are generally staccato, sharp, and dramatic-not free-flowing with lots of overlapping action, anticipation, and follow-through. In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks who live in the world of the future; teen characters-with troubled relationships at school, home, and on the street; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots. Aspiring animators will also find chapters on anime’s spectacular special effects, the role of storyboarding in anime, sketching and the art of character design, and a mini-crash course in perspective. The book concludes with interviews with Scott Frazier, an American anime director working in Japan, and Mahiro Meada, a renowned Japanese animation director. Brimming with hundreds of spectacular examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Anime Mania details how anyone can become a real anime artist without having to reinvent the art of drawing.

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Anime Studio $39.99 Discover all of the unique capabilities of Anime Studio, a 2D animation software program with some amazing advanced features such as the ability to move the camera in 3D, a bone-based rigging system for manipulating 2D images and vectors, particle systems, dynamic bones, and the ability to import and view 3D models with textures. "Anime Studio™: The Official Guide" shows first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiasts how to create, render, and animate characters and even entire scenes that can be exported to various video, TV, and web formats for viewing and sharing. Using clear examples and step-by-step tutorials to help you conquer each feature and new skill, the book includes instruction on managing and configuring the workspace, working with layers, using drawing tools, editing curves, working with bones, and adding sound. You’ll even learn how to render a final scene and export it, import and integrate 3D models and textures, video, and Photoshop files, and add special effects. "Anime Studio: The Official Guide" will help you master all of the essential features of the software as well as give you creative inspiration for your own projects when you are ready to go beyond the basics with this innovative animation program.

Anime (72dpi) $16.48 72 dpi- Anime explores the dynamic world of moving images. Showcasing and analysing the surprising variety and promise of animation in its broadest sense – from traditional camera work via Flash animations to modern source code manipulation – the book displays remarkable variety in more than 150 projects between design and art, experiment and commerce, eccentricity and narration, video clip and web site, San Francisco and Tokyo in picture, text and on DVD 9. Innovators such as Matt Anderson, Hi-Res and Büro Destruct play with linearity and combine all sorts of media, techniques and disciplines into new formats that previously had found no adequate outlet. Instead of dry theoretical treatises the print section of 72 dpi – Anime does not focus on the re-narration of scenic incidents, but draws out poignant project details and stylistic features as an introduction and supplement to the videos and applications featured on the DVD, divided into the sections Camera, Vector, Interactive, Linear and Motion Graphics. 72 dpi – Anime, in its fusion of progressive approaches, aesthetics and attitudes, is therefore both a comprehensive locator and catalyst for creative processes in motion graphics, internet and analogue design.

Anime Salve $22.98 The last studio album Fabrizio De André recorded before his untimely death to cancer in 1999, Anime Salve functions both as a testament to the singer’s entire career and a further indicator of the stylistic restlessness that characterized De André’s work since 1984’s Creuza de Mä. Like its predecessor, Le Nuvole, Anime Salve is a hybrid album, albeit a much more somber one since the satirical intent of Le Nuvole is notoriously absent here. Its mixed nature is, once again, probably due to the contrasting creative forces at work. Throughout his career, De André had an unerring eye for choosing his collaborators. In turn, talented musicians such as Gian Piero Reverberi, Nicola Piovani, Francesco De Gregori, PFM, Mauro Pagani, and Massimo Bubola all left an indelible stamp on the De André records on which they worked. For Anime Salve, De André continued his ongoing research into Mediterranean folk music since Creuza de Mä, this time with arranger Piero Milesi, who had also participated in Le Nuvole. In addition, De André asked his friend and distinguished colleague songwriter Ivano Fossati to co-write the entire album. The influence of Fossati is plain to see, and occasionally his voice can be heard even louder than De André’s own in Anime Salve. Roughly half the album is made of the long, slow, atmospheric, keyboard-dominated compositions so typical of Fossati’s work, reminiscent of Peter Gabriel’s late albums such as Us or Up . The moving title track, sung together with Fossati, is a perfect example of this tendency. The other half, instead, consists of pieces based on Mediterranean or Balkan rhythms or dances, such as the rousing “Dolcenera,” very much in tune with previous Pagani-De André projects. However, a common thread runs through the album, and that is none other than De André himself. This can be heard chiefly in Anime Salve’s main thematic preoccupation, the sympathetic portrayal of marginal people or individuals isolated from society: a transsexual, the Rom people, a Genovese fisherman, etc. To all those individuals or minorities discriminated or segregated on account of race, age, sex, profession, or religion (or lack of), to all those the modern world seems to offer no place, De André offers compassion and the wish that they could take advantage of their solitude to achieve a degree of personal freedom long unattainable in modern urban society. This sympathy for the oppressed paired with the anarchic longing of an existence free from the bounds of society indeed constitute the fundamental tenets of the entire De André oeuvre. Other recurrent elements of De André’s style present in this album are the use of dialects and literary sources. Anime Salve includes a song in Genovese and choruses, titles, or phrases in Portuguese, Sardinian, and Romani, and its first and last tracks are based on novels by Fernanda Farias De Albuquerque-Maurizio Jannelli and Álvaro Mutis. Still, for all this accumulation of renowned collaborators and sources, A

ALICE (ANIME) $13.46 In this computer animated adventure, a young girl named Alice Hayashi wins a contest, allowing her to become the youngest person ever to enter space. There is a malfunction during take-off, however, and she crash lands on the North Pole, only to find that she is suddenly 30 years into the future. She is captured soon afterward, and discovers that the Earth has come under authoritarian rule. Now, Alice is the only person who can discover what led the world to this horrible fate so that she can return to the past in order to change the future. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide computers specialist, Nero has put together an army of Stealth Troopers and undertaken a campaign to reduce the world’s population. Joining forces with Yuan, another lone survivor of tragedy, and Mary, a robot waitress who becomes a bodyguard of sorts, Alice learns that she shares a common bond with Nero; she realizes that she may be the only hope of the resistance forces to free the world from its oppression. The trio undertakes a journey towards a final confrontation with the misguided dictator. The story of A.Li.Ce will appeal to children and anime fans alike, and the lavishness of the production is sure to impress audiences of every ilk.

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COMIC PARTY REVOLUTION TV V.02 $26.96 A remake of the classic anime series COMIC PARTY, COMIC PARTY REVOLUTION TV zanily parodies the world of manga and those who make and consume it. When college student Kazuki is unwillingly dragged to a comic-book convention by his friend Taishi, a die-hard anime fan, the newcomer finds himself overwhelmed by a bewildering subculture fraught with eccentric characters and obsessive fandom. A hilarious but affectionate spoof, the anime series continues with this collection of four more episodes.

COMIC PARTY REVOLUTION TV V.03-THE $26.96 A remake of the classic anime series COMIC PARTY, COMIC PARTY REVOLUTION TV zanily parodies the world of manga and those who make and consume it. When college student Kazuki is unwillingly dragged to a comic-book convention by his friend Taishi, a die-hard anime fan, the newcomer finds himself overwhelmed by a bewildering subculture fraught with eccentric characters and obsessive fandom. A hilarious but affectionate spoof, the anime series continues with this third volume of episodes.