Volume 2, Issue 4

July 2009

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Table of Contents

Anime Los Angeles ……………………………2

Postcard Contest In the Spotlight………………………………….….3

Mixed Vegetables Dragonauts: The Resonance Trips/Conventions…………………………………4 Anime Los Angeles Information Nexus…………………………………5 Terminology - Samurai Anime Expo Highlights…………………………...6-7

A Report by a Non-Otaku Answers to Games.………………………………..8

Anime Scramble: Voice Actors

Animé Los Angeles 6 (2010) call for postcard art

Who wants to design a postcard for Animé Los

Angeles 6? The prize is a pound of See's Chocolates.

We're going to cram an entire progress report onto

one side of a little postcard. What should we put on

the other side? We've got full color printing

capability. Bleed, even -- you can have color and

stuff going right up to the edge.

Postcard Art Contest Rules

1. Deadline for Fall Postcard: (Pacific time) 11:59 pm Tuesday 1

September 2009.

2. Dimensions at 300 dpi: 1125x1725 or

1725x1125 pixels. Display thumbnail size,

if you post your designs, should be 225x345

or 345x225 pixels (i.e., 60 dpi).

Design your art to be 3.75"x5.75" at 300

dpi, and allow for at least 1/8" along the

edges where you won't have any text or

anything vital to the design. It'll be

3.5"x5.5" once it's trimmed. So, don't have

any text or logos within 40 pixels of the

edge (1/8") and we should have no trouble

trimming it.

3. You can e-mail the high-resolution version

to animela2009 at postcardart dot info, or

just publish a link to it on your server. Feel

free to send it to us early, as we may have

some requests for minor changes (putting

the double R and double T in Marriott,

adding the accent to Animé Los Angeles, that

kind of thing).

Or if you are sending artwork made from

traditional media, such as an inked or

painted piece, please send them to:

Animé Los Angeles Postcards

PO Box 17522

Anaheim CA 92817-7522

4. Prize for the one we use will be a 1-lb. box

of See's chocolates, or something else if you're allergic or dieting. If

you've used someone else's art in your composition, get their

permission -- you'll be splitting the prize with them.

5. By contributing art to the postcard contest, you are granting the

convention permission to use it for promotional purposes for no

more than one year. Your art remains your property, you're just

loaning it to us.

6. Don't use trademarked characters. People dressed up as

recognizable characters are acceptable. You may include Animé

Angeles's mascot Ala, and fan art of our artist goh's characters is

usually allowed. Of course, your own original characters are

welcome as well.

7. You may enter as many times as you like.

8. Please sign your art.

9. If you would like to be put on our mailing list, send us a note. Your

info will be kept on a computer in California, and will only be used

to send you Animé Los Angeles postcards.

Visit: www.animelosangeles.org For more information

Macross Frontier Movie Scheduled for November 21

The theatrical film adaptation of the Macross Frontier television anime series will open in Japan on November 21 under the name Gekijō-ban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~ (Macross Frontier the Movie: The False Songstress). The Kadokawa Cineplex and

Shochiku Multiplex theaters' websites both revealed the title and date, and the second issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Macross Ace magazine will

announce the details on Friday. The teaser trailer for the film will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 27, which is the same day that ticket pre-sales will begin.

The planned Fall opening date for a theatrical film remake of the Macross Frontier anime series was first revealed via an itasha (vehicle decorated with character art) mini-van outside the "Macross: The Super Dimension Space Launching Ceremony" event in February. However,

creator Shoji Kawamori and the cast members Yuuichi Nakamura (Alto), Aya Endo (Sheryl), and Megumi Nakajima (Ranka) noted in the actual event that the new date and even the title of the project was subject to change at the time. The film will include new footage of Sheryl's concert

and Nakajima's new song, "Sō Da Yo." The Macross Frontier television series marked the 25th anniversary of Studio Nue's classic science-fiction

franchise that combines transforming robotic mecha , love triangles, and interplanetary war.

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DRAGONAUT: THE RESONANCE

Plot Summary: In order to avoid Earth's impending destruction from an asteroid, the International Solarsystem Development

Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates dragons after finding a dragon egg under the ocean.

However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures

appear on Earth. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina gets involved in the

mysteries of the dragons and becomes a dragon pilot, otherwise known as a "Dragonaut". Helping him on

his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him.

As they delve deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also

begin to develop a closer relationship.

Spoken Languages: Japanese, English subtitles.

Available in library.

