From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #1097 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Tuesday, November 19 2002 Volume 01 : Number 1097 In this issue: [monkey] Promotional postcard for Monkey show at Brisbane Festival 2002 Re: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs [monkey] New Japanese book about the Monkey TV show [monkey] 12MB AVI movie clip of intro sequence to Monkey season 1 [monkey] NTV speaks... why Monkey ended abruptly, and other info ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:16:36 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Promotional postcard for Monkey show at Brisbane Festival 2002 Check out this page to see a scan of the promotional postcards created to plug the Monkey show that was on at the Brisbane Festival 2002: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/events_brisbanefestival.html It's got a great cartoon picture of the 4 main characters in Monkey - in fact, I may add this to the Monkey Gallery along with other fan art. Howell _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:23:20 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: Re: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs Note that on my Masaaki Sakai tribute page I've now added a "massive" scan of the front sleeve of Masaaki Sakai's "Imadewa Ososugiru" EP, which shows all the characters on Monkey's wishing staff (it may look a little blurred in this massive scan though). So this may help any of you wanting to know what the characters are on his staff. Just go the Masaaki Sakai tribute page: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/masaaki.html and click on the "[Massive version]" link to the right of the picture scan featuring Monkey holding his staff. Howell _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:01:09 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] New Japanese book about the Monkey TV show Back in October, I got a copy of a Japanese book (i.e. all in Japanese) about the Monkey TV show we all know and love, via a friend who'd got it from someone in Australia (I don't know exactly how / where he got it). I'd never ever heard of this book before. With my limited Japanese, I've browsed through it, and it looks very impressive - 1) Firstly, note that it's dedicated to "Saiyuuki" (not "Saiyuuki 2" too) - i.e. just season 1 (first 26 episodes) of Monkey 2) Detailed biography of Masako Natsume who played Tripitaka 3) Great stills from the episodes, opening / closing titles, pictures arranged by character.. includes a section of pics of Monkey's various disguised forms... also a section showing all the demons (with detailed descriptions of each of them) ... and a section showing all the guest stars in each of the 26 episodes (apparently, some VERY BIG names in Japanese showbiz played the demons and other cameo parts). In all these sections, there's a lot of text - I assume describing the characters, biographies of the guest stars etc. 4) Section about the music in Monkey, including lyrics for "Monkey Magic" and "Gandhara" 5) Detailed descriptions of all 26 episodes, with a selection of stills from them. 6) Section showing stills from other TV adaptations of Monkey 7) Section about Tripitaka and the Buddhist scriptures 8) Scanned images of adverts / posters advertising Monkey when it was first shown on Japanese TV 9) Details of the "Magic Monkey" CD by Godiego containing all the songs in Monkey season 1 10) Details of comics, other TV remakes and anime versions of Monkey 11) All of the pages of this book are in black-and-white (this includes all the still photos) 12) It looks like the book was published in 2000 I've scanned in some of the pages from this book, and included them on this new page on www.monkeyheaven.com: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/books_jmonkeybook.html In addition to the front cover (page 1) and the back cover (page 68), I've also included: - - Page 3: Shows stills from the opening ttitles of Monkey season 1, with lots of text (I guess it's the narrator's intro, in Japanese) - - Page 9: Biography of Masako Natsume. I''ve included a "massive" version of this page, so that all the characters can be clearly read. - - Page 20: The first page about the guestt stars in Monkey, with photos and mini-biographies - - Page 66: The last page within the book - I think this includes details of the publisher etc., and this may give clues on how to order the book, but it's all in Japanese. If anyone has time, I'd especially love to read an English translation of the Masako Natsume biography from this book. Have any of you ever seen this book on sale in Japan? Do you know where it can be ordered from? (I couldn't spot any obvious details of publishers, ISBN number or anything in the book - maybe the information on page 66 gives some clues?). Howell _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:39:31 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] 12MB AVI movie clip of intro sequence to Monkey season 1 Some of you might remember that several years, someone on the mailing list called L Jones made me a 12MB AVI movie clip of the Monkey season 1 intro sequence. Tu Chung put this up on his Monkey web site, but when his site disappeared, the video clip went with it. However - just the other day, I discovered that someone called Marc "Penguin" Ellis (!?) has a copy of this AVI uploaded to his web page here: http://wotsit.thingy.com/oldsites/Penguin/ Howell PS Alternatively, you can get a 1.4MB Mpeg version of it from my web page: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/movies.html but I guess the 12MB AVI version should be of higher quality. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:33:11 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] NTV speaks... why Monkey ended abruptly, and other info Back in September, I emailed NTV to ask them a few questions that I (and I'm sure lots of other fans too) have been wondering about for a long time - today, I got some detailed responses - see below: - --- 1) Why did the series end abruptly after 2 series, without the characters reaching India? Was there ever a plan to make a 3rd series? I spoke with a member of the then "Saiyuuki" staff and he told me that when the show was first pitched no one thought it work. However, the reality was that it was a huge success, garnering over 30% ratings. After the first 26 episodes were aired, a continuation of the story was planned, but this time with high expectations in light of the success of the first. However, that was not the case. The second 26 episodes did not do as well as the first and no plans were made for a third series. Also, by the time the first series and second series had aired, the actors became very popular and their schedules filled up quickly. Basically, they moved on with their careers. As for why the group never reached India, perhaps it was because the production group had planned to stretch it out for longer that they may have to gotten to that point in the second series, but because the ratings were not as good for the second series (less than 20%), it just never came to be. But the answer I received was that rather than the goal, the process, the adventure was most important -- fighting evil, helping the poor, etc. 2) Why did the BBC only dub 39 out of the original 52 episodes into English? This remains a bit of a mystery. It seems the BBC came to NTV and asked what new programs and activities NTV was involved with and "Monkey" was introduced. The BBC producer that saw it liked those 39 episodes for some reason, but why those 39 is unclear. Perhaps you can contact the BBC directly to see what their side of the story is. In fact, I would like to know. 3) Do any of the costumes / props (e.g. the characters' weapons, especially Monkey's staff) still exist? Does NTV or Kokusai Hoei have these stored away somewhere? NTV does not have it nor does Kokusai Hoei, I am afraid. - --- Howell _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? 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