PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS #70

March / April 2002

72 pages (8 in color)

$4.95

This issue is offering a spotlight on Heavy Gear (a CG animated TV series produced by Sony, animated by Mainframe, and based on Dream Pod 9 popular game universe). This article offers an overview of the series, character & mecha files, as well as synopses for the first 26 episodes. This issue also features the movie Spriggan, an Interview with ADV's Matt Greenfield, a short presentation of FLCL (Fooly Cooly), the usual "Anime World" articles (The Modern Japanese Music Database Part 14, more convention & festival reports), reviews of lots of recent anime & manga-related products (videos, DVDs, manga, model kits, etc.) and the latest news. Of course, PA continues to offer lots of overviews on new anime titles to introduce readers to Japanese animation of all styles: Ah! My Goddess The Movie, Angelic Layer (by CLAMP), Gene Shaft, Inital D (OVA, Movie and Character Files), Kazemakase Tsuki Kage Ran, Sadamitsu The Destroyer, and Tales Of Eternia. [ Shipped between April 4^th and April 10^th, 2002 ]