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- From: whong@musubi.pubnet.com (Dream Hunter)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Re: Odds and Ends (1st post)
- Keywords: first post
- Message-ID: <PFRcwB3w164w@musubi.pubnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 09:17:24 HST
- References: <734@oscar.UUCP>
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- loku@oscar.UUCP (lyndon oku) writes:
-
- > 4) Does anyone remember why someone (was it PUMA?) used to call
- > Nadia the "Evil Series" a few years ago. I hadn't seen Nadia when I
- > first heard the reference, but, now that I've seen it, I still don't
- > understand calling it "the Evil Series." [Yeah, I've been reading r.a.a
- > for a while now.]
- >
- It's Ryan Gavigan(sp?) who keeps calling Nadia "the evil series" I don't
- understand what the big deal is either. Could be because Nadia pays homeage
- to many past TV series and movies(the Nautilis is a take off of the disney
- version).
-
- > 5) Does anyone know where to find videos/LDs/whatever of a
- > live-action series called "Rainbow Man?" The main character used a
- > (Buddhist/Shinto?) chant to change into a white outfit with a gold sun
- > on his forehead or one of seven other outfits (one was dirt-colored,
- > another was tree-colored, etc.). I remember seeing this as a child in
- > Hawaii ('70s?). The bad guy was "Mister K (X?)" and he had a lot of
- > female helpers who wore crosses and mini-skirts (vaguely anti-Western).
- I don't know either but if you ever find out where to get these don't keep
- it a sercet! They didn't rerun this series to death on TV the Kikaida show,
- so I missed a lot from this series when it was running.
-
- >
- > Random Opinions:
- > I don't like seeing all of the flames (subtle or not so subtle)
- > that have begun to really take over in the last year or so. Although
- > I plan to go to both Anime America and Anime Expo this year (if I can
- > manage the time off), I refuse to ask Rumiko Takahashi (who I would
- > really love to meet) to come to the states until we have only a single
- > anime convention (next year, please?). By the way, not all of the
- > flames I am talking about are related to the Anime convention mess.
- >
- Not likely if nothing, we could see even more Anime-type convensions later.
- Let's see now, we AnAm & AE on the west coast, Project A-Kon in the midwest,
- & now ChibiCon on the East coast! Sorry from here it only gets worst! ;^)
- > Until I make a decent .sig,
- > Lyndon
- > loku@oscar.hns.com
- > P.S. Have a happy and safe holiday season!
-
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