Contents:

SPOTLIGHT & FEATURES

18....CLAMP

An 8-page article about the all-female studio CLAMP. It first describes what is a shojo manga (girl's comic) and then gives biographies for each of the four members of the studio. Finally, it presents their main works: "Magic Knight Rayearth" (Character guide and overview), "RG Veda", "Tokyo Babylon", and "X" (Character guide and Overview).

28....Moldiver

A quick overview of this impressive and quite original animation by Pioneer.

ANIME WORLD

34....What's Legal? What's Illegal?

Miyako Graham talks about a complicated problems inside the Japanese manga and anime industry: the copyright. She do it through anecdotes from Mr. Hideki Kon, from the magazine Comic Box.

38....Japanese Language Seminar: Sentence Structure

For those who are trying to learn the Japanse, this series of article might be useful to grasp several aspects of this difficult language. Here, James S. Taylor gives us some tips about the sentence structure.

ANIME STORY

48....Coo

49....Ponpoko

REVIEWS

27....Books: Manga! Manga! (written by Frederik Schodt; best reference on manga)

30....CD: Mari Hamada, Miho Nakayama

32....Models: God-Gundam & the V-Gundam toys

36....Manga: Domu, Ghost in the Shell, Legend of Mother Sarah, Oh My Goddess!

42....Anime Reviews

WHAT'S GOING ON?

7.....Echoes from the Net and Other News

8.....Anime News

10....Manga News

12....New Releases

MISCELLANEOUS

6.....Editorial: Jailed House Rocks

51....Letters: Voice of the Freedom Fighters

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