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Animerica Magazine – First InuYasha Manga Appearance May 1997 – Vol 5 No 5 – Rumiko Takahashi Special Issue

September 26, 2012 by Lance Heiskell Leave a Comment

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 now I never thought of explaining the show in so few words that really resonate with the story.
  • The Shadow Skill ad is really really 90s Photoshop advertising. This ad is the first to reference the word DVD.
  • Pioneer still doesn’t have their advertising chops in order. Such a dysfunctional and oddly styled ad. And still no URL website.
  • It took 5 volumes but Neon Genesis Evengelion finally has it’s own full page ad. The EVA Units battle their greatest foes yet: Too Much Ad Copy!
  • Orion and VIZ ad for adieu Galaxy Express 999
  • What? “Love is in the air at ADV…and so are a lot of jets and exploding elves!” That’s your headline copy folks!
  • The feature I wanted to highlight was Anime Weekend Atlanta 1996. It’s a 3 day diary written by Chad Diederichs. Go read now.
  • The second feature I though was useful was to scan an interview with the two leads from Oh My Goddess OVA, Scott Simpson (Keiichi) and Juliet Cesario (Belldandy)

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Filed Under: 1995-1999, 1997, Animerica Tagged With: 1997, ADV, Anime Weekend Atlanta, Animerica, Belldandy, EVA, Galaxy Express 999, InuYasha, Keiichi, Neon Genesis Evengelion, Oh My Goddess, Pioneer, Rumiko Takahashi, Shadow Skill, VIZ

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