Found at Brookshires Supermarket while visiting my parents this weekend. Who knew you could make skillet gravy from the renderings of the elderly?

Nothing too spectacular in this issue of Mixx Zine. Seriously. Still dude bros editing a magazine with b-boy lingo -pure ’90s color and layout and style.

Highlights:

• New series Harlem Beat.
• Way too many colors and !Exclamation! !Points! on the Mixx Page. Everything has to be branded Mixx.
• 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon has a better ad than the previous issue. Better layout but I doubt that “A” rating. I saw this game being played via JustinTV.
• 2 RPG video game ads: Quest 64 (what an original bland name) and The Granstream Saga.

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Sometimes you have to scratch your head on why some licensing deals are made.  Hello Kitty Jelly Belly. Those would be the flavors I would have the beans taste like.

Revolutionary Girl Utena – Similar to Sailor Moon features, I decided to scan this first in-depth feature from this issue. It’s very informative. My favorite part of Utena is the beginning sword fight song and the stairs. Lots of stairs.  Best watching experience for Utena to me is still the metaphor-laden movie.

Here are some more highlights from this issue:

I scanned the Editor page because it highlighted talented people who worked on this magazine.

Fun with Porken Beans is all about Sailor Moon. I wonder how many lewd entries they received.

The Bandai AnimeVillage.com ad wins the award for “Most Font Colors”

Ad for MegaCon 1999 – I’ve been to this con several times. Fun times.

Nice Ghost in the Shell manga based figure of Motoko Kusanagi from Toycom.

I want to know the story why Pioneer called the English dub “The Mysterious Play” and for the Japanese sub “Fushigi Yugi” and had both names on this ad. Very odd approach in my opinion.

Two pages of Animessages featuring Tenchi In Tokyo ads.

Since in the past I’ve stated that I’ll scan all the pages with submitted fan art, Animerica did a “Create Your Own Dirty Pair” contest. Animerica must have decided to include all the entries cause there is a bunch of them.

Finally I scanned some regional anime store ads.

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Holy crap do I have a lot to cover in this issue of Animerica. Part 3 of “Beyond Sailor Moon” covers Sailor Moon SuperS and and Sailor Stars. I’ve noticed from Google Analytics that more people check out the magazines with Sailor Moon. I scanned this feature since it covers a lot of all things Sailor Moon.

Highlights:

• Anime Shopping Guide from 1998. Two pages of where you could buy Anime in North America.
• Here is a list of all the Anime and Manga companies in 1998. First mention of Media Blasters is from this list. I like that the phone number is given – I wonder how many calls they got just to talk about anime.
• “State of the Art” – feature new publications Chibi Pop Manga and manga making in-roads into the US market.
• Ad for Revolutionary Girl Utena – next month’s issue is a feature and cover for this series.
• Ad and Review for Vision of Escaflowne – One of my top 5 favorite shows.
• The award for the worst ad goes to UrbanVison.
• First ad for Pokemon
• Tons of Halloween fan art
• And finally…why be coy with ad headlines when you can just state the obvious. Take a loo at the ADV/Soft Cel ad.

<facepalm>

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Keep it on the up and up. Alright?
Will you do that for me?

This month’s cover feature is the 20th Anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam. In 1998, Gundam finally gets released in the US by Bandai Entertainment via Anime-Village.com Tons of ads in this issue, some great some really, really bad. Let’s enjoy this time machine, shall we?

Highlights:

• I included the Editor page because I think you get a lot of perspective from reading them.
• This month’s Anime Focus section had a new voice actor interview – Tiffany Grant. If you’ve watched anime for years, you already know about her talent. It’s fun to read this interview from 1998 – just went anime is beginning to ramp up in fandom.
• Next is cheesy headline time from ADV “This is the anime your mother warned you about” OHHHHhhh!!!! Ruin Explorers 2 is so controversial!
• I love that VIZ markets their Ranma 1/2 Movie 2 – Nihao My Concubine as “DVD Special Edition”
• VIZ ad for its PULP graphic novels. PULP is another VIZ publication for manga.
• Time has forgotten Hurricane Polymar
• What? A reluctant hero has to defend his homeland? How original! The Heroic Legend of Arslan from CPM
• This month has 3 pages of anime fan art – Halloween themed and a section for Ah My Goddess fan art with lots of Belldandy and Urd.
• The worst – W O R S T – worst ad is for Gamers Republic magazine. Clearly the marketing department who created this ad does not know their reader audience. Also, why have an order form where you GIVE OUT YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION?!?!?!
• The best ad design goes for Fushigi Yugi TV series.
• The worst VHS cover goes to ADV for Delinquent in Drag. WTF?
• Finally, more Chroma Cel pictures that are not actually animation cels but consumers bought the gimmick anyway.

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…but it’s still the most useful implement of emphasis.

Let there be no indignity.

Get a pencil and write all that has been weighing on your mind–all that crap that keeps you from where you want to be onto a piece of paper. Fold that paper in half, then fold again, and again and again until the creases make it impossible to fold.  Take another piece of paper and write how you want to feel and what you want to accomplish.

Now place the the two pieces of paper together. It might seem a bit cathartic, but this helps me. Puts things into perspective. All your problems physically look smaller than what you want to accomplish. That, and you got all the thoughts rumbling in your head onto physical paper.

Take action. Either unfold the paper and work on those items bugging you or work from the other paper and do things. Your choice. At least you are making headway.