Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell is the cover for the February 1996 Animerica. Wonder how many people got into anime due to this movie. There are definitely gateway TV shows and movies that get people into the fandom. Below the cover are three ads with horrible play-on-words with anime. Suncoast: “Get Anime-ted!” Manga...
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Happy New Year! It’s 1996 in anime history. Space Adventure Cobra is on the cover. I wonder how many people got influenced to check anime out through Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend video featuring this series. There is a great interview of Buichi Terasawa and he proclaims his love of the movie Barbarella. The fun part...
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First Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon cover for Animerica. This is my favorite issue so far because of the 1985-1995 Anime: Then and Now article and the Animessages with messages written by each of the US anime releasing companies. I normally don’t scan articles, but these two had so much perspective. I really urge you...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Astro Boy is this month’s cover and the feature is about Osamu Tezuka. Once you open the magazine you are given a face full of an ad for La Blue Girl. I LOVE Anime 18′s warnings on the covers for their hentai “WARNING! ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN” Gee, you would think the ‘uncensored’ bar...
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The Wings of Honneamise is the cover for May’s Animerica Magazine. My current memory of this movie was Bandai Visual’s temporary push into the North American market. I remember watching Cyber City Oedo 808 on a pay movie channel. I can’t remember if it was Starz or not. I just remember lots of cursing....
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