We are proud to announce that the Mitsuishi Kotono International Fan Club 
is finally open for business!  The first edition of our club newsletter,
"Kotono no Koto", is now available on the Internet, and we are now taking
membership requests.
 
 
ABOUT THE IFC
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The Mitsuishi Kotono IFC is dedicated to the admiration of Mitsuishi Kotono,
the lovely and vivacious voice actress who is perhaps best known for her
role as Sailor Moon/Tsukino Usagi in the anime "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon".
The goal of the Kotono IFC is to spread information about Mitsuishi Kotono,
and about her activities as a voice actress and as a singer.  By doing so,
we hope to increase the appreciation of Mitsuishi Kotono among anime lovers
throughout the world!
 
Membership to the Mitsuishi Kotono IFC is free, of course.  To enroll in the
IFC, please send e-mail to me at ktoh@td2cad.intel.com.  
 
We are currently trying to develop a Fan Club Badge which will be distributed
free to all members.  If you have any experience in creating such badges, 
please contact us!
 
 
THE CLUB NEWSLETTER
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We also have a club newsletter, "Kotono no Koto", which we will try to
publish on a quarterly basis.  Both PostScript and HTML versions of the 
newsletter will be made available on the Internet.  The first edition 
of the newsletter has recently been completed, and contains the following:
 
   * Introduction to the IFC and the Newsletter
   * About Mitsuishi Kotono: everything you wanted to know about Kotono!
   * Kotono's Major Anime Roles
   * Kotono's Current Activities
   * Kotono on Video: Appearances in Sailor Moon Omakes
   * 1993 Sailor Moon X'Mas Concert
   * CD Review: Kotochawanderland
   * About "Kotono no Koto": what the title really means (^_^)
   * Afterword
   * Song Translations:
     - You're Just My Love (from "Sailor Moon")
     - Oyasumi Gojira (from "Birthday of the Sun")
 
To view the HTML version of the newsletter, or to download the Postscript 
version of the newsletter, please visit our web site: 
    http://hiwaay.net/~atanone/kotono
 
If you do not have access to the web, or do have access but would like to 
receive a hard-copy of the newsletter anyway, please send me a self-addressed
stamped long envelope (SASE) to the address below:
 
    Kenny Toh
    1015 Cassia Way,
    Sunnyvale, CA 94086,
    U.S.A.
 
Please send a LONG envelope, since the newsletter is printed on 8"x11.5" paper.
This offer is valid only in the United States; if you live outside the U.S., 
please contact me by e-mail, and we'll try to work something out.
 
 
COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS
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We welcome comments, questions, as well as contributions to the newsletter.
For the newsletter, we're looking for CD reviews, reviews of anime starring
Mitsuishi Kotono, information about "Making Of" videos where Kotono appears,
and anything related to Kotono!  We're also thinking of a fan column titled
"Why I Like Kotono" - so if you like Kotono, and can describe your reasons
in a fairly coherent manner, we'd like to hear from you.  And, if you have 
any comments on our web site, or suggestions on how to improve our web site,
we'll take that too! 
 
To contact us, please send e-mail to either of us:
 
    Kenny Toh, ktoh@td2cad.intel.com
    Yuchou Hu, yuchou@zola.ucsb.edu
 
For comments on the web-site, please send e-mail to:
 
    Albert Tanone, atanone@nyx.net
 
 
We hope you'll enroll in the Mitsuishi Kotono IFC, and remember, if you
see any unbelievers out there, just shout out:
 
    Kotono-san no kawari ni, oshioki yo!
    (On behalf of Kotono, I'll punish you!)  ^_^;;
 
--
Kenny Toh, ktoh@td2cad.intel.com  
The biggest Mitsuishi Kotono fan in the west!
Now Available: 
    "Kotono no Koto", No.1, the newsletter of 
    The Mitsuishi Kotono International Fan Club!
    Visit our Kotono IFC web site: http://hiwaay.net/~atanone/kotono