Animerica Magazine Volume 3, Issue 11 – November 1995

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Urusei Yatsura is the cover for November.

I think this Record of Lodoss War ad has the first appearance of an anime box set. Granted they’ve shown bundles for Anime 18, but this is the first for US Manga Corps. Promoted as a “Gift Box” 13 episodes for $129 – a good $50 price break than purchasing the individual volumes.

Here’s the oddity of this issue. Suncoast has two double spread ads. TWO? Why? The ads to show you which titles that aren’t marketed in Animerica – Robotech II – The Sentinels, MD Geist, Golgo 13, Lily C.A.T. Fist of the North Star, Lupin III’s Greatest Capers, and Vampire Hunter D.

I think someone got the new 1995 version of Photoshop when looking at the Manga Entertainment ad. Let’s make a pumpkin!

Why not. – One more beach fan art page.

Anyone reading this – did you use alt.ant? Take a look at this 1/4 page ad. Ad for the University of California, Irvine bookstore.

More Cutey Honey from A.D. Vision.

Remember Mighty Space Miners from ADV? Me neither.

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Animerica Magazine Volume 3, Issue 10 – October 1995

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3×3 Eyes is on the cover this month. What to talk about in this issue?

Maison Ikkoku manga chapter was good. One of the first manga series I purchase all the volumes.

The Suncoast “Action Packed Anime” ad is the quintessential mid 90′s ad design scheme. Full page starburst with lots of primary colors. It’s like they are channeling “Save By The Bell”

1st Streamline Pictures and Orion Home Video ad – features Barefoot Gen.

Next up is the first SoftCel ad with the logo on the ad page. Quite the coincidence that the company address on this ad is the same for the ADV ad for MAPS. The copy head line for New Angel has gone above and beyond for pervyness. Wow.

In 1995 you would be king/queen otaku at your school if you used the Ranma 1/2 Organizer.
Notepad, pen, daily diary, address book and 2 pages of stickers! Just don’t get it wet.

Pioneer’s ad is better this month still lacks in design sense, but that’s ok. The Magical Girl Pretty Sammy OVA pic is fun. If anyone has a copy of a Pioneer Anime Newsletter – please let me know – @ me on Twitter. 

I am really surprised ADV did not do any pervy copy for this MAPS ad, seems they used it all up in the SoftCel ad.

Manga Entertainment needs to decide what title they want to advertise because calling them all out in one ad does not work.

I scanned the ANIMEXPRESS page to showcase Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball US broadcast news. Nude transformations and Goku’s twig and berries get a mention on the four letter word of TV anime fans – EDIT. Notice that FUNimation is Silicon-Valley based. The company moved to Texas a few years later.

The next two pages of scans are Anime fan art gallery- Beach Time!

Speaking of fans, the first color pictures of cosplay in Animerica.

Last is an AnimEigo ad for You’re Under Arrest.

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Animerica Magazine Volume 3, Issue 9 – September 1995

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Orge Slayer was on this cover this month. As this project goes on, there are so many titles that I didn’t know existed in the 90s.

Now that I know that Gall Force was some of the same team behind Tenchi Muyo, I now have to find it and watch it.

For Pioneer Ads in 1995, the level of quality greatly differs from issue to issue. I could have done the ad layout for this Hakkenden VHS ad using Microsoft Word -No use opening Photoshop – a few quick columns and image inserts and poof! There’s your ad.

Here is the first article mentioning Ghost in the Shell – with promo art. Manga Entertainment even has a website listed to view clips – This was 1995 so those must have been some Quicktime thumbnail video files that must have taken 2 hours to download. BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN WORTH IT!

In this month’s adult anime ad from TEC, I’m sad to say that REI REI has lost the title of best selling hentai to Angel of Darkness. Sad.

Ramna 1/2 dominates this months anime fan art section. Kudos to the Power Rangers – Power Ranma

I scanned the VHS/LaserDisc/Import Release Schedule page to show what was coming out on anime home video in September 1995. Not much LaserDisc but an increasing amount of VHS. HINT HINT – A great page to show your friends when they bitch about today’s anime prices HINT HINT

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Animerica Magazine Volume 3, Issue 8 – August 1995

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Lots of Yamato coverage in this issue. There is an article titled “The Star Blazers You Didn’t See.” Great article about broadcast edits. Plus, I never knew there was an OVA series Yamato 2520.

Last issue, Planet Anime had the first ad to display an email address. This issue, Manga Video is the first ad to include a website.  I love how they included the entire address: http://www.polygram.com/manga   – sad to say no record of the site on Archive.org :( ((((

Manga had the cheapest VHS prices – Macross Plus Part 3 for $14.95, Giant Robo for $14.95 and Angel Cop for $9.95.

Why does Voyager Entertainment’s Space Battleship Yamato ad have the word SEE highlighted 7 times? Odd.

Name that Publisher Game!

Who wrote the following ad headline?

“He was looking for a cold beer, a warm bed, and a hot babe… Instead, he got stuck with another darn adventure!”

If you guessed AD Vision…You were right!  The ad was for Dragon Knight.
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Animerica Magazine Volume 3, Issue 7 – July 1995

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El Hazard is on the cover for July.

El Hazard was introduced to me through AMVs. Still to this day, there is not a convention AMV contest that doesn’t have a scene of El Hazard. The primary scene is when Jinnai has the mic and talks directly to the camera screen – lots of editors use that scene. The two best in my opinion are the AMV “This Video Goes to Eleven” by Anime Rudeboy Productions and “Jinnai and the Bugrom” by Studio Hybrid YouTube Preview Image

I think this GoShogun ad is the least amount of text for a US Manga Corps ad.

I scanned the “From the Editor” pages since I think it’s important for you to read it. Trish Ledoux was Animerica’ first editor. This article goes after the misinformed thinking of anime fans who thought Animerica was a VIZ hype magazine. Trish explains why this is wrong thinking.

One of the reasons I decided to do this Anime Archive project is to shed light on this formative time of American anime culture. I can’t imagine the number of anime fans who got hooked into the fandom by reading Animerica in the 90′s. (followed by Anime Insider and NewtypeUSA in the 2000s) I do have Protoculture Addicts magazines and I do plan on including them (in case you are wondering)

Planet Anime’s July 1995 ad is the first anime ad to include an email address. I love that it doesn’t say email. It’s “internet: planet@sam.neosoft.com”  Sad to say that Planet Anime is not around anymore.

I also had to scan the “Justify My Love! Take the Ryo-Oh-Ki Challenge” to win the cabbit plush that EVERYONE eventually owned.  This Ryo-Oh-Ki vs Pikachu plush battle from Evangelion ReDeath is perfect. Start at 7:52 of the video to watch the fight.  YouTube Preview Image

The 801 T.T.S. Airbats ad by AD Vision proves that ADV can make any anime pervy through copy. Note that this is probably the first ADV ad without the “Warning: contains nudity”

Copy from Airbats ad:
“They’re not bad girls. They’re just plane crazy!”
“From the creator of Rei Rei, comes a high flying comedy…”
“…and brother, do these aces have curves in all the right places!”
“When these lovely ladies slip into a warm cockpit, the air to air action gets as hot as it can get!”
“adventure at nose-bleed-inducing altitudes”

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