When going over this issue, I think this August 1998 Animerica is the most formative issue to date. Here are the highlights. Why formative? While Neon Genesis Evangelion has been advertised some by ADV, all the ads promoted other titles as well. It was not until the last VHS volume 13 that Evangelion got...
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Part II of the Macross “Summer of Love” 15th Anniversary of the series airing in Japan. Go here to read Part I The second part deals with all the numerous CD soundtracks and the article “Evolution of the Valkyrie” – goes through all the different designs and models from Macross Plus, Macross 7 and...
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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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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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First Issue of Mixx Zine. Mixx Publications was the company that would later be known as Tokyopop. They even had a magazine named Tokyopop (which I have a few copies that I’ll be scanning the covers and some ads from) In this first issue there were 4 manga titles: Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth,...
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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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