From frobertson@ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 17 22:10:07 1994
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From: frobertson@ox.ac.uk (Freya Robertson)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution
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Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up?

In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts.
By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates.

Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara?

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From sduarte@inria.fr Thu Jan 20 00:53:07 1994
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From: sduarte@inria.fr (Seo-yeon Duarte)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution
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In article <1994Jan17.221007.1209@ox.ac.uk>, frobertson@ox.ac.uk (Freya Robertson) writes:
> Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up?
> In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts.

Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989.

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Seo-yeon Duarte | sduarte@inria.fr
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From tschneider@kiae.su Thu Jan 20 10:01:07 1994
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From: tschneider@kiae.su (Tomas Schneider)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution
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In article <1994Jan20.005307.9511@inria.fr>, sduarte@inria.fr (Seo-yeon Duarte) writes:
> Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989.

The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance.

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Tomas Schneider -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
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From kcampbell@netcom.com Thu Jan 20 12:15:07 1994
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From: kcampbell@netcom.com (Karen Campbell)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 12:15:07 GMT
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In article <1994Jan20.100107.3781@kiae.su>, tschneider@kiae.su (Tomas Schneider) writes:
> The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance.

The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real.

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