> p.18 : 1 whole page color pic, the 3 goddess in their uniform.
>        I have never seen this before, so probably newly drawn.
> p.19 : 1 whole page color pic, same as the Afternoon one with
>        Belldandy and feathers, but with different color.
> p.20 : text part is the interview; picture part is small pics
>        from OVA 1.  Apparently, the pic is taken from the TV
>        screen, so not too sharp.
> p.21 : text part is the interview; picture part contain pic of
>        director Gouda Hiroaki and chief drawing director
>        Matsuhara Hidenori.
> p.22 : text part is the interview; picture part is small pics
>        from OVA 2.
> p.23 : text part is the interview; picture part is small pics
>        from OVA 3.
> p.24 : small pics from OVA 4 and 5.
> p.25 : text part is the interview; picture part is a pic of
>        Skuld and a pic of Bessho Makoto, assistant director.
> p.26 : text part is the interview; picture part is pics from
>        OVA and a pic of Kitajima Nobuyuki, drawing director.
> p.27 : Pic of Belldandy facing the Earth and the Moon from a
>        distant, same as the Afternoon one.

Any chance of anyone getting these scanned up onto the web?

> The interview talk about the past OVA series, and very little
> about the new movie.  Both Gouda and Matsuhara are very
> secretive about the new movie and only disclose some hints.
> 
> Gouda stated that 3 years ago, he planned to release the movie
> in June 1999, so that he can die with the success of the movie
> when the doom strike in July 1999.  ^_^;

Did they give a revised release date?

> Some scenes/characters that are going to show up in the movie :
> Bike scenes, Peorth, and Chihiro.  Mara might not make the movie
> due to the difficulty in drawing her hair (stated by Matsuhara).

Maybe Mara will just be in the intro sequence again.  ^_^

> There is no mention of Bonpei-kun's chance.

Oh yeah. Now THAT's great news.

> The interviewer deduced the followings from the impression he
> got fron the interview :
> The story will be a large scale one, involving the whole Earth;
> since Gouda/Matsuhara dropped some hints about NHK, the story
> might be similar to those large scale historic drama series
> of NHK.

Hmm, I dunno about that. Sounds altogether too much like an action movie
to me. One of the things I loved most about the original OVA was the way
it was so private. Even though the world will be at stake in this one
and the Megami save it etc (*sigh* that sounds lame) I just hope that it
actually stays private, the Megami don't become famous etc, because that
would really, truly suck. I also don't think Fujishima would put his
name to anything like that and I don't think the people who created the
OVA could do that, so I'm just winding myself up here.

Sam the man