MIXED VEGETABLES

Hanayu Ashitaba is the daughter of the celebrated Patisserie

Ashitaba, but all she wants to do is be a sushi chef. Hayato

Hyuga is the son of the prestigious Sushi Hyuga, and all he

wants to do is be a pastry chef! It's love and leftovers in the

Oikawa High School Cooking Department as these star-

crossed gourmands do their best to reach their cuisine

dreams!

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As of July 2009 we have 8 open slots for the trip to Anime Los Angeles

Convention. Total Cost for transportation, hotel and registration will be:

$200.00

If you would like to go and be put on the list, please contact us A.S.A.P.

and we will get you on the list. Please remember that there only 8 seats, if

you do not pay your deposit then your seat will NOT be guaranteed.

A deposit of $100.00 which will cover the cost of registration and partial

hotel fees will be due on December 1, 2009. You can pay via paypal -

rintaki.animeclub@yahoo.com - or check payable to: Rintaki Anime Club

Society.

The club will not provide snacks or meals during this convention, unless 5

or more members request it. Thank you.

Departure Location Date/Time: Merced, CA - January 7, 2010 @ 8:00am

Departure Location Date/Time:

Los Angeles, CA - January 10, 2010 @ 1:00pm

Anime Film Festival

May 14 - July 23, 2009

Seven films, five nights, and lots

of fun! Enjoy early Japanese

cartoons such as Momotaro’s

Sky Adventure (1931) by Yasuji

Murata and The Animal Village

in Trouble by Sanae Yamamoto

along with popular films

including Samurai X and

Gundam Wing: The Movie.

Kin-Yoobi Con 2009 August 8, 2009

Chabot College, Hayward, CA

Saturday & Sunday

August 29 & 30, 2009

Radisson Hotel

500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento

CA 95815

Pacific Media Expo 2009 Veterans' Day

Holiday Weekend

November 6 to 8, 2009

Hilton Los Angeles Airport

Anime Los Angeles 2010 January 8-10, 2010

Marriot, Los Angeles

Hi,

I’m Rinaka, the new

mascot for the Rintaki

Anime Club Society. I

will be on all of the

products, merchandise,

and letters from the club

from now on. I hope we

get along well. Thanks,

nice to meet everyone!

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Samurai (侍?) is the term for the military

nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to

translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese,

the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning

to wait upon or accompany a person in the

upper ranks of society, and this is also true of

the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both

countries the terms were nominalized to mean

"those who serve in close attendance to the

nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese

changing to saburai." According to Wilson, an

early reference to the word Samurai appears in

the Kokin Wakashū (905-914), the first imperial

anthology of poems, completed in the first part

of the tenth century.

By the end of the 12th century, samurai became

synonymous with bushi (武士) almost entirely

and the word was closely associated with the

middle and upper echelons of the warrior class.

The samurai followed a set of written rules

called the Bushidō . Samurai teachings can still

be found today in modern day society with the

martial art Kendo, meaning the way of the

sword.

A ronin (浪人 rōnin?) was a samurai with no

lord or master during the feudal period (1185–

1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless

from the ruin or fall of his master, or after the

loss of his master's favor or privilege.

Etymology

The word rōnin literally means "wave man".

The term originated in the Nara and Heian

periods, when it referred to a serf who had fled

or deserted his master's land. It then came to be

used for a samurai who had lost his master.

Status

According to the Bushido Shoshinshu (the

Code of the Samurai), a samurai was supposed

to commit oibara seppuku (also "hara kiri" –

ritual suicide) upon the loss of his master. One

who chose not to honor the code was "on his

own" and was meant to suffer great shame. The

undesirability of ronin status was mainly a

discrimination imposed by other samurai and

by the daimyo (the feudal lords).

Like regular samurai, ronin wore their two

swords. Ronin used a variety of other weapons

too. Some ronin, usually if they lacked money,

would carry a bō (staff around 5 to 6 ft) or jō

(smaller staff or walking stick around 3 to 5 ft)

or they would use a yumi (bow). Most weapons

would reflect on what ryu or bujutsu school

they came from if they were students.

During the Edo period, with the shogunate's

rigid class system and laws, the number of

ronin greatly increased. Confiscation of fiefs

during the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun

Iemitsu resulted in an especially large increase

of ronin. During previous ages, samurai were

easily able to move between masters and even

between occupations. They would also marry

between classes. However, during the Edo

period, samurai were restricted, and were above

all forbidden to become employed by another

master without their previous master's

permission. Also, low-level samurai, often poor

and without choice, were forced to quit or

escape their master.

