Swords! Sorcery! SLAYERS! There is not enough fantasy anime in the market place. Seems like the best was from this era of the 90s. Slayers and Escaflowne. What happened? Highlights: Scanned some but not all of the fantasy anime featured article. Remember Big Eyes Small Mouth? First time in an ad – English Dub...
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Happy Manga Holidays. To promote Mixx Zine, Mixx (in the future part of the group renamed to be Tokyopop) brought Sailor Moon dancers to E3 1997, held in Atlanta, GA. What visual proof beside this cover? Go here for pictures. Want to see video proof? Fast forward to 11:29. This video German video game...
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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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“Keiichi!” “Belldandy!” “Keiichi!” “Balldandy!” This is what I remember of “Ah! My Goddess” from watching the series around ’96 when my sister was my roommate my last year in college. Hastings had an anime section call “Anime” not the Blockbuster “Japanimation” monicker. I have the OVA series that Animeigo re-release several years ago –...
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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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