Fushigi Yugi is on the cover of the first issue of Animerica in 1998. In the Letter From the Editor – Trish Ledoux announces she is taking a four-month sabbatical from the magazine. Take a read. That’s quiet a workload and it shows a passion for anime and manga. Highlights: Urban Vision ads get...
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Sorry for the delay. After 10 years of traveling to conventions for work, I finally got the convention crud cold. Pretty much put me out for a while. For the first issue of 1997, Magic Knight Rayearth is the cover. Highlights: First retail callout in an ad for Best Buy. First mention of MIXX...
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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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Happy New Year! 1995! So long 1994! Macross Plus is on the cover and the previous Macross II is no longer in story canon. Two different things for Animerica in this issue – new paper stock -matte paper (non-gloss) and lots more ads. This project now looks like it will run longer than I...
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In January 94, I was a freshman in college. That was the month Babylon 5 premiered on syndicated tv. I was more into sci-fi, alt-rock and Kevin Smith type indie movies at that time. Not yet into anime. In 1994 you will see a growing ramp up in anime – This is VIZ’s first...
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