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Anime Expo

LOS ANGELES, CA – July 5, 2009 – Once again, Anime Expo® dominates all other anime and manga conventions and holds the title of nation's largest anime and manga event with over 44,000 unique attendees flowing into the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend the nation's largest anime and manga convention, Anime Expo® 2009, from July 2 – July 5, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More information can be found at www.anime-expo.org .

The SPJA Charity Auction has also generated just under $30,000.00 (U.S.) in proceeds to be donated to benefit the adolescent patients of Children's Hospital Orange County (CHOC).

Mark your calendars! Anime Expo® will return next year to the Los Angeles Convention Center and be held on July 1 through July 4, 2010.

AX 2009 A Report by a Non-Otaku

By Tony P

Where to begin? Well I won’t bother

informing you about the events, you can look

that up on the schedule on the website. So…..I

will just tell you what I did and what my

impression was. When I arrived Friday mid-

morning I was really excited. It was my first

time attending any type of anime convention

and had really wanted to go to one for many

years. I had an idea of what to expect and at the

same time was not sure what to expect. When I

first arrived I was totally overwhelmed with the

abundant number of Cosplayers. They were

everywhere; and ready and willing to pose for a

picture at the request of anyone who asked. So

for the first couple of hours I walked around the

entire convention center taking pictures of

anyone and everyone. I later learned that it’s

best to just hang-out in the main lobby. There

were professional photographers there with

small areas and set ups for Cosplayers to have

their picture taken. So, that’s where I hung out

to take some great pictures of some really

amazing costumes.

After an exciting few hours of taking

pictures I then decided to attend a few

workshops. One of them was a workshop on

Photo Shop coloring. There a few speakers

reviewed with the audience some tips and tricks

to fully utilizing their photo shop software. They

also spoke on how this type of software is

continuously changing and adapting to the needs

and wants of the industry as well as giving the

artist and writers a more powerful medium to

bring to truly bring to life what they envision the

anime and art they want to present to the world.

The next workshop I attended was a

dance class……..I learned to do the Para Para

and competed in then competed in a Para Para

contest. But there was also a lecture on it as

well…..who knew the Para Para actually has a

history that it is based on. As the speaker

9indicated there are a lot of different historical

aspects to it that I won’t get into the details of,

but they can easily be researched on-line. By the

way, I totally suck at the Para Para so I did not

win the contest.

The next thing I went to check out

was the workshop on Metal etching for

Cosplay and Model kits. This was something

I was really interested in since I was at one

time an avid builder of model kits, especially

since at the time I had no training or

reverences for model building. It was all

years of trial and error for me, but I still think

I did really well in the end all things

considered. I was really intrigued at the

techniques and tools that are currently used,

and the demonstrators made it all seem so

simple to do. The most impressive technique

I saw was how to make an etching design

look like it was sand blasted into the metal.

There were no special tools or techniques it

turns out all you need is a specially made

type of “sticker” or rub on “decal” all you do

is cut out the shape or design or in some

cases its already premade, then just simply

apply.

The next event was the highlight of

the day for me. I went to a concert. I was just

simply walking down the hall when I was

handed a ticket….they were just giving them

away. I did not even know what it was for,

and decided what the heck I’ll just go and

check it out. It was the best decision on a

whim I have made in recent memory. I got to

see “Morning Musume”. Live. In Concert. It

was great. For those who do not know

Morning Musume is an all girl band made of

9 performers. They had a great program of

songs that ranged from J-Pop, Bubblegum-

Pop, Hard Rock, and Ballads. They saved the

best for last. It was actually a compilation of

many different songs and styles that flowed

seamlessly from one to the other. I had a

great time.

I, then took a little break to rest,

have a little something to eat, and get my

hearing back. I then went to check out the

premiere of “Evangelion 1.01 You Are (Not)

Alone”. I did not know what to expect or

what it was about since I did not do any

research on it at all. I was expecting some

kind of side story that was not in the original

series. I was wrong. It turns out that the new

Eva movies, of which there will be 4 in total,

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is just another version of the original

series. I was disappointed. I was hoping

for a new story at the very least, but it’s

just all 26 episodes crammed into a shorter

length of time, so there are a lot of scenes

that were removed making it looked like

you are watching the series in fast forward

or just skipping to the good parts. But, I

was impressed with the way they remade

the series by incorporating a few new

scenes replacing a lot of scenes using

digital technology that really brought

justice to what the creators probably had

in mind and surprisingly they gave “Rei” a

lot more dialogue. In some Q&A with a

producer he indicated that a lot of the

changes that were made were to present a

darker gloomier version of the series and

that a lot of the changes that were made

were mainly removing or replacing

dialogue, back ground music, and scenes

that were comical in nature. After that my

first day at the AX 2009 ended.

