# Episode 8 – *Ghost Town*
**^^^Originally ^^^released ^^^February ^^^21st, ^^^1989**
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**Daily Trivia:**
> The ATM-09-RC ‘Bounty Dog’ used by Boyle and his men is among the most popular designs in the franchise not to receive an official model kit release.
**Staff Highlight**
Yoshitake Suzuki (Fuyunari Gobu) – Screenwriter
> A scriptwriter, playwright, and production assistant, Susuki began his career as production assistant at Mushi Productions and first debuted as screenwriter for Tatsunoko Production’s *Space Ace,* which he worked on part-time. Suzuki would b promoted to episode director on the anime adaptation of *W3*, but he preferred scriptwriting to directing, so he avoided the position. At some point he got the chance to work on the production of *Kyojin no Hoshi*, where he met Tadao Nagahama and established a strong working relationship with the star director. He briefly joined Madhouse after Mushi Pro’s dissolution, but he soon after became a freelancer. Since the seventies he was mainly associated with mecha, working as writer for *Yuusha Raideen*, Tadao Nagahama’s Robot Romance Trilogy, *Mirai Robo Daltanias*, *Muteki Robo Trider G7*, *Xabungle*, *Armored Trooper Votoms*, *Blue Comet SPT Layzner*, *Panzer World Galient*, *Mobile Fighter G Gundam*, *Muteki Chōjin Zambot 3*, and *King of Braves GaoGaiGar*. His other script writing credits include *Dororo to Hyakkimaru*, *Crusher Joe: The OVAs*, *Astro Boy*, *Shippu! Iron Leaguer!*, *Pheonix*, and *Zero Tester*.
**Voice Actor Highlight**
Sakiko Tamagawa – voice of Lulucy (Fleurel C. Helmecion)
> A voice actress, singer, and actress affiliated with the voice acting agency Sigma Seven. She was a child actor working for the theatre company Komadori, and appeared in several TV drama and radio dramas produced by NHK. The inklings of a musical career followed soon after, with Tamagawa performing children’s songs and a cover of the *Moomin* theme, for which she won the 12th Japan Records Nursery Rhyme Award in 1970. She debuted as a voice actress that same year in the Japanese dub of *The Brady Bunch*, and her firs anime role would be a minor role in *Bōken Korobokkuru* in 1973, but she would not play another anime role until 1980’s *Tetsuwan Atom*. Tamagawa is noted as having a wide vocal range and naturally adapting to most any role she is assigned to. She is married to fellow voice actor Shūichi Ikeda. Some of her most notable roles include Ivan Whisky in *009 Re:Cyborg*, Athena in the *Appleseed* franchise, Ryoko Tsugumo in *Area 88*, Shinobu Mariko in *Dear Brother*, Sakura Yamazaki in *Blue Seed*, Rumi Natsumi in *Call Me Tonight*, Jasmine in *Cross Ange Rondo of Angel and Dragon*, Lulara Kawasaki in *DNA^^2*, Juiz in *Eden of The East*, Ayano Kondou in *Fafner in The Azure*, the Tachikomas in *Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex*, Reiko Terayama in *Golden Boy*, Lar Lipp in *Greed*, Kanna Toreishi in *Idol Defense Hummingbird*, Cacao in *Knights of Ramune & 40*, Pyrotess in *Record of Lodoss War*, Leah in *The New Adventures of Leo The Lion*, Dotta in *Sorcerer Hunters*, Kanoko Yamazaki in *Showa Monogatari*, Airi Masaki in *Tenchi Muyo Ryo Ohki*, Keiko Tachibana in *Violence Jack*, and Natsumi Tsujimoto in the *You’re Under Arrest* franchise.
**Art Corner:**
Official Art
– [File 2](https://i.imgur.com/k5U38VN.png) – Laserdisc Release Art
**Screenshot of the day**
– [Exploding Bottle](https://i.imgur.com/VkY8wdu.png)
**Questions of the Day:**
1) What’s your initial impressions of Major Boyle?
2) How well did you think Mellowlink fared against a group of ATs?
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**This whole town is the boiler.**
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