Patlabor wraps up 1997 for Animerica with the cover feature: “Anime Robots, Manga Heroes. Mecha in Manga” Highlights: Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion Volume 8 of 13. Yes 13 VHS volumes for the series. 2 episodes a tape. That’s the way it was and you had to like it or else. CPM’s US Manga...
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Animerica goes through a redesign in this issue. This issue is 15 years old, but the layout looks like it can stand up to any magazine today. That’s what good design can do. I’ve posted the “From The Editor” and “Contents” pages so you can observe the change. Highlights: A festive Ranma 1/2 holiday...
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Darkstalkers cover featuring Morrigan must have sold more copies that the previous issues… This issue had some great coverage from Anime Expo. I scanned some “Virtual Panel” interviews and discussions. The interviews were of director Kazou Yamazaki (Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura) and creator of Dirty Pair and Crusher Joe, Haruka Takachiho. Next up was...
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In This Issue of Animerica – ANIME! – what a shocker. Highlights: Part 2 of the “Summer of Anime” Project A-Kon 8 in Dallas, Texas is the featured con report. Highlights include a fire alarm clearing the convention – that never gets old. I like the one page of color photos. You’ll be seeing...
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The cover is for Grey – VIZ home video releases are still the priority for covers. This issue is mainly about Sailor Moon – and lots of it. I scanned Part 2 of Sailor Moon Beyond since I scanned the first one. This one covers Sailor S. 5 pages of analysis. Wow. I miss...
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Animerica – Anime and Manga Monthly Volume 5, No. 6. Street Fighter II Cover Highlights: How about a copycat ad to start this issue? Who remembers Art of Fighting anime? The design and logo looks familiar to another anime about street fighters… I also think this US Manga Corp ad has the first Edited...
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First Appearance of InuYasha in this issue. It’s the Rumiko Takahashi Special issue. Highlights: The first InuYasha ad is for the comic book version – 32 pages $2.95. Not the manga volume form yet. I love the call out in the ad: Viz ’97 – We are what’s next “Monsters, Martial Arts, Romance.” Until...
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This month’s issue’s cover is a show that I’ve never heard of before: Battle Arena Toshiden. So for Animerica to game the system, they put a “Hey Sailor Moon News!” call out on the cover. Very clever, cause there’s a lot of Sailor Moon in this issue. From this issue: DIC’s first Sailor Moon...
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The Vision of Escaflowne is one of my top 5 favorite anime series. The focus of this month is the Apollo Smile 2 page interview by Carl Gustov Horn (currently Manga Editor at Dark Horse Comics). I remember her from the Sci-Fi channel Anime block and my sister talking about her from cons. She...
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Key The Metal Idol – cover for February 1997 Highlights for this issue: I have a copy of The Complete Anime Guide 1997 edition, listed in the Editor’s page. Read the review of Neon Genesis Evangelion English dub VHS. I forget how old this series is -it has aged quite well. The quick piece...
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