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The english version of NEWTYPE, the popular Japanese anime news magazine will be out around OCT-DEC , heard really good things about it.
Nekotang / Sep.5,2002
Kinokuniya Singapore will be having another animation fair, probably starting from August 2002 this yaer again.They will probably coincide with their anniversary in which they have 20% off storewide on the 8 & 9th of aug as they did last year. Also theya re currently sellinga limited edition 3x3 eyes box for bout $90 at the moment. Also seen was a Gardenergala limited edition doll with cd and book, going for bout $200 odd.
Nekotang / Jul.3,2002
Sakura Cardcaptors (TV Part I) VCDs in Jap/Eng subtitles are out! Selling at around S$60 at Poh Kim. Also out are Trigun VCDs (Jap/Eng sub) and Perfect Blue VCDs (Jap/Eng sub). Metropolis (Jap/Eng sub) is also out, selling at Kinokuniya. I am still waiting for Fruits Basket manga, which is out of stock in Kinokuniya.
AXN is showing Vandread, which is pretty cool.
Bunnimal [mail] / Apr.11,2002
Well.. I don't know whether this can be classified as anime news, but City Hunter's creator's new series Angel Heart will be on sale in Singapore Kino ( most manga n anime books comes out the fastest at Kinokuniya) from the 27/28 of Oct. It has been a long wait for most fans. But i heard the Chinese version will be out in Early Nov. Wonder how they managed to get the Chinese version out so fast this time
Nekotang / Oct.25,2001
Kinokuniya Singapore will be selling fushiggi yuggi's box set. I believe the going price is at $200 odd dollars. A $100 deposit will be required in order to place orders.
Nekotang / Oct.13,2001
Sakura the english version is starting it's run on Arts Central. Minekura kazuya's Saiyuki 8 is finally out in Singapore. Macross's creator came on saturday 25/8 to Kinokuniya Ngee nn City for an art demo n autograph session
Nekotang / Aug.27,2001
Hate to say this but the anime in Singapore are really pathetic. Currently, they are showing cardcaptor Sakura and Slam dunk on Saturday, Kenshin on Sunday and that's about it. I really wish they would show more and I especially hanker for YuYuhakusho but it probably contains a bit too much bloodshed for the censors here. But with the opening of another TV station, prospects o more anime looks much better. Now, there's GTO on weekdays. Let's hope they show more.
akailing / May.23,2001
Currently, the cable station AXN is holding its third Anime Festival. Among other things, it is also holding an anime drawing contest in conjunction with the festival. They have also invited Masahiro Maeda, the director of Blue Submarine 6.
The animes that will be featured are:
  1. Fushigi Yuugi (the OVA)
  2. The Wave of Rage
  3. You're Under Arrest, the Movie
  4. Blue Submarine no. 6
  5. Tenchi Muyo In Love
  6. Heart of Courage
  7. Samurai Showdown
  8. AKIRA (featured in last year's festival)
  9. Ghost in a Shell (featured in last year's festival too! lol)
Also, Kinokuniya Book Stores is having an autograph session with the creator of the Gundam series.
Chiro Aki. / Jun.7,2000
About two or three weeks ago, singapore TV (TCS) started showing Doraemon after pokemon and before akazukin cha cha. While i have no qualms about watching the robot cat, i cant stand the crappy singaporean voice actors who dubbed the series into english. The singaporean accent is very obvious and annoyingly distracting, while not conveying the emotions of the characters in doraemon... (when nobita and doraemon are having fun... the go "wheee!" in a bored tone of voice >__<) Bleh and a triple Ugh! for IMMG, the company who syndicated it on singapore tv for doing such a poor job on a fun anime...
Kris J. Ong / May.10,2000
There is a "Singapore Animation Fiesta 2000" that's going to be held in June between the 9th and 12th. Among the shows are a "Toei Story", "Kido Senshi Gundam", "The making of Perfect Blue" and "Perfect Blue". At the moment i know no details wether the animations Gundam and Perfect Blue are going to be translated to english by dubbed or subbed or what the "Toei Story" will include. (featuring well-loved 70's anime classics?) This shall be the third Animation Festival that i know of in singapore that shows Japanese Anime. But, why havent i seen a Princess Mononoke in the theatres yet? Why? Is it even out yet? *whimper* the isolation of english anime from singapore... *sniff sniff*
Kris J. Ong / May.7,2000
This sucks! (pardon me) singapore hasnt got much Anime >__< they started Pokemon here a few months ago (next episode is when Pikachu gets sick and attracts a magnemite) on saturdays at 10:30am and this saturday (April 15th) theyre going to add Akazukin Cha Cha at 11:30am. 2... TWO english anime only~~ >__< (theyre's a lot of mandarin translated one in the late, late... late evenings on monday and tuesday) o_O hmm... seems like im the only one who would report the lack of anime in singapore >__< bleh!~ I want anime!~~ NEway, Pokemon fever really hit singapore when it first came out >__< and thank god im moving to Canada by september for the next school year -__- toys and kids are the most confusing thing in the world.
Kris J. Ong / Apr.13,2000
A while back (A year ago to be exact), I have experienced probably Singapore's first Arts Festival (at least, one that ive managed to attend). It can't really be termed as an Anime convention since Anime took only a small part of a "small" fair that focuses on cartoons of all kinds and some computer software. However, the anime that was being presented was an episode of Sailormoon and Utena, Sailormoon Movie R. These anime was presented none other than Kunihiko Ikuhara himself and gave us a seminar on anime history and explained how he worked on Sailormoon and Utena. There were only a few problems during the fair and that the Anime were imported Japanese LDs (True Japanese dialog but no subtitle which is good, maybe its from Mr. Ikuhara's personal collection? ^-^;;;) and at one point during the Sailormoon movie, the LD had to be changed to side 2 to which caused quite a laugh at an unexpected occurence. It wasnt much of an experience compared to the Anime Conventions of !
Japan and the US. However, as small as it was, it was quite fun and i hope to enter a "real" Anime Convention sometime in the future.
Kris J. Ong / Feb.7,1999

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