Day 2

I arrived first thing in the

morning and had already decided that I

was going to do what I really wanted.

Watch some anime. At the time there was

nothing playing that I wanted to see so I

attended the Origami Workshop. There I

continued to develop my paper folding

skill. Then I went to go see an anime I

have wanted to see, “Freedom”. It was

canceled. I was bummed. So to kill some

time till the next one I wanted to watch I

spent it in the lobby again taking pictures

of Cosplayers. I later went to spend some

time at the vendor’s area. There I walked

around seeing some of the usual items

such as DVD’s, figures, wall scrolls, gig

bags, etc, etc, etc. to tell the truth noting I

have not seen before. I was bummed that I

did not find the box set for “Wall Flower”

it was the only thing I was really looking

for. However there was an entire area

where artists of all kinds that displayed

and sold their works. I was totally

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enamored by the works the artist presented.

After spending sometime there I took a short

break and had some brunch.

Then I went to the video room that was

presenting “Lucky Star”. It was another anime

series that I really wanted to see. What was

even better was that before the viewing

members of the audience were invited to step

up front and do the opening dance. I will say

that the pom-pom’s they handed me were really

cheap and virtually fell apart in my hands and

that my years in the sport of fencing allowed

me to have the highest kick….and that’s all I

will say. I really enjoyed watching “Lucky

Star”. I won’t give any of the details away but I

am patiently waiting for the series to be

completed so I can get the box set.

And with that my second day at the AX 2009

ended. For my first time at and Anime Expo of

any kind I had a lot of fun. I will need the rest

of the weekend to recover however. Let’s see

what adventures there will be for the Non-

Otaku anime lover next year.

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Japanese Take Our Online

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Anime Scramble

Voice Actors

Solution

1. LtiunarhciisC is Luci Christian.

2. iacVoinMgng is Vic Mignogna.

3. iPtranoshCt is Chris Patton.

4. geAGerysr is Greg Ayres.

5. riRoahcrawtdyHh is Richard Hayworth.

6. BenrHdtnua is Bredan Hunt.

7. iralgaHyaH is Hilary Haag.

8. edavaiDKy is David Kaye.

9. BmroarnmDndiu is Brian Drummond.

10. MatilHlt is Matt Hill.

11. SnactVimne is Sam Vincent.

12. CievaaSrrgae is Carrie Savage.

13. oJutCiksno is Justin Cook.

14. acRonliiMa is Monica Rial.

15. AslnitKhloei is Allison Keith.

16. edAiaLeamnnnW is Amanda Winn Lee.

17. ceeirpSSkpen is Spike Spencer.

18. atyGrnfTfani is Tiffany Grant.

19. rDeoMhrelnztdyoe is Dorothy

Melendrez.

20. gLnaeLx is Lex Lang.

21. enWeeLede is Wendee Lee.

22. eCnmiFierasprn is Crispin Freeman.

23. eaalnJnA is Jane Alan.

24. neannrvaehSJWo is Shannon J Weaver.

25. aviaebscRDce is Rebecca Davis.

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Cover Art: Dragonaut The Resonance Original Artwork: Dragonaut Project © Funimation 2009 Source: Animepaper.net Page 3 Mixed Vegetables Vol. 1 Cover Original Artwork: Ayumi Komura © Viz Media 2008 Dragonaut (Left, Center, Right) Original Artwork: Dragonaut Project © Funimation 2009 Source: Animepaper.net Page 4 Rinaka (Bottom) Original Artwork: Autumn Lorne (character) © Kimberly Johnson 2009 Page 7 Anime Expo 2009 Pictures Photographer: Tony Perez

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Love

Anime?

Then volunteer for an officer

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include extra points, a few

extra privileges. Please

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President for more details.

Thanks.

published by

Rintaki Anime Club Society

editor-in-chief

Kimberly Johnson

president Tony Perez

vice-president

Javier Esquivel

contributing writers Kimberly Johnson

Tony Perez

web master Kimberly Johnson

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