WALL STREET JOURNAL

                         December 3, 1999, Friday

SECTION: Section B; Page 1, Column 2

LENGTH: 50 words

HEADLINE: KIDS ARE GLUED TO A VIOLENT JAPANESE CARTOON SHOW

BYLINE: BY SALLY BEATTY

JOURNAL-CODE: WSJ

ABSTRACT:

'Dragon Ball Z,' a violent animated series from Japan, has become a huge
cartoon hit in the US; brutality is a staple of the program, which is being
shown on Time Warner's Cartoon Network; its ratings among
six-to-eleven-year-olds leapt 95% in the latest quarter from a year
earlier; drawing (M)

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