Newtype USA October cover disk.

The October NTUSA cover disk has another batch of three episodes from
different
series.

First up: Pumpkin Scissors.
An odd name for a series.  It's set in a world that has been devastated by
a long
running war and is the name of a relief unit that is trying to bring some
degree of
help to people, who, even three years after the war ended are suffering
from
starvation and disease.  It's a world where many soldiers don't want to
give up
fighting and have gone renegade and become little more than bandits.  The
Pumpkin
Scissors unit is led by an idealistic young female officer with a lot of
bravado,
but not perhaps common sense.  She meets up with a mysterious ex-soldier
who has
this strange lamp that gives off a blue light.  While this series didn't
appeal to
me, I think that it has the potential to be a good series.


Next up is Welcome to the NHK.
This one I just couldn't make any sense of.  It seems to be about a
college
drop-out recluse and a girl who is determined to help him.  But there was
so many
other totally weird and bizarre things going on that I was left wondering
why I
just wasted 25 minutes watching such rubbish.


The final episode is Phoenix.
Set in what looks like the late stone age or early iron age the story is
about the
search for the legendary Phoenix.  It is said that drinking the blood of
the
Phoenix will give eternal life, but from the events of this first episode
all it
seems to bring is death.  Another series that didn't appeal to me, but it
could
possibly develop into an interesting series if you have the determination
to stay
with it.



== Peter ==
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"Space is a vacuum...
  ... of memories too."
(Noriko Takaya: Gunbuster)