So Yu Yu Hakusho makes it onto the cover and Hiei is on the cover rather than Yusuke. (this cover is for the ladies…) Highlights: Notice the prices for Tenchi Muyo Movie 2 – 4 types of releases – Sub VHS, Dub VHS, DVD and Lasedisc. That’s a whole lot of inventory and quantities...
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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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In this issue, Please Save My Earth is on the cover. What really saved the Earth? Evangelion. Most people found out that ADV acquired Neon Genesis Evangelion while reading this issue. In the article it says that ADV put out a press announcement that states they want the US version to “look better” than...
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Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell is the cover for the February 1996 Animerica. Wonder how many people got into anime due to this movie. There are definitely gateway TV shows and movies that get people into the fandom. Below the cover are three ads with horrible play-on-words with anime. Suncoast: “Get Anime-ted!” Manga...
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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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Urusei Yatsura is the cover for November. I think this Record of Lodoss War ad has the first appearance of an anime box set. Granted they’ve shown bundles for Anime 18, but this is the first for US Manga Corps. Promoted as a “Gift Box” 13 episodes for $129 – a good $50 price...
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El Hazard is on the cover for July. El Hazard was introduced to me through AMVs. Still to this day, there is not a convention AMV contest that doesn’t have a scene of El Hazard. The primary scene is when Jinnai has the mic and talks directly to the camera screen – lots of...
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Astro Boy is this month’s cover and the feature is about Osamu Tezuka. Once you open the magazine you are given a face full of an ad for La Blue Girl. I LOVE Anime 18′s warnings on the covers for their hentai “WARNING! ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN” Gee, you would think the ‘uncensored’ bar...
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Ears to another good issue of Animerica. Record of Lodoss War is on the cover. In this issue, CPM’s US Manga Corp is taking Manga’s subtitle premium pricing model and use it on Tokyo Babylon. English Subtitled VHS $29.95, English Dub $19.95. English dubs are expensive to produce so I keep wondering what was...
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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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