Wrapping up Animerica’s first year of publication. It’s Christmas! What is the perfect VHS box set to give or to receive this holiday season? Why Urotsukidoji Perfect Collection, of course! What says giving, more than, taking in some tentacle porn. If you don’t trust me that it’s not the best gift to give in...
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In this issue, CPM’s Anime 18 gives us a second lashing of Tentacle Porn with Urotsukidoji II. Premiere magazine quote “Cartoons so imaginatively demented that they would make Walt Disney spin in his cryogenic chamber…” My head hurt while trying to read the copy for this ad. I was going “Huh…what…really?” At least the...
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I love a good pun title and “Have Gunnm, Will Travel” caught my attention to read. The half-page article was written by Matt Greenfield of the scrappy new company based in Houston, TX called A.D. Vision. I liked the article. It was a quick ‘inside baseball’ type of retelling how they put the Battle...
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This issue was light on ads to chat about. Wait till the next couple of issues. Lots talk about. Instead, there is a “Video Clips – Japan’s Top 10″ that shows “The bestselling animated videos, compile by Original Confidence Research Company” Here were the top selling titles in Japan as of 6/7/1993 Ah! My...
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Theme for the ads of issues 6? DIRTY! Tentacles! First Appearance Ad: Anime 18 Urotsukidoji – Legend of the Overfiend is the inside cover ad – Anime 18 was the adult hentai label for Central Park Media. Basically this is one of the shows that gave anime a bad reputation to those who are...
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Cover feature was Hayao Miyazaki. This is years before Princess Mononoke and Disney’s exclusive deal to bring all of Studio Ghibli to the states. Porco Rosso is referenced as The Crimson Pig. I still haven’t watch enough of Miyazaki’s films. Perhaps this project will get me to spend a couple of evenings of movie...
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Bit of an interesting choice of a swimsuit cover for Silent Mobius. The features covers Kia Asamiya manga work. This early in the release of Anime on VHS, the hurdle of explaining that anime is for adults not a cartoon for children, has just started. US Renditions ad for The Guyver and Super Dimensional...
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In this issue, there’s an ad for Anime Expo 1993 at the Oakland Convention Center. For people who first went to AX in the 2000s like me, AX was not just in the LA area. My favorite location was when AX was held in Anaheim. Having the hotels connected to immense Anaheim convention center...
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Surprise! How about some Rumiko Takahashi? I kid, I kid. If you’ve read Animerica long enough and you know that VIZ publishes all of the mangaka’s work, of course it would be in your best interest to showcase it. I would. Maison Ikkoku is my favorite – by far. Another trend you will see...
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4 months after the Number 0 premiere issue, Volume 1, Number 1 of Animerica was released. I really like how the first issue dropped you into anime fandom. If you were already familiar, there were in-depth interviews with creators and directors. If you were new, there was always paragraphs in each article which acted...
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