Revolutionary Girl Utena - Similar to Sailor Moon features, I decided to scan this first in-depth feature from this issue. It's very informative. My favorite part of Utena is the beginning sword fight song and the stairs. Lots of stairs. Best watching experience for Utena to me is still the metaphor-laden movie. Here are some more highlights from this issue: I scanned the … [Read more...]
Animerica April 1998 – Fantasy Anime – Slayers, RPGs and Games
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 and English Sub VHS are THE SAME PRICE! … [Read more...]
Mixx Zine – Issue 1-3 – Sailor Moon Dancers and Ghost In The Shell Playstation Game -December 1997
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 report, but you get to see the Sailor Moon Dancers in the outtakes … [Read more...]
Animerica – Sailor Moon – Anime Convention Season – Katsucon – Katsuhiro Otomo Steamboy – August 1997
Surprise! Another Sailor Moon cover. Anime winks creep me out. They look so odd.Highlights:Peacock King - Spirit Warrior - Still amazes me that there are commercial anime releases that I've never heard of.The focus of this issue is convention season.Anime Expo 1997 - July 4-6 1997 (3 days not 4) - 1,200 person-long reg line on Friday with a 3 hour wait - SEE … [Read more...]
Animerica – Sailor Moon Voice Actor Interview – List of First Anime Releases – July 1997
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 articles like these.The next two pages I scanned are an interview with Terri Hawkes - the voice actor … [Read more...]
