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Agent Hyou here... I have some deeply disturbing news from Anime Expo 1993.  Rest assured, I have the situation under control... but I don't know for how much longer...

Guests of Honor
According to Mr. Imagawa (director, scriptwriter, storyboarder and mecha conceptualist for Giant Robo, the series is NOT being cancelled after episode #4. In fact, they're working on episode #6 as we speak.

AD Vision
They showed subtitled Gunnm episodes #1 and #2 at their Expo panel.  I only saw snippets of the thing. It was glorious.  They also had Guy on their booth's screen, and I *think* it had been subtitled.

LA Hero
They will dub Orguss II and Macross III (if it goes past pre-production).  They also want to get into live action.  Turns out the president of LA Hero likes to make movies. ^_^   Among the projects mentioned are a second live-action Guyver movie.  They say this time, it won't be a comedy.  The US Renditions arm is doing the Outlanders dub by themselves.  LA Hero is also seriously thinking about releasing titles on laserdisc.  The folks from Pioneer straightened on their seats when they heard that...

Pioneer
They want to release ALL their properties on LD, starting with Tenchi Muyou and Moldiver. Japanese on the digital tracks, English on analog, subtitles in closed captions. They will subcontract another company to do the actual dubbing.  Videotape releases will be done through LIVE entertainment. No decision has been made whether those will be subbed, dubbed, or what. My hunch is they'll be dubbed.  Their list of titles is as follows:
Tenchi Muyou: Fantasy comedy/adventure. Everyone here seems to know about it.
Moldiver: Superhero spoof. Haven't seen it.
Kishin Heidan: Mecha adventure series set in 1930's Russia with Fleischer-esque character designs.
Green Legend Ran: A Future Boy Conan clone. Bad guy character designs have an "eurocomics" flavor to them.

Streamline Pictures
Streamline has the rights to Lupin III: Mystery of Mamo and all of Megazone 23.  Doomed Megalopolis also premiered, both showed as dubbed and original Japanese.

Studio Proteus
Ghost in the Shell comic coming in Spring 1994. The color sections will be printed in color. Forgot to ask if they will reprint the "hydrodynamic" scenes from chapter 2 uncensored...   Bubble Gum Crisis also starts in Spring 1994.  Totally in color.  They had photocopies of the pencils, and they look nice.  No inflated proportions, and the characters *DO* look like the anime versions.   The mecha looks good (especially the boomers).

Viz Communications
Viz Video will start releasing English-dubbed versions of all their anime titles.  They have the rights to the entire Ranma 1/2 TV show, and the upcoming Ranma and Mermaid's Wound OVA series.  The current plan is to release the dubbed tapes starting in November, with subbed tapes six months later, and a dual-language laserdisc six months after that.  "Ranma 1/2 Goods" will also be available, starting with t-shirts, posters, calendars and naturally, cels from the series.  November will also be the month Gundam 0083 goes English with an all-new "Sunrise Anime Film Comic" series using actual cels 
from the OAV series. There will be 13 issues, in color, retailing for $4.95 US monthly. Other "Anime Film Comic" titles are under consideration.  As far as other manga, Bio-Booster Armor Guyver starts in October, and Mermaid's Forest will go to a monthly stand-alone format.  After AD Police ends in October, the new two manga to be serialized in Animerica will be two old anime-related titles doing a comeback:  Area 88 and Urusei Yatsura.

Okay, I must sign out now... the heat is turning up here... I don't know where or when I'll be back...

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